Re: Jessie Freeze -> What is the next release name? (jessie+1)

2014-11-10 Thread Arno Töll
On 10.11.2014 10:55, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > i am disappoint. =( will second the motion on debian-vote to go for zurg. There is a ongoing GR proposal waiting for seconds, see https://lists.debian.org/debian-curiosa/2014/11/msg3.html which I fully support! -- with kind regards, A

Re: Jessie Freeze -> What is the next release name? (jessie+1)

2014-11-08 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, the next release will be named Debian Zurg[*]. [*] soon to be announced, I'm sure. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-22 Thread Arno Töll
n-time" failure than an "install-time" failure. > ... which we do. Yet people, including you, blame us for that data loss as you start the (re-)server at runtime afterwards even though the installation completes. :-) -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Fre

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-22 Thread Arno Töll
s of today by the way [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-apache/apache2.git/tree/debian/control?id=596d18e0bc7e23b2a897f4e1bfb4f1864c8d373e#n127 -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-22 Thread Arno Töll
ess it, somebody removed the .load symlinks we expect to be there. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-17 Thread Arno Töll
ing, I need to implement a solution which does not involve any packaging changes to packages released with Wheezy. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-17 Thread Arno Töll
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Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-13 Thread Arno Töll
't ask) and it does it's own configuration completely detached from Debian packaging and Debian configuration. Therefore, people that don't use Apache on their own have that package installed, too. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-13 Thread Arno Töll
note 2: We kinda expected this situation and added a trapdoor in Wheezy [1], but it turned out, that even that is not good enough to prevent havoc with --purge-unused. [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-apache/apache2.git;a=blob;f=debian/apache2.2-common.postrm;h=bbe9f740b81cf8af64412

Re: Bug#743282: ITP: apt-get-snapshot -- Download a specific package version from snapshot.debian.org

2014-04-01 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 01.04.2014 12:38, Mike Gabriel wrote: > When using debian testing, it is not trivial to get the previous version of a > package after it is upgraded. [..] debsnap (in devscripts) is your friend. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG

Re: FW: Again ask for a mentor who can help me by private mail

2014-02-03 Thread Arno Töll
r stopped mentoring you because you copied over best practices from other packages, in particular those your mentor maintains? If so, not you should be hit with the holy hammer of clue, but your mentor. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D sign

Re: Team maintenance of more Apache modules?

2013-07-13 Thread Arno Töll
rking* team, and I see no problem to use debian-apache@l.d.o for that purpose. I might even join that team. ;-) -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: DM Upload

2013-06-28 Thread Arno Töll
-uid 'er...@mega-nerd.com' --allow libsndfile libsamplerate sndfile-tools I have added a documentation example to the manpage for that. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: DM upload permission question

2013-06-01 Thread Arno Töll
rint > 522D7163831C73A635D12FE5EC371482956781AF > [Errno 2] No such file or directory This is fixed in git, see #709831. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-29 Thread Arno Töll
(or breaking them). + MySQL (in particular). There the situation is very complicated, too thanks to Oracle. I don't know if this applies to other Oracle products, too think of Virtualbox etc. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D

Re: default MTA

2013-05-28 Thread Arno Töll
ming we can fix the dma situation (#671364) I'd rather consider that one a (possible) future default MTA. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Forming a Debian bugsquad team (Was: "Blacklists" in BTS (stopping the trolls and bug machines))

2013-05-27 Thread Arno Töll
are more jobs that team could take over, like handling bugs against "general", or against in-existing packages. Yet I don't think that would be a highly appealing job, but I'm more than happy if others would like to do it. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonke

Re: Apport for Debian

2013-05-13 Thread Arno Töll
ussing that, we need automated/mandatory dbg packages for Debian, e.g. see [1] for the last time this was discussed. [1] -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: /export (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-08 Thread Arno Töll
one. [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM [2] <4f8a1567.80...@debian.org> // https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00301.html -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Community Outreach to other communities

2013-04-01 Thread Arno Töll
10 @@ > +apt (0.9.7.8+nmu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low ^ You missed something, didn't you? Otherwise, your patch looks fine! Maybe you want to CC deity@l.d.o next time though when you plan to NMU their package. :> -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: d

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-03-31 Thread Arno Töll
nt: You could help there as well which is a much better idea rather than ranting and trolling around. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: bugs.debian.org: something's wrong...

