Re: [External] Re: Lenovo discount portal update (and a few other things)

2020-12-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 2020-11-04 at 13:45 -0500, Mark Pearson wrote: > I've started chasing this directly myself, but last week was crazy busy. > I have the owner of a number of S and Central America countries looking > into it - I need to go chase some others. >

Re: [Artwork] Survey for the default artwork for Bullseye (Debian 11)

2020-11-11 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 16:18 +0200, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > To vote for your favourite theme, visit the following website and click > on the "Bullseye Artwork Survey" button. From there, you can rank your > choices from the available op

Re: [External] Re: Lenovo discount portal update (and a few other things)

2020-11-04 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 2020-11-04 at 13:45 -0500, Mark Pearson wrote: > I've started chasing this directly myself, but last week was crazy busy. > I have the owner of a number of S and Central America countries looking > into it - I need to go chase some others. >

Re: [External] Re: Lenovo discount portal update (and a few other things)

2020-11-04 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 11:12 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > did you have an update from your colleague on the other geos? Hi Mark, I might have missed it, but did your daily poking of your collegues gave results on the others geos? Tha

Re: [External] Re: Lenovo discount portal update (and a few other things)

2020-09-17 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 2020-09-02 at 15:30 -0400, Mark Pearson wrote: > On 9/2/2020 2:19 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > We're still working on getting other geographies up and running - not > > > available yet I'm afraid. >

Re: [External] Re: Lenovo discount portal update (and a few other things)

2020-09-02 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 2020-09-02 at 15:30 -0400, Mark Pearson wrote: > Hi > > On 9/2/2020 2:19 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > US: http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/Linux > > > Canada: http://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/linuxca > > >

Re: Lenovo discount portal update (and a few other things)

2020-09-02 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 2020-09-02 at 09:08 -0400, Mark Pearson wrote: > Hi Debian developers, > > Following on from DebConf 2020 (which I thoroughly enjoyed - thank you!) > the Lenovo portal that was announced is now available: Hi Mark, and many thanks! > > US:

Bug#963091: ITP: idevicerestore -- command-line application to restore firmware files to iOS devices

2020-06-18 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: pkg-gtkpod-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net * Package name: idevicerestore Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : libimobiledevice project * URL : http://www.libimobiledevice.org/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Descripti

Bug#963042: ITP: libirecovery -- Library allowing communication with iBoot/iBSS of iOS devices via USB

2020-06-18 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gtkpod Maintainers * Package name: libirecovery Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : libimobiledevice project * URL : http://www.libimobiledevice.org/ * License : GPL/LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : Library al

Re: Bug#929834: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-03 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 12:59 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ah, good call. I was also seeing other problems with the Intel driver in > combination with light-locker where the monitor resolution would be set to > some incorrect value after restore from

Re: Bug#929834: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-03 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 21:55 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > I noted Andreas raised the severity, but I hope someone has an idea how to fix > that because I don't. Also, since it was posted on -devel, I guess there's a bit of e

Re: Bug#929834: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-03 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 18:32 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > This appears to be a bug in light-locker specifically, which is the > default screen lock program with XFCE with lightdm. See, for instance: > > https://github.com/the-cavalry/light-locker/is

Re: Bug#919226: ITP: hardening-runtime -- Runtime hardening configuration files

2019-01-14 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Just a side note on this. The package currently supports sysctl (by dropping a file in /etc/sysctl.d, which should be common enough) and Linux commandline when using grub (by dropping a file in /etc/default/grub.d). I was asked to open a discussion

Bug#919226: ITP: hardening-runtime -- Runtime hardening configuration files

2019-01-13 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yves-Alexis Perez * Package name: hardening-runtime Version : 1 Upstream Author : Yves-Alexis Perez https://salsa.debian.org/corsac/hardening-runtime * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: configuration file Description

Re: Bits from the DPL (May 2018)

