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

2015-08-06 Thread David Weinehall
Of course, this would mean that the system > would no longer be crytographically safe in general, but it might > still be safe for some class of files with a fixed structure, such > as xz. And not every one would render a vulnerability public... > So, it is safer not to accept garbage

Re: Re: init system policy

2014-11-20 Thread David Weinehall
that has been introduced recently in > > utils-linux > > Or `really' from chiark-really (from chiark-utils). Considering that util-linux is Priority: required while chiark-really is Priority: extra I'd suggest that runuser would be a more sensible recommendation. Still, I love t

Re: peace of mind

2014-10-26 Thread David Weinehall
> > [0] > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfaceStabilityPromise/ C/libc: Nothing will ever be deprecated/removed. What's that you say? gets(3)? Linux kernel: never removes/changes interfaces. That's why it still has devfs. Oh

[bal...@balintreczey.hu: Accepted xbmc 2:13.2+dfsg1-2~exp0 (source all amd64) into experimental

2014-09-30 Thread David Weinehall
d the builders even accept packages that has an invalid distribution specified (in the most recent changelog entry, that is)? Filtering out "UNRELEASED" and packages with an empty changelog would prevent at least some premature uploads. Kind regards, David Weinehall -- /) David Weineh

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-07 Thread David Weinehall
#x27;s > dependency. Most Debian systems aren't using sysvinit by active choice, but because it was the default when they installed their machines, so this argument doesn't really make sense. Kind regards, David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ //

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread David Weinehall
refer the "new" GNOME, but with all 3 buttons enabled + the workspace grid extension. The only thing I don't like is that a feature I used a lot was removed from Nautilus, but the flexibility of GNOME Shell doesn't really help there... Regar

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:47:53PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 07:42:41PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > > Available in GNOME 3. > > > > Available in GNOME 3. > > > > Not enabled by default (if I remember correctly), but possible to

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread David Weinehall
dow manager. Kind regards, David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.d

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread David Weinehall
half-full. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-10 Thread David Weinehall
ibuting half-empty CD-images?). So, as long as GNOME fits on the first installation CD I see no reason not to prefer it over XFCE. Kind regards, David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-03 Thread David Weinehall
o your system? Kind regards, David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debia

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-03 Thread David Weinehall
-die" package? Kind regards, David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists

Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful [was Re: GnuTLS in Debian]

2014-01-06 Thread David Weinehall
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 03:13:01AM +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 10:58:32AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > That's also why I *don't* use BSD-style licenses for software that > > I write, but rather GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1. > > So if someone takes

Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful [was Re: GnuTLS in Debian]

2014-01-01 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 02:54:50PM +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 03:50:06AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > Apart from the termination clause, the GPLv2 is far more concise, > > I don't see tivoization as a problem (it's the software I want to

Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful [was Re: GnuTLS in Debian]

2013-12-28 Thread David Weinehall
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 08:53:56PM +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 09:45:09AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > As one of the "GPL v2 only" proponents, I take affront. I choose to > > license what little software I release as GPL v2 only because I do

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-28 Thread David Weinehall
ter) to (L)GPL v3 (or later) is, if anything, very antisocial, since it locks out users of GPL v2 (only) software and forces the GPL v3 interpretation onto GPL v2 (or later) software. But by all means, go on and punch me in the face... Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime o

Re: Plan to release a gplv3 compliant debian-based release

2013-07-05 Thread David Weinehall
as they were given themselves. Forking a project and altering the license from GPLv2 to GPLv3 does *not* pass that test. Kind regards, David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~ta

Re: Plan to release a gplv3 compliant debian-based release

2013-07-05 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 01:08:27AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 07/05/2013 12:58 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > >* David Weinehall , 2013-07-04, 16:36: > >>http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/25/273 > > > >http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/30/100 > > Could you be

Re: Plan to release a gplv3 compliant debian-based release

2013-07-04 Thread David Weinehall
cense the first > time, it was v2 by then. Of crucial interest is when Linus changed from > v2 or later to v2 only. And looking at the source code, e.g. 3.9.8, a > very lot of files are still v2+, not v2 only. That's a very big > difference. http://lkml.org/lkml/2006

Re: default MTA

2013-06-15 Thread David Weinehall
ktop system (by this I take it to mean that you're not using a GUI), why would you worry about GNOME's dependencies anyhow? If you're using a desktop system it doesn't feel like a stretch to use functionality that fits in with the desktop system. And vice versa, obviously. Re

