Re: Suggestions about i386 support

2024-06-10 Thread The Wanderer
ently comparable, since presumably you wouldn't have to spend money to keep the existing 32-bit machine in service). If Andrey does, I'd be interested to learn it. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the wor

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread The Wanderer
the upgrade to Jessie continue to work equally well until the user decides to reboot - whether that's immediately, or six months down the line. Previous releases could successfully be used that way, after all; I've done it with at least one of them. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/03/2014 11:53 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> I, for one, would be highly displeased if a routine dist-upgrade to >> testing required me to reboot to avoid having things break. > >> I genera

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/04/2014 04:52 AM, Philip Hands wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> ... particularly because I use rather fewer things than many other >> people, and don't use most fancy GUI elements. (For example, I >> don

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
mponents are going to > need such forced reboots on a repeated basis, I don't like where this > is going. To be fair, I don't think anyone has suggested that reboots would be required "on a repeated basis" - only on the initial transition. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the b

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
be upgraded from versions which rely on X to versions which rely on Wayland - then at the very least a pre-upgrade warning should be provided, with the opportunity to cancel / postpone the upgrade. One of the things people have been asking for, when it comes to systemd, is such a warning in the f

Re: Sources licensed under PHP License and not being PHP are not distributable

2014-07-07 Thread The Wanderer
wouldn't this mean that it wouldn't be possible to make local modifications to a module found there and distribute them by other means (e.g. even within one's own organization) without either making a false statement in the license or violating the license? If it would mean that, then

Re: people.debian.org will move from ravel to paradis and become HTTPS only

2014-07-20 Thread The Wanderer
even I just accept that default sometimes. Changing that default, without forcing HTTPS in the way which people in this thread are objecting to, would seem to require changing all of those clients - a much, much bigger proposition than the administrators of any one server can practically tackle. - -

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-10 Thread The Wanderer
l images almost certainly makes more sense than using netinst. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQI

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-14 Thread The Wanderer
the people behind the libav side of the split seems, IIRC, to have been "no code gets in without having been reviewed by someone other than the author", this was apparently deemed an unacceptable condition. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-15 Thread The Wanderer
e found in making sure that everything passes through one central (discussion-enabled) point before landing. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: Base binary packages using xz instead of gzip

2014-09-01 Thread The Wanderer
ts xz decompression, then surely it doesn't matter whether some outside source for xz compression / decompression is available. Unless debootstrap relies on the outside source to perform that decompression, of course, but in that case I'm not sure what it would even mean to say that deboot

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread The Wanderer
s discussion (and possibly similar ones) understand "default" as meaning in the context of "default init system for jessie", and possibly clarifying that more officially on a broader scale for future reference? - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/05/2014 at 07:26 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 09/05/2014 at 04:57 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >> Noel Torres wrote: > >>> So we are clearly failing to follow the least surprise (for >>> the user) path. >

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-05 Thread The Wanderer
#x27;, and AFAICT that should get the job done. Alternately, it should be possible to pin systemd-sysv to "not installed", even when no such package as systemd-sysv exists - and then dist-upgrade should be able to figure out the necessary dependency resolution. - -- The Wanderer Secr

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-08 Thread The Wanderer
sure at least a large fraction of the remaining disagreements I've seen under discussion lie in conflicting understandings of that meaning, and it looked as if the current discussion might be getting closer to clarifying people's conflicting understandings - which can only help, even if no offi

Re: Bug#762116: marked as done (general: Some packages depend on a particular init system)

2014-09-21 Thread The Wanderer
which is essential to the nature of an init system, the only way to avoid this is to require that no init system implement any feature that something outside of the init system might legitimately want to depend on - unless that feature is also implemented equally in a standalone form. - -- T

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-07 Thread The Wanderer
nvolved but interested observer, I though this (switching the shell people use to build and test their packages, and nothing else) was what you were proposing in the first place. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread The Wanderer
ffect that my package preferences don't get counted in this kind of statistics. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- G

