Nettoyage du spam: février 2011

2011-03-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Comme nous sommes en mars 2011, il est désormais possible de traiter les archives du mois de février 2011 des listes francophones. Détails du procesuss de nettoyage du spam sur http://wiki.debian.org/I18n/FrenchSpamClean Et toujours, sur debian-user-french et debian-devel-french, il reste encore

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-03 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Chow Loong Jin hyper...@ubuntu.com writes: Could we somehow avoid using sync()? sync() syncs all mounted filesystems, which isn't exactly very friendly when you have a few slow-syncing filesystems like btrfs (or even NFS) mounted. Hmm, right. We could keep a list of all files that need

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Marius, no need to CC Guillem privately, the dpkg maintainers are reachable at debian-d...@lists.debian.org. :) On Wed, 02 Mar 2011, Marius Vollmer wrote: - Instead, we move all packages that are to be unpacked into half-installed / reinstreq before touching the first one, and put a

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! * Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com [2011-03-02 18:25:30 CET]: Does avahi could be disable (using kernel level firewalling is not from my point of view a solution) ? A nice hack that I was informed just recently about: echo exit 0 /etc/default/avahi-daemon That

Lintian check for missing desktop files?

2011-03-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, as I explained on Debian Med list[1] the existence of a desktop file is nearly as relevant as a manpage for a good user experience for users who are not that addicted to the command line as most of us are. I have not made any stats how many packages with applications which deserve a desktop

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-03 Thread Bastian Blywis
The use case for this is: - install daemon - install configuration using puppet/chef/cfengine/etc - start daemon or hook daemon into tool that keeps it running (monit, god, etc) Is there any reason against using a debconf script that asks if the daemon should be started at boot time (or

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-03 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Wed, 02 Mar 2011, Marius Vollmer wrote: - Instead, we move all packages that are to be unpacked into half-installed / reinstreq before touching the first one, and put a big sync() right before carefully writing /var/lib/dpkg/status. The

Re: Call for projects for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 03/03/2011 03:03 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: If folks want to implement something similar for other operating systems, the preferred mode of cooperation is probably that we help you identify which interfaces can be shared with your system, to make life easier for

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Bastian Blywis Hi, | The use case for this is: | | - install daemon | - install configuration using puppet/chef/cfengine/etc | - start daemon or hook daemon into tool that keeps it running (monit, |god, etc) | | Is there any reason against using a debconf script that asks if the |

Bug#616294: ITP: nagixsc -- flexible transport agent for Nagios/Icinga check results

2011-03-03 Thread Sebastian Harl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Harl tok...@debian.org * Package name: nagixsc Version : Git snapshot Upstream Author : Sven Velt s...@teamix.net * URL : http://oss.teamix.org/projects/nagixsc * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: Python

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 23:09 +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Because I work in a untrusted work place and home network (public networks, wifi...) I whish to purge

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-03 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com wrote: And in the big picture, all we need is some guarantee that renames are comitted in order, and after the content of the file that is being renamed.  I have the impression that all reasonable filesystems give that

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Klaus Ethgen kl...@ethgen.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Mi den  2. Mär 2011 um 18:25 schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES: More and more packages depend on avahi aka zeroconf. I have found some information on

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-03 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no wrote: - install daemon - install configuration using puppet/chef/cfengine/etc - start daemon or hook daemon into tool that keeps it running (monit,  god, etc) Can't you either install the config before installing the daemon or

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Am Do den 3. Mär 2011 um 3:35 schrieb Chow Loong Jin: A system has not to listen for any unused and unneeded services ever. A firewall is to control services you _need_. All that zeroconf stuff is absolutely not needed and wanted.

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le mercredi 02 mars 2011 à 18:25 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES a écrit : And more specifically from an administrator point of view does avahi could library could be made purgeable and no more than suggest dependencies (I am

Re: Lintian check for missing desktop files?

