Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-09 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 09:29:30PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: I would like to start by highlighting one very important line from my last email to you: > > Do not contact me with regard to Debian bullshit. And yet, you did. Fuck you. Do not contact me again. I shall consider any further cont

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-09 Thread Seth Arnold
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 05:31:00AM +, Chris Knadle wrote: > A logical place to check or the lack of BIOS virtualization features and show > an > error message for this would be within the .postinst script for the virtualbox > package in Debian. This way when Virtualbox is installed the user i

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-09 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> Or an user error. In either case, I don't get what a 32-bit _x86_ virtual > machine would be good for. Are you teaching some code archeology? Not at all. We're trying to make it compulsory for first year students to have a Unix installation on their personal machine. In practice, this means

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-09 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> Filing a bug on src:virtualbox with severity 'wishlist' or 'normal' for this > issue to discuss it with the maintainer of the virtualbox package(s) seems a > logical thing to do. Unfortunately, we're speaking about running Debian under VirtualBox under Windows, so it would need to be something t

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 07:42:13PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > Granted, when I first experienced a git push not working after I > uploaded some package, I was also puzzled and a bit annoyed that someone > pushed into the master branch of 'my' package, but upon reflection I > decided: > > - this

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 05:41:53PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Ian Jackson writes: > > Matthew Vernon writes ("Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such"): > >> Colin Watson writes: > >> > This seems like a little bit of an overreaction to somebody removing a > >> > single redundant line f

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-09 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Hi, On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 10:56:57AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > For some reason, Debian as a project failed to notice that I had quit, Probably because even at that time there were procedures that weren't followed, and apparently nobody after then bothered to check your status *and* follow

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-09 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 05:41:53PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > The particular commit was fine (and had it come as a MR or bug report or > whatever I'd have had no problem with it at all). I'm not sure why you are so bothered by it. Granted, when I first experienced a git push not working afte

I resigned in 2004

2018-11-09 Thread Matthew Wilcox
I quit Debian development back in 2004. This was a moral decision, based on the malfeasance of the project secretary over the "Editorial changes" GR. For some reason, Debian as a project failed to notice that I had quit, even though my wi...@debian.org email address was deliberately forwarded t

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
Ian Jackson writes: > Matthew Vernon writes ("Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such"): >> Colin Watson writes: >> > This seems like a little bit of an overreaction to somebody removing a >> > single redundant line from a control file, though. Is moving it really >> > worth the added fri

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Matthew Vernon writes ("Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such"): > Colin Watson writes: > > This seems like a little bit of an overreaction to somebody removing a > > single redundant line from a control file, though. Is moving it really > > worth the added friction? > > It's more a reac

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
Jonathan Dowland writes: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 11:54:50AM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: >>Putting it under a personal namespace doesn't make it much less visible, >>and folk can still open MRs... > > Oh I beg to differ, there's a huge difference of visibility between the > "main" Debian projec

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
Colin Watson writes: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 11:54:50AM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: >> Jonathan Dowland writes: >> > On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 03:42:01PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: >> >>Hm, I had not quite appreciated that was the expected behaviour. Ah >> >>well, I can move it :) >> > >> > P

Bug#913333: ITP: golang-github-namsral-flag -- Parse flags, environment variables and config files

2018-11-09 Thread Raúl Benencia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Raúl Benencia * Package name: golang-github-namsral-flag Version : 1.7.4-alpha+git20170814.67f268f-1 Upstream Author : Lars Wiegman * URL : https://github.com/namsral/flag * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Go

Bug#913334: ITP: golang-github-justinas-alice -- Painless middleware chaining for Go

2018-11-09 Thread Raúl Benencia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Raúl Benencia * Package name: golang-github-justinas-alice Version : 0.0~git20171023.03f45bd-1 Upstream Author : Justinas Stankevičius * URL : https://github.com/justinas/alice * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go D

Bug#913319: ITP: ethflux -- InfluxDB data gatherer for ethtool-style network interface information

2018-11-09 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Steinbiss * Package name: ethflux Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : DCSO GmbH * URL : https://github.com/DCSO/ethflux * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Go Description : InfluxDB data gatherer for eth

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 01:40:59PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: If his students were doing code archaeology or deep embedded, such areas require enough base skills that getting spooked by 32 vs 64 bits would be beyond them. Everyone starts somewhere, even code archaeologists. At my former School

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
(Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list and have set MFT accordingly, or at least think I have.) On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 11:54:50AM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: Putting it under a personal namespace doesn't make it much less visible, and folk can still open MRs... Oh I beg to diffe

Bug#913313: ITP: balboa -- server for indexing and querying passive DNS observations

2018-11-09 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Steinbiss * Package name: balboa Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : DCSO GmbH * URL : https://github.com/DCSO/balboa * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Go, C Description : server for indexing and quer

Bug#913311: ITP: slinkwatch -- automatic enumeration and maintenance of Suricata monitoring interfaces

2018-11-09 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Steinbiss * Package name: slinkwatch Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : DCSO GmbH * URL : https://github.com/DCSO/slinkwatch * License : GPL Programming Lang: Go Description : automatic enumeration and mainten

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 11:54:50AM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Jonathan Dowland writes: > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 03:42:01PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > >>Hm, I had not quite appreciated that was the expected behaviour. Ah > >>well, I can move it :) > > > > Please re-consider whether this

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-09 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 11:36:36AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 10:41:32PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Or an user error. In either case, I don't get what a 32-bit _x86_ virtual > > machine would be good for. Are you teaching some code archeology? Do you > > want t

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
Jonathan Dowland writes: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 03:42:01PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: >>Hm, I had not quite appreciated that was the expected behaviour. Ah >>well, I can move it :) > > Please re-consider whether this trade-off (other people pushing to > master) is a small price to pay for th

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 10:41:32PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: Or an user error. In either case, I don't get what a 32-bit _x86_ virtual machine would be good for. Are you teaching some code archeology? Do you want to prepare 32-bit images for something deeply embedded? Neither sounds an acti