Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 12/16/24 17:45, rhys wrote: > However, privilege escalation is still a serious issue and should not be > minimized by its likelihood. I didn't, my point is that I think they are better/more effectively adressed with other mechanims (systemd unit hardening) than chroot. > The "REAL" danger is t

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hi, first - thanks a lot for working on postfix packaging, it really needs some love. On 12/16/24 15:51, Michael Tokarev wrote: > What do you think about this aspect of postfix on debian? my opinion in short: I would get rid of the chrooted complexity, it's not worth it and introduces way more p

Re: Proposal: Optional `Priority: optional` and changed `Section` fall-back

2024-12-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hi, both sound good (dropping mandatory priority is nice and consistent, fixing unknown section behaviour too), thanks! ideally these changes would be in dpkg in trixie, but maintainers would start dropping priority fields *after* trixie so that for backports we woudn't need to add it back en mas

Re: Private code: to forge, or not to forge?

2024-10-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 10/16/24 18:18, Iustin Pop wrote: > Gitea/Forgejo are common recommended solutions for "home hosting", but > neither is packaged. (jftr) I'm currently working with Forgejo upstream to get one last feature implemented that we'll need at work to switch to it, and then finish the packaging of it

Re: proposal: Hybrid network stack for Trixie

2024-09-23 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 9/23/24 13:04, Lukas Märdian wrote: > It's sad to see that fellow DDs do not seem to care It's sad to see that in this and the other thread before, the same weak arguments in favour of netplan are repeated by you without neither adressing the valid points raised against it, nor providing an act

Re: Community survey on network stack for Trixie

2024-09-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 9/5/24 10:43, Marc Haber wrote: > I don't see a problem with keeping ifupdown{2,-ng,} if none of those > packages is part of the default install and we remove it from the > beginner- and intermediate-level docs. right, me neither; but Lukas' argument was that introducing netplan is "unifying do

Re: Community survey on network stack for Trixie

2024-09-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
sorry, one more.. On 9/4/24 18:00, Lukas Märdian wrote: > But we ought to look at the bigger picture! >From that point of view, it doesn't make sense to even consider netplan. No distribution other than ubuntu is using it. If Debian uses network-manager and systemd-networkd, there's hardly any d

Re: Community survey on network stack for Trixie

2024-09-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 9/4/24 18:00, Lukas Märdian wrote: >> Of course we could. But who would actually care? > > That's exactly the problem! I don't think so. I still have the impression that netplan wants to fill a whole where in reality there's none. In my experience networking from a systems point of view has d

Re: Community survey on network stack for Trixie

2024-09-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 9/4/24 17:49, Lukas Märdian wrote: > Netplan is for the average user who googles about "how to configure network > on debian" and ends up with the "4 ways to configure the network" > [4ways] or > even more options in the Debian Reference [debref]: so, to exaggerate on purpose, netplan is only t

Re: Community survey on network stack for Trixie

2024-09-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hi, On 9/3/24 18:24, Lukas Märdian wrote: > The nice thing about Netplan is that it [...] functions as a > layer on top. I don't understand what actual problem netplan is trying to solve. On servers I want systemd-networkd directly anyway (for lacp, vlan and bridges), and on end-user desktops I'

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2023-03-09 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 3/8/23 14:11, Marc Haber wrote: > They pulled the plug on relay and client from now to immediately, with > no obvious replacement on the relay side, and then announced EOL for > the server for end of 2022, leaving the world without the reference > implementation. that was unfortunate, however..

Re: Yearless copyrights: what do people think?

2023-02-22 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 2/22/23 14:26, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Wait, I may have been unclear. I did not mean that I want to omit > the upstream copyright years *when they are there*. I know you didn't mean that, nevertheless, it's imho good idea. I'd be in favour of dropping them from d/copyright an let people have a

Re: Yearless copyrights: what do people think?

2023-02-22 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 2/22/23 13:55, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > As a redistributor I find it a good practice to include most possible > copyright and licensing information provided by upstream authors, > exactly because we are doing a service for our users while having copyright information centrally available per pa

Re: python-tz and the timezone saga

2021-09-30 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 9/30/21 10:50, Alastair McKinstry wrote: Are any other packages in the same situation ? In pytzdata, I've removed the embedded copy in order to use the system copy (= tzdata) of the zoneinfo files. Regards, Daniel

Re: packages that are touching /srv?

2020-02-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 2/6/20 2:36 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > My interpretation is > of this is that packages should never touch /srv unless directed to do > so by the sysadmin. As a general rule, I'd agree. However, I support allowing packages to not do anything except creating an empty directory in /srv/$foo (i.e. cre

Re: packages that are touching /srv?

