2012/3/18 Thomas Goirand :
> On 03/18/2012 08:53 AM, Romain Beauxis wrote:
>> It's a cliche comparison but still, CSS decryption is the knife and
>> DMCA is the murder; the fact that murder is illegal does not imply
>> that knives are.
>>
> Well, the whole concept of DMCA is to make knives illegal!
(sorry for the double posting,.. my MUA crashed in between)
One addition immediately which is however not directly related to the
discussion.
I stumbled across those issues when I spent some thoughts on the
check_apt test from Nagios.
I wanted a fully secure way to be notified when updates are
Hi.
I recently played with Nagios' check_apt script (more on that later) and
this brought my attention to the following issues.
As everyone knows, our packages/archives are in principle fully secured
("secure APT")... via signed Release files and hashsums on the other
files.
I personally have s
Andres Mejia writes:
> Note that Christian Marillat is a Debian Developer. He should be
> subscribed to this list.
There is no requirement that a Debian Developer be subscribed to
debian-devel, only debian-devel-announce.
If I were Christian and saw a thread in debian-devel, even assuming I was
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
> On Sunday, March 18, 2012 17:13:55, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On 12-03-18 at 04:48pm, Chris Knadle wrote:
>> > On Sunday, March 18, 2012 13:23:13, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> > > On 03/18/2012 09:50 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
>> > > > Some public d
On Sunday, March 18, 2012 17:13:55, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On 12-03-18 at 04:48pm, Chris Knadle wrote:
> > On Sunday, March 18, 2012 13:23:13, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > > On 03/18/2012 09:50 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
> > > > Some public discussion with the repository maintainer about this
> > > >
On 12-03-18 at 04:48pm, Chris Knadle wrote:
> On Sunday, March 18, 2012 13:23:13, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > On 03/18/2012 09:50 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
> > > Some public discussion with the repository maintainer about this
> > > might be warranted. Such would be worhwhile even if the outcome
> >
On Sunday, March 18, 2012 13:23:13, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 03/18/2012 09:50 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
> > Some public discussion with the repository maintainer about this might be
> > warranted. Such would be worhwhile even if the outcome is not what is
> > desired, because at least then there w
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:16:06AM -0500, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
wrote:
> Hi, I like dselect, dpkg, and aptitude. I have a request. aptitude should
> import and export
>
> /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> At least when asked. Right now aptitude takes awkwardly and but doesn't gi
On 03/18/2012 09:50 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
> Some public discussion with the repository maintainer about this might be
> warranted. Such would be worhwhile even if the outcome is not what is
> desired, because at least then there will be a public record of where d-m.o
> and d.o stand.
>
deb
TL;DR: aptitude does keep dpkg/status and apt/extended_states
up-to-date with the *current* state of a package, just like other
software. Please do not grok pkgstates to determine if something is
installed, etc.
On 18 March 2012 23:16, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
wrote:
> Hi, I like ds
Hi, I like dselect, dpkg, and aptitude. I have a request. aptitude should
import and export
/var/lib/dpkg/status
At least when asked. Right now aptitude takes awkwardly and but doesn't give
back.
It's not just private selections. Private methods and worse pivate status make other
Your message dated Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:17:09 +
with message-id
and subject line Accepted lintian4python 0+20120317 (source all)
has caused the Debian Bug report #664019,
regarding ITP: lintian4python -- Debian package checker (for Python packages)
to be marked as done.
This means that you cla
Hi,
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 09:35:39 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I'll be uploading dpkg 1.16.2 targeting unstable, by the end of
> this weekend or beginning of next week the latest (after some final
> polishing).
Unfortunately I found some issues with the selection handling and with
dselect and t
Hello
I don't know a to maintain a package, and I would be interested to
maintain a package I use every day.
First I need to learn how to maintain an easy package. But I don't know
how to find one.
Question
***
Is it possible to sort (and find) packages by the difficulty of its
mai
On Sunday, March 18, 2012 04:51:10, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Chris Knadle writes:
> >> On Saturday, March 17, 2012 21:53:18, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >>> Hence the Debian patent policy.
> >>>
> >>> We can't just ignore things like this, nor
On 03/18/2012 08:53 AM, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> It's a cliche comparison but still, CSS decryption is the knife and
> DMCA is the murder; the fact that murder is illegal does not imply
> that knives are.
>
Well, the whole concept of DMCA is to make knives illegal!
Please read a bit more about it
]] Thomas Goirand
> I'd like people to think twice before opt-in for systemd. I just
> taked with a friend working for redhat, and he told me how much
> he hates it. He told me that if *anything* goes wrong in the boot
> process, then basically, you're stuck, because the next thing will
> be wait
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Chris Knadle writes:
>> On Saturday, March 17, 2012 21:53:18, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
>>> Hence the Debian patent policy.
>
>>> We can't just ignore things like this, nor is it responsible use of
>>> project resources to openly flaunt disobedie
On 18/03/2012 02:24, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
Which distro provides Blu-Ray playback?
Even though there is libaacs and friends now... the MKBs are only
publicly known till version ... what? ... 10?
As long as it remains free of charge and available, you can package
makemkv in non-f
Le dimanche 18 mars 2012 à 00:35 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit :
> I just had a look, and no, that's not what metainit does.
> What it does is *generating* an init.d script, using the
> metainit syntax as input. IMO, just a normal shell script
> tiny library to simplify our init.d scripts would be
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