Re: OT_Enlightenment Terminology-0.7 released

2014-10-14 Thread maderios
On 10/14/2014 11:35 PM, John Aten wrote: Terminology work with full functionality (cat pictures, etc) on Debian without installing the whole Enlightenment window manager? For some reason, I didn't think this was the case. To compile Terminology, install all Enlightenment + Efl dev libs pack

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:35:54 -0400 Marty wrote: > > http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/whos-writing-linux > > Say hello to our new bosses? Check out what single company has 30% of the gatekeepers. Surprise, surprise. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.co

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 11:01 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I suspect any list with "offtopic" in its name will get ignored when > there is a large number of people want to say something about a specific > topic. Absolutely, it helps hide problems under the rug

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

2014-10-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/10/14 06:01, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 15/10/14 03:33, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Scott Ferguson wrote: On 15/10/14 01:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 14/10/14 23:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Andrei POPESCU wrote: On

Re: how to identify reverse dependencies?

2014-10-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 8:09 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > aptitude search '?depends(^systemd$)' # aptitude search '?depends(^systemd$)' Wednesday 15 October 14:54:30 EST 2014 -- search ?depends(^systemd$) p libpam-systemd - system and service m

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

2014-10-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 3:14 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > Well I guess I'd find it a lot cleaner to make the choice as part of > installation, rather than have systemd installed as a default and then > have to uninstall it. I hate unwin

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

2014-10-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/14/2014 at 08:02 PM, lee wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> In my case, I don't install popcon because it pollutes the >> tab-completion namespace for 'popd' in a root shell. That >> interferes with my workflow > > Are you actually using this completion stuff? It always gets into > my wa

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

2014-10-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/14/2014 at 04:35 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 14 oct 14, 09:55:55, The Wanderer wrote: > >> I could, but that would have to be re-done on every upgrade of the >> package, and doing it on every machine where I'm likely to want to >> work in a root shell would be a pain at best - and d

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 06:40:01PM +0200, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:33:55 +0100 > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > This to one of our best and most measured contributors. It's enough to > > make one weep. > > He could have been the pope. His attitude is part of the problem, no

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

2014-10-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/14/2014 6:50 PM, lee wrote: > Jerry Stuckle writes: > >> On 10/13/2014 7:57 PM, lee wrote: >>> Martin Read writes: >>> On 12/10/14 23:04, lee wrote: > Bas Wijnen writes: >> Because for a GR, a member of Debian has to request it and it needs to >> be seconded by at least 5

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

2014-10-14 Thread lee
Olav Vitters writes: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:18:01PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Considering that the users are Debians' priority, couldn't this issue be >> a case in which significant concerns from/of the users about an issue >> might initiate a GR? Wouldn't it speak loudly for Debian and its way

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

2014-10-14 Thread lee
The Wanderer writes: > In my case, I don't install popcon because it pollutes the > tab-completion namespace for 'popd' in a root shell. That interferes > with my workflow Are you actually using this completion stuff? It always gets into my way and I keep it disabled or removed. -- Again we

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

2014-10-14 Thread lee
Jerry Stuckle writes: > On 10/13/2014 7:57 PM, lee wrote: >> Martin Read writes: >> >>> On 12/10/14 23:04, lee wrote: Bas Wijnen writes: > Because for a GR, a member of Debian has to request it and it needs to > be seconded by at least 5 other members (constitution 4.2.1, 4.2.7).