2020-02-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 2/6/20 4:10 AM, Richard Laager wrote: > That's been my interpretation too. My expectation as a sysadmin is that > /srv is available for my _exclusive_ use. in the case of vsftp and tftpd-hpa, there's a debconf question asking the admin for the location of these directories, for which /srv/{t,}f

Re: "debian.pool.ntp.org" for Debian derivatives?

2018-10-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 10/18/2018 11:22 AM, Philipp Hahn wrote: > Are we (as a Debian derivate) allowed to hard-code and use the > "debian.pool.ntp.org" or must we apply for our own pool? the idea between the different pool CNAMEs is that when one vendor does something bad/wrong, the queries of devices running that v

Re: Firefox 60esr on Stretch ?

2018-05-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hi, On 05/16/2018 07:12 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > However cargo's bootstrap is broken ATM which will need fixing (and > it also requires a more recent libgit than we have in stretch). I'm backporting firefox to stretch since a while. rustc built fine with llvm-3.9 so far. https://sources.p

Re: Project and User creation is now disabled on alioth.d.o

2017-08-24 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 08/22/2017 08:13 AM, Alexander Wirt wrote: > as alioth is deprecated and will (more or less) get replaced with other > services soon I disabled user creation and project creation on alioth. while I fully understand (and appreciate) the migration to something better, depending on the "soon", dis

Re: De-Branding of Icedove, reintroducing Thunderbird packages into Debian

2017-02-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/15/2017 06:35 PM, Christoph Goehre wrote: > Thunderbird is back in Debian! thanks, much appreciated. > will also be changing from '$HOME/.icedove' to '$HOME/.thunderbird' why not migrate to ~/.mozilla/thunderbird (#363811) or ~/.config/thunderbird ? Regards, Daniel

An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Daniel Baumann
[ I don't know why this post is not showing up on planet.debian.org: https://danieltmp.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/an-abrupt-end-to-debian-live/ I am sending it here by mail now. ] An abrupt End to Debian Live Debian can be great. But depending on who you are, where yo

Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide

2015-06-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
#x27;s right to do so, or not. however... ] On 06/14/15 17:10, Don Armstrong wrote: > Does a patch exist which can enable lz for orig.tar? i maintain a patched dpkg version as a proof-of-concept. for jessie: http://sources.progress-linux.org/gitweb/?p=releases/cairon/packages/dpkg.git -- Addr

Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide

2015-06-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
" reply that was sent, though. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Mass "do not use bash" bug filing

2014-09-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
lace, see zutils which is compressor-agnostic. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-d

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 09/01/2014 02:20 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: > it seems that most packages are or have been maintained by Daniel Baumann > or the Fonts Team (both CCed). i've switched to the default compression december 2012/january 2013 in all my packages (so they use an inherited -z6 as everyon

howto handle jquery embedding by build-depends

2014-05-07 Thread Daniel Baumann
his 'what to do with embedded js in binary packages not being part of the source package'-case). -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/

Re: Registration open for DebConf14

2014-04-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
login, either a debian SSO login or an alioth one. i have neither. how should i register? -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UN

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/30/2013 08:06 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > FWIW, Ubuntu has done this with their backports repositories for the last two > years of releases debian-live images have this by default since squeeze too. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern

Re: using upstart in Debian [was, Re: Debian systemd survey]

2013-05-22 Thread Daniel Baumann
have no experience with upstart at all and would therefore welcome a patch to implement this properly in live-config, otherwise upstart support will be dropped with one of the next uploads. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-t

Re: Let dak commit all source packages to Git

2012-11-07 Thread Daniel Baumann
there in the rare cases that a > package isn't just dfsg non-free, but actually undistributable. 'git filter-branch' exists. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://pe

FTWCA irker (another CIA.vc alternative)

2012-09-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
for those who care about irker, another CIA.vc alternative, to rely commit noticies into an irc channel, see: * #689011 * http://people.debian.org/~daniel/irker/ -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net

Re: FYI: default shell configuration

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel Baumann
sorry for the noise.. wrong list due to address auto-completion failure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/503e2131.6020...@netstyle.ch

FYI: default shell configuration

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel Baumann
folgende aenderungen werden in kuerze deployed.. commit e8a6bbdf2efc0ed75058f53e72d8f202f3f0ac27 Author: Daniel Baumann Date: Wed Aug 29 14:00:38 2012 +0200 Removing hazardous alias of 'ls -la' on '.', this is dangerous, don't

Re: Changing the default document root for HTTP server

2012-04-14 Thread Daniel Baumann
es should have a debconf question for the document root, defaulting to /srv/, and create the directory where necessary (see '/srv/tftp' handling in tftpd-hpa). - -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.

