Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> 1) The description of the License field says:
> >Otherwise, this field should either include the full text
> >of the license(s) or include a pointer to the license file under
> >`/usr/share/common-licenses`.
>
> This could be interpreted as if just the pointer wou
Hi.
I wrote the following some time ago to Lars and Steve. The former asked
be to rather put it up for general discussion (which I forgot then
somehow). So here it is...
Please note, that this may be outdated by now, but I couldn't check the
current revision, as http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ s
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 13:48 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> - cryptsetup is not the only userspace tool which manages dm-crypt
> devices. Low-level tools like dmsetup, udev, hal; commandline tools
> like cryptmount and gui applications like gnome-mount etc. might
> unlock/lock encrypted devices
Am 20.05.2011 09:44, schrieb Arief M Utama:
> Hi Ben,
>
>
>
> On 05/19/2011 08:36 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 13:53 +0700, Arief M Utama wrote:
>>> Latest try with only pm-utils package, I can do hibernate and resume
>>> just fine, but suspend and resume does not work, susp
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 09:51:45PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote [edited]:
> The burden of learning such basics lies with the contributor. Lack of
> such due diligence is not so welcomed.
Yes, lack of such due diligence is not welcome in -devel. But that doesn't
justify rudeness. If one is not patient
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 13:55 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> yes, and this is the way it's supposed to be:
phew ;-) Just let me point this out again,..
"Debian's init-script handling is broken" (had to say it ;-) )
> - if the cryptsetup package is removed but not purged, the initscript
> will e
Arno Töll wrote:
> But I miss an advocate so far, and I won't fine one, being confident in
> my skills if I'm passed from one DD to another for every upload.
Absolutely, continuity of sponsor relationship is essential to DM.
Although it does not need to be a long relationship; just longer
than one
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 13:58:08 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> We basically know the reasons on both sides. Most objections are of
> social nature (fear of "APT has a Pre-Depends, let's add one to"), and
> Eugene thinks it is unfair if APT were to pre-depend on things while
> Cupt would not,
Didier Raboud writes:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>
>> I was working on nbd-server upstream, and so had ran ./configure with
>> CFLAGS='-Wall -Werror', which I consider good practice when writing C
>> code.
>>
>> What I didn't notice immediately was that gcc was emitting some
>> warnings, but that
On 2011-05-20 13:58, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Eugene thinks it is unfair if APT were to pre-depend on things while
> Cupt would not [...]
No, I didn't say that. I did say it is possible to upgrade a Debian
system without APT, and you cannot attribute anything beyond this to
me.
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On 20.05.2011 17:42, Joey Hess wrote:
> You appear to be a perfectly fine candidate to be a DM; you have
> actively maintained packages in the archive; you are actively
> involved with and sending improvements upstream; your package
> is well put toget
Arno Töll wrote:
> What are alternatives though, if no one else feels sympathy for your
> problems and your former sponsors don't react? Again, my case: I'd love
> to improve my package's quality (i.e. upload new upstream releases, fix
> bugs, port new architectures), in fact I did all of that. I j
Julian Andres Klode writes ("Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on
${shlibs:Depends}"):
> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 13:28 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > The purpose is to make sure that we have considered all the up- and
> > down-sides of the proposal, and specifically to make sure that if
> > there
Hi Arno,
On 11-05-20 at 04:44pm, Arno Töll wrote:
> On 20.05.2011 11:22, Neil Williams wrote:
> > Fly-by sponsoring is *not* helpful to Debian.
>
> True. It neither does for the candidate.
>
> What are alternatives though, if no one else feels sympathy for your
> problems and your former sponso
* Clint Adams [2011-05-20 16:52]:
> Is it supposed to work with swap on an LVM volume on top of dm-crypt?
> This only works for me with uswsusp.
Works for me since Lenny.
yours Martin
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On 20/05/2011 23:00, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 03:09:56PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
>> Hibernate is completely covered by the kernel; there is not much that
>
> Is it supposed to work with swap on an LVM volume on top of dm-crypt?
> This only works for me with uswsusp.
Yes it
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 03:09:56PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Hibernate is completely covered by the kernel; there is not much that
Is it supposed to work with swap on an LVM volume on top of dm-crypt?
This only works for me with uswsusp.
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Hi Neil (and Piotr who said similar things),
On 20.05.2011 11:22, Neil Williams wrote:
> It's also very frustrating for the sponsor and the hassle involved in
> filtering out some truly abysmal packaging efforts from the list of
> sponsorship requests
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:53:31PM +0700, Arief M Utama wrote:
> Latest try with only pm-utils package, I can do hibernate and resume
> just fine, but suspend and resume does not work, suspend ok, resume
> fail.