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

2014-10-14 Thread lee
Jonathan Dowland writes: > ask questions anyway. But I, and I imagine many of my DD colleagues, are > particularly interested in ensuring -user is a useful resource for our users, > and by filtering out people, we don't get a clear picture of just how broken > the list is. There is a lot of tole

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

2014-10-14 Thread lee
Steve Litt writes: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:50:32 +0200 > lee wrote: > >> Joey Hess writes: >> >> > So at this point, most of us are pretty tired of the subject. >> >> And just ignore it and the consequences because you're tired of >> thinking about it? > > Lee, he has a point. He sees nothin

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Marty
On 10/14/2014 12:47 PM, Brian wrote: On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 12:06:11 -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:02:10AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:05:06 -0400 > Henning Follmann wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 07:56:40AM -0400, Marty wrote: > > > It se

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Marty
On 10/14/2014 12:10 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, Marty wrote: It seems like free software employment and market share come with increasing risk to objectivity and technical quality. People have to eat. Almost everyone who works on Debian has someone who pays them. It's my ma

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 06:11:31PM +0200, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:43:48 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > There's -offtopic (see my .sig), but apparently the anti-systemd crowd > > wants an audience :( > > Stop your condescending tone, and make your self useful by

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread s. keeling
Curt : > > Given the number of retarded posts we've seen in the last couple of > weeks, you might think things would be cooled off by now, but no. This's DU. This sort of thing is expected, even welcomed. People expressing passionate opinions wrt their choice of software? Great! Consider th

OT (Sorta): Pepperflash Now Working on Wheezy 64-bit

2014-10-14 Thread Patrick Bartek
Just got latest upgrade of Chrome Stable (38.0.2125.104-1) for my Wheezy 64-bit (Openbox WM only) directly from Google repo. Pepperflash player (15.0.0.189) now working. And it only took a month and a half. ;-) B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread s. keeling
Anders Wegge Keller : > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:33:55 +0100 > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > This to one of our best and most measured contributors. It's enough to > > make one weep. > > He could have been the pope. His attitude is part of the problem, not the I didn't think that at all. I do thi

[sendmail] outgoing mail leaves dead letter

2014-10-14 Thread Harry Putnam
I managed to get sendmail sort of working on one of my vbox guest debian vms. It was kind of rough sledding and still not really working properly. I use a smarthost from fastmail.fm where I have accounts. Finally seems to have gotten the auth working thru access.db. But an odd thing is happening

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:15:40 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 14 oct 14, 16:31:04, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Of course, then there's the matters of upstreams requiring > > systemd... > > As far as I understand none of the upstreams are actually requiring > systemd itself (or more accuratel

Persistent hash sum mismatch in aptitude

2014-10-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
Whenever I do an aptitude update it seems to work OK, except for a series of messages at the end: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/contrib/ source/SourcesIndex: Hash Sum mismatch W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/contrib/ binary-i38

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

2014-10-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 16:31:04, Steve Litt wrote: > > Of course, then there's the matters of upstreams requiring systemd... As far as I understand none of the upstreams are actually requiring systemd itself (or more accurately systemd-logind), but the interfaces it is providing. And it also seems t

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:11:31 +0200 Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > > ... make your self useful by reading a > book about change mangament. Without in any way endorsing or criticizing anything else that's happened in this thread, I'd like to ask what are some relatively simple change management boo

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:17:27 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:43:48 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >> There's -offtopic (see my .sig), but apparently the anti-systemd > >> crowd wants an audience :( > > > > Stop your condescending tone,

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

2014-10-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 09:55:55, The Wanderer wrote: > > I could, but that would have to be re-done on every upgrade of the > package, and doing it on every machine where I'm likely to want to work > in a root shell would be a pain at best - and doing it on just some of > them would result in my trippi

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

2014-10-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 15:51:09, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > Sadly not. If I were reading -user entirely for my own delectation, I'd have > filtered many regulars long ago. Or simply stopped reading it, since I rarely > ask questions anyway. But I, and I imagine many of my DD colleagues, are > particul

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:35:34 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 14/10/14 16:48, Steve Litt wrote: > > So are you saying I could use sysvinit or nosh as my PID1, drop in > > libpam-systemd and no other systemd components, and have all PAM > > functionalities run properly? > > Thank you for the clarifi

Re: alpine status?