Re: A DM/DD should know how to watch his mouth (code of conduct).

2012-03-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
mental) doesn't make him right, nor justifies an (admittedly less than the reporter) agressive tone. and neither does the 'free software community'. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Interne

Re: Network Security Toolkit

2012-02-29 Thread Daniel Baumann
ebian.org, we're happy to add whatever seems usefull to that list which will then be automatically available on the official images. [0] http://live.debian.net/gitweb?p=live-build.git;a=blob;f=package-lists/rescue;hb=debian-next -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg

Re: history transparency

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Baumann
pshot.d.o used as mirror sources for live-build. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-d

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Daniel Baumann
ot considering compressors that are not producing identical output across all archs in dpkgs multi-arch implementation still stands, it might be worth noting (and at least jftr) that lzip does not suffer from that problem in the first place. - -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-09 Thread Daniel Baumann
user explicitly tells a package to do otherwise, than that is fine of course. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: zram Usage as Default in Debian (?)

2012-01-08 Thread Daniel Baumann
ing it automatically on debian-live systems if the machine as not a certain amount of physical ram available. had only bad experiences with it, so far (worse than without it). -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-te

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
good thing, isn't it? ;) -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
stuff and b) not worth vast changes for the whole distribution that would make it significantly inconvenient for everyone else, rather than to just use edge-case solutions for edge-cases (equivs). that looks pretty much logical to me. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
r words; you right with your description of the resulting situation, but the reason is not policy, but common sense. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~

Re: Bug#649338: ITP: pxe-kexec -- Retrieves PXE configuration file and kexec entries

2011-11-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 11/20/2011 09:07 AM, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: This could be an interesting feature for ipxe/gpxe users they already use gpxelinux fwiw. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http

Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on "menu".

2011-10-30 Thread Daniel Baumann
time if sudo, su, gksu, $whatever has to be used). your package list contains such cases. please check careful your list again if these packages are using su-to-root and therefore have to have the depends. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
a single directory. that has nothing to do with what was discussed in this thread and is something no unix-like os should ever do. oiow: thanks, but no thanks. :) -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet:

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
g only once in a decade, going for the right thing directly is better than going for something incomplete first. oiow, someone with time should just make that trichotomy happen in FHS 3.0. - -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
hotomy /system, /local and /home. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.de

Re: New package doesn't fix the problem in the old version

2011-10-07 Thread Daniel Baumann
don't, they use stable. * this is a colossal waste of time. Regards, Daniel -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBS

Re: ITP: efilinux -- A UEFI bootloader

2011-08-30 Thread Daniel Baumann
has support for efi (which is being worked on and is iirc the release-goal for the next major version). -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-08-02 Thread Daniel Baumann
the developpers on Debian Live and was expecting to do so this summer (if he has some time...). returned after debconf, catching up with real-life, and then getting to it on friday.. i'll put up a little announcement on the weekend about the current status etc. -- Address: D

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-29 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 07/28/2011 04:33 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > for the other thing (you said the build would fail with --initramfs > none) i'll check somewhen after dinner, it worked for me though a couple > of weeks ago (and the linaro/cannonical and ubuntu guys are using this > feature for

Re: support for installing unconfigured systems (VM images, Debian Live images, preinstalled mobile/tablet images)

2011-07-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 07/28/2011 04:36 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > For a while I've thought that it would be good to have a way of > provoking such packages to reset themselves absolutely, see the other thread on devel from before: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/07/msg00698.html -- Address:

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 07/28/2011 03:51 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > i appologize for having forgotten to fill the bug (to keep the reminder > about it) myself after you've choosen not to (which is not your > obligation, so perfectly fine). jftr: virtual-hdd is as of now in man lb_config listed as bin

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
erating > VM images for Debian, and that's good. ...and i'm happy to work on adding whatever features whoever would like to have regarding vm images. please feel encourage to open bug reports so we can track it and loose valuable information. -- Address:Daniel Baumann,

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
7;t extend to finding out anything about live-build, including > how to use it. we're working on that, the current git version does a lot of simplifications all over the place. once the documentation has been synchronised, uploads to unstable will follow.. (sometime soon after having returned

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
a live image. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
nfusing since the fs images output is not really cleaned up yet, code wise. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: support for installing unconfigured systems (VM images, Debian Live images, preinstalled mobile/tablet images)

