Re: git branches vs debian specific git tools (Re: RFC for changes regarding NMU in developers reference

> debian/upstream/metadata, Repository field. > > For example try `gbp clone --add-upstream-vcs vcsgit:sdl2-compat` which > uses this field. To make `gbp clone` do this automatically whenever this > information is available, you can write > > [DEFAULT] > add-upstream-vcs = True > > into ~/.gbp.c

Re: git branches vs debian specific git tools (Re: RFC for changes regarding NMU in developers reference

> There is the Source field in d/copyright where you can put a git remote > URL. Maybe that usage should go into DEP-14 ? So we have upstream informations in d/copyright d/control (git url of our VCS). d/watch (in git mode) d/upstream/metadata (what for ?). maybe we should standardize on this on

Re: git branches vs debian specific git tools (Re: RFC for changes regarding NMU in developers reference

>>> Well, git-debrebase does, and is as compliant with DEP-14 as you'd like >>> it to be. >> >> There is gbp pq, which is probably more widely used. > > Right. Both are good. In fact my question was more. I would like, something like dgit clone or gbp clone and get a a DEP-14 organized re

Re: git branches vs debian specific git tools (Re: RFC for changes regarding NMU in developers reference

> debian/README.source as described in the developers-reference. It would be great also to have an easy way to cherry peak from the upstream git repository in order to prepare patch series. Do we have a tool around DEP-14, which allows this ?

Re: howto customize apache service from another package

>>What is the right way to customize the apache service from another package. > Use /lib/systemd/system/apache2.service.d/$YOURPACKAGE.conf. thanks Fred

Re: howto customize apache service from another package

I already have this in /etc/apache2/conf-available/qemu-web-desktop.conf # qwd cgi configuration for perl LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so SetHandler perl-script PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry PerlOptions +ParseHeaders AddHand

howto customize apache service from another package

lt; EOF [Service] LimitMEMLOCK=infinity EOF systemctl daemon-reload systemctl restart apache2 thanks for your help Frederic

Re: how to automatically generate a backtrace from within sbuild

> $ gbp clone vcsgit:vitables > $ cd vitables > $ gbp buildpackage --git-builder=sbuild --chroot-mode=unshare > --no-clean-source > --anything-failed-commands %s > # inside the chroot > # apt install gdb > # cd /build/reproducible-path/vitables-3.1.0/.pybuild/cpython3_3.13/build > # export DEBUGIN

how to automatically generate a backtrace from within sbuild

Hello during the build of vitables, the reunit test fail with a segfault. platform linux -- Python 3.13.2, pytest-8.3.5, pluggy-1.5.0 rootdir: /<> configfile: pyproject.toml plugins: typeguard-4.4.2, xvfb-3.0.0 collected 72 items tests/test_calculator.py .

Re: Proposal for a Yearly Stable Release Cycle for Educational Institutions

> In my opinion, the better solution would be to have more backports in > the stable release because people are mostly unhappy with outdated apps > and not with outdated essential core components. What about the project to automatically build backports around janitor ? What is the status of this

Re: support of 7z archives ?

Sorry for the noise... my file was corrupted... but 7z was able to unpack it Cheers Fred

Re: support of 7z archives ?

> I could not see a 7z file there (at least not by simply looking at the > file extensions). Here the file output: fiji-linux64.zip: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract, compression method=deflate This is a zip archive whcih can not be extracted on stable, except with 7zip. someone can

Re: support of 7z archives ?

Ok, it does not uncompress with unzip on stable , but it works on unstable. >> [../fiji-linux64.7z] cut and past error :)) Fred

support of 7z archives ?

