Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 00:12:25 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 05:49:04PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >>... >> (2) >> #774046 #520037 >> Which special characters should we allow for account names? >> >> People demand being able to use a dot (w

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-09 Thread Marc Haber
ng. Adduser can already be configured to allow that via a documented interface. We're talking about the default here. The only point where an account might be created before that configuration possibility becomes available is the Installer. Greetings Marc --

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 17:02:06 -0600, Richard Laager wrote: >On 3/8/22 10:49, Marc Haber wrote: >> (1) >> #202943, #202944, #398793, #442627, #782001 >> The bug reporters are requesting the default for DIR_MODE to be changed >> from 0755 to 0700, making home directories

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 14:10:04 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: >On 2022-03-08 17:49:04, Marc Haber wrote: >> (1a) would it be necessary to handle --system accounts differently? I >> think yes. > >I think it would be helpful to define "system account" and "n

Re: adduser: disabling passwords, disabling logins

2022-03-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 18:40:11 +, Simon McVittie wrote: >On Tue, 08 Mar 2022 at 17:49:04 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> (3) >> #625758 >> --disabled-password just does not set a password for the newly created >> account (resulting in '*' in shadow) while --dis

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-09 Thread Marc Haber
at should intentionally be group-readable, not all files created >anywhere. Are we using ACLs bei Default already in other places of the Debian system? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-09 Thread Marc Haber
n of a --system user. Would that help with the issue? >> How would chown handle the dot case intelligently? > >Something along the lines of see if the user exists. Michael Stone has elaborated on that topic and told us how chown already behaves. Greetings Marc --

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 09:28:24 +, Simon McVittie wrote: >On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 at 06:37:58 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> Are we using ACLs [by] Default already in other places of the Debian >> system? > >For user-facing purposes I don't think so (although they're av

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-10 Thread Marc Haber
both configurations are in sync to each other. Would it make sense that adduser reads login.defs if the respective setting is not overridden in adduser.conf? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions ar

Re: adduser: disabling passwords, disabling logins

2022-03-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:57:13 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 09:00:22PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 18:40:11 +, Simon McVittie >> >--disabled-login: the new account has an empty password but is "locked"; >> >so p

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-10 Thread Marc Haber
uess it's due time. Would we go alone in Debian or would you prefer that we try convincing upstream to finally go that way? I am not convinced that Debian should derive from standard behavior here, but you have the coreutils hat on and I would support either decision. And then we'd have

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 09 Mar 2022 21:34:33 +0100, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >Considering many have replied, I'll stick to that one: >Marc Haber wrote on 08/03/2022 at 17:49:04+0100: >> (3) >> #625758 >> --disabled-password just does not set a password for the newly created &g

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:01:36 +, Seth Arnold wrote: >On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 05:49:04PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> (2) >> #774046 #520037 >> Which special characters should we allow for account names? > >Please consider the leading character separately from

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:17:26 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 06:37:58AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:04:38 +0100, Ansgar wrote: >> >On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 17:29 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: >> >> Those are actually unrelate

Re: systemd-sysusers [Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser]

2022-03-11 Thread Marc Haber
requiring the package to have one line in the right place in the script. Greetings Marc P.S.: I got involved with adduser 20 years ago because the then debhelper maintainer brushed off my suggestion to have a dh call for creating system users. Back then, this approach was as declar

Re: adduser: disabling passwords, disabling logins

2022-03-11 Thread Marc Haber
usly locked account? I hate the inconsistent terminology that we have here. Thanks for testing. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-11 Thread Marc Haber
would be a nice idea for an MBF. Sadly I do not have the time to do that. I have filed a wishlist bug for a lintian check. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Maila

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-11 Thread Marc Haber
by adduser. Noted. I will post a summary at the beginning of the new week. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 14:41:35 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: >On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 10:16:24PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >>[^[:alpha:]]chown[[:space:]][^[:space:]]+\.[^[:space:]] is found 829 >>times in Debian, mostly in docs and comments, but also in a few live >>scripts. I thi

Re: Q: systemd-timer vs cron

2022-03-13 Thread Marc Haber
eeping cron alive to those systemd-free distributions. The anti-systemd faction in Debian is cordially invited to step in, bring cron and cronie up to shape, before asking the rest of the Distribution to stick with essential system software that has been unmaintained for years. Gre

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
15 year old usergroups decision >would need to be revalidated by someone who cared. Wouldnt the umask patch be even more useful if we tightened down the directory permissions? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |

