Re: default MTA

2013-06-13 Thread Marc Haber
r "$F" : '[[:alnum:]_-]\+$' > /dev/null 2>&1; then |if [ -f "$1/$F" ] && [ ! -f "$1/${F}.disabled" ] ; then | echo "$1/$F" |fi |fi |

Re: default MTA

2013-06-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:25:34 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: >On Thursday, June 13, 2013 06:41:16, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:17:11 +0100, Ian Campbell >> >> wrote: >> >I've just tried this on Wheezy and stuff written in >> > >> >

Re: default MTA

2013-06-13 Thread Marc Haber
han. The old exim 3 packages worked totally different. I fully understand that exim4 2003 might have had serious and bad bugs, but I think that most of them have been ironed out by now. That doesn't mean that I am not going to break exim during the jessie release cycle, bu

Re: default MTA

2013-06-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:49:59 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: >On Friday, June 14, 2013 02:31:45, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:42:15 -0400, Chris Knadle >> wrote: >> >So right now I think that I probably just didn't know that this had been >> >f

Re: 7.0-> 7.1: any reasons for switching from {4,5,6}.0.x scheme?

2013-06-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:14:57 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: >Given that the middle '0' was redundant, and we now do X.0 for all >major releases, it was simply removed. > >(additionally, there were never any 4.0.x releases...) So sarge was a point release of

Re: Mail breaks spamassassin

2013-06-18 Thread Marc Haber
nly done via email not >via a web browser. You can either use the reportbug program or send >mail manually. Klaus knows that very well, as he is a user of the Debian BTS for decades. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Mar

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-25 Thread Marc Haber
make sure that the upstreams are no swamped with identical bug reports from each of their downstream distributions? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im H

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:06:42 -0400, Alexandre Rebert wrote: >On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Marc Haber > wrote: >> Additionally, I guess that the vast majority of crahes you have found >> will be upstream bugs which the Debian maintainer would have to >> forward upstrea

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:46:04 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >Marc Haber writes: > >> Will you also check Debian unstable? It is much easier to have a package >> in unstable fixed, and I suspect that not every crash you find will be a >> security relevant one. > >I

Re: Why does debian-sid can't suspend by closing lid?

2013-07-12 Thread Marc Haber
een lock is engaged, a feature I have been waiting for a long time. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wis

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

2013-07-17 Thread Marc Haber
oo much with it without >understanding the concept behind it. Where are the end-user docs that explain the concept? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im H

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

2013-07-17 Thread Marc Haber
r wording utterly offensive and thus inacceptable. This is not helping. You are doing harm to your causes. Grüße Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-17 Thread Marc Haber
al >to clean that up and make the whole interface more consistent and >easier to understand. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

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

2013-07-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 10:20:19 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >On 07/17/2013 09:24 AM, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:09:20 +0200, Josselin Mouette >> wrote: >>> What I find rude is that a minority of idiots is taking the project >>> ho

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-17 Thread Marc Haber
ely unuseable. There is one thing grub upstream did right, they waited until their product was quite stable before they made the jump from 1.99 to 2.0. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-17 Thread Marc Haber
gt;drivers' problem to fix. I am not surprised by that. >I wonder what systemd integration problems will be handwaved as "somebody >else's problem", the way the kernel audio driver issues were for PA. Me too. Surely it will happen. Greetings Marc --

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:31:10 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >people trying to map their ideology of what a >Debian system should be to users Hear! Hear! Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questi

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

2013-07-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:27:58 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >If this is about kFreeBSD, it would be nice and all to share the init >system with these ports, but it should certainly not have an influence >on the choice of init system for the Linux ports. Why? G

Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2013-08-21 Thread Marc Haber
gt;(customers) due to too-short support of old releases and too-far away >releases. Both are real problems, regardless of why DreamHost decided to >give up on Debian. And if they switch to Ubuntu, they at least keep the solid technical base. If I have to see them go, it is good that they don&#x

Re: Bug#726393: general: Possible malware infections in source packages

2013-10-16 Thread Marc Haber
ckages directly while bypassing the gateway scanner. It might even lead to a knee-jerk reaction like "This Debian thingy keeps setting off our security alerts, let's ban it and use a supported enterprise distro". Greetings Marc -- --