2013-03-20 Thread Arno Töll
oice to use an avatar, or someone assigns one to you. Well, I'd prefer if we had other choices than that too, but on the other hand we surely got more important problems. Either way, there is a thread on debian-project and maybe we could stick with one. [1] <87hakcbfjy@gkar.ganneff

Re: DM upload permission

2013-03-06 Thread Arno Töll
ing a similar job. Contrary to our DM implementation it is written in more self-sufficient bash script and was meant to inclusion into devscripts, last I heard. I don't know what the current status is on that matter though. [1] https://github.com/algernon/yodack -- with kind regards, Ar

Re: DM upload permission

2013-03-05 Thread Arno Töll
Hi Paul, On 06.03.2013 01:13, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Arno Töll wrote: > >> dcut dm --uid "Tobias Stefan Richter" --allow nexus > > Could this be moved to devscripts as a dm command? Maybe with less > dashes in the interface too.

Re: DM upload permission

2013-03-04 Thread Arno Töll
er: Carlo Segre Action: dm Fingerprint: 8CCC1BA8590FF029D17C708FC1BCD3C72AA28B6B Allow: nexus --- Note, you can also use dput-ng (available in unstable) to manage DM permissions. The equivalent command would be: dcut dm --uid "Tobias Stefan Richter" -

Re: git dangerous operations on alioth

2013-02-28 Thread Arno Töll
could set-up our own gitorious instance once the stuff is packaged. I at least am very interested in such a Debian service and might even set one up. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#700875: ITP: kpcli -- command line interface to KeePassX password manager databases

2013-02-18 Thread Arno Töll
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Arno Töll" * Package name: kpcli Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : Lester Hightower * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/kpcli/ * License : Perl Artistic License Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: Creating symlinks to manpages

2013-02-11 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 11.02.2013 14:00, Игорь Пашев wrote: > If you look at dh_installman, you will see that it replaces such dummy pages > with symlinks. Which solves your problem, doesn't it? And no, I don't think that's ugly - it's a pragmatic workaround. -- with kind regards, A

Re: Creating symlinks to manpages

2013-02-11 Thread Arno Töll
o man1/foo.1 [1] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Man-Page/q4.html -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: No native packages?

2013-01-27 Thread Arno Töll
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Re: RFA: jabberd2 -- Jabber instant messenger server

2012-12-19 Thread Arno Töll
ed tasks contradict with upstream's priorities and point of views. The Debian principle of backporting important fixes instead of upgrading for example is one of these things where upstream developers tend to say "WTH? Why don't you just use my latest version". -- with kind

Re: Bug#695765: ITP: fsniper -- daemon to run scripts based on changes in files monitored by inotify

2012-12-12 Thread Arno Töll
s. How is this better/different to incron(d) [1]? [1] http://packages.debian.org/sid/incron -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: dput-ng/1.1 in unstable

2012-12-06 Thread Arno Töll
p=vindex&search=0xA0A0 -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: dput-ng/1.1 in unstable

2012-12-06 Thread Arno Töll
lookupfor argument 0x12 failed. GnuPG returned error: gpg: error reading key: malformed user id -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: dput-ng/1.1 in unstable

2012-12-04 Thread Arno Töll
eze there won't be dput-ng in Testing anytime soon. We may be able to provide an out-of-tree backport on a private repository, but I don't see many chances to get it into Squeeze. We may, however, surely provide a backport for Wheezy once it is released. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll I

Re: "Do not CC me"

2012-11-25 Thread Arno Töll
starting with "But $MY_MUA can['t]" does not count as real argument until we have a "Debian Developer Reference Software Toolstack". -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-31 Thread Arno Töll
ay and by respecting design choices by others. A NMU is not about forcing someone else to obey your personal tastes and preferences. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#691624: ITP: dput-ng -- next generation Debian package upload tool

2012-10-28 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 28.10.2012 14:15, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 28.10.2012 13:06, Arno Töll wrote: >> On 28.10.2012 13:57, Florian Weimer wrote: >>> Does it prevent uploading security updates to the main archive by >>> default? >> >> Adam, with his Release Team hat on

