Re: changes in pam: automatic configuration of PAM modules

2009-03-07 Thread Brian May
ty of getting this to work with the following packages? * libpam-ccreds (see <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libpam-ccreds/+bug/294977>) * libpam-cracklib Thanks -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Bug#518869: ITP: shorewall6 -- Shoreline Firewall (IPv6 version), netfilter configurator

2009-03-09 Thread Brian May
se that is the way it is distributed upstream. ie. shorewall6, with IPv6 support is very distinct from shorewall, with IPv4 support. For more information see <http://www.shorewall.net/IPv6Support.html>. Disclaimer: I am not involved in packaging this for Debian or upstream - just a user

Re: inetd's status in Debian

2009-03-11 Thread Brian May
hen it really doesn't need to be. > Ideally we need something that isn't specific to the format of inetd.conf - last I checked some of our inetd's use different file formats (e.g. xinetd). -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: BDF Considered Harmful?

2009-03-11 Thread Brian May
; packages? Comments and copyright notices don't look like a real > advantage to me. > Copyright notices belong in /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-15 Thread Brian May
Martín Ferrari wrote: > * netstat : sstat provides almost the same information, just some > formatting changes and parsing the command line > sstat? I see /usr/bin/sstat in slurm-llnl - but that doesn't look right. What sstat are you referring to here? -- Brian May --

Re: group nvram

2009-03-19 Thread Brian May
hat is a normal condition. If the timeouts are too large, it also can delay the boot. Significantly. (supposedly libnss-ldapd - based on the description - is suppose to solve this also - not sure how - I haven't been able to get it working entirely satisfactorily). -- Brian May -- To

Re: group nvram

2009-03-19 Thread Brian May
It still results in a number ugly messages when booting a Lenny system up. Even if ldap is second in the list. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

sbuild & schroot & texlive-base-bin

2009-03-19 Thread Brian May
To: debian-devel Hello, Can I please get an opinion on bug #520463? Am I doing something wrong, or is there a bug somewhere here? It doesn't make a lot of sense... Thanks -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Bug#525147: ITP: libdbix-class-timestamp-perl -- automatically set update and create date and time based fields

2009-04-22 Thread Brian Cassidy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian Cassidy * Package name: libdbix-class-timestamp-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : J. Shirley * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBIx-Class-TimeStamp/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#525152: ITP: libtime-warp-perl -- control over the flow of time

2009-04-22 Thread Brian Cassidy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian Cassidy * Package name: libtime-warp-perl Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Joshua Nathaniel Pritiki * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Time-Warp/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl, XS

Bug#525158: ITP: libdbix-class-dynamicdefault-perl -- Automatically set and update fields

2009-04-22 Thread Brian Cassidy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian Cassidy * Package name: libdbix-class-dynamicdefault-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Florian Ragwitz * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBIx-Class-DynamicDefault/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Brian May
a while since I tested this so I might be wrong) when doing a "group reply". IIRC Thunderbird use to have a reply to list command, but I can't find it anymore :-(. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Brian May
only one mailing list. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Brian May
27;t. I don't think this is uncommon. By your logic no one would get the CC. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Brian May
to implement it (and ideally create a standard). (another problem with usenet is that last I looked there didn't seem to be any real servers in my country - Australia - everything has to be fetched from overseas servers - although it sometimes isn't always immediately obvious). -- Brian

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:19:04AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > How Mutt is able to detect all mailing lists? The fields in the headers > only allow to detect the current mailing list. You can define what are mailing lists using the "lists" and "subcribe" con

Re: postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]

2009-05-06 Thread Brian May
he user, and allow the user to retry sending again. Obviously, yes, you really do need a real MTA, with properly queueing, somewhere. It doesn't have to run on every single system though. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]

2009-05-06 Thread Brian May
e on any {user,system} account on any computer and not get noticed by the {user,system administrator}. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]

2009-05-10 Thread Brian May
xed since then, but it seemed like poor program design to me that it can't cope with what appears to be a valid (and legitimate) email. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

should -dev libraries depending on other -dev packages?

