Re: isc-dhcp-client sends DHCPDISCOVER *before* wpa_supplicant authenticates/associates/connects.

Hi there, On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:15:47 +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2020-07-12 20:35:56 +0200 (+0200), Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > [...] > > What is (unusual but) usable, however, is to *not* use Network > > Manager for wifi, but use IWD+systemd or IWD standalone for wifi, > > and use Network M

Re: ISO download difficult (was: Debian Stretch new user report (vs Linux Mint))

Hi there, On Sat, 02 Dec 2017 13:17:13 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 10:14:21PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > > > > It would have been best for him to download the ISO with non-free > > > > firmware embedded, do you know how he made the decis

Re: ISO download difficult (was: Debian Stretch new user report (vs Linux Mint))

Hi there, On Fri, 01 Dec 2017 14:39:12 +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting Paul Wise : > > It would have been best for him to download the ISO with non-free > > firmware embedded, do you know how he made the decision to download > > the ISO without non-free firmware? > > Every time I need a

Re: Debian Stretch new user report (vs Linux Mint)

Hi there, On Fri, 01 Dec 2017 14:59:53 -0500, James McCoy wrote: > People seem to be skipping over the fact that even after ntfs-3g was > installed, the user only had RO access. That's the bigger issue. Exactly, which IIRC is the normal behavior if the NTFS filesystem was not properly "closed",

Re: Naming of network devices - how to improve it in buster

Hi there, On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 23:55:09 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On 07/11/2017 03:08 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > > > I wonder if anyone actually uses /dev/disk/by-path? > > It's useful for a quick "ls -l /dev/disk/by-path | grep 'sda$;" to figure > out which port a disk is plugged into

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

:/etc# git log -p 5deed858 aliases commit 5deed8583b1a65e9f80a9426496c2e707ce6c860 Author: Luca Capello Date: Thu Dec 31 15:11:07 2009 +0100 initial commit diff --git a/aliases b/aliases new file mode 100644 index 000..ba553bc --- /dev/null +++ b/aliases @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ [...] +root: l

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

Hi there, On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:05:10 -0400, Tom H wrote: > The reason that you can't dist-upgrade RHEL is that there's too large > a gap between releases. [...] > You can't dist-upgrade RHEL from 6 to 7 and you can't dist-upgrade > Debian from 6 to 8 in one leap. Debian *does* support dist-upgr

Re: Non-free RFCs in stretch

Hi there, first of all, thanks Simon for your work. On Sun, 05 Mar 2017 17:33:44 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > Iustin Pop wrote: > > Could you try to explain to me why one would need the same liberties for > > source code and standard documents? > > Among many other reasons: Thanks Josh for lis

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

Hi there, On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:12:10 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote: > * David Kalnischkies [Wed Feb 22, 2017 at 10:28:33PM +0100]: > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 09:04:16PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > > > > ...it will break existing practices, e.g.: > > > DEBIAN_F

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

Hi there, On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 13:16:27 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 01:06:24PM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: > > What am I not understanding right here? Shouldn't "apt-get upgrade" > > NEVER EVER EVER EVER remove something? [...] > Fun fact: We have a few reports whic

Re: changelog practice, unfinalised vs UNRELEASED vs ~version

Hi there, On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:11:12 +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 at 12:48:35 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > What do people think ? > > I think you're the only person I've ever seen using unfinalized > changelog entries for Debian packages. FWIW, I am another user of this

Re: unattended-upgrades by default?

Hi there!, On Fri, 04 Nov 2016 12:26:51 +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 06:47:28PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > To solve the issue and provide security updates by default, I'm > > proposing that we should switch to installing unattended-upgrades by > > default (and enabli

Re: Bug#810835: ITP: let-alist -- let-bind values of an assoc-list by their names in Emacs Lisp

Hi there! On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 19:47:53 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 10:34:04PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > > Nothing against you, but a .deb for an 89-line macro sounds a bit > > overkill to me. > > I want to package emacs-pdf-tools [1] [...] >

Re: Bug#810835: ITP: let-alist -- let-bind values of an assoc-list by their names in Emacs Lisp

Hi there, On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:39:00 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > * Package name: let-alist > Version : 1.0.4 > Upstream Author : Artur Malabarba > * URL : https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/let-alist.html [...] > let-alist is a useful macro for programming in Emacs Lisp.