Hello, I am trying to use mk-origtargz with a 7zip archive., but I get this error message. $ mk-origtargz ../fiji-linux64.zip [../fiji-linux64.7z] End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the la

Is it possible to customise the d-i just to add an ssh authorized key for root

Acy+W+gfNAuRfHpyYHKDGPIJLzMfuf0vx0KLL0C55x7I4cGqOIT22RXLhhf9NFHNDi4Q== cardno:00051073" > /root/.ssh/authorized_keys Is it a feature provided by d-i ? thanks Frederic

Re: Python 3.13 addition as a supported Python version started

> this is the same as we did for the Python 3.12 transition. Please note > that we don't enable any of the experimental features in Python 3.12 (no > GIL, JIT compilation), so assuming there are currently no other RC > issues in your packages, there should plenty of time to fix any 3.13 > related

Re: Python 3.13 addition as a supported Python version started

do we know how long we will have to fix all the FTBFS and autopkgtest before the freeze ? I am a bit worrying for the scientific stack , will we have enough time to work with our upstream in order to fix all these FTBFS. In the scientific stack, things are going slowly We are not 100% of o

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

is it via ChatGPT or an llm self hosted ? Can we imagine having a Debian hosted computer with and AMD GPU dedicated to this use case ? Se should provide these summaries letter for most of our mailing list :) cheers Fred - Le 9 Nov 24, à 14:09, Hector Oron zu...@debian.org a écrit : > Hel

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

Hello, > Well, I didn't mean we should *give up* decentralization. I mean we shouldn't > give up *centralization*. These examples are to prove centralization actually > works and is quite common, sometimes necessary. It would be great if we could run the salsa-ci pipeline localy easily, in chroo

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

is to empower the user and provide everything (almost out of the box) in order to de-centralize the build process. I do not know if I am clear but I have the fear that this centralisation will make us forget that de-centralisation is sort of "central" to the Debian way. Frederic

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

Hello, I like the dgit idea, produce a git repository for people who want to use git and let other use whatever they want. Maybe uploading a paquage to Debian could push automatically into dgit. (maybe this is already the case) Is it possible then to mirror this dgit repository in salsa ? Fred

Re: Reviving schroot as used by sbuild

> Ah, thank you, I didn't realize that existed. That sounds like a nice > generalization of the file system snapshot approach. I think that this how the sbuild-debian-developer-setup script, setup chroots Fred

Re: Complex Cameras Micro-conference in LPC and Debian

> It will be very useful if someone from the project could comment on the > stacks: > - Do they follow the Openness requirement/ Debian Social Contract? > - Technical challenges of the stack > - Stack preferences You can find here a stack dedicated to scientific cameras. https://lima1.readthedoc

Re: Documenting packaging workflows (was: finally end single-person maintainership)

My standard workflow I use gbp and dgit gbp import-orig --pristine-tar --uscan gbp dch lintian-brush dgit --gbp sbuild (build and autopkgtest) ...work until it is ok on my computer gbp dch ... hand edit the changelog gbp push git push (to push the UNRELEASE master branch) ... wait for salsa resu

Re: Any volunteers for lintian co-maintenance?

I tried it on one of my package silx warning: File: ./debian/tests/control:22:14:22:19: It is possible that the value is a typo of "i386". [Correctable via --auto-fix] 22: Architecture: !i386 It seems wrong to me, the test control file allow !i386 Cheers Frederic

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

One missing piece for me in order to migrate to meson is the integration between flymake and the autotools. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FlyMake#h5o-7

Re: DebGPT: how LLM can help debian development? demo available.

ort. - prepare bug report for upstream. - propose improved patch description. * doing request on codesearch.net Cheers Frederic

Re: Potential MBF: packages failing to build twice in a row

I second this idea, and also the salsa pipeline should check this also. - Le 5 Aoû 23, à 21:07, Timo Röhling roehl...@debian.org a écrit : > Hi Lucas, > > * Lucas Nussbaum [2023-08-05 17:06]: >>An example sbuild invocation to reproduce failures is: > [omitted the command line equivalent of

Re: Can we distribute pre-built locales to speed up image generation?

