Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2025-01-08 Thread Roger Lynn
On 20/12/2024 12:30, Ansgar 🙀 wrote: > On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 13:00 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Ansgar 🙀, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 12:01:24 +0100, a ecrit: >> > It also avoids the problem of removed-but-not-purged packages. >> >> With files copied into /etc, you will still have configuration files

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2025-01-04 Thread Ángel
On 2024-12-20 at 11:42 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Maybe it would be more productive to take the preference disagreement as > given and then try to figure out how to proceed given that we're never > going to all agree on the best way of handling configuration files? Is > there some way that we can

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2025-01-04 Thread Ángel
On 2024-12-22 at 08:37 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Maybe our conffile handling should be modified to automatically > accept comment-only changes to dpkg-conffiles. > > Greetings > Marc That would require to tag what is considered a comment for each conffile. While most config files seem to use a

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-23 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 08:23:33AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 04:38:46PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 08:37:33AM -0600, rhys wrote: > > > > Right now, the model we have is "some packages use the empty /etc model, > > > > some packages install co

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Gröber writes: > Debian policy section 10.7.2: >> Any configuration files created or *used* by your package must reside in >> /etc, [...] > (Emphasis mine) Policy has a specific definition of configuration file, which makes your point here somewhat ambiguous, but I can understand this mi

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-23 Thread Daniel Gröber
Hi Gioele, On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 08:34:57PM +0100, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > On 23/12/24 16:23, Daniel Gröber wrote: > > As an example I'm familiar with iproute2 moved it's default config from > > /etc/iproute2 to /usr/share/iproute2 in trixie, that is it actually *loads* > > the config from the

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-23 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 23/12/24 16:23, Daniel Gröber wrote: As an example I'm familiar with iproute2 moved it's default config from /etc/iproute2 to /usr/share/iproute2 in trixie, that is it actually *loads* the config from there, it's not just example files so in that case upstream patching or symlink trickery woul

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-23 Thread Daniel Gröber
Hi Josh, On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 07:05:56PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > Suppose that packages ship sample configuration files *that exactly > match their defaults* (which should in general mean that everything is > commented out) in some standardized path under /usr/share/doc/$package/ > (e.g. e

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-23 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 04:38:46PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 08:37:33AM -0600, rhys wrote: > > > > > > > Right now, the model we have is "some packages use the empty /etc model, > > > some packages install commented-out defaults, and there's no > > > consistency". I'd

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-21 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 07:33:46 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: >On 2024-12-19 Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 04:58:06PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: And it is actively harmful as if one edits the example configuration to have a useful configuration as dpkg will start

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-21 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 08:37:33AM -0600, rhys wrote: > > > > Right now, the model we have is "some packages use the empty /etc model, > > some packages install commented-out defaults, and there's no > > consistency". I'd love to move to the model of "all packages use > > whichever model the sysa

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2024-12-19 Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 04:58:06PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>> And it is actively harmful as if one edits the example configuration to >>> have a useful configuration as dpkg will start annoying admins with >>> "the example configuration has changed

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Josh Triplett
Russ Allbery wrote: > And this is the root of the problem: you want one thing for understandable > reasons, and other people, like myself, would prefer the opposite behavior > of having /etc empty by default for different understandable reasons. We > both understand the other's point of view and si

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:50:57 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Josh Triplett, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 02:05:30 -0800, a ecrit: >> I'm talking about the "empty /etc" model here, which is why I'm trying >> to find a solution so that people who *want* the file-full-of-comments >> have it, without installin

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Samuel Thibault writes: > It seems way more often to me that I want to easily inspect/modify/amend > the configuration in /etc (without having to look whatever other place > to find out about the default configuration) than checking what changes > I have made to /etc which I may not want any more

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread rhys
> Right now, the model we have is "some packages use the empty /etc model, > some packages install commented-out defaults, and there's no > consistency". I'd love to move to the model of "all packages use > whichever model the sysadmin prefers". As a long-time sysadmin - and following on my pre