Re: Plan to orphan cdn.debian.net

Hi あらき-san, On Sat, 06 Dec 2014 18:44:46 +0900, Yasuhiro Araki wrote: > As you may know, I have provided cdn.debian.net for geo mirror service for > older than apt (0.7.21 is released Apr. 2009) since Feb. 2008 (http:// > lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/02/msg00700.html). Thank you very much f

Re: Bug#756521: ITP: kadeploy -- Scalable, efficient and reliable cluster provisioning solution

Hi there! On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 14:35:33 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 02/08/14 08:03, Charles Plessy wrote: > > A straightforward way is exemplified by the case of SSH, where the server > > keys > > are regenerated if they are absent. It then only takes to delete the keys > > when > > prepar

Release Notes (and any other documentation) (was: systemd-fsck?)

Hi there! Nothing related to any init system in Debian, but... On Tue, 13 May 2014 19:19:54 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Thibaut Paumard (2014-05-13): >> Le 13/05/2014 17:36, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> > Right, which I've been arguing for already in this thread. I don't think >> > we should f

Re: Bug#732878: Add MariaDB as an alternative dependency

Hi there! On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 16:53:47 +0100, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > 2013/12/25 Thomas Goirand : >> Don't you think it would be more reasonable if the mariadb-client >> contained a Provides: mysql-client, rather than changing each and every >> software dependency in Debian? >> >> Adding debian-d

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

Hi there! On Sat, 04 Jan 2014 04:29:02 +0100, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 08:59:53AM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: >> > So your doomsday scenario is that if you license something >> > GPLv2+, someone might fork and modify it to be GPLv3+, >> >> I was under the impression tha

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

Hi there! On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 08:08:53 -0700, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:44:48PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Yes, it can. It should contain enough of the packages needed to be >> able to support all 4 of the recognised DEs. However, at current rates >> it won't take

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

Hi there! On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:17:03 -0700, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > And neither my IBM X40 nor my employer's X61 can boot from SD card, > despite having the drive built in. Sucks. Off-topic, but still. My X60 (from late 2006) can not either, but IMHO the reason behind it that the SD reader it

Re: Fwd: procenv_0.9-1_source.changes REJECTED

Hi there! On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:35:08 +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > I did built in sbuild, but not a VM. Is there pbuilder/sbuild backed > by qemu/kvm available anywhere to make that easier to do? There is, but I doubt the built package will be accepted, we already had this problem in the pas

Re: Bug#687103: ITP: maps -- OpenStreetMap client for the GNOME Desktop

Hi there! On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:09:11 +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > On 09/09/2012 19:54, Alessio Treglia wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:39 PM, David Paleino wrote: >>> It would be nice if you could use a less generic name. :) >> >> Honestly, I've been thinking about that even befor

Re: Minified javascript files

Hi there! On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:53:09 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 08/17/2012 09:39 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> * Vincent Bernat , 2012-08-16, 19:24: >>> 3. Repacking the original tarball just to remove those files is extra >>> work. >> >> Part of the problem is that we lack good tools to do t

Re: Debian BSP, Dublin, Ireland

Hi there! On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:03:13 +0200, Philip Ashmore wrote: > I would like to invite you to the Doodle poll "Debian BSP, Dublin, Ireland". Can you please use the correct mailing list (debian-events-*@l.d.o) to organize Debian Events and not spawn debian-devel@? And please send a notice t

Re: Clarification on the Origin: field in the Patch Tagging Guidelines?

Hi there! On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:39:35 +0200, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > From reading the DEP-3, it mentions the use of the Commit: identifier, > but doesn't give any examples of how this would be done. Would > something like this be acceptable instead? > > Origin: upstream, Commit:8f00911a21 This i

Re: problems with quilt and 3.0 (quilt) format again

Hi there! On Tue, 15 May 2012 01:10:19 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Clint Adams wrote: >> dpkg-source is more intolerant of fuzz than quilt itself. >> Run quilt refresh on the patch and it should be happier. > > Ar ... is this on purpose? Or by chance? Or to drive > d

Bug#670549: ITP: lua-ldap -- LDAP library for the Lua language

Package: wnpp Owner: Luca Capello Severity: wishlist Usertags: pca.it-authentication * Package name: lua-ldap Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Kepler Project (copyright holder) * URL or Web page : <http://www.keplerproject.org/lualdap/> * License : MIT Descr

Re: Anyone in direct contact with Peter S. Galbraith (psg)?

