Ian Jackson chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Debian has a long history of trying to make it possible to use Debian
> for as many purposes as we can, even when that means that the system
> has to be more complicated, or even when it means Debian has to be
> less perfectly suited to some particular
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 07:14:31PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Marc Haber writes ("Re: Minimal init [was: A few observations about
> systemd]"):
> > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:55:58 +0100, Ian Jackson
> > wrote:
> > >No, I don't think so. If these external tools double fork then they
> > >are just w
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I intend to package this as part of the pkg-mozext group.
* Package name: cookiesafe-lite
Version : 1.4
Upstream Author : csdev https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/7045/
* URL : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
On 07/30/2011 08:52 AM, olivier sallou wrote:
Adding this possiblity would provide VM for Debian but also Debian users
to create their own Debian customized VM.
this should be very easy to integrate into live-studio.debian.net and
live-build.debian.net.
I talked some time ago with one of th
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* Package name: liblibrary-callnumber-lc-perl
Version : 0.10
Upstream Author : Bill Dueber
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Library-CallNumber-LC/
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
Programming Lang: Perl
De
]] Ian Jackson
| It is much better to modify the few upstream daemons which would need
| patching, than to add all of this extra machinery to support what
| seems to me to be a design whose entire purpose is to workaround a
| to-my-mind-broken interface paradigm (daemon(3)) invented decades ago.
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* Package name: libsru-perl
Version : 0.99
Upstream Author : Ed Summers
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/SRU/
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
Programming Lang: Perl
Description : framework for Search
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* Package name: libnet-z3950-simple2zoom-perl
Version : 1.04
Upstream Author : Sebastian Hammer and colleagues
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Z3950-Simple2ZOOM/
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
Program
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* Package name: libcql-parser-perl
Version : 1.10
Upstream Author : Ed Summers
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CQL-Parser/
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
Programming Lang: Perl
Description : Common
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* Package name: libbusiness-edi-perl
Version : 0.05
Upstream Author : Joe Atzberger
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Business-EDI/
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
Programming Lang: Perl
Description : c
Juliusz Chroboczek writes ("Making daemons compatible with systemd [was:
Minimal init]"):
> > From what I've seen in Lennart's posts, adding systemd support doesn't
> > seem to be too complicated.
>
> No. No changes at all are necessary to be compatible with systemd.
> This is a very impressive
Marc Haber writes ("Re: Minimal init [was: A few observations about systemd]"):
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:55:58 +0100, Ian Jackson
> wrote:
> >No, I don't think so. If these external tools double fork then they
> >are just wrong.
>
> Double Forking has been the right way to do it for decades. Dem
Jon Dowland writes:
> It completely predates Debian releasing non-Linux
> kernels and is not mentioned in the social contract. That some
> people feel it justifies (or even mandates) non-Linux kernels in
> Debian is a retcon. pf, ZFS; these are valid reasons stated that
> support kFreeBSD. "I i
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* Package name: gpac
Version : 0.4.5+svn3450
Upstream Author : Jean Le Feuvre
* URL : http://gpac.sourceforge.net
* License : LGPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : multimedia frame
On Aug 02, Dmitry Nezhevenko wrote:
> What is "use"?
The maintainers decides what are the prevalent use cases of the package
and try to use defaults which are appropriate for the largest number of
users.
> For example rsync package provides both "rsync" client and
> rsync daemon. Both cases are
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 12:14:31PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > Making the "do not start by default" policy default for the distro should
> > improve out-of-box security.
> When I install a package I want to actually use it.
> A better security policy is to not install by default useless packages
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* Package name: combat
Version : 0.8.1
Upstream Author : Frank Pilhofer
* URL : http://www.fpx.de/Combat/
* License : BSD-2
Programming Lang: Tcl
Description : CORBA scripting with Tcl
Combat is a
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:37:03AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> Or have a firewall configured.
A (properly configured) firewall¹ might prevent *inbound* service abuse, but
there's always a potential for a mis- or un-configured service to cause
problems on a network (*outbound* service abuse²): a
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Hi,
I request an adopter for the convirt package. There are 2 open RC bugs caused
by upstream source being non-DFSG-free. Unfortunately, upstream doesn't respond
nor issue updates in a timely manner. Maybe someone wants to pick up
maintainership. She will need to do
also sprach Ben Finney [2011.08.02.0223
+0200]:
> > This comes about ¾ of the way to the history pollution done by TopGit.
>
> I consider it very useful information, when needed. It's only pollution
> if you let it be so.
That is a very wise statement, and I agree.
> > Not only would users pot
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* Package name: fso-common
Version : 0.1
* License : GPL
Description : configuration files for FSO related devices
This package contains configuration files that are not part of fso-packages and
dependencies to packa
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