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-02 Thread David Weinehall
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 03:39:44PM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > They release twice a week or so. That is another sign of a software you > shouldn't rely on too much You mean like, say, the Linux kernel? Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime o

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-21 Thread David Weinehall
in special cases, and leave /tmp primarily as a dumping ground for the user (If it wasn't for NFS *shudder* I'd advocate /home//tmp for this purpose instead). Regards: DAvid -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white ros

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-15 Thread David Weinehall
is the unit file that gets updated, the file in /etc only contains overrides for the values you want to override. Thus, when /lib changes, those updates will be included, no breakage. The only issue I can think of is that there's currently (TTBOMK) no way of unsetting a value completely, wh

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread David Weinehall
neither are you TTBOMK :) > > And debian-policy isn't set in stone. > > Otherwise it wouldn't have last been revised in February 2012 :) > > > > The debian-policy maybe, but the FHS, and config files in /etc *is* a very > strong policy that you will not chang

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-10 Thread David Weinehall
something isn't supported currently in our tools doesn't make it impossible to support it. And debian-policy isn't set in stone. Otherwise it wouldn't have last been revised in February 2012 :) Regards, David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-10 Thread David Weinehall
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:47:21PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen writes: > > > ]] Philipp Kern > > > >> You will not, however, get a conffile update prompt when the system > >> file changes (e.g. to update your own local copy to incorporate the > >> fix). > > > > This is something

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-07 Thread David Weinehall
matter who wins, the users lose :S And I don't blame the Debian maintainers of either package. I think that the upstream for Node.js should've done their homework a bit better though, and that the ax25 upstream should've had a bit more imagination. But shit happened already. Regard

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-03 Thread David Weinehall
region > of emergency communications capability until the problem is resolved. > > > Ironically one of the reasons many hams looked to Debian was the stability > of the system and the ability to upgrade in place. Changing a core ham > radio component throws those reasons o

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-03 Thread David Weinehall
w people seem to be violently agreeing so hard. So, what you're saying is that we should fork udev to do things that neither its upstream developer nor its Debian maintainer doesn't intend for it to do, all to make it possible to use an init-system that doesn't support eve

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-04-04 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 09:55:19AM +1000, Peter Miller wrote: > On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 19:39 +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > > So, I'm curious here: why would you need a non-copyleft license for a > > *test suite*? > > Consider the case where a legal department

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-04-02 Thread David Weinehall
is copyleft doesn't mean that your C library has to be. The only thing it means is that you'd have to release modifications to that compliance test suite *if* you distribute the compliance test suite it to others. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\

Re: On init in *Debian*

2012-04-02 Thread David Weinehall
lways run it, since the user might choose to uninstall systemd, or temporarily disable it, or... Well, you get the idea. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-30 Thread David Weinehall
o solve all use cases that sysvinit can solve plus a lot of things that it doesn't (or can't, by design). Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Be

Re: gconftool

2012-03-29 Thread David Weinehall
nome settings as > a "support issue" or "general usage". No, you're right. Rants don't really belong on any of our lists... Also, we're not upstream. Any issues that aren't Debian specific should be filed in the upstream

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-21 Thread David Weinehall
tever what would be), the length of the init scripts ranges from 8 to 653 lines, with the average being 115 lines. I'd hardly call that short enough to be easy to debug. Kind regards, David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-04 Thread David Weinehall
x27;t even been an option with sysvinit (socket activation being one thing). Regards, David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Beautiful hoar-frost (

Re: Enabling package installation for non-root users

2012-03-03 Thread David Weinehall
st. I don’t think there’s real use for a > blacklist, it is too dangerous. Wouldn't both be best? Let's say the whitelist contains all packages of a certain category. The blacklist could then be used to make an exception for a specific package within that category. Rega

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-03-03 Thread David Weinehall
> options open. I'd be very curious to hear what these serious and ongoing structural problems are. Kind regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/

Re: Bug#644292: ITP: susv4 -- Fetch and install SUSv4 (POSIX.1:2008) documentation

2011-10-05 Thread David Weinehall
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 07:01:11AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 22:28:00 +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: David Weinehall > > > > * Package name: susv4 > > Version :

ITP: susv4 -- Fetch and install SUSv4 (POSIX.1:2008) documentation

2011-10-04 Thread David Weinehall
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Weinehall * Package name: susv4 Version : 7 Upstream Author : N/A * URL : N/A * License : Public Domain Programming Lang: POSIX sh Description : Fetch and install SUSv4 (POSIX.1:2008) documentation The

Re: Eliminating bash scripts?

