Bug#986830: ITP: sscg -- simple SSL certificate generator

2021-04-12 Thread Martin Pitt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Pitt * Package name: sscg Version : 2.6.2 Upstream Author : Stephen Gallagher * URL : https://github.com/sgallagher/sscg/ * License : GPL-3+ with OpenSSL exception Description : sscg is a utility to aid

Bug#985768: ITP: cockpit-machines -- Cockpit user interface for virtual machines (source splitout from cockpit)

2021-03-23 Thread Martin Pitt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Pitt * Package name: cockpit-machines Version : 241 Upstream Author : Cockpit development team * URL : https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-machines/ * License : LGPL-2.1+ Description : The

Bug#939054: O: editmoin -- edit MoinMoin wiki pages with your favourite editor

2019-08-31 Thread Martin Pitt
6466). If nobody is interested in adopting this package, I suggest to just remove it from bullseye/sid. Packaging-wise, this is in a good shape. salsa git+gbp+dh, etc. Package: editmoin Version: 1.17-4 Installed-Size: 51 Maintainer: Martin Pitt Architecture: all Depends: python:any Recommends: sens

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Martin Pitt
Petter Reinholdtsen [2018-10-16 15:55 +0200]: > [Benda Xu] > > I was about to reply to this thread, but you have completely expressed > > what I want to say: > > > > 1. systemd-shim is not necessary, even for DEs (except GNOME3). > > 2. sysvinit-core is very stable and do not need new uploads. > >

Re: Announce: docker-buildpackage

2018-05-03 Thread Martin Pitt
Chow Loong Jin [2018-05-03 12:27 +0800]: > On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 11:23:56AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > [...] > > Frankly, I don't see the point in writing this kind of software. Sbuild > > works super well with the overlay backend, and already has throw-able > > chroots in tmpfs. Adding doc

Re: Announce: docker-buildpackage

2018-05-02 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Ian, all, Ian Jackson [2018-05-01 18:59 +0100]: > > https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/merge_requests/3 > > Oh, excellent. It looks like it's awaiting a re-review from Martin. Reviewed now. > Martin, will you get to this soon, or would you like me to look at it > and maybe merg

Bug#864816: ITP: volume-key -- library and utility for manipulating storage encryption keys and passphrases

2017-06-15 Thread Martin Pitt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Pitt * Package name: volume-key Version : 0.3.9 Upstream Author : Miloslav Trmač https://releases.pagure.org/volume_key/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : Library/utility for manipulating storage

Bug#864815: ITP: libbytesize -- library for common operations with sizes in bytes

2017-06-15 Thread Martin Pitt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Pitt * Package name: libbytesize Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Vratislav Podzimek URL : https://github.com/rhinstaller/libbytesize * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: C Description : Library for

Bug#862776: ITP: libblockdev -- library for manipulating block devices

2017-05-16 Thread Martin Pitt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Pitt * Package name: libblockdev Version : 2.6 Upstream Author : Vratislav Podzimek URL : https://github.com/rhinstaller/libblockdev * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : Library for

Re: Auto reject if autopkgtest of reverse dependencies fail or cause FTBFS

2017-01-16 Thread Martin Pitt
etter they are, the harder you make it for *other people* (i. e. your dependencies) to break your software. The stick is that you then of course need to make/keep your own tests running so that you can upload new versions of libfoo yourself. So IMHO the incentives are quite right here. Martin --

Re: Auto reject if autopkgtest of reverse dependencies fail or cause FTBFS

2017-01-16 Thread Martin Pitt
to allow us to land transitions with confidence and sort out transitions in unstable *before* landing regressions in testing. Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)

Re: ifupdown2: debconf followup

2016-08-17 Thread Martin Pitt
P.S. Sorry if I broke the thread, hand-crafted In-Reply-To:. Please CC: me, I'm not on the list. -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)

Bug#832508: O: systemd-shim -- SysVinit shim for systemd

2016-07-26 Thread Martin Pitt
to run the systemd helpers without using the init service Martin [1] https://s3hh.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/whither-cgmanager/ -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#827705: dependency loop between initscripts and sysvinit-utils causes dist-upgrade failure

2016-06-22 Thread Martin Pitt
plus a local apt repo without the Breaks: works fine, so I committed this: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/sysvinit.git/commit/?id=f1acba82 I'll 0-day NMU this now, as it got introduced by my previous NMU and fixes an RC bug. Thanks and sorry for the trouble, Martin -- Mar