2018-06-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 21:40 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > You did not miss anything; it was not discussed in public. Ok. > > I can let you know the details privately if you wish, but I'd rather > not shout the parties involved from the rooftops just i

Re: Bits from the DPL (May 2018)

2018-05-31 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 17:33 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > * Discussing a potential scenario where we could provide hardware >encryption keys for all Developers, partly as another benefit of being a >DD [25] but moreoever to raise the general le

Re: Bad interaction between pbuilder/debhelper/dpkg-buildinfo/dpkg-genchanges and dak on security-master

2017-07-09 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sun, 2017-07-09 at 15:41 +0100, James Clarke wrote: >  You've done the build, so by uploading the _amd64.buildinfo > you are announcing that you were able to produce those build results in the > specified environment, and in theory it allows anyone to compare the buildd's > results to what you c

Re: Bad interaction between pbuilder/debhelper/dpkg-buildinfo/dpkg-genchanges and dak on security-master

2017-07-09 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 20:49 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 19:06 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 07:00:20PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > [ Correcting ftp-master's email address, but keeping the large list of > >

Re: Bad interaction between pbuilder/debhelper/dpkg-buildinfo/dpkg-genchanges and dak on security-master

2017-07-03 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 19:06 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 07:00:20PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > [ Correcting ftp-master's email address, but keeping the large list of > > recipients for some reason. ] > > really…  that's just a ftp-master issue IMHO, definitely not due

Re: Bad interaction between pbuilder/debhelper/dpkg-buildinfo/dpkg-genchanges and dak on security-master

2017-07-03 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Sorry for the fail on FTP-masters email address (which also got the mail bounced from alioth). Replying to keep threading consistent but quoting the whole mail below). On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 14:49 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Hi, > > I recently had a problem with an upload to th

Bad interaction between pbuilder/debhelper/dpkg-buildinfo/dpkg-genchanges and dak on security-master

2017-07-03 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Hi, I recently had a problem with an upload to the archive, likely due to bad interaction between the tooling I use to build packages and the archive manager. I usually build my packages using pbuilder, with SOURCE_ONLY_CHANGES=yes in .pbuilderrc, so pbuilder will ask to generate a _source.change

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Processed: reassign 853084 to xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin

2017-01-30 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sun, 2017-01-29 at 17:54 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > > > reassign 853084 xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin > > Bug #853084 [general] general: Not connected to PulseAudio server > Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'xfce4-pulseaudio-

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#830624: ITP: xplayer -- Simple media player based on GStreamer.

2016-07-11 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sun, 2016-07-10 at 08:39 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Maybe the XFCE / Cinnamon / Mate maintainers can confirm if that is indeed > the plan. Talking for pkg-xfce: I have no idea what this is about. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed messa

Re: interested in (co-)maintaining midori

2015-08-14 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2015-08-14 at 02:39 -0400, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > Did you guys have time to look at my repository? I'm not right sure who you're asking exactly, but just to re-state this again: I don't want to be involved with Midori packaging anymore *at all*. You can safely drop me from those m

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-09 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2014-08-08 at 18:38 -0700, Paul C. Bryan wrote: > With all due respect to XFCE, I'd hate the interpretation to be along > the lines of, "Oh, Debian state of the art desktop environment feels > something like Windows, circa 2000." But, XFCE's lightweight. It's > meant > to lack such fancy f

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2014-08-07 at 23:57 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: > Hi Debian, About the decision itself, as Debian Xfce main maintainer, I honestly don't really care. I don't think the default desktop matters that much on Debian (while I guess it means a lot for Ubuntu, for example). I actually think havi

Re: [Pkg-swan-devel] say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-28 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer., 2014-07-16 at 15:08 +0200, Romain Francoise wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 03:40:13PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > > Since you seem to know the software well, and it is important for you, > > perhaps you can take over maintainence of the package? The current > > maintainer doesn't seem to

