Re: Not stopping daemons, where are we?

2008-08-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
x27;s just about removing shared memory segments and such, there's no need to clean up -- the system is about to go away anyway.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-09-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e on gluck. I'll keep the one on gluck running for now (that is, until it becomes restricted). -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-09-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ime in the not too | distant future. I just set up the queue when ftp-master (auric at the time, IIRC) became restricted. If the ftpmasters want to run the service themselves, you're more than welcome to do so. :-) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its frie

Re: Bug#497304: general: packages cannot be partially installed

2008-09-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=dpkg;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/fileexclude branch. It'll probably be merged post-lenny. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: RFC: adding pre-depends to libpam-modules for lenny

2008-12-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ug off the list - then I just have to | accept the beatings from Christian for the implied addition of a new debconf | template this late in the lenny freeze... :) Just send him some cheese and red wine and he'll be happy. :-) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky ab

Re: Faster shutdown and the ubuntu "multiuser" update-rc.d extention

2008-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
vice going down» or similar instead of the socket just dying. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Faster shutdown and the ubuntu "multiuser" update-rc.d extention

2008-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ng disk I/O/database access/etc. as well, which means "stop" | should wait till apache really quits. Taking this argument a bit further, do you think that the sshd init script should wait until all users have saved their work and logged out before it gives control back to the init sequence? --

Re: pkg-$GROUP on Alioth: please whitelist messages from BTS

2008-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ormal | subscribers send with random envelopes, but that's probably a bug in | their mail environments. Any reason not to just white-list those for all lists rather than having it as a per-list option? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its frien

Re: pkg-$GROUP on Alioth: please whitelist messages from BTS

2008-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
7;): msgdata['approved'] = 1 except AttributeError: return (You might want to print msg.keys() to syslog or something to get a list of all headers if From isn't the right one.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about w

Re: netconf control socket protocol: rfc822, xml-rpc, or dbus

2008-01-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
C implementation in cdebconf weighing in at about 100 lines, including some comments and such. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is tabular data in binary format acceptable for Debian ?

2010-01-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
not distributing software they don't have the right to, or derived software which was in violation of the upstream licence. Sure, it's anecdotal evidence, but they're out there. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To U

Re: Debian policy update (3.8.4.0)

2010-02-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ssume that every header is arch-specific? Given that the only cost is disk space, I think that's a tradeoff that makes sense. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: multiarch and pkg-config

2010-02-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
they should ensure that the .a, .so stay in /usr/lib | | * pkg-config'd libraries may do whichever of those is most straightforward If we want to support multiarch compilation, this sounds ok to me. I'm personally not convinced by the point of doing it. Though. -- Tollef Fog Heen UN

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Luca Falavigna | Can you imagine a useful thing that is worth having every entry in | projectb? If so, here's your chance :) Searching for CVEs springs to mind. (You can have one which only affects the version in unstable, in which case it would never hit a policy queue.) -- Tolle

Re: multiarch and pkg-config

2010-02-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
r that does what you want (with many | symlinks to make autotools happy). Feel free to try to convince me. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#568161: ITP: tacacs+ -- TACACS+ authentication daemon

2010-02-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Tourneur Henry-Nicolas | * License : No license, only a copyright file Surely that makes it illegal for us to distribute? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: multiarch and pkg-config

2010-02-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Goswin von Brederlow | But how would -dev packages signal that they need support for this? They | do not depend on pkg-config as they are usable without. Should they | Breaks: pkg-config (<< ver)? Seems too strong. Breaks sounds fine to me. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly

Re: multiarch and pkg-config

2010-02-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Hendrik Sattler Please don't send me copies, I'm subscribed and set my mail-followup-to as well as mail-copies-to. | Am Dienstag 02 Februar 2010 21:43:21 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: | > ]] Hendrik Sattler | > | pkg-config actually does support relocation of the lib

