Re: POSIX sh compatibility (Re: Dropping awk?)

2025-04-17 Thread Richard Laager
better for portability in the long run anyway. -- Richard OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#1094969: git linked with OpenSSL

2025-04-15 Thread Richard Laager
tell, the legal system does not operate that way, and actual lawyers make distinctions based on harm/damages or lack thereof. I think Debian should take the position that Apache-2.0 and GPL-2.0-only are compatible in practice. [1] https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html --

Re: "Missing" entries in timezone tables

2025-04-08 Thread Richard Laager
implementation details would almost certainly vary) to what pytz upstream is doing in gen_tzinfo.py. Michael Stone proposed: C) Make python-tz depend on tzdata-legacy. On 2025-04-08 12:37, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 12:08:05PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote: I got bit (not in pytz

Re: "Missing" entries in timezone tables

2025-04-08 Thread Richard Laager
data.. Any opinions or recommendations? I'd just depend on tzdata-legacy. I don't really understand why it was decided to put some names in a separate package, but it's a small one and if you need compatibility, that's what you need to do. -- Richard OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#1102018: utmp in trixie

2025-04-04 Thread Richard Lewis
Holger Levsen writes: > package: releasenotes > x-debbugs-cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 03:27:05PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote > Message-ID: <70ba7152-0f2e-11f0-9b6a-00163eeb5...@msgid.mathom.us> > to debian-devel@l.d.o stating: > >> /run/utmp is no longer provided

Re: Improvement of headless server upgrades

2025-03-07 Thread Richard Lewis
Lee Garrett writes: >> On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 20:39:43 -0500, "Helmut K. C. Tessarek" >> wrote: >>>Network interface name changed: please update config files before reboot. > P.S.: This failure mode isn't even documented in the release notes. This does seem to be correct given that the OP was upg

Re: Invalid check in debian/patches

2025-02-05 Thread Richard Lewis
Guillem Jover writes: > Hi! > > On Sat, 2025-02-01 at 22:33:16 +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote: >> On Sat, 2025-02-01 at 17:35 +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote: >> > But also, in this particular case, it's not the issue of the spec but of a >> > particular tool trying to enforce the rule. >> > >> > I

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-25 Thread Richard Lewis
Julien Plissonneau Duquène writes: > Le 2025-01-24 13:00, Andrea Pappacoda a écrit : >> Same for me. In addition, on the topic of making things easier for >> new >> contributors, when I first started using Salsa I felt lost in the >> myriad >> of features and options enabled by default. Not only

Re: Bug#1094175: ITP: linux-os-updater -- Linux OS Updater. This is a package updating system designed to ease the update process for most Linux distributions efficiently.

2025-01-25 Thread Richard Lewis
Crypticverse writes: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Crypticverse > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, crypticvers...@gmail.com > > * Package name: linux-os-updater > Version : 1.0.0 > Upstream Contact: Crypticverse > * URL : https://github.co

Re: apt running on crashed gnome-terminal

2024-12-29 Thread Richard Lewis
Enrico Zini writes: > [5] Do we have a thing that clones the running system into a throwaway > VM? systemd-nspawn claims to support this -- https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html

Re: apt running on crashed gnome-terminal

2024-12-29 Thread Richard Lewis
Enrico Zini writes: > today I decided to upgrade from bookworm to trixie/testing[1][2]. I ran > the upgrade in a gnome-terminal, and of course all gnome terminals in > the system crashed halfway through the upgrade[1][3]. not much consolation, but: i supose this is why the release-notes recommen

Re: Is Salsa CI easy to use for anyone learning Debian packaging?

2024-12-29 Thread Richard Lewis
Otto Kekäläinen writes: >> >> i think the barrier is likely to be "i didnt know you could do that?" >> >> rather than "how do i use that?" >> > >> > Salsa CI is and has always been opt-in. >> >> oops - i meant the oppposite, ie make people have to opt out of having >> it run, rather than have to

Re: Is Salsa CI easy to use for anyone learning Debian packaging?