> Hi Charles, > > On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 04:43:59PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> In the course of generating singularity/apptainer Debian images at work, >> I wanted to make all locales available to the users. I sthere a maliling list where we can speak about these singuarity/apptainer appli

Re: rejection of binary package based on file timestamp

thanks for this very precise explanation. Fredric - Le 20 Juil 23, à 15:58, David Kalnischkies da...@kalnischkies.de a écrit : > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 10:01:54AM +0200, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: >> I am working on two packages pyfai[4] and python-fabio[3

Re: rejection of binary package based on file timestamp

> Touch the generated files in d/rules as Aurelien suggested in the bug report? Yes as a workaround, I can touch all files during the build Nevertheless do we have an explanation of FTPMaster why files with timestamp 1/1/1970 are not allow in the Debian archive (at least for binary package) ? C

rejection of binary package based on file timestamp

to the current time just to make dak happy :). thanks for your advices. Frederic [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1041443 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1041442 [3]https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-fabio [4] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg

sbuild and trivial local repository

a moving target. So my question is how can I do this mount from the sbuild command line thanks Frederic

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Bookworm

ugreport.cgi?bug=1001168#72 it seems to me that this is something related to gcc-11. If I build matplotlib with gcc-10 there is no more crash. I think that I reach my peter principe with this last effort :)) Cheers Frederic

Re: where can I find the binNUM informations ?

thanks a lot. cheers Fred

where can I find the binNUM informations ?

fference between both enviropnment during the build. thanks for your help Frederic

RE:Bug#996203: ITP: ifeffit -- Interactive XAFS analysis program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_absorption_fine_structure See you

RE:Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

cme should not use wrap-and-sort instead of implementing its own logic ?

RE:deduplicating jquery/

What about doing something similar to sphinx. Create a package with the doxygen jquery and link to files of this package for all documentations generated via doxygen. provide a dh_doxygen to do this link like dh_sphinxdoc Cheers Fred

RE:How does one package a multirepo project?

what about the git mode of uscan then you would have all the tags ?

RE:Salsa update: no more "-guest" and more

> If you use ssh, you can create an own account for the ssh key and give > it very special permissions, if you need it for automatic pushes or > similar things. In fact I would like to use the salsa command from devscripts but without the token. My private ssh key was generated from my private gp

RE:Salsa update: no more "-guest" and more

Is it possible to use it's ssh key in order to have acces to the salsa api ? I mean instead of the token, which looks to me quite fragile compare to ssh via a gpg card and the gpg agent. cheers Frederic

RE:Salsa update: no more "-guest" and more

do we have some documentation explaining how to use a nitrokey PRO in order to do 2FA authentication for salsa ? It seesm that ybikey is suppoprted out of the box, but inevertheless is it possible to use a nitrokey pro 2 for the same purpose ?

RE:GPU-ready (with free driver) buildd/CI/porterbox?

> That is mostly upstream's job -- ICD packagers should just verify that the > package still runs "Hello World" on their hardware, i.e. the ICD > integration works, and then we assume that it works. ok, so in that case it would be nice to provide a computer with a GPU as porterbox to test this he

RE:GPU-ready (with free driver) buildd/CI/porterbox?

It would be nice also to be able to test the OpenCL icd implementations and work with real hardware.

RE:GPU-ready (with free driver) buildd/CI/porterbox?

ks to a reimbursements page with the formal process. What about AMD sponsoring Debian via providing GPU to the Debian community, whcih should be added to the buildd or in a porterbox ? Frederic

RE:source only upload with git-buildpackage

And what about dgit --gbp push-source ?