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread rhys
> >> Suppose that packages ship sample configuration files *that exactly >> match their defaults* (which should in general mean that everything is >> commented out) in some standardized path under /usr/share/doc/$package/ >> (e.g. examples/etc), that makes it easy to see what path the example >

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ansgar 🙀, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 13:07:36 +0100, a ecrit: > On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 13:00 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Ansgar 🙀, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 12:01:24 +0100, a ecrit: > > > On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 11:50 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > What I completely fail to understand is why people

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Henrik Ahlgren, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 13:47:24 +0200, a ecrit: > On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 12:01 +0100, Ansgar 🙀 wrote: > > With empty-/etc, you would (ideally) only have explicit local > > configuration in /etc which makes it much, much easier to see what the > > local admin changed to diagnose problem

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 02:05:30 -0800 Josh Triplett wrote: > > I'm talking about the "empty /etc" model here, which is why I'm trying > to find a solution so that people who *want* the file-full-of-comments > have it, without installing it for people who *don't* want it. This sounds to be a reasona

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Ansgar 🙀
Hi, On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 13:00 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ansgar 🙀, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 12:01:24 +0100, a ecrit: > > On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 11:50 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > What I completely fail to understand is why people would want to not > > > see any file in /etc. What harm doe

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ansgar 🙀, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 12:01:24 +0100, a ecrit: > On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 11:50 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > What I completely fail to understand is why people would want to not > > see any file in /etc. What harm does it *actually* cause? > > It makes it hard to see what was actually c

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 12:01 +0100, Ansgar 🙀 wrote: > With empty-/etc, you would (ideally) only have explicit local > configuration in /etc which makes it much, much easier to see what the > local admin changed to diagnose problems, prepare upgrades and so on. > This is practically impossible now.

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 08:36:25AM -0600, rhys wrote: > > > > > >> What group of idiots came up with a system where instead of having all of > >> the configs in maximum of two places (/etc | ~/.config) have now spread > >> them out across five completely separate directory trees? > > > > The

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Ansgar 🙀
Hi, On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 11:50 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > What I completely fail to understand is why people would want to not > see any file in /etc. What harm does it *actually* cause? It makes it hard to see what was actually configured: there is random configuration bits, possibly from

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josh Triplett, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 02:05:30 -0800, a ecrit: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 09:55:17AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Josh Triplett, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 19:05:56 -0800, a ecrit: > > > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > Ansgar 🙀, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 16:21:03 +0100, a ecrit: > > > > > And

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 09:55:17AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Josh Triplett, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 19:05:56 -0800, a ecrit: > > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Ansgar 🙀, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 16:21:03 +0100, a ecrit: > > > > And it is actively harmful as if one edits the example configuration to >

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Richard Lewis, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 09:42:11 +, a ecrit: > but perhaps what is missing is a way to see what changed on upgrade > (you'd want to save the clean version from the _previous_ version of a > package to be able to do that after the upgrade)? You mean ucf? Samuel

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Henrik Ahlgren, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 11:32:37 +0200, a ecrit: > On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 09:55 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > But isn't it what we already have? If I don't modify the example in /etc > > and only add files to .d/, I'm getting upgrades without questions. > > And if I modify the examp

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Richard Lewis
Josh Triplett writes: > Suppose that packages ship sample configuration files *that exactly > match their defaults* (which should in general mean that everything is > commented out) in some standardized path under /usr/share/doc/$package/ > (e.g. examples/etc), that makes it easy to see what pat

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 09:55 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > But isn't it what we already have? If I don't modify the example in /etc > and only add files to .d/, I'm getting upgrades without questions. > And if I modify the example in /etc, I'm getting the question. That way > I can decide per-pack

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josh Triplett, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 19:05:56 -0800, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Ansgar 🙀, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 16:21:03 +0100, a ecrit: > > > And it is actively harmful as if one edits the example configuration to > > > have a useful configuration as dpkg will start annoying admins with >