Hi there! On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:14:50 +0200, Neil Williams wrote: > Packages concerned: > emacs-goodies-el I am an heavy user of three of its binaries (devscripts-el, debian-el and dpkg-dev-el) and I already contributed in the past, so in case it is orphaned I will be glad to adopt it. Thx, bye

Re: On init in Debian

Hi there! On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:45:20 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Writing configuration files with the shell is not going to be anywhere > simple. In two years, it will be the same mess as now: everybody will > have extended the "configuration" with its own functions and somebody > wil

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

Hi there! On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:19:54 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 15, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> > You keep repeating arguments in favour of moving /{bin,sbin,lib}/ to >> > /usr/ :-) >> Well, I think I still need persuading that this is the right direction >> to move the files. I still thi

Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#649385: policykit-1: pkexec can not open display for GUI programs

Hi there! On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:29:06 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:10:17 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le dimanche 20 novembre 2011 à 19:30 +0100, Luca Capello a écrit : >>> It is not about what I do or do not want, sudo != administrator, as >

Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#649385: policykit-1: pkexec can not open display for GUI programs

Hi there! On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:10:17 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 20 novembre 2011 à 19:30 +0100, Luca Capello a écrit : >> > polkit authorizations are either one-time or valid for the life time of >> > the session. >> >> Again, this is dif

Re: Bug#649385: policykit-1: pkexec can not open display for GUI programs

Hi there! I would have preferred to continue the discussions on the single bugs, so it was documented in the BTS once and for all. Cc:ing #649385, the first reported bug. On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:36:57 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 20.11.2011 15:44, Luca Capello wrote: > >> 1) on

Bug#649385: policykit-1: pkexec can not open display for GUI programs

Package: policykit-1 Version: 0.102-1 Severity: important Usertags: pca-authentication Hi there! The discussion started at: On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:45:53 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 03.11.2011 19:28, schrieb Luk Claes: >> On 11/03/20

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

Hi there! On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:19:26 +0100, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > On Wed, 02 Nov 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: >> When considering the divide between "internal use" and "for users", >> consider that if it's for users to invoke then it should simply be >> in the default path. It's not typical t

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

Hi there! Just some small notes without re-iterating what other people already wrote in this (now too-long) thread. On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:26:06 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > Am 12.10.2011 23:39, schrieb Josh Triplett: >> Not every system needs an MTA, and I'd argue that today most systems >> don'

Re: / vs. /usr vs. fsck(8)

Hi there! On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:15:43 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 11:19 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:24:33 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> > The Debian initramfs of my sid system is 10 MB, while the one from my >> &g

Tasksel's "standard" task (was: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional)

Hi there! On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:48:11 +0200, Josh Triplett wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: >> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:29:56 +0200 >> Andreas Barth wrote: >> > * Neil Williams (codeh...@debian.org) [111015 22:23]: >> > > The problem with "Standard" is that it is currently (and heavily) biased >> > >

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

Hi there! Disclaimer: I am not an SMTP expert. On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:37:59 +0200, Josh Triplett wrote: > Andrea Bolognani wrote: >> The proxy one needs to go through to access the Internet from inside my >> University buildings cuts off SMTP. > > Have you checked to see if it blocks SMTPS, or th

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

Hi there! On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:34:52 +0200, Josh Triplett wrote: > Bjørn Mork wrote: >> Josh Triplett writes: >>> Have I missed any important points? >> >> You forgot to explain the upside, reason, why, gain, whatever. > > Re-reading my original mail, you're right, I do seem to have missed > c

Re: / vs. /usr vs. fsck(8)

Hi there! On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:24:33 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 12, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > >> On the other hand, Debian has chosen against that and relies on klibc, >> ipconfig, etc. for early userspace and thus, the initramfs. I suspect >> the main motivations behind these decision