Re: Bug#605090: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-23 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
udes an upstream source tarball plus a grsec patch? In my case, it's actually the src:linux orig.tar.xz with the (adapted) grsec patch added to debian/patches (like other featuresets). Regards, -- Yves-Alexis Perez signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#605090: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-23 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:45:10PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 22:41 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > [...] > > NOTE: I don't want to dismiss Mempo attempts, especially the > > reproducible build part, and I also think it's valuable to provide

Re: Bug#605090: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-22 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
wrong or if things have changed since them, and there's indeed a consensus for the vanilla + grsecurity + make deb-pkg as an easy way to provide grsec kernels in the Debian archive, then I'm all for it. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis Perez signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bits from the Security Team

2014-03-09 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
gcc upstream, asking for status and maybe pushing a little bit forward. But right now I'm not sure that, in Debian, we have people knowledgeable enough on the intimate gcc behavior to push that directly. That's a bit unfortunate. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis Perez Debian security team signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bits from the Security Team

2014-03-05 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
unsure it's actually related to hidpid=2 and not just to the lack of systemd/logind support in current Xfce stack. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis Perez Debian security team signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#730827: ITP: light-locker -- simple screen locker for LightDM display manager

2013-11-29 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: pkg-xfce-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: light-locker Version : 1.1.0-1 Upstream Author : William Jon McCann, Peter de Ridder, Simon Steinbeiß * URL : https://github.com/the-cavalry/light-locker/ * License :

Bug#679853: general: Too much downtime during a big dist-upgrade - avoidable with snapshots

2012-07-02 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun., 2012-07-02 at 11:11 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > 3) Then a kexec-based reboot should happen, using the new subvolume as > the root filesystem. Note that I just did a quick test with kexec-tools in sid on two boxes, and kexec failed miserably, so maybe it works perfectly elsewher

Re: The future (or non-future) of ia32-libs

2012-06-22 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2012-06-22 at 11:34 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > #677787 gtk2-engines-xfce: Please add multiarch support Note that this one (as investigated in the bug report by Goswin and me) is a bit spurious. For multi-arch Gtk+ apps, a multi-arch engine matching the theme used by the end user

Re: Is Debian affected by the recent MySQL sql/password.c flow?

2012-06-11 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2012-06-12 at 02:23 +0800, Aron Xu wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > On 06/12/2012 01:52 AM, Aron Xu wrote: > >> IMHO I suggest to talk with Security Team before disclosing > >> information that might be sensitive in the mean time on a Debian > >> develop

Re: sticky bit on devices

2012-05-21 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2012-05-22 at 13:12 +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > I've just noticed that a bunch of device nodes on my main system running > Unstable now have the sticky bit set. > Google search seems to say that the question has already been asked and replied on debian-user http://lists.debian.org/debi

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-17 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2012-05-15 at 14:32 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi dpkg-* maintainers, I think you missed the correct mailing list to reach the dpkg-* maintainers. -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: big .debian.tar.xz - EG Wordpress

2012-05-17 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer., 2012-05-16 at 19:45 +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > I just downloaded the source to Wordpress from Squeeze, it's got a 14M > .debian.tar.xz which is mostly sources for things that are included in the > upstream tarball. The build process appears to only use the upstream tarball > code so

Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

2012-05-13 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On sam., 2012-05-12 at 23:45 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Being forced to upgrade to a new major version by a stable security support is > nothing we should force our users to. Debian stable is known for (usually) > painfree updates and bugfixes only, not for shipping completely new versions > wit

Re: Bug#672160: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-10 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2012-05-11 at 00:16 +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 09:40:23PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > Generally the console has to work even before root is mounted, so > > that the user can enter a decryption password if necessary. > > Unfortunately, as far as I know

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-09 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2012-04-10 at 01:03 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Or just say in the release notes that it's a good idea to run something > like this before upgrading: > > dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs --no-run-if-empty dpkg --purge > That's a pretty dangerous line. People (sometimes) don't p