2024-12-28 Thread Richard Lewis
Otto Kekäläinen writes: > Hi! > >> > Salsa CI is a great system for all aspiring Debian packagers to test >> > their packages before requesting review from mentors >> >> > However, as there are still packages not using Salsa CI, I wonder is >> > it straightforward enough for everyone? >> > >> >>

Re: Is Salsa CI easy to use for anyone learning Debian packaging?

2024-12-27 Thread Richard Lewis
Otto Kekäläinen writes: > Salsa CI is a great system for all aspiring Debian packagers to test > their packages before requesting review from mentors > However, as there are still packages not using Salsa CI, I wonder is > it straightforward enough for everyone? > I think the best solution woul

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Richard Lewis
Josh Triplett writes: > Suppose that packages ship sample configuration files *that exactly > match their defaults* (which should in general mean that everything is > commented out) in some standardized path under /usr/share/doc/$package/ > (e.g. examples/etc), that makes it easy to see what pat

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Richard Lewis
"Jonathan Dowland" writes: > On Wed Dec 18, 2024 at 10:58 AM GMT, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: >> Adding a couple of lines to the systemd unit should not add any new >> dependincies to the package, or affect users of other init systems in >> any way. > > That's a very good point. In which case that's li

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Richard Lewis
Michael Tokarev writes: > BTW, is there a way for a systemd unit to take/inherit (security) settings > from > another unit? You might want to look at the examples here https://github.com/cyberitsolutions/prisonpc-systemd-lockdown/tree/main/systemd/system/postfix%40.service.d (from Trent W. Buck

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Richard Lewis
Bill Allombert writes: > Le Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 02:36:51PM +, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : >> The "Perl Problem" is a wider issue we should explore in much more depth. >> I'm personally a little surprised if it's true that younger people are >> unprepared to take a stab at hacking Perl. But si

A better bts? - https://fabre.debian.net (was: Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers)

2024-12-15 Thread Richard Lewis
Tiago Bortoletto Vaz writes: > Btw, for triage I used to suggest https://fabre.debian.net to > newcomers. I had some hope that it could be a start for something > bigger, so I tried to have access to the code to improve a few things > but never had an answer from the maintainer :\ This looks lik

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Richard Lewis
Gard Spreemann writes: > While I personally think e-mail-based workflows can be quite nice, the > BTS' asynchronous nature did cause me a lot of extra pointless work > when I was an outsider attempting to learn the ropes. Being not 100% > confident with the system, I way too often found myself wa

Re: Barriers between packages and other people

2024-12-04 Thread Richard Lewis
Andreas Tille writes: > I wonder if we should reconsider the default assumption of package > ownership. (This is a reas objective, but) i wasnt sure how the following text would achieve the above) > Instead, we could introduce a file, such as > debian/dont_touch_my_package (or a similarly named

Re: Bits from DPL

2024-12-04 Thread Richard Lewis
Soren Stoutner writes: > On Monday, December 2, 2024 9:32:27 AM MST Andreas Tille wrote: >> Attracting newcomers >> >> >> In my own talk[mt3], I regret not leaving enough time for questions--my >> apologies for this. However, I want to revisit the sole question raised, >> wh

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-03 Thread Richard Laager
duplicate checking, sorting, comparing. That approach has an advantage for backwards compatibility: it works with any existing usernames in the password file, regardless of how they were encoded. -- Richard OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Helping improve git-buildpackage (Re: DEP-18 v2: request for comments)

2024-12-01 Thread Richard Lewis
Otto Kekäläinen writes: > Basically you can start by forking > https://salsa.debian.org/agx/git-buildpackage on Salsa and then start > hacking away on the things you want to improve. > > If you want to do Python coding, fixing this issue could be an easy > one to start with: > https://bugs.debian

Re: DEP-18 v2: request for comments

2024-11-29 Thread Richard Lewis
Otto Kekäläinen writes: > Please also help Guido iterate on git-buildpackage so that it works > well, is easy to debug, has good docs etc. Based on discussions in > this thread there are a lot of people with misconceptions and > polishing the docs would be the best action item right now. Happy

Re: [MBF]: Proposing `Rules-Requires-Root: no` being the new default

2024-11-29 Thread Richard Lewis
Niels Thykier writes: > # The bug template used > > Severity: important > User: ni...@thykier.net > Usertags: rrr-no-as-default-issue > > Dear maintainer, > > During a test rebuild for building packages "Rules-Requires-Root: no" as ^ minor point, but a