Re: Bug#691624: ITP: dput-ng -- next generation Debian package upload tool

2012-10-28 Thread Arno Töll
and it is reasonably trivial to implement. For the time being we do not prevent this, but it is on our TODO already and the first version we upload to Debian will most likely feature such a check. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D

Re: Bug#691624: ITP: dput-ng -- next generation Debian package upload tool

2012-10-28 Thread Arno Töll
est in that. Also note, we keep some backward compatibility but we are not entirely backwards compatible (but only a few users with edge case configurations should notice this). -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#691624: ITP: dput-ng -- next generation Debian package upload tool

2012-10-27 Thread Arno Töll
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Arno Töll" Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Arno Töll thanks * Package name: dput-ng Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Arno Töll , Paul Tagliamonte * URL : http://people.debian.org/~paultag/dput-ng

Re: GR: Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-26 Thread Arno Töll
rs :) -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

GR: Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-26 Thread Arno Töll
n-devel/2012/10/msg00473.html -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-25 Thread Arno Töll
a new maintainer in a way which is a not prone to conflicts. I am not saying you should not NMU packages. People should not be afraid to NMU - but do it an respectful, minimally invasive way. Do the cosmetic perfectionist stuff later, when you are the official maintainer. -- with kind regards

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-23 Thread Arno Töll
positive and negative votes on a submitted case. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/09/msg00656.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/10/msg00162.html -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-18 Thread Arno Töll
tending we had a working concept to throw away binaries and how to deal with arch:all packages, why don't we introduce a control/changes file flag similar in spirit to "XS-Autobuild: yes" instructing dak not to throw away binaries upon explicit request - say "XS-keep-binary:

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-18 Thread Arno Töll
re. Moreover, I bet there is a fair number of DDs building their stuff in /srv, /some/random/non-fhs/directory and whatever else one could imagine, possibly including /tmp. Scanning for a particular directory or, list of directories, does not really help. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-16 Thread Arno Töll
a bad idea though. We just need someone to care enough to implement missing bits and find a way how to deal with arch:all. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-11 Thread Arno Töll
velopers agreed for the opened case. I don't think that's desired or realistic. * How would you validate binding votes on a salvage process? You would need to require to send signed mails to the list for seconding. Otherwise we did not win anything over votes allowed by anyone. -- wit

Re: Out of Date Package and Maintainer Absence

2012-10-04 Thread Arno Töll
ould unblock a package with major changes such as a new upstream version. Not to say Vincent should not work on it, but it won't be in time for Wheezy. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-09-30 Thread Arno Töll
intent to salvage/hijack a package, wait if people complain loud enough. We would still be in a legal gray area, where it is not clear whether one is allowed to salvage a package from a bad maintainership. I think the most important rationale is to get people not to be afraid to take over packag

Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-09-28 Thread Arno Töll
] http://penta.debconf.org/dc12_schedule/events/926.en.html [7] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/07/msg3.html [8] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681833 -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: dm upload permissions

2012-09-28 Thread Arno Töll
on of it in devscripts: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688830 -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-22 Thread Arno Töll
uot; message within two months. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Conflict usr/bin/ninja vs usr/sbin/ninja ?

2012-09-19 Thread Arno Töll
rg/debian-devel/2012/08/msg00101.html -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Dyson project (Debian on illumos kernel)

2012-09-13 Thread Arno Töll
; other kerberos > libraries. I've moved illumos gssapi.h inot /usr/include/sys/. Historically, Linux did similar things. For example we had a kernel NFS server and user space NFS servers for a long time. That said, Kerberos is another level of insanity, without doubt. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#687001: ITP: optional-dev -- fake (empty) dev package

2012-09-08 Thread Arno Töll
for buildds if A is not installable. The rationale is, that builds should unconditionally result in the same binary package (I guess). -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#686447: ITP: zfs-linux -- The native Linux kernel port of the ZFS filesystem

2012-09-01 Thread Arno Töll
packages are upgraded. Question remains whether the resulting binary packages are distributable by Debian. You'd basically need to ship source only binary packages which are built on the installing platform - including utilities, not only for the kernel driver. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll

Re: node-like file conflicts

2012-08-08 Thread Arno Töll
kFreeBSD only runs in a chroot for now. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Arno Töll
t;alias ifconfig='ip a'" >>.bashrc That's not going to work and you know that. I hope you do at least. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Arno Töll
ot show it). ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 up ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.0.2 up ifconfig It does not list addresses you added with ip without adding a sub-interface, however. With respect to visibility, one might wonder if doing that that is a good idea after all. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IR