2011-09-30 Thread David Weinehall
x27;re > in the SUS. SuSv3 -- POSIX:2001 SuSv4 -- POSIX:2008 So if they're in SuS, they're specified by POSIX :) While I've read the SuSv3 quite thoroughly, I have yet to study the SuSv4, so I dunno how big the differences are, and if any of them are important. Regards: David -

Re: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-05 Thread David Weinehall
's just that libc touches a lot more components than any other library does. [snip] Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Beautiful hoar-fro

Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?

2011-04-06 Thread David Weinehall
it on embedded devices makes a lot of sense. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-04 Thread David Weinehall
mitted by IT department policies, etc.). With all these flaws I still use NM. It works fairly well, but I curse every time I do an upgrade and NM happens to be in the list of packages that is upgraded. [snip] Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~

Re: GNOME 3 and panel applets

2011-03-06 Thread David Weinehall
sonably enough, been told that gnome-panel 2.32 is probably what they really want. Are there any plans to provide this package? [snip] Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://ww

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-12 Thread David Weinehall
st breaking these very same builds. If someone would ask me to choose between these two options, I'd start looking around for the candid camera... Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \)

Re: RFH: bashisms in configure script

2010-05-25 Thread David Weinehall
n experimental will be the correct one, the one in unstable will be the crippled one. The reason things fails isn't because of dash, but because of sloppy programming on behalf of people that still believe that bash is the say all and end all when it comes to s

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

2010-05-25 Thread David Weinehall
/ > restore test, I'll be good to go. Stay tuned ... Perhaps you, with the experienced gained from your adventures with extlinux, could help write some documentation? Kind regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~

Re: Bug#581488: general: lower vm.swappiness by default for desktop installations

2010-05-25 Thread David Weinehall
ger being swapped out preemptively all the time. The > > difference in perceived responsiveness is spectacular. > > You might also be interested in: > > # sync; cat 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches That'd be sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches Kind regards: David Weine

Re: bindv6only again

2010-05-15 Thread David Weinehall
n a fully-working > Debian system. Last time I checked, /usr/bin is also part of default $PATH... [snip] Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Beautif

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread David Weinehall
NCY=makefile, to make it easier to switch with some confidence > > that it would work for most users. :) > > Now you're talking! :) Or we could do like with the net.ipv6.bindv6only setting, and just change it and then ignore all complaints. Regards: David -- /)

Re: DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces

2009-06-09 Thread David Weinehall
d characters too, at least the more uncommon ones (for instance, according to the above statistics there's only one file with a double qute, so it'd make sense to have it renamed, similarly for the 3 backslashes). Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ /

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-10 Thread David Weinehall
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 08:51:33AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 08 May 2009, David Weinehall wrote: > > > No. But we do leave /usr read-only the rest of the time, which > > > is often 99.999% of the time. A separate /usr is required for t

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-08 Thread David Weinehall
ead-only while installing or > > upgrading packages”. Thanks for providing another case in point. > > No. But we do leave /usr read-only the rest of the time, which > is often 99.999% of the time. A separate /usr is required for this. Uhm

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-17 Thread David Weinehall
> shortened. I'll send out a new CFV. OK, does this mean that everyone who already cast their vote will need to do so again, or will the voting period simply be extended another week? Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-28 Thread David Weinehall
cannot access the WiFi, because their wireless cards are not supported. Or rather, the drivers are available, but they all report the same error message "Firmware not found". Happy, happy, joy, joy. I'm sure those potential Debian users will feel really happy about Debian's

Re: Bug#377392: Bug#450432: ... and even more bugs like this?