Re: Q: systemd-timer vs cron

2022-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:02:55 +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: >On 2022-03-13 11:06, Marc Haber wrote: >> The anti-systemd faction in Debian is cordially invited to step in, >> bring cron and cronie up to shape, before asking the rest of the >> Distribution to stick with esse

Re: Q: systemd-timer vs cron

2022-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
pose the case where certain cron jobs depend on each other and only work if they're executed in exact order. >Spending the time to migrate everything. Yes, that's a point. Would it be an alternative to spend time on cron and cronie patching and packaging? Greetings Marc -

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-16 Thread Marc Haber
option chanding deluser's default behavior to not actually delete a --system account but lock it. That way, a package can call deluser --lock in postrm for remove, and straight deluser in postrm for purge, while leaving the final decision what should happen with system accounts on purg

Re: Keep both images but stop pretending no-free is unofficial

2022-04-19 Thread Marc Haber
staller asking whether the user wants a free or a usable system? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " |

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-23 Thread Marc Haber
said nearly the same as Russ said. >If this is going to be the solution, it has to be WAY easier to do. Yes, absolutely. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im

shim-signed (was: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?)

2022-04-23 Thread Marc Haber
t will actually result in less >non-free software being used overall, as will having the option to >enable only non-free-firmware without also enabling non-free. Those are the people who use Ubuntu without even trying Debian because somebody told them that Debian is SO hard to insta

Re: shim-signed (was: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?)

2022-04-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 13:54:59 +0200, Ansgar wrote: >On Sat, 2022-04-23 at 12:21 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> >Is the presence of shim-signed on the install media enough to make >> >people feel somehow contaminated? >> >> I think so, yes. Personally, I don't car

Re: shim-signed (was: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?)

2022-04-26 Thread Marc Haber
ld time, the Debian process refrains from putting a Debian signature on the deb and from uploading? Can the end user build the shim herself, remove the signature from the signed shim and compare the binary, preferably in a documented way? Greetings Marc -- --

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-25 Thread Marc Haber
ackage explicitly. That sounds nice and it's probably good to avoid accidental mass removals, but it makes the "manual" mark kind of a misnomer. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions ar

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-06-01 Thread Marc Haber
that can boot and install debian without needing the firmware blob is already one step better than a machine that needs an install medium with firmware. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions ar

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-06-01 Thread Marc Haber
networking to work to get the >drivers I need for the network card. PXE boot will work and load a kernel and a doctored initrd that contains the non-free firmware. Been there, done that, for thousands of machines. It would be so nice if Debian would offer such an initrd

[adduser] default group for 'dynamically allocated system users'

2022-07-04 Thread Marc Haber
/users-and-groups.txt.gz says that no files should ever be owned by nogroup, making adduser do the right thing in its current state. Can you come up with a better default for users created with adduser --system without requesting a dedicated group? Gree

[adduser] populating users group even in a usergroups system?

2022-07-04 Thread Marc Haber
ystem user should end up in the users group automatically even if it has its own group created, making adduser's behavior regarding the users group independent of whether usergroups are used or not. What do you think? Greetings Marc P.S.. If adduser gets changed, I will file a bug against base-pas

Bug#1014372: ITP: journal-brief -- Show interesting new systemd journal entries

2022-07-04 Thread Marc Haber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: journal-brief Version : 1.1.8 Upstream Author : Tim Waugh * URL : https://github.com/twaugh/journal-brief * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang

Re: [adduser] default group for 'dynamically allocated system users'

2022-07-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 06 Jul 2022 15:21:03 -0400, Matt Barry wrote: >On Mon, 2022-07-04 at 09:12 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> adduser has been putting newly created 'dynamically allocated system >> users' (adduser --system) into the nogroup group. It is also >> documented to

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:54:52 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >And I see you uploaded ~immediately - why even bother with an ITP? Is it proper procedure to upload without an ITP? -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Quest

adduser default for sgid home directories (was: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser)

2022-07-18 Thread Marc Haber
g default, and is in line with most other major distributions, the adduser team considers the matter to be settled; any further discussion should come prepared with rationale, support, convincing use cases and a signif

Re: how about telegram channel

2022-07-19 Thread Marc Haber
vice once we start shipping needed firmware on official media. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " |

Please test adduser from experimental

2022-07-22 Thread Marc Haber
not have a group for all users at all - --add_extra_groups is now --add-extra-groups for consistency of option spelling (old spelling still allowed, but deprecated) - there is now a --firstgid and a --lastgid option to influence the GIDs chosen for usergr

Re: adduser default for sgid home directories

2022-07-25 Thread Marc Haber
n this case, an exception might be warranted, but we need to have the long explanation somewhere in the package for the next round of this issue that is expected in the 2030ies. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | &qu

Re: adduser default for sgid home directories

2022-07-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:10:18 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 07:06:59PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> I don't like the idea of messing with old NEWS entries at all. > >I'm trying to understand why you feel this way. It feels like rewriting history.

