Re: Bits from keyring-maint [action required]

2017-03-31 Thread Guido Trotter
Great messaging. Until about 1/2 of the email I was wondering where this was going to go and finding it plausible. Thanks for the morning laugh! Guido On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 6:45 AM, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > A potential issue in the DFSG freeness of the Debian keyrings has been > brought to

Re: Bits from keyring-maint [action required]

2017-03-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jonathan McDowell [2017-04-01 06:45 +0200]: > gpg --armor --export-secret-key | \ >sh -c '$(echo ZWNobyAiWW91J3ZlIGJlZW4gQXByaWwgRm9vbGVkISIK | base64 -d)' | > \ >mail -s 'Key material' keyring-ma...@debian.org Jonathan, I think it's great that you guys are taking this to

Bug#859239: ITP: btrfs-heatmap -- Visualize the layout of data on your btrfs filesystem

2017-03-31 Thread Hans van Kranenburg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hans van Kranenburg * Package name: btrfs-heatmap Version : 6 Upstream Author : Hans van Kranenburg * URL : https://github.com/knorrie/btrfs-heatmap/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Python 3 Description : Vis

Re: [stretch] mc-4.8.18 broken, but fixed mc-4.8.19 released 5 March

2017-03-31 Thread Felix Miata
Andrey Rahmatullin composed on 2017-04-01 01:49 (UTC+0500): On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 04:30:28PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Andrey Rahmatullin composed on 2017-03-24 21:18 (UTC+0500): > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:51:25AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > Can the imminent Stretch release be upg

Re: [stretch] mc-4.8.18 broken, but fixed mc-4.8.19 released 5 March

2017-03-31 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 04:30:28PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Andrey Rahmatullin composed on 2017-03-24 21:18 (UTC+0500): > > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:51:25AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > > > Can the imminent Stretch release be upgraded to include 4.8.19, or can the > > > fix for 3758 be ba

"Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-03-31 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi -devel, There's a very active conversation happening on Hacker News right now entitled «What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?»: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821 I haven't read every comment yet, but are there any feature requests that seem particularly relevant to us? (As a

Re: segfault trying to install at netcfg[1996]

2017-03-31 Thread Felix Miata
Julien Cristau composed on 2017-03-31 15:43 (UTC+0200): On 03/30/2017 01:10 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Using: http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso 27-Jan-2017 22:23 35M burned to CDRW. debian-devel is not the right place to repor

Re: [stretch] mc-4.8.18 broken, but fixed mc-4.8.19 released 5 March

2017-03-31 Thread Felix Miata
Andrey Rahmatullin composed on 2017-03-24 21:18 (UTC+0500): On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:51:25AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Can the imminent Stretch release be upgraded to include 4.8.19, or can the fix for 3758 be backported? This is the annoying bug 4.8.18 has: http://www.midnight-commander

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-31 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 07:28:19PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > In this scenario, you can determine the intent of the program copyright > holders, but what you need is a linking exception from the > purely-GPL-licensed library copyright holders, not from the program > copyright holders! Which, I

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-31 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 07:23:25 -0400 Richard Fontana wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:37:32PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:28:46 -0400 Richard Fontana wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 05:08:24AM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Do

Bug#859210: ITP: xtrabackup -- Percona XtraBackup is an open-source hot backup utility for MySQL that doesn't lock your database during the backup. It can back up data from InnoDB, XtraDB, and MyISAM

2017-03-31 Thread David Bennett
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bennett * Package name: xtrabackup Version : 2.4.6 Upstream Author : Percona Developers * URL : http://www.percona.com/software/percona-xtrabackup/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C, C++, Perl Description

Re: Bug#859199: ITP: dh-curl-sudo-bash -- debhelper tools for automated non-packaging

2017-03-31 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 12:00:35AM +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > * Package name: dh-curl-sudo-bash > Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius and Stuart Prescott > > * URL : http://deb.li/U67E > Description : debhelper tools for automated non-packaging > > The dh-curl-sudo-bas

Re: segfault trying to install at netcfg[1996]

2017-03-31 Thread Julien Cristau
On 03/30/2017 01:10 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > Using: > http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso > 27-Jan-2017 22:23 35M > burned to CDRW. Hi Felix, debian-devel is not the right place to report issues with the debian installer, please se

Bug#859199: ITP: dh-curl-sudo-bash -- debhelper tools for automated non-packaging

2017-03-31 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stuart Prescott * Package name: dh-curl-sudo-bash Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius and Stuart Prescott * URL : http://deb.li/U67E * License : BSD 3 clause Programming Lang: POSIX shell, Perl Descripti

Bug#859196: ITP: pftools -- build and search protein and DNA generalized profiles

2017-03-31 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: pftools Version : 3 Upstream Author : Alan Bridge, Christian Sigrist, Gregoire Rossier * URL : http://web.expasy.org/pftools/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : build a

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-31 Thread Scott Leggett
On 2017-03-30.09:03, Adam Borowski wrote: > The approach of commercial companies to both code and law is "it compiles? > Ship it!". They have sizeable legal departments, so the question they ask > themselves is not "is this legal?" but "are costs of possible litigation > smaller or greater than t

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-31 Thread Richard Fontana
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:37:32PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:28:46 -0400 Richard Fontana wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 05:08:24AM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > > > > > Do you (or anyone else) _really_ think the copyright holders of the GPL > > > pro

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-31 Thread Richard Fontana
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 10:27:46AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > On the other hand, when a larger upstream project > granted us a linking exception for OpenSSL, they probably did not > obtain consent from all the copyright holders, either. Right. For example, I remember one case where a Debian de

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-31 Thread Florian Weimer
* Philip Hands: > P.P.S. Does anyone really expect a consensus to emerge where we decide > to ignore the exception to the exception across the board without > consulting lawyers? I think there are several people in this thread > (myself included) that have demonstrated that they're going to argue

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Francesco Poli (2017-03-30 23:37:32) > On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:28:46 -0400 Richard Fontana wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 05:08:24AM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > > > > > Do you (or anyone else) _really_ think the copyright holders of > > > the GPL program in question h