Fixing src:ucf environmnent variable insecurity in [old]stable

2024-12-19 Thread Mark Hindley
stable and testing are no longer affected as virtually all uses of eval have been removed. Thanks Mark [1] https://bugs.debian.org/1086847 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/1089015 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Summary]: Supporting alternative zlib implementations

2024-12-06 Thread Mark Brown
10:48:50 +0200, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 05:45:49PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > We do OTOH package more software than most distros on more architectures > > so we got a lot more exposure for testing coverage, and the revert would > > involve swi

Re: [Summary]: Supporting alternative zlib implementations

2024-12-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 02:06:37AM +0100, Fay Stegerman wrote: > For example, if it can be made easy to install both and choose between zlib > and > zlib-ng at runtime, so it's easy to build APKs using either zlib or zlib-ng as > needed, downstream breakage can be avoided. Considering whether th

Re: dpkg-maintscript-helper and usrmerge

2024-10-01 Thread Mark Pearson
On Tue, Oct 1, 2024, at 4:32 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 01.10.24 um 20:15 schrieb Mark Pearson: >> >> On Tue, Oct 1, 2024, at 7:44 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: >>> Am 01.10.24 um 12:17 schrieb Michael Biebl: > >>> The issue is, that the path used in dir_to_syml

Re: dpkg-maintscript-helper and usrmerge

2024-10-01 Thread Mark Pearson
Thanks Michael On Tue, Oct 1, 2024, at 7:44 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 01.10.24 um 12:17 schrieb Michael Biebl: >> Am 30.09.24 um 18:53 schrieb Mark Pearson: >>> The firmware-sof-signed 2024.06 package: >>> https://packages.debian.org/trixie/firmware-sof-signed &g

Re: dpkg-maintscript-helper and usrmerge

2024-09-30 Thread Mark Pearson
se, so would like to see a few > more details. > Holler if you need anything else. Mark

Re: Supporting alternative zlib implementations

2024-09-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 01:55:17AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > The problem though is, that because the compressed stream is going to > change, that can make certain test suites fail if we perform this > switch, which I think would be the main fallout that we'd see from > this and would need manu

Re: Supporting alternative zlib implementations

2024-09-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 05:45:49PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 15:58:10 +0200, Mark Brown wrote: > > Obviously it's far too late to do anything with the default for trixie, > > we might want to evaluate doing something after the release but for n

Re: Supporting alternative zlib implementations

2024-09-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 09:36:31AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 03:58:10PM +0200, Mark Brown a écrit : > >zlib-ng: https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng > Hi Mark, just out of curiosity, would the carbon footprint of Debian be > lower or higher after

Supporting alternative zlib implementations

2024-09-24 Thread Mark Brown
A recurrning question with the zlib package in Debian is interest in the various alternative zlib implementations that are out there. There was a long period where upstream zlib development seemed very stalled, during that period people who wanted improvements started forking their own projects.

Bug#1068245: ITP: iwgtk -- lightweight graphical frontend to iwd

2024-04-02 Thread Mark Hindley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Hindley X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: iwgtk Version : 0.9 Upstream Contact: Jesse Lentz * URL : https://github.com/J-Lentz/iwgtk * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: C Description

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-07-23 Thread Mark Hymers
ld normally be: 1. Release team: reconfigure britney2 to remove mipsel from testing 2. ftp-team remove architecture from testing and associated queues and perform any needed cleanup 3. ftp-team remove architecture from unstable and experimental and associated queues + cleanup Mark -- Mark Hymers

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-07-23 Thread Mark Hymers
the archive? Thanks, Mark -- Mark Hymers signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Policy consensus on transition when removing initscripts.

2023-06-25 Thread Mark Hindley
ainer wishes to drop to the orphan-sysvinit-scripts package and providing the relevant copyright information. Best wishes Mark [1] they continue to be used by sysvinit, openrc and runit which are all viable non-systemd inits at the time of writing. [2] https://bugs.debian.org/1038

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

2023-04-27 Thread Mark Hindley
sysvinit-scripts package: Which is still the second best option. Despite Matthew's best efforts, having the init script in a separate package causes several issues. See Bugs/Limitations in the orphan-sysvinit-scripts README[1]. Please leave the init script in place. Mark [1] https://sa

ITP: golang-github-radovskyb-watcher -- a Go package for watching for files or directory changes without using filesystem events.

