Re: Bug#700630: ITP: gitorious -- Git based tool for collaborating on distributed open source projects

Hello, On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:43:41 +0100 Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > > Just some info: I'm currently working on packaging Rhodecode and its > > dependencies; Rhodecode supports both Git and Mercurial, which is > > great. > > By the way, I mostly have finished it. > great! Please update 689573 acc

Re: Bug#700630: ITP: gitorious -- Git based tool for collaborating on distributed open source projects

Hello, On 15 February 2013 16:44, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > That's great, thanks for giving this a try. We definitely need more good > packages of self-hosted replacements for popular centralized (and often > proprietary) services out there. gitorious surely qualifies and is very > seldomly see

Re: Ifupdown, loopback interface, /etc/network/interfaces.d

Hello, On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:42:40 +0100 Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > I'd like to hear opinions on this idea. > I think you should just get a wheezy-ignore tag from the release team > and solve this properly for jessie. > Also, your fix doesn't actually solve the RC bug either: Well, it does.

Re: Ifupdown, loopback interface, /etc/network/interfaces.d

Hello, On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:31:30 +0100 Michael Biebl wrote: > > There are probably more of them, but finding them all is left as an > > exercise for the reader. > You can at least add network-admin from gnome-system-tools to the > list, or external config tools like webmin. > Not counting an

Re: Ifupdown, loopback interface, /etc/network/interfaces.d

Hello, On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:12:29 +0100 Michael Biebl wrote: > > ifupdown to add that support), so anyone can split their network > > config into small chucks and place them > > under /etc/network/interfaces.d — it's not done by default, > > however, yet. > Please keep in mind that such a set

Re: Ifupdown, loopback interface, /etc/network/interfaces.d

Hello, On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:50:26 +0800 Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > Please keep in mind that such a setup will break existing tools and > > scripts, which rely on finding the interface definitions in /e/n/i. > > E.g. the ifupdown plugin in NetworkManager doesn't know anything > > about such a so

Re: Ifupdown, loopback interface, /etc/network/interfaces.d

Hello, On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:12:29 +0100 Michael Biebl wrote: > On 06.01.2013 23:48, Andrew Shadura wrote: > > First of all, I'd like to remind that ifupdown supports source > > directive since very long ago (it was actually my very first patch > > to > I'

Ifupdown, loopback interface, /etc/network/interfaces.d

ectory, so they may choose to change their configs; alternatively, we may try to migrate them automatically. I'd like to hear opinions on this idea. The current version of the patch is attached. -- WBR, Andrew From: Andrew Shadura Subject: Move loopback definition

Re: Math Fonts for Iceweasel and MathJax

Hello, On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:50:05 +0100 Frédéric WANG wrote: > Basically, Iceweasel must not depend on ttf-lyx, ttf-mathematica4.1, > xfonts-mathml or any other font packages that would lead to the > installation of Computer Modern fonts or Mathematica fonts. These old > fonts were used a l

Re: Bug#695850: ITP: libteam -- library for controlling team network device

Hello, On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:21:43 +1100 Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > Upstream Author: Jiri Pirko Jiří Pírko, please. He's Czech: https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/jiripirko -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: "Do not CC me"

Hello, On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:07:03 -0500 The Wanderer wrote: > Gmail does something similar, except not time-limited; it won't even > re-send you a copy of a mail you send to a mailing list. This is > apparently on the grounds that you already have a copy under "Sent > Items" or equivalent, and

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

Hello, On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:29:04 -0500 The Wanderer wrote: > Or you could try one of the laptops from ZaReason; they specialize in > designing, building, and supporting laptops specifically intended to > run Linux. I haven't used one myself, but they look like a good > outfit from what I can

Re: Bug#689207: ITP: rust -- a safe, concurrent, practical language

Hello, On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:22:01 +0200 Luca Bruno wrote: > * URL : http://www.rust-lang.org/ > * License : MIT > Programming Lang: C/C++, Rust > Description : a safe, concurrent, practical language Oh, please, please package it! It seems like it's very interesting

Re: O: ted -- lightweight .DOC editor

Hello, On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:28:39 -0500 Ztatik Light wrote: > The only "valid" .DOC editors in Debian are LibreOffice and AbiWord, > which are both somewhat bloated (especially LibreOffice, as it's in > Java) ... That's not true. LibreOffice isn't written in Java, it's written in C++. -- WB

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

Hello, On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:59:36 -0400 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > It also doesn't solve a second case we're trying to cover: the fact > that usb-modeswitch would be the only package in the boot path on > *Ubuntu* that would rely on Tcl. That's another reason why a compiled > language wa

