Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

to be changed. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``BAM! Science triumphs again!'' -- http://www.angryflower.com/vegeta.gif -- To U

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

n's social contract, perhaps you should be part of a project that's more philosophically acceptable to you. Regards, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``BA

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

't have a "fair use" principle at all. (Instead, there are a range of delineated uses you're allowed to make of copyrighted works without the author's permission). Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don&#

Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

the archive entirely. Try not to get so obsessed about stupid definitional games you lose sight of the big picture. And followup to -legal, already. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG s

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

(d) * p(d) / d return cost for x in range(0,16): print "%s day/s of diffs: %.1f KiB" % \ (x, summate(lambda y: cost_diff(y,x), prob) / 1024) I'd be interested in seeing what the rsync stats look like with the "/ days" factor added in. Cheer

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:28:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > 0 days of diffs: 843.7 KiB (the current situation) > ...which pretty much matches what I'd expect: at the moment, just to > update main, people download around 1.2MB per day; Uh, obviously this should be 843

Re: Please test this woody cd image

lity > release release according to aj's tentative schedule, rather than a > minimally-tested release (possibly much) later. Worst case, if people do find a bunch of systems where this doesn't work, we revert the change. There's no reason that should delay anything. Cheers,

Re: Please test this woody cd image

hey're still theoretical in that case. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``BAM! Science triumphs again!'' -- http://www.angr

Re: Galeon not to be in Woody?

clipboard to be accidentally sent across the > network". D'oh. Are you being serious or was that rhetorical? [0] That's the sort of bug I'd downgrade without a second thought, personally. Cheers, aj [0] There was a time when I wouldn't've had a second thou

Re: Clustalw update_excuses

w needs a new ncbi-tools6. * ncbi-tools6 (6.1.20011220-2 to 6.1.20011220a-2) + Maintainer: Aaron M. Ucko + Too young, only 6 of 10 days old + Not considered ...but ncbi-tools6 can't go in yet since it was only very recently updated. Cheers, aj -- Anthony

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:40:31PM -0700, Robert Tiberius Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 02:28, Anthony Towns wrote: > > I'd suggest your formula would be better off being: > > bandwidthcost = sum( x = 1..30, prob(x) * cost(x) / x ) > I think it depends on wh

Re: rsync and debian -- summary of issues

kages file is concerned, which is handled quite efficiently by diff --ed. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``BAM! Science triumphs again!''

Re: PostgreSQL update_excuses

sql" you'll find lots of examples. Renaming packages -- even renaming them back -- is bad, mmkay? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``BAM! Science

Re: NEW packages stalled?

] code for the Qt library in the source distribution. ] Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0), tmake, libqt3-mt-dev, libssl-dev ^^ OpenSSL can't be used with GPL licensed software. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <

Re: Bug #140769: frozen-bubble: RC bug

, well, I guess that in this case I for one'll have to announce my intent to cease doing Debian development (and maybe C programming in general)... Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GP

Re: Please more fish (was: so long and thanks for all the fish)

Hey Joey, On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 06:12:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Please take that message with a pound of salt. I was upset when I wrote > it, it's probably not accurate, and I've left[1] for reasons that are > much more broadly structural, and are certianly not the fault of the > technical

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 05:11:47PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > I would, for example, have classified the discussions / arguments in the > > "systemd-sysv | systemd-shim" bug ... > I was really confused that this needed to go to the TC; from what I > could tell, it had no downside systems using

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 01:43:37PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Can someone of the systemd maintainers please explain why this is being done > as a separate helper instead of integrating with the tools that are already > defined in policy and already part of the base system (e.g., invoke-rc.d)?

Re: libpam-systemd [Re: Being part of a community and behaving]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 03:52:39PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2014, Anthony Towns wrote: > > I assume that RC bug was one blocker from the systemd maintainers' > > POV, but that bug doesn't seem to have been considered by the > > technical commit

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:10:58AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Having a single tool that does the basic stuff admins and maintainers need > > independent of init system seems like the right approach to me. "*-rc.