RE:devscripts uninstallable in Debian Sid due to unmet dependencies

perle 5.30 transition whcih was announced here https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/10/msg0.html

RE:Generating new IDs for cloning

did you tried this https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=machine-id&literal=1&perpkg=1

RE:Salsa.d.o: Please support the implementation request for a global config option to change the default for "Custom CI config path" in Gitlab

> the configuration file to debian/gitlab-ci.yml. Therefor some time ago it had it seems that now the name should be debian/salsa-ci.yml Frederic

RE:Sorce only uploads with sbuild

a lot easier now. I can not wait for this tag2upload thinks :)) then we just missed a nice tool in order to make mass modifications (lintian-brush ?, other project ?) Cheers Frederic

RE:AMDGPU+OpenCL with Debian?

Same here... with WXX100 cards. what about rocm packaging ? De : Steffen Möller [steffen_moel...@gmx.de] Envoyé : lundi 17 juin 2019 20:14 À : debian-devel@lists.debian.org Objet : AMDGPU+OpenCL with Debian? Hello, Running Debian unstable, I failed to set

RE:Difficult Packaging Practices (OT)

target our distributions. so maybe the packaging should be as simple as droping a debian-ci file into the upstream source and our salsa pipeline could start running its pipeline. Cheers Frederic

RE:Difficult Packaging Practices

s file ? Cheers Frederic

RE:Bits from /me: A humble draft policy on "deep learning v.s. freedom"

What about ibm power9 with pocl ? it seems that this is better than the latest NVIDIA GPU. Cheers

RE:Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

Hello, I am also the upstream of a bunch of project. what is the right way to use dgit when upstream contain the debian directory. source format etc... thanks Frederic

RE:RE:[Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

After a build, you get this https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/python-xrayutilities/-/jobs/147913/artifacts/browse/debian/output/ Is it enought for you. Mayve you can discuss with the salsa pipeline team and request a target in order to produce a better repo. cheers

RE:[Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

now we have the salsa pipeline. does it fit your needs ?

RE:Namespace for system users

> Well the point is that the need to create system users can be avoided > entirely by running services using only dynamic UIDs. Except that some services rely on Database granted access ... Cheers Frederic

RE:Salsa token and privacy

iguration, not only retrieving public informations. Cheers Frederic

Salsa token and privacy

times everywhere. and if not how are you dealing with this ? Frederic PS: Nothing polemic here please, I have just this concern about the token privacy.

RE:unstable -> testing migration and arch

> from the maintainer. Please request your package to be removed from the > arch it doesn't build for anymore (bug against ftp.debian.org, use > reportbug) in unstable and britney will migrate that. done https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905348 thanks for your feedback Fred

unstable -> testing migration and arch

Hello, I hope that I use the right mailing list for this. Here my problem: I just updated the pymca package and this new version dependes on the python[3]-silx modules. silx depends on pyopenCL which is only available on a limited amount of architecture. So now the migration of pymca is blocke

RE:Feedback request about the Alba Upstream to Debian packaging effort

>> It just comes to my mind that Maybe it does not fit well with my convention >> for exeprimental numbering whcih is >> blablab_x.y.z-t~exp1 >> so maybe the best way would be to use >> blalbla_x.y.z-t~~alba+1 >So, you would not use the "bpo9" part for the packages built for stretch? Not at all,

RE:Feedback request about the Alba Upstream to Debian packaging effort

Y: consider whether you want to bother > with source packages. You could just use git branches instead. > Source packages are a pain. Just use dgit ;) > Good luck and have fun! thanks Frederic

Feedback request about the Alba Upstream to Debian packaging effort

lso on the numbering scheme propose by Alba. In fact all feedback which should smooth the upstream to debian flow. Thanks for considering. Frederic Ps: Please keep the CC, they are not yet subscribers of debian-devel [1] https://www.cells.es/en [2] http://www.tango-controls.org/ [3] http:/

RE:Auto-update for sid? Auto-backport?

s package build properly on Debian. They are doing the work for travis, appveyor, gitlab-ci etc.. and why not Debian ? Cheers Frederic

RE:How to start a new packaging team now?

