Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-06-15 Thread Steven Chamberlain
y, it would be nice if the latest packages were fetched (rather installing old ones from the install media, and upgrading in a later step). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-06-08 Thread Steven Chamberlain
7;s a very popular OS around here, apart from this problem!). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian i386 architecture now requires a 686-class processor

2016-05-07 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Steven Chamberlain wrote: > I seem to remember last time this was discussed, GNU `as' avoids using a > particular 686-class instruction I found a reference for that: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/09/msg00617.html So it seems the "nearly 686" Geode LX/NX may

Re: Debian i386 architecture now requires a 686-class processor

2016-05-07 Thread Steven Chamberlain
le, this Geode MX is not quite 686-class but has CMOV: | cpu0: Geode(TM) IntegraTed Processor by National Semi ("Geode by NSC" 586-class) 333 MHz | cpu0: FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,PGE,CMOV,MMX,MMXX,3DNOW2,3DNOW Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-27 Thread Steven Chamberlain
package build or CI tests could help here. Or, packages build accidentally, then a later version FTBFS. That's why I thought of auto-removals, but if porters more actively removed those I think it would be helpful. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-27 Thread Steven Chamberlain
re promimently than a sid-only, RC-buggy leaf package with an RM bug filed for it. THat's why I'm trying to design a better dashboard for porters, though some ideas could be implemented into buildd.d.o itself someday. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Steven Chamberlain wrote: > I envisage some kind of a scoreboard, graphs, or those weather symbols > we all love to see. As far as the dashboard goes, I've started out with: https://kfreebsd.eu/dashboards/ports/ I want to add pages per-arch that list the packages that FTBFS, o

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
if porters are made very aware of the problems and their implications. I'd like the release team to have a detailed list of those issues to base their arch qualification on. I envisage some kind of a scoreboard, graphs, or those weather symbols we all love to see. Regards, -- Steven Chambe

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ge built in the past, and is "out-of-date" in sid. Otherwise it's not a release-critical issue, not blocking testing migration). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-25 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Matthias Klose wrote: > > [...] when unstable is out of sync, and should be forbidden for a set > > of core packages from my point of view. > > [...] We could say that fixing RC bugs in > those packages is a requirement for the port to be relea

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-25 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ckages is a requirement for the port to be releaseable. I think the architecture release criteria is really lacking that kind of detail to judge ports by. But now, we have a quite good definition of what are 'core' packages of each port, from the rebootstrapping work. Regards, -- S

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-25 Thread Steven Chamberlain
m. In other cases the package really did want de-crufting; if kfreebsd was still in testing, we'd have needlessly held up those from migrating. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-25 Thread Steven Chamberlain
esktop environments, tasks, or OpenJDK for example. Having a stable set of build-essential packages is important for ports to get DSA-administered buildds, for developers to be able to run it, and for the port to progress further. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Having a single, good arc4random in Debian

2016-01-18 Thread Steven Chamberlain
p7.0/7.0.1-1/ext/standard/random.c/?hl=96#L95 * libsodium too: https://sources.debian.net/src/libsodium/1.0.3-1/src/libsodium/randombytes/sysrandom/randombytes_sysrandom.c/?hl=52#L267 * openssl uses the strong arc4random on OpenBSD, otherwise falls back to something that has been... problema

Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-10-04 Thread Steven Chamberlain
portant to me, if Debian GNU/Linux (and Ubuntu, Fedora etc.) no longer worked on them. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Announcing a Debian Hamradio Blend

2014-12-11 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, > [Forwarding to d-d-a on behalf of Iain since he can not sign as DD] The quoted message was addressed *to* Iain and didn't make much sense to me. Isn't this the announcement here? https://lists.debian.org/debian-blends/2014/12/msg0.html Regards, -- Steven Ch

Re: A small thanks to the kFreeBSD porters

2014-11-04 Thread Steven Chamberlain
nt, though. I personally don't use IRC much; if nobody is around to answer questions there, please send a note to debian-...@lists.debian.org Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Pre-Depends changed for dpkg on GNU/kFreeBSD