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

Hello, (As a Tcler I have to comment on this.) On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:36:43 +0200 Didier Raboud wrote: > 1) "Forget about jimtcl, rely on existing tcl interpreters" > This is mostly "repacking to avoid the embedded jimtcl copy", "no > packaging of it, go on as is done currently; by rel

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

Hello, On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:03:49 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > There is, it's called the kernel. No, there isn't, and there can't possibly be, as interface's configuration isn't only what ifconfig/route/ip reports to you (which is what kernel knows about it). -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

Hello, On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:21:18 +0200 Mike Hommey wrote: > > People talk about how ifupdown works well with other configuration > > tools, unlike Network Manager. But it doesn't, it only knows how to > > undo the configuration specified in /etc/network/interfaces. > ifupdown should be the

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

Hello, On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:51:27 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > What I mean is that this still happens: > # ifup eth0 > ... > # ifconfig eth0 down > # ifup eth0 > ifup: interface eth0 already configured Why should it happen otherwise? You did *NOT* deconfigure the interface. > People talk ab

Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

Hello, On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:21:21 +0200 Andreas Tille wrote: > 2. If files matching are contained in the source tarball this will > be repackaged except if the option --no-exclusion is given at > uscan command line or if USCAN_NO_EXCLUSION is set in > /etc/devscripts.conf or ~/.de

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

Hello, On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:32:03 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > 3) ifupdown integration is really bad > > ifupdown is really a good framework, it offers hooks and and is > > properly integrated in many packages. > ifupdown *was* a good framework, but Linux moved on. ifupdown doesn't > know

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism

Hello, On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:11:12 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 10 août 2012 à 17:04 +0900, hero...@gentoo.org a écrit : > > Debian is about the freedom to choose. > No, it is not. No, it is. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

Hello, On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:44:25 +0200 Vincent Bernat wrote: > "arp" can be replaced by "ip neigh", "ifconfig" by "ip addr" or "ip > link", "route" by "ip route", "ipmaddr" by "ip maddr", "mii-tool" by > "ethtool", "netstat" by "ss", "nameif" by "ip link", "iptunnel" by > "ip tunnel". "iprout

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

Hello, On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 12:40:42 +0100 Roger Leigh wrote: > As a distribution we have to decide on a default, and that is ip. > We took the effort to remove all use of ifconfig from ifupdown and > other related tools for wheezy precisely to make it removable and > optional, so that it can even

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

Hello, On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:26:27 +0800 Thomas Goirand wrote: > This kind of remark make be say that probably, it'd be > nice to have ifconfig display a warning as this one: > "ifconfig is deprecated, please use ip instead" It'd be terrible. Please don't even think of it, okay? Let people de

Re: [RFC] Add upstream VCS info to control file

Hello, On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:30:51 -0400 James McCoy wrote: > Since devscripts 2.11.7, you can do this: > Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/anonscm.debian.org/openstack/nova.git -b > debian/unstable > I thought the patch that added that also updated the documentation, > but it looks like doc

Re: Bug#678920: ITP: libzapojit -- library for accessing SkyDrive and Hotmail

Hello, On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:36:20 -0400 Jeremy Bicha wrote: > * Package name: libzapojit What a funny name, hehe :) -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: duplicates in the archive

Hello, On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:36:13 +0100 Neil Williams wrote: > If it can be justified. That's what the objective comparison would > need to demonstrate. That's an established pattern in Debian - if > someone wants to add something which is the same as something else, > there should be a good r

Re: Build environment bug: 675125

Hello, On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:11:33 -0700 Josh Triplett wrote: > Variables in the .bss section will by definition get initialized to 0. > For example, a C variable defined as "static typename varname;" must > get initialized to 0, and the compiler and linker will stick it in > the .bss section e

Re: Build environment bug: 675125

Hello, On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:03:17 +0200 Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Try gcc/g++ 4.6 instead of 4.7. Maybe check if "S-Lang load > path" (wherever that is stored) is initialized in a sane way. I had a > similar issue where an integer was 0 all the time - although not > being initialized with somethi

Re: ifupdown's changed hook handling breaks other packages.

Hello, On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:53:49 +0200 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Let's stop the mutual accusation part of this thread. P.S. Didn't mean to make anybody upset; I was a little bit tired back then, and I'm sorry that affected the way of me communicating with people. -- WBR, Andrew signatu

ifupdown should provide a way to disable interfaces configuration

Package: ifupdown Hello, On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:53:49 +0200 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Let's stop the mutual accusation part of this thread. > To avoid similar issues to arise again in the future, I wonder, would > it be feasible to implement something like Joss mentioned, i.e. some > sort of

Re: ifupdown's changed hook handling breaks other packages.