2023-03-10 Thread Mark E. Fuller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark E. Fuller * Package name: golang-github-radovskyb-watcher Version : 1.0.7-1 Upstream Author : Benjamin Radovsky * URL : https://github.com/radovskyb/watcher * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Go

ITP: golang-github-go-task-slim-sprig -- Useful template functions for Go templates.

2023-03-10 Thread Mark E. Fuller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark E. Fuller * Package name: golang-github-go-task-slim-sprig Version : 2.20.0-1 Upstream Author : Andrey Nering * URL : https://github.com/go-task/slim-sprig * License : MIT Programming Lang: Go Description

ITP: golang-github-sajari-fuzzy -- Spell checking and fuzzy search suggestion written in Go

2023-03-10 Thread Mark E. Fuller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark E. Fuller * Package name: golang-github-sajari-fuzzy Version : 1.0.0-1 Upstream Author : Search.io * URL : https://github.com/sajari/fuzzy * License : MIT Programming Lang: Go Description : Spell checking

ITP: go-task -- A task runner / simpler Make alternative written in Go

2023-03-10 Thread Mark E. Fuller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark E. Fuller * Package name: go-task Version : 3.21.0-1 Upstream Author : Task * URL : https://github.com/go-task/task * License : MIT Programming Lang: Go Description : A task runner / simpler Make

Re: [External] Re: Populating non-free firmware?

2023-01-04 Thread Mark Pearson
ges maintained by the kernel team. > > Great! That covers a large percentage of them (and even most of the > important ones). > > So if we're going with maintainers-are-going-to-do-the-uploads, then > taking a cursory glance at what's left that seems important is: >

Bug#1027123: ITP: php-xhprof -- XHProf is a function-level hierarchical profiler for PHP

2022-12-27 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Package: wnpp Owner: Mark A. Hershberger Severity: wishlist * Package name: php-xhprof Version : 2.3.9 Upstream Author : Xinhui Long * URL or Web page : https://github.com/longxinH/xhprof/ * License : Apache2 Description : XHProf is a function-level hierarchical

Bug#1016038: ITP: sysd-openrc -- Translator to convert systemd units to openrc scripts.

2022-07-25 Thread Mark Hindley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Hindley X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, m...@kayg.org, ope...@packages.debian.org sysvi...@packages.debian.org * Package name: sysd-openrc Version : Unversioned upstream Upstream Author : K Gopal Krishna * URL

Bug#1006977: ITP: open-plc-tools -- Toolkit for powerline network adapters with Atheros chipsets

2022-03-09 Thread Mark Hindley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Hindley * Package name: open-plc-tools Version : 0.0.6 Upstream Author : Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. * URL : https://github.com/qca/open-plc-utils * License : Clear BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Toolkit

Re: [External] Re: Touchpad driver on Lenovo X13 Yoga has major use-stopping bugs

2022-01-17 Thread Mark Pearson
do lurk on there and try to help where we can. If you can send me your kernel logs and any specific steps to reproduce that would help (probably best off list). I'll see what I can find. I'm afraid I'm not on the Debian IRC (too many different chat tools in my life to have even more :

Re: [External] Re: Intel SOF audio firmware packaging

2020-12-12 Thread Mark Pearson
On 12/12/2020 05:48, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 11 décembre 2020 20:36 -05, Mark Pearson: > > You need to use "~rc" instead of "-rc", otherwise, users won't be able > to upgrade to "1.6" when they have "1.6-rc3" installed. > Ooops - my