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:05:13AM +0100, Bj??rn Mork wrote: > m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > On Nov 17, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> > This is what many still (retorically) wonder about: we the systemd > >> > maintainers did not reject that change, > >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:38:04PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Anthony Towns wrote: > > If deb-systemd-* were to get merged in, it might be worth doing a name > > change at the same time, I guess. Changing either before jessie doesn'

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 09:22:39AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > BTW, it occured to me that it seems like a wart that update-rc.d doesn't > > respect policy-rc.d -- as it stands, policy-rc.d can prevent a service > > from (re)starting during

Bug#688901: ITP: lambdacan -- lambda-calcul interpreter

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Gasperin Package name: lambdacan Version : 2.0-1 Upstream Author : Tim Fraser URL : http://alum.wpi.edu/~tfraser/Software/Arduino/lambdacan.html License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Programming Lang

Bug#716685: ITP: libpoppler-qt5-dev -- PDF rendering library -- development files (Qt 5 interface)

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Granger Anthony Package name: libpoppler-qt5-dev Version : 1.0.0 URL : http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ License : GPL Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : PDF rendering library -- development files (Qt 5

Better pdiff handling for apt

provide patch to generate Patch-Step-Size header, and optionally use rred method to update patches to make it a bit easier to download stuff If anyone wants to poke around, please do! Cheers, aj [0] https://lists.debian.org/deity/2009/08/msg00169.html [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/

Re: Better pdiff handling for apt

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 04:13:34PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 07:34:07PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > So, I guess merging both could cross a lot of points of your list and > > be relatively easily feed into unstable for proper field-testing. > > (a upload of

Top level directory /run added to Fedora/Suse

made such progress as the new FHS maintainers while we're at it? :) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns

Bug#773316: ITP: cvs-fast-export -- Export an RCS or CVS history as a fast-import stream

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: cvs-fast-export Version : 1.28 Upstream Authors: Keith Packard , Eric S. Raymond * URL : http://www.catb.org/esr/cvs-fast-export/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C

Bug#780840: ITP: python-beanbag -- Helper module for accessing REST APIs

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Towns * Package name: python-beanbag Version : 1.9.1 Upstream Author : Anthony Towns * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beanbag/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Helper module for

Re: oauth2 sprint at DebConf?

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 01:16:19PM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Le 19/03/2015 10:11, Enrico Zini a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > the oauth2 part of our single signon system is in need of a team of people > > to maintain it, and my experience so far has been that nobody seems to > > understand oa

Stetch goal: improvements to testing-proposed-updates / experimental?

e sort of statistical review of uploads accepted to testing during the freeze (how many RC bug fixes required more RC bug fixes, how long it took for library transitions to get in sync, etc) and get some ideas for those things. Otherwise, nothing much jumped out at me... Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns

Re: Facilitating external repositories

(Piling onto this after a dc15 dinner convo referencing it) On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 12:41:45AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 07:27:21PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:14:21AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: (apologies if the identity of who

Re: Facilitating external repositories

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:23:19AM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:12:05PM +0000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > I'm not sure if the idea is PPAs can only be added to by DDs/DMs. [...] > There is a session about Debian PPAs at 2015-08-21 17:00..18:00 > @

Re: Facilitating external repositories

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 12:47:42PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > I think my working assumption is "anyone" can register, and it's done > > automatically. If you want to ensure the URL is owned by the register, > > you could use a dummy DNS record ("please add > >extrepo-de684554ae0c3440.

Re: Facilitating external repositories

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:15:08AM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 12:06:53PM +0000, Anthony Towns wrote: > The user interface improvement might be worth it anyhow, but selling > this as huge security improvement is just wrong, which is all I am > against.