2009-05-12 Thread Brian May
he .la files: <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/08/msg01062.html> However, bug report 266003 was recently upgraded to serious. Is this still considered to be a libtool issue? Thanks -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: should -dev libraries depending on other -dev packages?

2009-05-12 Thread Brian May
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:23:59AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > I raised this issue before: > > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/08/msg01017.html> > > I was told no, I should not add the depends, this is a libtool issue > that is getting fixed: > > <htt

Re: should -dev libraries depending on other -dev packages?

2009-05-13 Thread Brian May
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:06:34AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 13 mai 2009 à 11:23 +1000, Brian May a écrit : > > Is this still considered to be a libtool issue? > > Yes, but instead of dropping the .la entirely, I’d recommend to simply > purge it from the depe

Bug#530615: ITP: libfile-temp-perl -- return name and handle of a temporary file safely

2009-05-26 Thread Brian Cassidy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian Cassidy * Package name: libfile-temp-perl Version : 0.21 Upstream Author : Tim Jenness * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Temp/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#752140: ITP: django-simple-captcha -- Django Simple Captcha Django application

2014-06-19 Thread Brian May
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian May * Package name: django-simple-captcha Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Marco Bonetti * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-simple-captcha * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#753481: ITP: django-xmlrpc -- XMLRPC library for Django

2014-07-02 Thread Brian May
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian May * Package name: django-xmlrpc Version : 0.1.5 Upstream Author : Fache Julien * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-xmlrpc/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python2 and Python3 Description

Bug#753482: ITP: django-tldap -- High level python LDAP Library

2014-07-02 Thread Brian May
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian May * Package name: django-tldap Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Brian May * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-tldap * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: Python2 and Python3 Description : High

apache2 issues

2014-07-28 Thread Brian May
onf-available/package.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/package.conf fi The problem here is that the dpkg-query succeeds if apache2-bin is installed (it just doesn't print a version): (sid)root@aquitard:/home/brian/tree/django/karaage/karaage# dpkg-query -f '${Version}' -W 'apache2.2-c

Re: apache2 issues

2014-07-28 Thread Brian May
On 29 July 2014 09:40, Brian May wrote: > Fair enough, change that depends to depends on "apache2 | httpd". > > However, now when I install it, for reasons I don't understand, apt-get > prefers to install apache2-bin over apache2 (thought it should default to > the

Re: apache2 issues

2014-07-28 Thread Brian May
On 29 July 2014 16:02, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > You surely meant httpd |libapache2-mod-wsgi, apache2 | httpd . > ​ > Not convinced that will work. e.g. if apache-bin is already installed, that will satisfy the httpd dependency, so it won't look at libapache2-mod-wsgi. -- Brian May

Re: apache2 issues

2014-07-29 Thread Brian May
On 29 Jul 2014 16:44, "Wouter Verhelst" wrote: > No, I don't. > > What brian really wants is apache2 or apache2-bin. In the case of > apache2-bin, he needs an additional dependency on libapache2-mod-wsgi. > > Really, it should be > > apache2 | libapache2-mo

Re: apache2 issues

2014-07-29 Thread Brian May
On 29 July 2014 18:42, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > No. Use in one shared config file. > At least that's what I've been told, and what makes sense to me. > I wasn't aware of IfVersion. Thanks for the tip. -- Brian May

Re: apache2 issues

2014-07-29 Thread Brian May
On 29 July 2014 09:40, Brian May wrote: > if [ -e /usr/share/apache2/apache2-maintscript-helper ] ; then > . /usr/share/apache2/apache2-maintscript-helper > apache2_invoke enconf package.conf > elif dpkg-query -f '${Version}' -W 'apache2.2-common' >

Re: apache2 issues

2014-07-29 Thread Brian May
ble to run other webservers. > Yes, that looks good to me. Suspect the actual line may depend on what happens with #588497. -- Brian May

Bug#757980: ITP: cryptography -- cryptography is a package which provides cryptographic recipes and primitives to Python developers.