Re: [External] Re: Intel SOF audio firmware packaging

2020-12-11 Thread Mark Pearson
Thanks Vincent On 11/12/2020 14:22, Vincent Bernat wrote: > owner 960788 markpear...@lenovo.com > quit > > ❦ 11 décembre 2020 12:15 -05, Mark Pearson: > >>> >>> This should do the trick. You may want to tag the upstream commit >>> yourself with upst

Re: [External] Re: Intel SOF audio firmware packaging

2020-12-11 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Vincent On 10/12/2020 13:53, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 10 décembre 2020 12:57 -05, Mark Pearson: > >> I did have to comment out "overlay = True" in the gbp.conf - it gave me >> an error that I'll have to dig into. > > That's because you went for

Re: [External] Re: Intel SOF audio firmware packaging

2020-12-10 Thread Mark Pearson
#x27;ve done some testing and it's looking good. Any mistakes are my own :) I did have to comment out "overlay = True" in the gbp.conf - it gave me an error that I'll have to dig into. Any suggestions/reviews/comments would be appreciated. Thanks Mark

Re: [External] Re: Intel SOF audio firmware packaging

2020-12-08 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Paul, On 08/12/2020 21:16, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 3:04 PM Mark Pearson wrote: > >> From my point of view (admittedly limited) there is limited benefit to >> building your own unsigned firmware as it won't load on our systems. > > According the

Re: [External] Re: Intel SOF audio firmware packaging

2020-12-08 Thread Mark Pearson
On 08/12/2020 04:43, Hector Oron wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 09:47, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> >> Quoting Mark Pearson (2020-12-08 04:18:20) >>> On 07/12/2020 21:19, Paul Wise wrote: >>>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 1:58 PM Mark Pearson wrote

Re: [External] Re: Intel SOF audio firmware packaging

2020-12-07 Thread Mark Pearson
Thanks Paul, On 07/12/2020 21:19, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 1:58 PM Mark Pearson wrote: > >> I'd like to solve the lack of Intel SOF audio firmware > > IIRC the Debian kernel team were planning on adding those to the > linux-firmware.git packaging. &g

Re: [External] Re: Intel SOF audio firmware packaging

2020-12-07 Thread Mark Pearson
Thanks Vincent, On 07/12/2020 09:03, Vincent Bernat wrote: ❦ 7 décembre 2020 08:57 -05, Mark Pearson: I'd like to solve the lack of Intel SOF audio firmware & topology files being available on Debian - I know it's impacting a lot of users on some of the newer Thinkpads. I fi

Re: [External] Re: Intel SOF audio firmware packaging

2020-12-07 Thread Mark Pearson
On 07/12/2020 11:13, Jonathan Carter wrote: On 2020/12/07 18:07, Mark Pearson wrote: I pushed what I have to https://salsa.debian.org/mpearson/sof-bin-packaging It's pretty basic :) Seems like you haven't committed go.sh? (and hopefully more files?) -Jonathan They

Re: [External] Re: Intel SOF audio firmware packaging

2020-12-07 Thread Mark Pearson
Thanks Jonathan, On 07/12/2020 10:15, Jonathan Carter wrote: Hi Mark On 2020/12/07 15:57, Mark Pearson wrote: I did a bit of reading this weekend, and started the process. Having created appropriate files under a debian sub-dir, and messed around a bit, now when running 'debuild -us -uc&

Intel SOF audio firmware packaging

2020-12-07 Thread Mark Pearson
and I'm not a DM or a DD - so someone with patience for dumbass questions would be a bonus. Thanks in advance Mark

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

2020-12-02 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi, On 2020-12-02 2:35 a.m., Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: 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 o

Bug#976048: ITP: seatd -- Minimal user, seat and session management daemon

2020-11-28 Thread Mark Hindley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Hindley * Package name: seatd Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Kenny Levinsen * URL : https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd * License : Expat Programming Lang: C Description : Flexible user, seat and

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

2020-11-04 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi, On 04/11/2020 13:00, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: 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? Thanks

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

2020-10-19 Thread Mark Pearson
On 19/10/2020 01:56, Mike Gabriel wrote: Hi Mark, On  Fr 18 Sep 2020 15:06:00 CEST, Mark Pearson wrote: On 9/17/2020 5:12 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: 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 ge

