Re: curl and certificate verification in jessie

2014-12-01 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Mon, 1 Dec 2014, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: On lun, dic 01, 2014 at 11:18:19 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Is this intentional, or is that a bug in either gnutls, curl, or the software using these libraries? AFAICT this is due to the gnutls26 -> gnutls28 switch. Using libgnutls-dev to buil

Bug#662932: general: USB devices, mass storage, and printer cause system fail, and report a lot of log problems

2012-03-07 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, dacer wrote: Dear Maintainer, I have some problem with USB, mass storage devices and printer (it detect some component as storage device), sometimes it send a lot of logs to /var/log/syslog, like these: Mar 7 08:02:20 dacer kernel: [668285.604061] usb 1-8: reset high-speed

Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-20 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:11:39AM +0100, J.A. Bezemer wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: [..] Regarding the objections above, which are primarily concerned with the creation of a non-generic initramfs, how does this alternative suggestion

Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-19 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: [..] Regarding the objections above, which are primarily concerned with the creation of a non-generic initramfs, how does this alternative suggestion sound: - The addition of usr= options analogous to the root= options which permit the bootloader to sp

Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-14 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: [..] The same argument applies to encryption. / and /usr both contain a selection of programs, libraries etc. If you're encrypting one, why would you not encrypt all of it? Speed. On one of my relatively low-power portable systems, I have everything

486 still being sold NEW / was Re: Increasing minimum 'i386' processor

2011-11-21 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 16:30 +0100, Kai Wasserbäch wrote: [..] Apart from that I wonder how many "embedded" x86 CPUs (instruction set < 586) are out there. Are they still sold in current products? As I said, Soekris still seems to have some for sale,

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-28 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:55 PM, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: That's not our problem, is it? It is, if we are trying to be as compatible as possible. Compatible with what? Bugs in other impl

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-25 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Sun, 24 May 2009, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hi folks > > I would like to raise the minimum CPU requirement for the shipped Linux > kernels in the i386 port to i686 (with cmov). [..] Popcon gives us some rough numbers to think about: linux-image-2.6-68649518 linux-image-2.6-486

Re: RFC: use readable $(cmd) syntax instead of unreadable `cmd`

2007-02-09 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Jari Aalto wrote: > FOREWORD > > I have seen following construct to be used in shell-context > (makefiles, sh-scripts, Perl): > > `cmd` [1] > > However, the POSIX standard and SUSv[23] declares alternative way of > accomplishing the same with in *sh co

Delft Debian Booth, May 17th, @ SANE 2006

2006-04-19 Thread J.A. Bezemer
Invitation / Call For Help Debian Booth at SANE2006 Free Software Bazaar Delft, The Netherlands, TUDelft Aula Congress Centre Wednesday, May 17th 2006, 18:30 - 22:00 (local time = CEST) 25+ projects/communities represented; free entrance, free parking! Hi all, Debian has been offered

CFP: Linux@work Amsterdam 2001, June 15

2001-05-08 Thread J.A. Bezemer
[Sorry for the cross-posting, but I want to reach as many .nl (would-be-) developers as possible, and there doesn't seem to be one single list they all subscribe to. FOLLOW-UPs to debian-events-eu@lists.debian.org ONLY please.] Call for Participation:

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-23 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:06:53AM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote: > > Quoting Bas Zoetekouw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Now you can boost the reliability of ordinary Windows 3.x, 95 and 98 to > > > > nearly the level of Windows NT or 2000, Microsoft

Re: No german umlauts in console and xterm

2000-09-05 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Florian Hinzmann wrote: > When typing german umlauts my system behaves > inconsistent: > > In most X programs they appear fine (i.e. Netscape, several > mail clients, XEmacs, ..) > > When typing in xterm|gnome-terminal windows they > don't appear. Some chars do beep, but no

gpm and X problem investigated

2000-08-31 Thread J.A. Bezemer
Hi! In the recent past, there have been multiple (bug) reports about the behaviour of potato (& woody?) gpm in the presence of X (or vice versa, really). I've done some research, with these results: 1. On slink and probably before (because I don't remember things being differently), gpm did

Re: Broken bootable SPARC CD#1, and why this happened

2000-08-17 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On 17 Aug 2000, Philip Hands wrote: > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > WTF is the difference? Nothing but a naming scheme. It's still a change, > > either way you do it, why do you want to nitpick the mechanism? > > Personally, I'd favour doing something that makes it as clear as >

Re: Broken bootable SPARC CD#1, and why this happened

2000-08-17 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > I've gotten reports that the ISO for CD#1 on sparc is completely broken. > Although the packages and dist files are there, the CD will not boot, > since almost none of the boot1 files are on the image. I'd hardly call this "completely broken". I guess yo