Re: DEP-18: Git and GitLab usage in other Linux distros (Re: Representing Debian Metadata in Git)

2024-11-29 Thread Richard Lewis
"Philipp Kern" writes: > On Sun Nov 24, 2024 at 4:45 AM CET, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: >> To me the whole free and open source movement is about collaboration, >> transparency and the ethos of "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are >> shallow". > The "given enough eyeballs" always happened after the

Re: Kernel 6.13 & choice Init or SystemD for the user on Debian 13

2024-11-22 Thread Richard Lewis
phil995511 - writes: you say using backports is for advanced users yet you want users to be able to choose their init systems? that's backwards. most users do not care about the init system they use. adding backports and installing a new kernel is not actually that difficult to do, and is easier

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-11-21 Thread Richard Lewis
Marc Haber writes: > For adduser's next release, I would like to discuss the following > things: > > (1) > Should Debian allow UTF-8 user names in the first place or should we > restrict names for regular users to some us-ascii near set as well? (I > think yes, we should) would allowing utf-8 e

Re: [Artwork] Survey for the default artwork for Trixie (Debian 13)

2024-11-20 Thread Richard Lewis
Jonathan carter writes: >> https://surveys.debian.net/ I found the wording a bit confusing -- i expect you will get a lot of votes in the reverse order to what is extended. I suggest "ranking" and "choices" are a too similar: and the text seems to use them backwards to normal usage in one place

Re: DEP-18 v2: request for comments

2024-11-20 Thread Richard Lewis
Otto Kekäläinen writes: > Hi all, > > I published a complete rewrite of the earlier draft as: > > https://salsa.debian.org/dep-team/deps/-/merge_requests/12 > DEP-18: Encourage Continuous Integration and Merge Request > based Collaboration for Debian packages > > If you are in favor o

Re: Debian Monthly : AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-10 Thread Richard Lewis
Mo Zhou writes: > The tone can change: http://paste.debian.net/1335055/ > LLMs are being improved rapidly over time. > > I guess it's due to some potential safety issues so that LLM uses a dull > corporate tone by default. I think it's slightly misdiagnosed here. to me, it comes accross as "tedi

Re: diffoscope dependency granularity [was RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix it]

2024-11-06 Thread Richard Lewis
Fay Stegerman writes: > [Added diffosc...@lists.reproducible-builds.org to Cc] > > * Fay Stegerman [2024-11-06 17:43]: >> * Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues [2024-11-06 02:28]: >> [...] >> > Have one package diffoscope and one package diffoscope-full and you could >> > even >> > have a package

Are 'package autoremoval emails' using very old bts data?

2024-10-12 Thread Richard Lewis
I couldnt work out where to ask this: Are emails about packages being removed from testing generated using stale data on what bugs are open? (are im not complaining about the process just trying to understand it) According to https://udd.debian.org/udd-status.cgi data on bugs is updated a lot les

Re: signify and signify-openbsd names

2024-10-06 Thread Richard Lewis
Marco d'Itri writes: > On Oct 05, Simon Josefsson wrote: > >> I would like that 'apt install signify' install OpenBSD's signify (from >> the Debian 'signify-openbsd' package) and not the 2003 mail-related >> signify perl script from the Debian 'signify' source package. > Agreed: the current sign

Re: proposal: Hybrid network stack for Trixie

2024-09-23 Thread Richard Lewis
Lukas Märdian writes: > On 23.09.24 12:27, Ansgar 🙀 wrote: >> On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 12:22 +0200, Lukas Märdian wrote: >>> On 22.09.24 15:58, Ansgar 🙀 wrote: On Fri, 2024-09-20 at 13:12 +0200, Lukas Märdian wrote: >>> The benefit that Netplan would provide in such cases is that >>> debian-in

Re: Community survey on network stack for Trixie

2024-09-16 Thread Richard Lewis
Lukas Märdian writes: > On 04.09.24 17:26, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> Do we even have general documentation about configuring networking? > > Yes, there is a "NetworkConfiguration" page on the wiki and the Debian ref: > > * https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration I dont thinj this page is usefu