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread The Wanderer
utside the bounds of what constitutes "utterly smooth", and I would consider any such functionality loss to be a bug - quite possibly an RC bug. The maintainer in question, at least, does not appear to think that; he does appear to agree that it would be a bug, but a minor one at best. T

Re: uploads to unstable in times of freeze (was Re: debconf as a registry)

2014-10-19 Thread The Wanderer
es that still apply for a package which isn't in testing at all, and has never been in unstable before? Because I wouldn't expect so, and I thought that such a package was what we were talking about here. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonab

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread The Wanderer
lopers, and is the core reason why blaming systemd upstream for the problems that result from > • Software A's upstream decided they wanted to use it, because it made > their life easier. is arguably (but IMO often) legitimate. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself

aptitude dependency-resolver behaviors (was Re: apt-get install sysvinit-core removes gnome?)

2014-10-21 Thread The Wanderer
removed. (I'm pretty sure I've seen a proposed solution, in a package-upgrade scenario, which involved "remove package X and everything that depends on it", as well. But I don't recall any specifics on that one, so it might be my imagination.) My core objection to aptitude

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/21/2014 at 10:03 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> This is the problem. The init system should not be providing >> "features" which other software might, post-boot and pre-shutdown, >> want to make use of. (AFAIK sysvinit never did

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread The Wanderer
see their point, although I don't know whether I necessarily believe it holds. > Only because the "Wanderer" is a troll, doesn't mean that everything > he says is wrong. I object to being characterized as a troll. I'm not trying to stir things up or incite a furor o

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/21/2014 at 10:35 AM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > The Wanderer: > >>> Can you give an example of people doing that in case of systemd? >>> Because so far, everything I heard was similar to GNOME, where: >>> • systemd provided a feature. >

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread The Wanderer
ld cease entirely to be remotely on-topic for debian-devel (even to whatever extent this entire thread isn't already offtopic). Any suggestions for a place where such discussion would be welcome or at least acceptable, and where it would reach people who are experienced with or at least interest

Re: inconsistent versions of M-A: same packages

2014-11-01 Thread The Wanderer
I don't know how common such situations are, but they do seem to occur, and to be more than a visual glitch. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unrea

Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging

2014-11-04 Thread The Wanderer
-'. In any other scenario, the current tools seem entirely capable of figuring out the correct thing to do without issues. As far as I am aware, there is not currently any such pair of packages. Would it be reasonable to write a requirement into some appropriate document (possibly Policy) forb

Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging

2014-11-04 Thread The Wanderer
wouldn't > be surprised to find some. There aren't any in current stable, testing, stable/updates, or testing/updates, at least. That was the first thing I checked. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

2014-11-09 Thread The Wanderer
t the harmful actions of > some project members and the complicity of others in those actions > over some significant time now. Agreed. (Or IHO harmful, at least - I'm not taking a position on that myself, not least because I probably haven't seen most of the actions in question.)

Re: A concerned user -- debian Guidelines

2014-11-10 Thread The Wanderer
ly interested in trying to address or discuss that disagreement directly... it only gets covered indirectly, in the midst of flamewars about the broader topic. Which is far from an effective way to resolve the question. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the un

Re: A concerned user -- debian Guidelines

2014-11-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/10/2014 at 08:34 AM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > The Wanderer: > >> Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, no one seems to be remotely >> interested in trying to address or discuss that disagreement >> directly... > > The problem is that, appare

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-16 Thread The Wanderer
ing is still going on, the issues are in some important sense still not "settled"; even if/though they are in the sense that a project decision has been made, that is not the only possible or necessarily relevant sense of the word. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts him

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/16/2014 at 05:11 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 09:02:12AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> I would, for example, have classified the discussions / arguments >> in the "systemd-sysv | systemd-shim" bug which appears to have >> r