2014-10-09 Thread Steven Chamberlain
thanks. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54372276.1070...@pyro.eu.org

Re: Pre-Depends changed for dpkg on GNU/kFreeBSD

2014-10-08 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ue. In that case please also fall back to linprocfs if kvm is simply unavailable at run-time, e.g. no /dev/kmem, perhaps because in a chroot or jail. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Pre-Depends changed for dpkg on GNU/kFreeBSD

2014-10-02 Thread Steven Chamberlain
up here as per policy §3.5 > before the upload. Doing so now, but if there's no consensus, I'll > revert the change. Sorry about that. No problem. Does that mean you'd happily revert to using linprocfs? Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Jessie without systemd as PID 1?

2014-09-01 Thread Steven Chamberlain
procedure, mentors.d.n and Blends documentation and then I will get back to you. Thanks! Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Jessie without systemd as PID 1?

2014-08-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
lends package here, completely untested yet but just in the hope of maybe getting something started: http://pyro.eu.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-altinit/ Thanks, Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-16 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, > Steven Chamberlain writes: >> And since BSD and GNU software are unable >> to link against each other, [...] Oops, I should have said there that "BSD software *if now linking against LibreSSL*" couldn't link with GNU software any more. On Mon, 14 Jul 201

Re: Re: people.debian.org will move from ravel to paradis and become HTTPS only

2014-07-16 Thread Steven Chamberlain
generally protect web browsers doing web-based login and using cookies, that would typically be covered by HSTS. And the privacy-concious may be using the HTTPS Everywhere add-on. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-16 Thread Steven Chamberlain
rtable arc4random.c (ChaCha-20) -> LibreSSL RAND_bytes -> OpenSSH Portable arc4random.c (ChaCha-20) -> OpenSSH with the stream cipher, seeding and stirring all happening twice. So I really like the idea of both getting an arc4random implementation from one place, such as libbsd. Rega

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-16 Thread Steven Chamberlain
mplementation. I'm guessing OpenSSH Portable would do this too (I can see it being tested for by ./configure in the buildd log). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-16 Thread Steven Chamberlain
- /dev/urandom missing from a chroot, or fd's exhausted, and the kernel not having a reliable sysctl interface like OpenBSD's to get random bytes in the first place. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-14 Thread Steven Chamberlain
actually I think this simplifies things. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53c43d49.6070...@pyro.eu.org

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-13 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 12/07/14 02:09, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > [...] these warnings would be treated as errors: > >> > In file included from md5/md5_locl.h:98:0, >> > from md5/md5_dgst.c:60: >> > md5/md5_dgst.c: In function 'md5_block_data_order': >&

Re: so, systemd now and teh world still turns...

2014-06-04 Thread Steven Chamberlain
;, or else APT will try to remove it in order to satisfy a systemd dependency! It's also not needed at all on kfreebsd or hurd, since src:systemd is not built there. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: so, systemd now and teh world still turns...

2014-06-04 Thread Steven Chamberlain
he > official release. > [...] > Some packages are only suggested because they bring too much > dependencies, but you may find them interesting: > * Fast-user switching plugin (xfswitch-plugin) Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/538f102e.4070...@pyro.eu.org

Re: so, systemd now and teh world still turns...

2014-06-03 Thread Steven Chamberlain
.. Yeah I expect it will be an uphill struggle to keep many packages installable without systemd. I hope there will be still soem bits left though. And I think think all this analysis is useful information and not a completely pointless exercise. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-03 Thread Steven Chamberlain
90x,sparc Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/538e372d.9090...@pyro.eu.org

Re: so, systemd now and teh world still turns...

