Re: ZFS in Buster

2019-06-01 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 06:43:55PM +0200, Dan wrote: > > The ZFS developers proposed the Linux developers to rewrite the whole > ZFS code and use GPL, but surprisingly the linux developers didn't > accept. See below: > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8314 I've read the thread, and there

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-06-01 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 04:51:10PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Modified Direct changes git merge > upstream files,to upstream files (.dsc: 1.0-with-diff or > plus debian/*. single-debian-patch) > Maybe d/patches, depending.

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 06:16:58AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > In a fresh install of Buster with XFCE desktop, locking the screen > blanks the monitor and the monitor enters a power save state. After > that, neither moving the mouse nor typing on the keyboard would turn > the monitor back

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-06-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Nikolaus Rath writes ("Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format"): > On May 29 2019, Sam Hartman wrote: > > The thing his approach really seems to have going for it is that he > > gives up on the debian history fast forwarding and instead rebases a lot > > for a cleaner history. >

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
"G. Branden Robinson" writes: > My two cents[4] is that DSA should make its purchasing and hardware > solicitation decisions with the architectural security issue fairly far > down the priority list. It saddens me to say that, but this new class > of exploits, what van Schaik et al. call "microa

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Georg Faerber writes: > On 19-06-01 11:04:28, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I did some research on that a while back and ended up not filing a bug >> about it because it looked relatively pointless. It appeared to be a >> deep design choice on both sides, and not something anyone was likely >> to solve

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-06-01 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On May 29 2019, Sam Hartman wrote: > I'm certainly going to look at dck-buildpackage now, because what he > describes is a workflow I'd like to be using within Debian. > > For some projects I want to ignore orig tarballs as much as I can. I'm > happy with native packages, or 3.0 quilt with single

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2019-06-01T09:04:39+0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Are we then looking more closely at AMD-based machines given that > those had less problems around speculative attacks? To borrow a phrase from Christopher Hitchens, this comment gives a hostage to fortune. My team at work closely follows (and pa

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Georg Faerber
Hi Russ, all, On 19-06-01 11:04:28, Russ Allbery wrote: > I did some research on that a while back and ended up not filing a bug > about it because it looked relatively pointless. It appeared to be a > deep design choice on both sides, and not something anyone was likely > to solve, so I just swi

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
gregor herrmann writes: > I can't reproduce this in a quick test: > Terminal 1: sleep 5 ; notify-send foo > Terminal 2: xscreensaver-command -lock > No "foo" notification pops up over the screensaver image. > (This is with awesome, maybe the story is different for desktop > environments.) Ye

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 01 Jun 2019 11:04:28 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > It's worth noting here that xscreensaver has an IMO serious security > vulnerability (unless maybe this has been fixed?): because it doesn't > integrate properly with the desktop, it doesn't hide desktop > notifications. I can't reproduc

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski writes: > But, the culprit is light-locker. In general, it's in such a buggy > state that I believe it shouldn't be in the distribution at all, much > less a default of any kind. After it replaced xscreensaver[1] as the > xfce's dependency, I went into some pretty heated arguments

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 06:29:31PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Using unstable myself, I'm not sure what to recommend for Buster. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/physlock signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey Adam On 2019/06/01 18:29, Adam Borowski wrote: > At the time of the xscreensaver debacle, there was no sane alternative > (candidates depended on 80% of GNOME, offered no feedback nor discoverable > controls to the user, etc). There _is_ a wonderful alternative now: > xfce4-screensaver, which

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 11:06:42AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > This appears to be a bug in light-locker specifically, which is the > > default screen lock program with XFCE with lightdm. See, for instance: > > > > https://github.com/the-cavalry/light-locker/issues/114 > > > > Switching to an

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
> > Switching to another greeter from the default gtk-greeter appears to help > > according to that bug, which may mean that the bug is actually in > > lightdm-gtk-greeter. There doesn't appear to be a Debian bug for this; it > > might be a good idea to open one against light-locker (or, if you co

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Russ, On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 06:32:52PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > (This probably belonged on debian-user, but since I have background on > this specific problem and already did the research.) While this seems to be a problem for debian-user its very sensible that the issue was raised here

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Philipp Kern
On 5/31/2019 11:04 PM, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > Before you ask: an insecure hypervisor is an insecure buildd. Are we then looking more closely at AMD-based machines given that those had less problems around speculative attacks? Kind regards Philipp Kern