Re: I cannot upload since yesterday

2025-04-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
meout. Reconnect. > Sorry. > > Is it just me? I uploaded on Monday using the ssh-upload target. Have you tried that one? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package?

2025-03-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 05:23:54PM -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > Question: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS > > for a package? > > Why are you opposed to using Salsa as the VCS for cp

Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package?

2025-03-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
Us is discouraged. I had thought of possibly suggesting an update to the documentation, but I'm not sure that adding more words would make the matter any more clear. How do others suggest to handle this particular situation? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Packages with a history of security issues and whose packaged version is not up to date

2025-02-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
te that in the bug report. So, then someone wouldn't have to ask, it would already be stated that you are waiting for some specific reason. Perhaps the way to look at it is that in the case where isn't directly helpful to the maintainer (as in your specific case), it can be helpful to those with a desire to collaborate in some way. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Packages with a history of security issues and whose packaged version is not up to date

2025-02-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
occurence of that sort of thing. And, yes, CVE is probably not a great proxy. But Santiago has discussed this with quite a few of us on the LTS team at various points along the way, and a better proxy hasn't been found. Regards, -Robeto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Mini-DebConf in Cambridge, UK - October 10-13 2024

2024-06-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
already generate audio and video that convincingly imitate real people. Why not the same with email? Though, the implications are rather serious. Perhaps our policies need to evolve to expect (or require?) cryptographic signatures from DDs in mailing list discussion. We may eventually reach a poin

Re: How long it takes to update metadata.ftp-master.debian.org for packages from stable-security ?

2024-06-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
.0 > 1.22.0-3+deb12u2 Changelog > Changelog unavailable for gst-plugins-base1.0=1.22.0-3+deb12u2 (404 Not This is #490848 -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: xz backdoor

2024-03-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
o? Or am I mis-remembering? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: xz backdoor

2024-03-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
luding Russia? > Supporting DDs in Russia would definitely demonstrate a commitment to geographic diversity. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
Hi Wouter, I think that you and I are actually in agreement. On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 06:06:34PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 02:28:22PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 07:11:11PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > > > >

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 02:35:18PM -0400, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 2:29 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > The reasons why the FTP masters might reject a package from the archive > > are public [0]. Nowhere on the list is there an entry that says > &

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ned that the existence of the Code of Conduct would eventually lead to its abuse and weaponization may have in fact been well founded. Regards, -Roberto [0] https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
themselves engaged in terrorism or other violence toward individuals and groups, supported those who have engaged in such activities, or been otherwise complicit in such. So, let's at least be consistent. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Patch apply failed for 7.74 bullseye curl

2023-02-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ork with if you use the right tools. I would recommend that you look at the dget and dpkg-source utilities for fetching and unpacking Debian source packages. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Patch apply failed for curl 7.74 buster

2023-02-10 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
bullseye. Are you certain that you have a matching upstream version? How did you obtain the source package? How are you unpacking it? What exact commands did you use? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 05:48:56PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 08:45:24AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > Filing the ITP then immediately uploading seems really sensible, > More sensible than not filing it? > This defeats both purposes

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
the vast majority of ITPs actually never elecit any sort of response from anyone), seems rather pointless. Filing the ITP then immediately uploading seems really sensible, especially since in the event of a mistake it is trivial to email ftp-master requesting a REJECT, which IME is usually something they do right away. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 11:14:43AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > edw...@4angle.com wrote: > > >Package: wnpp > >Severity: wishlist > >Owner: Edward Betts > >X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org > > > >* Package name: gender-guesser > > Version

Re: Lintian breaks existing lintian-overrides due to added []

2022-06-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
uite like it better from a visual perspective), and issue a deprecation warning for the old format (e.g., when -I is specified). Then perhaps after the next stable release drop the old format. > > Thanks a lot for maintaining lintian in any case > +1 Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: [RFC] changes to rsyslog

2021-11-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 10:43:48PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 13.11.21 22:40, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 10:32:23PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > > > > - Existing systems will continue to have rsyslog installed (but they can >

Re: [RFC] changes to rsyslog

2021-11-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
to allow bringing legacy log data *into* the systemd journal[*] to allow for accessing log data through a single interface/mechanism after making the transition? Regards, -Roberto [*] whether as part of the transition or as a separate step that can be executed manually -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Bug#992692: general: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

2021-09-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ackage distribution > security which doesn't really depend at all on transport layer > encryption. In this context, it might make sense to describe using HTTPS as the transport for APT operations is providing "default confidentiality". Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Why Vcs-* fields are not at least recommended ?