Hibernate is completely covered by the kernel; there is not much that
can go wrong. Su
On May 20, Bastian Blank wrote:
> This would be wasting one package or lets say 800k on every system just
> to please one really specific use case, which can be and is already
> solved another way.
Also, I have not looked at febootstrap but if it implements its own init
then it could probably eas
Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 13:17 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit :
> I believe GNOME now relies on the upower daemon. But that is just an
> intermediary for sending commands to the kernel.
Yes, AFAICT upower relies on pm-utils for the low-level commands.
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: :' :
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On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:44:42PM +0700, Arief M Utama wrote:
> But, even so, I have done some test with "echo 'mem' >
> /sys/power/state" and "echo 'disk' > /sys/power/state" few times before,
> and it shows same behaviour with desktop initiated suspend and
> hibernate, "mem" suspend faile
On Fri, 20 May 2011 12:01:43 +0200
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On 11-05-20 at 10:22am, Neil Williams wrote:
> > Fly-by sponsoring is *not* helpful to Debian.
>
> I wholeheartedly agree.
>
> ...and non-fly-by sponsoring is what I instead call teamwork:
>
> Personally I don't do sponsoring, but in
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 01:56:12PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> I received a request to add insmod.static to the module-init-tools
> package, but I do not really like either solution.
> Does anybody have an opinion about this?
Don't. There exists a klibc linked insmod that needs < 100k for the
bin
On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 14:44 +0700, Arief M Utama wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
>
>
> On 05/19/2011 08:36 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 13:53 +0700, Arief M Utama wrote:
> >> Latest try with only pm-utils package, I can do hibernate and resume
> >> just fine, but suspend and resume does
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 13:28 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Julian Andres Klode writes ("Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on
> ${shlibs:Depends}"):
> > So we'd need one supporter now to speak up in order to get a neutral
> > level again.
>
> The purpose of the policy rule asking for consensus her
I received a request to add insmod.static to the module-init-tools
package, but I do not really like either solution.
Does anybody have an opinion about this?
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On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 11:15 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:55, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
> wrote:
> > It was kind because the info was offered, but it was unkind because the
> > guy was ridiculed.
>
> you should stop speculating what others want to say (in and between
> the li
Le Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:23:42AM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit :
>
> Help out with the debexpo project which aims to refresh the
> mentors.d.n code and implement some of the ideas generated a while ago
> that could be used to streamline the flow of packages into Debian.
Dear Paul and everybody,
in
On 11-05-20 at 10:22am, Neil Williams wrote:
> Fly-by sponsoring is *not* helpful to Debian.
I wholeheartedly agree.
...and non-fly-by sponsoring is what I instead call teamwork:
Personally I don't do sponsoring, but instead encourage teamwork.
And just as importantly: I insist on _calling_ it
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[Arno Töll, 2011-05-20]
> I know and I provided everyone willing to sponsor me a comprehensive
> change log where I explain what I did and why, altogether with a diff
> outlining all changes when compared to the previous version.
good, let me know when you will need an upload of something Python
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On 20.05.2011 11:10, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
> Did you ask your previous sponsor first? When I see a package I
> sponsored on mentors again - I ignore it (if sponsoree is not happy with
> my "service", he/she is free to try someone else after all).
Yes
On Fri, 20 May 2011 10:40:09 +0200
Arno Töll wrote:
> while I largely agree with the all other things you mentioned, I have
> one thing to add here:
>
> On 20.05.2011 04:23, Paul Wise wrote:
> > Chose a specific person to mentor, review their packages, educate them
> > about Debian, upload their
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:55, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> It was kind because the info was offered, but it was unkind because the
> guy was ridiculed.
you should stop speculating what others want to say (in and between
the lines) , since you're wrong.
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[Arno Töll, 2011-05-20]
> So from my experience, in reality you need to seek a new sponsor for
> every upload you want to get into the archive and this takes a lot of
> time and patience. For example I'm currently waiting and seeking since
> over a month to get a RC bug fix and upstream update into
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> I was working on nbd-server upstream, and so had ran ./configure with
> CFLAGS='-Wall -Werror', which I consider good practice when writing C
> code.
>
> What I didn't notice immediately was that gcc was emitting some
> warnings, but that the -Werror option was not honore
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 21:51 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:39:11PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 13:00, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
> > wrote:
> > > You are sharing good info, but you could have been more kind.
>
> I guess Tshepang meant "kind" =
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Hi Paul,
while I largely agree with the all other things you mentioned, I have
one thing to add here:
On 20.05.2011 04:23, Paul Wise wrote:
> Chose a specific person to mentor, review their packages, educate them
> about Debian, upload their packages
Hi Ben,
On 05/19/2011 08:36 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 13:53 +0700, Arief M Utama wrote:
Latest try with only pm-utils package, I can do hibernate and resume
just fine, but suspend and resume does not work, suspend ok, resume fail.
Suspend and resume are normally handled
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