ve pointed out.
Personally, I think the easiest and best solution is simply to stick
with Berkeley DB 5.3. It avoids all the pain of relicensing and the
inevitable licensing bugs that *will* show up. Not to mention that some
upstreams will be unamused at Oracle's shenanigans and won't want t
iece of software for Debian to place
in an important role, even if it currently works on all our
architectures, since Debian is very portable among different
architectures.
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> brian m. carlson wrote:
> > Since Debian is always in need of developers and volunteers, it isn't
> > objectively reasonable to expect that forking a project will be
> > possible. One thing that needs to be t
ll you that there are a lot of
machines I've encountered that can't boot off a USB stick, and maybe
about a third of those don't do DVD.
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inctly remember
that there were several settings that XFCE provides in the settings
dialogs that required arcane trips through the gconf/dconf settings, if
they were there at all. It's possible that's changed, though.
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grub 2
didn't support booting off ext4; there was some problem when doing that.
If /usr is a separate filesystem, I can use ext4 there and leave / ext3.
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als of the sending user, I'm
going to keep using mutt's SMTP support. TTBOMK, no MTA in Debian
supports outgoing GSSAPI authentication *at all*, let alone with the
specific user credentials. Only a few MTAs support per-user
configuration on any level at all.
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me rationale for not
installing it applies.
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do this and you'll have a better chance of someone reassigning the bug
to the right place so it can be fixed.
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rmal and gdb (and other programs) will find the debugging
symbols automatically.
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reading about it recently.
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t; I'd be grateful for any feedback.
You probably want to handle the case where /etc/mtab is a symlink to
/proc/self/mounts as well, since it's equivalent, and I know some people
(read: at least me) have already made that change.
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atch, but the PATH_MAX issue
is a pretty common one for Hurd, and assuming PATH_MAX is a compile-time
constant is a bad idea anyway, since it's not allowed by POSIX.
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make
it to fix your package, the less likely you are to receive a patch with
that report, workaround or not.
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ges it to baz, the
package breaks for the sysadmin. If the configuration were stored in
/etc, the sysadmin would get notified by dpkg or ucf and would have an
opportunity to change it. So the only sane thing to do is not change
the default, ever.
This does not sound to me like an especiall
prompted.
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P
f libgc.
[1] This is not a dig at the X Strike Force; they do a very good job
with package maintenance and bug handling with the manpower they have.
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nvert them all into UUIDs. Then it doesn't matter which driver (ide
or libata or something else entirely) is being used.
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have to support it or find a co-maintainer who will. However
awful you think mime-support is, it's still part of Policy, and agreeing
on one system improves the experience for users, which is one of the
main purposes of a Linux distribution.
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secure. Merkle-Damgård
constructions include the number of bits hashed in the hash.
But yes, MD5 is vulnerable to length extension attacks.
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ates C's as-if rule.
The compiled version has to act as if it did exactly what the C said.
Optimizations or other transformations that cause the compiled code to
violate this are a bug in the compiler.
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should be used in new applications.
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. gdm) simply not work. If we're going to move
to event-based booting, this discovery needs to be made *before* the
system reboots[0] and init must complain loudly and handle it gracefully
anyway.
[0] And whatever solution we choose must handle the case where the
sysadmin drops local services int
prevent certain video
games from being played, and Australia also has stupid video game laws
that could be interpreted as being binding against Debian. I'm sure
that every country has laws which are problematic; don't blame it all on
the US.
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/usr. I have a server that is configured this way. If I were to
reinstall it, I might not use a separate /usr, but it is hardly
reasonable to make me repartition my disk now. That means extra work
for me. (Nor is it reasonable to hav
ur mail to the list is so important that I should receive notification
of it wherever I am and whatever I'm doing.
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on can literally take
minutes. btrfs in its default configuration is completely unusable for
any system that uses databases *at all*, which is essentially everything
but tiny embedded systems. I won't even use it on /tmp.
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ore limited version of it, in the FSF's case) when I don't
get the same in return.
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ed by base-files.
If your script does require some feature that is not available in mawk
or original-awk, you explicitly need to call gawk, since /usr/bin/awk is
an alternative and you cannot assume that it will point to gawk.
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 07:59:14AM +0100, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:23:45 +
> "brian m. carlson" wrote:
>
> > I've seen a lot of cases over the years of packages depending on gawk
> > that do not need it. If you only need a standard
going to set up an entire chroot or sbuild or pbuilder
environment just to test a patch. Packages should definitely be built
for the archive in a clean environment, but they should still build
correctly in an unclean one.
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spite me filing bugs, neither the NSS nor
the curl maintainers have stepped up to fix this.
This also doesn't consider the fact that NSS provides poorer crypto
support than either OpenSSL or GnuTLS, although it's getting better.
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since it doesn't support the mandatory cipher suite. That isn't a
practical problem, since nobody implements only that cipher suite, but
it is a conformance issue that needs to be addressed.
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y reporters won't think to mention it.
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e set zsh as /bin/sh.
Also, it doesn't make sense to make hundreds of packages duplicate the
same (or worse, slightly different and potentially subtly broken) code,
when it could be in one single place.
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and was sluggish,
but XFCE ran fine.
[1] The very existence of MATE provides some support for this argument,
at least.
[2]
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tasksel/tasksel.git;a=commitdiff;h=dfca406eb694e0ac00ea04b12fc912237e01c9b5
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+
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 11:32:07PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 18:18 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> [...]