Re: Proposal v2: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-06-25 Thread Martin Pitt
e persistent). > > It would be similar to hard drives. I used UUIDs in /etc/fstab, but > short names like /dev/sdb3 when calling mount on the command line. Unlike /dev nodes, network interfaces can't have aliases as far as I know. Am I missing anything? Thanks

Re: Proposal v2: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-06-04 Thread Martin Pitt
elease-upgrader, which has extra pre/post hooks). Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Proposal v2: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-06-03 Thread Martin Pitt
Martin Pitt [2015-06-03 12:01 +0200]: > | $ cat /lib/systemd/network/01-mac-for-usb.link > | [Match] > | Path=*-usb-* > | > | [Link] > | NamePolicy=kernel database mac onboard slot path > | MACAddressPolicy=persistent Sorry, that was an old version. We want this:

Proposal v2: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-06-03 Thread Martin Pitt
ames": https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/05/msg00170.html Thanks to the comments and followups! Based on that I updated the proposal. (Sorry for the delay..) Martin Pitt [2015-05-08 7:59 +0200]: > Details about [ifnames] > --- > This is a generic solution which e

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-11 Thread Martin Pitt
nning the same config on a rack of servers, where what you see, wire, and configure are port locations). Anyway, I do see that we want to use MAC addresses by default for at least USB. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-10 Thread Martin Pitt
you have to opt-in. Although it might happen that we do configure this by default for USB devices in the Debian policy, see the other parts of the thread. Thanks! Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-09 Thread Martin Pitt
lled wl*, and virtual interfaces like vlans, bridges, bonds, etc. are assigned by the admin (or at least not by the kernel and udev) anyway. However, I don't know how USB ethernet interfaces look like (neither in the kernel driver nor with ifnames). Martin -- Martin Pitt| h

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-09 Thread Martin Pitt
ink that would be a worse default). One could even default to "mac" for USB based hardware and the default (kernel database onboard slot path) for others [1]. Martin [1] I don't have USB-ethernet devices myself; if you have one, please get in touch with me, I'd like to investigate

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-08 Thread Martin Pitt
nge the name while the interface is up and in use. Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-07 Thread Martin Pitt
Martin Pitt [2015-05-08 7:59 +0200]: > Details about [mac] > --- > [...] > * It requires a writable /etc/udev/rules.d/ for persistantly storing > the assignment. We don't want/have that with system-image > (touch/snappy). Sorry, these are Ubuntu

Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-07 Thread Martin Pitt
ike the admin had manually set their own rules). Opinions? FTR, I also posted a similar mail to https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2015-May/038761.html If you see this via debian-devel@, please keep CC'ing pkg-systemd@, I'm not subscribed to d-devel@. Thanks, Martin

Re: dpkg packaging problems

2015-01-02 Thread Martin Pitt
don't need to and should not be executable. If you have a corner case where that's desirable, use -X to exclude those from permission fixes. Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- To

Re: Bug#769747: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-17 Thread Martin Pitt
maintainers want to keep discussing this dependency issue, please do (but it seems we are just losing them in dangerous quantities!), but I see absolutely no point in this personally. Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian D

Re: TLP package vs. pm-utils

2014-10-09 Thread Martin Pitt
ys in the future we should put a conflict to pm-utils to clean it up on upgrades when we are ready to not support old hardware any more that still needs quirks, and the kernel or another component does a good enough power management by itself. But from my POV that day hasn't come yet, I s

Re: dpkg-source to automatically add a Testsuite field

2014-08-14 Thread Martin Pitt
//people.debian.org/~mpitt/autopkgtest/ Thanks! Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dpkg-source to automatically add a Testsuite field

2014-07-06 Thread Martin Pitt
gt; any known reservations with that, please speak up. Yay, thanks! Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Anyone using autopkgtest-xenlvm? Needs a maintainer or get dropped

2014-06-04 Thread Martin Pitt
'd like to drop the package. It's been a bit of a maintenance drag as it prevents us from doing changes to the testbed protocol (which really could do with some major simplifications and bug fixes). Thank you, Martin [1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/autopkgte

Re: autopkgtest + chroot howto ? - Was: Re: Is it possible to run autopkgtest without a virtual machine ?