2011-03-03 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 09:27:53 +0100 Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: as I explained on Debian Med list[1] the existence of a desktop file is nearly as relevant as a manpage for a good user experience for users who are not that addicted to the command line as most of us are. I have not

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Klaus Ethgen Hi, | The thoughts of that makes me shiver! Trusting untreatable sources on a | network for configuring local stuff is worse ever. Then just don't use it? Nobody is forcing you to. | I think those two functionalities are pretty useful to the end-user. | | Well, they might

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Klaus Ethgen kl...@ethgen.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Am Do den  3. Mär 2011 um  3:35 schrieb Chow Loong Jin: A system has not to listen for any unused and unneeded services ever. A firewall is to control services you

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-03-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 01 mar 11, 19:33:09, Neil Williams wrote: If you want a service contract, find a GNU/Linux distribution capable of supplying one, it is not Debian. Debian exists to support users, not enter a service contract with users. There's plenty paid support for Debian as well:

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no wrote: ]] Klaus Ethgen Hi, | The thoughts of that makes me shiver! Trusting untreatable sources on a | network for configuring local stuff is worse ever. Then just don't use it?  Nobody is forcing you to. | I think those two

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Am Do den 3. Mär 2011 um 11:25 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: Then just don't use it? Nobody is forcing you to. [...] | And even if you not care about, then that functionality should be | explicit configured and not per default. That makes it

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:32:23AM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:  Not everything gets set up in DNS and ssh caches the host key so doing a mitm attack after the initial handshake is prevented. It's not like it'll magically be pulled in on servers or anybody is suggesting making it part of

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Julien BLACHE
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no wrote: Hi, Except zeroconf isn't routed so to be able to exploit it you need to be on the same physical segment? mDNS traffic can actually be relayed, but this requires setting up a relay daemon on the gateway(s). Quite useful when done properly. JB. --

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2011-03-03 at 11:54 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: Am Do den 3. Mär 2011 um 11:25 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: Then just don't use it? Nobody is forcing you to. [...] | And even if you not care about, then that functionality should be | explicit configured and not per default. That

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Sujit Karatparambil
However, could we please end the FUDfest? This thread seems to be quite unconstructive, with unspecific claims of security problems, unwarranted slurs on users based on their operating system, and accusations on Debian developer's attitudes. If there is an actual problem, explain I totally

Bug#616309: ITP: clfswm -- A(nother) Common Lisp FullScreen Window Manager

2011-03-03 Thread Desmond O. Chang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Desmond O. Chang doch...@gmail.com * Package name: clfswm Version : 20110227.git98bbb72 Upstream Author : Philippe Brochard pbroch...@common-lisp.net * URL : http://common-lisp.net/project/clfswm/ * License : GPL3

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi wrote: On to, 2011-03-03 at 11:54 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: Am Do den  3. Mär 2011 um 11:25 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: Then just don't use it?  Nobody is forcing you to. [...] | And even if you not care about, then that

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Sujit Karatparambil sujit.kmadha...@gmail.com wrote: However, could we please end the FUDfest? This thread seems to be quite unconstructive, with unspecific claims of security problems, unwarranted slurs on users based on their operating system, and accusations

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2011-03-03 at 12:47 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: some package announce their existance to the world without any admin decision! It is not a fud and a security hole! That's a vague generality... which packages? You mentioned phpmyadmin. What are the actual problems that results from

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi wrote: On to, 2011-03-03 at 12:47 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: some package announce their existance to the world without any admin decision! It is not a fud  and a security hole! That's a vague generality... which packages? You

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Olaf van der Spek olafvds...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi wrote: On to, 2011-03-03 at 12:47 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: some package announce their existance to the world without any admin decision! It is not

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Carsten Hey
* Raphael Hertzog [2011-03-02 15:06 +0100]: In general parsing the status file should not be done, instead you should use dpkg-query. Is there any reason for this, except that the format of the status files will evolve? You should use dpkg-query --control-path package something to

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Wed, 02 Mar 2011, Marius Vollmer wrote: - Instead, we move all packages that are to be unpacked into half-installed / reinstreq before touching the first one, and put a big sync() right

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 01:43:19PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Olaf van der Spek olafvds...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi wrote: On to, 2011-03-03 at 12:47 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: some package

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Carsten Hey wrote: * Raphael Hertzog [2011-03-02 15:06 +0100]: In general parsing the status file should not be done, instead you should use dpkg-query. Is there any reason for this, except that the format of the status files will evolve? dpkg-query will

Re: Lintian check for missing desktop files?