Re: Bug#726393: general: Possible malware infections in source packages

2013-10-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:19:38 +0200, "Thijs Kinkhorst" wrote: >I'm missing why the package cannot use the EICAR test virus signature for >its purposes. eicar.com does not have a distributable license. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No co

Re: Bug#726393: general: Possible malware infections in source packages

2013-10-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:59:33 +0200, Dominik George wrote: >Marc Haber schrieb: >>On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:19:38 +0200, "Thijs Kinkhorst" >> wrote: >>>I'm missing why the package cannot use the EICAR test virus signature >>for >>>its purposes

Re: Bug#726393: general: Possible malware infections in source packages

2013-10-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:17:53 +, "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: >On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:12:47AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:54:36 +0200, Dominik George >> wrote: >> >> Some of the source packages were caught on a gateway anti-virus s

Re: Two new DNS virtual packages (authoritative-name-server & recursive-name-server)

2013-10-22 Thread Marc Haber
at least the DNSSEC RFC) terminology uses "resolver" as the >term which is pretty close match to "recursive name server". Other literature recommends the name "full service resolver" to distinguish from the "resolver" part of libc. The PowerDNS

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

2013-10-25 Thread Marc Haber
inions are well-known.) > >GNOME tweak tool has existed since GNOME 3. Like Windows TweakUI which has been necessary since nearly 20 years? Does GNOME need to emulate everything? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-25 Thread Marc Haber
nctionality if system were not present. They choose the way most easy for them, which is behavior often encountered inside the systemd-favoring community. Too bad. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Question

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-18 Thread Marc Haber
gt;something stupid like a RAID 5 root. Or something intelligent like having the system boot from a removable medium (which can be removed after booting). Please keep the possibility to do this. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Ha

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-18 Thread Marc Haber
the header sender to fit the account that has authenticated. This is a contradition to the Unix way of doing things, and our default MTA, exim, does not handle this situation particularly well. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-02 Thread Marc Haber
etings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Righ

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-17 Thread Marc Haber
m the PXE server any more, resulting in newly deployed servers not even finding their disks. Additionally, the new[1] tg3 driver broke compatibility with the tg3 chip built into IBM's HS12. The site in question would have rejected the last point release for that reason, if it were possible t

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:26:33 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 09:08:17PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:00:26 +0100, Adam Borowski >> wrote: >> >For example: you download the current point release, burn it to a CD >> &g

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-18 Thread Marc Haber
arts of the distribution? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch b

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:48:24 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 05:59:59PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:43:32 +, "Adam D. Barratt" >> wrote: >> >but >> >the kernel team have been very good in the past about f

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:15:13 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> The solution would be to offer additional install media with >> additional support. The mere chance of introducing a regression is a >> risk which I think should not be taken by Debian. &

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-12-02 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:34:03 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Marc Haber wrote: >>On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:26:33 +, Ben Hutchings >> wrote: >>>I can't imagine why you would expect this to work. >> >>I wouldn't. The site was just surprised by the

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-12-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 18:58:55 + (UTC), Philipp Kern wrote: >On 2011-12-02, Marc Haber wrote: >> I also support this and think it is a really good idea. But please >> keep x.y.z-1 around and easily accessible when x.y.z is released. > >You can jigdo any old CD image. H

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-12-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:21:34 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >Philipp Kern writes: >> On 2011-12-02, Marc Haber wrote: >>> I also support this and think it is a really good idea. But please >>> keep x.y.z-1 around and easily accessible when x.y.z is released. >

Re: Some suggestion

2011-12-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 03:59:18 +0800, pei deng wrote: >I think debian should release a publish version with roll updating as >archlinux. and remove testing and sid version. Kindly try to understand how Debian's release process works before suggesting things. Gre

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-03-04 Thread Marc Haber
tart at time) Did any of the distributions named above commit themselves to care about "exotic" platforms and/or non-Linux kernels? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mai

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-04 Thread Marc Haber
a different between "I don't care about portability" and "I won't accept any patches that are only useful on non-Linux platforms". The former could be remedied by submitting documented and maintained patches, which saves the world from early forks that ae bound to d