2014-01-26 Thread Martin Pitt
would be nice. Martin [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~auto-package-testing-dev/auto-package-testing/trunk/ -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Bug#705193: ITP: fatrace -- report system wide file access events

2013-04-10 Thread Martin Pitt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Pitt * Package name: fatrace Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Martin Pitt * URL : https://launchpad.net/fatrace * License : GPL 3+ Programming Lang: C Description : report system wide file access events

Bug#692023: ITP: python-dbusmock -- Mock D-Bus objects for testsuites

2012-11-01 Thread Martin Pitt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Pitt * Package name: python-dbusmock Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Martin Pitt * URL : https://launchpad.net/python-dbusmock * License : LGPL 3+ Programming Lang: Python 3 Description : Mock D-Bus

Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] postgresql-* package namespace (was: Re: Bug#683486: ITP: barman -- Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL)

2012-08-01 Thread Martin Pitt
se libpq, not build against postgresql-server-dev-X.Y. Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: DEP-8 extension proposal: Add source package header

2012-06-18 Thread Martin Pitt
pec and > implementation. That's a thing we do quite often anyway. Eg "dpkg" :-) FTR, I think "autopkgtest" as a spec name is just fine. It conveys what the standard is about rather well in a really short name. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt

Re: DEP-8 extension proposal: Add source package header

2012-06-14 Thread Martin Pitt
Martin Pitt [2012-06-14 14:48 +0200]: > Right, that would do as well. However, I don't see this on > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/ Nevermind, found it; it's by-component apparently. Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.

Re: DEP-8 extension proposal: Add source package header

2012-06-14 Thread Martin Pitt
ps we should think about an actual name for DEP-8 first (similar to what we had with DEP-5 -> "copyright 1.0 format"), and then use an abbreviation of that for the XS-Testsuite: value? Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

DEP-8 extension proposal: Add source package header

2012-06-13 Thread Martin Pitt
rtin [1] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/ [2] https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Precise/view/AutoPkg%20Test/ [3] http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/dep/web/deps/dep8.mdwn?view=markup -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer

Re: Accepted postgresql-9.0 9.0.0-1 (source all amd64)

2010-09-20 Thread Martin Pitt
tested by checking psql's own dependencies (-client now depends on >= 9.0~, but -contrib only on >= 8.4~), and rebuilding an rdepends. Sorry again for the brainfart, Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Develo

Re: Accepted postgresql-9.0 9.0.0-1 (source all amd64)

2010-09-20 Thread Martin Pitt
ess, should have thought about that before. I'm currently preparing another upload with a proper symbols file. I need to leave now for about 2.5 hours, but you'll definitively get a new and tested upload by midnight (CEST) today. Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware

Re: JPEG 8 transition

2010-02-14 Thread Martin Pitt
gh. * If/once they break API, they should get a name like libjpeg8-dev, but then of course a virtual libjpeg-dev would be wrong. Thanks, and have a nice weekend, Martin P.S. Please keep me in CC, I'm not subscribed. -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.

Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

2008-06-17 Thread Martin Pitt
; OSS<-ESD: Works well too. Ubuntu got a lot of bug reports about random desktop crashes/deadlocks with esound, that's why I learned to hate it so much (apart from the totally ridiculous video A/V desync). > ALSA: The problems above. > ALSA<-ESD: I never really tested. Thanks

Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

2008-06-17 Thread Martin Pitt
g.) That's interesting indeed! So you avoid that by using an OSS driver instead of the ALSA one? I can really not imagine how esound on top of a broken ALSA driver would sound better than just using the ALSA output directly? Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt| http

Re: "cupsys" renamed to "cups", please adjust your (build-)depends

2008-06-15 Thread Martin Pitt
uld really stay split, too, IMHO. They are a compatibility layer, and you do not need to have them installed in order to use cups for printing on the client side. Also, from your POV, merging -bsd into -client would only aggravate the problem? Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt

esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

2008-06-15 Thread Martin Pitt
buntu package as a basis for a Debian upload. Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

"cupsys" renamed to "cups", please adjust your (build-)depends

2008-06-12 Thread Martin Pitt
t (U) netatalk netatalk (U) Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gnome-cups-manager (U) Clément Stenac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gnome-cups-manager (U) Ondřej Surý <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gnome-cups-manager (U) Rob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libgnom

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

2008-04-30 Thread Martin Pitt
ch sense to throw a lot of effort (with noptrace group, etc.) at it. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

2008-04-28 Thread Martin Pitt
Martin Pitt [2008-04-28 9:22 +0200]: > That's what the current Ubuntu version of libpolkit does (patch > attached FYI). *cough* -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) # Description: Dis