Re: Epoch for node-markdown-it

2022-08-22 Thread Marc Haber
xtremely confusing to >users, and an epoch is *hidden* from them. ... because it has been totally confusing to me since I started using Debian that epochs are not always shown. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc H

Re: Comments on proposing NEW queue improvement (Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-30 Thread Marc Haber
s in binNEW to inspect them for bugs in debian/copyright? Of course, that would just circumvent the decision of the project and not gain us anything. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: transition to usrmerge to start around 2022-09-15 (next Thursday)

2022-09-11 Thread Marc Haber
ing a routine >update/upgrade cycle on the morning after the upload. I don't think >everyone running testing/unstable reads debian-devel, so I think it >would be appropriate to send to -announce at least one (two?) day(s) >before the upload. And, is there a solution

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 15:50:56 +, Benjamin Drung wrote: >On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 08:49 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> We implemented that change last week, and promptly a bug report >> (#1014901) appeared, giving what we consider good arguments to change >> this back to 0

Re: Help setting dbconfig-common for MariaDB, not MySQL

2023-01-02 Thread Marc Haber
after all?) It is. We need to stop having "disable IPv6" as measure 1 if something doesn't work right. It's the default IP protocol for a decade. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Qu

Re: Help setting dbconfig-common for MariaDB, not MySQL

2023-01-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 17:08:25 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: >Hi Marc, > >On 02-01-2023 16:58, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 16:31:17 +0100, Paul Gevers >> wrote: >>> On 02-01-2023 14:21, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >>>> A user complained that MySQL

Re: need we support unshadowed passwords from the installer

2023-01-14 Thread Marc Haber
2. i just don't think this belongs in the >installer anymore. Amen. NIS-based systems usually have professional administrators who are well able to change the configuration. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Ha

Re: Configuration files, local changes, and "managed section" markers

2023-02-15 Thread Marc Haber
end it wholeheartedly, but we need more automation for that. Debian's way to handle conffiles is the best the Linux world has. That doesn't mean that we don't have room to improve. And sadly, we haven't moved a single inch here in 15 years. Greetings Marc -- ---

Re: Yearless copyrights: what do people think?

2023-02-22 Thread Marc Haber
t;> even less so when it comes to the year-information.) Amen. While I understand that having debian/copyright is vitally important, we NEED to relax our rules to reduce the effort necessary since it's demotivating busy work that I feel noone cares about. Greetings Marc -- --

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2023-03-08 Thread Marc Haber
relay side, and then announced EOL for the server for end of 2022, leaving the world without the reference implementation. This is really bad. Grüße Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mai

Re: Init systems and docker

2019-10-14 Thread Marc Haber
be the more natural tool to use for this, but this is a different tool that needs different knowledge, and it's tooling is way behind what we have with docker. So, +1 to be able to run a default systemd-based Debian with systemd as pid 1 in a docker container. Greetings Marc -- --

Bug#943791: general: laptop HP 15_bw0xx does not power-off properly

2019-11-05 Thread Marc Haber
en you start your Debian without the "quiet splash" boot option and shut it down with "sudo shutdown -h now"? Greetings Marc

Re: packages that are touching /srv?

2020-02-07 Thread Marc Haber
ocal and valid decision of $DAYJOB, which includes accepting the results. Preseeding could be an option to override the debconf default for a noninteractive install. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Que

Re: not starting a daemon upon installation

2020-03-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 7 Mar 2020 23:02:23 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >There is: > ># systemctl mask $DAEMON.service ># apt install $DAEMON > >That's it. If the package fails to install then file a bug. For that you need to know how the $DAEMO

Re: not starting a daemon upon installation

2020-03-08 Thread Marc Haber
u.com/questions/74061/install-packages-without-starting-background-processes-and-services# This is indeed bordering between incredibly funny and disturbing. Alas, it's a golden example for the quality of answers one gets in the Ubuntu universe. -- ------ !! No

Re: not starting a daemon upon installation

2020-03-08 Thread Marc Haber
p package (the tool >for building the base filesystem). > >that is to use dpkg-divert to temporarily replace the /sbin/start-stop- >daemon binary with something that essentially just exits with success >(i.e. 0). debootstrap's files don't contain the string "divert". They

Re: RFC: Replacing vim-tiny with nano in essential packages

2020-03-16 Thread Marc Haber
h vi to fix a broken system so far that it can again start an Editor. I then converted ot be a vim user in 2017. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im