Hello, On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:23:25 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 16 juin 2012 à 19:38 +0200, Andrew Shadura a écrit : > > Also, it's network-manager who tries to be a replacement somehow > > compatible with ifupdown, not vice versa, so NM maintainers should &g

Re: ifupdown's changed hook handling breaks other packages.

Hello, On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:05:06 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote: > If you suddenly decide to change the behaviour of ifupdown, then > please co-ordinate such a change and get affected packages fixed > beforehand. And let packages know what they need to change. Also, it's network-manager who tries

Re: ifupdown's changed hook handling breaks other packages.

Hello, On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:05:06 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote: > > Reassigning it back as it really is a bug in NetworkManager. > I've asked for further justification. > Just saying "really" isn't. > If it is a bug in NetworkManager, then please show me where. auto eth0 #NetworkManager#iface

Bug#673832: ITP: critcl -- compiled runtime in Tcl

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Shadura * Package name: critcl Version : 3.0.3 Upstream authors: Andreas Kupries Jean-Claude Wippler * URL : http://jcw.github.com/critcl/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, Tcl

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

Hello, On Fri, 18 May 2012 11:37:08 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote: > Quilt is a kind of really primitive VCS. It does not make sense to > use both it and a modern one, and when someone tries, this ends up > with no end of woe. Quilt sprinkles its modifications around the > source, breaks timestamp

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

Hello, On Thu, 17 May 2012 16:52:02 +0200 Gergely Nagy wrote: > Git does have a complete view. What the above does, is tell > dpkg-source to fold any changes made to the upstream sources into a > single patch. Since the git tree already has the patches applied > (with upstream sources on a diffe

Bug#672212: RFH: ifupdown: please help adding GNU/Hurd support

Package: wnpp Severity: normal While we still have some time before freeze, it may be not too late to add GNU/Hurd support to 0.7 branch of ifupdown. For people familiar with GNU/Hurd it shouldn't be too hard, I guess. Currently, I don't have enough time for this, and I don't really have where to

Re: Licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses

Hello, On Mon, 07 May 2012 18:32:50 +0200 Gergely Nagy wrote: > since executable debian/copyright is not supported If we forget for a second about dh-exec and how it's used, this sounds really crazy :) -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#648345: marked as done (FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64)

Hello, On Fri, 4 May 2012 16:34:30 +0200 m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > > That doesn't look cosmetic to me. That looks like an FTBFS fix for > > kfreeBSD, which he gave you 5 months to do yourself before NMUing > > it. > Since the package did not work before and will not work after, I do >

Re: switching from exim to postfix

Hello, On Wed, 2 May 2012 10:06:31 +0100 Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:44:12AM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > > No it doesn't if 8BITMIME annouces are turned off! > If exim receives an 8 bit mail, even if it hadn't announced 8BITMIME > in the EHLO res

Re: switching from exim to postfix

Hello, On Tue, 1 May 2012 23:03:38 +0200 Philipp Kern wrote: > > I wonder why many people in this thread still don't understand this. > > And also I can't see why some find this annoying behaviour or > > something wrong. There's absolutely nothing wrong with what it does > > now, as re-encoding

Re: switching from exim to postfix

Hello, On Tue, 1 May 2012 20:18:07 +0200 Philipp Kern wrote: > So just stop Postfix doing the conversion? Or teach Exim to announce > 8BITMIME by default. No, Exim should not announce 8BITMIME, or it will violate RFC, not otherwise. Now it doesn't announce it, but accepts, so RFC-compliant MUA

ifupdown/hurd [was: hurd-cvsfs -- CVS virtual filesystem for the GNU Hurd]

Hello, > On the other hand, I've spent the whole week-end fixing some bits in > glibc/parted/grub, which we *DO* need for a release. By the way, how about helping a bit with making ifupdown work properly (and, since recently, build, of course) on Hurd? It'd be really helpful if anybody deeply inv

ifupdown news

Hello, A new version of ifupdown has been uploaded to experimental yesterday, which brings some important changes. First of all, now it's possible to specify default values for various interface configuration options. This eliminates the need of hard coding of them in C source, as Ubuntu has been

Re: Bug#668556: ITP: dparser -- a scannerless GLR parser generator

Hello, On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:12:48 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote: > I can't really imagine someone writing a parser using such tools > without having heard these acronyms first, though. And I'd risk > saying they are actually more widely known than their expansions. During my university studies I

Re: Bug#668556: ITP: dparser -- a scannerless GLR parser generator

Hello, On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:37:00 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: > > * Package name: dparser > > Description : a scannerless GLR parser generator > > DParser is a scannerless GLR parser generator based on the Tomita > > algorithm. It is self-hosted and very easy to use. Grammars are

Re: Bug#667496: ITP: python-smmap -- pure git implementation of a sliding window memory map manager