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Arno Töll
and route were around already when everyone insisted on the separation of /bin and /sbin. /bin/ip is slightly newer and supposed to replace ifconfig/route some day entirely. I don't think we have concrete plans to get rid of net-tools in a foreseeable future though. -- with kind regards, Arno

Re: tasksel: Default desktop: Gnome→Xfce

2012-08-03 Thread Arno Töll
te some day, but we should be sure (virtually) nobody notices once we drop it. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict

2012-07-17 Thread Arno Töll
utions do affect a small notion of developers only. Thus, I appreciate they are sent to d-d-a now. While the node naming conflict may not affect too many developer directly, implications resolved by any tech-ctte decision do per constitutional powers granted to that institution. -- with kind rega

Re: Bug#681514: ITP: screenkey -- screencast tool to display your keystrokes

2012-07-13 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, Eshat Cakar made a package for screenkey already. As far as I know it was in a good shape and only lacked a sponsor until he gave up eventually. Maybe get in touch with him (CC:-ed) to save duplicate work. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID

Re: duplicates in the archive

2012-06-24 Thread Arno Töll
a well respected Debian Developer today if your replies to your first WNPP bug (if you filed any, I don't know) back then told you to go away, nobody appreciates your work? -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#678815: ITP: wmfs -- Window Manager From Scratch

2012-06-24 Thread Arno Töll
into Debian and what not, and nobody who decides on that beyond legal issues. How would Mickaël know, then? -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Maintainers, teams, Uploaders, DMs, DDs, etc.

2012-06-13 Thread Arno Töll
ns start and that's perfectly fine. It's what happens (or rather: what's not happening) afterwards which worries me in some cases. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Maintainers, teams, Uploaders, DMs, DDs, etc.

2012-06-13 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, as a clarification, because I was pointed to it: On 13.06.2012 18:54, Arno Töll wrote: > Drive-by sponsoring makes this even more complicated and is not helping > anybody. We should stop advocating drive-by sponsoring at all. ... with the exception of evident cases like RC bug

Re: Maintainers, teams, Uploaders, DMs, DDs, etc.

2012-06-13 Thread Arno Töll
>NMUers, > debian/README.nmu Likewise. Maybe we could stick both, the maintainer and the NMU information README.source though, as people suggested in IRC. > It doesn't seem to me that there is any need to change the archive > machinery to handle DM permissions differen

Re: this bug .. bugs me

2012-06-06 Thread Arno Töll
ory for DDs only. You know we welcome everyone [1] apparently. [1] <20120606151810.gj4...@camblue.cbg.collabora.co.uk> -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian documentation permalinks

2012-05-30 Thread Arno Töll
the same for Debian. Including support for multiple distributions starting with Lenny. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-30 Thread Arno Töll
ppen *now* beyond the bare essential minimum to improve the user experience in Wheezy. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-29 Thread Arno Töll
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Re: apache 2.4 transition bugs

2012-05-24 Thread Arno Töll
he debian-apache list. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [pkg-lighttpd] Changing the default document root for HTTP server

2012-04-17 Thread Arno Töll
r own stuff unsupported by Apache. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [pkg-lighttpd] Changing the default document root for HTTP server

2012-04-16 Thread Arno Töll
that at Lighttpd as well. However, as per FHS no assumptions on such a layout can or should be made. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [pkg-lighttpd] Changing the default document root for HTTP server

2012-04-16 Thread Arno Töll
those who do, most likely already realize using the default /var/www vhost plus custom /var/www/site vhosts causes problems. Hence I advocate to configure the default as sane as possible to obey the principle of least surprise. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFT

Re: [pkg-lighttpd] Changing the default document root for HTTP server

2012-04-15 Thread Arno Töll
w/html NetBSD: /usr/pkg/share/httpd/htdocs FreeBSD: /usr/local/www/apache22/data OpenBSD: /var/apache2/htdocs/ Solaris: /var/apache2/htdocs Slackware: /svr/httpd/htdocs Gentoo: /var/www/localhost/htdocs -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D

