Re: 64-bit time_t transition in progress in unstable

2024-03-06 Thread Kevin Bowling
On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 4:18 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > > Eric Valette writes: > > > You can force the migration by explicitly adding the package that it > > propose to remove (e.g gdb for libelf, ...) > > > I managed to upgrade all packages you mention in your mail that > > way. Only libkf5akonadis

Re: 64-bit time_t transition in progress in unstable

2024-03-06 Thread Kevin Bowling
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 4:21 PM Steve Langasek wrote: > > Dear developers, > > With the last known blockers resolved, I have now uploaded NMUs of the > experimental versions of gcc-13 and gcc-14 to unstable, and a corresponding > upload of dpkg changing the default build flags is expected to follo

Bug#1031350: ITP: libkysdk-system -- Kylin System Layer Developer Kit

2023-02-15 Thread kevin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: KevinDuan X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, duankai...@ubuntukylin.com * Package name: libkysdk-system Version : 1.0.1-1 Upstream Author : KevinDuan * URL : https://gitee.com/openkylin/libkysdk-system * License

Bug#1031348: ITP: libkysdk-system -- Kylin System Layer Developer Kit

2023-02-15 Thread kevin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: KevinDuan X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, duankai...@ubuntukylin.com * Package name: libkysdk-system Version : 2.0.0-1 Upstream Author : KevinDuan * URL : https://gitee.com/openkylin/libkysdk-system * License

Bug#1031344: ITP: libkysdk-base -- Kylin SDK basic library

2023-02-15 Thread kevin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: KevinDuan X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, duankai...@ubuntukylin.com * Package name: libkysdk-base Version : 1.0.1-1 Upstream Author : KevinDuan * URL : https://gitee.com/openkylin/libkysdk-base * License :

Bug#1031340: ITP: libkysdk-system -- Kylin System Layer Developer Kit

2023-02-15 Thread kevin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: KevinDuan X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, duankai...@ubuntukylin.com * Package name: libkysdk-system Version : 2.0.0-1 Upstream Author : KevinDuan * URL : https://gitee.com/openkylin/libkysdk-system * License

Bug#968593: ITP: tuxedo-backlight-control -- Minimal Linux distro CLI & UI for TUXEDO / Clevo computers Keyboard Backlight

2020-08-18 Thread Kevin VL
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Van Lierde * Package name: tuxedo-backlight-control Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : Kevin Van Lierde * URL : https://github.com/webketje/tuxedo-backlight-control * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python

Bug#966533: ITP: crossgrader -- Debian crossgrading tool

2020-07-30 Thread Kevin Wu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Wu * Package name: crossgrader Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Kevin Wu * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/crossgrading-team/debian-crossgrading * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Python 3 Description

Bug#962644: ITP: ukui-wallpapers -- Wallpapers for UKUI desktop environment

2020-06-10 Thread Kevin Duan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Duan * Package name: ukui-wallpapers Version : 20.04.2 Upstream Author : handsome_feng * URL : https://github.com/ukui/ukui-wallpapers * License : (GPL) Programming Lang: (Python) Description : Wallpapers

Bug#813840: ITP: libqcpp -- A C++ library for next-gen sequencing data quality control.

2016-02-05 Thread Kevin Murray
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Murray * Package name: libqcpp Version : 0.1.9 Upstream Author : Kevin Murray * URL : https://github.com/kdmurray91/libqcpp * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : A C++ library for next-gen

Bug#810576: ITP: hail -- Efficiently extract arbitrary lines from a file or stream

2016-01-09 Thread Kevin Murray
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Murray * Package name: hail Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Kevin Murray * URL : https://github.com/kdmurray91/hail * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Efficiently extract arbitrary lines

Bug#809972: ITP: scrm -- A coalescent simulator for genome-scale sequences

2016-01-04 Thread Kevin Murray
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Murray * Package name: scrm Version : 1.6.1 Upstream Author : Paul R. Staab * URL : https://github.com/scrm/scrm * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : A coalescent simulator for genome-scale