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

Hi there! On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:18:04 +0200, Josh Triplett wrote: > The 30-35% figure for users who have removed exim still make sense, > though, to the extent that popcon numbers for a package with priority >= > standard can make sense. > > In any case, I didn't intend the popcon numbers as any

Re: Move all to /usr

Hi there! On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:58:24 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > So let's look at the reasons against merging /usr in / listed in my > final summary. All of them do not apply to merging / in /usr, and > actually become arguments in favour of doing it: [...] > - dmcrypt: more parts would not nee

Re: Move all to /usr

Hi there! On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:24:09 +0200, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> unruh writes: >> On 2011-10-12, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >> - read only system: more parts would be read only > > > ? Surely you can make whatever you want read only now. > > With all the sort of software continuo

Bug#643874: RFP: python-fisher -- simple and fast implementation of Fisher's exact test

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Usertags: unige.ch-jmlab Hi there! * Package name: python-fisher Version : 0.1.4 Upstream Author : Haibao Tang , Brent Pedersen * URL or Web page :

Re: making encrypted $HOME as easy and convenient as possible

Hi there! On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:05:38 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > Am 12.09.2011 12:55, schrieb Luca Capello: [TRIM support for dm-crypt merged into Linux 3.1] >> Something I completely forgot in my first email, which is the real >> question: are my data as much secure with SSD

Re: making encrypted $HOME as easy and convenient as possible

Hi there! On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:54:00 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-09-12, Luca Capello wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:50:29 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: n>>> also sprach intrigeri [2011.09.11.2246 +0200]: >>>> The d-i already supports easy

Re: Wine status

Hi there! On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:00:36 +0200, Kai Wasserbäch wrote: > Ove Kåven schrieb am 11.09.2011 14:56: >> Den 11. sep. 2011 13:44, skrev Cesare Leonardi: >>> In the recent past upstream site started to advertise this as Wine Debian >>> package: http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unst

Re: making encrypted $HOME as easy and convenient as possible

Hi there! On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:50:29 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach intrigeri [2011.09.11.2246 > +0200]: >> The d-i already supports easy *full* system encryption, swap >> included. > > I think this is what people should be using, not a high-level hack > like ecryptfs. +1, but if

Re: Mobile UXes - From the DebConf11 BoF to the stars

Hi there! On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:36:17 +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: > = 0 - Commented overview of the various available stacks = > > The initial idea to frame the discussion was to share experiences and > opinions > about known free software mobile stacks: are they packaged in Debian? What > has

Bug#638182: less: please be more verbose about lesspipe usage in login script

Package: less Version: 444-1 Severity: wishlist Hi there! The discussion started on the debian-devel@ mailing list: <http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/4E4A258D.6090402%40debian.org> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:38:43 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:50:49AM +0

Re: Bug#637892: ITP: python-formalchemy -- auto-generation and customizable form

Hi there! On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:52:47 +0200, Arnaud Fontaine wrote: >> Sorry to bother you, but my merge has failed, and I don't know why. I >> retitled this >> bug(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526936 ) and make >> mys

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

Hi there! On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:43:39 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-08-15 23:29:17 -0400, James Vega wrote: >> You mean like lesspipe(1)? Seems like it might need to be updated to >> handle *.xz, but other than that looks like it fits the bill. > > lesspipe(1) from the less package is

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

Hi there! On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:08:45 +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Am 16.08.2011 02:43, schrieb Russell Coker: > >> I'd like to see zless work transparently with bzip and xz compressed files. >> There's really no need for three different wrapper programs when the zless >> program

Re: The archive now supports xz compression

Hi there! On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:16:55 +0200, Charles Plessy wrote: > Also, many files in /usr/share/doc are gzipped as per §12.3; [...] > - Most systems have enough space to keep them uncompressed, Which alone is not a good reason to not compress them. > Perhaps we could consider allowing xz c

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

Hi there! On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:46:47 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:27:09AM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: >> I believe it's high time we start to providing Debian in form of official >> virtualisation images. While the Debian Events team mainly needs a BabelBox, it

Re: network-manager as default? No!