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

2024-09-01 Thread Richard Lewis
PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel writes: > What about dog fooding ? > > for now we can setup a schroot and sbuild very easily and start to build a > local repository in minutes. > > But when it comes to install gitlab and the CI system it is another story. So > we rely on the central salsa instance. f

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

2024-09-01 Thread Richard Lewis
> My overall impression is that this is a bold attempt, but the document could > do > with some copy-editing to whittle it down, make it more focussed, and possibly > narrow the scope. E.g. perhaps Gitlab CI is too much in one go? Could that be > done further down the line in a follow-up DEP? I

Re: RFC: Sensible-editor sensible-utils alternative and update

2024-08-12 Thread Richard Lewis
Bastien Roucariès writes: >> b) but if im in a terminal (even if running in gnome) then i want a >> terminal-based editor (based on what i installed) > > depends for me I prefer to run under emacsclient so you could do > something like > SENSIBLE_EDITOR='if [ -t 0 ]; then sensible-editor-GNOME ;

Re: RFC: Sensible-editor sensible-utils alternative and update

2024-08-12 Thread Richard Lewis
Bastien Roucariès writes: > Sensible-editor could now use EDITOR="emacsclient -n -c" and accept > that sh -c accept > > My goal is to create a sensible-editor.desktop that will lauch by > default the sensible-editor of choice > > For this I plan: > - to allow by alternative mechanism to have an s

Re: Builds that pass locally but fail on sbuild? (Re: Reviving schroot as used by sbuild)

2024-06-29 Thread Richard Lewis
Otto Kekäläinen writes: > Could you point me to some Debian Bug # or otherwise share examples of > cases when a build succeeded locally but failed on official Debian > builders due to something that is specific for sbuild/schroot? I believe both these uploads https://tracker.debian.org/news/128

Re: MBF: drop dependencies on system-log-daemon

2024-05-27 Thread Richard Lewis
Russ Allbery writes: > Simon McVittie writes: > >> I know fail2ban and logcheck do read plain-text logs (although as >> mentioned, fail2ban already has native Journal-reading support too), and >> I would guess that fwlogwatch, snort and xwatch probably also read the >> logs. > > logcheck also ha

Re: MBF: drop dependencies on system-log-daemon

2024-05-27 Thread Richard Lewis
Simon McVittie writes: > On Mon, 27 May 2024 at 03:29:53 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: >> The list of affected packages according to apt-cache showpkg is not >> that long either: >> >> logcheck > However, for packages that want to read a traditional /var/log/syslog > or similar, notably logch

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-07 Thread Richard Lewis
Holger Levsen writes: > I'm a bit surprised how many people seem to really rely on data in /tmp > to survive for weeks or even months. I wonder if they backup /tmp? I use /tmp for things that fall somewhere between "needs a backup" and "unimportant, can be deleted whenever". I think all of the i

Re: Bug#966621: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-07 Thread Richard Lewis
Luca Boccassi writes: > qwhat would > break where, and how to fix it? Another one for you to investigate: I believe apt source and 'apt-get source' download and extract things into /tmp, as in the mmdebootstap example mentioned by someone else, this will create "old" files that could immediately

Re: Bug#966621: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-06 Thread Richard Lewis
Luca Boccassi writes: > Hence, I am not really looking for philosophical discussions or lists > of personal preferences or hypotheticals, but for facts: what would > break where, and how to fix it? - tmux stores sockets in /tmp/tmux-$UID - I think screen might use /tmp/screens I suppose if you

Re: Bug#966621: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-06 Thread Richard Lewis
Luca Boccassi writes: > On Mon, 6 May 2024 at 15:42, Richard Lewis > wrote: >> >> Luca Boccassi writes: >> >> > Hence, I am not really looking for philosophical discussions or lists >> > of personal preferences or hypotheticals, but for facts: what

Re: Bug#966621: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-06 Thread Richard Lewis
Luca Boccassi writes: > Hence, I am not really looking for philosophical discussions or lists > of personal preferences or hypotheticals, but for facts: what would > break where, and how to fix it? cleaning /tmp or /var/tmp: users may lose files if they dont realise a directory tmp can be clea

Re: Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics)