2014-10-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/10/2014, francis picabia wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 15/10/2014, Bret Busby wrote: >>> On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, francis picabia wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > On 04/09/2014, Karen Lewellen wrote: >>

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

2014-10-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:18:01PM +0200, lee wrote: > Considering that the users are Debians' priority, couldn't this issue be > a case in which significant concerns from/of the users about an issue > might initiate a GR? Wouldn't it speak loudly for Debian and its ways > and for what it stands f

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

2014-10-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 16:03:07, Martin Read wrote: > > [0] I've seen the relevant fragment posted recently, but I can't remember > where and I don't remember the exact contents. Package: systemd-sysv Pin: version * Pin-Priority: -1 Explanation: prevent installation of systemd-sysv 'P

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

2014-10-14 Thread Axel Wagner
Hi, The Wanderer writes: > Unfortunately, not everyone - or even everyone who would be willing to > provide such feedback, or even actively interested in doing so - is > going to install that. Luckily, popcon is opt-in anyway, so this has no effect whatsoever on it's quality as a data source. B

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Richard Owlett
Anders Wegge Keller wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:43:48 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: There's -offtopic (see my .sig), but apparently the anti-systemd crowd wants an audience :( Stop your condescending tone, CAREFUL, you insert foot-in-mouth past clavicle ... and make your self useful

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

2014-10-14 Thread golinux
On Tue, 10/14/14, Brian wrote: Subject: Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 12:22 PM On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 10:47:13 -0500, goli...@riseup.net wrote: On Tue, 10/14/14, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Subject: Re: piece of min

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/14/2014 12:03 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/14/2014 11:17 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> On 10/14/2014 8:05 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> If you think I'm kidding, please by all means go make these silly >>> statements on the postfix list and I'll just sit and watch the fun. > >> You don't read very

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 10/14/2014 12:40 PM, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: I do not want to hear from someone acting out of a misplaced sense of loyalty. I want someone who actually is capable of seeing why elitism isn't going to save Debian in this case, to come forward, and create a place where the issue can be has

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/14/2014 11:24 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/14/2014 10:52 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:48:38AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> Rejecting will actually *reduce* traffic, because it doesn't accept the >>> entire messages, it slams the door at the RCPT-TO stage. > >> Re

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

2014-10-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 14:22:03 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > >Depends what you mean by "supported". There is no problem in installing > >sysvinit after an upgrade or before upgrading. It works really well. > > "No problem" is easier to say than to validate. > > First off, there's

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

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 15/10/14 03:33, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 15/10/14 01:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 14/10/14 23:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 oct 14, 18:30:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: Gee assuming that you don

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Curt
On 2014-10-14, John Hasler wrote: > > "Moderation" usually means that some natural person reads and approves > or disapproves every item. That's clearly not the case here. What the > actual policy is, as you say, unclear. It appears that the listmasters > occasionally block a poster and occasio

Re: alpine status?

2014-10-14 Thread francis picabia
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > On 15/10/2014, Bret Busby wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, francis picabia wrote: >> >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 04/09/2014, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Can anyone confirm if development continues on alpine

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

2014-10-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:27:14AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/14/2014 11:09 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > In a quest to ensure your personal happiness the systemd maintainers > > took your problem and changed udev to assign predictable names to > > network interfaces. > > And which resulte

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

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 12:33:06 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: I'm guessing you really don't want an OS without logging... :) syslog works just fine - don't need (or want) systemd to take over logging with a binary format The journal logs to rsyslog by default

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 1:31 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > You're talking past each other. No, we're not, Jerry is arguing arguing against recipient validation on mail servers, and I'm correcting some of the bad/mis-information he is relying on when trying to support his argument. > Still, the current "standard"

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/10/14 03:11, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:43:48 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> There's -offtopic (see my .sig), but apparently the anti-systemd crowd >> wants an audience :( > > Stop your condescending tone, -8<>8 > If yo

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

2014-10-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/10/14 03:33, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 15/10/14 01:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Scott Ferguson wrote: On 14/10/14 23:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Lu, 13 oct 14, 18:30:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Gee assuming that you

OT: Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Well, this really is OT for debian-users, but Turns out that SMTP WAS/IS intended to be reliable. I'd always lumped SMTP in the category of unreliable protocols, w/o guaranteed delivery - but then, being a bit pedantic, I went back to the source RFC 821, SMTP, authored by Jon Postel, and

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

2014-10-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 12:33:06 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: > >I'm guessing you really don't want an OS without logging... :) > > syslog works just fine - don't need (or want) systemd to take over > logging with a binary format The journal logs to rsyslog by default on De

Re: alpine status?