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

2020-09-18 Thread Mark Pearson
On 9/17/2020 5:12 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: 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. Any idea of the timeframe? Weeks, mo

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

2020-09-03 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi Paul, On 9/2/2020 9:18 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 1:22 PM Mark Pearson wrote: Following on from DebConf 2020 (which I thoroughly enjoyed - thank you!) the Lenovo portal that was announced is now available: Thanks for your generosity here! This announcement seems

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

2020-09-02 Thread Mark Pearson
ll (although I think I remember seeing it once) I've not played with that but I can find out about it. I've got a T14 AMD in front of me right now and it I could configure the Absolute Persistence Module (enable/disable/permanently disable). For the ME HAP...I don't see that either. I'll see if I can find out about it. Mark

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

2020-09-02 Thread Mark Pearson
On 9/2/2020 11:01 AM, jathan wrote: On 02/09/2020 08:08, 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: US: http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/Linux Canada: http

Lenovo discount portal update (and a few other things)

2020-09-02 Thread Mark Pearson
so if your question didn't get answered at the time have a look at etherpad and check. Thanks Mark

Bug#932769: #932769

2019-07-23 Thread Mark Hutchison
IP and requests another, but secretly holds on to the IP. The DHCP server logs will show a final DHCPDECLINE after the ACK, and mark the address as abandoned. The VM will still have the address leased however. After a period of time VMware's guest tools will show all the consumed IP&#x

Bug#932769: [moreinfo] DoS via DHCP request

2019-07-23 Thread Mark Hutchison
IP and requests another, but secretly holds on to the IP. The DHCP server logs will show a final DHCPDECLINE after the ACK, and mark the address as abandoned. The VM will still have the address leased however. After a period of time VMware's guest tools will show all the consumed IP&#x

Bug#932769: general: DHCP request bug when storage lost

2019-07-22 Thread Mark Hutchison
Package: general Severity: important Tags: l10n Dear Maintainer, While doing unrelated storage testing for our VMware integrated product, we purposefully recreated a storage outage by removing the iSCSI initiators from the backing array hosting the vmdk disk images for the virtual machine. Up

Bug#926951: ITP: python3-git-archive-all -- Archive repository with all its submodules

2019-04-12 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Package: wnpp Owner: Mark A. Hershberger Severity: wishlist Package name: python3-git-archive-all Version : 1.19.4 Upstream Author : Ilya Kulakov URL or Web page : https://github.com/Kentzo/git-archive-all License : MIT Description : Archive repository with all its

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

2019-01-24 Thread Mark Fowler
d you ship it in a security update ? > Wouldn't a less drastic approach be to change the vulnerable scripts to use <<>> instead of <>? Mark.

Re: Bug#905388: Devuan has working packages, but they need work wrt systemd

2018-11-07 Thread Mark Hindley
/LeePen/elogind/tree/debian_WIP. Mark

Re: Migrating away from ucf without dpkg prompting

2018-08-23 Thread Mark Hindley
t simpler handling and dropping an unnecessary dependency was a step forward. But I am happy to be told I am wrong ;) Thanks. Mark

Migrating away from ucf without dpkg prompting

2018-08-22 Thread Mark Hindley
unless it is modified. dpkg then installs the new version without prompting. Can I check that this is the correct way to address it, or should I take an alternative approach? Many thanks. Mark

Re: Re: Standards 4.1.3 and apt-cacher

2018-02-08 Thread Mark Hindley
at all. It is not mentioned in the Policy and ancient bug #215549 was closed as wontfix. So although reconfigure is in the postinst skeleton the distinction is not observed. The only possible way to distinguish is using the hack that DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE=1 is set in the postinst environment. See debconf-devel(7). Or am I missing something? Mark

Standards 4.1.3 and apt-cacher

2018-02-07 Thread Mark Hindley
: duplicate-updaterc.d-calls-in-postinst. Is my approach flawed or is lintian being overzealous? Any other suggestions? A pruned version of postinst is below. Thanks for your help. Mark # Split of standard dh_installinit block. invoke-rc.d at end of script if [ "$1" = "config

Bug#865280: general: I requested a PowerMac GPU reset in the next version number of Jessie (8.8). Need again.