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-17 Thread The Wanderer
g them a known-partially-broken configuration based on systemd-shim and cgmanager. Again, if that's not correct, I'd be interested to be corrected on that point. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adap

Restoring the removed e16 package

2012-08-24 Thread The Wanderer
inence of a new stable release, what further requirements and/or deadlines would I need to keep in mind as I work on this, and what possible further procedures (beyond those in the new-package documentation) would I need to follow? -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does n

Re: Restoring the removed e16 package

2012-08-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 08/28/2012 06:51 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: The Wanderer writes ("Restoring the removed e16 package"): I'm not positive whether this properly belongs here; if it would be more appropriate on another mailing list, just let me know which one. On this point, I've already b

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-09-02 Thread The Wanderer
than my / that is hosted in a slower RAID1. Okay, this is where you stopped making sense. RAID1 is *not* slower than RAID5. On the contrary. Think about it: I interpreted that statement as meaning that the RAID1 was hosted on slower hardware, and therefore was slower overall. -- The

Re: Depends: libfoo:foreign ???

2013-05-13 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/13/2013 10:22 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 05/13/2013 09:46 AM, Wookey wrote: Hmm. Do the parts of the 64-bit tree that the 32-bit side compiles against end up installed in a final installation (as libraries?) or are they really just intermediate 'during build' items? They

Re: Depends: libfoo:foreign ???

2013-05-13 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/13/2013 10:31 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 05/13/2013 10:22 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 05/13/2013 09:46 AM, Wookey wrote: Hmm. Do the parts of the 64-bit tree that the 32-bit side compiles against end up installed in a final installation (as libraries?) or are they really just

Re: Depends: libfoo:foreign ???

2013-05-13 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/13/2013 11:00 AM, Wookey wrote: +++ The Wanderer [2013-05-13 10:22 -0400]: On 05/13/2013 09:46 AM, Wookey wrote: OK. I'd like to understand some more about this, as it's a similar issue to other cross-compiler toolchains, and if we can't solve both the same way the

Re: Depends: libfoo:foreign ???

2013-05-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/14/2013 09:34 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 07:55:30AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: If I'm correctly understanding what's being described here, I would think that the full-functionality 64+32 Wine would probably be another exception (unless it f

Re: Depends: libfoo:foreign ???

2013-05-17 Thread The Wanderer
om) it's not just a few random bytes. I'm coming to lean towards the conclusion that further work on this would probably be better done in the context of the Debian Wine packaging team, if not (for some parts of it) Wine upstream... -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an iss

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-02 Thread The Wanderer
rrant more care. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Every time you let somebody set a limit they start moving it. - LiveJournal user antonia_tiger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Plan to release a gplv3 compliant debian-based release

2013-07-05 Thread The Wanderer
to go back to that ancient point and proceed forward without using any "v2 only" code, the odds of anyone ever bothering (much less of its ever being tested in court) are exceedingly slim. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side

Re: Plan to release a gplv3 compliant debian-based release

2013-07-06 Thread The Wanderer
t does apparently at least pass the laugh test well enough to be taken seriously. Alan's (and Uoti's) point seems to have been to warn people about that fact, and thereby warn them about the potential pitfalls of relying on the legal interpretation that Linus was using. -- The Wa

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-15 Thread The Wanderer
t nowadays with the Mozilla project; I don't need more of it elsewhere.) -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Every time you let somebody set a limit they start moving it. - LiveJournal user antonia_tiger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/15/2013 09:43 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/15/2013 03:00 PM, The Wanderer wrote: My personal objections to systemd come down to the fact that I don't trust its developers / maintainers. Part of that is bleedover from the fact that I've so far had only poor experi

Re: Pulseaudio (was ... Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports)

2013-07-17 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/17/2013 03:05 AM, Ondřej Surý wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:44:21AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: My most recent experience with PulseAudio came when I noticed that WoW (run through Wine) was producing crackling, stuttering