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

2008-04-28 Thread Martin Pitt
have the 'fake UI' problem. A truly good solution for this is the "press Ctrl+Alt+Del before entering your password" schema, but even Windows abandonded it again, for usability reasons I guess. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu De

Re: [Pkg-cups-devel] cupsddk - stolen WNPP - policy violation

2008-04-21 Thread Martin Pitt
package That might very well be so, I haven't checked it at all. I just wanted to ensure that you are aware of it. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Pkg-cups-devel] cupsddk - stolen WNPP - policy violation

2008-04-21 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Patrick, Patrick Ringl [2008-04-21 3:46 +0200]: > I am concerned about 'cupsddk' which recently passed NEW. On 25th of > march I contacted pkg-cups for joining the team and working on cupsddk > [1] since I am about to repackage 'splix' (a driver for samsung lase

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

2007-12-13 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi, Aaron M. Ucko [2007-12-10 12:32 -0500]: > Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That would be ideal, of course. Does ELF support anything like that? > > AFAICT, it should be possible to use a custom .note.* or .gnu.* > section for such purposes. I'

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

2007-12-10 Thread Martin Pitt
course. Does ELF support anything like that? Thanks, Martin P.S. Please honour m-f-t, thanks. -- Martin Pitthttp://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

2007-12-07 Thread Martin Pitt
ecurity (getting there is looots of more work), but one has to start somewhere. Thanks in advance for any comments, Martin P.S. Please keep me in CC. [1] gksu's security properties are just *so* horrible... That program is a mess. (I haven't looked at kdesu, but I guess it's not mu

Bug#452946: ITP: editmoin -- edit MoinMoin wiki pages with your favourite editor

2007-11-26 Thread Martin Pitt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: editmoin Version : 1.9.1 Upstream Author : Gustavo Niemeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://labix.org/editmoin * License : GPL 2 or later Programming

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-21 Thread Martin Pitt
ure, since it would not be enabled by default. > So, I guess we could, indeed...anyway I bet you'll ask us to do so at > some moment, won't you? *asking* :-) Martin -- Martin Pitthttp://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-25 Thread Martin Pitt
-deps and build-essential, so there shouldn't actually be build conflicts. Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian Developerhttp://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-24 Thread Martin Pitt
h the amount of new compilers that were uploaded in the last weeks, there is no other choice anyway. I'm surprised how Debian can get away without doing that. So buildd admins need to manually watch for toolchain updates and install them? Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitthttp://www.pi

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-23 Thread Martin Pitt
> > As a side note, I have myself thought about extending pbuilder using > unionfs and overlays to avoid the tarball extraction for each build. Indeed I referred to the overhead of tarball extraction and the like. unionfs is a great idea, do you plan to integrate this into the main p

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! Steve Langasek [2005-08-22 18:09 -0700]: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:34:16PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > W. Borgert [2005-08-22 14:37 +0200]: > > > Quoting Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I used to think that too. I took a wander

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-22 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Wouter! Wouter Verhelst [2005-08-23 1:26 +0200]: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:08:37PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt [2005-08-22 23:47 +1000]: > > > There is the possibility that developer builds get extra features > > > enabled due to other installe

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-22 Thread Martin Pitt
system, and execute code (postinst, etc.), you can always screw up user's systems with a malicious package. That's why we mainly trust developers, not heuristics on the buildds. Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian Developerhttp://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-22 Thread Martin Pitt
s, different toolchain, etc.). Why we deprive the majority (i386) of our users the privilege of getting known good packages? (Since the majority of DDs does binary uploads for i386 as well)? Martin -- Martin Pitthttp://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com De

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-22 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! Hamish Moffatt [2005-08-22 23:47 +1000]: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:31:40PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > Please let's not try to solve the problem of sloppy maintainers with a > > (wrong) technical solution. If a maintainer doesn't care for his > > packages,

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-22 Thread Martin Pitt
ld and test the package anyway. The system of source uploads works well in Ubuntu, so please don't try to invent problems which don't matter in reality. Have a nice day, Martin -- Martin Pitthttp://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-22 Thread Martin Pitt
a source upload. If a DD uploads a broken package, he should be told so, and we should aim to help him do it better the next time (that's what we do in Ubuntu and it works very well). Thanks for considering, Martin -- Martin Pitthttp://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFC: allow new upstream into stable when it's the only way to fix security issues.