Re: Summary of the DebConf firmware discussion

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 04:33:04PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > This now means that more and more users end up enabling non-free just > to be able to get at this firmware, which is a problem for many > reasons. > 1. Split up non-free? > - > Yes - need to work out details. (a

Bug#797720: ITP: python-ly -- Tool and Python library for manipulating LilyPond files

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: python-ly Version : 0.9.2 Upstream Author : Wilbert Berendsen * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-ly * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Tool and Python

Bug#798087: ITP: python-poppler-qt5 -- Python binding to Poppler Qt5 C++ library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: python-poppler-qt5 Version : 0.24.2 Upstream Author : Wilbert Berendsen * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-poppler-qt5/ * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: Python, SIP

Bug#798173: ITP: golang-github-shurcool-sanitized-anchor-name -- Go package for creating sanitized anchor names

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: golang-github-shurcool-sanitized-anchor-name Version : 0.0~git20150822.0.244f5ac-1 Upstream Author : Dmitri Shuralyov * URL : https://github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name * License : MIT

Bug#798321: ITP: golang-github-spf13-pflag -- Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: golang-github-spf13-pflag Version : 0.0~git20150820.0.8e7dc10-1 Upstream Authors: Alex Ogier, The Go Authors, Steve Francia, Eric Paris * URL : https://github.com/spf13/pflag * License : BSD-3

Bug#798328: ITP: golang-github-spf13-jwalterweatherman -- Go library for printing to the terminal and logging to files

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: golang-github-spf13-jwalterweatherman Version : 0.0~git20141219.0.3d60171-1 Upstream Author : Steve Francia * URL : https://github.com/spf13/jwalterweatherman * License : MIT Programming

Bug#798349: ITP: golang-github-inconshreveable-mousetrap -- Go library to detect starting from Windows Explorer

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: golang-github-inconshreveable-mousetrap Version : 0.0~git20141017.0.76626ae-1 Upstream Author : Alan Shreve * URL : https://github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap * License : Apache-2.0

Re: Debian Re-organization proposals (was: Re: so what?)

oal for slink, or the release after, btw. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``It's not a vision, or a fear. It's just a thought.'' pgpJlug5yiwer.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ircII is now free.

ent on the IRC channel is quite positive, but I thought I'd ask here as well. In particular, David are you happy for this to happen? Cheers, aj, who wonders if SPI are willing to shell out for a beer or two for things like this, and who thinks they should be. :) -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL

Re: ircII is now free.

As bad form as it may be to follow up to my own post... On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 05:22:46AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > I wonder if we'd like to make a press release about this? I spoke to David privately a little, and he's inclined more toward a simple release, whereas, as usual,

Re: ircII is now free.

On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 09:04:59AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > As bad form as it may be to follow up to my own post... And once again... :) I've talked to Igor, somewhat appropriately, on IRC [irc.debian.org, #debian], and have modified my draft somewhat in response to that. Sin

Re: apt and hamm

t Apt is *already* the way to go. If the devteam managed to get it partly done before we'd expected or hoped, I think we should recommend it as the upgrade method, and include it in the base2_0.tgz in place of dpkg-ftp. [Not that I'd know, mind] Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

hat the use of bzip2 would save time overall for most people. Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

st, not to Matthias. Yes, he founded the project, and is working on KLyX, but I don't think he has any final say on the matter. I believe that the other LyX Team are a lot nicer and a lot more reasonable to discuss with. Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingC

lilypond, egcs and libc6 2.0.7u? (or Cyrix?)

.2.3-4.8The GNU C compiler. ii g++ 2.90.29-0.6The GNU (egcs) C++ compiler. Any ideas? Should I blame libc6 2.0.7u, the new egcs 1.1b, or my Cyrix chip, or simply bad luck? Thanks for your help! :-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Eng

Intent to package: oo2c, The Oberon-2 to ANSI-C Translator

Installed-Size: 3197 Maintainer: Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.3.10-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.0.7u), libgc4 (>= 4.12-4.13alpha1-1) Description: The Oberon-2 to ANSI-C Translator oo2c is the first compiler of the Optimizing Oberon-2 Compiler project. OOC's goal is to p

Closing freetype2-dev/freetype1 bug report.

Hello, I have since re-uploaded both freetype (freetype2, freetype2-dev, freetype-tools) and freetype1 (freetype1, freetype1-dev) and the latest versions have been successfully installed on Debian master. Thus, the conflict issue should no longer exist. :-) Cheers, Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: lilypond, egcs and libc6 2.0.7u? (or Cyrix?)