Re: Repeated Debian WiFi problem

2020-03-22 Thread Marc Haber
he firmware manually. Doing this will most probably solve your issue with current Debian as well. The best idea is to change to a Wifi adapter that has better support. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

installing minimal systems with weeed out /u/s/d (was: trimming changelogs)

2020-03-22 Thread Marc Haber
s are handy to have on a "normal" system, but that >is the point: If I want to look at them, I want to do that 99,9% of the >time on a normal system, not on a single-purpose minbase(based) one – >where I don't even have a sane editor available (SCNR). Amen. Greeting

Re: Announcing Debian Social

2020-03-23 Thread Marc Haber
d the point-and-drool interface to client certificates, one needs to manually meddle around with OpenSSL to be able to log in. Is this going to stay this way? Greetings Marc, who thankfully has still one single machine where the client cert has not expired yet --

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Marc Haber
ing our reputation. We do provide a rock solid base system where people can install their software, in the case of those fast moving things in the way upstream wants them to. This causes a much better result for all those involved. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 09:39:56 +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: >On Thursday, 26 March 2020 3:45:21 AM AEDT Marc Haber wrote: >> Software packages like kubernetes, docker, and many of the other "hip >> tools of the day" are moving way too fast for our release scheme. > &

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:22:18 +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: >On Thursday, 26 March 2020 7:27:33 PM AEDT Marc Haber wrote: >> I still wouldn't dare pulling testing or unstable packages to >> production systems. It's like a worst-of-all-worlds approach. > >Not at all.

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-04-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 12:41:46 +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: >On Friday, 27 March 2020 7:08:35 PM AEDT Marc Haber wrote: >> Many upstreams deliver .deb packages of their current releases in >> noticeably high quality from a Debian point of view. One should look >> at them b

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-04-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 23:16:51 +0100, Wookey wrote: >On 2020-04-05 21:15 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> having an obsolete version of the software distributed >> with/through Debian is (rightfully) seen a liabilty by some upstreams, >> not as an asset. > >I think a more int

Re: Announcing Debian Social

2020-04-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:49:44 +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: >On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 08:10:18AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> While we're at thiss, what is the tracker.d.o authenticating against? >> Since Firefox has removed the point-and-drool interface to client >> certifica

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-04-10 Thread Marc Haber
urself if you believe that you'd get full security support for a two years old kubernetes release in Debian stable. The utmost you'd get would be an occasional security fix where an upstream fix would get _flagged_ as security relevant _AND_ coincidentially backportable to our version.

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-04-10 Thread Marc Haber
h that software professionally might probably not need the level of upstream support that Joe B. Debianuser needs. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannh

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-04-10 Thread Marc Haber
ides zero benefit, and they could get the same "stability" >guarantee by just keeping a copy of a two year old third party .deb and >never updating it. What Michael says. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-04-10 Thread Marc Haber
, that's not the plan! A package without upstream support is bound to be a zombie. We don't have the resources to provide support on the same level like an actice upstream community does. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! -

Re: php-mailparse - new 3.1 upstream version - please build package for debian buster

2020-04-24 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:53:52 +0200, Jaros?aw K?opotek wrote: >Please give me link to BTS. https://lmgtfy.com/?qtype=search&t=w&q=debian+bts&as=0&s=g&engine=&media_type= -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: Is the debian-mirrors team MIA?

2020-06-08 Thread Marc Haber
dual members directly. That's a telltale sign of a dysfunctional org. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom &qu

Re: isc-dhcp-client sends DHCPDISCOVER *before* wpa_supplicant authenticates/associates/connects.

2020-07-14 Thread Marc Haber
ebian.org/919619 >How to switch to iwd: > >apt install iwd >cat << END > /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/iwd.conf >[device] >wifi.backend=iwd >END >systemctl restart NetworkManager Does iwd have a clickable frontend like for GNOME or KDE? Greetings Marc -- ---

Bug#971031: ITP: gensio -- A library to abstract stream I/O like serial port, TCP, telnet, UDP, SSL, IPMI SOL

2020-09-26 Thread Marc Haber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: gensio Version : 2.1.5 Upstream Author : Corey Minyard * URL : https://github.com/cminyard/gensio/releases * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C

Re: Installer of Debian Stable allows to use btrfs for /, does it mean it's mature enough to use safely?

2016-07-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 09 Jul 2016 03:55:31 +0200, german...@ya.ru wrote: >But if btrfs is so unstable, then what the hell it's doing in Debian Stable's >kernel? Because people might want to try it. Grüße Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !!