2005-08-01 Thread Martin Pitt
d Firefox 0.9.3, and enigmail upgrade), the upgrade was pretty smooth and the users are happy again. Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian Developerhttp://www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: RFC: allow new upstream into stable when it's the only way to fix security issues.

2005-07-31 Thread Martin Pitt
couple of upstream developers (which just say "use the new upstream version, dude!"). I think in the end we have to do the same for Debian. Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian Developerhttp://www.debian.

Re: debian mentors & ubuntu

2005-07-19 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Nico! Nico Golde [2005-07-19 13:09 +0200]: > Hello Martin, > > * Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-19 12:37]: > > Nico Golde [2005-07-19 12:21 +0200]: > > > Heyho, > > > why is mentors.debian.net powered by Ubuntu? > > > > This gave

Re: debian mentors & ubuntu

2005-07-19 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! Nico Golde [2005-07-19 12:21 +0200]: > Heyho, > why is mentors.debian.net powered by Ubuntu? This gave me a good laugh, and it's certainly way better than "SuSE" or "Micro$$$ IIS" :-), but still a bit embarrasing... Martin -- Martin Pitthttp://www.pi

Re: configure a program -- debconf abuse?

2005-07-05 Thread Martin Pitt
. It does make sense on complicated server packages which should run out of the box, but changing the user interface of a graphical editor is neither complicated, nor is it necessary to make the package work. Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://w

Re: configure a program -- debconf abuse?

2005-07-04 Thread Martin Pitt
than people using the standard KDE editor, defaulting to the latter without bothering the admin seems a good choice IMHO. Have a nice day, Martin -- Martin Pitthttp://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org signature.asc De

Re: links to logs in /etc? (/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log)

2005-06-14 Thread Martin Pitt
...] } As I said, I only regard the symlink target as configuration value, I don't actually pretend that the actual log file is in /etc. Martin -- Martin Pitthttp://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: links to logs in /etc? (/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log)

2005-06-14 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi again, Martin Pitt [2005-06-14 23:53 +0200]: > The basic idea of the new cluster system was to have the complete > information about a cluster's files in > /etc/postgresql//. That includes the location of the > log files and the data directory, which are configured using th

Re: links to logs in /etc? (/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log)

2005-06-14 Thread Martin Pitt
res without actually gaining anything. So if you want to have that changed, you really have to convince me that symlinks in /etc are evil and worse than a config file option. Thanks and have a nice day, Martin -- Martin Pitthttp://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu

Re: PostgreSQL transition ahead

2005-06-08 Thread Martin Pitt
#x27;t create a flood of RC bugs (hopefully). This seems saner. I don't think it is necessary to flood the BTS if many people fix their package anyway, so I'll just wait some weeks. Martin -- Martin Pitthttp://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Deb

Re: PostgreSQL transition ahead

2005-06-07 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! Andreas Metzler [2005-06-07 20:03 +0200]: > Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > I will upload the new packages to unstable very soon. This has a > > reasonably big impact to all packages that depend/build-depend on > > PostgreSQL since the p

Re: PostgreSQL transition ahead

2005-06-07 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Florian! Florian Weimer [2005-06-07 19:24 +0200]: > * Martin Pitt: > > > (2) PostgreSQL 8.0 brought a new SONAME for libpq (libpq4), which > > removed a few symbols which were only intended for internal use, > > but were used nevertheless by some

PostgreSQL transition ahead

2005-06-07 Thread Martin Pitt
//lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/03/msg01858.html [2] http://people.debian.org/~mpitt/postgresql-ng.html [3] http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/postgresql-transition/ [4] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-postgresql-public -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.d

Re: C++ ABI change for etch -- freeze unstable for all C++ libs with changed or new sonames

2005-06-06 Thread Martin Pitt
would be bad in any way? As long as this remains an offering, I think Debian can benefit from that. And at no time Ubuntu will be able to force decisions into Debian. Have a nice day, Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian Developerhttp://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: FW: Processing of tla-load-dirs_1.0.21ubuntu1_source.changes

2005-05-25 Thread Martin Pitt
which wasn't the case here. Actually it's even a third required mistake: For Ubuntu we can only do source-only uploads, Debian only accepts binary uploads. Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian Developerhttp://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Should Debian use lsb init-functions?