2011-07-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 07/27/2011 05:41 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > Given how a usual .postinst script is written, its repeated > execution isn't expected to do any harm. for the -live case, this just bloads boottime unnecessarily long (which is why live-config doesn't do that). -- Address:

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
are no different than regular debian installed with d-i as it *is* the regular debian. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
not installed in the rootfs), and provide soon vbox (and if interest, any other image type) for this. you might want to hold on for after debconf. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: h

Re: support for installing unconfigured systems (VM images, Debian Live images, preinstalled mobile/tablet images)

2011-07-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
ne a way so that upon start, if enabled (which would be by default to yes upon boot), those packages that have not configured their "private" stuff yet, to run their postinsts again (to execute only those commands that create it, see my other mail before). -- Address:Daniel Baumann

Re: support for installing unconfigured systems (VM images, Debian Live images, preinstalled mobile/tablet images)

2011-07-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
ckage care about this in the very same package (see my other mail). -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: support for installing unconfigured systems (VM images, Debian Live images, preinstalled mobile/tablet images)

2011-07-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 07/26/2011 12:03 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > I was talking with Daniel Baumann about how Debian Live approaches > this problem and I think he said Debian Live has some scripts to > remove them after installation. no rocket science involved, we simply just remove them during build (live-b

Re: Whether should grub2 write MBR automatic

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 06/22/2011 08:10 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > The various *dm packages do this quite well in my experience and I don't > see any -common package. which is extremely stupid in every way there is (code duplication, l10n dublication, etc.). -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donne

Re: Whether should grub2 write MBR automatic

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel Baumann
er again (currently, grub has its postinst foo, and extlinux does some other postinst foo too), and b) to ensure only one bootloader writes to the mbr at the time however, got not arround to do it, yet. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.

Re: for those who care about unbound (resolvconf and DNSSEC)

2011-02-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/17/2011 09:46 AM, Robert Edmonds wrote: > let me rephrase: the resolvconf options would be enabled by default, but > would be no-ops unless resolvconf is installed. and i think the package > would only Suggest: resolvconf. thanks. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstra

Re: for those who care about unbound (resolvconf and DNSSEC)

2011-02-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
does that mean you're going to add a depends on resolvconf (rather than e.g. a recommends)? i'd prefere to not have resolvconf pulled in hard. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet:

Re: Is Jonas Genannt MIA?

2010-08-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 08/16/2010 07:22 PM, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > Adding Daniel Baumann, the sponsor of the above two packages, to CC in case he > can shed some light. note that i'm semi-vac until 2010-09-04, however, i speak daily with jonas on irc, you may contact him as hggh on freenode. also, i&#x

Re: Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 07/17/2010 10:44 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > fyi: extlinux in the next upload (in two days when the previous one has > migrated) will fully complains to the policy. s/complains/comply/ -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: danie

Re: Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
cosmetic, it doesn't make a difference for extlinux if it's run first or last). -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/

Re: extlinux

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel Baumann
in /boot too would be seriously unreasonable, but having the activated theme in /boot/extlinux/theme/ is. Hope that explains it, feel free to if you want more information. Regards, Daniel -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@p

Re: extlinux

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
ood default for everyone and anything. > HPA has been an active upstream maintainer all > this time AFAIK. indeed, he's an excellent upstream in every aspect. Regards, Daniel [0] http://blog.daniel-baumann.ch/2009/11/30#20091130_extlinux-as-alternative-bootloader -- Address:

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread Daniel Baumann
gt; >update-extlinux >&2 none of the hooks is doing this (initramfs-tools, grub, etc), might needs further convincing. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-sy

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Daniel Baumann
o finally push it. if anyone has time before debconf/debcamp, that would be great. otherwise, i hope to have a look together with otavio at debconf/debcamp (if he accepts my bribes with chocolate :). [0] http://blog.daniel-baumann.ch/2009/11/30#20091130_extlinux-as-alternative-bootloader -- Address:

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Daniel Baumann
ux-install and update-extlinux. if fits my setups well, however, any other/better ideas how to improve it are very welcome, see #573042 for more information. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Intern

Re: What does .d at the end of some dirctory and filenames actually stand for?

