Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 05:29:20PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > The following SHOULD be 0, 1, and 2 levels of quoting, first to last. > > It was for me (Maildir) Just rechecked, I'm wrong - the first line was quoted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Paul Gevers
On 29-11-12 01:43, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 19:55 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: >> So if I understand correctly, I now identified my e-mail provider as >> using mboxo? I indeed got 1, 1 and 2 levels of quoting. > Depends... were you using his webmail? Then probably yes...

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 16:06 -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Darren Salt writes: > > (Oops. Failed first time.) > > > > Having just viewed the raw text of my message (as sent), there's one other > > little wrinkle which I already knew but had failed to consider and which > > makes testing of this use

Re: Maildir vs. mbox in Debian

2012-11-28 Thread jidanni
I wouldn't put all my eggs in the same single file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87mwy1djt5@jidanni.org

Re: Maildir vs. mbox in Debian

2012-11-28 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Christoph Anton Mitterer writes: […] > But it also has disadvantages to the mbox formats which may be > crucial for some people: > - wasting a lot of storage, which can be significant even if you use > small file systems block sizes... Only as long as static mbox files are co

Bug#694682: ITP: pysiogame -- educational activity pack for kids

2012-11-28 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz * Package name: pysiogame Version : 0.4.0~beta Upstream Author : Ireneusz Imiolek * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pysiogame/ * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : educationa

Re: the right bug severity in case of mbox formats

2012-11-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 19:16 +, Simon McVittie wrote: > * There are certain messages which are losslessly representable in SMTP > without using MIME, but not losslessly representable in mboxo format > without using MIME; yes,... but of course MIME standards neither demand any quoted-printabl

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 16:32 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > So, what's the reason mbox is still the default in Debian? > Among other gains, data loss because of mboxo would be gone. Just posted some reasons[0] (but as I see now, some of them have already been named by others... But in general... I

Re: the right bug severity in case of mbox formats

2012-11-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 22:06 +, Darren Salt wrote: > It would make sense to have that enabled by default, and to ensure that all > software in Debian which produces MIME quoted-printable does this, or at > least can do this. I agree... but let me add a few notes: 1) Most programs I know of (at

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 19:55 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > So if I understand correctly, I now identified my e-mail provider as > using mboxo? I indeed got 1, 1 and 2 levels of quoting. Depends... were you using his webmail? Then probably yes... But it could have also been your local MUA (when you wer

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 16:01 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Even users of mboxo shouldn't even have a problem because in your > message the F of the "From " line is encoded in quoted-printable: > > | =46rom blahhityblah Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 > | >From foobarbaz Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 > | >>Fr

Re: Maildir vs. mbox in Debian

2012-11-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 14:32 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > # With the advent and now widespread adoption of the superior Maildir > > # format over the past several years, the entire "mbox" family of > > # mailbox formats is gradually becoming irrelevant, and of only > > # historical interest.

Re: the right bug severity in case of mbox formats

2012-11-28 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Jakub Wilk may or may not have written... > * Simon McVittie , 2012-11-28, 19:16: >> If you don't restrict yourself to avoiding MIME, any piece of text (or >> indeed any bytestring) becomes losslessly representable. In particular, >> MUAs supporting quoted-printable and/or Base64 c

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Nikolaus Rath may or may not have written... > Darren Salt writes: [snip] >> The following SHOULD be 0, 1, and 2 levels of quoting, first to last. >>>From blahhityblah Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 >>>From foobarbaz Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 From quux Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 > This

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 03:34:32PM +, Darren Salt wrote: > (Oops. Failed first time.) > > Having just viewed the raw text of my message (as sent), there's one other > little wrinkle which I already knew but had failed to consider and which > makes testing of this useless: gpg handles any 'From

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Darren Salt writes: > (Oops. Failed first time.) > > Having just viewed the raw text of my message (as sent), there's one other > little wrinkle which I already knew but had failed to consider and which > makes testing of this useless: gpg handles any 'From ' lines itself in a > reversible manner,

Bug#694666: ITP: python-pampy -- Python module for simple PAM authentications

2012-11-28 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel * Package name: python-pampy Version : 0.1.4 Upstream Author : Chris AtLee * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pam/0.1.4 * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Python module for simpl

Re: Really, about udev, not init systems

2012-11-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Bjørn Mork > Tollef Fog Heen writes: > > ]] Bjørn Mork > > > >> "The default 'configure' install locations have changed. Packages for > >>systems with the historic / vs. /usr split need to be adapted, > >>otherwise udev will be installed in /usr and not work > >>properly. Examp

Re: the right bug severity in case of mbox formats

2012-11-28 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Simon McVittie , 2012-11-28, 19:16: If you don't restrict yourself to avoiding MIME, any piece of text (or indeed any bytestring) becomes losslessly representable. In particular, MUAs supporting quoted-printable and/or Base64 can avoid sending messages matching /^From / by using MIME and quot

Re: the right bug severity in case of mbox formats

2012-11-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On 28/11/12 15:34, Darren Salt wrote: > Having just viewed the raw text of my message (as sent), there's one other > little wrinkle which I already knew but had failed to consider and which > makes testing of this useless: gpg handles any 'From ' lines itself in a > reversible manner, using '- ' as

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Paul Gevers
> The following SHOULD be 0, 1, and 2 levels of quoting, first to last. > >>From blahhityblah Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 >>From foobarbaz Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 >> >From quux Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 So if I understand correctly, I now identified my e-mail provider as using mboxo? I indeed got 1,

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/29/2012 01:33 AM, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:15:55AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> I actually don't really take it very seriously, it just helps >> to waiting while things are building ... :) >> I actually agree it's pointless (because it's very unlikely >> that there

