Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-12-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Marco d'Itri - 23.12.18, 22:30: >> On Dec 23, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >>> I think I have seen this with either SLES or RHEL that they created >>> symlinks for every binary in /bin and /sbin, pointing to the binary >>> in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. I did not understand

Re: Policy and procedures issue: init package hijacked via hostile NMU (declined by maintainers)

2018-12-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 10:11:53AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > Please note in the following mail that I'm raising this *exclusively* as a > policy and procedures issue, *not* a technical issue. I would request that > people *please* focus on the policy and procedures issue, and keep any > propos

Re: including complete corresponding licence information should stay a requirement (was Re: Debian Policy 4.3.0.0 released)

2018-12-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, December 23, 2018 08:56:02 PM Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Sean Whitton dixit: > >2.3 & 4.5 > > > >In cases where a package's distribution license explicitly permits > >its copyright information to be excluded from distributions of > >binaries built from the source, a verbatim co

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-12-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Marco d'Itri - 23.12.18, 22:30: > On Dec 23, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I think I have seen this with either SLES or RHEL that they created > > symlinks for every binary in /bin and /sbin, pointing to the binary > > in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. I did not understand why at the time I > > have seen

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-12-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 23, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I think I have seen this with either SLES or RHEL that they created > symlinks for every binary in /bin and /sbin, pointing to the binary in > /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. I did not understand why at the time I have seen > this. Definitely not RHEL, maybe you a

Re: including complete corresponding licence information should stay a requirement (was Re: Debian Policy 4.3.0.0 released)

2018-12-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Thorsten Glaser writes: > Sean Whitton dixit: >>2.3 & 4.5 >>In cases where a package's distribution license explicitly permits >>its copyright information to be excluded from distributions of >>binaries built from the source, a verbatim copy of the package's >>copyright informatio

including complete corresponding licence information should stay a requirement (was Re: Debian Policy 4.3.0.0 released)

2018-12-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA384 Sean Whitton dixit: >2.3 & 4.5 >In cases where a package's distribution license explicitly permits >its copyright information to be excluded from distributions of >binaries built from the source, a verbatim copy of the package's >cop

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-12-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Guillem Jover - 23.12.18, 17:17: > On Sun, 2018-12-23 at 16:45:28 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Sun, 2018-12-23 at 04:06:14 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > […] They also imply to permanently suffer the aliasing problems. > > > > To expand and clarify a bit on this. We have aliasing in gener

ITP: golang-github-fzambia-sentinel -- Redis Sentinel support for redigo library

2018-12-23 Thread Aman Verma
Package    : wnpp Severity   : wishlist Owner  : Aman Verma     *    Package name    : golang-github-fzambia-sentinel          Version     : 1.0.0+git20180630.52eb513-1          Upstream Author : Alexander Emelin     *    URL : https://github.com/FZambia/senti

Re: Removing conflicts of init system

2018-12-23 Thread Lorenz
The problem I see with alternatives is: what happens when I have init X set as the current alternative and I boot into init Y with a kernel command line or with a Grub-init-Y line? Will I end up with init Y but with all links pointing to init X commands? Il giorno dom 23 dic 2018 alle ore 15:58 Dm

Bug#917172: ITP: davs2 -- AVS2 (IEEE 1857.4) decoder

2018-12-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: davs2 Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : Falei LUO * URL : https://github.com/pkuvcl/davs2 * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Descrip

Re: Handling of entropy during boot

2018-12-23 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Tuesday, 18 December 2018 20:11:58 CET you wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 09:46:42PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > > There is a random seed file stored by systemd-random-seed.service that > > saves entropy from one boot and loads it again after the next reboot. The > > random seed file is re-

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-12-23 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2018-12-23 at 16:45:28 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sun, 2018-12-23 at 04:06:14 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > […] They also imply to permanently suffer the aliasing problems. > > To expand and clarify a bit on this. We have aliasing in general with > symlinks and hardlinks, but those

Re: Removing conflicts of init system

2018-12-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 02:58:15PM +, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > [2018-12-21 11:31] Josh Triplett > > You might consider submitting a patch to GRUB to add runit to that list, > > or better yet making that behavior look for symlinks in /lib/inits/ or > > similar and make an entry for every link th

Re: Policy and procedures issue: init package hijacked via hostile NMU (declined by maintainers)

2018-12-23 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2018-12-22 at 22:51:37 +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 22:25:48 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Procedurally? I guess it was > > OKish, but I guess that's a consequence we get when people involved > > the ctte to muddle the social and procedural fabric of the project…

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-12-23 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2018-12-23 at 04:06:14 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > […] They also imply to permanently suffer the aliasing problems. To expand and clarify a bit on this. We have aliasing in general with symlinks and hardlinks, but those tend to not be as problematic when aliasing the last component, as t

Help to ship a better rsync on Buster

2018-12-23 Thread Samuel Henrique
Hello everyone, and Paul, It got to my attention the rsync is a little behind our standards wrt to packaging and it looks like the maintainer doesn't have time to deal with that at the moment. Basically what I want to do is to upload the new release (along with some packaging fixes), adding new U

Re: Removing conflicts of init system

2018-12-23 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
[2018-12-21 23:57] Thorsten Glaser > On Fri, 21 Dec 2018, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > > I propose to replace current approach with update-alternatives(1) > […] > > Opinions? > > No. update-alternatives is too fragile to handle things like > /bin/sh and init(8). What do you mean fragile? Mind to

Re: Removing conflicts of init system

2018-12-23 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
[2018-12-21 23:19] Lorenz > A slightly different approach is also possible: > Ship only /sbin/init as a alternative link ("the default init" as user > choice) > and ship in `init-system-helpers' the following > > /sbin/halt > /sbin/poweroff > /sbin/reboot > /sbin

Re: Removing conflicts of init system

2018-12-23 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
[2018-12-21 20:35] Colin Watson > > (Meanwhile, I don't think it's necessarily a good idea to handle > > /sbin/init and associated programs with alternatives, not least of which > > because of the complications of switching the running system's init.) > > I quite agree. Could you please elabor

Re: Removing conflicts of init system

2018-12-23 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
[2018-12-21 11:31] Josh Triplett > You might consider submitting a patch to GRUB to add runit to that list, > or better yet making that behavior look for symlinks in /lib/inits/ or > similar and make an entry for every link that doesn't match /sbin/init. > (If you do so with fallbacks to the exi

Bug#917162: ITP: xavs2 -- AVS2 (IEEE 1857.4) encoder

2018-12-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: xavs2 Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Falei LUO * URL : https://github.com/pkuvcl/xavs2/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Descri

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-12-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 23, Guillem Jover wrote: > To me it's always been very clear the only *proper* way to deploy > merged-/usr, is to do the changes to the canonical pathnames on > each relevant package. Even adding compat symlinks, means that dpkg > would know about them, and they'd be temporary anyway for t