> > * There were concerns about accessibility support, "particularly for the
> > blind"[2].
> [...]
>
> Which is unfortuna
ied a
bootable CD with me when I did freelance desktop support.
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artifacts for doing code
> review.
Furthermore, third-parties use Debian's diffs as the basis for security
and feature patches. At work, we ship a slightly modified version of
Debian's timezone patches for PHP, and we also have used Debian's
security patches as well.
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epend on "gcc-4.4".
Again, you don't need to depend on gcc. Your package will probably have
a dependency on libgomp1, but that will be automatically added if
required.
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mpletely inappropriate for a server: the
package description even says so.
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n should clearly state what
the utility does so that people who need it can find it and those
looking for iconv or recode determine that it's not for them.
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ea)
> to select the (1) option which also generates an ecnryption key in one
> go. Is that correct ?
Yes. It creates an RSA main key (used for signing other keys and
possibly data) and an RSA encryption-only subkey. Some people use a
subkey for signing as well, but that can be generated later.
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 12:15:49PM +0200, Vincent Caron wrote:
>That's a nice explanation that would fit on
> http://keyring.debian.org/creating-key.html
If someone would like to put it up there, he or she should feel free to
do so.
> Thanks for your help.
Sure.
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ense since it is the
must-implement hash algorithm. So setting these preferences is still
recommended for current use. While these preferences do affect key
signatures, they also affect other uses as well—uses where SHA-1 is
still a bad choice.
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anges every time it's used (think perl's hashes), then the
same program can produce different outputs every time. You probably
therefore should not rely on the order in which the packets are emitted.
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x27;s
reasonable to ask what the features are for one that will be added to
the archive and what makes it better than the alternatives. It happens
on occasion that a packager may decide that there is a better tool for
their needs and use that instead.
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ses the network
connection, I certainly don't want him able to access the password that
is used for authentication.
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mtune value should remain i686.
[0] http://www.singlix.com/trdos/pentium.txt
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si
new messages. Using an email-based method
means that someone who needs to contact me about the status of a bug can
do so trivially.
Besides the fact that *I* think it's a bad idea, apparently the BTS
administrators do, too: #277744 is marked wontfix.
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break things at all. Neither Debian nor I guarantee this, though.
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his is not something that is a boon in every case and
certainly not something that should automatically be used project-wide.
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correct me if I'm wrong) that cells are
either eukaryotic or prokaryotic; there isn't a third class. If so,
it's probably better to use a term that includes both, since as it reads
now, it implies that it handles these two types, but not some unknown
third.
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orted openat(2) since 8.0, but I don't
know if the kFreeBSD glibc has it implemented. If not, it's very likely
trivial to accomplish.
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systemd at all, other than offending the upstream
author. Last I checked, The Unix Way did not involve having important
system programs prattle on about irrelevant details.
I'll side with supporting GNU/kFreeBSD over systemd any day.
[0] Extremely limited bandwidth for incoming Windows SMT
the man page?
It's hard to access the manpage on the only system on which systemd is
installed when the system won't boot. If everything's working normally,
I don't care if it's mostly silent.
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n kFreeBSD, then ok, that happens.
Would it be nice if systemd were portable? Yes. But if we assume that
it's not, then we have to accept that. The question here is whether
we're effectively willing to make a non-portable package part of
Essential. The question wo
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 08:44:43PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 18:27 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > In most cases, if a package is buggy on some platform, the porters will
> > either fix it or exclude it from that platform. Nevertheless, we expec
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 12:38:13AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> * Package name: apt-clone
> Version : 0.7.9nexenta28
> * URL : see below
> * License : CDDL
You may want to run this by debian-legal. Last I checked, this license
wasn't okay.
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ignores any value that the caller supplies in sin->sin_port.
Fixing this might be a useful way around the problem. I'd code up a
patch, but eglibc won't take it without copyright assignment.
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ot a SIGBUS.
In order to assist developers, I tried to write a library to enable
alignment check on i386/amd64 for ease of debugging, but the C library
does not function correctly with that enabled, so I gave up.
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> SIGBUS. :-(
Yeah, that's my experience, too. glibc is not alignment check-safe on
i386 and amd64. If you turn it on in an LD_PRELOAD using _init, it
segfaults before main.
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hough, so
you don't have to enter your passphrase repeatedly.
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k, use -S. git rebase -S will
automatically sign commits all rebased commits except those created with
git commit, where you'll have to pass -S yourself.
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Ooh -- I like chameleon -- but I'll take a look at wallp before I
officially post my intent to adopt chameleon -- perhaps I'll agree, and
just let chameleon die.
Of course, since I haven't posted intent to adopt yet -- anybody else who
wants it can snatch it now :)
on another subject -- wmsy
Umm, whats wrong with openprojects.net ?
Hrmm -- I maintain wmsysmon, but am always looking around the dockapps,
and ran across asmon the other day, which looks kinda like a combination
of wmmon and wmsysmon -- it has the best parts of each... Needless to say,
it's the one on my wmaker desktop now *grin* -- so unless somebody else
is work
nce, this was an
invocation from `sudo aptitude` as part of a normal package upgrade,
which I think is a relatively common situation to be in.
Possibly also an initscript helper which enables developers to do the
right thing automatically, or a flag to start-stop-daemon, or other
tooling would be bene
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uld cause a lot of problems which we'd want to avoid and
it's not in the interests of the project to pursue it further.
My apologies for the needless controversy.
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