Hello, On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:40:28 +0900 TANIGUCHI Takaki wrote: > Description : pure git implementation of a sliding window Sorry? Pure git? -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#666242: ITP: clearwaita-theme -- Clearwaita theme for GTK+

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Shadura * Package name: clearwaita-theme Upstream Author : Jean-Philippe Fleury * URL : http://www.jpfleury.net/en/software/clearwaita.php * License : GPL-3+ Description : Clearwaita theme for GTK+ Clearwaita is a

Re: ITP: oqapy -- Photographic workflow application

Hello, On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:42:24 +0100 Vincent Vande Vyvre wrote: > This application is designed to handle large collection of image files > with full support of metadatas include geolocalisation. Sorry for this little pedantism, but data is already plural (singular form is datum), so no nee

Re: Bug#661591: packages providing ifupdown scripts must have those scripts fixed if needed

Hello, On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:47:57 +0100 m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > > Yes, that's probably a reasonable threshold. What should packages > > like miredo and wide-dhcpv6-client do? Both of these hooks have to > > do with > Maybe they could stop pretending that the ifupdown configurat

Re: Bug#661591: packages providing ifupdown scripts must have those scripts fixed if needed

Hello, On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:27:15 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote: > > When failure to execute a hook leads to interface being > > non-operational. > Yes, that's probably a reasonable threshold. What should packages > like miredo and wide-dhcpv6-client do? Both of these hooks have to > do with r

Re: Bug#661591: packages providing ifupdown scripts must have those scripts fixed if needed

Hello, On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:37:29 +0100 Holger Levsen wrote: > (And I'd prefer this bug to be one against ifupdown and not > general, but YMMV.) But, definitly, filing a bug against general > saying these and these package need to be fixed wont do it. Also, I find it fits general perfectly,

Re: Bug#661591: packages providing ifupdown scripts must have those scripts fixed if needed

Hello, On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:37:29 +0100 Holger Levsen wrote: > just from what I've read in those two replies to this bug yet, I > think I agree that this change should be reverted. > And if you really want/need/do this change which needs changes in 30 > (or so) other packages, then please fil

Re: Debian 5.0 support for VMware ESX 3.5/4.0/ESXi 4.1

Hello, On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:40:03 +0100 Piotrek P wrote: > Dear All, > Please be aware that VMware ESX 3.5 is NOT supporting any of Debian > as Guest OS. Please be aware that VMware ESXi 4.1 IS supporting > Debian 4.0, 5.0 as Guest OS. Please be aware that VMware ESX 5.0 IS > supporting Debian

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

Hello, On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:01:00 +0100 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Idea 2: Allow quotation marks. > Not a solution on its own. What about a file named foo" bar' baz? > For a worst case what about files with newlines? You can double the delimiter to embed it into a string, like this: "f

Re: Migrating (finally?) from Tcl/Tk 8.4 to something newer.

Hello, On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:43:29 +0300 Andrew Shadura wrote: > So I'd like the maintainers of the packages which still depend on > Tcl/Tk 8.4 to update their packages to build against/use newer Tcl/Tk > versions. Also, I'd like to ask, that if possible, try to fix cha

Migrating (finally?) from Tcl/Tk 8.4 to something newer.

Hello, Currently in unstable there are around 30 packages which depend on Tcl/Tk 8.4, which is quite old itself despite the fact that updates are still released for it. Tcl/Tk 8.5 is available for more than 4 years, Tcl/Tk 8.6 is coming soon, so I think it may be the time to deprecate Tcl/Tk 8.4 f

Re: Bug#653208: ITP: node-ain2 -- syslog logging for Node

Hello, On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:43:44 +0700 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Ain can send messages by UDP to 127.0.0.1:514 or to the a unix > socket; the latter however only for Node 0.4.x, as unix_dgram sockets > support has been removed > 0.5.x. What? And they say Node.js is a 'cool' software after t

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

Hello, On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:14:18 +0100 Josselin Mouette wrote: > > No it does not work like you said. We know the matrix structure, not > > the kernel. We map and unmap manually. Doing as you said is > > inneficient and trash a lot cache and so on. > This is getting insane. Please learn how

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

Hello, On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:39:51 +0100 Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > $HOME is not really nice but it could work. I have a tmp dir under > > my home directry and some script to clean up at every log on. > $HOME seems like a very bad idea to me. At least if used by default... > Many universities

important changes in ifupdown 0.7~beta2

Hello, Few moments ago ifupdown 0.7~beta2 entered experimental. This release, amongst others, fixes this bug: . The change makes ifupdown to put interfaces down in the reverse order that they were brought up. If your /e/n/interfaces file relies on the behaviour of i

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