Re: Syncing GnuPG between 2 system

2018-09-28 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sat, 2018-09-29 at 01:45 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > You may find this article helpful: > > > > http://www.connexer.com/articles/openpgp-subkeys > > I think that a copy of .gnupg directory would mostly work. > If OP wants to be able to sign or encrypt with same ke

Re: gtk problem after update

2018-09-28 Thread Johan DS
I changed the gtk3 icon theme and problem is solved On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 6:17 PM deloptes wrote: > Johan DS wrote: > > > .local/share/icons/Papirus-Dark/ > > is this in the home of the new user? may be copy or check where it is > coming > from (which application) > >

Re: Syncing GnuPG between 2 system

2018-09-28 Thread deloptes
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > You may find this article helpful: > > http://www.connexer.com/articles/openpgp-subkeys I think that a copy of .gnupg directory would mostly work. If OP wants to be able to sign or encrypt with same key from more machines, I agree the link is useful, but overcomplicat

Ghostscript produces much larger pdf files now

2018-09-28 Thread Flo
Dear All, I am using ghostscript to make pdf files smaller. Three days ago I upgraded my system and now I am running 9.25 . However the size of the pdf files increased significantly. I guess a default value changed. Does anyone know about it. I'd like to have it the way as it worked before. Tha

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Curt proposed: > Wodim has proved to fail under certain conditions and as a general rule > should probably be avoided when burning to DVD or BD media. I like this better than what Brian (i assume) committed now: https://wiki.debian.org/BurnCd?action=diff&rev1=36&rev2=37 "Wodim has pro

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-28, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: >> > So how should the statement be improved ? >> > ["wodim should better not be used with DVD or BD media."] > > Curt wrote: >> You could say: >> It is preferable not to use wodim for DVD or BD media. >> Or >> It's better to avoid using wo

discussing debian wiki on the wiki (was Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?)

2018-09-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 06:49:26PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: - Does the wiki have means to discuss facts or to leave messages to other editors why a particular change was undone ? Moin doesn't directly have the "talk" feature that some other wikis do, sorry. It can have Discussion pages v

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Sep 2018 at 19:10:40 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 28 Sep 2018 at 15:59:26 +, Curt wrote: > > > On 2018-09-28, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > > > > Curt wrote: > > >> > It's been reverted but as the formulation is a little awkward it's too > > >> > bad we didn't take this opportunity t

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote towards Jonathan Dowland: > > Thanks for sparing me the questionable deed to revert the change myself. > > So it is not a wiki war. Brian wrote: > Why is it questionable? Either you stand behind your statement or not. Wikis going forth and back several times don't make a good impress

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > So how should the statement be improved ? > > ["wodim should better not be used with DVD or BD media."] Curt wrote: > You could say: > It is preferable not to use wodim for DVD or BD media. > Or > It's better to avoid using wodim when burning to DVD or BD media. > Or > Wodim h

Future of cdrkit. Was: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Steve McIntyre wrote: > The only 2 reasons I've had for keeping the cdrkit package in Debian > were: > 1. hfs hybrid support in genisoimage, a topic that Thomas and I have >spoken about in the past. Now that we no longer have powerpc in >Debian stable and I don't have to care about mak

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Sep 2018 at 15:59:26 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-09-28, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > > Curt wrote: > >> > It's been reverted but as the formulation is a little awkward it's too > >> > bad we didn't take this opportunity to unawkwardate it. > > > > Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> I opted to

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Sep 2018 at 17:47:34 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > For the avoidance of any doubt, jmtd is me (Jonathan Michael Thomas > > Dowland). > > Thanks for sparing me the questionable deed to revert the change myself. > So it is not a wiki war. Why is it q

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
Jon Dowland wrote: >On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:00:42PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >>wodim is factually abandoned by its cloners Joerg Jaspert, Steve McIntyre, >>and Eduard Bloch. Its home page is gone, its change history is gone. > >That would be reason enough to avoid wodim IMHO... but it would

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Thomas! Thomas Schmitt wrote: > >is perhaps the Debian wiki user StephenKeeling subscribed here ? >We need to discuss the recent wiki change > https://wiki.debian.org/BurnCd?action=diff&rev1=30&rev2=31 > >Alternatively: >- Does the wiki have means to contact a particular Debian wiki user ? N

Re: Syncing GnuPG between 2 system

2018-09-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 11:33:44AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > Hello! > > What is the best way to maintain consistency of a user's gnupg > signing/verifying capabilities between 2 or more desktop systems? > You may find this article helpful: http://www.connexer.com/articles/openpgp-subkeys I