Hi there! On Mon, 02 May 2011 03:03:51 +0200, Fernando Lemos wrote: > 2011/5/1 Miroslav Suchý : >> Dne 3.4.2011 18:08, Fernando Lemos napsal(a): >>> >>> * It doesn't have a good command-line interface >> >> It does have CLI interface. Those commands are bundled directly in >> NetworkManager: >> nm

Re: Default size limits for /run (/var/run) and /run/lock (/var/lock)

Hi there! Just to be sure everyone gets it correctly... On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:15:07 +0200, Roger Leigh wrote: > If it wasn't already clear, having /tmp as a tmpfs is a > /configurable option/, and it is /not/ the default (except when > root is read-only (ro) in fstab). Sorry, having /tmp as a t

Re: Default size limits for /run (/var/run) and /run/lock (/var/lock)

Hi there! Disclaimer: this is my last post on this matter (i.e. the meaning of RAMLOCK), it seems there is a problem with myself or my understanding. On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:42:58 +0200, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:35:37PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Ap

Re: Default size limits for /run (/var/run) and /run/lock (/var/lock)

Hi there! On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:47:35 +0200, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 08:12:21PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:38:03 +0200, Roger Leigh wrote: >> > Josh Triplett suggested that we could use a single tmpfs on /run and >> > hav

Re: Default size limits for /run (/var/run) and /run/lock (/var/lock)

Hi there! On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:38:03 +0200, Roger Leigh wrote: > Josh Triplett suggested that we could use a single tmpfs on /run and > have the rest as symlinks into /run, with potentially a separate > tmpfs for user-writable filesystems to prevent a user DoS. This idea > does have merit, and

Re: plan to clean up unstable

Hi there! On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 19:54:33 +0200, Torsten Werner wrote: > Am -10.01.-28163 20:59, schrieb Mehdi Dogguy: >> can't this limit to 2009 be pushed further? what would be the difference >> if we consider 2010, or 2011? (Just want to see the impact). > > 800 packages would be affected if the

Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?

Hi Lars! On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:41:14 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On ke, 2011-04-06 at 16:37 +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> Obviously, doing these changes earlier rather than later in the release >> cycle would be good, if they are to be done at all. > > OK, so assuming anything is to be done

Re: /run support for wheezy?

Hi Roger! Please do not Cc: me, I read the list. NB, this reply is maybe too late and useless, but I thought it was better to do that anyway, at least to thank Roger for the time he spent. On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:24:28 +0200, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 04:06:16PM +0200, L

Re: Please do not use /run yet

Hi there! On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:54:53 +0200, Roger Leigh wrote: > As of base-files 6.2 which went into unstable yesterday, we have a > new top-level directory, /run. > > This directory will contain a tmpfs which will be present from early > boot, and which will replace /var/run. This will be don

Re: /run support for wheezy?

Hi there! On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:33:44 +0200, Roger Leigh wrote: > Patches filed against base-files and initscripts in #620157 and #620191. > Test packages here: http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/run/ > (tested in an amd64 kvm VM; it shouldn't toast your system by > making it unbootable, but YM

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

Hi there! On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:09:17 +0200, Roger Leigh wrote: > • Read-only root > > Depends on /run. Having /run will allow remaining writable files > under /etc to be moved (/etc/mtab, LVM2 cache, CUPS for starters). For LVM2 there are at least two bugs:

Bug#619586: apt: [apt-transport-mirror] what(): std::bad_alloc (was: Re: cdn.debian.net as a project service?)

Package: apt Version: 0.8.13 Severity: normal Hi there! The discussion started on debian-devel@l.d.o, specifically: On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:55:47 +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:22:29AM +01

Library depending on -data packages

Hi there! Given that I found this problem for the second time in the last 4 months, I think this is worth a discussion on debian-devel@. It seems that recently two library packages started to change their Recommends: to common data to a Depends:. This after two bugs were reported by the same per

Re: Trains from Debconf to Munich, Koeln, Paris, London, Cambridge

Hi there! On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:39:59 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > I'm going to Debconf by train. Having done my research, I now know > which trains I'm going to be on. On the way out I will be taking a > day to look around Sarajevo by myself, which produces quite a detour. Nothing against you,

Re: Request for Comments: Planned removal of ddrescue

Hi there! On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:17:58 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote: > I'm the maintainer of the ddrescue and gddrescue packages. > I plan to drop the ddrescue package. [...] > I'd like to get rid of this confusion now. AFAICT gddrescue provides > all the features (and even more) ddrescue does. Als

Re: MBF: switching away from homepage pseudo-header

Hi there! On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:31:54 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:27:34PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Stefano Zacchiroli (13/02/2011): >> > I hereby propose a mass bug filing, severity minor, requesting >> > migration to the proper debian/control field.