Hello Paul, On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Sun 11 Oct 1998, Anthony Fok wrote: > > it spitted out the following error messages: > > > > out/template2.o: In function `global constructors keyed to Cursor > *>::operator-(Cursor) const': > [...] &g

Re: Comments on Debian packages and installation

ests netpbm-nonfree this could probably be done via netpbm-nonfree enhances netpbm ...ie, ones that work just as well the other way around anyway. The above is only a list of ones I noticed as being non-free suggestions, but if it's at all indicative, it's certainly intere

Re: agreeing with the DFSG (was Re: non-free --> non-dfsg)

x27;t be a part of Debian because they don't think the DFSG is perfect, but I don't read every piece of mail on every list. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferr

Re: LSB?

are thinking/smoking, > specifying kernel locations, netstat, mount/umount, fdisk, setserial, ...and whatever happened to specifying things like update-rc.d, update-inetd, and so on? Or was that the LSC or something? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbu

Bug#27050 (fdutils): A cause for security concern?

urgent, I will try to fix it before Slink is released. Thanks again. :-) I have attached the bug report below. Cheers, Anthony Package: fdutils; Reported by: Thomas Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; dated Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:33:01 GMT; Maintainer for fdutils is Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Revision 4 of DFSG

the program itself.' I'm personally still uncertain about this clause, and what effect it would have on CD vendors and stuff. What do people think of the wording now? Does it still suck, or is it getting there, or...? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

user systems anyway and has the advantage that it's trivial to become FHS compliant, code can still get #ifdef's removed, and everyone can be happy. Cheers, aj [0] http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-policy-9805/msg00174.html -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http

Re: how rpm does it (Re: Dpkg Update Proposal)

t because the part in manipulating the package information databsse is not doing as good as RPM does? -- Rgds, [ E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / ICQ UIN: C30E6 ] Anthony. [ http://icqtrack.hk.st -- Track your ICQ friend ]

Re: Bug#27050 (fdutils): A cause for security concern?

Hello Ben, Avery and Wichert! On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 12:50:59AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Anthony Fok wrote: > > As the Slink deep freeze and release are impending, I would like to ask your > > advice: Should I follow the suggestion given by the bug reporter Thom

Re: DFSG v2 Draft #5

able to contribute to your code base, they shouldn't have to be lawyers either. A simple license is a good one.'' Are there any licenses that can't just say ``if you make some modifications, just leave the license as is. if you _really_ care, you can also do such-and-such...

Re: Intent to package wterm

same program floating around. Users will find it confusing. The ftp server will carry fewer packages too (1 internationalized version instead of several localized ones). -- Regards, [ E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / ICQ UIN: C30E6 ] Anthony. [ http://icqtrack.hk.st -- Track your ICQ friend ]

Re: Debian coding style?

re also variants for Windows, too, but I have no idea about them. The litprog FAQ goes into more detail. The noweb home page, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~nr/noweb/ is probably a good starting point. Cheers, aj, who likes litprog in theory, but still hasn't gotten much practice at i

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

es can point Apt at unstable, for a new release every day. IMHO, etc. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``Smart, sexy, single. Pick any two (you can't have a

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

ch -capable browser to install, without having to wrestle with the big green dragon... Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred.

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

nly at the moment. All packages in the staging area *need* testing, btw: if you try one and it does/doesn't work, please send a mail to the -ipv6 list so we know when things are ready to be mashed into potato. -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org

Intent to package: ttfprint

The package 'ttfprint' is ready for upload: Package: ttfprint Version: 0.9-1 Section: text Priority: optional Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), ttf-twmoe-kai | ttf-twmoe-sung Installed-Size: 246 Maintainer: Anthony Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description:

Re: Intent to package: ttfprint

On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 05:15:42PM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: | |On Sat, 15 May 1999, Anthony Wong wrote: | |> The package 'ttfprint' is ready for upload: | |Interesting... Is it specific to Chinese, or can it do other truetype |stuff ? E.g. Russian ? Yes, ttfprint is specif

