On merging bin and sbin

2024-02-28 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi cacin, I see that you are working on merging /bin and /sbin, for instance via brltty bug #1064785. Again Fedora is pioneering this matter and their documentation is at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin. Please allow me to push back on this one as well by raising a few c

Re: On merging bin and sbin

2024-02-28 Thread Ansgar 🙀
Hi Helmut, On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 07:41 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > I see that you are working on merging /bin and /sbin, for instance > via > brltty bug #1064785. Again Fedora is pioneering this matter and their > documentation is at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin.

Re: On merging bin and sbin

2024-02-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 28, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Please allow me to push back on this one as well by raising a few > concerns. Also, I think that the benefits from doing this are tiny, and just adding /usr/sbin/ to the $PATH would solve almost everything. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signa

Re: On merging bin and sbin

2024-02-28 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 28/02/24 12:25, Ansgar 🙀 wrote:  This can be good, but it can also be seen as a pollution of your shell completion. I note that Fedora seems to have added /sbin to the user $PATH by default, which is not what Debian has done. I do not think we have consensus on this and would raise an objectio

Bug#1064959: ITP: python-usb-devices -- Python tools for mapping, describing, and resetting USB devices

2024-02-28 Thread Edward Betts
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Edward Betts X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-usb-devices Version : 0.4.5 Upstream Author : J. Nick Koston * URL : https://github.com/bluetooth-devices/usb-device

Re: On merging bin and sbin

2024-02-28 Thread rhys
A few thigns I have seen in this thread: Fedora/Arch/Whomever: I don't think it matters who thought of what first. Sometimes, it's okay to be different. I have moved all of my systems away from Slackware and Fedora/RedHat/etc. TO Debian because I think Debian does it better. Please do not t

Re: On merging bin and sbin

2024-02-28 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 28/02/24 14:12, rhys wrote: Last thing: The idea of detecting cases where multiple binaries have the same name is a verey good one. It should also be possible to automate this effort in a number of ways. I would be happy to help with this, if it's just a matter of someone putting in the

Re: On merging bin and sbin

2024-02-28 Thread rhys
Are any of these (like arping) literally duplicates of the same binary for some reason? Or are they true conflicts (different binaries with the same name)? --J Sent from my mobile device. From: Gioele Barabucci Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 08:22 To: debian

Re: On merging bin and sbin

2024-02-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 08:47:48AM -0600, r...@neoquasar.org wrote: > > From: Gioele Barabucci > > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 08:22 > > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: On merging bin and sbin > > > > On 28/02/24 14:12, rhys wrote: > > > Last thing:  The idea of detecti

Re: On merging bin and sbin

2024-02-28 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 08:47:48AM -0600, r...@neoquasar.org wrote: > Are any of these (like arping) literally duplicates of the same binary for > some reason? Or are they true conflicts (different binaries with the same > name)? arping is definitely not a duplicate, iputils-arping and arping are

Re: On merging bin and sbin

2024-02-28 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 28/02/24 19:08, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 08:47:48AM -0600, r...@neoquasar.org wrote: From: Gioele Barabucci This is a quick'n'dirty list of binaries present in both /bin and /sbin: arping bin net/iputils-arping sbin net/arping (+ Conflicts:) Are any of these (like ar

Bug#1065009: ITP: golang-github-muhlemmer-httpforwarded -- Library for parsing the HTTP Forwarded header (RFC-7239)

2024-02-28 Thread Mathias Gibbens
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathias Gibbens X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-muhlemmer-httpforwarded Version : 0.1.0-1 Upstream Author : Tim Möhlmann * URL : https://github.com/muhlemmer/h

Fwd: Fix for missing gsettings desktop schemas on unstable

2024-02-28 Thread Ash Joubert
I know the time_t transition is in progress but there could have been a nicer experience for users on unstable: Feb 29 10:31:30 ripley systemd[914]: Starting at-spi-dbus-bus.service - Accessibility services bus... Feb 29 10:31:30 ripley at-spi-bus-laun[984]: Cannot get the default GSettingsSch

Setting permissions on new users in postinst

2024-02-28 Thread Brian May
See bug #1064349. I think the problem (correct me if I am wrong!) is that the postinst - debian/amavisd-new.postinst - does (simplified): === cut === #DEBHELPER# case "$1" in configure) # configure file permissions to use new amavis user ... esac === cut === This means that #DE

Re: Setting permissions on new users in postinst

2024-02-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 11:12:27AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > See bug #1064349. > > I think the problem (correct me if I am wrong!) is that the postinst - > debian/amavisd-new.postinst - does (simplified): > > === cut === > #DEBHELPER# > > case "$1" in > configure) > # configure file

Re: New requirements for APT repository signing

2024-02-28 Thread Phil Wyett
On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 20:20 +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > APT 2.7.13 just landed in unstable and with GnuPG 2.4.5 installed, > or 2.4.4 with a backport from the 2.4 branch, requires repositories > to be signed using one of > > - RSA keys of at least 2048 bit > - Ed25519 > - Ed448 > > Any ot

Bug#1065022: libglib2.0-0t64: t64 transition breaks the systems

2024-02-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: libglib2.0-0t64 Version: 2.78.4-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hey. CCing d-d since there seems some further deeper problem with the t64 transition (namely lib files getting lost, when "downgrading" i.e. revertin

Re: Bug#1065022: libglib2.0-0t64: t64 transition breaks the systems

2024-02-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 29-02-2024 4:47 a.m., Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: @d-d: - How can it happen that purge *t64 packages and at the same time install the previous package, and then the so file is missing? I mean it's clear that they use the same name, but shouldn't DPKG handle the cleanly? Wel

Re: Bug#1065022: libglib2.0-0t64: t64 transition breaks the systems

2024-02-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 06:53:56AM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 29-02-2024 4:47 a.m., Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > @d-d: > > - How can it happen that purge *t64 packages and at the same time install > >the previous package, and then the so file is missing? > >I mean it's clear that

Re: Bug#1065022: libglib2.0-0t64: t64 transition breaks the systems

2024-02-28 Thread Simon Richter
Hi On 2/29/24 14:57, Steve Langasek wrote: Furthermore, this is a downgrade from a replacing package to a replaced package. Unless you also --reinstall the package at the end, missing files are quite to be expected. I wonder if this could be improved -- e.g. by ignoring Replaces: relationshi