2014-06-03 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 03/06/14 19:46, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On Tue Jun 3 14:16:40 2014, Holger Levsen wrote: >> currently all major desktops in jessie depend on 'systemd-sysv' > > Ouch... really? (Is it not just a glitch evaluating OR'd dependencies > or something?) I'

Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-05-15 Thread Steven Chamberlain
27; to a bad host after it goes down [and the target object may have been evicted from cache]; not caching the redirect would mean URIs change and cache hit ratio is much lower as a result Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-05-14 Thread Steven Chamberlain
using this zone only two days ago. > > I'll put it back in for a week, see what queries we get. *Thank you*. There should have been queries already from at least 2 IPs (or possibly IPv6) where I have servers that have just done a successful 'apt-get update'. Regards, -- S

Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-05-14 Thread Steven Chamberlain
been querying this zone, every day. I debootstrapped a new chroot using this zone only two days ago. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-05-14 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ably check his logs to see how much it is really being used nowadays. And it would continue working. Thanks, Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-05-14 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ebian.net, if Raphael wouldn't mind setting up the (many) necessary wildcard virtual host to make it work. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: Deprecating/removing racoon/ipsec-tools from Debian GNU/Linux and racoon from Debian/kfreebsd

2014-05-11 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ie+1. And then I think systemd proponents should help you with a unit file if one is needed. And finally, it might still be useful at least as a kfreebsd-any package. When I have some time to resume work on IPSEC I hope I can then give some helpful feedback. Thanks, Regards, -- Steven Chamb

Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-04-29 Thread Steven Chamberlain
y weeks now - I wonder if they should be updated/removed from the set? 163.1.2.224 163.1.2.231 Thanks again, Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Hardened OpenSSL fork

2014-04-29 Thread Steven Chamberlain
TLS >=1.1 this is already mitigated. Breaking compatibility with Windows XP or MSIE 6.0 should be increasingly viable nowadays, if it improves security for the rest of us. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Re: Hardened OpenSSL fork

2014-04-29 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ppened? (Use of uninitialised memory was causing valgrind warnings in applications using the library, and the mistake was made trying to work around that I think). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

mirror.debian.net down?

2014-04-29 Thread Steven Chamberlain
o wonder if it is an outage or perhaps planned closure of the service? Thanks! Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: Hardened OpenSSL fork

2014-04-21 Thread Steven Chamberlain
7;t be borrowed. OTOH some OpenSSL code tries to be 'portable' - but in really bad ways - trying to implement its own snprintf, bzero, malloc/free, etc., still having workarounds for bugs in ancient/obscure compilers (Visual C++ 5.0, Cray T3E), going out of its way to support big endian x

Re: Hardened OpenSSL fork

2014-04-20 Thread Steven Chamberlain
lised memory was being used for that purpose. They've ripped out this whole PRNG now to use the one from their own libc: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libssl/src/crypto/rand/rand_lib.c.diff?r1=1.14;r2=1.15 Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCR

Hardened OpenSSL fork

2014-04-20 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ampage.org Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53540cf1.5000...@pyro.eu.org

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-18 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ation to OpenRC, maybe jessie should try to have OpenRC already in place, so that it will be able to use jessie+1's runscripts when they appear and be able to shut down cleanly when SysV init scripts are gone. (I think Thomas was describing the same situation in the context of sid) Regards,

Re: sysvinit: moving the contents out of the Essential: yes package?

2013-11-28 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 28/11/13 10:57, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> I was referring to the sysvinit program/package, which I think is made >> obsolete by OpenRC; the original SysV init scripts could still be used >> by OpenRC. > > I think you

Re: sysvinit: moving the contents out of the Essential: yes package?

2013-11-27 Thread Steven Chamberlain
d to maintain the original SysV init script, for sysvinit users, with no particular advantage of doing so. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Steven Chamberlain
each > current port getting a pseudopackage, and the maintainer of the > pseudopackage being the ports list. Would that be only for generic issues with a port, not specific to a package? I doubt this would be used much. These bugs might typically be reassigned to kernel packages or eglibc anyway.