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Josh Triplett
Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ansgar 🙀, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 16:21:03 +0100, a ecrit: > > And it is actively harmful as if one edits the example configuration to > > have a useful configuration as dpkg will start annoying admins with > > "the example configuration has changed; what do you want to do" >

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 04:58:06PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > And it is actively harmful as if one edits the example configuration to > > have a useful configuration as dpkg will start annoying admins with > > "the example configuration has changed; what do you want to do" > > messages. > >

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ansgar 🙀, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 16:21:03 +0100, a ecrit: > On Thu, 2024-12-19 at 11:16 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Also, /etc would thus be full of empty /etc/$proj directories? I don't > > see the point of not just putting the example files there? Why making it > > more difficult for the admi

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Ansgar 🙀
Hi, On Thu, 2024-12-19 at 11:16 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Also, /etc would thus be full of empty /etc/$proj directories? I don't > see the point of not just putting the example files there? Why making it > more difficult for the admin to configure their server? Examples belong to /usr/share

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Ansgar 🙀
Hi, On Thu, 2024-12-19 at 12:34 +0100, Frank Guthausen wrote: > On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:00:03 +0100 > Ansgar 🙀 wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-12-19 at 10:09 +0100, Frank Guthausen wrote: > > > > > > Debian GNU/Systemd is only an unofficial > > > subdistribution of Debian GNU/Linux. YMMV  > > > > Pleas

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread rhys
> >> What group of idiots came up with a system where instead of having all of >> the configs in maximum of two places (/etc | ~/.config) have now spread them >> out across five completely separate directory trees? > > The group is called "The Linux Userspace API (UAPI) Group", and according

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
On Thu, 2024-12-19 at 07:08 -0600, rhys wrote: > > What group of idiots came up with a system where instead of having all of the > configs in maximum of two places (/etc | ~/.config) have now spread them out > across five completely separate directory trees? The group is called "The Linux User

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread rhys
>>> >>> $ cp /usr/lib/$proj/foo.conf /etc/$proj/ >> >> Which is not trivial, really. Well, it IS, but in the same way that "rm -rf /" is trivial. It's easy to do, but some non-trivial thought should occur before doing it. > Put another way: would it really be /usr/lib/$proj, or

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread rhys
> > this is what can be called "old style" overrides. Things get to be "old" because they actually work well. > The modern way of doing it is the "stateless" style, most commonly associated > with systemd but used by plenty of other projects, plus "drop-in" .d > directories. > > The basic

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:34:57 +0100, Frank Guthausen wrote: >If my suggestions do not apply to situations where systemd is used, >I'd suggest systemd advocates to stay quiet because the topic does >not concern them That nicely helps me to put your suggestion in the correct compart

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:00:03 +0100 Ansgar 🙀 wrote: > On Thu, 2024-12-19 at 10:09 +0100, Frank Guthausen wrote: > > > > Debian GNU/Systemd is only an unofficial > > subdistribution of Debian GNU/Linux. YMMV > > Please keep such messages to appropriate mailing lists such as the > Devuan list As

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Ansgar 🙀
Hi, On Thu, 2024-12-19 at 10:09 +0100, Frank Guthausen wrote: > On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 09:01:09 +0100 > Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > > No: the expected default for systemd-managed services is to use > > /etc/$SERVICE/ . > > Debian GNU/Systemd is only an unofficial > subdistribution of Debian GNU/Lin

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 10:26:12 +0100, a ecrit: > Gioele Barabucci, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 10:22:02 +0100, a ecrit: > > On 19/12/24 10:19, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Gioele Barabucci, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 10:15:47 +0100, a ecrit: > > > > * Admin can override the standard configuratio

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 10:09:41 +0100, Frank Guthausen wrote: >Debian GNU/Systemd is only an unofficial >subdistribution of Debian GNU/Linux. Bullshit. -- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse i