Re: initial packages with multiarch paths

2010-02-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve Langasek | We don't really want extra -L options passed to the build for every | library that's installed to the multiarch lib dir. Does pkgconfig | filter these out? Not yet. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are --

Bug#570980: teasers

2010-02-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ot-only, but is in bin.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Bug#570980: teasers

2010-02-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Patrick Matthäi Please respect my Mail-Followup-To. | On 27.02.2010 11:56, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > ]] | > | > | Well just like many of the comments to 348864, I just hate the | > | "teasers" in section 1 that only root can run. | > | > Whether a tool is root-

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
". I would guess at most people not using live migration and so never hitting those kinds of problems. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: Removing the manpage requirement for GUI programs?

2010-02-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ogram does should change seldom and it keeps apropos(1) and similar tools useful. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
should make sure that people who aren't using debhelper can continue not doing so, but those couple of hundred packages is a very small fraction of the archive, even if some of them are important packages. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Frank Lin PIAT | What about a transitional dh_md5sums that would produce md5sum AND | invoke dh_sha ? Or call it dh_checksums or something so we don't have to change the tool name each time we decide to change the algorithm. (And I want the shed blue with pink spots.) -- Tollef Fog

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t think it makes much sense to ever switch the default version for dpkg-source. However, making it warn and then eventually fail if you don't declare which version your package is is something I think makes sense. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its

Re: Confused by .la file removal vs static linking support

2010-05-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
; packages, so it is not the case. | | NVY> Any other reason? | | Wish of pkg-config maintainers. Uhm, no. | And GNOME developers insistance (so applications developers may | blindly include gtk+2.0.pc and get all the stack). Yes, historical baggage, basically. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is

Re: Confused by .la file removal vs static linking support

2010-05-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Paul Wise | On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > | And GNOME developers insistance (so applications developers may | > | blindly include gtk+2.0.pc and get all the stack). | > | > Yes, historical baggage, basically. | | So this is being fixed for GTK+ 3

Re: Bug#579675: ITP: goban -- Goban screensaver / copyright issue

2010-05-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
pyright on |those files (I am not sure if he played any of those games) That's probably not relevant. Even if they're not copyrightable by themselves, there are database rights to be taken into consideration. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friend

Bug#580814: ITP: systemd -- system and session manager

2010-05-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Package: wnpp Owner: Tollef Fog Heen Severity: wishlist * Package name: systemd Version : 0 Upstream Author : Lennart Pottering * URL or Web page : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd * Code: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/ * License : GPLv2

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ether sysvinit is Essential or not is a bit irrelevant to whether people can experiment with other init systems. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t boot half of the machine services? I am so far just testing on a singe machine, but it's my firm belief that it's possible to have a fully functional systemd in squeeze. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Bug#580814: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Julian Andres Klode | On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 05:25:16PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > I am so far just testing on a singe machine, but it's my firm belief | > that it's possible to have a fully functional systemd in squeeze. | | Only if #579755 is solved. While testing s

Re: bindv6only again

2010-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
le IFS or PATH being different from its default value would be buggy. If it absolutely needs a given value, it should tell the system that. | bindv6only=0 is assumed by both POSIX and RFC 3493. As the default value, yes. Not as the only possible value. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, i

Re: bindv6only again

2010-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Salvo Tomaselli | On Thursday 13 May 2010 17:54:04 Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > Because it does not handle non-default values. This is just like an | > application that didn't handle IFS or PATH being different from its | > default value would be buggy. | | Do you know what happe

Re: bindv6only again

2010-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Salvo Tomaselli | > And handling bindv6only is absolutely trivial. | | Right, but there are many others sysctl options, why should the apps | deal with this particular one and not with the others? They should. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its

Re: Bug#580814: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ange their process group. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://li

Re: Open then gates

2010-05-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
hat information into the Default-Start LSB header or kill the S rcN.d links/make them into K links. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Open then gates