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-04 Thread Steven Chamberlain
list, so someone has to periodically look for and tag things. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/527665af.2040...@pyro.eu.org

Re: Bug#727708: init system question before the technical committee

2013-10-31 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ion points raised in debian-devel and elsewhere. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52727a3b.6090...@pyro.eu.org

Re: Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Steven Chamberlain
assume you could launch bad code from systemd just as easily. (Actually, if you can't, that's probably a limitation). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Steven Chamberlain
in secure mode' your local definition might never pick that up? In this situation, I think I'd prefer to see a conffile prompt. And overriding the *entire* service file seems excessive if you wish to override just one line of the package's service file. Regards, -- Steven Chamberla

Re: Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ably wouldn't have been a debate in the first place. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/527177cd.50...@pyro.eu.org

Re: Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ts probably have system requirements beyond the kind of hardware I've mentioned here anyway. Thanks! Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52715d0c.4010...@pyro.eu.org

Re: Re: Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Upstart to be considered.) Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52713661.2090...@pyro.eu.org

Re: Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
least entail bringing back SysV init scripts in those packages, or perhaps adding new OpenRC runscripts. If that were to happen though, that same work could enable the use of OpenRC as an alternative init system, even on Linux. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
en Linux users have spoken concerns about systemd specifically. If it were introduced, I'd like to have a lightweight and less controversial alternative, and it's really convenient if it is portable. [0]: https://lists.debian.org/5270b735.8010...@debian.org Regards, -- Steven Chamberlai

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-29 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 29/10/13 01:34, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Actually quite amazing how painless that was, though I most certainly > don't expect it to be functional yet. I have tested it now. It's actually running and doing 'something'! And it is colourful. I'm testing it

Re: Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-29 Thread Steven Chamberlain
anently ditching SysV init could put even some Linux ports in jeopardy. Perhaps Upstart carries the same risk if Ubuntu releases only for i386/amd64/arm. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-29 Thread Steven Chamberlain
, save the PATH_MAX > stuff. Where is it? It is not in http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html Packages in the NEW queue are not available to download from anywhere AFAIK. But you can clone the packaging repo from: http://anonscm.debian.org/git/git/collab-maint/openrc.git Regards, --

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-28 Thread Steven Chamberlain
eds to know about linprocfs, linsysfs, tmpfs and maybe devfs). I look forward to seeing OpenRC in the Debian archive. Thanks! Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org diff --git a/etc/rc.conf.GNU-kFreeBSD b/etc/rc.conf.GNU-kFreeBSD new file mode 100644 index 000..e138e3a --- /dev

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-28 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Debian before > [...] > I try to call everyone (regardless of membership) on their > s*** tone on MLs. I think I'd rarely call anyone on anything, but none of Kevin's comments sounded nearly as rude to me as that. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBS

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-23 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 22/10/13 21:27, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Some people have been trying to identify small sets of essential > packages already, in the context of bootstrapping an architecture[1]. I > wonder if that's likely to overlap with this? It encompasses toolchain > and essent

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-23 Thread Steven Chamberlain
rebuild its toolchain and some essential packages, at least once per week, I think that would be an accomplishment. And the smaller the initial set of packages required to boostrap the process, the better. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-23 Thread Steven Chamberlain
it ought to be very low. A working JVM is quite a lot to ask, the current openjdk-7 is not even built for mipsel in more. mipsel buildds and porterboxes had only 1GB RAM maximum until now, and that is heavily used already for their current tasks. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
because the security of the whole system depends on it. Differences in the output of builds needs to be avoided, or otherwise explained. It would help greatly if there were frequent builds happening so we could see unexpected changes occurring. [2]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds So if

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Steven Chamberlain
if `aptitude search '?obsolete'` was run periodically, like debsecan, it could email the system admin when new items appear on the obsoletes list. I imagine that'd be a good way to notify of the situation being described here? Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-06 Thread Steven Chamberlain
e But it didn't quite build everywhere - kfreebsd-amd64 and s390 still have out-of-date 2.3.dfsg-4 binaries in sid. I'm not sure if this logic was intended, but it actually makes sense: the fixed version cannot migrate to testing and replace the buggy one. Regards, -- Steven

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-06 Thread Steven Chamberlain
ened the bugs listed were closed? Perhaps this is because the script does not notice 1. and therefore despite 2. it still thinks affected versions are in testing? Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: openpty under kFreeBSD

