Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 07:00:36PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 10:08:19AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 12:22:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > They are planning to remove the --badname option from useradd, making > it impossible to even try UTF-8 use

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 07:00:36PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > In the context of the whole thread, are you suggesting that adduser(1) > should be changed to use something other than useradd(8) under the hood? adduser will not do that. Doing so is nonsense. Greetings Marc -- -

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 07:00:36PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 10:08:19AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 12:22:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > They are planning to remove the --badname option from useradd, making > > > it impossible to even tr

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 10:08:19AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 12:22:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > They are planning to remove the --badname option from useradd, making > > it impossible to even try UTF-8 user names, without patching useradd. > > Or edit the passwd fi

Re: Do we need three-and-a-half nigh-identical X compositors ‒ xcompmgr, compton, picom, unagi?

2024-12-13 Thread наб
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 09:30:09AM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > It's worth noting that Lubuntu is currently shipping Picom by default. > I don't think you're proposing getting rid of it, but if that ends up > being considered, I'd prefer if it could be kept around or if the > Lubuntu team could a

Re: Do we need three-and-a-half nigh-identical X compositors ‒ xcompmgr, compton, picom, unagi?

2024-12-13 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 8:01 AM наб wrote: > > Hi! > > We seem to be shipping 3.5 standalone compositors > (maintainers in CC): > 1. xcompmgr ‒ the upstream's effectively finished > (we have 1.1.8, the two releases since changed nothing of > substance) > last maintaine

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 12:22:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: They are planning to remove the --badname option from useradd, making it impossible to even try UTF-8 user names, without patching useradd. Or edit the passwd file (vipw), or use any non-passwd-file authentication mechanism, or use a

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread sre4ever
Hi, Le 2024-12-13 13:38, IOhannes m zmölnig a écrit : and *of course* all usernames have been normalized to lowercase ASCII. I just took a look at some reasonably recent government-issued IDs and it turns out the French ones normalized my name to uppercase whatever-some-clerk-had-on-their-t

Do we need three-and-a-half nigh-identical X compositors ‒ xcompmgr, compton, picom, unagi?

2024-12-13 Thread наб
Hi! We seem to be shipping 3.5 standalone compositors (maintainers in CC): 1. xcompmgr ‒ the upstream's effectively finished (we have 1.1.8, the two releases since changed nothing of substance) last maintainer upload 2019-07 popcon inst=852 vote=171 2. co

Bug#1089834: ITP: golang-github-olebedev-when -- A natural language date/time parser with pluggable rules

2024-12-13 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ahmad Khalifa X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-olebedev-when Version : 1.1.0-1 Upstream Author : Oleg Lebedev * URL : https://github.com/olebedev/when * Lice

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Stephan Seitz
Am Fr, Dez 13, 2024 at 13:38:31 +0100 schrieb IOhannes m zmölnig: Incidentally, my kid's school rolled out their school laptops this week, which of course come with Windows11 preinstalled (as a sidenote I am now looking forward to four years of "digital competence training" consisting entirely

Bug#1089833: ITP: gittuf -- A security layer for Git repositories

2024-12-13 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: gittuf Version : 0.8.0-1 Upstream Author : gittuf * URL : https://github.com/gittuf/gittuf * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : A security layer for Git reposit

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 13. Dezember 2024 13:08:01 MEZ schrieb Stephan Seitz : > >I don’t need non-ASCII for my name but I would never use a system that would >forces me to rewrite my name in ASCII because it is so utterly broken in 2024. >I bet there is no problem on Windows systems. > > Stephan > Incidental

Bug#1089831: ITP: golang-github-hiddeco-sshsig -- SSH Signature: sign and verify messages using SSH keys

2024-12-13 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-hiddeco-sshsig Version : 0.1.0-1 Upstream Author : Hidde Beydals * URL : https://github.com/hiddeco/sshsig * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : SS

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Stephan Seitz
Am Do, Dez 12, 2024 at 20:21:15 +0200 schrieb Henrik Ahlgren: I don't see much problems with single-user machines, especially security related. But, think multi-user environments? Imagine, as a non-Chinese speaking Westerner, needing to chown a file to a colleague called 陈成. Even You are joking

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 08:21:15PM +0200, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > I don't see much problems with single-user machines, especially security > related. But, think multi-user environments? Imagine, as a non-Chinese > speaking Westerner, needing to chown a file to a colleague called 陈成. I would type "

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:02:21 -0500, "Theodore Ts'o" wrote: >On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:24:15PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> But things are moving by shadow upstream taking a user-hostile stance, >> willing to take away freedom. I must be fine with that because I >> cannot change it. But I don't nee

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:30:22 +0200, Andrius Merkys wrote: >On 2024-12-12 20:51, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Dec 12, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >>> The "Perl Problem" is a wider issue we should explore in much more depth. >> We would first need to determine that there is an actual problem. >> Perl is q