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread The Wanderer
ourse. But you aren't required to use the code the upstream produces, either. ...except when you need its functionality, and there's lock-in preventing you from (sufficiently easily) switching to some alternative. Which may be relevant to the case at hand. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-20 Thread The Wanderer
een anything which even tries to convince me otherwise. [0] Meaning approximately "we create our own language and talk it to ourselves, and anyone else who wants to talk to us has to learn our language", not intending to imply "undocumented" or "legally restricted"

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/21/2013 05:04 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 20 juillet 2013 à 19:21 -0400, The Wanderer a écrit : [I am almost certainly going to regret this.] I hope so. Please don't be a jerk. Making the switch away from the entrenched sysvinit is visibly very difficult, at least

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread The Wanderer
ative much bigger than just implementing a new init system; any new alternative would then have to jump over considerably bigger hurdles than systemd did. It will be the same situation as we currently have sith SysV-Init. So I wouldn't worry about this at all :-) Isn't the current

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-21 Thread The Wanderer
much bigger job than just implementing a new init system. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Every time you let somebody set a limit they start moving it. - LiveJournal user antonia_tiger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-22 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/22/2013 02:52 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] The Wanderer If someone implementing a new alternative wanted to retain the other tools with which systemd integrates, that person would have to match their interfaces, which might limit the functionality the new alternative could be able to

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-22 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/22/2013 08:48 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: On 21 July 2013 20:22, The Wanderer wrote: I'm saying that it looks to me as if the lock-in to systemd would be even stronger than the lock-in to sysvinit, and might well extend to the point of even making it harder to implement anothe

Re: Preventing government subversion in Debian, verification of binary package uploads

2013-08-25 Thread The Wanderer
threat (of "contempt of court", AIUI) may have been not for shutting down the site or for refusing to comply but for effectively violating a gag order about the whole thing by the way he explained that - and why - he was shutting down. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue

Re: Removing some kernel-related virtual packages

2013-09-26 Thread The Wanderer
such a fallback exists, without preventing root from manually overriding it. If the stated goal is to avoid having e.g. /boot fill up with cruft short of manual intervention, then at a glance, the mechanism which these files provide does not seem to interfere with that goal. -- The Wanderer

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-27 Thread The Wanderer
ect me. * For reasons I don't properly understand, some people seem to think a decision is needed to make or not make systemd the default in Debian. Have I missed anything or got anything wrong? With the above modifications, looks about accurate to me, for whatever that may be worth. --

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-12 Thread The Wanderer
igning, building, and supporting laptops specifically intended to run Linux. I haven't used one myself, but they look like a good outfit from what I can see, and the laptops look decent within the somewhat limited selection available. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an is

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread The Wanderer
program sit unchanged is automatically a bad thing, no matter how close to perfect-for-its-purpose the program may already have been. Change is not always bad; in fact, it's very often good. But change isn't always good either, and refusal of change isn't always simple obstinacy or

Re: "Do not CC me"

2012-11-25 Thread The Wanderer
on-list copy (so that messages from the list in my archive are consistent), even if I've already received the off-list copy, but in my experience the Message-IDs of the two variants of the message are very often identical. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not

Re: "Do not CC me"

2012-11-26 Thread The Wanderer
here's argument to be made that the actual problem lies in not changing the Message-ID when modifying a message for mailing-list retransmission, but that's a long-established practice and there are very likely reasons for it. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an iss

Re: "Do not CC me"

2012-11-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/26/2012 08:22 AM, Andrew Shadura wrote: Hello, On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:07:03 -0500 The Wanderer wrote: Gmail does something similar, except not time-limited; it won't even re-send you a copy of a mail you send to a mailing list. This is apparently on the grounds that you already