2014-10-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/10/2014, francis picabia wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Bret Busby wrote: >> On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Bret Busby wrote: >> >>> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:35:47 >>> From: Bret Busby >>> To: debian-user >>> Subject: Re: alpine status? >>> >>> >>> On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, francis picabia w

Re: alpine status?

2014-10-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/10/2014, Bret Busby wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, francis picabia wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Bret Busby wrote: >>> On 04/09/2014, Karen Lewellen wrote: Can anyone confirm if development continues on alpine? I am getting mixed messages about this, one from my

Re: alpine status?

2014-10-14 Thread francis picabia
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Bret Busby wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:35:47 >> From: Bret Busby >> To: debian-user >> Subject: Re: alpine status? >> >> >> On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, francis picabia wrote: >> >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:47 PM, B

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

2014-10-14 Thread Martin Read
On 14/10/14 16:48, Steve Litt wrote: So are you saying I could use sysvinit or nosh as my PID1, drop in libpam-systemd and no other systemd components, and have all PAM functionalities run properly? Thank you for the clarification. The short and vague answer is "no"; PAM modules that depend on

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Joel Rees
Oh, dear. Somebody is WRONG on the Internet! You're talking past each other. Still, the current "standard" e-mail protocols were never meant to be either reliable or secure, and their is a very good reason for that. People may not be as reliable as machines in executing protocols, but they cannot

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

2014-10-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 10:47:13 -0500, goli...@riseup.net wrote: > On Tue, 10/14/14, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > Subject: Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?) > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 1:56 AM > > You are still writing as if you are going to be

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread John Hasler
Miles Fidelman writes: > - unclear posting policy: > --- says it's open (anyone can post) - but haven't actually tested whether > it really means subscribers-only (note, some Debian lists are actually > fully open - for example debian-boot is both a list and the contact address > for the installer

Re: alpine status?

2014-10-14 Thread Karen Lewellen
I for one just did the following. I went to the mailing list page included in the recent post shared below. I followed the instructions provided there for join the alpine info list, and less than two minutes ago got a request to confirm my subscription to the mailing list. Seems active e

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 12:06:11 -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:02:10AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:05:06 -0400 > > Henning Follmann wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 07:56:40AM -0400, Marty wrote: > > > > It seems like free software empl

Re: alpine status?

2014-10-14 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Bret Busby wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:35:47 From: Bret Busby To: debian-user Subject: Re: alpine status? On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, francis picabia wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 04/09/2014, Karen Lewellen wrote: Can anyone confirm if d

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:33:55 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > This to one of our best and most measured contributors. It's enough to > make one weep. He could have been the pope. His attitude is part of the problem, not the solution. If you have read the book about change management, you know what I'

OT_Enlightenment Terminology-0.7 released

2014-10-14 Thread maderios
Hi Excellent terminal (oddly not available in Debian) named Terminology 0.7 just released http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/apps/terminology/ https://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=download&l=en Main changes: - Internationalization and Localization support - Configurable key bindings - Ad

Re: alpine status?