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
> On do, 2012-02-02 at 12:18 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, dann frazier wrote: > > > Whilte it may help the kernel team to not have to worry about problems > > > in the grsec flavor when preparing uploads, preventing delays for the > > > non-grsec images. But, that just push

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer., 2012-02-01 at 14:32 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 10:51 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On mer., 2012-02-01 at 10:34 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:24:40AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > > On m

Re: lack of replacement for linux-vserver

2012-02-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer., 2012-02-01 at 10:33 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Just to be clear, 'that work' is not just a matter of forwarding > > messages back and forward between the Debian BTS and the Linux-VServer > > developers. Unless the VServer project

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer., 2012-02-01 at 10:34 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:24:40AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On mar., 2012-01-31 at 11:01 -0500, micah anderson wrote: > > > What is stopping you from creating another package, that provides the > >

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2012-01-31 at 11:01 -0500, micah anderson wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:26:50 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez > wrote: > > So I think it's perfectly clear that nor Debian nor Grsecurity are > > really interested in Debian shipping a Grsecurity kernel. > > Well,

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-01-30 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun., 2012-01-30 at 14:08 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 11:05 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > (adding few CC:s to keep track on the bug) > > > > On dim., 2012-01-29 at 21:26 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 20:57

Re: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-01-30 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
(adding few CC:s to keep track on the bug) On dim., 2012-01-29 at 21:26 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 20:57 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On dim., 2012-01-29 at 18:22 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Featuresets > > > --- >

Re: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-01-29 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On dim., 2012-01-29 at 18:22 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Featuresets > --- > > The only featureset provided will be 'rt' (realtime), currently built > for amd64 only. If there is interest in realtime support for other > architectures, we may be able to add that. However, we do need to

Re: what if a package needs to be "recalled"

2011-11-23 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On dim., 2011-11-20 at 20:56 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > If this thread is specifically related to the broken sandbox in > chromium right now, then you can use "chromium --no-sandbox" until we > find an appropriate fix the bug (or help us do that). No need to come > up with crazy versioning so

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-20 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2011-10-20 at 18:58 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Timo Jyrinki wrote: > > Actually, I already know a lot of people whose only desktop machine > > network connection is a 3G dongle, since unlimited data with it is > > about half the price of ADSL connection. > > My pa

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2011-10-18 at 15:55 +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: > Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > Drop usb-modeswitch completely from the default desktop install? > > network-manager recommends modemmanager recommends usb-modeswitch. > > network-manager wants modemmanager to handle &

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2011-10-18 at 13:36 +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: > What's your opinion ? Drop usb-modeswitch completely from the default desktop install? -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Dependencies of metapackages

2011-09-03 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer., 2011-08-31 at 11:59 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > Could you elaborate on your reasons and your intentions for making the > distinction? Policy 7.2, mostly, and the fact depends are installed (obviously), recommends are installed by default (but that can be disabled and one can remov

Re: Dependencies of metapackages

2011-08-30 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2011-08-30 at 16:11 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > I agree that a general change of all metapackages is probably not a good idea, > but I think that changing the root-nodes of the metapackage tree (i.e. > metapackages like gnome, xfce4, kde-full, ...) is a sensible change. It is in >

Re: Fwd: Re: BLAST+ speed & build issues

2011-08-04 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2011-08-04 at 13:27 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Julian Taylor, le Thu 04 Aug 2011 12:32:27 +0200, a écrit : > > You might be able to reduce startup time by only linking against the > > libraries you need or lazyly dynamically loading them. > > Or use prelink. Which as issues especia

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-26 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2011-07-26 at 11:15 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:46:47 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:27:09AM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > >> I believe it's high time we start to providing Debian in form of > official > >> virtualisation images. >

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-25 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2011-07-26 at 00:27 +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > I believe it's high time we start to providing Debian in form of official > virtualisation images. In contrast to the ISOs currently provided it > allows a quicker evaluation/testing of Debian (and can also be very > useful for testing