2010-04-19 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 04/19/2010 03:51 PM, spamfuerda...@gmx.de wrote: "What does .d at the end of some dirctory and filenames actually stand for?" it stands for 'directory'. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-

Re: Missing libstdc++5 for 3rd party software

2010-02-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/15/2010 05:03 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: Is there any chance of getting libstdc++5 back in oldlibs? I don't intend to restore either libstdc++5 or libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2. i'll add them to http://forwardports.debian-maintainers.org/. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunde

Re: correct/ideal way to obtain root from a shell script

2010-01-31 Thread Daniel Baumann
Jon Dowland wrote: > That sounds sensible. Is there anything I can do to help? help persuading the blocking maintainers to do the right thing. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: h

Re: Misc developer news (#20)

2010-01-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Misc developer news (#20)

2010-01-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
s and arch-specific breakages. A look at the build log > despite this disclaimer would be appreciated however. how about maintainers, will i get it automatically for my packages, or do i have to do something in order to get them? anyhow, thanks for implementing it. extremely useful f

Re: Should ucf be of priority required?

2009-12-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
ddress: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Build logs from local builds

2009-10-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
es from the maintainer anyway? -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 "Squeeze" release goals

2009-08-02 Thread Daniel Baumann
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > - which auto-builder will rebuild arch:all packages? especially because this will break packages with 'faked' arch:all binary packages, such as e.g. syslinux where syslinux-common has to be build on i386. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstras

Re: intent to hijack turbogears 2 (and some of its friends)

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
packages. Regards, Daniel -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Bug#524787: ITP: unicorn -- Drivers and applications for the Bewan ADSL PCI ST and USB modems

2009-06-09 Thread Daniel Baumann
Nick Leverton wrote: > I'm thinking of renaming the binary package as unicorn-utils for the > next upload to make this clearer. please use the -tools suffix which his used by most userland tool packages for modules. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Bib

Re: Should we remove OpenMotif?

2009-05-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
objections for its removal. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm the GR process

2009-03-25 Thread Daniel Baumann
Kurt Roeckx wrote: > What about: > General Resolution sponsorship requirements sounds like package sponsorship requirements to me. therefore i suggest to be extra clear and change it to 'Requirements for General Resolution Sponsorship'. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgun

Bug#515718: [general] live: failures at shutdown on USB flash drive

2009-02-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
how to write *proper* bug reports. Regards, Daniel [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2009/02/msg00114.html [1] http://live.debian.net/manual/html/bugs.html -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Inter

Bug#515721: [general] live: disk1 boot method fails

2009-02-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
ead how to write *proper* bug reports. Regards, Daniel [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2009/02/msg00114.html [1] http://live.debian.net/manual/html/bugs.html -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Inter

Re: Should Debian Live be supported with lenny?

2009-02-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
. > The purpose of this thread is not to improve Debian Live. fair enough. i stop reading here then. Regards, Daniel -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-syste

Re: Should Debian Live be supported with lenny?

2009-02-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
e issue. > according to the current lenny release notes, Debian Live is going to become > official with lenny for x86. I tried Debian Live several times and always had > issues with it. So, I decided to test Debian Live a bit and found that > several issues still applied. I discussed

Re: Release update: deep freeze, planned dates, and remaining bugs

2009-02-08 Thread Daniel Baumann
ished, i'll let steve know where to sync them like i did the last times. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Release update: deep freeze, planned dates, and remaining bugs

2009-02-07 Thread Daniel Baumann
akward. > Anyway, if you need/want to build the images after the actual release > that will mean earliest Saturday afternoon and more probably Saturday > evening/Sunday. that would be nice. Regards, Daniel -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email

Re: Release update: deep freeze, planned dates, and remaining bugs

2009-02-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
n. Regards, Daniel -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &qu

Re: is it a DFSG breach or not?

2009-01-25 Thread Daniel Baumann
build on my system for some strange reason), we'll be able to recreate the file from sources at buildtime of yui. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~

Re: is it a DFSG breach or not?

2009-01-25 Thread Daniel Baumann
Paul Wise wrote: > Then you should submit a request for splitting yui up a bit, perhaps > into libjs-yui-doc, libjs-yui-animation, libjs-yui-assets and so on. known, something like that will be done soon. there's a bug about it from Chris already. -- Address: Dan

Re: deprecated server packages in lenny?

2009-01-23 Thread Daniel Baumann
t's finally time to drop nfs-user-server (nfs-kernel-server has got support for nohide). -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Bug#508644: general: installing mdadm pulls in citadel-server as depedency

2008-12-13 Thread Daniel Baumann
factually defaulting to install the same package to fulfil the mail-transport-agent relation when being installed first time, but that got somehow lost. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: htt

Bug#508644: general: installing mdadm pulls in citadel-server as depedency

2008-12-13 Thread Daniel Baumann
ian to not declare unconditional relations to mail-transfer-agent. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

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