2020-08-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 04:33:28PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 07:31:08AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > For non actively maintained packages on could check them into Git > > > oneself and then start a history from there, and p

Re: Why Vcs-* fields are not at least recommended ?

2020-08-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
. > I have had good results with snapshot.debian.org. On a few occasions, simply downloading each successive version from snapshot.debian.org and then using something like 'gbp import-dscs *.dsc' gives more than sufficient version history. Granted, that has limitations, but it is available right now. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Build-Depends-If-Available

2020-08-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
non-future-proof and > violates all sorts of software engineering principles. > > Anybody know if there's a good solution to this problem? > A slightly less bad approach might be: Build-Depends: julia [! ! ...], clang [! ! ...] Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: DEP-14: renaming master to main?

2020-06-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
master' the branch where active development takes place or does development take place elsewhere and 'master' is the branch from which releases are made?" A branch called "devel" would unquestionably be where active development is taking place. Other branch names could then be chosen based on the needs of the project, like "test", "stage", & "prod", or "rc" & "release", or whatever. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: FTP Team -- call for volunteers

2020-03-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
minimize them would go a long way to reducing the likelihood of flame responses to rejection mails. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: moving mg from salsa to github?

2020-02-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 02:41:59PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 08:33:25AM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 02:16:27PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I am maintainer for mg, curr

Re: Announcing miniDebConf Montreal 2020 -- August 6th to August 9th 2020

2020-02-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ere will be a mini-DebConf in Montreal" and so-on and so forth? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: moving mg from salsa to github?

2020-02-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
e some minor tweaks, but the above are the major steps. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Can Debian packaging changes require a CLA?

2020-02-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
irement (i.e., a CLA), but in practice it is likely to irk potential contributors. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Is distro-tracker accessible by some sort of API?

2020-01-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 02:41:26AM +, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 7:06 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > I've read the distro-tracker documentation and it seems like interaction > > is by visiting with a web browser or via email. Is there an official

Is distro-tracker accessible by some sort of API?

2020-01-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
I've read the distro-tracker documentation and it seems like interaction is by visiting with a web browser or via email. Is there an official or even unofficial API for access to data in distro-tracker? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Be nice to your fellow Debian colleagues

2020-01-01 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 02:09:46PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > [stuff] I just saw Sam's message after I sent my own. I agree that this discussion has gone past the point where it is useful. Apologies for the noise. -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Be nice to your fellow Debian colleagues

2020-01-01 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
uld you want what has been Debian's goal of being a universal Linux, > good for so many more? > Ibid. > Let's be positive about this and find a way to be more inclusive of > the greater Debian population; it should be a win for everyone. > There are countless ways for anyone, DD or not, to influence the direction of the Debian project. So, perhaps all that is needed is to begin taking advantage of those ways, rather than complaining about the one way that, for very good reason, is reserved only for DDs. Regards, -Roberto [0] https://www.debian.org/social_contract -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dballe

2019-12-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
the basis of the FTP master review and a signed source changes to enter the archive if the package is approved? When I build packages I always end up with both changes files, so requiring both for NEW processing would be a triviality (for me, at least) and eliminate this peculiarity as well. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: default firewall utility changes for Debian 11 bullseye

2019-12-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ould be nice if it became the basis of a new section in the installation manual (perhaps under section 8, Next Steps and Where to Go >From Here). It may also be a good addition/improvement to the Securing Debian Manual. In any event, I am just offering some thoughts; perhaps they might be of some use. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: apt: deprecate /etc/apt/trusted*

2019-11-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 06:23:04PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 12:29:11PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 02:27:19PM +0100, Timo Weingärtner wrote: > > > Maybe apt could deprecate /etc/apt/trusted* and apt-key(8) in b

Re: apt: deprecate /etc/apt/trusted*

2019-11-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ing /etc/apt/ > trusted.d possible, but now that we have "Signed-By:" it is the inferior > solution and thus not needed anymore. > What is the earliest version of apt that supports Signed-By in sources.list? I scanned the changelog but it was not immediately clear. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: NEW queue and src-only uploads [Re: Bits from the Release Team: ride like the wind, Bullseye!]