2011-03-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:18:58AM +, Neil Williams wrote: What happened to the idea that debian/menu files can be converted to desktop files, maybe not during package build but as a tool for maintainers? The idea is as good as its implementation proceeds. :-) IMHO a tool for maintainers

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 01:43:19PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Olaf van der Spek olafvds...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi wrote: On to,

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 03 mars 2011 à 00:33 +0100, Adam Borowski a écrit : As Philipp pointed out, only gnome depends on it, and that’s not gnome-desktop-environment. You can use the latter if you want only the official GNOME desktop. gnome-desktop-environment Depends: gnome-user-share Ah right,

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-03 Thread Carsten Hey
* Holger Levsen [2011-02-28 16:05 +0100]: piuparts in master-slave mode currently cannot test packages which first alternate depends is not available in main, ie the secvpn package depends on adduser, bc, ssh, ppp, timeout | coreutils (= 7.5-1), sudo and timeout is only available in lenny and

Re: Lintian check for missing desktop files?

2011-03-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 14:46 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:18:58AM +, Neil Williams wrote: What happened to the idea that debian/menu files can be converted to desktop files, maybe not during package build but as a tool for maintainers? The idea is as good

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 at 15:17:14 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: I have never in my life felt the need to do anything provided by either gnome-user-share or telepathy-salut Note that until you configure gnome-user-share, only avahi is started; gnome-user-share itself is not. The same for

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Do den 3. Mär 2011 um 12:22 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: So you contradict yourself within two paragraphs. It makes it less useful to enable it only on manual intervention (say, it should be enabled automatic) but on the other hand you say that

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com writes: some package announce their existance to the world without any admin decision It should be a site policy. It is not a fud and a security hole! I disagree. -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen s...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Lintian check for missing desktop files?

2011-03-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:36:43PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: I think it's crazy to expect maintainers to provide both menu and desktop files for everything. That information should be provided once only, in whichever format is the more expressive (I think that would be desktop files,

Re: Lintian check for missing desktop files?

2011-03-03 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-03-03, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: I think it's crazy to expect maintainers to provide both menu and desktop files for everything. That information should be provided once only, in whichever format is the more expressive (I think that would be desktop files, possibly

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Drake Wilson writes (Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default): Quoth Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com, on 2011-03-02 17:00:19 -0700: Having daemons started automatically at installation time is a very nice feature of Debian IMNHO. Is there any harder data on which behavior various proportions

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen s...@debian.org wrote: Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com writes: some package announce their existance to the world without any admin decision It should be a site policy. And set to no by default or a least well documented

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 14:45:51 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Carsten Hey wrote: * Raphael Hertzog [2011-03-02 15:06 +0100]: In general parsing the status file should not be done, instead you should use dpkg-query. Is there any reason for this, except

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-03-03, Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com wrote: Giving information on my system without admin concent is an information leak, and thus tag security... Information leaks are leaks of *sensitive* information. If I want to know if you run phpmyadmin at its default location I

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 15:06:11 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Here's what might create troubles: 3/ Any program that assumes the current layout of control files (/var/lib/dpkg/info/package.something) will be broken (at least for some packages) since the layout will change to support

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Bastien ROUCARIES | main security problem is resolver, | $host -v www.local | www.local | www.local.mydomain.com So the security problem you see is that if you have a domain called «local» the entries in it might be spoofed due to how the resolver works? To the extent this is a bug, it's a

Re: Lintian check for missing desktop files?