Re: Feedback

2012-12-25 Thread The Wanderer
release". I'm not saying he's right - sarge was assigned version 3.1, for example, and other non-'x.0' releases have been made in the past - but that seems more like an argument that someone might actually make. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-03 Thread The Wanderer
t a way to override the block just as conveniently as it was set up in the first place.) So either I'm not understanding what you mean by this description, or what you're describing doesn't seem to be happening on my system. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 01/04/2013 09:15 AM, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Le vendredi 4 janvier 2013 05:44:57, The Wanderer a écrit : That doesn't seem to match my experience. I most commonly encounter apt-listbugs bug lists via 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. If I say "no" in response to

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-22 Thread The Wanderer
probably in many practical cases as well. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Every time you let somebody set a limit they start moving it. - LiveJournal user antonia_tiger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.d

Re: Bootstrapping: list of 81 self-cycles in Debian Sid

2013-03-05 Thread The Wanderer
I haven't noticed? Or "none of the above"? -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Every time you let somebody set a limit they start moving it. - LiveJournal user antonia_tiger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-

Re: Bootstrapping: list of 81 self-cycles in Debian Sid

2013-03-06 Thread The Wanderer
On 03/05/2013 10:46 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: Hi, Quoting The Wanderer (2013-03-05 15:35:37) You can build either one without a matching version of the other, but you won't get full functionality. In order to get the full functionality of both, from what I've been able to tell

Re: Bug#455769: same problem on wheezy + Thinkpad X220T

2013-03-28 Thread The Wanderer
ou have to take two. You pay for that convenience by sacrificing the convenience of being able to close the lid *without* suspending, but which inconvenience is the greater depends on your usage patterns, and different people may well prefer to sacrifice different ones. -- The Wanderer Warni

Re: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread The Wanderer
titions laid out and filesystems created by hand. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Every time you let somebody set a limit they start moving it. - LiveJournal user antonia_tiger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lis

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-07 Thread The Wanderer
#x27;t. It may or may not be relevant that I have grub-pc held on my desktop at version 1.99-17; I believe this was originally due to the existence of bugs which claimed that upgrading could/would break the boot, but by now it may be due more to inertia than to anything else. -- The Wanderer

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread The Wanderer
I heard mixing and matching between the two is not encouraged (though I don't know why not), and since dealing with the limitations of apt-get is far less aggravating for me than dealing with the attempted cleverness of aptitude, I find the older program by far the more preferable solution. -

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread The Wanderer
nd including it on the list of release goals seems like an appropriate way of raising its profile (and/or its priority) in pursuit of that. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Every time you let somebody set a limit they start m

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-08 Thread The Wanderer
t only not do it ourselves but push back against upstream efforts to do it. If the distinction does not still make sense, then we should explicitly decide to reject it, and under that scenario moving to merge /usr with / (in either direction) seems like a very sensible thing to do.

Re: Depends: libfoo:foreign ???

2013-05-13 Thread The Wanderer
ose -dev packages is installed - and swap back afterwards for normal compilation of other things.) -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Every time you let somebody set a limit they start moving it. - LiveJournal user antonia_

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread The Wanderer
onfiguration at all. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Every time you let somebody set a limit they start moving it. - LiveJournal user antonia_tiger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Depends: libfoo:foreign ???

2013-05-13 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/13/2013 09:46 AM, Wookey wrote: +++ The Wanderer [2013-05-13 07:55 -0400]: For the full 64+32 Wine, I don't believe this is possible - or if it is possible, no way of doing it has yet been documented that I know of. The official Wine documentation of how to build that configur

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-16 Thread The Wanderer
l use MEncoder anyway, because there are things it can do that FFmpeg can't do yet, but there aren't very many such things anymore. In any case, wouldn't this be more work than updating the MPlayer package(s) to use the current upstream release? - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread The Wanderer
package FFmpeg in their place. At the time, I remember someone saying that there should be no reason both could not be available (possibly with Conflicts or similar) if someone did want to do the packaging work for FFmpeg. However, I'm not sure that statement didn't come from the Ubuntu

Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?