Bug#806828: ITP: dawg -- program to simulate the evolution of recombinant DNA sequences

2015-12-01 Thread Kevin Murray
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Murray * Package name: dawg Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Reed A. Cartwright * URL : http://scit.us/projects/dawg * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : program to simulate the evolution

Bug#806767: ITP: libzstd -- fast lossless compression algorithm, targeting real-time compression scenarios

2015-11-30 Thread Kevin Murray
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Murray * Package name: libzstd Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Yann Collet * URL : https://github.com/Cyan4973 * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : fast lossless compression algorithm Zstd

Bug#805153: ITP: libqes -- a next-gen sequencing format parsing and utility library for C

2015-11-15 Thread Kevin Murray
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Murray * Package name: libqes Version : 0.1.20 Upstream Author : Kevin Murray * URL : https://github.com/kdmurray91/libqes * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C Description : Next-gen sequencing format

Bug#804646: ITP: partitionfinder -- programs for simultaneously choosing partitioning schemes and models of molecular evolution for sequence data.

2015-11-09 Thread Kevin Murray
X-Debbugs-CC: Debian Med Packaging Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Murray * Package name: partitionfinder Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Brett Calcott and Rob Lanfear * URL : https://github.com/brettc/partitionfinder * License : GPL-3

Bug#801309: ITP: python-latexcodec -- A lexer and codec to work with LaTeX code in Python.

2015-10-08 Thread Kevin Murray
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Murray * Package name: python-latexcodec Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Matthias C. M. Troffaes * URL : https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/pybtex-docutils * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#801307: ITP: pybtex-docutils -- A docutils backend for pybtex

2015-10-08 Thread Kevin Murray
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Murray * Package name: pybtex-docutils Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Matthias C. M. Troffaes * URL : https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/pybtex-docutils * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#801306: ITP: python-oset -- An ordered set data structure for Python

2015-10-08 Thread Kevin Murray
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Murray * Package name: python-oset Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Carlos Martin, Raymond Hettinger * URL : https://gitorious.com/sleipnir/python-oset * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#800358: ITP: python-sphinxcontrib.bibtex -- allows the use of Bibtex citations in sphinx documentation

2015-09-28 Thread Kevin Murray
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Murray * Package name: python-sphinxcontrib.bibtex Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Matthias C. M. Troffaes * URL : https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/sphinxcontrib-bibtex/blob/develop/LICENSE.rst * License : BSD

Bug#799830: ITP: dwgsim -- DWGSIM is an improved short read simulator

2015-09-22 Thread Kevin Murray
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Murray * Package name: dwgsim Version : 0.1.11 Upstream Author : Nils Homer * URL : https://github.com/nh13/DWGSIM * License : GPLv2, MIT/X Programming Lang: C Description : DWGSIM: an improved short read

Bug#794088: ITP: axe-demultiplexer -- demultiplexes DNA sequencing reads based upon 5' read barcodes

2015-07-30 Thread Kevin Murray
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Murray * Package name: axe-demultiplexer Version : 0.2.8 Upstream Author : Kevin Murray * URL : https://github.com/kdmurray91/axe * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: C Description : Axe demultiplexes DNA

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Thankfully My Last Post

2014-05-12 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 12 May 2014 12:00:48 +0200 A debian dev wrote: > Nobody cares. > > Please go away. You apparently don't care that an official debian document is making sweeping incorrect statements even though I have told you I have professional experience in this area and pointed debian to a buildroot

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: > I haven't yet seen a system where booting with init=/bin/bash works but > booting systemd in emergency mode does not. Have you added me to a killfile? I mentioned such a bug as happened in Arch testing in this very thread or do you mean a d

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: > > Will a script doing this be portable to other Linuxes or even BSD > > Unices? > > > No. BSD has daemon(8). If you want portability, you probably need to check > what's available. (start-stop-daemon, daemon (on BSDs), sudo) > I can tell