2011-03-03 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 03/03/11 15:17, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: It doesn't seem to me that your proposal of making it a release goal for Wheezy is incompatible with Andreas' proposal. Bottom line: a lintian check would be a first useful step (the heuristic is clearly more debatable, but I'm no condition to

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:45:51PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: And the status file is not a public interface. It's a file used by dpkg. If tomorrow dpkg supports an optional SQLite internal database through a plugin, dpkg-query will continue to work but your access to the status file will

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-03 Thread Phillip Susi
I have another proposal. It looks like right now dpkg extracts all of the files in the archive, then for each one, calls fsync() then rename(). Because this is done serially for each file in the archive, it forces small, out of order writes that cause extra seeking and queue plugging. It would

Re: Lintian check for missing desktop files?

2011-03-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort po...@debian.org writes: Not sure if somebody has proposed it or not, but another heuristic would be whether there is a debian menu file but not a desktop file. Lintian intentionally doesn't do this because the Debian maintainers of the desktop systems in Debian didn't

Re: Lintian check for missing desktop files?

2011-03-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes: ACK on the de-duplication (although I don't know whether they are in fact more expressive than current Debian menu files). Desktop files are in general more expressive than menu files, and remaining missing features could be fairly easily added, I

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 17:30:42 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:45:51PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: And the status file is not a public interface. It's a file used by dpkg. If tomorrow dpkg supports an optional SQLite internal database through a plugin,

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Is there a way to ask dpkg-query to dump all the information contained in /var/lib/dpkg/status without either having to: (1) list all fields explicitly (using --show + --showformat) or (2) list all package names (using --status)? I

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Phillip Susi wrote: I have another proposal. It looks like right now dpkg extracts all of the files in the archive, then for each one, calls fsync() then rename(). Because this is done serially for each file in the archive, it forces small, out of order writes that

Bug#616342: dpkg-query: add the ability to dump the entire dpkg database

2011-03-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.10 Severity: wishlist User: d...@packages.debian.org Usertags: dpkg-query As per subject, see messages below from -devel discussion rooted at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/03/msg00180.html. Reporting bug as requested by DPKG maintainers (with best effort

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 18:20:01 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 17:30:42 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Is there a way to ask dpkg-query to dump all the information contained in /var/lib/dpkg/status without either having to: (1) list all fields explicitly (using --show +

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-03 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 18:49:44 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Phillip Susi wrote: It would be much better to use aio to queue up all of the syncs at once, so that the elevator can coalesce and reorder them for optimal writing. I'm not convinced it would help. You're

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-03 Thread Phillip Susi
On 3/3/2011 12:49 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: That's wrong. The writeback is initiated before the fsync() so the filesystem can order the write how it wants. Don't you mean it MAY be initiated if the cache decides there is enough memory pressure? I don't know of any other call besides fsync and

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-03 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Phillip Susi ps...@cfl.rr.com wrote: And we use some linux specific ioctl to avoid that fragmentation. Could you be more specific? sync_file_range(fd.a, 0, 0, SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE); sync_file_range(fd.a, 0, 0, SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE); Olaf -- To

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-03 Thread Phillip Susi
On 3/3/2011 1:30 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: Actually, this was discarded early on, as Linux does not implement aio_fsync() for any file system. Also the interface is quite cumbersome as it requires to keep state for each aio operation, and using SA_SIGINFO (which is not yet available

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-03 Thread Phillip Susi
On 3/3/2011 1:32 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: Don't you mean it MAY be initiated if the cache decides there is enough memory pressure? I don't know of any other call besides fsync and friends to force the writeback so before that is called, it could ( and likely is if you have plenty of memory )

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-03 Thread Sean Finney
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 10:37 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | Is there any reason against using a debconf script that asks if the | daemon should be started at boot time (or on which runlevels)? That | way you can easily modify the configuration with dpkg-reconfigure and | benefit from the

Re: Lintian check for missing desktop files?

2011-03-03 Thread Christoph Egger
Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: (isn't it only icewm and ratpoison and blackbox we might 'lose' by simply killing the debian menu) Last time I checked fluxbox and awesome where both debian menu only as well. Regards Christoph pgpdyO38cMKdt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:20:37PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Bastien ROUCARIES | main security problem is resolver, | $host -v www.local | www.local | www.local.mydomain.com So the security problem you see is that if you have a domain called «local» the entries in it might be

Re: Lintian check for missing desktop files?