Re: Whether should grub2 write MBR automatic

2011-06-21 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer., 2011-06-22 at 14:06 +0800, Aron Xu wrote: > > What is your use case for the second behaviour? > > > > grub-pc will write MBR every time when triggered, and grub-pc-bin will > not update grub entry after the kernel is updated. - It is weird when > you have grub installed to an alternative

Re: Whether should grub2 write MBR automatic

2011-06-21 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer., 2011-06-22 at 14:10 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > > What is your use case for the second behaviour? > > > The second behavior means that: when update/reinstall grub or > update/install/reinstall kernel will call update-grub but not call > grub-install. Let me rephrase what Ben asked: why

Re: [ltp] Re: double checking Debian's 686-pae vs. -486 probe

2011-05-24 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2011-05-24 at 09:58 -0300, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Say, for the sake of sharing a single .deb offline, what bad thing might > > happen if I run the -486 kernel on my other machines where I could run > > the -pae kernel? > > Nothing serious, unless they have a lot of RAM (in which case t

Re: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6 in wheezy as default?

2011-05-08 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On dim., 2011-05-08 at 17:56 +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > Beside that the default timeout setting for the dynamic address is something > to be discussed, I believe the default is about a week which is rather > long if you want to have a benefit over static assignment. After all the gain > of > ano

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-03-31 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2011-03-31 at 14:30 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Xfce 4.8 (for the most part) doesn't rely on hal anymore, at least on Linux. > Yves-Alexis, what is the fallback on kfreebsd? Does Xfce 4.8 on kfreebsd still > require hal or will it just have reduced functionality? > On BSD it's reduced f

Re: GNOME 3 and panel applets

2011-03-06 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 18:17 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > If you develop, maintain or use one of those packages, and you don’t > want it to disappear, your options are now: > > 1. Prepare to disable gnome-panel support (that’s for packages > which already have other options, such a

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-04 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 23:28 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Ubuntu actually has better pro-active/defence-in-depth security than > Debian right now. For example compiler hardening flags, kernel > hardening (symlink, hardlink, ptrace, nx emulation), MAC (AppArmour). > Perusing their roadmap pages is quite

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-04 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 12:24 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > If you're unfamiliar with computers, on the other hand, chances that > you'll be able to figure out how to enable convenience services are > slim, at best. Since home users typically use computers in a desktop > environment, I therefore th

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-04 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 12:45 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > main security problem is resolver, > $host -v www.local > www.local > www.local.mydomain.com > > see security issue in draft paper also in case > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns-08 resolver is more like th

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-04 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 16:08 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > We don't like security by obscurity, as you might know. Not shouting out loud that a service is available doesn't qualify as “security by obscurity” for me. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.

Bug#615591: ITP: lightdm -- simple display manager with GTK+, Qt and Webkit greeters

2011-02-27 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Xfce Maintainers * Package name: lightdm Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Robert Ancell * URL : https://launchpad.net/lightdm * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C/ Description : simple display manager wi

Re: Upcoming changes in Lintian & some bits

2011-02-23 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 22:47 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > As a consequence of these changes, the new Lintian release will cause > many existing overrides to no longer apply. We recognise that this will > lead to some noise in the short term but are convinced that the longer > term advantages ma

Bug#612110: ITP: tumbler -- d-bus thumbnailing service

2011-02-05 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Xfce Maintainers * Package name: tumbler Version : 0.1.6 Upstream Author : Jannis Pohlmann * URL : http://www.xfce.org/ * License : GPL-2+/LGPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : d-bus thumbnailing serv

Bug#612090: ITP: garcon -- freedesktop.org compliant menu library

2011-02-05 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Yves-Alexis Perez" * Package name: garcon Version : 0.1.5 Upstream Author : Jannis Pohlmann * URL : http://www.xfce.org * License : GPL-2+/LGPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : menu library g