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

Hi there! On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:14:42 +0100, Miroslav Kure wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:37:54AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> >> However, I'm curious: is there a lot of software that is broken with >> Unicode, particularly with the UTF-8 encoding? I can't remember anything >> much in re

Re: Cedilla removed from sid, users complain

Hi there! Juliusz, it is better to point your question to the *maintainer* of the package, not to debian-devel@ (which is not a mandatory mailing list for all the maintainers). Adding the Debian Common Lisp team to the loop. On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:25:19 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > It seems that

Re: memset(x,y,0) bug audit

Hi there! On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:32:22 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:11, Silvio Cesare wrote: >> I performed an audit of Debian stable for memset(x,y,0) bugs. These should >> typically be corrected with memset(x,0,y). >> >> The results can be found >> https://github.c

Re: Bits from keyring-maint

Hi there! On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:38:25 +0200, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> As for the large keysize, it is seen as too large. It was recommended >> that Debian should try to do something that would help reduce the >> overall threat to the De

Re: Bits from keyring-maint

Hi there! On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:15:25 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > > | I just wondering where I am supposed to find a good smartcard that can > | take 2048R (or larger) keys, works well with gnupg, and for how much :) > > http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/product_

Re: [Foo2zjs-maintainer] Bug#517957: foo2zjs: Some user data (firmware) goes in /usr ; should be /usr/local or /etc

tags 517957 + pending thanks Hi there! On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:32:25 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > I cc:ed the d-devel mailing list to get a wider opinion. Please keep at > least the BTS cc:ed. I have also bcc:ed various people I know as users of this package: sorry for the spam, but I

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

Hi there! On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:38:33 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 25, John Goerzen wrote: >> 5) Do we recommend that new installations of lenny or of squeeze avoid >> Xen for ease of upgrading to squeeze+1? If so, what should they use? > It depends. KVM in lenny is buggy and lacks impor

Re: RE : init script verbosity

Hi there! On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:03:57 +0100, PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:48:48 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> [PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel] >>> so what must I do for my init scripts. VERBOSITY / no VERBOSITY ? >> >> Use the VERBOSE to decide when to print informative

Re: correct way to mount stuff on tmpfs

Hi there! On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:12:15 +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: > However, there are the options RAMRUN and RAMLOCK in /etc/default/rcS, but > they're not really helpful, because there are many more places that make > sense > in tmpfs. (pbuilder, apt cache) Like /tmp

Re: Bug#537623: ITP: busybox-syslogd -- Provides syslogd and klogd using busybox' implementation

user pkg-fso-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org usertags 537623 + package-dependencies thanks Hi there! On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:41:24 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > * Package name: busybox-syslogd > Version : 0.1 May I suggest to use the same version number as busybox? > Description

Re: Bug#531941: gpe-gallery: missing gpe-gallery.png icon for .the desktop file

Hi there! On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:31:59 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Neil Williams escribió: >> On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:02:20 +0200 >> Luca Capello wrote: >>> the .desktop file looks for gpe-gallery.png while only the .xpm version >> >> Bah - this i

Re: Request for Comments: Standardize enabling/disabling of system services

Hi there! On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:11:14 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,02.Apr.09, 13:12:25, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 06:05:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> > > I think that renaming and/or removing the init script symlinks is the >> > > Right Thing To Do, but

Bug#520955: ITP: xserver-xorg-video-glamo -- X.Org X server -- SMedia Glamo display driver

Package: wnpp Owner: Luca Capello Severity: wishlist User: pkg-fso-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: package-creation * Package name: xserver-xorg-video-glamo Version : MMDD.gitCOMMIT (read below) Upstream Author : mainly Lars-Peter Clausen * URL or Web page : http

