Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
y >a user-controlled key is equally problematic as non-free firmware. >Trisquel and Guix avoids these, and I recall seeing stuff like that in >Debian -- https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/shim-signed -- but it is good >to know that we have more things to work. Sigh. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Call for contributions to maintain existing documentation - Salsa makes it is easy!

2025-01-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Jon Dowland wrote: > >I'm *fairly* sure that a more pressing issue is that MoinMoin requires >Python 2, which has been abandoned. > >At least the stable and deployed versions: 2.0.0a1 is the first release *nod* I think we have moin2 packages just about ready for use, but I have worries: it's not

Re: wiki.d.o on a git-backed engine

2025-01-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Jonas wrote: >Quoting Steve McIntyre (2025-01-14 15:16:49) >> Jonas wrote: >> >Quoting Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas (2025-01-13 22:06:01) >> >> >> >> thank you for the offer but why not have the follow up in a publicly >> >> archived

Re: wiki.d.o on a git-backed engine

2025-01-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
>https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/blend-tinker-devel Erm, WTF? How about keeping this on a main project list. And maybe even include the current people working on web and wiki admin? Unimpressed... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...

Re: handling the OpenPGP schism safely in Debian [was: Re: GnuPG 2.4 before Trixie freeze]

2025-01-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
GnuPG. There's a lot of loaded words in what you write there. Debian has *always* added config, applied patches and adapted upstream behaviour of upstream packages to make them fit our needs better. Why should GnuPG be any different? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
r now and tell people to look there. * Set up ai-summary.debian.net and post there, alongside suitable disclaimer text. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
on our lists. If you want to publish them, publish them somewhere separately IMHO. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
ult. It hasn't been AFAIK, no. d-i always asks, with the default being "no". -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: what about Netplan?

2024-07-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
oo many to be >bothered to check between 10 and 999 commits. I understand what you're trying to say, but that's a disingenuous comparison. systemd is a massive (some would say *too* massive) project with fingers in many pies. How many of those people have touched *networking* bits? -

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

2024-06-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 12:18:56PM +0200, somebody *claiming* to be Luna Jernberg wrote: Just to be 100% clear, that mail didn't come from Luna's normal gmail account but was instead spoofed and sent via emkei.cz, a "free online fake mailer". It's now blocked from

Re: Debian

2024-04-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
that way. > >nvi adds to the subversive ones, with bash, etc. What on earth do you mean by "subversive" here?? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have noth

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

2024-04-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
ogtool to Salsa? > >Not speaking for logtool obviously, but maintaining simple packages on salsa is >just useless bureaucracy. So that's OK for *you* only in this case. Now consioder for the project as a whole. Every package that differs from the norm is more effort for anybody else to

Re: Reaction to potential PGP schism

2023-12-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
ot;my gpg/$TOOL segfaults on your input", I want to be able to >point them at a documented decision and say "please report a bug to >$TOOL" instead of taking a week off to port everything again to gpg. > >Thank you for all the work you've done on this

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

2023-12-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
would i do?: reinstall some packages? reinstall the whole system? > >(maybe this should be in a bug against release-notes) Maybe a wrapper script to just report likely problems would be a good plan. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.

Re: RFC: advise against using Proton Mail for Debian work?

2023-11-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
ly hope so! So I've just set up a ProtonMail test account to verify. Mailing to myself, it already clearly knew about my PGP key (I've already had lots of encrypted mails from ProtonMail users), but sending to a different address that came through in plain text. So *that* doesn't

Re: RFC: advise against using Proton Mail for Debian work?

2023-11-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
.org will encrypt the email that >>is sent to the BTSe...which has the effect of making Debian development >>veiled in plain sight rather than "in the open". > >Does it not encrypt email per-sender? Ewww, I certainly hope so! Do we have any examples of encrypted ma

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

2023-06-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
they can work even if we don't have the library loader >on the ABI-compliant path? What exactly do you mean here? You know that even a statically linked executable needs an interpreter defined in the ELF header? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Steve Langasek wrote: > >On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 12:42:32PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >If the main reason is to support non-free binaries, at least to me >> >that does not seem like a very compelling reason. And people can >> >always use old chroots or s

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Andrew Cater wrote: >On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 03:03:40PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> I had been thinking about doing similar for installer images too, but >> with other work going on too I think it got too late in the cycle to >> make that change. My plan is there