2007-11-21 Thread David Weinehall
s a part of the man-db package instead might be an idea. lintian already depends on man-db, so the dependencies wouldn't change, and it would also mean that linda can use the same check without code duplication. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[

Re: Bug#447712: Package could be non-free in the United Kingdom

2007-10-23 Thread David Weinehall
the things which are written in this book. Damn, I was just about to submit a bunch of bugfixes for the some of the more blatantly obviously fuckups, such as the homophobia and misogynism. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ //

Re: Wanted: really weird status files from production machines

2007-09-06 Thread David Weinehall
list to download and run binaries, I sugges you at least sign your email; providing sources would be even better. Running unknown binaries isn't exactly recommended practise =) Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~

Re: Bug#430176: ITP: sorting-hat -- program to sort Debian Developers

2007-06-26 Thread David Weinehall
> > sorting-hat sorts Debian developers into the appropriate house > (Griffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff or Slytherin). That'd be Gryffindor... [snip] Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ /

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread David Weinehall
o do this here) the > community might be the thing that keeps them here rather then some other > project or FOSS in general. They don't have to take it away from the Debian lists... They can always discuss on debian-curiosa if they so desire. Just don't let the off-topic discussi

Re: Announce: DebianArt.org

2007-05-13 Thread David Weinehall
ly > > doubt that DSA will require uglyness to accept it. > > It was a joke. Adjust your view of reality, some people actually try to > have fun from time to time. Didn't your AM tell you? All Debian developers are required to be impervious to humour, irony, puns, simile, or

Re: Bug#410502: ITP: libcm -- Support code for compositing managers

2007-02-11 Thread David Weinehall
ong thread on -legal. Why? All these licenses are compatible. Depending on what the GPL-only code is used for, the resulting library will either be GPL or LGPL. Finding out which should be quite simple. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window

Re: update on binary upload restrictions

2007-01-28 Thread David Weinehall
ldd (and the > buildd operator) very unhappy. Well, wouldn't the best way be to require binaries to be uploaded, and then discard them and rebuild the package anyway? This way the maintainer has to build the package for his own machine at least, and at the same time the package gets rebuild on

Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-28 Thread David Weinehall
> I'm afraid the GNOME bugzilla can't handle that amount of bugs. Yeah, I bet you have several hundred thousand pet features that was removed (rather than replaced) in the transition from GNOME 1.4 to 2.0. Yup. That's probably it. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <

Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-21 Thread David Weinehall
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:32:07PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 21:16 +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:34:18AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 11:51 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > Le

Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-20 Thread David Weinehall
\ > --corruptmysettingsplease You *do* know that there is a graphical gconf-editor, right? [snip] Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http:/

Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-16 Thread David Weinehall
hat uses the spec." Presumably people that want to edit their menus can launch this application using the launcher. It's not really the average everyday tool... [snip] PS: My vote for default GNOME browser definitely goes to Epiphany; Firefox^WIceweasel comes nowhere close to feel

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-15 Thread David Weinehall
2350k 828642 2350k (+ 828642, I guess) != 8MB... The 8MB you cite is for compressing, not decompressing. [snip] regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) htt

Re: madison not working correctly on merkel

2006-12-17 Thread David Weinehall
il very recently (sometimes between Nov 19th > and Nov 27h). > > > Regards, > Frederic > > [1] http://www.0d.be/debian/debian-gnome-2.16-status.html Some entries seem to list newer Debian-versions than upstream versions... Some watch-fil

Re: Question about "Depends: bash"

2006-11-26 Thread David Weinehall
comes down to bad software design on the automake side rather than bad makefiles). [snip] Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-25 Thread David Weinehall
ing-things. > > It's easier to eyeball packages that explicitly announce "bash". > Those could be put to a stress test through: > > /bin/dash > /bin/posh > ... > > If someone feels up to. I don't really see the point. If the ma

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-24 Thread David Weinehall
from bashisms. You can use whatever bashisms you like when you're working interactively, that won't hinder dash from executing shells on boot and elsewhere. Using bashisms in scripts does however cause a problem. Oh, and there *are* other suitable interactive shells than bash. tcsh, ksh,

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-23 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 09:48:31PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * David Weinehall: > > > On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 07:13:22PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > >> Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [...] > >> > ...and where is SuSv3 in

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-23 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 11:56:48AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 20:46 +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > Well, let's hope people don't use any of the non-SuSv3 features of cat > > in their shell scripts... > > Why? Who cares? Well,

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-23 Thread David Weinehall
for most users. That doesn't mean we should limit ourselves to using bash for non-interactive use though. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-23 Thread David Weinehall
ntial to use only SuSv3 compliant features. I think rewriting *all* scripts to use only SuSv3 features would be too big of an ordeal, but just fixing the initscripts, plus all scripts in essential should be doable. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my windo

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-23 Thread David Weinehall
e *much* > easier. Isn't that enough? If you just want to avoid things breaking, it's enough. If you want to be able to use the scripts on an embedded platform, or to take advantage of the performance boost of using dash instead of bash, it isn't. Regards: David -- /) David We

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-23 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 07:54:46PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 07:41:08PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > > > And compared to dash, the difference is vast: > > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80200 2006-11-21 16:36 /bin/dash > > > >

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-23 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 07:09:49PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 06:37:52PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > Somehow I doubt that you used today's version of bash (which I bet > > is a lot bigger and more memory-consuming due to new features).