2011-03-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 09:07:52AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort po...@debian.org writes: Not sure if somebody has proposed it or not, but another heuristic would be whether there is a debian menu file but not a desktop file. Lintian intentionally doesn't do this

Re: Lintian check for missing desktop files?

2011-03-03 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-03-03, Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org wrote: --=-=-= Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: (isn't it only icewm and ratpoison and blackbox we might 'lose' by simply killing the debian menu) Last time I checked fluxbox and awesome where both debian menu only as well. a quick

Re: Lintian check for missing desktop files?

2011-03-03 Thread Sean Finney
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 23:01 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote: Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: (isn't it only icewm and ratpoison and blackbox we might 'lose' by simply killing the debian menu) Last time I checked fluxbox and awesome where both debian menu only as well. instead of

Bug#616395: ITP: abgate -- LV2 noise gate plugin

2011-03-03 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia ales...@debian.org * Package name: abgate Version : 1.1.2 Upstream Author : Antanas Bružas anta...@hippie.lt * URL : http://abgate.sourceforge.net * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org wrote: But, anyway, I believe that the first depends of an alternate depends relation should be available in main and propose to file bugs about this. Do you agree this warrants a mass bug filing? I couldn't find this written

Re: Lintian check for missing desktop files?

2011-03-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Mar 03 2011, Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2011-03-03, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: and per-WM hooks should take care of any conversion required at installation time. Let's make that a release goal for wheezy instead of perpetuating these parallel menu systems. Down with the

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ben Hutchings Hi, | On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:20:37PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | To the extent this is a bug, it's a bug in the resolver that it does not | treat names with dots in them as absolute, but relative. I know this is | how it's been done in the past, but perhaps

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ Cc-ing the bug log ] On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 07:05:14PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: For each package --status will do the trick, for all packages, yeah it does not support patterns. I guess adding that would be fine. So one could do something like: «dpkg-query -s '*'». Or on a second

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Sujit Karatparambil
so doing «getent hosts foo.bar» will only generate a query for «foo.bar.», not for «foo.bar.$searchpath.» Could you be more specific with what you are looking. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Accepted krename 4.0.7-1 (source amd64)

2011-03-03 Thread Fathi Boudra
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:54:03 +0200 Source: krename Binary: krename Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.0.7-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian KDE Extras Team pkg-kde-ext...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By:

Accepted mic2 0.24.5-1 (source all)

2011-03-03 Thread Fathi Boudra
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:48:26 +0200 Source: mic2 Binary: mic2 Architecture: source all Version: 0.24.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Fathi Boudra f...@debian.org Changed-By: Fathi Boudra f...@debian.org Description:

Accepted gsfonts-x11 0.22 (source all)

2011-03-03 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:06:55 +0100 Source: gsfonts-x11 Binary: gsfonts-x11 Architecture: source all Version: 0.22 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Roland Rosenfeld rol...@debian.org Changed-By: Roland Rosenfeld

Accepted scidavis 0.2.4-2 (source i386)

2011-03-03 Thread Ruben Molina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:25:58 -0500 Source: scidavis Binary: scidavis Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.2.4-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ruben Molina rmol...@udea.edu.co Changed-By: Ruben Molina

Accepted acpid 1:2.0.8-2 (source amd64)

2011-03-03 Thread Michael Meskes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:14:12 +0100 Source: acpid Binary: acpid kacpimon Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1:2.0.8-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Acpi Team pkg-acpi-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By:

Accepted gifsicle 1.61-1 (source amd64)

2011-03-03 Thread Gürkan Sengün
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:47:18 +0100 Source: gifsicle Binary: gifsicle Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.61-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Gürkan Sengün gur...@phys.ethz.ch Changed-By: Gürkan Sengün

Accepted upgrade-system 1.4.0.0 (source all)

2011-03-03 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:57:38 +0200 Source: upgrade-system Binary: upgrade-system Architecture: source all Version: 1.4.0.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Martin-Éric Racine martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi Changed-By:

Accepted qwtplot3d 0.2.7+svn191-5 (source all amd64)

2011-03-03 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:47:22 +0100 Source: qwtplot3d Binary: libqwtplot3d-qt4-dev libqwtplot3d-qt4-0 libqwtplot3d-doc Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 0.2.7+svn191-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Science

Accepted ardour 1:2.8.11-5 (source amd64)

2011-03-03 Thread Adrian Knoth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:03:45 +0100 Source: ardour Binary: ardour ardour-altivec ardour-i686 Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1:2.8.11-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers

Accepted mixxx 1.9.0-2 (source all amd64)

2011-03-03 Thread Alessio Treglia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:00:02 +0100 Source: mixxx Binary: mixxx mixxx-data Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 1.9.0-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers

Accepted zsh 4.3.11-4 (source all amd64)

2011-03-03 Thread Frank Terbeck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:57:37 +0100 Source: zsh Binary: zsh zsh-doc zsh-static zsh-dev zsh-dbg Architecture: source all amd64 Version: 4.3.11-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Zsh Maintainers

Accepted bootcd 3.24 (source all)

2011-03-03 Thread Bernd Schumacher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:11:33 +0100 Source: bootcd Binary: bootcd bootcd-i386 bootcd-hppa bootcd-ia64 bootcd-mkinitramfs bootcd-backup Architecture: source all Version: 3.24 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernd

Accepted praat 5.2.17-1 (source amd64)

2011-03-03 Thread Andreas Tille
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:20:55 +0100 Source: praat Binary: praat Architecture: source amd64 Version: 5.2.17-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team debian-med-packag...@lists.alioth.debian.org

Accepted tcl8.5 8.5.9-2 (source all i386)

2011-03-03 Thread Sergei Golovan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:01:52 +0300 Source: tcl8.5 Binary: tcl8.5 tcl8.5-doc tcl8.5-dev Architecture: source all i386 Version: 8.5.9-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Tcl/Tk Debian Packagers

Accepted tk8.5 8.5.9-2 (source all i386)

2011-03-03 Thread Sergei Golovan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:02:25 +0300 Source: tk8.5 Binary: tk8.5 tk8.5-doc tk8.5-dev Architecture: source all i386 Version: 8.5.9-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Tcl/Tk Debian Packagers

Accepted bmagic 3.7.0-1 (source all)

2011-03-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:22:16 -0500 Source: bmagic Binary: bmagic Architecture: source all Version: 3.7.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Athena Capital Research acr-deb...@athenacr.com Changed-By: Roberto C. Sanchez

Accepted chromium-browser 9.0.597.107~r75357-1 (source all i386)

2011-03-03 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:42:01 +0100 Source: chromium-browser Binary: chromium-browser chromium-browser-dbg chromium-browser-l10n chromium-browser-inspector Architecture: source all i386 Version: 9.0.597.107~r75357-1 Distribution:

Accepted mpdcron 0.3+git20110303-1 (source i386)

2011-03-03 Thread Sebastien Delafond
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:02:14 +0100 Source: mpdcron Binary: mpdcron Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.3+git20110303-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Sebastien Delafond s...@debian.org Changed-By: Sebastien Delafond

Accepted xabacus 7.6.8-2 (source amd64)

2011-03-03 Thread Florian Ernst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:58:36 +0100 Source: xabacus Binary: xabacus xmabacus Architecture: source amd64 Version: 7.6.8-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Florian Ernst flor...@debian.org Changed-By: Florian Ernst

Accepted exim4 4.75~rc3-1 (source i386 all)

2011-03-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:10:06 +0100 Source: exim4 Binary: exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light exim4 exim4-daemon-heavy exim4-daemon-custom eximon4 exim4-dbg exim4-daemon-light-dbg exim4-daemon-heavy-dbg

Accepted ttf-dejavu 2.33-1 (source all)

2011-03-03 Thread Davide Viti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:29:50 +0100 Source: ttf-dejavu Binary: ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra ttf-dejavu-udeb ttf-dejavu-mono-udeb Architecture: source all Version: 2.33-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer:

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