> Now that Alioth is beginning to close down and its replacement is not > yet ready, how would I start this team now? What is the status of this migration ? which solution was selected ? thanks Frederic

RE:Keysafe dynamic UID

of hook available for other packages in order to deal with theses user renames Cheers Frederic

RE:EOL of fglrx-driver

Hello, first thanks for your hard work. I am using fglrx-driver for OpenCL on my W5100 and W7100 amd GPUs. Do you know if there will be a plan in order to support OpenCL on amd for strech ? Cheers Frederic

Is there a problem with the build all infra of experimental ?

oing to be installed Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 5.2) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages apt-get failed. Package installation failed someone understand what is going on ? thanks Frederic [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=tango

RE:Creating directory /sbuild-nonexistent/.lyx/

> please file bugs if you find other packages which try to access $HOME during > the build process. ok,I will do a bug report. Cheers Fred

Creating directory /sbuild-nonexistent/.lyx/

something try to create a config file in the home of sbuild. I suspect that lyx is not the only software which create this kind of files. cheers Frederic

RE:dbconfig-common: near future change in dependency stack

t installing dbconfig-no-thanks, you can still (as has always been > the case) opt-out of dbconfig-common support per package, but this > requires either preseeding or responding to the corresponding debconf > question. ok, it is clearer Frederic [1] https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/2016-January/008605.html

RE:dbconfig-common: near future change in dependency stack

to express, no mysql on my computer, but I could allow postgresql for other packages. Is it possible to have this use case and how should we instrument our package for this? once again thanks for your work Frederic

Re: system upgrade by systemd

rs; or return the "response" configuration option as content. AFAICT it's not enabled by default and this is again one of those things we should ask users about before "pinging home". Up in the stack GNOME Shell will automatically popup a window embedding a webkit widget set on the given URI (and thus, displaying the captive portal). Frederic

Re: system upgrade by systemd

Michael Banck wrote: > I think it probably makes sense to have this on by default for stable > and off by default for testing/unstable. I assume the default option is > not configurable? > > Even better might be a first-boot question asking the user about it, but > I am not sure such a framework

Re: system upgrade by systemd

Hi, Michael Banck wrote: > Package: network-manager > Severity: wishlist > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:46:24AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > > It’s gnome-software in sid, or g-s-d in jessie, querying PackageKit for > > > updates. > > > The default policy is to not schedule any downloads when

Re: system upgrade by systemd

Michael Meskes wrote: > > update, you will have chosen to do that by clicking the "Reboot and > > Restart" button. > > Eh? This neither makes sense nor is it true. A "Reboot and Restart" button > (if such a thing existed, could this be a typo?) would not give you any hint > whatsoever that the re

RE:debian queue demon keeps spawning emails for clblas/2.6-2 upload

Ok, I used dcut dcut -k 4696e015 rm clblas_2.6-2_amd64.changes in order to remove the offending file Cheers Fred

RE:RE:Ad-hoc survey of existing Debian git integration tools

)'. I do not understand this part why a non linear history is a problem for dgit ? cheers Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/a2a20ec3b8560d408356cac2fc148e53b217b...@sun-dag3.synchrotron-soleil.fr

RE:Ad-hoc survey of existing Debian git integration tools

re my tought with you. Cheers Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/a2a20ec3b8560d408356cac2fc148e53b217a...@sun-dag3.synchrotron-soleil.fr

RE:Huge data files in Debian

> Hi > Wouldn't a p2p system scale better than any server based solution? Also in > regards to cost... gittorrent[1] would be great for this. [1] http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittorrent-a-decentralized-github/ Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@l

RE:Bug#786902: O: ifupdown -- high level tools to configure network interfaces

> I do, it's about time we had a decent scripting language in the base > system. What about haskell as a decent scripting language ? It seems to me that haskell is a clear win when it comes to put things all together. type checking etc... Fred -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@l

Re: Bug#784405: ITP: rnetclient -- Client to submit the Brazilian Income Tax Report to the Brazilian Tax Authority