2013-12-21 Thread The Wanderer
However, even aside from MEncoder being officially deprecated by upstream, it seems likely that doing that would involve most of the same work as getting MPlayer itself working again and probably more into the bargain - so if you're going to do the work anyway, why not retain both? - --

Re: Delegation for the Release Team

2013-12-26 Thread The Wanderer
if the only available one is tied to a release, then it seems natural and appropriate for the release team to be the ones to oversee those goals. If we don't want them doing that (for whatever reason), then we need to either decide that no enforcement mechanism is needed, or come up with one t

Re: Delegation for the Release Team

2013-12-26 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/26/2013 09:35 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 09:02 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> It's seemed intuitively obvious to me that a "release goal" could >> equally be defined as "a n

Re: Bug#735927: general: X *always* crashes when ram is full

2014-01-20 Thread The Wanderer
iew/20653/intel-320-series-solid-state-drive The article includes spec-sheet information and detailed benchmark results. Glancing over them again, I'm not surprised by this described result from that drive; there are other SSDs that might do much better. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the be

Re: Bug#735927: general: X *always* crashes when ram is full

2014-01-20 Thread The Wanderer
tion introduce another variable and likely improve performance, these drives were specifically chosen because they were top performers in their capacity class at the time - and with SSDs, higher capacity generally performs better anyway. So this may not be a particularly valuable datapoint. - --

Re: SSDs have extra "unused" space???

2014-01-21 Thread The Wanderer
ustify the generality of the statement, and in any case that would be an implementation detail rather than a basic fact of flash memory. Is there something I've missed? - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread The Wanderer
er trust that the result of that work will be - or, if it once is, will continue to be - something *I* would consider good. As such, advice to "not be distrustful" seems to me to be lacking an essential foundation. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A governme

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread The Wanderer
tart/stop of each field) of a text file than it is of a binary one, when working without known-reliable documentation. (And I'm not willing to assume that I'll always have such documentation.) There's a *reason* the vast majority of kernel userspace-interface files are in plain-text

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread The Wanderer
nk what was meant by the phrasing was not "If X, then Y", but "Just because X, that does not mean Y". - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/11/2014 12:38 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> In my case: because I want to be able to read them conveniently at >> a glance, without requiring the presence of a functioning >> specialized tool f

Trust and systemd (was Re: Bug#727708, et cetera)

2014-02-12 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/11/2014 10:15 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:05:48AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: >> I do not trust the systemd project to not do things I consider bad >> or even insane, because they've already done s

FFmpeg vs. libav packaging (was Re: Proposal: SystemD.pushers/forcers, et cetera)

2014-02-13 Thread The Wanderer
liking, you will have to deal with other > people's preferences. It's like that and that's the way it is... Quite true, which is at least one-third of the reason I didn't speak up against the switch to libav at the time when it happened. Reinhard preferred it, and he was the o

Re: systemd's journal

2014-02-16 Thread The Wanderer
separately, from source to syslog (presumably in the form of rsyslogd), or does it flow from source to journald to syslog? (Or something else? Or am I missing / making an assumption that turns this into a stupid question?) - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A governme

Re: systemd's journal

2014-02-16 Thread The Wanderer
e binary nature of the file format. (And now I wait for someone to point out an obvious specialized format and/or tool that everyone uses that I've overlooked...) - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, no

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-19 Thread The Wanderer
ts.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/07/msg01139.html - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJ

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread The Wanderer
much more than 5, and is still only counting people who run popcon. (Which I often don't, because it breaks my reflexive attempts to tab-complete 'popd' when I'm root.) - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its ci

Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it

2014-03-30 Thread The Wanderer
efault really is - and, barring another project-wide decision, is expected to indefinitely continue to be - as simple as installing one set of packages rather than another. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not

Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it

2014-03-30 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/30/2014 10:57 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 03/30/2014 08:02 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> If it's been decided to continue to require package maintainers to >> provide traditional init scripts as well as systemd u

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