Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm

2021-02-19 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 02:15:17PM -0800, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 07:28:56PM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote: > > I very dimly remember updatedb being a concern when cloud images were > > first discussed. Back then and today, agreed, it does not make sense > > there. > > Agre

how to deal with Google Spam on packagen...@packages.debian.org

2021-02-19 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, some moron has subscribed a...@packages.debian.org to an arabic lanugage Google Group and the package tracker address is therefore swamped with multiple arabic messages per day. There is an unsubscribe link in the messages, but I refuse to create a Google Account for a...@packages.debian.org t

Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm

2021-02-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:34:45 +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: >All locate variants are a PITA on servers, especially when virtualized. >Imagine a 100+ VM hypervisor at 6:30 starting an updatedb job on all VMs >in parallel. I debugged stuff like that for customers so yes - This >problem is real. We r

sudo RFA

2021-02-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
Back in December, I put sudo up for adoption via WNPP. The response has been underwhelming. It was just pointed out to me that since I didn't actually post something explicit about this on debian-devel, some who might be willing and able to work on it perhaps are just unaware that it's up for ado