2010-05-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Christoph Anton Mitterer (Please respect my mail-followup-to, there's no need to Cc me on lists which I read. It'd also make your mails more readable if you leave a blank line between what you quote and your reply.) | On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 09:04 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: |

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
t mean you can't configure it otherwise of course. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: SRWare Iron: Chromium without the data-mining

2010-05-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Mike Hommey | opt-in like in the Options dialog ? «opt-in» usually means «requires active effort to be enabled», so in this case, disabled by default. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Re: SRWare Iron: Chromium without the data-mining

2010-05-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
gUp/PgDn. - The tabs are always the same size, meaning it's hard to keep track when I have many tabs. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: SRWare Iron: Chromium without the data-mining

2010-05-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Josselin Mouette | Le samedi 22 mai 2010 à 08:43 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen a écrit : | > | I don't see what you mean by "iffy" tabbed browsing, what's wrong with | > | tabbed browsing in Epiphany? | > | > For me, at least two things: | > | > - C-TAB/C-S-

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

2010-05-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
n addgroup foo, every user created after that will not be considered to be a UPG user. Perhaps addgroup shouldn't use the same gid range as what we are using for users, to make this problem at least smaller, if not make it go away. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just pi

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
| | Eh, Debian can patch upstream software if it thinks it is necessary for | inter-operation, that's the one of the major points of having a | distribution. Wouldn't it be easier to generate a configuration directory in /var from snippets in /etc/postfix, if that was what you desired?

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
cate and remove functionality which then makes packages FTBFS? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve Langasek | On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:54:17PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > ]] Neil Williams | | > | You seem to think that every package is going to be uploaded just for | > | the sake of an upload. | | > | There is no way to guarantee that ALL packages in De

Re: Anounce of a secure repo for debian

2010-05-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
;t just go the route that people have taken with harden-* in the past is something I don't understand, but I'm not going to tell people how to best go about their business when it doesn't affect me.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who i

Re: pid file security

2010-06-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
an guarantee | > that depinit will catch the signal. | | systemd does all that. More importantly: systemd _allows_ them to do that, it doesn't require them. From the description of depinit, it sounds like it requires all daemons to be modified. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly

Re: pid file security

2010-06-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
on windows?? http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd is hit number four or five for it on google. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: ITP: php-recaptcha -- PHP interface to recaptcha.net

2010-06-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ope we (as an entity) | still do, and I *know* many of us still do. Part of software freedom is the no discrimination against fields of endeavour bit. Software that's not allowed to be used for evil (whatever that is) as well as good isn't free. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly,

Re: ITP: php-recaptcha -- PHP interface to recaptcha.net

2010-06-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand | Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > | Some made the comparison (like you just did) with IM clients, specific | > | browsers (like youtube clients and others), but I don't believe this | > | applies here. To my opinion, I believe this is a remotely executed | > | proce

Re: packages being essential but having stuff in /usr/?!

2010-07-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
is started. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.deb

Re: Anyone collected historical data for popcons of derivative(s)?

2010-07-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
asking them? Mailing webmas...@ubuntu.com should get you a reply, I'd imagine. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Flag images

2010-07-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
nt pixels, then? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- 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/87mxtek24e@qurzaw.linpro.no

Re: Problem with gfortran and pkg-config

2010-07-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
7;s a default location that gfortran does look in, please file a bug report on pkg-config asking that to be stripped by default as well. The reason for stripping -I is so you can have in-tree include files that get included correctly even if their names overlap the files in /usr/include. -- Tollef Fog

Re: Problem with gfortran and pkg-config

2010-07-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Hendrik Sattler (Please don't Cc me, I read the list, as noted in my M-F-T header) | Am Donnerstag 29 Juli 2010, 19:23:40 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: | > The reason for stripping -I is so you can | > have in-tree include files that get included correctly even if their | > nam