Hi, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > What's the real point of this package? One actually needs to install > the tax-report-building program from RFB (IRPF20xx) to have anything for > rnetclient to transmit, at which point you might as well install > ReceitaNet since you're already running RF

Re: Debian PHP upgrade

Hi Andile, > Im not sure why Gareth said PHP, I’m referring to Apache 2.2.22. > > The below vulnerabilities seem to affect this version: > > CVE-2014-0231 > ... As Paul noted earlier, you can use https://security-tracker.debian.org/

RE:Bug#778417: ITP: netcdf-python -- python interface to the netCDF4 (network Common Data Form) library

ers Frederic I put here the rest of the message: > That is not an easy question to answer (at least with my limited > knowledge). The Unidata website > (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html#Python) lists > 8 different python interfaces to NetCDF. Some are faster,

customization of the kernel command line

ommand line when installing the package. thanks Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/a2a20ec3b8560d408356cac2fc148e53b1fcb...@sun-

Internal compiler error

Hello, I got an FTBFS due to an internal compiler error. should I fill a bug against gcc ? should I fill also an RC bug for my package ? thanks for your help Frederic [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=pytango&arch=mipsel&ver=8.1.5-1&stamp=1412309891 -- To UNSUBS

RE:daemon user naming scheme

> # usermod -l newname oldname > (Other things can also be modified at the same time, see the man page.) thanks a lot Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

RE:daemon user naming scheme

the tango users before creating the new _tango user. If something goes wrong between this deluser and adduse, I am stuck... another important point in my case is that I need to do some mysql operation to grant right for the new user... Frederic Is it possible to use this thread to define the defa

RE:daemon user naming scheme

e the system user tango -> _tango But I do not know how to do this rename properly :(( cheers Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists

RE:2 months and no upload for pkg

one with no review and one with already one review when you have 20 minutes for Debian during the day. I find that the time spent to find a package for review is a pain. it should be as simple as: how-can-i-help --review ... review reportbug --review to fill the report and tag accordingly. Che

Re: Bug#754551: ITP: node-ms -- milliseconds conversion utility

Steve McIntyre wrote: > I've seen ITPs for a massive set of tiny-looking node libraries go > past on -devel in the last few months, so I thought it was about time > I looked at one. I'm a bit worried by what I've seen, considering > typical discussions in the past about really small packages. > >

RE:python-pyqtgraph -- Scientific Graphics and GUI Library for Python

. pyfai and in the futur python-taurus. Cheers Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/a2a20ec3b8560d408356cac2fc148e53b1eb5...@sun-dag3.synchrotron-soleil.fr

RE:how to deal with a missed so bump already uploaded ?

> Reverse dependencies are anything but unrelated. Hello julien, from the point of view of the release team. What should be do now ? to my opinion, all we have to do is to upload zeromq3 with this ugly but necessary +really versionnumber 4.0.3+really-3.2.4-1 then the problem should be fixed onc

how to deal with a missed so bump already uploaded ?

deal with this mess ? thanks Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/a2a20ec3b8560d408356cac2fc148e53b1e96...@sun-dag3.synchrotron-soleil.fr

RE:About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

> It may be that libgc upstream's autogen.sh script is not really 'right' in > some way. But there may well be a lot of upstreams like that, which is > why maintainers need clear guidance on how to deal with this, without > having to become autotools experts. i.e how to determine when they can > ju

RE:conflict between system user and normal user

Hello, I dig a little bit in the debian documentation, and I found this snipset in the section 9.2 of securing-debian-howto [1] It is interesting to see the code used to create a system user. But the step 4 bother me usermod -c "$SERVER_NAME" \ -d $SERVER_HOME \

RE:conflict between system user and normal user

> Just use a generic name and be done with it. sorry, what do you mean by generic ? > The name should not be hardcoded - if it is, patch upstream in each > case and fix it. Don't waste your time and user time on a hacky > workaround - fix the code. no, the name is not hard coded by the upstream

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