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
ootstrap and {s,}chroot will cover the vast majority of needs. That's how we've been building i386 software already for ages in Debian already. More complex things can be done if needed: loopback mount an image, debootstrap, install a kernel, etc. I don't see this as somethin

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Luca Boccassi wrote: >On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 12:42, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> I'm planning on stopping publishing installer images for i386 >> soon. Why? We should be strongly encouraging users to move away from >> it as a main architecture. If they&#x

i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
ompatible ABI on a mostly-dead architecture that won't support those binaries. *But* I think we'll also need to keep the port going with security fixes - it's still likely to be quite common and we need to keep users safe. People are even likely to want to keep old software running be

Re: Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Johannes, On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 06:48:04AM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: >Quoting Steve McIntyre (2023-05-15 02:54:02) >> >> Pointing at gentoo or nixos as examples of projects that have decided >> to break compatibility doesn't cut it, I&#x

Re: Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
is a valid and useful thing to do. Your apparent lack of care for agreed standards here is horrifying. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
hould ever consider changing without significant cross- and inter-project discussion. Pointing at gentoo or nixos as examples of projects that have decided to break compatibility doesn't cut it, I'm afraid. They're well known for changing fundamental things around Linux and (b

Re: Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 01:11:38PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: >On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 12:08, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 11:40:05AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: >> >>

Re: Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 11:40:05AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: >>On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 09:40, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 07:40:00AM +0200, Ansgar wrote: >>> > >&g

Re: Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: >On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 09:40, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 07:40:00AM +0200, Ansgar wrote: >> > >> >The core issue as I see it is as follows: >> > >> >- Debian

Re: Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
ies. WTF? *Nobody* has been talking about breaking ABI like this, that I've seen. The interpreter must *not* be changed willy-nilly. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. B

Re: Re-enabling os-prober for live images?

2023-04-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
itself: 1. We have a *lot* of patches on top of upstream GRUB, which makes it hard to keep in step with security updates etc. I hope to find time to rationalise things, following on from work that Colin was doing earlier. 2. I'd like to simplify options more and reduce the number o

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-03-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
an intergral part of project development. Should we therefore declare that "preferred form of modification" could include all of the github or gitlab infrastructure? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel

Re: Starting the weekly live images for Bookworm building again

2023-03-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey again, On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 03:36:53PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >>As you can see, this affects many teams: >>* live-setup: a MR to generate all live images for Bookworm [A2] So, after some delay from me and some further delays from various Debian machines com

Re: Re-enabling os-prober for live images?

2023-03-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
o pondering tweaking things in d-i to re-enable os-prober if the system looks like it might have some other OS installed. Yes, I realise that may sound odd(!), but I can see a number of users complaining that their dual-boot system doesn't work any more... :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge,

Non-free-firmware changes - initial cut released!

2023-02-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
e-firmware/ [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/02/msg5.html -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt

Re: Starting the weekly live images for Bookworm building again

2023-01-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
er: A minor fix [A3] No idea about that, leaving for somebody else. >* live-installer: A better user experience after the installer is finished >[A4] Merred just now. >* live-build: Various installer improvements, including off-line installation >[A5] Not sure who might review th

Re: need we support unshadowed passwords from the installer

2023-01-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
erge. I'll be honest, I've been horrified for years that we can still ask the shadow question. I hadn't realised it might be relevant for NIS. Even so, +1 from me. Let's get this done, I think... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Is there anybody out there?

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
It's not great, no. Do you have a better suggestion for making sure people update sources.list? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Since phone messaging became popular, the young generation has lost the ability to read or write anything that is longer than one hundred and sixty characters." -- Ignatios Souvatzis

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 10:11:27PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: >On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 08:21:31PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 11:08:47AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: >> >On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 03:53:00PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >>

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 11:08:47AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: >On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 03:53:00PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 04:43:47PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> > What's the plan for upgraded systems with an existing >> > /etc

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 05:31:16PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Steve McIntyre (2022-10-02): >> * Extra d-i code to inform users about what firmware blobs have been >> loaded and the matching non-free-firmware packages. Plus information >> about the hardware involved. M

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 04:43:47PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > >Hi Steve, > >thanks for the update! > >Am 02.10.22 um 16:27 schrieb Steve McIntyre: > >> * Tweaks to add the non-free-firmware section in the apt-setup module >>if desired/needed. > >...

Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
elp implement any of these changes, that would be lovely too! [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2022/10/msg0.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/03/msg00251.html -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com There's no sensatio

Re: General resolution: non-free firmware

2022-08-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
lways loaded >which would be the one thing we could not easily toggle on/off from the >initrd and/or d-i.) Please go and *read* and *respond* in debian-vote. The discussion is there, not here. You've utterly missed Phil's point about people not seeing or hearing boot options. G

Starting the firmware GR - see mail on d-vote

2022-08-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi all! Sorry for the delay on this, I've been really really busy. :-( I think it's time we started on the firmware GR, so I've mailed the -vote list: https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2022/08/msg00001.html -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.s

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

2022-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 11:14:43AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Do you have a real use for this package? > >Why in the world is that even a relevant question? There are plenty of >packages in the archive which are useful to essentiall

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

2022-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
Edward wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Oh, not *another* package that tries to guess things from names. >> >> Do you have a real use for this package? There are a *lot* of issues >> in this area, and mis-gendering people is not something to risk >> l

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

2022-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
hen trying to make strawman arguments: "We welcome contributions from everyone as long as they interact constructively with our community." -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

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

2022-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
y have no clue what you're trying to say here. Are you actually somehow claiming that Debian's core values include bad treatment of Jews and those other groups? Seriously, WTF? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technica

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

2022-07-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Marc Haber wrote: >On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:54:52 +0100, Steve McIntyre >wrote: >>And I see you uploaded ~immediately - why even bother with an ITP? > >Is it proper procedure to upload without an ITP? IMHO there are 2 points to an ITP: * to save effort in case two people might

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

2022-07-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
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: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
age? There are a *lot* of issues in this area, and mis-gendering people is not something to risk lightly... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: feedback for NEW packages: switch to using the BTS?

2022-04-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
on the bug reports. Just to clarify: is this suggesting that packages from NEW would end up in the archive even with serious bugs? If not, what's the point of the "eventual removal" above? I'm not following you here... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: shim-signed

2022-04-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
o so. +1 Alongside doing technical stuff, I've written a fair amount of user-facing docs for UEFI, shim and secure boot over the last few years. In the limited time I have available, I've tried to focus on the common cases for people using an expected simple setup. I'd *love* some h

Re: shim-signed

2022-04-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
The Wanderer wrote: >On 2022-04-26 at 10:14, Marc Haber wrote: > >> On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 18:21:47 +0100, Steve McIntyre >> wrote: > >>> Alternatively, people can build replacement shim-signed packages >>> using their own root of trust if desired. If we

Re: shim-signed

2022-04-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
see what patches people have aplied to Grub, Linux, etc. too. We need a reproducible build for shim so that we can check that the shipped binary for signing matches what we can rebuild ourselves. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're t

Re: shim-signed (was: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?)

2022-04-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
Marc Haber wrote: >On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 18:21:47 +0100, Steve McIntyre > >>Better than that, our shim-signed source package always double-checks >>things here. At build time it removes the Microsoft signature and >>compares that shim binary to the binary that we submitted

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it

2022-04-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
** drivers. As and when we start to draft a GR to formalise what the project wants, feel free to add an option for that too but I personally wouldn't expect it to gain much traction. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: shim-signed (was: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?)

2022-04-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
lity in the signed code. Better than that, our shim-signed source package always double-checks things here. At build time it removes the Microsoft signature and compares that shim binary to the binary that we submitted for signing. We would spot immediately if there was any code added. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
written the scripts involved. This is actually another place where we'd benefit from the new non-free-firmware component - we'd be able to just consistently rely on *that* list of packages. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
Russ Allbery wrote: >Steve McIntyre writes: > >> Thanks! That's a really good question, and one that we should also >> include on the GR. I'd split my option 5 into two: > >> 5. Include non-free firmware but do not enable it by default >> 6. Include

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Ansgar! Ansgar wrote: >On Wed, 2022-04-20 at 17:11 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > Russ Allbery wrote: >> > 1. Purely free installation. >[ Other options ] >> > 4. Enable non-free firmware and enable normal upgrades, [...] >[...] >> Now, the *defa

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
it easier for our users to choose to trust >> black magic "stuff" that they need to enable their devices. > >> I do not think that we should impose on our users to trust black magic >> by default, though. > >I think this is a somewhat different question than whet