Re: Changing the default document root for HTTP server

2012-04-15 Thread Arno Töll
cular directory, but I do not see why /var/lib/www would be better than /var/www/. Please let me know if I missed something here. [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLIBVARIABLESTATEINFORMATION -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-I

Changing the default document root for HTTP server

2012-04-14 Thread Arno Töll
o worry about sensitive information disclosed by accidentally matching last-resort catch-all name based hosts anymore. Thus, to summarize once again: I'd like to change the default directory served by web servers from /var/www to /var/www/html along with remaining web servers in Debian. Comm

Re: Enabling hardened build flags for Wheezy

2012-03-06 Thread Arno Töll
build dependency against dpkg-dev >= 1.16.1 doing so. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.m

Re: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

2012-03-05 Thread Arno Töll
claim to be the better Mentors service. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://eni

Re: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

2012-03-05 Thread Arno Töll
e Debian project as a whole, be it. But I'd ask you not to mix-up and confuse debian.net projects with other stuff discussed in here. Thanks. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/

Re: Enabling hardened build flags for Wheezy

2012-03-01 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01.03.2012 18:11, Arno Töll wrote: > The vanilla kernel itself has some ASLR protection as well, > although I think it is still not enabled by default in Debian (and > is perhaps ^^ KiBi corrected me. It

Re: Enabling hardened build flags for Wheezy

2012-03-01 Thread Arno Töll
attacks. That would lead us back to the grsecurity/PaX discussion we had a few weeks ago. The vanilla kernel itself has some ASLR protection as well, although I think it is still not enabled by default in Debian (and is perhaps weaker than PaX). - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: dae

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Arno Töll
atible shell script on !Linux at boot/install time. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEB

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Arno Töll
nd up to basically fork systemd or carry very heavy patches in systemd. Not sure if that sounds desirable in the long term, as I do not think upstream is interested to merge any of these hacks. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN P

Re: Comments on introducing a new Essential package: base-init?

2012-02-09 Thread Arno Töll
C buggy immediately, as they all need to declare a dependency against (an) init script given they rely on a init script for functionality then. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU

Please add a sponsorship-requests pseudo-package

2012-01-23 Thread Arno Töll
lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/01/msg00365.html - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - htt

Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-19 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 19.01.2012 05:54, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Arno Töll wrote: >> On 18.01.2012 08:40, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >>> Dear DSA, do you think it's possible to have a CNAME mentors.deb

Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???

2012-01-17 Thread Arno Töll
ches/series, although that would be quite uncommon. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail

Re: Bug#655230: ITP: pushkey -- ITP: pushkey - Pushes your ssh key to a remote location. It tries to create a .ssh folder remotley then it adds your ssh key to authorized_keys.

2012-01-09 Thread Arno Töll
t; prompts you for a password two times unless you use a ssh agent. Moreover, you should provide a source package for review and inclusion. Not a binary package to the debian-mentors mailing list. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D

Re: Providing a dummy web server package in Debian (Removing web server dependencies from web apps)

2012-01-06 Thread Arno Töll
e, you could consider uploading it despite of all critics and hope ftpmaster will accept it. I would, however, support any effort in finding a consolidated web application policy regarding dependencies, suggestions, ways to interact with web servers and such. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: d

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Arno Töll
example: trac is written in Python but recommends "apache2 | httpd" (albeit not depends). We better consolidate dependencies of web applications instead of picking examples for either arguments, as different people sadly solve the same problem different here. - -- with kin

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Arno Töll
sure there are many more special case scenarios where a weaker dependency would be better, but the overall benefit is more valuable. In fact, we do have "Depends" at all then? I'm sure there is a special use case for almost every dependency where it would be better not to have it at a

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Arno Töll
mod +x foo.install" is so much worse than overriding dh_install by your own dark magic but you should be realizing you just traded one black-box for another not-so-black-but-still-very-dark-box. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D ---

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-07 Thread Arno Töll
y level 9 to not break any existing source package out there which might accidentally have +x on such a file. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: Lintian ERROR saying dpatch is obsolete

2011-11-28 Thread Arno Töll
reat improvement. Or, alternatively most patches-which-are-scripts could be avoided if quilt had better support for removing/copying/renaming files. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1

Re: How to find a sponsor?

2011-11-04 Thread Arno Töll
/intro-maintainers - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJOs/71AAoJEMcrUe

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