2014-08-12 Thread Brian May
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian May * Package name: cryptography Version : 0.5.3 Upstream Author : Various * URL : https://cryptography.io/en/latest/ * License : Apache License Programming Lang: Python Description : cryptography is a

Re: Uploading python-xstatic-* packages in Debian

2014-08-14 Thread Brian May
On 14 Aug 2014 17:43, "Thorsten Glaser" wrote: > > It is also worth noting that the Debian package version for XStatic > > modules is following the static file package version. For example, even > > though upstream released XStatic-JQuery 1.10.2.1, the Debian package > > version is 1.7.2.0, to mat

Re: Python 3.4

2014-08-15 Thread Brian May
it ok for me to upload packages that depend on packages stuck in NEW, or do I have to wait for the packages to clear NEW first? I have at least one pending Python3 package in this situation. -- Brian May

Re: Python 3.4

2014-08-15 Thread Brian May
On 16 Aug 2014 16:19, "Lars Wirzenius" wrote: > If you upload things to unstable that depend on things in NEW, nobody > will be able to install or upgrade that package (until the dependency > gets through NEW). In this case however the 2nd package will also get blocked in New (Python3 support req

Re: Python 3.4

2014-08-16 Thread Brian May
On 16 August 2014 17:36, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 08/16/2014 09:07 AM, Brian May wrote: > > Note that there is a huge number of Python packages in Debian. It is > > very possible that your favourite packages aren't available as Python3 > > Debian packages, eithe

python-openssl unavailable in sid

2014-08-20 Thread Brian May
Hello, Can somebody please tell me why python-openssl and python3-openssl isn't available in sid? (sid-amd64)root@aquitard:/home/brian/tree/debian/unstable/celery/celery# apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.au.debian.org sid InRelease [231 kB] Get:2 http://ftp.au.debian.org sid/main Translati

Re: python-openssl unavailable in sid

2014-08-20 Thread Brian May
On 21 August 2014 10:42, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Brian May (2014-08-21): > > Can somebody please tell me why python-openssl and python3-openssl isn't > > available in sid? > […] > > It appears that the packages produced have changed to architecture > > depe

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-24 Thread Brian May
he only tool I know who to use here, and it is starting to irritate me - I keep making changes and forgetting to add the files to the patch first, and screwing everything up. What tool(s) should I learn to solve this? -- Brian May

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-24 Thread Brian May
the history of old patches old versions of debian/patches/. Where as git-dpm uses git for the authoritative source for past patches, and also keeps track of stuff in debian/.git-dpm. Am still learning how this stuff works, but so far I don't think interoperation is possible. It looks like decision needs to be made on a per tree basis. -- Brian May

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-25 Thread Brian May
rt git for making local changes. As such if you want to work locally on a project without git-dpm support, and you don't want to change that, gbp-pq might be the best choice. Which is a lot better then basic quilt, however not as good as git-dpm for distributed development. I hope I haven't made too many mistakes :-) -- Brian May

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-26 Thread Brian May
have added to the existing B12 patch instead of replacing it. Similarly when adding A31, you haven't replaced A11. -- Brian May

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-09-06 Thread Brian May
and should be merged. Maybe your point that debcherry is better still stands - it appears to work better with your concept of "feature branches", however I find it hard to use your document to compare the two when it contains errors like this. -- Brian May

Re: python-openssl unavailable in sid

2014-09-07 Thread Brian May
> As far as I can tell, this problem has been fixed. ftp-master didn't respond, maybe it come good by itself? -- Brian May

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-09-07 Thread Brian May
r maybe I am just not seeing the problem correctly... Where do I get git-debcherry from? Would like to get a copy so I can prove my preconceived and fixed ideas on which one is better .^C^C^C^C^C^C^C Would like to get a copy so I can understand some of these issues better myself. -- Brian May

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-09-07 Thread Brian May
ian, resolve conflict git checkout debian git merge feature_b -m "merge feature b" -X theirs # generate patch ../gitpkg/git-debcherry -o debian/patches upstream ../gitpkg/git-debcherry --stat upstream === cut === The gives me one patch file, with all the changes: === cut === >From 71e

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-09-07 Thread Brian May
ash them into one commit. Or at least, that seems to be what happens for my specific test case. -- Brian May

rc bugs

2014-09-11 Thread Brian May
line patch required to fix the problem. Thanks -- Brian May

Re: Allow encfs into jessie?