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 10:14:04 +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: >On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 09:12:32AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> There is a different between "I don't care about portability" and "I >> won't accept any patches that are only useful on non-Linux platfo

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-03-05 Thread Marc Haber
being a Linux platform just to have systemd? Debian being a platform which is frequently used for low-powered, embedded stuff: How will a systemd driven platform behave on a platform with small memory and low CPU power compared to sysvinit? Greetings Marc -- --

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-06 Thread Marc Haber
ian upstream for Portable OpenSSH. If there were something like "portable systemd", I guess that the voices against systemd would be a lot quieter here. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Question

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:57:45 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >Le mercredi 07 mars 2012 à 07:43 +0100, Marc Haber a écrit : >> The differences between systemd and openssh are that core OpenSSH does >> not work on "our" main architecture, and that there is an active &

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:59:02 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >Le lundi 05 mars 2012 à 12:11 +0100, Marc Haber a écrit : >> The migration to udev didn't cause double work for daemon maintainers. > >Excuse me? > >Having to support both udev and HAL just for the sake of Hu

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:48:47 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: >If I want „cool” Linux things, then I don’t use a distribution >which is proud to be a cross-platform distribution. Amen. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-16 Thread Marc Haber
sage you write. 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 Natu

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:02:16 +0100, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >On Mar 16, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:26:35 +0100, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >> >The problem is the lack of code for the toy ports, >> It would really be nice if y

Re: Popularity of bzr-builddeb and dh-make

2012-10-17 Thread Marc Haber
iner, and subversion does version control rather well for most uses. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-17 Thread Marc Haber
further checking, feel free to re-open if it's still present". This is, imo, the result of Debian's lack of personpower in core areas of the distribution. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | &qu

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-17 Thread Marc Haber
s for package salvaging, as the current discussion >> thread on salvaging packages shows. > >Neither of those gets *more people* in the teams of core packages. Ack. > - who would like a couple of DDs and a dozen of bug workers for pkg-kde Amen. Greetings Marc [1] in the sense of RFC 2119.

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages

2012-10-29 Thread Marc Brockschmidt
Michael Biebl wrote: >Afaik the work was started by pochu as port of GSoC [1][2]. According >to >[3], Marc was his mentor. I've CCed both, maybe they can comment on >what's still missing. >I'd love to see that happen. Joss ended up being the mentor (melange

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-04 Thread Marc Haber
l. >Maybe for the time being it will be easier and safer to have ifupdown >wait until DAD is finished? How does one find out about that? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-04 Thread Marc Haber
ystem is aware of", probably written along the line of ::224:d7ff:fed0:5adc. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 18:26:26 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: >also sprach Marc Haber [2012.11.04.1013 +0100]: >> >Maybe for the time being it will be easier and safer to have ifupdown >> >wait until DAD is finished? >> >> How does one find out about that? >

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:34:26 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: >This wouldn't solve the problem that the UDP servers have, which is that >they need to be able to send replies from the same address the request >was sent to. Right. Grüße Marc -- --

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-19 Thread Marc Haber
prides itself in supporting, which is the major stopper of systemd in Debian at the moment. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | B

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-20 Thread Marc Haber
ed or prefer them. Aren't the systemd makers trying hard to move existing functionality from udev, consolekit, policykit and syslogd into systemd, effectively making those unavailable for non-Linux? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, plea

Re: debian mate

2012-11-21 Thread Marc Haber
ver going to happen, and it is good that this is not going to happen. As a non-user of GNOME or MATE, I would hate to have the release delayed for that reason. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions

Re: Canonical pushes upstart into user session - systemd developer complains

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Haber
thon or ruby modules that can parse (or even write?) that ISC-style config file format that I really like? libconfig-inifiles-perl does a good job for the ugly format. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | "

Ruby community and Debian (was: Go (golang) packaging, part 2)

2013-01-30 Thread Marc Haber
age, introducing the time lag caused by releases once for them and once for us, and that our packaging of their softwae was done in a way that ruby packages are the biggest nightmare to backport that I have ever seen[2] (gem2deb, 'nuff said). I do sincerely hope that most of those things wi

