Re: SSDs have extra "unused" space???

2014-01-21 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 08:31:56AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 01/20/2014 09:34 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > >> wait, what? Do you have any vendor statements to support this 20% > >> extra space? > > > > Flash is basically probabilist

RFC: Possible deprecating of bzip2 in dpkg-deb?

2014-01-21 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! While adding support for control.tar.xz and control.tar to dpkg-deb in dpkg 1.17.6, I pondered about adding support too for control.tar.bz2, but ended up not doing so, because it does not seem to bring in any benefit that none, gzip or xz compression do, and because it could always be added la

Re: SSDs have extra "unused" space???

2014-01-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 08:31 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 01/20/2014 09:34 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > >> wait, what? Do you have any vendor statements to support this 20% > >> extra space? > > > > Flash is basically probabilistic stor

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2014-01-21 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:43:55PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 16.01.2014 13:31, schrieb Aníbal Monsalve Salazar: >> For mips/mipsel, I - fix toolchain issues together with other >> developers at ImgTec > > It is nice to see such a commitment, however in the past I didn't see > any such cont

Re: SSDs have extra "unused" space???

2014-01-21 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/20/2014 09:34 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > >> wait, what? Do you have any vendor statements to support this 20% >> extra space? > > Flash is basically probabilistic storage and you need extra

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2014-01-21 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 16.01.2014 13:31, schrieb Aníbal Monsalve Salazar: > For mips/mipsel, I - fix toolchain issues together with other developers at > ImgTec It is nice to see such a commitment, however in the past I didn't see any such contributions. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...

Re: mass-filing bug reports to use dh-autoreconf during the build

2014-01-21 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 16.01.2014 18:25, schrieb Matthias Klose: > Last year, I started to file bug reports for the arm64 port, which required > new > versions of the config.sub and config.guess scripts. All of these can be > fixed > by using the autotools-dev package for the update. Now, another port requires > n