2017-06-20 Thread Mark
Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, It seemed after I installed 8.8-Jessie-upgraded packages on my 8.7.1 Jessie on my PowerMac G5 the graphics were reset. However, UNFORTUNATELY :..I needed to use an ATI graphics card to get my screen working prior to the upgrade. So wh

Bug#861912: closed by Ben Hutchings (Re: Bug#861912: general: turning off bluetooth in upper toolbar in Gnome 3 doesn't keep it off (Wheezy))

2017-05-11 Thread Mark G.B.
> 861912: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861912 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Ben Hutchings > To: 861912-d...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 22:39:

Bug#861912: general: turning off bluetooth in upper toolbar in Gnome 3 doesn't keep it off (Wheezy)

2017-05-05 Thread Mark
Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I tried turning off bluetooth via the icon in the upper toolbar in Gnome 3 in Wheezy oldstable, which I run WITH hardware acceleration on PowerMac G5 Quad, a feature I obtained easily without troubleshooting kernel recompiles in Stable. It's n

Bug#859748: general: fails to address full 8GiB of DDR RAM on PowerMac G5 (only 5.8GiB)

2017-04-06 Thread Mark G.B.
Package: general Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I recently installed 4x1GiB sticks of DDR RAM into my PowerMac G5 DP 2.0 GHz. Apple indicates the maximum amount of RAM supported is indeed 8GiB. The system is fully usable, it runs without problems in any area, pretty much, but I would like to

Re: Y0uHave-W0n-Mark!_

2016-11-06 Thread Mark Casteel
Don’t ever use my email address again! I have reported this to the Nebraska attorney general office > On Nov 5, 2016, at 11:29 PM, > wrote: >

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 10:52:37AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 10:07 +0200, Mark Brown wrote: > > We're getting to the point where there's a fairly pressing need for > > arm64 - the more useful hardware is starting to get a wider distribution >

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 07:05:42PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 14:01 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners > > of very recent amd64 machines too, with better support for things on > > the Skylake platform. Th

Assured UK Rental Income in Swiss Cottage

2016-02-15 Thread Mark Plummer
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Re: Unauthorised activity surrounding tbb package

2015-01-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:09:34AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 04:48:33PM +, Steven Capper wrote: > > we have had no discussion > > over #773359; your response is effectively placing words in my mouth > > and I will not tolerate that. To confound matters, I wasn't eve

Re: SysV already works! Re: rspamd user/group for rspamd package

2014-02-23 Thread Mark Symonds
Hello, 'OdyX' (please use your real name?): On Feb 23, 2014, at 2:10 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Le samedi, 22 février 2014, 21.58:15 Mark Symonds a écrit : >> Please stop. >> >> We can't win with all this fighting…

Re: rspamd user/group for rspamd package

2014-02-22 Thread Mark Symonds
Hello, On Feb 22, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Iain R. Learmonth" writes: >> On 23/02/14 01:28, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > >>> You can find the recent thread here if you'd like to read it: > >>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/02/msg00187.html > >> Ignore me there. I

SysV already works! Re: rspamd user/group for rspamd package

2014-02-22 Thread Mark Symonds
Please stop. We can't win with all this fighting… I suspect there is SABOTAGE happening within the Debian project, we never thought it possible but that doesn't change anything we've seen. A fork might be easier? Multiple forks? (while they waste their time) On Feb 22

Bug#731349: ITP: sparse -- Semantic parser for C

2013-12-04 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Brown * Package name: sparse Version : 0.4.5 Upstream Author : Christopher Li * URL : https://sparse.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : Semantic parser for

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:37:00AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Emacs vs. XEmacs is a little like the perpetual vim vs. nvi argument. > They work differently. Which is "better" can be a matter of opinion, > speaking as an nvi user who can't stand vim despite the fact that vim > clearly does more