2014-10-14 Thread Bret Busby
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, francis picabia wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 04/09/2014, Karen Lewellen wrote: Can anyone confirm if development continues on alpine? I am getting mixed messages about this, one from my web hosting company suggesting I join the developer'

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 14 October 2014 17:11:31 Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:43:48 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > There's -offtopic (see my .sig), but apparently the anti-systemd crowd > > wants an audience :( > > Stop your condescending tone, and make your self useful by reading

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

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 15/10/14 01:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 14/10/14 23:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 oct 14, 18:30:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: Gee assuming that you don't run anything that has systemd dependencies and/or systemd-shim

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

2014-10-14 Thread Brian
On Wed 15 Oct 2014 at 04:29:50 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:40:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:50:32 +0200 > > lee wrote: > > > > > Joey Hess writes: > > > > > > > So at this point, most of us are pretty tired of the subject. > > > > > >

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Martin Read
On 14/10/14 16:05, Scott Ferguson wrote: And how should we interpret that in light of your signature and constant plugging of your business on the list? Perhaps Joey Hess's signature holds the answer? I presume you mean Joel Rees (yes, I get their names mixed up occasionally too), since Joey H

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 11:17 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 10/14/2014 8:05 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> If you think I'm kidding, please by all means go make these silly >> statements on the postfix list and I'll just sit and watch the fun. > You don't read very well. This has nothing to do with emails to a v

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:43:48 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > There's -offtopic (see my .sig), but apparently the anti-systemd crowd > wants an audience :( Stop your condescending tone, and make your self useful by reading a book about change mangament. I don't know who you are or what your merit

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, Marty wrote: > It seems like free software employment and market share come with > increasing risk to objectivity and technical quality. People have to eat. Almost everyone who works on Debian has someone who pays them. > It's my main concern as a Debian user, as I consider r

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/10/14 02:02, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:05:06 -0400 > Henning Follmann wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 07:56:40AM -0400, Marty wrote: >>> It seems like free software employment and market share come with >>> increasing risk to objectivity and technical quality. It's my m

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Henning Follmann
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:02:10AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:05:06 -0400 > Henning Follmann wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 07:56:40AM -0400, Marty wrote: > > > It seems like free software employment and market share come with > > > increasing risk to objectivity and

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

2014-10-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/10/14 01:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 14/10/14 23:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 oct 14, 18:30:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Gee assuming that you don't run anything that has systemd > dependencies > and/or systemd-s

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

2014-10-14 Thread golinux
On Tue, 10/14/14, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Subject: Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 1:56 AM You are still writing as if you are going to be forced to run systemd, despite being repeatedly told that multiple init syste

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 03:53:48AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 09:31:19AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Chris Bannister writes: I thought there was a difference between a closed list (only subscribers can post) and a moderated list (each post is scr

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:37:30 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 14/10/14 15:56, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:25:23 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> Have you actually looked into what depends on systemd? > > > > PAM is enough for me, considering everything that uses PAM. They > > c

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 5:50:02 PM UTC+5:30, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 07:56:40AM -0400, Marty wrote: > > It seems like free software employment and market share come with > > increasing risk to objectivity and technical quality. It's my main > > concern as a Debian use

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

2014-10-14 Thread Martin Read
On 14/10/14 15:56, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:25:23 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: Have you actually looked into what depends on systemd? PAM is enough for me, considering everything that uses PAM. They could have made their PAM plug compatible with the old PAM, but nooo. I f

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

2014-10-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 14/10/14 16:06, Steve Litt wrote: > > 1) Boycott (and be vocal about it) Gnome > > 2) Pressure all other upstreams into a "no systemd dependencies" >pledge, and to the best of our abilities, boycott (and be vocal about >it) those who don't comply. > Well, you should have no problem w

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

2014-10-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:40:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:50:32 +0200 > lee wrote: > > > Joey Hess writes: > > > > > So at this point, most of us are pretty tired of the subject. > > > > And just ignore it and the consequences because you're tired of > > thinking abo

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

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 11:09 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > In a quest to ensure your personal happiness the systemd maintainers > took your problem and changed udev to assign predictable names to > network interfaces. And which resulted in much wailing and gnashing of teeth. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 10:52 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:48:38AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >> Rejecting will actually *reduce* traffic, because it doesn't accept the >> entire messages, it slams the door at the RCPT-TO stage. > Rejection can happen after the DATA phase as well.