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:03:06 +0900 Simon Richter wrote: > On 12/19/24 16:17, Frank Guthausen wrote: > > > A lot of packages do default configuration in /etc/project.conf and > > admin related stuff in /etc/project.d/whatsoever.conf to separate > > the distribution part from local overrides. >

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Gioele Barabucci, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 10:22:02 +0100, a ecrit: > On 19/12/24 10:19, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Gioele Barabucci, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 10:15:47 +0100, a ecrit: > > > * Admin can override the standard configuration via /etc/$proj/foo.conf > > [...] > > > Upstream projects are moving

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 19/12/24 10:19, Samuel Thibault wrote: Gioele Barabucci, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 10:15:47 +0100, a ecrit: * Admin can override the standard configuration via /etc/$proj/foo.conf [...] Upstream projects are moving to this style. I hope that one day Debian packages will stop shipping files under

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Gioele Barabucci, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 10:15:47 +0100, a ecrit: > * Admin can override the standard configuration via /etc/$proj/foo.conf [...] > Upstream projects are moving to this style. I hope that one day Debian > packages will stop shipping files under /etc. Having pre-filled configuration f

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 19/12/24 08:17, Frank Guthausen wrote: A lot of packages do default configuration in /etc/project.conf and admin related stuff in /etc/project.d/whatsoever.conf to separate the distribution part from local overrides. Hi, this is what can be called "old style" overrides. The modern way of d

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 09:01:09 +0100 Marco d'Itri wrote: > > No: the expected default for systemd-managed services is to use > /etc/$SERVICE/ . Debian GNU/Systemd is only an unofficial subdistribution of Debian GNU/Linux. YMMV -- kind regards Frank pgp3MLhxRVRIo.pgp Description: OpenPGP digita

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 12/19/24 16:17, Frank Guthausen wrote: A lot of packages do default configuration in /etc/project.conf and admin related stuff in /etc/project.d/whatsoever.conf to separate the distribution part from local overrides. It depends on the package. Some packages have a "registry-style" con

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 19, Frank Guthausen wrote: > Is it reasonable to use this idea as "best practice" and implement it > into Debian style administration recommendations? It works very well No: the expected default for systemd-managed services is to use /etc/$SERVICE/ . -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Descr

Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-18 Thread Frank Guthausen
Hello. A lot of packages do default configuration in /etc/project.conf and admin related stuff in /etc/project.d/whatsoever.conf to separate the distribution part from local overrides. Every now and then it might be useful to switch changes on and off. The Debian apache2 package uses sites-availa

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Re: needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma

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>From the buildlogs / testlogs / local tests (ppc64el qemu), it seems that there is completely no improvement for ppc64el. Simple scripts can still encounter segmentation faults (e.g., autopkgtest for src:lua-moses). s390x is newly enabled. I still have not seen enough test log to give any prelimin

Re: needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma

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Re: needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma

2022-06-09 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Hi Mo, Paul, did you see any improvement with luajit2 ? I was looking at luakit, which still fails "silently" on ppc64el, a lua script generating a .h with no symbols with luajit2, where it does work with lua. Also I see that the autopkgtest of knot-resolver still fails on ppc64el. F. On Thu, 19

Re: needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma

2022-05-19 Thread M. Zhou
On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 16:30 +0200, Frédéric Bonnard wrote: > Hi, > > I've followed luajit closely since 2015 on ppc64el as a porter > without enough knowledge to port it, but trying to ease on the > packaging/Debian side (being both IBMer/DD). > That port has been a mixed effort between a code bou

Re: needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma

2022-05-19 Thread M. Zhou
Hi Dipack, I filed an ITP bug for luajit2 and will look into it. Thank you! On Mon, 2022-05-16 at 16:22 +, Dipak Zope1 wrote: > Hello all, > It'd be better to switch to luajit2 if it is possible. We can see > right now the main issue with luajit project is no response from > upstream of LuaJI

Re: needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma

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om: M. Zhou Date: Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 8:07 AM To: debian-devel Subject: [EXTERNAL] needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma Hi folks, I learned in disappointment after becoming LuaJit uploader that the LuaJit upstream behaves uncooperatively especially for IBM architectures

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Suggestion: You should delete Mozilla ESR programs

2019-10-30 Thread patrick . dreier
Dear Woman and Man! Suggestion: You should delete Mozilla ESR programs otherwise you have double work for programming, testing. You should leave more time for the normal version. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.0.2/linux-x86_64/en-US/ With kind Greetings!