2014-09-12 Thread Brian May
e red flags indicating that it was not designed by a cryptographer, and has not received enough security review. It should be safe to use, but more auditing would be a good idea." I can't see any security audit for dm_crypt. I see google results that suggest LUKS has been audited, but not the report. -- Brian May

Re: apache2 issues

2014-09-22 Thread Brian May
s (e.g. Python3), and not worry about supporting the other Python version (e.g. Python2). -- Brian May

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-25 Thread Brian May
d-networkd would be a lot better suited the n-m on servers. Configuration is stored in plain text files, can be recorded in etckeeper/git, etc. I have nothing against either solution, but trying to solve all problems with one tool isn't going to work, I think. -- Brian May

Re: Bug#762839: bash without importing shell functions from the environment

2014-09-25 Thread Brian May
l calls to bash, these would be vulnerable. I thought sudo was suppose to be ok, sure doesn't look ok to me. brian@aquitard:~$ sudo echo='() { /bin/echo bar; }' bash root@aquitard:/home/brian# echo hello bar brian@aquitard:~$ sudo echo='() { /bin/echo bar; }' ./test.sh b

Re: Bug#762839: bash without importing shell functions from the environment

2014-09-25 Thread Brian May
On 26 September 2014 12:08, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > brian@aquitard:~$ sudo echo='() { /bin/echo bar; }' bash > > root@aquitard:/home/brian# echo hello > > bar > > I think you have that backwards, don't you? Shouldn't that be: > > e

Re: Bug#762839: bash without importing shell functions from the environment

2014-09-25 Thread Brian May
a shell. > > No, I don't think that is the case. I believe sudo interprets those assignments itself (as also shown in man page), and the error I got clearly shows this to be the case. brian@aquitard:~$ sudo echo='() { /bin/echo bar; id; }' ./test.sh sudo: sorry, you are not

Re: apache2 issues

2014-10-05 Thread Brian May
creating a new bug against debian-policy? -- Brian May

Re: Packaging proprietary software

2014-10-08 Thread Brian May
ge the URL. So it is possible to package proprietary software and help the community in doing so. -- Brian May

Re: Bug#765512: general: distrust old crypto algos and protocols perdefault

2014-10-15 Thread Brian May
On 16 October 2014 10:44, brian m. carlson wrote: > Unfortunately, not all upstreams make good decisions. OpenSSL ships > with a set of default ciphers that is completely insecure. There is no > reason that every application using OpenSSL directly or indirectly[0] > should hav

Re: GPL-3 & openssl: provide a -nossl variant for a library

2014-10-22 Thread Brian May
u can't always rely on ftp-master either. -- Brian May

Bug#768096: ITP: python-mysqlclient -- Python interface to MySQL

2014-11-04 Thread Brian May
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian May * Package name: python-mysqlclient Version : 1.3.4 Upstream Author : INADA Naoki * URL : https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Python

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Brian May
rspace netlink-based transport in the future. However, unless I am mistaken, I don't think this means it will no longer work on non-systemd systems. -- Brian May

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Brian May
evd is going to stop supporting non-systemd systems. -- Brian May

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-10 Thread Brian May
cumstances it can delete configuration files that are in use by active packages. e.g. package b replaces package a, however uses the same set of configuration files - purge package a and it will delete the configuration files now in use by package b. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

upstream shared library major versions

2012-05-09 Thread Brian May
sort of misunderstanding in how library versions work? Or it is maybe some sort of bug in libtool? https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=511612&aid=3522900&group_id=65612 Thanks -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: upstream shared library major versions

2012-05-10 Thread Brian May
Hello, Can somebody here please check out my response to the claim ""ld" prefers linking with the oldest [library version]." I suspect upgrading the major version to major * 1000 may have only worked due to unrelated reasons. Thanks -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

gitpkg with a quilt export hook

2012-05-20 Thread Brian May
to me my problem trying to use this method. Especially as some of my git commits change files both inside and outside debian/* Thanks -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: gitpkg with a quilt export hook