2024-04-04 Thread Richard Duivenvoorde
ispensable-geospatial-tool-you-didnt-know-you-were-missing/ Regards, Richard Duivenvoorde

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-04-02 Thread Richard Laager
, but I also get why they may want to restrict it.) If Python is what you want, you could use waf, but there is one big downside... You have to repack the upstream tarball: https://wiki.debian.org/UnpackWaf -- Richard OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-22 Thread Richard Laager
. It seems potentially confusing if some of the relationships fields are included and some are not. This proposal sounds generally good. I'll have to defer to others who know more about potential corner cases. -- Richard OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1060023: ITP: keyd -- Keyboard key remapping daemon for Linux

2024-01-04 Thread Richard Hansen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Richard Hansen X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: keyd Version : 2.4.3 Upstream Contact: Raheman Vaiya * URL : https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd * License : Expat Programming Lang: C

Re: /usr-move: Do we support upgrades without apt?

2023-12-23 Thread Richard Lewis
Helmut Grohne writes: > I incline to agreeing with the scenario you depict. This can reasonably > happen. I also think that David made a good case for it being unlikely > to manage oneself into the buggy situation that way. And then the > consequence is that you lost some possibly important files

Bug#1055504: ITP: laz-perf -- LAZperf is an alternative LAZ (Compressed LAS pointclouds) decoding implementation.

2023-11-07 Thread Richard Duivenvoorde
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Richard Duivenvoorde X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: laz-perf Version : 3.4.0 Upstream Contact: Howard Butler * URL : https://github.com/hobuinc/laz-perf * License : APLv2 Programming Lang

Re: systmd-analyze security as a release goal

2023-07-03 Thread Richard Laager
such a lintian check. This repos from Trent Buck has a lot of research - https://github.com/cyberitsolutions/prisonpc-systemd-lockdown/tree/main/systemd/system/0-EXAMPLES Indeed. -- Richard

Re: booststrapping /usr-merged systems (was: Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg)

2023-06-09 Thread Richard Laager
(strcmp(pathname, special) == 0) { return; } } unlink(pathname); } -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: booststrapping /usr-merged systems (was: Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg)

2023-06-09 Thread Richard Laager
latively fixed (e.g. /bin, /usr/bin, /lib), that might be workable. -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal

2023-05-17 Thread Richard Laager
g that should block the transition. By all means, transition and we will sort things out. -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Upgrade package from init script to Systemd, move config folder

2023-04-20 Thread Richard Laager
[ -e /etc/packagename ] then mv /var/lib/packagename /etc/packagename fi fi fi That said, I'm not sure what Policy has to say about this. It seems to me that you want the package to do things right moving forward, and you want to support clean upgrades, so this seems like the approach that gets both of those. -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Yearless copyrights: what do people think?

2023-02-22 Thread Richard Laager
public domain (at least not while it is still of useful/non-historical value). -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Enabling branch protection on amd64 and arm64

2022-10-26 Thread Richard Laager
ities Debian has for that. Would it be a binNMU of everything? -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: application tool

2022-09-08 Thread Richard Laager
o existing packages. -- Richard

Re: Python installation paths

2022-06-02 Thread Richard Laager
'ed in to ntpc.py by the build process). I hope that helps. -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Adding epoch to node-markdown-it to correct a wrong upstream version

2022-05-19 Thread Richard Laager
frequently. Would they likely exceed 22 in the near future? If so, you might just do 22.3+really10.0.0+dfsg+~cs16.6.17-1 and when they get to 23, it goes back to normal, without the epoch. -- Richard

Re: Advice for package needing stuff installed in /srv (node-shiny-server)

2022-04-27 Thread Richard Laager
On 4/27/22 12:57, Nilesh Patra wrote: I am looking for more opinions. Patch every instance of /srv/shiny-server to /var/lib/shiny-server. The admin can customize from there. -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: The future of src:ntp

2022-03-22 Thread Richard Laager
ftpmaster removal of src:ntp? -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-15 Thread Richard Laager
values the idea of using the pristine upstream tarball. Granted, sometimes that goal has to yield to higher priority things, like DFSG compliance. How do you feel about the pristine tarball concept? -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-10 Thread Richard Laager
On 3/9/22 23:47, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 14:35:52 -0600, Richard Laager wrote: If the admin can change the default DIR_MODE that applies to system user home directories, then any postinst script doing `adduser --system` needs to also explicitly chmod its home directory if it