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Marc Haber
from Debian altogether. Maybe that's just me... Ruby is actually a pretty nice language, and it is needed by the two major Configuration Management tools that are both widely used in business, puppet and chef. I have never looked into Ruby's internals, aber I happen to l

Re: libc-bin

2013-04-06 Thread Marc Haber
ian wheezy. 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 Nature | Lt. Worf,

Re: Automatically satisfying Build-Depends from local control file

2013-04-18 Thread Marc Haber
le archive, run apt-get update and apt-get install $PACKAGE. Am I the only one who thinks this is terribly backwards as compared to hand-editing dpkg-checkbuildep's output to an apt-get install command line? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies

Re: Automatically satisfying Build-Depends from local control file

2013-04-18 Thread Marc Haber
ld, albeit in a chroot rather than installing on the >host system. You'll need to create a build chroot with >sbuild-createchroot first. That is much more than one usually needs. When I need that functionality, I am usually already chrooted. Greetings Marc -- ----

Re: Automatically satisfying Build-Depends from local control file

2013-04-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:13:08 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:05:47 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >>>The tool you are looking for is "mk-build-deps" from the package >>>"devscripts&quo

Re: Automatically satisfying Build-Depends from local control file

2013-04-18 Thread Marc Haber
lddeps --package-names-only) > >#214566 Dated 2003, with a patch since 2010, with the first maintainer reaction 2013. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header

Re: Automatically satisfying Build-Depends from local control file

2013-04-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:27:15 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: >Or just pass -i to mk-build-deps, which does all the steps for you. Missed that. Sorry. Thanks. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-07 Thread Marc Haber
What is the point? A smaller footprint of the intalled system? This may be interesting for embedded things. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim,

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

2013-05-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 7 May 2013 19:31:36 +0400, ? ? wrote: >What about merging / and /usr ? So we really want to explicitly not offer an upgade path from wheezy to jessie? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Ha

Re: New version of libselinux makes libpcre3 pseudo-essential

2013-05-08 Thread Marc Haber
't follow dependencies when choosing packages for images. Afaik, they have been following dependencies for a decade now, so this policy paragraph could be removed. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | "

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

2013-05-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 8 May 2013 01:06:41 +0200, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >On May 07, Marc Haber wrote: >> >What about merging / and /usr ? >> So we really want to explicitly not offer an upgade path from wheezy >> to jessie? >This causes no major issues on upgrades

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

2013-05-08 Thread Marc Haber
ware so that the system never gets beyond initrd stage if mount /usr fails, we increase the change of breaking boot because _two_ filesystems need to be fine and mounted before we leave initrd. Both changes are bad from a robustness point of view. Keeping the ro

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

2013-05-09 Thread Marc Haber
, cannot be changed because of service level agreements and certifications. Using Debian happens beyond single-user home desktop settings, you know. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

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

2013-05-09 Thread Marc Haber
nyway). > >For each $file in /{bin,sbin,lib}: > if $file is a symlink to /usr/.../$file >do nothing > else >cp -a $file to /usr/... >ln -sf ../usr/.../$file $file That's a hack which is acceptable for single-user home desktops. We're t

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

2013-05-09 Thread Marc Haber
hange their operations, which is hard for many people, let alone the case when emergency manuals need to be changed just for the sake of satisfying Lennart. >I find the busybox shell to be just as effective as a rescue >disc in most cases. I don't. Greetings Marc -- ---

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

2013-05-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 9 May 2013 10:40:14 +0200, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >On May 09, Marc Haber wrote: >> That's a hack which is acceptable for single-user home desktops. We're >> talking about professional IT here. >Great, if this is the strongest objection you

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

2013-05-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 9 May 2013 15:50:45 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: >On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 10:32:09AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> That's how I do it for new installs. However, this is vastly more >> complex than the traditional setup, and it doesn't help for systems in >> mai

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

2013-05-10 Thread Marc Haber
odules for each >kernel, currently in /lib) in another partition. But I'll have the fsck version that is guaranteed to fit my /usr file system in the big /usr file system, so I'll be forced to use an fsck from a rescue image which might not be the current one, possibly cau

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

2013-05-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 10 May 2013 11:48:37 +0200, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >On May 10, Marc Haber wrote: >> Having the rescue image _this_ independent is not really desireable >> since one would probably have to deal with outdated or non-existing >> rescue tools in the i

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

2013-05-10 Thread Marc Haber
t's another waste of time to reason with you. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
ys striked (stricken?) me as an utter waste. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.