2012-05-23 Thread Brian May
/dar/dar-2.4.5a You have requested 'upstream/2.4.5a' be exported, but dar_2.4.5a.orig.tar.gz is already present. Overwrite the existing orig with this repo export (y/N)? -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: gitpkg with a quilt export hook

2012-05-24 Thread Brian May
lse. It looks like when using that hook, you shouldn't specify an upstream version. > Also, see gitpkg.force-overwrite-orig in gitpkg(1). Setting that to False will result in gitpkg aborting instead of just assuming an answer of No. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-deve

Re: gitpkg with a quilt export hook

2012-05-24 Thread Brian May
ry upstream revision, so you can track changes made between Debian revisions? I think there are trade-offs here, just curious what your reasoning is. Thanks -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Packaging on GitHub ?

2012-05-28 Thread Brian May
itorious.org/ - I believe that it is based entirely on open source software. -- Brian May -- 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

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Brian White
That seems a reasonable plan to me. I've orphaned the mime-support package, however, because I have no time to work on it right now and do not expect to have any for the foreseeable future. -- Brian On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 13 juillet 2012 12:18 C

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Brian White
I ran whatever command it is and chose whatever option (orphan/wnpp/etc) was appropriate. The computer on which I did Debian work is sitting in a container in Berne awaiting shipment to Montreal so it'll be many weeks before I can access it again. -- Brian On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:

Re: Collaborative maintenance of mime-support (was Re: Using FreeDesktop MIME entries directly in mime-support).

2012-07-17 Thread Brian White
> > Lastly, I would like to thank Brian for his impressively 16-years long > work on > mime-support. Brian, feel free to stay among the uploaders ! > Thanks. I wish I had the energy to make some of the much-needed changes but I'm just not involved with the project enough

Re: Jessie goals, and /etc/host.conf

2013-05-15 Thread Brian May
eezy: strace -eopen ping www.google.com [...] open("/etc/host.conf", O_RDONLY)= 3 [...] Looks like it is still being used to me. Perhaps the documentation means that the file is not required, as opposed to not used? -- Brian May

Re: libnss consolidation (was: X.509 and CA certificates for other purposes (i.e. the IGTF))

2013-05-31 Thread Brian May
so if something has changed I may not have noticed) -- Brian May

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-23 Thread Brian May
ttings-daemon, which now depends on systemd, this might be a worrying trend, as non-Linux kernels don't support systemd. -- Brian May

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-23 Thread Brian May
responsible for different parts of the hierarchy. If it is true, it is the thing we need to be prepared for, and so far I haven't seen any official information. This might also be relevant here: http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/733595-all-about-the-linux-kernel-cgroups-redesign -- Brian May

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-23 Thread Brian May
reebsd-i386, m68k, powerpcspe, sh4, sparc64] So doesn't break Gnome where systemd is not supported. -- Brian May

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Brian May
. NM, GNOME Shell) on all users. If you don't like Gnome, nobody is forcing you to use it. There are alternatives. e.g. KDE. I use Awesome myself. Trying to say "[GNOME upstream] continuously try to [...] force their blessings on all users." is just wrong. Nobody is forced to use Gnome. -- Brian May

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Brian May
stemd which does not exist for OpenBSD. What would break if the depend on systemd was changed to a recommend? -- Brian May

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Brian May
continue to support it. * The Debian packages of Gnome currently will not install on non-Linux systems. * Discussion starts on debian-devel mailing list with lots of pointing of fingers. * I blame Tux. Tuz said so. -- Brian May

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-24 Thread Brian May
On 25 October 2013 10:25, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Brian May wrote: > > > gnome-settings-daemon depends on systemd > > This is only true on Debian's Linux architectures: > > > http://sources.debian.net/src/gnome-settings-daemon/3.8.5-2/d

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Brian May
On 25 October 2013 10:54, Brian May wrote: > * The Debian packages of Gnome currently will not install on non-Linux > systems. > Seems I was mislead. On hurd and kfreebsd, gnome-settings-daemon does not depend on systemd. http://sources.debian.net/src/gnome-settings-daemon/3.8.5