ITP: bg5ps

The package 'bg5ps' is ready for upload: Package: bg5ps Version: 1.1b2-1 Section: text Priority: optional Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), python, ttf-twmoe-kai | ttf-twmoe-sung Installed-Size: 96 Maintainer: Anthony Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description:

Re: a Chinese version of X-window system for Linux available

We are looking forward to your answer. | |Has anyone contacted these people, or forwarded the message on to the |Debian-Chinese people? Yep, I've contacted him already, and also redirected him to -chinese for further discussion if he sees fit. But he has not got back to me yet. -- Anthony Wong

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

x27;s not *that* good. > Whether or not the community approves of this, > I will pursue it, and let the chips fall where they may. Good luck, FWIW. I've no doubt you'll need it. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 10:03:12AM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: > On 20 May, Anthony Towns wrote: > > One alternative that's probably worth considering is improving libdpkg, so > > that Apt and friends can make use of dpkg that way, and provide their own > > front ends

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 03:01:12PM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 12:50:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > That seems... the wrong way around. > see comments below ;P Perhaps I should expand on that. The `Unix way' (yes, you can stop reading th

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg IN IDL! :)

could decide on a design before decending to our baser instincts > to argue about what language it should be implemented in :) Speaking of baser instincts, Rationale Rose isn't free software, is it? Are there any nice (or even not-nice) OO design tools that are? Apart from xfig, I mean.

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

urs would be: int id2(foo x) { return x.id(); } or: int id(int i) { return 1; }; int id(double d) { return 2; }; cout << id(1); // 1 cout << id(1.0);// 2 Cheers, aj, who isn't sure this is particularly relevant to debian-devel an

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

l. I'm sure we'll work something out. Cheers, aj, Debian New Ruling Class -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``There&#

Re: /opt/ again (was Re: FreeBSD-like approach for Debian? [was:

bbugs and debconf Cheers, aj, who thinks that rather than stopping uploads to unstable while there are RC bugs, we might like to try stopping posts to -devel. -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encryp

Re: /opt/ again (was Re: FreeBSD-like approach for Debian? [was:

On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 12:23:24PM +0200, Anders Arnholm wrote: > >>>Anthony Towns wrote: > > > beacus some pepole in the Debian comunity does not have tha same > > > problems... > > STOP WRITING TO -devel AND START **DOING** SOMETHING ABOUT IT **

Re: FreeBSD-like approach for Debian? [was: Re: Deficiencies in Debian]

anged, having been a part of it on the inside, as well as just watching. It's really not as horrible as everyone seems to want to make out. It's got us to being among the very best distributions on just about every level, and it's managing to keep us there, too. Cheers, aj, w

Re: Bug o' the week

t to bugscan. > It already scans the BTS database twice a day anyway. FWIW, I'd like to see all these nifty reporting things integrated into debbugs itself sooner or later, rather than continually adding other scripts to do essentially the same scanning. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns

Re: Crazy Idea: debian developer conference

Splitting it on a continental basis might be interesting too, although doesn't seem like it'd be as exotic and fun... Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``The

Re: Sending using my @debian.org in gmail

On 11/30/18 6:18 PM, Paul Wise wrote: I've experienced spammers brute-forcing SMTP submission credentials and using that to send spam before, so I think that mitigating that using client-side TLS certs should be required, just as we do for SSH access to Debian machines. I'm not sure how many MUAs

Bug#917131: ITP: golang-github-alecthomas-kong -- command-line parser for Go

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: golang-github-alecthomas-kong Version : 0.1.15-1 Upstream Author : Alec Thomas * URL : https://github.com/alecthomas/kong * License : Expat, see https://github.com/alecthomas/kong/issues/28

Re: Handling of entropy during boot

On 1/14/19 7:07 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 12/18/18 8:11 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: If you are firmly convinced that there is a good chance that the NSA has suborned Intel in putting a backdoor into RDRAND, you won't want to use that boot option. I have read numerous times that some people t

Re: Removal of linux-base from jessie-backports broke Xen upstream CI

On February 13, 2019 4:07:45 PM UTC, Ansgar wrote: >More importantly Jessie has reached end-of-life[1]. Please do not >expect related suites (such as -security, -backports, -proposed- >updates, -updates) to continue working after this. -security and -updates are part of the LTS sources.list o