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
d the point of doc-base, except that it breaks tab-completion for /usr/share/do, so I'd rather get rid of doc-base than have more packages use it. ;-) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@l

Re: Notes from the DebConf Source Format BoF

2010-08-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
whose preferred form we're talking about, if it's upstream's, Debian's, popular opinions, the strictest of those, the least strict or something else entirely? I don't really have a good solution here, so if somebody has a way to make both camps happy, that'd be

Re: Usage of /var/lib for databases not properly described in policy

2010-08-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Christoph Anton Mitterer | What about using /srv/ for such stuff? Wouldn't that fit better? The structure of /srv is explicitly undefined and left up to the local admin, so I suggest not doing that. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its f

Re: Intent to hijack anarchism

2010-08-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
d mail to prove this. This sounds like a normal adoption, not a hijack, and there's no need for a signed mail to do the handover. (I've given away and taken over packages through IRC conversations, for instance.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who i

Re: New LILO upstream development

2010-08-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
in sorting on alioth? I've fixed it now, sorry for the long delay. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Debug output etc, cluttering the terminal

2010-08-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
be a huge task trying to unify the policies. Sure, but so is making a distro, and having unified policies is a fairly big part of making a distro. :-) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lis

Re: Debug output etc, cluttering the terminal

2010-08-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Lars Wirzenius | On su, 2010-08-15 at 14:19 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > I would guess they still fill up the .xsession-errors file, though? At | > least for me, that file is mostly useless due to: | > | > « ...Too much output, ignoring rest... » | > | > as the la

Re: why are there /bin and /usr/bin...

2010-08-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
a symlink to / becoming a supported configuration. I keep meaning to set up a system like that and see what breaks, but haven't gotten around to it yet. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@li

Re: Bits from keyring-maint

2010-09-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ably priced. AFAIK, the onboard software isn't free, though. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
urceless software, which is quite problematic. It is problematic both from a legal point of view as well as from a practical/security point of view, since being able to build all parts of a package is important in order to maintain it properly. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it'

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-10-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
then have huge-dataset set up the data set and patch it as new versions are installed? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Possible MBF: missing Klingon translation for debconf templates

2010-10-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Christian PERRIER | Tollef Fog Heen |norwegian |ssl-cert (U) I don't believe translating Norwegian into Klingon is a good idea. ;-) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Init dependency between nfs-kernel-server and name server

2010-10-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
l facility | for this use. Indeed, it seems quite appropriate. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Init dependency between nfs-kernel-server and name server

2010-10-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Petter Reinholdtsen | [Tollef Fog Heen] | > It seems quite inappropriate to limit this information to just a | > single init system when we have more than one in Debian. We should | > strive to move that information into a init-agnostic place, and I | > don't see why it

Re: Static linking: pkgconfig vs libtool

2010-11-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
bump, one should not, or at least so I think. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: Static linking: pkgconfig vs libtool

2010-11-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Simon McVittie | On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 at 21:58:56 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > | Upstreams are only meant to change the .pc filename when they make an | > | incompatible change to the API | > | > This seems to be the trend, but there's nothing in pkg-config'

Re: Notification escape sequences

2010-12-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
can, if there's a rougue application it can send you loads of data, it can force titlebar changes all the time, etc. cheers, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: using perl in preinst script

2010-12-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
good reason to, I don't see a problem with that.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: devel files and libraries in /lib

2011-01-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
nowadays few (if any) compelling reasons for having a | separate /usr, and hence for having /usr at all other than as a | compatibility symlink to /. Have we actually got any reasons for | keeping it? I'd love to see this happening and would like the ability to have /usr as a symlink to / as a rel

Re: devel files and libraries in /lib

2011-01-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Olaf van der Spek | On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > ]] Roger Leigh | > | > | On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 10:33:21PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: | > | > | > I've never used pkgconfig. But if it doesn't support it, it too should be fi