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Paul Wise wrote: > >On Tue, 2022-04-19 at 01:27 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> There are a number of issues here that make developers and users unhappy: > >There are a couple more issues related to unredistributable firmware: Oh, I'm quite sure there are more

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
e easily for our users. Devin's description of the troubles they had are entirely on-topic and useful in the context of that discussion. Castigating them here is *not* helpful. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the techn

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Jeremy Stanley wrote: >On 2022-04-19 01:27:46 +0100 (+0100), Steve McIntyre wrote: >[...] >> Along with adding non-free firmware onto media, when the installer >> (or live image) runs, we should make it clear exactly which >> firmware packages have been used/insta

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
w...@debian.org wrote: > >Also, drivers and firmware are different things. *Totally*. This is one of my pet peeves - many *many* people confuse the two and talk about "non-free drivers" in Debian when they actually mean firmware... ARGH. -- Steve McIntyr

Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
an choose to avoid them. Acknowledgements ==== Thanks to people who reviewed earlier versions of this document and/or made suggestions for improvement, in particular: • Cyril Brulebois • Matthew Garrett • David Leggett • Martin Michlmayr • Andy Simpkins • Neil Williams -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
nd is just going to confuse people. Unless you can explain a good reason to need this, I'd argue strongly that the 3.0 native support is DTRT for the principle of least surprise if nothing else! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the t

Re: Gmail bounce unauthenticated @debian.org addresses

2022-03-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
al with this. It's maddening to see Google continue to f*ck up mail requirements for everybody else. Of course, they continue to be (one of?) the biggest sources of spam on the net and show no interest in doing anything about it. "Don't be evil" indeed... :-( -- Steve McInty

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
please don't wait on me any more. If you can find other volunteers to pick this up, *please* do. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Google-bait: https://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd Debian does NOT ship free CDs. Please do NOT co

Re: Status of weekly live builds

2021-11-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
seye release, and I'm waiting for somebody to take over maintaining them. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
t; >Feel free to touch base with debian-boot@ and/or debian-cd@ once you >have a working proof of concept that some people have toyed with; we can >discuss how the “alternative” part could be implemented (different >images, or both partitioners ship together, with some option/selection —

Re: Arch triplet for uefi applications

2021-08-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
of sorts. > >For that reason, Rust uses the target names "aarch64-unknown-uefi", >"i686-unknown-uefi", and "x86_64-unknown-uefi". Those seem like the >right names for these targets in other toolchains, as well. Nod, agreed. I think that makes sense. -- S

Re: Reconsider sending ITP bugs to debian-devel: a new list?

2021-06-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
nk if we did that we'd lose just about all the reviews that currently happen. The whole point of sending ITPs to d-devel is that they will be seen by a wider audience, but I can't see many signing up for YA mailing list for them. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2021-03-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Andreas! On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 02:46:52PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: >On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 10:23:19AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hey Andreas! I hope you're keeping well! >> >> On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 06:08:02PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >> >>

Re: -1 (Re: Making Debian available)

2021-01-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
It asks for a disk with *firmware* on it, not *drivers*. Please stop confusing the two. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: RFC: raising ca-certificates package Priority to standard or important

2021-01-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
ich feels like it'd be going too far (but then I also >don't think apt should be "required"). >If there are specific examples where you think "important" would help >I'd be interested; right now I'm sort of favouring "standard" as good >enough. Sounds like good logic to me. Thanks for looking into this! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Bjørn wrote: >Steve McIntyre writes: > >> Marc Haber wrote: >>> >>>I was not aware of that feature. It is good to have that, but I would >>>be embarrassed to seriously suggest this way because we can't manage >>>to get WLAN working in the in

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Marc Haber wrote: >On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:35:01 +0000, Steve McIntyre >wrote: >>Marc Haber wrote: >>>I was not aware of that feature. It is good to have that, but I would >>>be embarrassed to seriously suggest this way because we can't manage >>>to get

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
esponse was *no*. We can change that, but it's not something to do lightly. We *can* do a better job of pointing people at the media with non-free firmware included. I've added a few more links in various places, but IMHO we desperately need a better set of download (etc.) pages rather than j

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
Software goals as "political reasons"? Should we just abandon them? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
ave a package in the archive for this now: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-crossgrader It's targeted at systems exactly like yours, tbh. Maybe give it a try? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Debconf - adding "treeselect" type(s)?