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

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:46:11PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: I assume you find it more productive to bury your head in the sand about potential impacts of really major changes to the plumbing of a platform, and wait for things to break after-the-fact? I suspect Steve

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/14/2014 8:05 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/13/2014 9:53 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> Not a grey area at all. "...dropping mail > without notification of the >> sender is permitted...". As for the "...long tradition and community >> expectations..." - that's nice, but according to some estima

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 03:53:48AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 09:31:19AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > Chris Bannister writes: > > > I thought there was a difference between a closed list (only > > > subscribers can post) and a moderated list (each post is scrutinised >

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

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hi Miles, On 10/14/2014 16:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: Actually, udev is the ONLY thing I've had issues with in over a decade of production use. Changed out a nic card, and everything changed - because udev decided to assign the new interface to some other port (or some s

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

2014-10-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/10/14 01:51, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:40:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> The solution is trivial. If, as everyone claims, we're such a minority, >> he could filter us all out and never see our posts again. Problem >> solved. > > Sadly not. If I were reading -user

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:51:09 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:40:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > The solution is trivial. If, as everyone claims, we're such a > > minority, he could filter us all out and never see our posts again. > > Problem solved. > > Sadly not. If

Re: Re: Synaptic slow when Caribou is running after Gnome-shell update

2014-10-14 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Stephen Allen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 03:35:51PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Am 13.10.2014 um 12:06 schrieb Stephen Allen: > > > I too had experienced this, seems to be fixed as of yesterday. > > > Thanks Michael. > > > > Unfortunately, this is not fixed yet. > > Apparently the start

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:33:56 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 14 oct 14, 10:40:34, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > On 14/10/2014 9:50 AM, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 > > > (jessie) release of Debian. So you can continue to boot your > > > p

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/14/2014 at 10:53 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 09:31:19AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > >> Chris Bannister writes: >> >>> I thought there was a difference between a closed list (only >>> subscribers can post) and a moderated list (each post is >>> scrutinised for eligi

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

2014-10-14 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi Miles, On 10/14/2014 16:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Actually, udev is the ONLY thing I've had issues with in over a decade > of production use. Changed out a nic card, and everything changed - > because udev decided to assign the new interface to some other port (or > some such - it's been a w

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:05:06 -0400 Henning Follmann wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 07:56:40AM -0400, Marty wrote: > > It seems like free software employment and market share come with > > increasing risk to objectivity and technical quality. It's my main > > concern as a Debian user, as I consi

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

2014-10-14 Thread Martin Read
On 14/10/14 14:33, Miles Fidelman wrote: Which brings us back to how upgrades and new installs will be handled - will there be an option to go right to sysvinit-core, or will we have to manually uninstall systemd and anything that depends on it? Getting all the metapackages and dependencies righ

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:25:23 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 13 oct 14, 18:30:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > > Gee assuming that you don't run anything that has systemd > > dependencies and/or systemd-shim is actually maintained and kept > > up-to-date. > > Have you actually looked in

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

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:56:17 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > You are still writing as if you are going to be forced to run > systemd, despite being repeatedly told that multiple init systems > will be supported. I'm really struggling to continue to presume "good > faith" on your part now. Hi Jo

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

2014-10-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 14/10/14 23:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 oct 14, 18:30:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: Gee assuming that you don't run anything that has systemd dependencies and/or systemd-shim is actually maintained and kept up-to-date. Have you actually l

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 09:31:19AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Chris Bannister writes: > > I thought there was a difference between a closed list (only > > subscribers can post) and a moderated list (each post is scrutinised > > for eligibility) --- or have I got the wrong end of the stick? > > Th

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:48:38AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > Rejecting will actually *reduce* traffic, because it doesn't accept the > entire messages, it slams the door at the RCPT-TO stage. Rejection can happen after the DATA phase as well. It's better if spam can be identified and rejected befo

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

2014-10-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:40:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > The solution is trivial. If, as everyone claims, we're such a minority, > he could filter us all out and never see our posts again. Problem > solved. Sadly not. If I were reading -user entirely for my own delectation, I'd have filtered

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