2019-07-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
wishes to be able to do, it probably warrants a different filter than "adds a new binary package to the archive" in order to be effective. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 12:57:56PM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 08:36:45AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 11:02:35AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > > In such a large community of volunteers it may not be enough to propose > > s

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 12:29:56PM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 08:18:53AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 06:49:10AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > As you wish, I added a dis

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
would improve if you address the principal obstacles to adoption in a holistic way. (As I already pointed out, your current approach misses a great deal.) Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
seems like the epitome of "style over substance". Why on earth is copying and pasting from webpages *so* important that the entire packaging format has to be reworked? If somebody is challenged by the obstacle of 'apt-get source ...' or 'debcheckout ...' then perhaps making the packaging into a single file so that it can be copy/pasted from a webpage might not be solving the correct problem. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ht be impractical or confusing, then perhaps "dotdeb" or "dot-deb" might be more workable. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
.   > Then I think that Ben Finney's observation is completely correct. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
approaches get the package into Debian, available to users of unstable and/or experimental, as appropriate, and without risk of the package getting "baked in" to a Debian release for the long term. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ants page on the main Debian website for candidates. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
glad to work together on a common belief, spontaneously. I as the > initiator of the idea would definitely take action if I got enough > positive feedbacks. > I recommend that you start implementing something then request feedback. Otherwise the whole exercise is just academic. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Bug#924270: O: keepassx -- Cross Platform Password Manager

2019-03-10 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ke to see the release of Buster have either a well-supported keepassx or a smooth transition to a suitable alternative. If for some reason a direct transition with symlinks and all is not possible, then at least a mention in the release notes (perhaps with instructions on how to manually migrate befo

Re: Salsa CI news

2019-02-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
the publicity team knows so it makes it into the next Debian Project News issue. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Recreating history of a package (was: Re: Reusing source package name of long-removed, unrelated package)

2019-02-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
you know of? I have been searching for > something like that but I didn't find anything useful. > Use 'gbp import-dscs' with the --debsnap option. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Sending using my @debian.org in gmail

2018-11-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
an involvement, and > that means anyone can do the same trick to pretend to own my Debian address. > That is just how email works. With the help of a cooperating mail server (which is trivial to setup) anybody in the world can send mail with any from address that they wish. This problem is

Handling library with unstable ABI in experimental -- suggestions?

2018-11-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
happen until that has been fully sorted out. Regards, -Roberto [0] https://bugs.debian.org/914573 -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
t; being upload, mailing list post (I think, if signed with the developer's key), etc. The once a year ping then need not be universal and instead only for those who have become dormant based on lack of visible indicators of participation. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
" No reasonable person would consider either of those things valid. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 03:43:41PM +, Felipe Sateler wrote: > > I disagree when it comes to the debian namespace, and the documentation > agrees with me[1]. > Interesting. I was not aware of that. Thanks for sharing. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
to know what to expect in future...] > That seems completely reasonable. Making the repository accessible to others is a courtesy that should not be abused. Pushing directly to the master branch of a package for which one is not an active maintainer or contributor is at a minimum impolite. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: PHP Support in Debian

2018-10-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
buted/signed with a > key we trust. > I have encountered this same situation and have resorted to backporting packages from testing/unstable myself :-/ > > Will there be a proper solution for that soon? > I hope that there will be. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: News from devscripts

2018-10-03 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
n=4 > opts="mode=git,pgpmode=gittag" \ > https://github.com/rs/net-server-mail refs/tags/v([\d\.]+) debian > Wow! That is very nice. Thanks for the hard work. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Looking for DD willing to sign my key around Berkeley/Oakland/San Francisco CA

2018-08-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
r just PM me directly please? > https://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning/Offers#US There are three Debian Developers listed as offering to sign keys in San Francisco. That should get you started. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Bug#903815: ITP: pw -- A simple command-line password manager

