Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 09:16:03PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > These things are ugly, which is why I suppose they haven't caught on > despite being around for decades, but I would guess that this problem > space is such that there are no non-ugly solutions apart from "just > stick to ASCII"

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-01 Thread nick black
nick black left as an exercise for the reader: > it's my understanding that Punycode's objective is to be "clean" > with regards to things that match against the hostname character > set, hence its pickup for IDN (where it's expected that DNS > will be traversing all kinds of network middleware). a

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-01 Thread nick black
G. Branden Robinson left as an exercise for the reader: > It sounds like you want something isomorphic, if not identical, to, > Punycode. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode it's my understanding that Punycode's objective is to be "clean" with regards to things that match against the hostn

Re: The advantages of splitting /bin and /usr/bin, and /sbin and /usr/sbin outweigh the disadvantages

2024-12-01 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 09:38:28AM +0800, kindusmith wrote: > 1. First, root and ordinary users will not be able to use commands in each > other's directories, which will greatly increase their security (typical level of argumentation) -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi nick (and Marc), At 2024-12-01T18:43:28-0500, nick black wrote: > Gioele Barabucci left as an exercise for the reader: > > You may have misunderstood that phrase. I was not referring to the > > fact that there are no standardized normalization forms for Unicode > > (I explicitly mention Annex 1

Re: The advantages of splitting /bin and /usr/bin, and /sbin and /usr/sbin outweigh the disadvantages

2024-12-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-12-02T09:38:28+0800, kindusmith wrote: > 1. First, root and ordinary users will not be able to use commands in > each other's directories, which will greatly increase their security > > 2. If /usr is partitioned separately instead of a unified / partition, > ordinary users can also use com

The advantages of splitting /bin and /usr/bin, and /sbin and /usr/sbin outweigh the disadvantages

2024-12-01 Thread kindusmith
1. First, root and ordinary users will not be able to use commands in each other's directories, which will greatly increase their security 2. If /usr is partitioned separately instead of a unified / partition, ordinary users can also use commands in /usr/bin, which increases convenience Of c

Bug#1088850: ITP: releng-tool -- Tool to tailor the building of packages

2024-12-01 Thread git
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: g...@jdknight.me X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: releng-tool Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Contact: James Knight * URL : https://releng.io/ * License : BSD-2-Clause Programming Lang: Python Desc

Bug#1088849: ITP: golang-github-minio-cli -- Small package for building command line apps in Go

2024-12-01 Thread Mathias Gibbens
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathias Gibbens X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-minio-cli Version : 1.24.2-1 Upstream Author : MinIO * URL : https://github.com/minio/cli * License : E

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-01 Thread nick black
Gioele Barabucci left as an exercise for the reader: > You may have misunderstood that phrase. I was not referring to the fact that > there are no standardized normalization forms for Unicode (I explicitly > mention Annex 15 in [1]), but to the fact that there is no standard that > specifies which

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-01 Thread nick black
Marc Haber left as an exercise for the reader: > > * any upstream tool could say "bad idea" and refuse patches, > >requiring their long term management, > > Depending of how important this tool is, we could get away without > patching and probably not even documenting this failure. This kind

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-01 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 28/11/24 11:28, Michal Politowski wrote: POSIX explicitly limits itself of a subset of ASCII, so it is not going to mandate any normalization form. Are there other standards (or initiatives) in this area that you know of? What about RFC 8265? "Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Inte

Re: DEP-0, DEP0 or DEP 0?

2024-12-01 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2024-12-01 12:11:55, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi, > > > > Wouldn't another option be to allow for multiple ways to write things, > > > as long as they are consistently written in the same style for the same > > > purpose? > > > > > > I prefer writing DEP 4711 in text. > > > > > > I prefer writi

Re: DEP-0, DEP0 or DEP 0?

2024-12-01 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi, > > Wouldn't another option be to allow for multiple ways to write things, > > as long as they are consistently written in the same style for the same > > purpose? > > > > I prefer writing DEP 4711 in text. > > > > I prefer writing https://example.org/dep4711.txt in URLs. > > > > I prefer writ

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-12-01 Thread Julien Puydt
Le dimanche 01 décembre 2024 à 11:42 +0100, Paul Gevers a écrit : > Hi, > > On 12/1/24 11:36, Julien Puydt wrote: > >     Can you try: > > > >     sbuild --build-dir=~/Debian/repo --extra-package=~/Debian/repo > > > >     This should save all binary packages to the directory and use > > them in

Re: Bug#1088793: ITP: dataclasses-json -- Library for encoding and decoding dataclasses to and from JSON

2024-12-01 Thread Edward Betts
I made a mistake, this is already packaged. I'm closing the ITP. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dataclasses-json -- Edward

Bug#1088793: ITP: dataclasses-json -- Library for encoding and decoding dataclasses to and from JSON

2024-12-01 Thread Edward Betts
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Edward Betts X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: dataclasses-json Version : 0.6.7 Upstream Author : Charles Li * URL : https://github.com/lidatong/dataclasses-json * Licens

Bug#1088791: ITP: plattenalbum -- Client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD)

2024-12-01 Thread Danial Behzadi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Danial Behzadi X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: plattenalbum Version : 2.2.1 Upstream Contact: Martin Wagner * URL : https://github.com/SoongNoonien/plattenalbum * License : GPL-3+ Programmi

Re: Helping improve git-buildpackage (Re: DEP-18 v2: request for comments)

2024-12-01 Thread Richard Lewis
Otto Kekäläinen writes: > Basically you can start by forking > https://salsa.debian.org/agx/git-buildpackage on Salsa and then start > hacking away on the things you want to improve. > > If you want to do Python coding, fixing this issue could be an easy > one to start with: > https://bugs.debian

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-12-01 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 12/1/24 11:36, Julien Puydt wrote: Can you try: sbuild --build-dir=~/Debian/repo --extra-package=~/Debian/repo This should save all binary packages to the directory and use them in subsequent runs. It doesn't: it fails saying BUILD_DIR doesn't exist. Does it still me

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-12-01 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi Le dim. 1 déc. 2024, 11:14, Jochen Sprickerhof a écrit : > > Can you try: > > sbuild --build-dir=~/Debian/repo --extra-package=~/Debian/repo > > This should save all binary packages to the directory and use them in > subsequent runs. > It doesn't: it fails saying BUILD_DIR doesn't exist. I

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-12-01 Thread Jochen Sprickerhof
Hi Julien, * Julien Puydt [2024-12-01 10:59]: My use case isn't with a single package, but with a bunch of them. For example, updating the coq package means about fifty packages in seven stages. That means I compile all packages of one of the stages (sometimes in parallel), move the results to

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-12-01 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, Le samedi 23 novembre 2024 à 22:20 +0100, Philipp Kern a écrit : > >  https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild > I tried to update my DD setup to this new kind of sbuild using the above documentation, and there is something I don't manage to replicate from my previous setup. My use case isn't with a