Re: Fonts hinting to upstream suggestion

2019-01-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Marek, Quoting Marek Mosiewicz (2019-01-24 09:49:35) > I have been trying to have good looking fonts in Debian. What I found > it seems that Firefox ignores dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config. > > It is not case for Chromium. After playing with native/autohinting > configuration it seems tha

Fonts hinting to upstream suggestion

2019-01-24 Thread Marek Mosiewicz
Hello, I have been trying to have good looking fonts in Debian. What I found it seems that Firefox ignores dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config. It is not case for Chromium. After playing with native/autohinting configuration it seems that it is difficult to have all apps looking good, because some

Re: Openvas too old - suggestion

2017-05-24 Thread Jeff Epler
Hello Hans The earlier message in this thread mentioned that Debian Testing is "frozen". You'll find more information about what this means here: https://release.debian.org/stretch/freeze_policy.html though that document is really written for people who are familiar with Debian development.

Re: Openvas too old - suggestion

2017-05-23 Thread Hans
Hi Andrey, > Now please look in experimental. Yes, I saw it in experimental. However, I wondered, why it is still not in unstable or testing, because in Kali it is already since weeks. > Please also remember that we are currently frozen. Of course, I forgot. This is an explanation, of course. N

Re: Openvas too old - suggestion

2017-05-23 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 07:48:39PM +0200, Hans wrote: > I see, that even in unstable openvas is still available in version 8. Now please look in experimental. Please also remember that we are currently frozen. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Openvas too old - suggestion

2017-05-23 Thread Hans
Dear developers, I see, that even in unstable openvas is still available in version 8. The actual version however is version 9. Of course I understand, that you have to check the stability and other things. But please allow me to suggest this: In Kali-Linux there are already binary packages i

Re: Packaging suggestion for the Universal Media Server program.

2017-01-21 Thread Christoph Biedl
Aldrin P. S. Castro wrote... > I would very much like the Universal Media Server to be in the Debian > repositories. > He is a very good dlna server. It is done in Java. Unfortunately, by mailing debian-devel your suggestion will very likely not reach the people who might be willing

Packaging suggestion for the Universal Media Server program.

2017-01-18 Thread Aldrin P. S. Castro
I would very much like the Universal Media Server to be in the Debian repositories. He is a very good dlna server. It is done in Java.

Re: Suggestion for the DontBreakDebian wiki page section "Dont 'make install'"

2015-11-02 Thread koanhead
On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 21:10:03 +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > El 20 oct. 2015 5:15 p. m., "Francisco José Fernández Naranjo" < > fjfnara...@gmail.com> escribió: >> >> I was considering myself adding a quick note to the section, but I am >> not an English native speaker and I am concerned wi

Re: Suggestion for the DontBreakDebian wiki page section "Dont 'make install'"

2015-10-20 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
El 20 oct. 2015 5:15 p. m., "Francisco José Fernández Naranjo" < fjfnara...@gmail.com> escribió: > > I was considering myself adding a quick note to the section, but I am > not an English native speaker and I am concerned with the quality of > my contribution. In fact, your english level seems goo

Suggestion for the DontBreakDebian wiki page section "Dont 'make install'"

2015-10-20 Thread Francisco José Fernández Naranjo
Hello guys. I was checking the DontBreakDebian wiki page and I realized one thing. In the section "Don't 'make install'" there is no mention to the alternative path installation options in automake or other building systems. Some people install packages in the system using "sudo" or root when the

Re: pro-active removals (was: Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD)