2018-07-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
d and identified, even if it has never manifested itself in the real world. If you doubt that, please review the recent news surrounding the SPECTRE and MELTDOWN vulnerabilities. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Bug#903880: Bug#903815: ITP: pw -- A simple command-line password manager

2018-07-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
self and others in the spirit in which it was intended: to help you produce a better free software tool and to improve as a developer. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Debian Policy 4.1.5.0 released

2018-07-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
if any, should be made buggy by this change. > >Where can i read debian's FHS 3.0? >I can only see 2.3 on [1]https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/ It is kind of a pain to locate. Here is the link: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.pdf Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Comma in Maintainer field

2018-04-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ot;close enough" for the purposes of the maintainer/uploader fields in the control file. However, there is a high likelihood that enough of them are different enough to be problematic from the perspective of a heterogeneous tooling infrastructure. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Comma in Maintainer field (Was: problems in gjots2 and Debian)

2018-04-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
C. Powell, IV" #547460 (and its blockers #401452 and #509935) might interesting to read if you have not already. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: libzstd_1.3.3+dfsg-2_multi.changes REJECTED

2018-04-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
and then subsequently deleted lots of messages that by any objective measure would have served to only worsen a situation. When I have failed to follow my own advice, I have without fail only made the situations in question worse. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: missing recommends are not RC severity

2018-04-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
alidating the relationships between packages). There are plenty of available tools to identify system cruft, including packages that are no longer receiving security support and packages which do not exist in the current suite/release for which the system is configured. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Systemd dependencies

2018-02-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
. > > No, this is no reason to introduce such sequence points. You don't even > know that the MTA runs on the same system. > Unless it is designed to only interact with an MTA running on the same system. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Extended Long Term Support for Wheezy

2018-02-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
not to mention 'salts', 'stilts', and who knows how many other words in the English language. If we are going to start applying this sort of logic to naming, then there are plenty of other places (e.g., where actual vulgarities are used in package names, where abreviations and/or acronyms create words that are or can be perceived as offensive, etc.). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
problems. That said, the problems are not really any different than the problems introduced by installing components with cpan or pip and then forgetting about them. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ready does "security by upstream releases" for Firefox, > and this clearly shows why this is problematic: Also PostgreSQL, formerly MySQL, OpenJDK, etc. Some go smoothly (I think PostgreSQL upstream is very good here), and some do not. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
trated by it. In the university class I teach, dependency management in our project is something that is quite important. Though, at that stage of life, the students usually lack the experience to appreciate why it is important. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
and would definitely get involved, time permitting. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: FTBFS with parallel make

2018-01-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
o trigger the use of -J in place of -j. At least, that is the case on stretch. Is there an easy way (preferrably via environment variables) to achieve that? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile

2018-01-03 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
quot; to itself be somewhat disturbing. You cannot possibly know what grounds someone might have for not wanting systemd, and to automatically and universally characterize that as "disturbed" implies a value judgment that runs counter both to the freeness and universailty that Debian as a project espouses. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

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

2017-12-01 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 05:31:09PM +0100, Alf Gaida wrote: > > > Ian, thats dead easy - put the needed packages onto the iso and be done > with. The installer should have an option to opt-in contrib and/or > non-free. Done. Ok, that was the technical part. Which has the potential to make the insta

Re: [RFC] Cyrus SASL 2.1.26 experimental->unstable

2014-01-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 03:50:13PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions > Thanks. I have filed a transition bug as required. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.con

Re: [RFC] Cyrus SASL 2.1.26 experimental->unstable

2014-01-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:31:15AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > That said, I am curious if there would be any opposition to an upload of > > cyrus-sasl2 2.1.26 into unstable. Aside from opposition, are there any >

[RFC] Cyrus SASL 2.1.26 experimental->unstable

2014-01-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
comments that anyone would like to offer in regard to this? For the time being, I plan to continue my work on the 2.1.25 version that is currently in unstable (merging into the experimental version as appropriate). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http

Bug#678519: general: after about 1 month of uptime, routing of IPv6 packets is no longer possible, and IPv4 routing becomes slow and unpredictable. Rebooting brings all functionality back, and back to