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 07:07:21PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > This is what Paul did: When writing just a single sentence it might be > reasonable to derive from a role which is good in general but not > helpful in specific cases. Please try to make reasonable > top-posting-bashings if necessa

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 01:30:01PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 11/16/2013 01:10 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > > Your assertations here both seem rather strong and unsupported, > > especially the idea that people don't use Emacs in graphical mode - it > I have

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:01:48PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 11/16/2013 11:43 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > > It's a package that we've carried since forever and which has a > > userbase. > That's not really an argument. We've also had uae and

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 09:49:49PM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > Why should Debian carry this package? It's a package that we've carried since forever and which has a userbase. > Which virtual packages are you planning to provide? The same set as the package previously did: emacsen, info-br

Bug#729717: ITP: xemacs21-support -- highly customizable text editor -- architecture independent support files

2013-11-16 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Brown Package name: xemacs21-support Version : 21.4.22 Upstream Author : XEmacs team URL : http://www.xemacs.org/ License : GPL and others Programming Lang: elisp Description : highly customizable text

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 05:05:31PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Furthermore, is it not usual practice for ftp master to comment on > actual packages, rather than theoretical ones? an ITP is "intent to > package". There's no package to critique yet! Actually I'm starting from the previous pack

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:39:46AM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 03:25:16PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:06:37AM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > > Before you put this in NEW, how do you plan on fixing the outstanding RC &

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:06:37AM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Before you put this in NEW, how do you plan on fixing the outstanding RC > bugs? By making changes to the software. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 09:17:34AM -0500, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: Don't top post. > Out of curiosity, how do you plan on solving it's six rc bugs? Yes, of course. Well, the one that was there when I looked is fixed, I'll see if the BTS tells me about any open ones after the reupload. signa

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 01:29:50PM +0100, Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:02:18PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > * Package name: xemacs21 > > Version : 21.4.22 > Wasn't this removed just one month ago? Yes, this is why I'm ITPing it.

Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Brown * Package name: xemacs21 Version : 21.4.22 Upstream Author : XEmacs development team URL : http://www.xemacs.org/ License : GPL Programming Lang: C, elisp Description : highly customizable text

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Mark - Syminet
inally got enough attention to be attacked. -- Mark Syminet Internetworking Solutions http://www.syminet.com/ 1-866-664-3151 ext. 8049 GPG Key: https://www.syminet.com/mark On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:30:41PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hi. > > Well I hope this doesn&#x

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Mark Symonds
No, no, no… drop GNOME. Useless anyway. -- Mark On Oct 23, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hi. > > Well I hope this doesn't turn into some kind of flame war... about > systemd, GNOME or similar. > > > In sid, gnome-settings-dae

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now

2013-10-24 Thread Mark - Syminet
This is a move to SABOTAGE linux as an OS. -- Mark On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:30:41PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hi. > > Well I hope this doesn't turn into some kind of flame war... about > systemd, GNOME or similar. > > > In sid, gnome-settings-dae

Re: s390 removed from jessie

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Hymers
#x27;ll not be using or > testing that code any more in sid/jessie. Hi, We've removed s390 from unstable, experimental, buildd-unstable and buildd-experimental. It will vanish from existence at the next dinstall. Thanks, Mark -- Mark Hymers "Everyone is entitled to be stupid but

Re: s390 removed from jessie

2013-10-16 Thread Mark Hymers
the wheezy release. Thanks, Mark -- Mark Hymers "Well, the thing about a black hole - it's main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, your basic space colour is black. So how are you supposed to see them?" Holly, Red Dwarf Series III

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

2013-09-20 Thread Mark Wickens
I have not been involved before in the porting effort but may be interested if there is a need. I have a few alpha platforms and ia64. Could someone describe or point me to a Web page that describes what is involved? I have a c programming background for a lot of years and am now a java software

Gain Organic Traffic: Mail-Archive.Com : PS

2013-09-05 Thread Mark Taylor
e which includes SMO, Brand management, Reputation management, SEO etc. in order to beat your competitors.style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Sounds interesting? Feel free to email us or alternatively you can provide me wi