Bug#612048: ITP: libxfce4ui -- widget library for Xfce desktop environment

2011-02-05 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Xfce Maintainers * Package name: libxfce4ui Version : 4.8.1 Upstream Author : the Xfce development team * URL : http://www.xfce.org/ * License : LGPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : widget library for

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-14 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2011-01-14 at 18:05 -0200, Marco Silva wrote: > This documentation is generated automatically > from the source code, using a documentation generator called haddock. Haddock > is part of the compiler and is also updated when the ghc is. It would be > good to regenerate the documentation

Re: compatibility analysis for Java libraries

2010-12-08 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer., 2010-12-08 at 18:00 +0300, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > Hello, > > I know that some Debian maintainers use ABI Compliance Checker (ACC) > tool along with Ustream Tracker at LinuxTesting.org [1] for testing > backward compatibility of C/C++ libraries. Now I want to inform you > about opened

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-11-20 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2010-11-19 at 23:49 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > And i am usually not offended by someone blaming APT to be too dumb. > APT is all about dependency resolution, so saying you are not to deep > into it, but blaming APT to be wrong isn't the best tone either. > Draw i would say… Hey,

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-11-19 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2010-11-19 at 19:23 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > So, go and start reading. Debian has a lot of dependencies and you have a > lot of possibilities because of that. > You can't use them if you don't know them. > And, more important, you can't blame APT for being stupid if you don't

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-11-19 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 19/11/2010 12:29, David Kalnischkies wrote: > xfce4-mcs-manager recommends it. > As APT has no indication that this package can go away it does the > only right thing (TM): Chooses to keep xfce4-mcs-plugins as otherwise > the user will lose functionality… > (recommends are defined as installed o

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-11-19 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 19/11/2010 08:52, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Anyone knows why and how to fix that? Would a “breaks” instead of a > “conflicts” fix it? Seems that “Breaks:” doesn't work either: > Investigating (0) xfce4-settings [ amd64 ] < none -> 4.6.5-3 > ( xfce ) > Broken xfce

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-11-18 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer., 2010-11-17 at 08:37 -0600, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I have been working on a piuparts rewrite that makes it easier to find > install/removal/upgrade bugs. When running it on all packages in > squeeze, I'm currently getting 682 failures. That doesn't mean 682 RC > bugs, because some of the f

Re: Squeeze Artwork: selection of default theme

2010-11-12 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2010-11-12 at 10:37 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Paul Wise wrote: > >There was the possibility of mentioning the poll in DPN, but it was > >noted that the deadline already passed. It was suggested that the > >poll was quite short. It was suggested a more widely advertised and > >longer r

Re: Bug#595106: ITP: faenza-icon-theme -- Faenza icon theme

2010-09-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 01/09/2010 06:59, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Adnan Hodzic > > * Package name: faenza-icon-theme > Version : 0.7 > Upstream Author : Matthieu James > * URL : http://tiheum.deviantart.com/art/Faenza-Icons-173323228 > * License

Re: For those who care about their packages in Debian

2010-08-25 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 25/08/2010 10:13, Russ Allbery wrote: > Yves-Alexis Perez writes: >> Hmhm, out of curiosity, why is t-p-u “way riskier”. > > Mostly because there isn't any large pool of systems using t-p-u the way > there is for unstable, Yeah, good point. > >> Would it be

Re: For those who care about their packages in Debian

2010-08-25 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 25/08/2010 10:02, Russ Allbery wrote: > Uploading new versions of leaf software isn't *as* big of a disaster, but > it does mean that updates to that software that should go into testing > can't go through the normal testing process and have to go through > testing-proposed-updates, which is way

Re: Is Ryan Niebur MIA?

2010-08-17 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2010-08-17 at 11:46 -0700, Ryan Niebur wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:13:54AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > > On a side note, I'd very much like to update midori, but doing a NMU for > > a new upstream release (he already packaged 0.2.6) is a b

Re: Is Ryan Niebur MIA?