2012-06-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
t; > no obvious causes visible in the system. top and friends do not show a cpu hog > > a reboot will bring the system back to normal behaviour. > Could this be something to do with connection tracking? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~r

Re: Bug#652464: ITP: aguilas -- A web-based LDAP user management system

2011-12-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 07:02:35PM -0430, Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth wrote: > On 17/12/11 18:24, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > What you have done is reinvent the wheel, and badly at that. > > I coudn't find any other user friendly interface to manage user acc

Re: Bug#652464: ITP: aguilas -- A web-based LDAP user management system

2011-12-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
have done is reinvent the wheel, and badly at that. If it were up to me, I would reject this package based on that one line of code alone. > > CODE IS POETRY > I find it terribly ironic that you have that satement in your email signature. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sá

Re: 0-day NMUs for RC bugs without activity for 7 days?

2011-05-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
helpfulness actually created more work. Another thing to note is that while the NMU was uploaded to DELAYED/2, the upload was actually ACCEPTed about 24 hours after the upload. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Source code

2011-01-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
er reason to do something like that is to give you a more secure temporary file. By adding mktemp() (or something similar) into the example Brian gave, you can defend against attacks that depend on file name collisions. By quickly unlinking, the file will no longer appear in directory listings, making e

Re: Bug#601977: cyrus-sasl2-heimdal-dbg: file conflict during upgrade from lenny

2010-10-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
round whehter it is OK to put a diversion in place so that cyrus-sasl2-heimdal-dbg diverts the file. What does everyone think? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: backports.org moved to backports.debian.org

2010-09-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
s that way. Is there a way that the dput package in Debian be updated to point to the new location? It would be quite annoying, IMHO, to have it pointing at the wrong place for the life of Squeeze. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.co

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
lanced with making the software different than it is on every other platform. I'm not saying that it cannot be done. Rather, there needs be a discussion as to whether that is something that Debian wants to do. It is not as simple as just patching a high profile package like postfix. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Dual init scripts (or two init scripts in one package)

2010-05-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 07:35:02PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez writes: > > > Greetings. I am curious as to how the scenario described in the below > > message would work in Debian. That is, can one package install two init > > scripts? > > S

Dual init scripts (or two init scripts in one package)

2010-05-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \ - End forwarded message - -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dpkg-deb temporary storage directory

2010-03-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ness... I think I'll open a new bug. > This makes me wonder if it would be a good idea to include something in policy about applications respecting TMP/TMPDIR. I have run across several applications in Debian at various times that do not really support TMP and TMPDIR to the degree

Re: -fPIC, libraries, and overriding a lintian error

2009-11-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:43:12PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > Does that mean that I am permitted to override the lintian error? > Please disregard. It turns out that the proposed fix causes a FTBFS on amd64, which is not acceptable. Overriding the lintian error will clearly

-fPIC, libraries, and overriding a lintian error

2009-11-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
mean that I am permitted to override the lintian error? Regards, -Roberto [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-libraries -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Moving binary packages between source packages, and closing bugs

2009-10-03 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
plicated, the first upload of the new > packages would be to experimental... > This I do not know about. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Seeking advice on packaging of pion-net

2009-09-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
rk or is appropriate for this package. Any advice/insights on this would be appreciated. Regards, -Roberto [0] http://bugs.debian.org/547607 [1] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer

Moving init script from one package to another

2009-09-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
there some magic I can put into a prerm/postrm script that will handle that? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Resigning from Debian

2009-07-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 05:12:44PM +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > > electricsheep[1] deserves a prioritary adoption: a major upstream > version has been released and Debian's is now deprecated. > I'd like to adopt electricsheep. Regards, -Roberto -- R

Requesting opinions on #515215 (rename sparsehash -> libsparsehash-dev)

2009-06-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
am preparing a new upstream release right now for upload, so this would be a good time to make the change if people think it is necessary/desirable. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM

2009-05-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
is the same not also true in the second case? I agree with Sune that such disagreements are best handled between the user and the producer of the file. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM

2009-05-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:25:05PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 31 mai 2009 à 06:00 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit : > > If Debian should not be a tool to support software restrictions like > > this, then against which package should I file a bug to have all unix

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