Re: devel files and libraries in /lib

2011-01-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Olaf van der Spek | On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > | Eh, wouldn't this case be a valid use case? | > | > No, there's no reason for the .so to live in /lib rather than /usr/lib. | | What about .so files needed before /usr is mounted? Do you h

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
w to do | > that in the release notes. This would also purge the configuration of packages where I have no wish to do so. I sometimes uninstall packages without purging them, just because I want to keep the configuration around. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky abo

Re: Alioth is unreachable

2011-01-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
disk | space. This has been fixed now, thanks for the heads-up. In the future, it's better to mail ad...@alioth.debian.org rather than debian-devel so you both get the message to the right people and don't disturb all the subscribers of -devel. Best regards, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user

Re: Alioth is unreachable

2011-01-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Marc Haber | On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:33:44 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen | wrote: | >]] Grégoire Scano | >| Haven't seen a report yet, I was there | >| http://www.debian.org/intro/help clicking on Alioth | >| http://alioth.debian.org/ and got : | >| An error occured in the logg

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
go is much less productive than just living with them, making the best out of them and filing bugs when things break. Regards, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
X on Y on X.) Cheers, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.d

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ut doesn't look at the contents, afaik. Regards, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze

2011-01-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
mix of new features, bug fixes and so on, it's less likely. Best regards, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2011-02-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
some broken software that will look for stuff there and be confused if it doesn't exist. I think we should drop it. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: Fun with libtool and cross-builds

2011-02-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
d more libs support those days. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
endencies as well as packages changing contents significantly. (Defining significantly is of course part of the challenge.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2011-02-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
king lib64 obsolete ;) Yay! :-) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://li

Re: Sourceful uploads [Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting]

2011-02-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
build failures (at least in PPAs), and I've found that to work well. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Should pam_unix log non-interactive sessions? [c...@taz.net.au: Bug#612382: pam, non-interactive-sessions, and pam_unix spamming the auth log]

2011-02-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
easy enough to turn off if you don't want it there. (I'd love it if there was a way for admins to have a local per-pam-module override file of the bits in /usr/share/pam-configs, say you had /etc/pam-auth/override/libpam-mount it would override /usr/share/pam-configs/libpam-mount.) -- Tol

Re: Sourceful uploads [Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting]

2011-02-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Felipe Sateler | On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:40:25 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > FWIW, Ubuntu mails maintainers on build failures (at least in PPAs), | > and I've found that to work well. | | AFAIK, that service also mails when the build was successful, leading | to a lot o

Re: Upstart and sysvinit in packages - Policy needed

2011-02-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ard if not impossible job. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://li

Re: Upstart and sysvinit in packages - Policy needed

2011-02-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Henrique de Moraes Holschuh | On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > That would mean limiting each init system to the limitations of the most | > limited init system, which would be a sad state of affairs. Also, I | | Yes. So, we also have to set where we want the low bar

Re: Wanted: system/volunteer to do whole-archive rebuild (×3) to test sbuild

2011-02-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
. Please grab me on IRC or off-list and we'll work something out. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: RFA: all my packages

2011-02-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
e more than the git repo ? If not, why don't you use the | collab-maint projet on alioth ? The request said they'll use at least a mailing list, else I wouldn't have approved it. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To

Re: Bug#612752: Bind fails to start if $OPENSSL_CONF is set

2011-02-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Timo Weingärtner | service (8) does that already. The right way to do this is, IMNSHO, what systemd does and just have init handle starting and stopping the job. That ensures there's no inconsistency between boot-time starting and starting later by hand. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is

enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-02-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
s and if that interface is too hard for people we should fix that rather than invent multiple ways of disabling daemons, but the current mess is, well, a mess. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...

Re: NMU procedure

2011-02-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
not accepted as a release goal for wheezy. Regards, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: NMU procedure

2011-02-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
ort for it into | packages. Just for the record: I'm in no way against adding the support, I just think it's premature to NMU. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

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