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-09 Thread Richard Laager
On 3/9/22 14:00, Marc Haber wrote: On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 17:02:06 -0600, Richard Laager wrote: On 3/8/22 10:49, Marc Haber wrote: (1a) would it be necessary to handle --system accounts differently? I think yes. > (1b) should we stay with 0755 for --system accounts? I don't

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-09 Thread Richard Laager
g with native format packages with Debian revisions. They work just fine. For a small paockage, this is often a good choice, because it avoids dealing with patches at all. I don't follow the "avoid dealing with patches at all" piece here. -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-08 Thread Richard Laager
(6) #849265, https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-systemd-maintainers/2017-January/032300.html Should we really empty out the extra_groups list default? With the exception of users, I wouldn't expect adduser to put people in special groups by default. If those groups do nothing, I guess it's moot. But in principle (and in the past), those groups give special permissions and I would NOT expect that, nor want that. -- Richard

Re: The future of src:ntp

2022-01-23 Thread Richard Laager
On 1/19/22 15:04, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: On 19.01.22 20:34, Richard Laager wrote: 2. I create transitional binary packages in src:ntpsec: I got to thinking about this more. This won't work, because src:ntp is 1:4.2.8p15+dfsg-1 and src:ntpsec is 1.2.1+dfsg1-2. I would need an epoch

Re: using epoch to repair versioning of byacc package

2022-01-23 Thread Richard Laager
ftp-master tool is relevant) hard fail if going from non-date-based to date-based at the front of the version string. -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: The future of src:ntp

2022-01-20 Thread Richard Laager
On 1/20/22 8:04 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 1/19/22 20:34, Richard Laager wrote: For people that want something more than systemd-timesyncd, e.g. to get NTS, I think either are acceptable choices. It seems that the consensus for new installs is towards chrony over ntpsec. But I don't

Re: The future of src:ntp

2022-01-19 Thread Richard Laager
ide of the certificate validity period? This is a concern too. I did some brainstorming about this on the NTPsec list a couple years ago, but neither I nor anybody else has implemented this (nor do I have plans to do so myself): https://lists.ntpsec.org/pipermail/devel/2019-February/007576

Re: The future of src:ntp

2022-01-19 Thread Richard Laager
;re going to promote chrony instead, then I think we need some more discussion and there would be more work, as it seems we should then replace systemd-timesyncd with chrony in default installs too. -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: The future of src:ntp

2022-01-18 Thread Richard Laager
I decided it was better to use a different namespace. This does mean that Debian ntpsec is patched and diverges a bit from upstream NTPsec. -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: merged-/usr transition: debconf or not?

2021-11-17 Thread Richard Laager
obably a lot) longer, until it's no longer reasonable to install a .deb containing non-usrmerged paths (which might be old or from a third party). Am I missing something here? -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Crypto Libs: Linking to OpenSSL, GnuTLS, NSS, ..?

2021-11-11 Thread Richard Laager
cmd to set CipherString, Ciphersuites, and MinProtocol per $DAYJOB's general TLS policy. It may also be because of issues with GnuTLS, I can't remember (and my comments/config messages don't indicate that). -- Richard

Re: dash and hidden bashisms in configure scripts

2021-11-10 Thread Richard Laager
se. But that's not the case right now and at this point, it's been ELEVEN YEARS. It's time to move forward. -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Not running tests because tests miss source code is not useful

2021-10-07 Thread Richard Laager
On 10/7/21 11:35 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: Richard Laager writes: I haven't looked into the specifics of this situation, but in general, tests should be run against the same versions of dependencies that the actual code will use, for what should be obvious reasons. If Debian ha

Re: Not running tests because tests miss source code is not useful

2021-10-07 Thread Richard Laager
ing time is low. -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-28 Thread Richard Laager
On 9/28/21 11:49 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: ❦ 28 September 2021 11:16 -05, Richard Laager: As to what should be the distro default, I'm not sure I am convinced either way, but to argue the other side... There is some value in using netplan by default. Some random thoughts: [...]