Re: bluetooth (Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-17 Thread Mark Symonds
dcom chips) We should not buy anything with "Broadcom" chips. Ever. We paid for this hardware, only to be sabotaged by their firmtware. Mark On Jul 17, 2013, at 3:04 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > H > > On Mittwoch, 17. Juli 2013, Samuel Thibault wrote: > [PA] >&g

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-30 Thread Mark Symonds
p://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/2012-03.html#Ditched-Ubuntu-and-Switched-Laptop-to-Back-to-Debian-64bit Dependency based init already works well, to replace it with a hive of bugs does not make sense. OpenRC is the only one which claims to be reverse compatible, if this is true then Open

Ubuntu and Plymouth

2013-05-30 Thread Mark Symonds
…many of us have been to hell and back. Please be near-insanely careful when considering a new init: http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2010-10-24_Ubuntu-Maverick_-Plymouth-Is-the-Worst-Thing-That-Happened-To-Linux.html Best - -- Mark

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-12 Thread Mark Symonds
k for most users it would make sense >> to allow for the option of satisfying gcc-multilib's dependencies using >> multiarch, Here's an idea: Can we keep the distribution simple enough for nearly anyone to understand? -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dev

Bug#704541: general: cannot switch open application by taskbar

2013-04-02 Thread Mark de Bruin
Package: general Severity: normal on the bottom of my gnome session i can't click on the open application all other functions work fine like: change workspace scrol over the taskbar to switch applications the application switcher on top of the screen (near by the clock) -- System Information: D

Re: [Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#693671: ITP: hupnp -- Library for building UPnP devices

2012-11-18 Thread Mark Purcell
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:27:27 Mark Purcell wrote: > * URL : http://www.herqq.com Unfortunatly the correct URL should be: http://www.herqq.org The other site is not PG13. Mark signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#693671: ITP: hupnp -- Library for building UPnP devices

2012-11-18 Thread Mark Purcell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Purcell * Package name: hupnp Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Tuomo Penttinen * URL : http://www.herqq.com * License : LGPLv3 & GPLv3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Library for building UPnP dev

Re: EFI in Debian

2012-07-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 07:30:48PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > So in answer to your question, there are plenty of Android devices > which are trivially unlockable. (And once a Nexus phone is unlocked, > it's you can get a root shell trivially; no jail-breaking necessary. > Of course this is true for

Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-07-01 Thread Kevin Mark
ndness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. -- Mark Twain -- 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/20120701122427.GB8356@horacrux

Re: zlib and biarch/triarch

2012-05-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:14:49PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Seeing the trouble broonie has with zlib, why are those > packages still built anyway? Can???t they please go away? The biarch packages really aren't any bother, the issue with s390x has been having to jump through hoops due to th

Re: zlib and biarch/triarch

2012-05-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 05:06:25PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Of course, all of these packages appear to be specific to amd64, so I don't > know why Mark would be adding new biarch packages for s390. You should > probably ask him. Ask the s390x folks, they asked for them.

Re: udeb and data.tar.xz files?

2012-05-14 Thread Mark Hymers
x. > > I'll wait until that gets fixed up and upload my updated packages > then. Done, Mark -- Mark Hymers "Don't you hate those Claims Direct adverts? 'I slipped on a banana skin and sued the Dominican Republic!'" Linda Smith on the News Quiz ta

Bug#648889: Hook up with hot singles in your town.

2012-01-19 Thread Mark Bedwell
Hook up with hot singles in your town. http://sfxy.me/a - If you would like to not be contacted from us in the future please press on the link below: http://sfxy.me/b or write to: P.O. Box 83, 25th St., Vancouver, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Re: bits from the DPL for October 2011 and others

2011-11-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 05:32:35PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Hi, > > this isn't quite on topic and you are just the last in a long list of > "bits from xyz" but I think it has to be said: Thanks for keeping us > informed. > > I think this year has been the most informative ever, at lea

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