2013-10-03 Thread Steven Chamberlain
and the RFS bug report can > be found here [2] I found vpcs 0.4b2-1 on mentors, but it does not contain a source file called hv.c? Do I have the wrong version? Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Security process vs. pu (Re: Bug#723641: pu: package xen/4.1.4-5)

2013-10-03 Thread Steven Chamberlain
heezy Whereas the above is generally not true of the Security Team's process, which seems designed to be able to handle embargoed issues? Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: ports and multiarch

2013-10-02 Thread Steven Chamberlain
w_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
production environment. I am not a DD/DM, but maybe someday... Thanks! Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: DSA, kFreeBSD, and the Singularity

2013-09-02 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 02/09/13 13:16, Peter Palfrader wrote: > syslog-ng on kfreebsd doesn't properly reconnect to logservers after > they went a way for a while or the network dropped. Was that on squeeze or wheezy? The versions of syslog-ng are quite different I think. Regards, -- Steven Cham

Re: DSA, kFreeBSD, and the Singularity (was: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it)

2013-09-01 Thread Steven Chamberlain
some internal project. Having as much Debian software as possible feeding back into Debian development systems, makes the project seem something of an unstoppable machine approaching the Singularity... Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it

2013-08-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 30/08/13 21:49, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Steven Chamberlain writes: >> Wouldn't ZFS be a more natural way to do something like this? > Possibly, but I have zero hopes of getting it set up and supported by > DSA, so we can’t use it for this service. Oh I see. That'

Re: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it

2013-08-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
but with different granularity. It would be neat if they could work together better. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
be others that could yield higher savings. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51ed43e4.9050...@pyro.eu.org

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
uld be added as mirrored pairs somewhat like being able to extend a RAID10. Or you could add groups of disks at a time, each configured like RAID6. And ZFS can also take file-level snapshots, which would possibly allow for a simpler implementation of snapshot.d.o to be based on it... Regards, --

Re: how can we help DSA save money

2013-07-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
formance may then be insufficient, but then it could be potentially fixed in software of the application. So yes, I think this certainly could be seen as a software challenge. Thanks again for all the details and your thoughts. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To U

Re: how can we help DSA save money (was: bits from the DPL - June 2013)

2013-07-20 Thread Steven Chamberlain
eady, DSA heavily makes use of Debian software and there is even a list of relevant usertagged bugs[0]. But what things are we not using Debian for yet, and where could we save DSA some money? [0]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-ad...@lists.debian.org Thanks! Regards, -

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-13 Thread Steven Chamberlain
e version (>= 4.8.1-2) whereas m68k still has only the 4.8.0-7 you uploaded. You will also first need newer binutils (>= 2.23.52) which is still in the build queue. (This applies to ppc64 as well). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-13 Thread Steven Chamberlain
orts: alpha hppa* m68k powerpcspe ppc64 sh4* sparc64* * these ports don't appear to have successfully built GCC 4.8 yet. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-05-07 Thread Steven Chamberlain
in kfreebsd-specific bits of code, not noticed by rebuilds on linux, but should be easy to deal with. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-02-18 Thread Steven Chamberlain
OTOH some packages may switch to openjdk-7 post-wheezy or ship a new upstream version that has at least been fixed to be able to use it. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/512219ae.7090...@pyro.eu.org

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-02-18 Thread Steven Chamberlain
siest to get the release done. Then when testing re-opens we know we can get OpenJDK built, plus lots of new packages that have been waiting on it. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Possible release note for systems running PHP through CGI.

2012-08-20 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 20/08/12 14:35, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 01:10:57PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> Yes it's possible some people rely on that behaviour, e.g. serving JPEG >> data from PHP scripts named like foo.php.jpeg. Sorry, I was wrong. For extensions lik

Re: Possible release note for systems running PHP through CGI.

2012-08-20 Thread Steven Chamberlain
inal behaviour, still recognising *.php* as PHP scripts, but deny access to (through ACLs or a dummy handler) files containing ".php." in their name, unless the filename actually ends in ".php" /If/ that could work, it would limit any disruption to the two cases where it might