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Brian May
tand correctly it uses NSS library calls, but that is getting off-topic for this discussion) -- Brian May

Re: Proposal: switch init system to systemd or upstart

2013-10-25 Thread Brian May
ly, due to one or both of the above. -- Brian May

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-27 Thread Brian May
> > That's a bug that it checks for the wrong directory. That's a trivial > bugfix to change. > Has a bug been reported? Does a bug need to be reported for this to get fixed? -- Brian May

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-27 Thread Brian May
on is needed to make or not make systemd the default in Debian. Have I missed anything or got anything wrong? -- Brian May

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-28 Thread Brian May
o debug the supposedly good init script first. If the majority switched to systemd, then it would be up to the minority to maintain the initd scripts. I don't see this working very well. -- Brian May

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-06 Thread Brian May
/lib/pt_chown* /usr/lib has so many files, maybe there might be performance reasons for splitting it up, depending on what filesystem you have? -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Bug#637232: Meet swingers in your metro looking to hook up.

2012-02-05 Thread BRIAN SUTTON
Meet swingers in your metro looking to hook up. http://lessn.ca/2 - If you would like to not be contacted from us in the future please press on the link below: http://lessn.ca/3 or write to: P.O. Box 71, 46 St., Vancouver, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Bug#698825: ITP: ad2openldap -- Replication tool to populate OpenLDAP with objects from AD

2013-01-23 Thread Brian Hodges
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian Hodges * Package name: ad2openldap Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : FHCRC SciComp * URL : https://github.com/FredHutch/IT/tree/master/general/ad2openldap * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Python

Re: [RFH] answering trademark@d.o inquiries

2013-02-12 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > [ Mail-Followup-To: -project ] > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:57:40PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >> This policy states that the contact for trademark questions is >> tradem...@debian.org. Where does this address go? I think it's impo

Re: Doubts about PPA in Debian

2013-05-06 Thread Brian May
deserving packages live in Ubuntu's PPA forever, I am sure that there are deserving Debian packages that are stored in random private repositories for ever. PPA support for Debian wont change this - although it may make it easier to migrate from the PPA to Debian main. -- Brian May

Re: Doubts about PPA in Debian

2013-05-07 Thread Brian May
for free", just giving a list of packages that I wish to import. > In what way would this be better then using Debian Backports? Also, even if I do understand your concern, and that we should push > everyone to upload in the main repository of Debian whenever possible, > this doesn't fit all use cases. > Agreed. -- Brian May

Re: Proposal: remove krb5-appl (rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp with krb5 support)

2014-01-23 Thread Brian May
al.general/7608 I think these old binaries could make the entire source package and all binary packages it builds look bad, if for example somebody discovers a serious security issue. Which is very possible, as I don't think anyone is really interested in the source code any more. So I vote that this stuff should be removed. -- Brian May

Re: Proposal: remove krb5-appl (rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp with krb5 support)

2014-01-27 Thread Brian May
is, but all I can see is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271534 which looks like it was closed a year earlier. -- Brian May

Re: Proposal: remove krb5-appl (rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp with krb5 support)

2014-01-28 Thread Brian May
On 24 Jan 2014 03:33, "Sam Hartman" wrote: > My proposal is to drop the package from the archive, but I wanted to > give others a chance to shout out that I'm wrong and that there's some > compelling use-case I've missed. > If someone can convince me that the packages are useful I'm happy to > spe

Re: Proposal: remove krb5-appl (rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp with krb5 support)

2014-01-28 Thread Brian May
nts I don't know what they do off hand, would need to double check these. -- Brian May

Re: Proposal: remove krb5-appl (rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp with krb5 support)

2014-01-28 Thread Brian May
x27;t realize these were POP. > The following three are generic utilities, not particularly specific > to Kerberos: > > /usr/bin/otp > /usr/bin/otpprint > Agreed. With these gone, it is possible we might be able to not compile/delete libotp0-heimdal too. -- Brian May

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