2015-09-17 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:55:58AM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: this, I think it would be a *service* to our users if we removed this (and many other packages in similar situation) from the archive so that we don't fool users into using (or wasting time even looking at) long-deprecated softwa

pro-active removals (was: Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD)

2015-09-17 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello all. On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 09:10:15PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: [...] > Why? The vlan package is not needed since at least Wheezy to configure > VLANs on devices since the program "ip" can do everything the same or > even better. > > Also ifupdown was changed to be able to configure VLAN

Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD

2015-09-16 Thread humbert . olivier . 1
> it is possible to add package "vlan" to the DVD instalation images? > It is tiny package (36kB) and in some special environment (without > Internet with DVD in vmware environmen) i have to download and install > it manually. Hi Josef. In case you really need it, you can build you own live & ins

Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD

2015-09-16 Thread Sven Hartge
Pascal Giard wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Josef Masek wrote: >>> it is possible to add package "vlan" to the DVD instalation images? >>> It is tiny package (36kB) and in some special environment (without >>> Internet with DVD in vmware environmen) i have to do

Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD

2015-09-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 15:26 -0400, Pascal Giard wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > > Josef Masek wrote: > > > >> it is possible to add package "vlan" to the DVD instalation images? > >> It is tiny package (36kB) and in some special environment (without > >> Internet wi

Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD

2015-09-16 Thread Pascal Giard
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > Josef Masek wrote: > >> it is possible to add package "vlan" to the DVD instalation images? >> It is tiny package (36kB) and in some special environment (without >> Internet with DVD in vmware environmen) i have to download and install >> it m

Re: suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD

2015-09-16 Thread Sven Hartge
Josef Masek wrote: > it is possible to add package "vlan" to the DVD instalation images? > It is tiny package (36kB) and in some special environment (without > Internet with DVD in vmware environmen) i have to download and install > it manually. Why? The vlan package is not needed since at least

suggestion to add package vlan to default instalation DVD

2015-09-16 Thread Josef Masek
Hello, it is possible to add package "vlan" to the DVD instalation images? It is tiny package (36kB) and in some special environment (without Internet with DVD in vmware environmen) i have to download and install it manually. Ps. I did not find better mailing list for this purpose, so I am trying

Re: Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

2015-01-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
my Wifi adapter, which I > needed for the installation. > > Here’s a suggestion: Let the installer display a code, which the user can > enter on debian.org - it then automatically shows you the needed files and > let you download them instead of mentioning cryptic file names l

Re: Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

2015-01-27 Thread Riley Baird
On 27/01/15 19:19, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Riley Baird (2015-01-27 04:01:20) >> That's a good idea. That being said, tarballs containing *all* of >> the firmware are already (unofficially) produced on a regular >> basis[1]. >> >> Perhaps an easier way of solving this problem wou

Re: Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

2015-01-27 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Riley Baird (2015-01-27 04:01:20) > That's a good idea. That being said, tarballs containing *all* of the > firmware are already (unofficially) produced on a regular basis[1]. > > Perhaps an easier way of solving this problem would be to have the > installer tell the user where these

Re: Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

2015-01-26 Thread Riley Baird
ldn't need a network connection for installation if you downloaded the full CD. > Here’s a suggestion: Let the installer display a code, which the > user can enter on debian.org - it then automatically shows you the > needed files and let you download them instead of mentioning > crypt

Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

2015-01-26 Thread Stephan Dörner
suggestion: Let the installer display a code, which the user can enter on debian.org - it then automatically shows you the needed files and let you download them instead of mentioning cryptic file names like rtl8168e-3.fw and so on. Best greetings from Berlin & Thanks, Stephan signature

Re: Bug#769907: A small suggestion on constructive engagement [Was, Re: Bug#769907: general: non-sysvinit init systems are made of fail]

2014-11-28 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Octavio Alvarez: Question: is it safe to say that systemd doesn't yet support the > full /etc/fstab specification from util-linux [1]? Yes; it's safe. It's also wrong. But it's quite safe. (-: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

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