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, September 28, 2018 01:32:38 AM Richard Hector wrote: > How about something like: > > "wodim may sometimes work with DVD or BD media, but the results will not > meet the relevant specifications." > > or perhaps s/work/appear to work/ I am also not an expert in this area, but I would as

Re: gtk problem after update

2018-09-28 Thread deloptes
Johan DS wrote: > .local/share/icons/Papirus-Dark/ is this in the home of the new user? may be copy or check where it is coming from (which application)

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 03:59:26PM +, Curt wrote: > "should better not be used" is a bit twisted. > > You could say: > > It is preferable not to use wodim for DVD or BD media. > > Or: > > It's better to avoid using wodim when burning to DVD or BD media. > > Or: > > Wodim has proved le

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Sep 2018 at 16:29:56 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 02:53:35PM +, Curt wrote: > > It's been reverted but as the formulation is a little awkward it's too > > bad we didn't take this opportunity to unawkwardate it. > > For the avoidance of any doubt, jmtd is

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-28, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Curt wrote: >> > It's been reverted but as the formulation is a little awkward it's too >> > bad we didn't take this opportunity to unawkwardate it. > > Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> I opted to restore the text exactly as it was (a pure revert) rather >> than

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > For the avoidance of any doubt, jmtd is me (Jonathan Michael Thomas > Dowland). Thanks for sparing me the questionable deed to revert the change myself. So it is not a wiki war. > I'm not involved in cdrkit development. Nobody is involved there. Else i would chew

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-28, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 02:53:35PM +, Curt wrote: >>It's been reverted but as the formulation is a little awkward it's too >>bad we didn't take this opportunity to unawkwardate it. > > For the avoidance of any doubt, jmtd is me (Jonathan Michael Thomas

Syncing GnuPG between 2 system

2018-09-28 Thread Jim Popovitch
Hello! What is the best way to maintain consistency of a user's gnupg signing/verifying capabilities between 2 or more desktop systems? tia, -Jim P. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 02:53:35PM +, Curt wrote: It's been reverted but as the formulation is a little awkward it's too bad we didn't take this opportunity to unawkwardate it. For the avoidance of any doubt, jmtd is me (Jonathan Michael Thomas Dowland). I'm not involved in cdrkit developme

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-28, Curt wrote: > On 2018-09-28, Brian wrote: >> On Fri 28 Sep 2018 at 10:57:12 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> >>> Hm. Another user "jmtd" is editing in BurnCd. >>> Now i am curious whether the wodim-DVD-BD statement will be changed too. >> >> Have you satisfied your curiosity? > > He

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-28, Brian wrote: > On Fri 28 Sep 2018 at 10:57:12 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > >> Hm. Another user "jmtd" is editing in BurnCd. >> Now i am curious whether the wodim-DVD-BD statement will be changed too. > > Have you satisfied your curiosity? He says: revert StephenKeeling's edit

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Sep 2018 at 10:57:12 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hm. Another user "jmtd" is editing in BurnCd. > Now i am curious whether the wodim-DVD-BD statement will be changed too. Have you satisfied your curiosity? -- Brian.

Re: question about ls

2018-09-28 Thread Richard Hector
On 29/09/18 12:21 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 09:06:59AM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: >> On 28-09-2018, at 17h 52'07", Richard Hector wrote about "Re: question about >> ls" >>> Eww. Tab completion also gets screwed up by this: >>> >>> richard@zircon:~/test$ rm >>> fi

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 12:46:27PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: I still hope for a statement by the (nominal) wodim maintainers. I spoke to one this morning, and they're aware of this thread but very busy, I think they intend to do something at some point, so watch this space :-) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-28, Brian wrote: > On Fri 28 Sep 2018 at 11:02:37 +, Curt wrote: > >> On 2018-09-27, Brian wrote: >> > >> > "wodim should better not be used with DVD or BD media." >> >> The French Wiki has something like: >> >> It is preferable not to use wodim with DVD or BD media. >> >> Not

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Curt wrote: > The French Wiki has something like: > It is preferable not to use wodim with DVD or BD media. It advise to stay with this for now. > > I still hope for a statement by the (nominal) wodim maintainers. Brian wrote: > Keep hoping. Well, Steve McIntyre does show up here from t

Re: question about ls

2018-09-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 09:06:59AM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > On 28-09-2018, at 17h 52'07", Richard Hector wrote about "Re: question about > ls" > > Eww. Tab completion also gets screwed up by this: > > > > richard@zircon:~/test$ rm > > file isone this You're probably using "b