Re: Really, about udev, not init systems

2012-11-28 Thread Bjørn Mork
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > ]] Bjørn Mork > >> "The default 'configure' install locations have changed. Packages for >>systems with the historic / vs. /usr split need to be adapted, >>otherwise udev will be installed in /usr and not work >>properly. Example configuration options to in

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Jon Dowland , 2012-11-28, 17:29: Having just viewed the raw text of my message (as sent), there's one other little wrinkle which I already knew but had failed to consider and which makes testing of this useless: gpg handles any 'From ' lines itself in a reversible manner, using '- ' as the pr

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:15:55AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I actually don't really take it very seriously, it just helps > to waiting while things are building ... :) > I actually agree it's pointless (because it's very unlikely > that there will be any outcome), but I also find it fun. I'm

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 03:34:32PM +, Darren Salt wrote: > Having just viewed the raw text of my message (as sent), there's one other > little wrinkle which I already knew but had failed to consider and which > makes testing of this useless: gpg handles any 'From ' lines itself in a > reversibl

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread Jon Dowland
I had a half-drafted message to the same effect, but deleted it earlier. Thanks Neil for speaking up. I have to say Thomas, many recent messages from you across many threads, mostly on -devel but also elsewhere, have seemed to have very little in the way of polite, constructive content, advancing t

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/28/2012 11:55 PM, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:28:57PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> It is truth that there's a general movement inside RedHat to fuck-up >> everything. You are right, I should have mention that more clearly : >> it's not only about Lennart and systemd g

Re: Really, about udev, not init systems

2012-11-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Bjørn Mork > "The default 'configure' install locations have changed. Packages for >systems with the historic / vs. /usr split need to be adapted, >otherwise udev will be installed in /usr and not work >properly. Example configuration options to install things the >traditiona

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:28:57PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > It is truth that there's a general movement inside RedHat to fuck-up > everything. You are right, I should have mention that more clearly : > it's not only about Lennart and systemd guys, and I should take the > blame for not highlig

Bug#694637: ITP: gildas -- Radioastronomy data analysis software

2012-11-28 Thread Sebastien Maret
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastien Maret * Package name: gildas Version : 201211c Upstream Author : The gildas programmer team * URL : http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/GILDAS/gildas.html * License : No problem Bugroff Programming Lang: C, Fortran, Py

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Darren Salt
(Oops. Failed first time.) Having just viewed the raw text of my message (as sent), there's one other little wrinkle which I already knew but had failed to consider and which makes testing of this useless: gpg handles any 'From ' lines itself in a reversible manner, using '- ' as the prefix. The

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/28/2012 07:17 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >>> However, it's the opinion of the systemd >>> primary upstream authors that having /usr on a separate fs is a bad idea >>> since there are tools that (primarily) some udev rules use,

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Darren Salt
Having just viewed the raw text of my message (as sent), there's one other little wrinkle which I already knew but had failed to consider and which makes testing of this useless – gpg handles any â€ÿóÿýFrom ” lines itself in a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Really, about udev, not init systems

2012-11-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/28/2012 08:46 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Yes, the Debian package is OK and I assume it will continue to be. But > I believe Thomas was referring to the recently (udev 176) changed > upstream default. See e.g. > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/udev.html : > > "udev configura

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Darren Salt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I demand that Vincent Lefevre may or may not have written... > On 2012-11-28 11:47:38 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: >> Let's give it a test, this mail should be signed: >> From blahhityblah Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 >>>From foobarbaz Fri Jul 8 12:08:34

Re: Really, about udev, not init systems

2012-11-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/28/2012 07:16 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Thomas Goirand (28/11/2012): >> That's not truth anymore, since AFAIK rules of udev moved to /usr. > May I suggest some fact checking? Try “dpkg -L udev” for a start. > > Rules moved from /etc to /lib. Not to /usr. Woops, my memory is failing. Thank

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-11-28 11:47:38 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > Let's give it a test, this mail should be signed: > > From blahhityblah Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 > >From foobarbaz Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 > >>From quux Fri Jul 8 12:08:34 2011 > > If the signature is invalid, your setup is broken. Even user

Re: Really, about udev, not init systems

2012-11-28 Thread Bjørn Mork
Cyril Brulebois writes: > Thomas Goirand (28/11/2012): >> That's not truth anymore, since AFAIK rules of udev moved to /usr. > > May I suggest some fact checking? Try “dpkg -L udev” for a start. Yes, the Debian package is OK and I assume it will continue to be. But I believe Thomas was referrin

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> However, it's the opinion of the systemd >> primary upstream authors that having /usr on a separate fs is a bad idea >> since there are tools that (primarily) some udev rules use, which live >> on /usr. > Yeah, we all so his marvelous example

Re: Really, about udev, not init systems

2012-11-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thomas Goirand (28/11/2012): > That's not truth anymore, since AFAIK rules of udev moved to /usr. May I suggest some fact checking? Try “dpkg -L udev” for a start. Rules moved from /etc to /lib. Not to /usr. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-11-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/28/2012 02:38 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > There is nothing in systemd's or udev's architecture that requires > having /usr mounted early. That's not truth anymore, since AFAIK rules of udev moved to /usr. > However, it's the opinion of the systemd > primary upstream authors that having /us

Re: the right bug severity in case of data corruption

2012-11-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 07:52:16AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Adam Borowski [121127 16:32]: > > So, what's the reason mbox is still the default in Debian? > > Because it works and causes the smallest amount of problems > given all the other changes. Like, locking issues, multiple ways to