Re: Debian distribution

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 9:44 AM Kyle Edwards wrote: > > On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 10:22 +, Javeed Ahmed wrote: > > sir/madam > > can i make my own os using debian as a base and distribute it? > > Absolutely! Debian is free software, and you are free to use, modify, > and distribute it for any pur

Re: Golang >= 1.12 in Buster?

ang-112-removed-from-testing/ Go has a very strong commitment to backward compatibility. Please remove the older versions, not the new one. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: Running tests with xvfb

org.conf with the "dummy" driver instead of xvfb? I use a "with-dummy-xserver" wrapper script for situations like that. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: apt-get upgrade removing ifupdown on jessie→stretch upgrade

modify the set of installed packages, either way. Indeed, from apt-get(8), under "upgrade": "under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages not already installed retrieved and installed." -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: Lots and lots of tiny node.js packages

ce in the Debian archives, without "exporting" them via .deb files, Packages entries, etc. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: Proposal to avoid executable naming conflicts (was: Bug#753704: ITP: amap -- Next-generation scanning tool for pentesters)

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 06:57:02AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 11:31:12AM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > > Since Debian package names must already be unique, we ought to be able > > to leverage that to avoid having to fight over which package gets to > &g

Proposal to avoid executable naming conflicts (was: Bug#753704: ITP: amap -- Next-generation scanning tool for pentesters)

I just union-mounted them in alphabetical order, but in the case of conflicts it would be easy to use a site-specific prioritization, analagous to mailcap.order, to control the shadowing. My apologies if this has already been proposed and rejected before. Cheers, Eric -- Eric Cooper

Bug#597228: ITP: minidlna -- server for DLNA/UPnP-AV clients

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eric Cooper * Package name: minidlna Version : 1.0.18-1 Upstream Author : Justin Maggard * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna * License : GPL and BSD Programming Lang: C Description : server for DLNA

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

ry sensible to jettison all the code for opening sockets, binding ports, handling IPv6, handling tcp-wrappers, daemonizing processes, etc. and punt it to inetd. Since apt clients keep their connections open for many multiple, the performance hit is negligible. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

and installs. So as long as there are no keys from rogue repositories in apt's keyring, it should be fine. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#463584: ITP: rubyripper -- an open-source secure ripper for Linux

, but I think what is intended is "extremely careful about obtaining an accurate copy of the audio data". -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#462602: ITP: eeepc-acpi-source -- source for Eee PC ACPI module

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:15:50PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > What is the Linux upstream status of this module? At Riku Voipio's suggestion, I emailed the linux-acpi email list this morning about it. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Bug#462602: ITP: eeepc-acpi-source -- source for Eee PC ACPI module

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: eeepc-acpi-source Version : 1.0-1 Upstream Author : Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ecc/eeepc-acpi_1.0.tar.gz * License : GPL

Re: Draft new policy document format

T tool; the various policies would be encoded as individual XML entities with a more semantically appropriate schema (TBD, I guess). -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how should a daemon drop privileges in a PAM-compatible way?

can't use an su wrapper, because the daemon needs to do some privileged things initially. Is there a high level function to "change userid, groupid and do the related PAM things" that I can use, or example code I can use? Thanks for any pointers. -- Eric Cooper

Re: debian archive integrity check tool?

ifying sizes and checksums agaiings Packages/Sources files, and also removes .debs that are unreachable from those files. It would require only a little modification to run on a real archive, rather than approx's cache. I can help with that if you'd like. -- Eric Cooper e c

Re: menu policy & use of doc-base for programming documentation

and have some kind of tag-based document registration and browsing, rather than trying to define the One True Hierarchy. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

menu policy & use of doc-base for programming documentation

on browser. Another approach might be to add some more advanced filtering or narrowing to dhelp, etc. but that requires duplicated effort in all the clients of doc-base; and rolling our own tool, like perldoc, is the least attractive. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: tpkg-debarch should support "arm-linux-gnu" target (was Re: small quirks setting up a cross-compile toolchain)

This thread suggests that it's time for toolchain-source to be retired: http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2006/07/msg00068.html If not, perhaps some documentation pointing to this alternative method of building cross tools should be added to the toolchain-source package. -- Eric C

Bug#378938: ITP: ocaml-sha1 -- SHA1 binding for OCaml

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ocaml-sha1 Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Vincent Hanquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://tab.snarc.org/download/ocaml/ocaml_sha1-0.4.tar.bz2 * License

cleaning up lib*-dev packages?

ool I should be using? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question on hurd-i386 Debian architecture

in-source maintainer(s) will also join the party. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

I saw today that the python-minimal package in unstable is tagged as Essential (and currently pulls in python2.3). According to policy, this is supposed to happen only after discussion on debian-devel and consensus is reached, but I couldn't find that discussion in the list archives. --

approx (was Re: apt-proxy)

rs) in the cache, just the downloaded files themselves. Apt-cacher has more flexibility in name mapping, and can integrate (or not) with an existing webserver. Is that a fair comparison? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

bug closing etiquette

Suppose someone has reported a bug that the maintainer can't reproduce, but the reporter can. Is it reasonable for the maintainer to email the reporter and ask whether a new version fixes the problem, or is that considered obnoxious? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -

Re: apt-proxy

od alternative? I wrote approx for exactly this purpose. It's now in testing. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#315945: seyon does not work when gnome-terminal is installed

-terminal (see /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper). So it's reasonable to file a bug against it for better option-munging to handle this case. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#320067: ITP: vamps -- Vamps evaporates DVD compliant MPEG2 program streams by selectively copying audio and subpicture tracks and by re-quantizing the embedded elementary video stream.

ler? Perhaps a confusion of "evaporate" with "condense"? (Maybe the thermodynamic equivalent of an "off by 1" error? :-) -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dummy packages and "Replaces:" field

Supersedes:", "Takes-Over:", "Drop-In Replaces:", > "Follows:" ? Since there should be a unique replacement that old and new package maintainer(s) agree on, I think the old package (the one being replaced) should have the header. (Perhaps "Replaced-By:"

advice needed on handling network port conflicts

e for them to coexist (just difficult in their default configurations). Any suggestions or policy pointers here would be appreciated. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]