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Sep 2018 at 11:02:37 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-09-27, Brian wrote: > > > > "wodim should better not be used with DVD or BD media." > > The French Wiki has something like: > > It is preferable not to use wodim with DVD or BD media. > > Notice the elimination all weasly padding of

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Sep 2018 at 12:46:27 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Brian wrote: > > Then revert the edit and link to this thread: > > wodim should [[https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/09/msg01031.html > > better|not be used]] with DVD or BD media. > > I still hope for a statement by th

Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-28 Thread Igor Cicimov
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 1:32 AM deloptes wrote: > Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > The biggest weakness with the Dropbear setup is that the initramfs is > > stored on an unencrypted partition (no matter which file system is > > used). That means that someone with physical access can rebuild the > >

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-27, Brian wrote: > > "wodim should better not be used with DVD or BD media." The French Wiki has something like: It is preferable not to use wodim with DVD or BD media. Notice the elimination all weasly padding of the "Some believe it would be better" variety (as began Keeling's un

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Brian wrote: > Then revert the edit and link to this thread: > wodim should [[https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/09/msg01031.html > better|not be used]] with DVD or BD media. I still hope for a statement by the (nominal) wodim maintainers. ... or maybe StephenKeeling shows up ... Ha

Re: question about ls

2018-09-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 08:58:05AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: ls should be considered a user interface, not an API. One should strive to minimize these differences, though. This is, of course, just my opinion, but you can pry... (you know the rest ;-) Sure you can--you use find. There are

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Sep 2018 at 10:57:12 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > -- > > The Debian BurnCd wiki page shall give tangible instructions for users, > not discuss under what circumstances inappropriate SCSI preparations > succeed neverth

Re: ncurses problem

2018-09-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-09-27 08:51 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:38:53PM +, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I compiled following test program: >> == >> #include >> #include > [snip] > >> It's supposed to show current window dimens

Re: DVD+R DL and BD media. Was: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, deloptes wrote: > I was trying to burn DVD+DL and had the feeling it does not do what I want > it to do. I trashed couple of DL DVDs - each costs ~3€. Yes. I too experienced that DVD+R DL are the most early type to fail on an ageing drive. I still have half a spindle of them, but only for the

Re: gtk problem after update

2018-09-28 Thread Johan DS
I created an new user and yup everithing just seems to work fine I'm one step closer to nirvana regards On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 11:09 AM deloptes wrote: > Johan DS wrote: > > > > /home/jods/.local/share/icons/Papirus-Dark/16x16/actions/image-missing.svg: > > No such file or directory (g-io-erro

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Nevertheless, i plan to defend my version duely, unless a wodim maintainer > shows up and promises to take care of the bugs and code shortcommings. > I would be willing to help. Thanks, I suspected something wrong with DVD writing for a long time already. Your post tells m

Re: gtk problem after update

2018-09-28 Thread deloptes
Johan DS wrote: > /home/jods/.local/share/icons/Papirus-Dark/16x16/actions/image-missing.svg: > No such file or directory (g-io-error-quark, 1) it looks obvious. for whatever reason it is looking for this file and can not find it. Why is it looking in your .local - no idea. Thanks God I do not u

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Brian proposed: > There is (strong? extensive?) evidence that wodim should not be used > with DVD or BD media. However, the many variables involved, especially > burner types and media type and quality, could result a successful > burn. There are not that many variables: Drive type: burn

gtk problem after update

2018-09-28 Thread Johan DS
Hi After an update of debian testing several days ago some applications crash. Its clearly a gtk error. for example mousepad: (mousepad:4203): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:33:25.001: Could not load a pixbuf from icon theme. This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be found. ** G

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:00:42PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: wodim is factually abandoned by its cloners Joerg Jaspert, Steve McIntyre, and Eduard Bloch. Its home page is gone, its change history is gone. That would be reason enough to avoid wodim IMHO... but it would also suggest that wodim

recruitement_torproject

2018-09-28 Thread bolkaroff
info/announce from torproject: / We're Hiring: Software Developer, Anti-Censorship Team // To strengthen our fight against censorship worldwide, we're forming a new Anti-Censorship Team. We need to hire a developer to help improve the user process of finding alternate routes to the Tor network whe

Re: question about ls

2018-09-28 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 28-09-2018, at 17h 52'07", Richard Hector wrote about "Re: question about ls" > > Eww. Tab completion also gets screwed up by this: > > richard@zircon:~/test$ rm > file isone this > > .. but you can't actually complete from any of those. > Hi, I am not a bash user, but if I try wha