2005-03-27 Thread Martin Pitt
#x27;t use Ubuntu's implementation, it should be adapted to be conformant to the current Debian policy. Thus during the transition period the boot process will still look consistent. Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian

Announcing PostgreSQL 8.0 packages and a new PostgreSQL infrastructure

2005-03-17 Thread Martin Pitt
d reasons are explained in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=274043 -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debian/kernel security issues (Was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-16 Thread Martin Pitt
the long run I think it would be easier to apply for vendor-sec subscription. Joey is already subscribed, but since he does not deal with unstable updates, it would be good to have Andres on board. Personally I would apreciate and support Andres' subscription to vendor-sec. Martin -- Mart

Re: usbmount: udev script to automatically (un)mount USB mass storage devices: include in Debian?

2005-03-08 Thread Martin Pitt
etely) implement "sync". Just try it: copy a big file onto a VFAT stick mounted with "sync" and immediately remove it. The file will be truncated. Also, if you immediately execute "sync" after copying something, a big bunch of data will still be wri

Any objections? -- Bug#293149: Please install libsysfs in /lib

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Pitt
sr/ is not yet available) are reasonable, so I'm not opposed to doing this. Is there any opposing opinion? Should this be done now / post Sarge / never? Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian G

Re: PostgreSQL-Problem and Problem on Alioth

2005-01-26 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! sean finney [2005-01-25 18:38 -0500]: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:38:37AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > > There are two common ways to achieve that: > > > > - Connect as "www-data". For this you need an appropriate PostgreSQL > > user ("create

Re: PostgreSQL-Problem and Problem on Alioth

2005-01-25 Thread Martin Pitt
(if it has, then this would of course work). But if it hasn't, you need a pg_hba.conf entry. I'm open to suggestions about making modifications to pg_hba.conf unnecessary in the common case. (I still need some time to read this thread about the common database infrastructure *sigh*

Re: Accepted mozilla 2:1.7.5-1 (i386 source)

2005-01-05 Thread Martin Pitt
> - fixes this (closes: #...) > - now foo is done (closes: ##...) > [...] Please also always include a CAN number if available (which was the case here). With this changelog it is impossible to track security fixes. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.p

Re: Documentation for upstream software authors

2004-11-14 Thread Martin Pitt
announce list and a packager list may also be helpful to notify >packages of new versions / security problems (private) - Refrain from including source code from libraries which are externally available, or at least make it easy to use the external version of a library instead

Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-13 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! Marco d'Itri [2004-11-12 11:39 +0100]: > On Nov 12, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > BTW, I suggest installing the rules files in /etc/udev/ and then > > > creating a symlink in the rules.d/ directory. > > Hmm, the Ubuntu hal package c

Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-12 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Marco! Marco d'Itri [2004-11-12 10:42 +0100]: > On Nov 10, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was not sure whether it is valid that packages put their scripts > > into /etc/udev/rules.d. > It is as long as they discuss it with me. :-) > BTW, I su

Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-11 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! Marco d'Itri [2004-11-10 14:19 +0100]: > On Nov 10, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Our /etc/udev/udev.rules has two new rules directly after the cdrom > > and floppy rules: > > > > # put removable IDE/SCSI devices into group 'plu

Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-11 Thread Martin Pitt
ons. The administrator has to actively put users into plugdev, pmount will not try to mangle /etc/passwd :-) Have a nice day! Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-10 Thread Martin Pitt
ier, CD-ROM and floppy nodes will also be in plugdev, which is not intended). If it is okay for you that pmount also ships /etc/udev/removable.sh, then I can do that as well. In this case the udev package does not need to be modified at all. Thanks for your cooperation and have a nice day! Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Entwicklung für unstable?

2004-11-10 Thread Martin Pitt
elopers-reference/ch-new-maintainer.en.html#s-mentors Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

pmount in Sarge? [was: Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group]

2004-11-10 Thread Martin Pitt
sync. I was just unsure whether there are opinions that it is better to keep it out. So if anybody does not want pmount to be in Sarge, please speak up now :-) Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian GNU/Li

Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-10 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Marco! Marco d'Itri [2004-11-09 19:32 +0100]: > On Nov 09, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We solved (4) by introducing a new group called 'plugdev'. Every user > > who is a member of this group can access hotpluggable devices (digital &g

Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-10 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! Henning Makholm [2004-11-09 23:28 +]: > Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hampson) > > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:41:40PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > > We solved (4) by introducing a new group called 'plugdev'. Every user > > > who is a memb

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