2010-08-17 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 17/08/2010 15:51, Xavier Oswald wrote: > Some times ago I sponsored him uploads of midori. I told him that Im > interested > in helping maintaining midori and he said that he is active and will take care > of it if I well remember. Im sad to hear this. I asked him multiple time if he needed he

Is Ryan Niebur MIA?

2010-08-16 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Hey, did anybody have news from Ryan recently? Some time ago we discussed midori new upstream release (debian has 0.2.4, 0.2.7 just came out), but I heard no news since few months. I pinged him on irc, by mail and on the BTS, but nothing. Seems the last activity was like a month ago, and I don't k

Re: why are there /bin and /usr/bin...

2010-08-16 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 16/08/2010 14:00, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] "Perry E. Metzger" > > | In the embedded space, which I know a lot about, it is true that the > | root FS is on flash or other expensive media -- but it isn't like /usr > | is on cheaper media in such an environment, it is always part of the > | ro

Re: .deb package for a library generation

2010-08-09 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
I won't comment on the main issue since other people gave you the solution. On dim., 2010-08-08 at 16:45 +0300, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: > I need to generate a Debian package for a library > As an exercise I tried it with libvirt . Note that libvirt is already packaged so you can inspire you of th

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun., 2010-08-09 at 21:13 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > BTW, suboptimal > subpixel rendering of fonts in Debian is one of the reasons why many > desktop users switch to other distros. Is it? -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: segmentation fault (a.o. in /u/s/debconf/frontend)

2010-08-04 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 04/08/2010 11:54, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Unfortunately, a reboot did not help to fix the issue on my system. I am > running a testing/unstable mixture, by the way. I think you want reportbug here. -- Yves-Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-27 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 27/07/2010 12:59, Ian Jackson wrote: > Fernando Lemos writes ("Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, > was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling"): >> This is free software. If you want to get your idea implemented, >> either file a bug report and patiently wa

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-27 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 26/07/2010 10:30, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I could not find that "submenu" while installing 10.04. It's quite > possibly only in the alternate installer image nowadays (that is used > for the server edition AFAIK). So they have such a huge number of people installing the alternate installer? I

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-22 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 21/07/2010 10:25, Paul Wise wrote: > They also currently have almost 20 times as many popcon submissions as > Debian and continuing growth: > > http://popcon.ubuntu.com/ > http://popcon.ubuntu.com/stat/sub-i386.png Is it enabled by default without asking the user? (I didn't do an ubuntu instal

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-20 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 20/07/2010 16:56, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > I mount filesystem with "noatime" (at home and on my servers), > and AFAIK popcon don't work with such configuration, so I don't > install it. It can at least report the installed packages, I guess? Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Bug#587514: ITP: cpupowerd -- daemon for frequency and voltage control of AMD K8 CPUs with undervolting/overvolting capability

2010-06-29 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 29/06/2010 16:00, Michael Biebl wrote: > What features does it have over existing packages? And why not using ondemand? Is AMD support bad? -- Yves-Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun., 2010-06-28 at 17:55 +0200, Olivier Bonvalet wrote: > I agree : on 64bit systems Iceweasel 3.5 is way too slow, and Iceweasel > 3.6 should be included in Squeeze. Thank you for volunteering, I'm sure Mike will take all the help you'll give. -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: Th

Re: ITP: php-recaptcha -- PHP interface to recaptcha.net

2010-06-20 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On dim., 2010-06-20 at 11:40 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > You are not even a Debian developer so please refrain from trying to > re-interpret the DFSG to suite your opinions. > Nice, very nice. I'm speechless. -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: cryptdisks(-early) initscripts, dependencies and loops

2010-06-03 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2010-06-04 at 02:49 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Those wanting another ordering can edit the init.d scripts directly to > declare some other ordering or provide override headers in > /etc/inssserv/overrides/ if they want to avoid editing in the > conffiles included in the package

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