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Russ Allbery contributed: > by the non-stop sniping (for *months* now) by people like Kevin Chadwick, Well I have only responded to incorrect statements and have tried to ignore any that are not from debian developers and may not affect the future of debian but you ca

Re: correct use of su

2014-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Steve Langasek contributed: > Yes. This has been the case for su in Debian since 1999, and to do > otherwise would break a variety of configurations where session setup is > required in order for, e.g., the su process to have access to the files of > the target user. It s

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-10 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Steve Langasek contributed: > > Using systemd breaks something that worked for probably a decade or longer > > before however long that su is in that init script. So on what account do > > you call calling "su" in an init script a bug? It may not be the most > > elegant s

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-10 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: > I also would not expect an "end user" to add "su foo -c /do/whatever" to > /etc/rc.local. Your opinion may differ, that's OK. My opinion certainly does differ as I'm sure is already apparent ;-) especially that pid1 and single user should mo

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Simon McVittie contributed: > That would let cautious systemd users keep the > sysvinit binaries around, and boot with init=/usr/lib/sysvinit/init if > something went horribly wrong with systemd. Not that it would affect me but that would be wise, an upstream bug caused ar

Re: standalone logind (Re: Bits from the systemd + GNOME sprint)

2014-05-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: > Hi, > > Kevin Chadwick: > > > * last but not least: if you do have a tangible reason for your post, i.e. > > > one of your packages doesn't work with the way systemd is packaged, > > > kind

Re: standalone logind (Re: Bits from the systemd + GNOME sprint)

2014-05-06 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: > > > > > > Sorry, but I suspect the latter. > > > > Why did I expect any reasonable and balanced discussion! I suspect > > but haven't mentioned that I expect the reasons for bundling these > > components together to be on highly questionabl

Re: A question about patches for upstream

2014-05-05 Thread Kevin Chadwick
systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: standalone logind (Re: Bits from the systemd + GNOME sprint)

2014-05-05 Thread Kevin Chadwick
y the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: standalone logind (Re: Bits from the systemd + GNOME sprint)

2014-05-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
;s 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-05-02 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Kevin Chadwick contributed: > all sorts of stuff that would make any chroot > in this way pointless. "more powerful" I expect means less secure in > this usage. p.p.s. why implement yet more code and complexity into systemd for preventing device file

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-05-02 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 02 May 2014 10:55:15 +0200 Aaron Zauner wrote: > Bashing on Tor does not help here. The page suggests all devs use Tor to avoid being targetted. I am saying, does it accomplish that and is is best practice. Should they be hackable even if they are targetted or stumbled upon. I find that

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-05-02 Thread Kevin Chadwick
or systemd ___ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like syst

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-05-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:33:56 +0200 Aaron Zauner wrote: > > It adds a lot of complexity for privacy benefit. Integrity is often > > muddled into security too. As far as I am concerned they can actually > > counter each other and are seperate entities. > No they are not. Integrity should be part

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
_ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) ___ --

Re: Gcc and undefined behavior

2014-04-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Don't design like polkit or systemd ___ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos'

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:20:05 + Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > > > > Tor provides privacy and more likely lowers security so which threat > > against contributors or contributor actions is the Tor policy aimed to > > protect? > > I'm confused, what? How does Tor lower security and at the same time

Re: Hardened OpenSSL fork

2014-04-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
_ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern&#x

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
st 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick)

Re: Hardened OpenSSL fork

2014-04-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 10:55:36 +0200 Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. But look at the > > example of the random number generator in my other e-mail. I've > > seen other cases were they do things like that. And I can > > perfectly understand why they do it, and t

Re: Hardened OpenSSL fork

2014-04-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) ___

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd ___ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems i

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:57:41 +0200 Aaron Zauner wrote: > > Usually the Linux kernel itself provides more than enough entropy. This > > can (and probably should) be enhanced but should not be done in a > > specific distribution. I know there has been a little work on the kernel in this area, main