Re: Bug#927725: Please build with --enable-mmdblookup

On 4/23/19 5:12 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: My main concern is to keep the rsyslog core package reasonably small (dependency wise). If you check , note that a De

Re: .deb format: let's use 0.939, zstd, drop bzip2

On May 8, 2019 9:43:50 PM UTC, Adam Borowski wrote: >I just checked Stretch: not a single .bz2, either control nor data. >I'm not >going to download all of Jessie just to check -- but even assuming >something >was left by Jessie's time, by Bullseye trying to install such a .deb >will >mean mi

Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?

On 8/7/19 4:14 AM, Marc Haber wrote: Imo, there should be a possibility in a systemd timer to switch on the "old" output-to-e-mail behavior. This is probably something that systemd upstream would never implement, so we'd end up with a wrapper that is called by the systemd timer unit. You can s

Re: Mozilla Firefox DoH to CloudFlare by default (for US users)?

On September 8, 2019 10:38:03 PM UTC, Adam Borowski wrote: >DoH doesn't stop ISP-based spying nor censorship. Firefox, I believe, already supports encrypted SNI (in nightly at least). Cloudflare does too. So fully deployed, your ISP can only tell that you're connecting to Cloudflare, Clo

Re: Mozilla Firefox DoH to CloudFlare by default (for US users)?

On 9/13/19 7:05 AM, Simon Richter wrote: Mandatory Encrypted SNI with no fallback option -- everything else can be circumvented easily. This is a game that we should not play, really. It raises the cost of running a service on the Internet so only big players can afford to do so. Does it? I h

Re: Git Packaging Round 2: When to Salsa

On 9/12/19 8:57 AM, Ansgar wrote: I don't see much value in this requirement (besides additional work). One should look at the repository anyway whan planning to do changes (to match the existing style used); one would naturally see how files are organized. We already had tons of packages shippi

Bug#1034432: ITP: golang-github-hashicorp-terraform-registry-address -- Go library to represent, compare and parse Terraform Registry address

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: golang-github-hashicorp-terraform-registry-address Version : 0.2.0-1 Upstream Author : HashiCorp, Inc. * URL : https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-registry-address * License : MPL-2.0

Bug#1037958: ITP: golang-github-bep-mclib -- simple Go library to make it possible to run mkcert's main method

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: golang-github-bep-mclib Version : 1.20400.20402-1 Upstream Author : The mkcert Authors; Bjørn Erik Pedersen * URL : https://github.com/bep/mclib * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go

Bug#1038680: ITP: golang-github-bep-helpers -- Go utils package with a less burdened name by @bep

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: golang-github-bep-helpers Version : 0.4.0-1 Upstream Author : Bjørn Erik Pedersen * URL : https://github.com/bep/helpers * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : Go utils

Bug#1038681: ITP: golang-github-bep-simplecobra -- simpler API for the popular Cobra CLI

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: golang-github-bep-simplecobra Version : 0.3.2-1 Upstream Author : Bjørn Erik Pedersen * URL : https://github.com/bep/simplecobra * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description

Bug#1040808: ITP: golang-github-hashicorp-terraform-config-inspect -- helper library for shallow inspection of Terraform configurations

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: golang-github-hashicorp-terraform-config-inspect Version : 0.0~git20230614.f32df32-1 Upstream Author : HashiCorp, Inc. * URL : https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-config-inspect * License

Bug#1051245: ITP: golang-github-bep-logg -- fast and structured logging package for Go

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: golang-github-bep-logg Version : 0.2.0-1 Upstream Authors: TJ Holowaychuk, Bjørn Erik Pedersen * URL : https://github.com/bep/logg * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description

Bug#1053978: ITP: golang-github-rodaine-table -- Go CLI Table Generator

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anthony Fok * Package name: golang-github-rodaine-table Version : 1.1.0-1 Upstream Author : Chris Roche * URL : https://github.com/rodaine/table * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : Go CLI Table

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