Re: Installer of Debian Stable allows to use btrfs for /, does it mean it's mature enough to use safely?

2016-07-10 Thread Marc Haber
stem. The effect on the system's other seervice is severe up to "sit back and wait until system becomes responsive again". That's not what I'd call production ready. It's simply just betafs at the moment. Greetings Marc -- --

Re: Installer of Debian Stable allows to use btrfs for /, does it mean it's mature enough to use safely?

2016-07-10 Thread Marc Haber
out stating your name. You're coming across as a troll otherwise. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning o

Re: Installer of Debian Stable allows to use btrfs for /, does it mean it's mature enough to use safely?

2016-07-11 Thread Marc Haber
nst using btrfs in productive environments, even if it's from the latest and greatest kernel. >>think about stating your name. > >My full name is Davidyants Vazgen Samsonovich. Are you happy now? Happier at least. I think it's polite to introduce oneself. Greetings Marc

Re: Installer of Debian Stable allows to use btrfs for /, does it mean it's mature enough to use safely?

2016-07-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 22:29:20 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: >On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 08:07:20PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> [1] I remember the day when a Debian stable point release introduced a >> new version of an ethernet driver that broke an entire class of IBM >> blade se

Re: ifupdown2: debconf followup

2016-08-01 Thread Marc Haber
dvantages of systemd-networkd over ifupdown since it's friendly to configuration management systems. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Ge

Re: ifupdown2: debconf followup

2016-08-01 Thread Marc Haber
27;t say "every Debian system" to >> me. >Sorry, what I actually meant was "every non-toy Debian system". Please at least try to be not this derogatory. -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | "

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-08-30 Thread Marc Haber
nit systems. And because it's a system-wide decision. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http

Re: removal instead of orphaning?

2016-09-18 Thread Marc Haber
s as "fixed in NMU" get changed to "closed"? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " |

Re: Keysafe dynamic UID

2016-10-23 Thread Marc Haber
to do the former nine years ago though. I stopped caring back then. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom

Re: Keysafe dynamic UID

2016-10-23 Thread Marc Haber
to do them again when policy finally gets a move here. I want a clear TC decision or policy. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany

Re: Keysafe dynamic UID

2016-10-23 Thread Marc Haber
n I noticed that this puts downstream distributions that enjoy taking from Debian without recognizing their ancestor in jeopardy. Part of me actually likes that. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions a

Re: Keysafe dynamic UID

2016-10-23 Thread Marc Haber
ill uploader for the most prominent package in Debian using the Debian-foo scheme, and I also remember having written a document outlining the decision we as a team made thirteen years ago. I have to admit that I didn't include that document in the package

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 13:46:16 +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > [2017-Jan-05] Soft freeze (no new packages, no re-entry, 10-day > migrations) Does this really mean "once you're out, you'll stay out"? Greetings Marc -- --

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 06 Nov 2016 09:38:00 +, Niels Thykier wrote: >Marc Haber: >> On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 13:46:16 +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg >> wrote: >>> [2017-Jan-05] Soft freeze (no new packages, no re-entry, 10-day >>> migrations) >> >> Does t

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule [and 1 more messages]

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
t;people behind it, and the way they acted in the past months. This is exactly the problem I have with the current policy: I fail to see why this measure will shorten the freeze. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule [and 1 more messages]

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
ackage maintainers even more. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by N

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
to the responsibilities they have taken voluntarily? Well, _this_ will clearly motivate people. Greetings Ma "not." rc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim,

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
s the KDE team doing bug triaging? There are less important packages where the maintainer has been searching for help to work in a team for years without success. And instead of relieving those people, they now get responsible for their dependencies as well if their mai

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
red to speak up when you didn't like what we did, so you're free to take a hike with your package, have a nice day". I find that unnecessarily humiliating and will probably not do this and rather live without my package in stable for this release. Greetings Marc --

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
when it's ready" to "we'll sacrifice package list completeness of our release for a timely release", which is a rather radical change. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
ls, I am strongly opposed against the "once you're out, you'll stay out" since I fail to see the advantages of this approach aside from "giving incentives". For me, this "incentive" will most likely have the opposite res

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
ch haven't worked. The approach of "let's freeze and >then try to fix things" didn't work. Let's not try it again. I do not think that it is a service to our users to release an incomplete distribution just for the sake of keeping a date. Greetings Marc -- -

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 06 Nov 2016 11:51:36 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Releasing Debian is work for all of us, not just the Release Team... So you are actually suggesting that people who are neither on the release team nor maintaining a key package are not working? Greetings M

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