Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Ian Jackson
of this also works on a system with > sysvinit? Obviously it would be better to make ti work with cron. Ideally it would go into cron.daily which I assume works with systemd too. But if you do just the systemd thing, I think if someone sends you a patch to make it work with cron I think you

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Ian Jackson
KatolaZ writes ("Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support"): > The problem that spurred this thread is that sysvinit needs a > maintainer. That's why some of us are here: our intention is to help > with maintaining sysvinit in Debian if possible, since we will keep > maintai

Re: A small thanks to the kFreeBSD porters

2014-11-03 Thread Ian Jackson
(dropping -devel) Tino Mettler writes ("Re: A small thanks to the kFreeBSD porters"): > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:36:26 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > While fixing the bug on a porterbox I got very helpful IRC support > > Hi Ian, > > did you get this on a p

A small thanks to the kFreeBSD porters

2014-10-28 Thread Ian Jackson
I would like to share a good experience I had with the kFreeBSD porter team. On Sunday afternoon I foolishly uploaded a package which, if I had thought about it, I ought to have known would FTBFS on FreeBSD. Less than 4 hours later I had a bug report (#766913) from Steven Chamberlain, who had tri

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Niels Thykier writes ("Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))"): > On 2013-11-03 16:03, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=jessie_or_sid&merged=ign&fnewerval=7&kfreebsd=1&sortby=severity&sorto=desc&cseverity

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Niels Thykier writes ("Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)"): > On 2013-10-29 16:05, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I'm keen that Debian should continue to support a wide range of > > architectures. Would it help if I, as a DD, volunteered to spon

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Niels Thykier writes ("Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)"): > Results of porter roll-call > === ... > Summary table: > Arch || DDs || NMs/DMs || Other || Total > - ---++-++-++---++-- > armel || 5 || 0 |

Re: Upstart & kFreeBSD port for Debian

2013-05-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Re: Upstart & kFreeBSD port for Debian"): > This is interesting to know. Out of curiosity, if you don't intend to > license your patch under the Canonical CLA, what was your aim in doing this > port? Perhaps the intent is a long-term fork. If someone wants to maintain an

Re: Glibc and NetBSD

2002-07-24 Thread Ian Jackson
This whole conversation seems baffling to me. Have any of the people posting opinions actually looked at the source code of the two libcs ? glibc is a complex horror [1]; the BSD libc is a fairly nice and clean implementation. It seems to me that there is little doubt which libc we would prefer

Put the source code up too !

2002-01-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Sorry to (sort of) bring licence politics into this, but: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The source for apt is at http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/debian-netbsd/apt >- I believe that the only changes I made to it were some patches from the >fink project