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-28 Thread Richard Laager
On 9/28/21 8:44 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: ❦ 28 September 2021 01:29 -05, Richard Laager: As to what should be the distro default, I'm not sure I am convinced either way, but to argue the other side... There is some value in using netplan by default. Some random thoughts: [...]

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-27 Thread Richard Laager
ding this file from an Ansible template and most of it (by volume) is built by loops. In the trivial case, it's 19 lines of netplan (16 if you exclude the stock comment) vs 25 lines of systemd-networkd, both in single files. That's not a huge difference. -- Richard

Re: next steps after usrunmess

2021-08-27 Thread Richard Laager
shes to override the TC, they need to propose a GR. -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: What are desired semantics for /etc/shells?

2021-06-14 Thread Richard Laager
way. That said, Debian Policy is not binding on them anyway. If it _is_ harmful for /etc/shells to reference shells that do no exist, then maintaining the list automatically (by whatever mechanism, including the current approach but fixing the bugs) makes sense. -- Richard

Re: Epoch bump for kernelshark

2021-05-23 Thread Richard Laager
How close is upstream to 3.0? If not close, are they willing to bump to 3.0 anyway to avoid this versioning issue? -- Richard OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm

2021-02-08 Thread Richard Hartmann
first discussed. Back then and today, agreed, it does not make sense there. IMO, it makes sense on both servers and desktops, so rather than through tasksel, I would think it's a useful default to have on all non-virtual installations. Richard

Re: one more, i am still fed up

2020-12-27 Thread Richard
I for now do not deny or admit officially. Marc, are you someone with authority? I will clarify myself later, pretty lease On wo, 2020-12-23 at 20:08 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:43:18 +0100, Richard > wrote: > >I want to clarify I feel not up to seriously

one more, i am still fed up

2020-12-23 Thread Richard
I want to clarify I feel not up to seriously reading and thinking about a response after a day of work, groceries and soms fastfood. But then I saw master Geert responding in my topic. This I am glad to. I also want to clarify, I amaware of both Humour and high level of intelect. I want to learn fr

Re: im am fed up

2020-12-22 Thread Richard
I have mailed a few official e-mails and some persons (surname@debian) i have a request On di, 2020-12-22 at 23:28 -0500, Calum McConnell wrote: > On Tue, 2020-12-22 at 21:34 +0100, Richard wrote: > > why no respond >: > > Sir, > This is a volunteer organization. Any

im am fed up

2020-12-22 Thread Richard
why no respond >:

Bug#977761: ITP: golang-github-kubuxu-go-os-helper --

2020-12-20 Thread Richard Lough
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Richard Lough * Package name: golang-github-kubuxu-go-os-helper Version : 0.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Jakub Sztandera * URL : https://github.com/Kubuxu/go-os-helper * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description

Bug#977739: ITP: golang-github-texttheater-golang-levenshtein -- An implementation of the Levenshtein algorithm in Go. Provides edit distances and edit scripts.

2020-12-19 Thread Richard Lough
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Richard Lough * Package name: golang-github-texttheater-golang-levenshtein Version : 1.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Kilian Evang * URL : https://github.com/texttheater/golang-levenshtein * License : Expat Programming Lang

Re: RFC: DEP-14 update, second attempt

2020-11-29 Thread Richard Laager
;m not sure if additional text is necessary to clarify this, especially since this isn't actually binding on Kali anyway. But at the same time, I have no objection to that additional text either. -- Richard signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Proposed changes to sbuild and debootstrap

2020-11-29 Thread Richard Laager
ng term for that distinction in various places, including dpkg-vendor. -- Richard signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

ik wil meedoen en een antwoord van een menselijke e-mail accoutn ?

2020-11-21 Thread Richard
Haloo Debian, Ik heb wat e-mails verstuur den wil nu eindelijjk meedoen maar dan moet iemand wel reageren op mijn e-mails? Groeten, Richard Waterbeek Nederland

Re: epoch bump for libtraceevent

2020-10-14 Thread Richard Laager
ersion of '1.1.0' > So, I will need to add an epoch to the version to package it directly > from its upstream repo. Have you asked upstream if they would be willing to bump the version to 6.0 or something? -- Richard signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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