User and groups justification (was Re: group nvram)

Hi there! On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:16:05 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES > wrote: >> BTW instead of arguing about group and something like this could we >> create a wiki page on debian wiki about justification of group. >> Therefore purpose of ev

Re: Bug#518494: ITP: pythm -- media players (e.g. mpd, gstreamer, mplayer) GUI frontend

user pkg-fso-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org usertags 518494 + package-creation thanks Hi Yaroslav! Please keep the pkg-fso-maint mailing list cc:ed, TIA. On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:25:16 +0100, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > * Package name: pythm > Version : 0.5.5-dmr (fork developed by Dy

Re: [Foo2zjs-maintainer] Bug#517957: foo2zjs: Some user data (firmware) goes in /usr ; should be /usr/local or /etc

block 517957 by 449497 thanks Hi Daniel! I cc:ed the d-devel mailing list to get a wider opinion. Please keep at least the BTS cc:ed. On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:37:33 +0100, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Firmware is looked for under /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware, but firmware > is added on and therefore

Re: CC Attribution ShareALike (CC-by-sa) 3.0

Hi there! On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:08:35 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Norbert Preining (27/02/2009): >> Does anyone know anything about that license? > > Looking at the pool: > | k...@gluck:/org/lintian.debian.org/laboratory/source$ grep -i cc-by-sa > */debfiles/copyright This does not match e

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

Hi Stefano! Cc:ing again the Debian Common Lisp mailing list, please keep it! On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:02:59 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:04:36AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: >> FYI, as Aaron already showed with his list, ome packages (especially the >&g

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

Hi there! Cc:ing the Debian Common Lisp mailing list. On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:02:03 +0100, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Joerg Jaspert writes: >> Its lisp. Not one special part of it, just lisp. So other dialects as >> well, if someone gets me a list of packages (or matches) for it. [...] > cl-* FY

Re: urgent RFH: please help test mdadm 2.6.7.2-1

Hi Martin! On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:34:07 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Luca Capello [2009.02.04.1208 +0100]: >> I am going to re-install another HP Vectra VEi8 with the same >> specifications as above: should I test our udeb, as well? > > Not necessary. Tha

Re: urgent RFH: please help test mdadm 2.6.7.2-1

Hi Martin! On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:46:53 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I found a bit of time to package up mdadm 2.6.7.2-1, which fixes two > RC bugs, but I cannot test it. I've built unofficial packages for > i386 and amd64 and put them at > > http://debian.madduck.net/repo/pool/main/m/mdadm/

Promoting free PDF readers (was Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main)

Hi there! On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:12:55 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> But anyway, and knowing this is not an Ubuntu list... Does anybody >> know why on Earth is Acroread popular? Why isn't a PDF regularly >> handled in a saner way with Evince (or kde-based lookalike) in

non-free firmware loading in d-i (was Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: Summarizing the choices)

Hi there! On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:37:24 +0100, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If the proposal is to delay the release to make sure that **all** bits >> are moved into the non-free section, what about the debian >> installation CD itself

Openmoko GSM/GPS firmwares (was Re: Leverage in licensing discussions)

Hi there! Disclaimer: I am a member of the Debian FSO Team [1]. On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:35:16 +0100, David Bremner wrote: > At Fri, 7 Nov 2008 00:27:13 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: >> And as I have already written, I do not know HOW OpenMoko will solv >> this problem, but FreeRunner/OpenMoko or

Re: Direction on foo2zjs and web fetching scripts

Hi Michael! On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:28:00 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 11:40:22PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> Where do I go from here to make sure the issue gets the appropriate >> level of thought and consideration that it deserves (after lenny gets >> released of cou

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

Hi Brian! On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:16:07 +0100, Brian May wrote: > You can edit PDF files with Adobe Acrobat too. They don't need to by > hybrid documents. > > I think this is very dodgy and also requires proprietary software to > do the editing. I don't know of any DFSG software that will do the >

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#503367: Bug#503367: Bug#503367: plink: file conflict with putty-tools

Hi there! On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:58:20 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Steffen Möller wrote: >> Except that snplink is taken by another program > > This is a valid point and should probably be discussed with plink > (and snplink??) authors. FWIW both software have been publishe

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