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-23 Thread David Weinehall
> > Guess what? I used bash on that old hardware when it was shiny and new > also. Didn't seem to have any problems. Somehow I doubt that you used today's version of bash (which I bet is a lot bigger and more memory-consuming due to new features). Regards: David -- /) David

Re: Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/etch)?

2006-11-22 Thread David Weinehall
1-21 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])~$ > > Looks that it's signed by itself. Yes, aren't all keys self-signed? Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Di

Re: Question about "Depends: bash"

2006-11-22 Thread David Weinehall
ly use job-control in your shell-scripts? Interesting... Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Beautiful hoar-frost

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-19 Thread David Weinehall
ate: 6.1 Version table: 6.1 0 500 http://ftp.se.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-19 Thread David Weinehall
ure it's provided by anything in Debian), the FR-extensions (Fortran Runtime), most (all?) of the utilities marked as DEVELOPMENT (things such as compilers, sccs-related commands, cflow, and ctags). Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ //

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-17 Thread David Weinehall
ds: on." This proposal has some merit, as long as we do s/POSIX/SuSv3/. Also, we probably want to make exceptions for find/xargs (to get -0). [snip] Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ //

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-15 Thread David Weinehall
ing "debconf" is *also* not allowed, because it is *also* not a > "POSIX feature". The point is that "POSIX feature" is *not* a > specification of anything, given the way that POSIX deals with builtins. Sorry, but that's a strawman, for two reasons. First, POSI

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-15 Thread David Weinehall
a sort of > blessing to using an absolute path in this situation, since coreutils test > is not quite "any other program that one would expect to be on the PATH" > simply because in this case the shell isn't going to *look* at the PA

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-14 Thread David Weinehall
d help to be reminded that I can't really > depend on very much of the semantics of local from any specific > implementation. > > fname () { > local a # keep it simple > a='' # initialize the variable > use a ... > } > is the only s

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-14 Thread David Weinehall
guess, as long as we get rid of crap like [[ ]], <, >, -nt, -ot, -ef, $RANDOM, $"...", read -e, declare, typeset, function (augh, I cannot understand why bash even introduced that one), let, source (again, completely pointless), pushd, popd, &>, {}... I can probably come up wit

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-14 Thread David Weinehall
p of people that caused it to fail... > Before this there was a widely agree definition of what > /bin/sh needs to support and almost no bugs related to this. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-14 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:11:27PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 14, David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > busybox? > > Such a requirement would at least be wonderful for us embedded developers... > But hardly practical, IIRC there ar

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-13 Thread David Weinehall
ably a 3rd > > alternative]". > > busybox? Such a requirement would at least be wonderful for us embedded developers... Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-whit

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-13 Thread David Weinehall
the GFDL debacle a manual I could easily refer to, ... The SuSv3 is to be considered as POSIX these days, so it's available for free (and even packaged in Debian...) PS: The equality operator is =. RegardS: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window

Re: Status of IPW3945 (Was: IPW3945)

2006-11-12 Thread David Weinehall
the next firmware version is out; that way we'll avoid the binary only regulatory daemon. See the following post: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=116226285115407&w=1 Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ //

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-12 Thread David Weinehall
ilable in Debian... Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/(/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Lots of (easily recognisible) spam sent to the BTS today

2006-10-31 Thread David Weinehall
gram. Isn't there a risk of causing double work? Person A reports spam, Blars removes it Person B reports the same spam, Blars checks again - no spam found Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~

Re: Two versions of pan in etch?

2006-08-03 Thread David Weinehall
at least add a postinst script that does the migration), then I'm all for a switch to the new version. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-25 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:34:47PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 04:39:24AM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 06:32:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Steve Greenland wrote: > > > > This really seems like somet

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-24 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:42:39AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, if foo depends on foo-data, and foo-data depends on foo, I find > > it really hard to see the point of splitting the two into distinctive > > packages...

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