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
__ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replac

Re: the importance of defaults (was: Debian default desktop environment)

2014-04-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
s' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) ___

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) _

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd ___ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
t 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) __

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on L

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
ea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Lin

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
_ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
7;apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick)

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
ther Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd ___ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'ap

Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
___ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it'

Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
;modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it

2014-04-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
__ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos'

Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it

2014-04-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) _

Re: default messaging/VoIP client for Debian 8/Jessie

2014-04-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
_ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern&#x

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-04-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Bas Wijnen contributed: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 10:49:15PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > I think at Debian we all agree that it would be a good > > > thing if everything would be encrypted, so this is a very bad outcome. > > > >

Re: default messaging/VoIP client for Debian 8/Jessie

2014-04-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
design like polkit or systemd ___ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-04-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
UX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) ___

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-04-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-r

Re: default messaging/VoIP client for Debian 8/Jessie

2014-03-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
ds - Don't design like polkit or systemd ___ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Li

Re: stop posting useless cruft and get to work (systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it)

2014-03-28 Thread Kevin Toppins
On 28 Mar 2014 03:40, Olav Vitters wrote: [...] > > I can tell you right now, it is *vastly more difficult* to try to > > adapt programs modified to work with systemd in their current state, > > than it is to *revert* those programs to their pre-systemd state. > > You're so certain while so utterly

Re: stop posting useless cruft and get to work (systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it)

2014-03-27 Thread Kevin Toppins
On 26 Mar 2014 12:30, Matthias Urlichs wrote: [...] > > But here is the vastly oversimplified technical argument... > > > To the point of being neither technical nor valid. > (Which admittedly was never in doubt even before I started reading.) What do you consider technical? Vastly oversimplifie

Re: stop posting useless cruft and get to work (systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it)

2014-03-26 Thread Kevin Toppins
On 26 March 2014 13:42, Shachar Shemesh wrote: [...] > As far as the systemd vs. upstart discussion, I was leaning in upstart (more > precisely, against systemd). As such, your email was very interesting to me. > Unfortunately, it was unreadable. You said you'll start with background, but > instea

Re: stop posting useless cruft and get to work (systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it)

2014-03-26 Thread Kevin Toppins
On 26 March 2014 10:13, Cameron Norman wrote: [...] > That is pretty much impossible, according to the developers of the logind > API and its single implementation. Perhaps a subset of the logind API for > use by desktop environments / compositors would be more useful in this init > and OS portabi

Re: stop posting useless cruft and get to work (systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it)

2014-03-26 Thread Kevin Toppins
On 26 March 2014 05:40, Thomas Goirand wrote: [...] > If you want thing to move on, stop posting useless messages, and start > working on alternatives. For example, helping adding more features to > OpenRC would certainly help a way more than this post. I am going to have to respectfully disagre

Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it

2014-03-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Brett Parker contributed: > Maybe you should do some more investigation, get some better clue of > what you're talking about, and come back with a better, more thought > out, set of arguments that actually have merit. Right, by arguing on the basis of the definition of Lin

Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it

2014-03-25 Thread Kevin Toppins
On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 11:40:02 AM UTC-5, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I was very proud of my fellow colleagues for not feeding the troll a > full 24 hours later. Thanks for breaking the record :( Jonathan we've been through this before. -> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/11/msg

Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it

2014-03-25 Thread Kevin Toppins
On 25 March 2014 11:25, William Unruh wrote: [...] > And if they are there, together with all the boldfacing, people tend to > think that you are a complete kook. So you makes your choices... Okay, my apologies. I am not very experienced with lists and the expectations that run within them. Her

Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it

2014-03-25 Thread Kevin Toppins
On 25 March 2014 08:54, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: [...] > Lots of asterisks won't make a point. The asterisks are there to specifically focus your attention on those words. Because -> I find that if I don't use them -> people tend to misread what I write (or more so at least) -Kev -- To UN

systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it

2014-03-24 Thread Kevin Toppins
To all debian developers: -> systemd is *fundamentally incompatible* with linux Now, I realize that's a bold claim, but if you are up for some reading, I will prove it. First -> a little history just to put this into a context that's easier to follow Over a year ago (Nov 2012), I tried to *

Re: Bits from the Security Team

2014-03-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: > > I did a „setcap cap_sys_ptrace+eip > > /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_procs”, but a normal user can’t still > > check for running programs of another user. > > > > What did I wrong? > > > check_procs is a script, not a "real" executable.

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Kevin Chadwick contributed: > Perhaps before this thread spirals out of control I should should also mention this has been discussed on this very list already, though before I was enrolled and the following response went unreplied to. On the other hand and I doubt

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: > One sample usecase where they dont't: "the system is wedged / overcommitted > and I need to terminate some services; guess I'll start another ten processes > to do that". Yeah, right. > > I'll be nice to everybody else here and not enumerate

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Perhaps before this thread spirals out of control I should re-iterate that what I said was cgroups doesn't pass the worth-it barrier for me and not that they have NO value. I also mentioned pgroups for those that do want this functionality but also want portability and not bugs in daemons on one

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Marco d'Itri contributed: > > But you aren't planning on running openrc at all, are you? > Who is? Seriously, would you mind stepping forward? If it was available I would use it but wouldn't be switching cgroups on or would be switching them off even if I hadn't bothered

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: > > Kevin, I don't think you understand the reasoning behind this. Again, > > the problem the init system has to solve here is being able to track a > > process with a 100% accuracy, so whatever automated mechanisms

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:53:51 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Kevin, I don't think you understand the reasoning behind this. Again, > the problem the init system has to solve here is being able to track a > process with a 100% accuracy, so whatever automated mecha

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list hero...@gentoo.org contributed: > > And grepping through the output of "ps" or similar is not what > > I would consider reliable and robust either. > > Nod. grepping `ps` is what we should avoid at all cost. All cost? While I like OpenRC and thanks to Gentoo for it and

Re: systemd's journal

2014-02-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Helmut Grohne contributed: > > It's just occurred to me that the binary format may not work with append > > only logging? > > That's true for the journal. When the journal opens its binary log, it > flags the file as being opened, but what is the issue with not being > a

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Thomas Goirand contributed: > So, systemd is still using /etc/rc?.d. Could you tell exactly what it > uses out of /etc/rc?.d, and what for? Does it only needs to see them as > S??script-name in runlevel 2 or 4 (or whatever it uses...)? > > If systemd needs links in /etc/rc

Re: Honestly, fork systemd

2014-02-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Svante Signell contributed: > > To answer the original poster's own question, what can he do? > > > > He can stop writing these emails and start writing code (a fork of > > systemd supporting kFreeBSD, to be specific) > > I don't think forking systemd is a good choice,

Re: systemd's journal

2014-02-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Helmut Grohne contributed: > So for the time being (i.e. until all of my systems and recovery systems > are converted to systemd), I do see a slight[2] disadvantage > It may take even longer until all initramfs will use > systemd (and I do want to read logs from the initra

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list John Paul Adrian Glaubitz contributed: > The problem is that many people who complain about PulseAudio issues > are often prejudiced about it in the first place such that they aren't > actually interested in having the problem fixed but rather just want > to get rid of it a

Re: Upstart support for LSB headers (Two line init.d scripts? Sure, that will work!)

2014-02-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: > > discussion. No, we should not depend on it for Debian; but we should > > provide the interface for system administrators who wish to use it, > > because it is not Debian's place to tell them that they cannot use that > > interface. > > >

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Steve Langasek contributed: > All > software has bugs. The difference is in how you handle them. And how many!!! AND how many per 1000 lines AND how many run with priviledges. -- ___ 'Write programs th

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