Re: IPMI/LOM/DRAC/ILO/etc. (was Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status)

2013-12-06 Thread Marc Haber
s? Should it not be replaced with Debian, too? The software on the networked power switch might suffer from the same flaws, and a networked power switch doesn't help if the device doesn't come on with the power for some reason. Greetings Marc, who prefers

Re: Bug#601455: marked as done (can't stop daemon using /etc/init.d/foo stop when disabled via /etc/default/foo)

2013-12-15 Thread Marc Haber
rate the disabled flag to update-rc.d disable on upgrade). If the article on http://blog.zugschlus.de/archives/974-Debians-Policy-rc.d-infrastructure-explained.html is of any help, I will happily put it under a free license so that Debian can freely copy-paste from there

Re: procps with pidof is released

2013-12-15 Thread Marc Haber
e to change policy to no longer deprecate depending on bash if one uses ä!/bin/bash scripts. The second step would be a lintian warning if a package contains a #!/bin/bash script without depending on bash. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, plea

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-03-25 Thread Marc Haber
new their certificates only in the last (two?) weeks of the lifetime. You cannot renew them ad your convenience, you have to do it at theirs. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadr

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-03-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:32:49 +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: >On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:29:12 Marc Haber wrote: >> wrote: >> >I just want to note that Startcom is no match to cacert.org in regards to >> >free SSL certificates. Some years ago I got free certificate from St

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

2014-03-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:31:44 -0500, Kevin Toppins wrote: >You think I'm retarded or a troll. You are an obnoxious who decided to disrupt an entire project just because the project took a decision you don't like. That's rather childish and selfish. Greetings Marc, who doesn&#

Re: Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-29 Thread Marc Haber
y complex setup such as a firewall or a VM host, ifupdown is still _the_ most functional way to go with no real viable alternative. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-03-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 10:26:28 +1100, Brian May wrote: >On 29 March 2014 18:10, Marc Haber wrote: >> My last renew of a startcom certificate was in February 2014. I guess >> you were victim of misunderstanding, or they indeed check what kind of >> service a certificate i

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-03-31 Thread Marc Haber
seable if you offer your web site to muggles. It's not in the browsers. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-04-01 Thread Marc Haber
does that kind of training. Grüße Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-04-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:04:43 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:03:30 -0700, Russ Allbery >> wrote: >>>Of course, I'm one of those people who believes that web site certificate >>>signatures as currently impleme

Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-03 Thread Marc Haber
>> be to at least fall back to the shell with a comprehensive error message. > >That would be better, though not much better. You'll need either local >access or a remote serial console either to use the shell or to select a >fallback entry at the GRUB menu. A segfault

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread Marc Haber
so that >each maintenance team gets to share in the fun! It's like a giant hazing >ritual. :) Please do the same for the default MTA. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are t

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread Marc Haber
reading wasn't invented somewhat 25 years ago? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlu

Re: Bug#745847: ITP: perm -- efficient mapping of short reads with periodic spaced seeds

2014-04-27 Thread Marc Haber
or a third time I don't know whether this package may be useful for someone who will likely never align genome scales (assuming this has something to do with microbiology). Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: A question about patches for upstream

2014-05-04 Thread Marc Haber
s service to our users is IMO one of the tasks of a maintainer. >Needless to say, I'm not amused by the "report this upstream" response. But >the fact that I get it shows that this point of view is not shared by everyone. Agreed. Greetings Marc -- -

Re: A question about patches for upstream

2014-05-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 4 May 2014 16:33:08 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: >On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 09:14:50AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> >I don't think this is very clear from the guidelines, and I have had mixed >> >responses from maintainers when reporting upstream bugs, varying from &g

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-10 Thread Marc Haber
scripts on early boot only implement the features that Lennart deemed useful? That would be a major turn-off, adding to the fact that early boot will become undebuggable since one will not be able any more to dump -x'es in shell scripts to see what's going on. Greetings Marc -- -

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