2020-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
S. Shell is (one of) the most common environments for driving debconf, in package config and postinst scripts. I don't think that's going to fly. Oh, except... We'd only have to generate the json from shell, not parse it. That may be more tractable. Thanks, that could be a good s

Re: Debconf - adding "treeselect" type(s)?

2020-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
Thomas Goirand wrote: >On 11/30/20 11:18 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> I'm envisaging treating the Choices *mostly* like in an existing >> select/multiselect, but with extra decoration to indicate the position >> in the tree for display. It would then be up to the fron

Re: Debconf - adding "treeselect" type(s)?

2020-12-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
Timo wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >Hallo Steve McIntyre, > >30.11.20 16:36 Steve McIntyre: >> I'll admit that I'm thinking of this *mostly* in terms of the needs of >> tasksel so far, but I'd expect switching to a new template type is >> likely to need a r

Re: Debconf - adding "treeselect" type(s)?

2020-11-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
Colin Watson wrote: >On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:24:56AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Timo wrote: >> >What are the proposed semantics of this multitreeselect? >> > >> >If we imagine something like: >> > >> >[ ] a >> > [ ] a/b &

Re: Debconf - adding "treeselect" type(s)?

2020-11-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
Colin Watson wrote: >On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 07:21:54PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On and off, I've been hacking on tasksel for quite a while to improve >> the UI there and add better support for things like Blends. I've made >> some progress in my hacking, bu

Re: Debconf - adding "treeselect" type(s)?

2020-11-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi! Timo wrote: >29.11.20 20:21 Steve McIntyre: >> On and off, I've been hacking on tasksel for quite a while to improve >> the UI there and add better support for things like Blends. I've made >> some progress in my hacking, but I think I've hit a bri

Debconf - adding "treeselect" type(s)?

2020-11-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
t least basic support for the new type(s) into all the frontends that *can* support it. So, I have a couple of questions: 1. How flexible is Debconf at coping with a frontend not including support for a type?? 2. Is anybody actually ever using the more obscure (to me!) frontends (e.g. kde, e

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2020-10-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Andreas! I hope you're keeping well! On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 06:08:02PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 07:16:11PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >Not yet, I'm afraid. A little too swamped so far, but you're near the >> >top of my TO

Re: Preferred form of modification for binary data used in unit testing?

2020-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
en explain that. The binary artifact has become the preferred form for modification once you have it. In some cases you won't be able to sensibly reproduce the artifact that causes a problem, but you keep it around to ensure test coverage. IMHO there is no issue here. -- Steve McIntyre, Ca

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2020-03-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 04:23:08PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Hey Andreas! > >On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 08:23:39AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: >> >>the first alpha of the installer of Debian 11 is out. As we talked at >>DebConf about better Blends support: Is

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 09:03:22AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 11:41:32PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hey John, >> >> John Goarzen wrote: >> >On Tue, Feb 04 2020, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > >> >The thing that we h

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
he place. > >PS: Debian-devel is likely the wrong place to redesign C/POSIX functions. +1000 -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loy

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey John, John Goarzen wrote: >On Tue, Feb 04 2020, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >The thing that we have to remember is that an operating system is a >platform for running software. This problem is rather thorny, because: > >1) Some software is provided in only binary form and can

Crossgrading support (was Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?)

2020-02-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Adam Borowski wrote: >On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 06:10:53PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> /me ponders - this could be a fun task for a GSoC/outreachy student to >> hack on, maybe? > >Prior art: > >* my unfinished https://github.com/kilobyte/crossgrade -- do

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
ave cases where nobody has tested interop between 32 and 64 bit machines, though. :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
armhf port done and released with bullseye, but that's clearly up to the release team to make a call on. The longer we leave things, the harder that target will be. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
Florian Weimer wrote: >* Steve McIntyre: > >>>In addition if we are using a new multiarch triplet, and need to >>>rebuild the world, are going to be ABI incompatible anyway, we might >>>as well use a proper multiarch-qualified ld.so pathname that does >>

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Simon, Simon McVittie wrote: >On Tue, 04 Feb 2020 at 13:14:10 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Arnd scanned the library packages in the Debian archive and identified >> that about one third of our library packages would need rebuilding >> (and tracking) to make a (recursi

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