Re: default MTA

2013-06-11 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 12/06/13 00:02, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2013-06-11 23:50:01 +0200 (+0200), Daniel Pocock wrote: >> Something that doesn't have these limitations: >> >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2487#section-7 > [...] > > That basically just makes the case for relying on (E)SMTP only for > transporting

Re: default MTA

2013-06-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 11-06-13 18:37, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 12:45:07PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> Sendmail has just one more layer of indirection by virtue of the m4 >> macros. Postfix has most of its behavior hard coded in the C sources, >> while exim's behavior can be controlled by run-

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-06-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 10-06-13 18:36, Ian Jackson wrote: > B. resolv.conf is not static and may change due to network >environment changes. > Implications: > 1. All existing DNS applications must be modified to notice >changes to resolv.conf. > 2. Corollary: all existing DNS resolver libraries

Re: x32 “half” arrived… now what?

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:36:48PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 21:04 +0100, Roger Lynn wrote: > > On 06/06/13 21:10, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:58:00AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Be aware that x32 has sizeof(time_t) > sizeof(long), so you sh

Re: Re: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-11 Thread Tobias Hansen
Am 10.06.2013 11:10, schrieb Josselin Mouette: > What is new is that PackageKit asks for a system update *systematically* > when it finds the system is not up-to-date. I don’t know why, but it > seems to have started with the wheezy release, it did not happen during > the freeze. When I first got

Re: default MTA

2013-06-11 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-06-11 23:50:01 +0200 (+0200), Daniel Pocock wrote: > Something that doesn't have these limitations: > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2487#section-7 [...] That basically just makes the case for relying on (E)SMTP only for transporting messages, but leveraging OpenPGP or S/MIME to provide

Re: default MTA

2013-06-11 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 11/06/13 22:56, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2013-06-12 02:09:24 +0800 (+0800), Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 08:01:58PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: >>> >>> What about replacing SMTP? >> >> With what? > > With ESMTP, of course! Something that doesn't have these limitations:

Re: x32 “half” arrived… now what?

2013-06-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 21:04 +0100, Roger Lynn wrote: > On 06/06/13 21:10, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:58:00AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> Be aware that x32 has sizeof(time_t) > sizeof(long), so you should expect > >> SUBSTANTIAL porting of packages to be required. Parti

Re: default MTA

2013-06-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Jonathan Dowland [130611 18:35]: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 12:45:07PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > Sendmail has just one more layer of indirection by virtue of the m4 > > macros. Postfix has most of its behavior hard coded in the C sources, > > while exim's behavior can be controlled by run-time

Re: default MTA

2013-06-11 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-06-12 02:09:24 +0800 (+0800), Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 08:01:58PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > > What about replacing SMTP? > > With what? With ESMTP, of course! -- { PGP( 48F9961143495829 ); FINGER( fu...@cthulhu.yuggoth.org ); WWW( http://fungi.yuggoth.org/

Re: x32 “half” arrived… now what?

2013-06-11 Thread Roger Lynn
On 06/06/13 21:10, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:58:00AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Be aware that x32 has sizeof(time_t) > sizeof(long), so you should expect >> SUBSTANTIAL porting of packages to be required. Particularly since that >> arrangement is explicitly unsupported b

Bug#711993: ITP: python-dotconf -- Python library to parse configuration files

2013-06-11 Thread Antoine Millet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antoine Millet * Package name: python-dotconf Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : Antoine Millet * URL : https://github.com/NaPs/Dotconf * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Python library to parse

Re: default MTA

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 08:01:58PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > On 28/05/13 03:02, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > Now that we are done with systemd for the time being, can we have the > > flame war about replacing Exim with Postfix as the default MTA? > > > > Are there any objections other than "

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:38:52AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > [...] > Not for what he's described. dig @$other_server would still work just fine, > you would merely have /etc/resolv.conf pointing at 127.0.0.1 and have the > *kernel* handle the DNS forwarding instead of using dnsmasq or another

Re: default MTA

2013-06-11 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 28/05/13 03:02, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Now that we are done with systemd for the time being, can we have the > flame war about replacing Exim with Postfix as the default MTA? > > Are there any objections other than "but I like it this way!"? > What about replacing SMTP? -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-06-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 09:39:40AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > Shuffled the quotes: > > > The difficulty with plan A is probably B4. Do we have a suitable > > > minimal proxy we can install, a way to reconfigure it based on dhcp > > > etc., and a means to displace it when something more subst

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-11 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Ondřej, Ondřej Surý writes: > and if I match this with the table at: > http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-dependencies.html I get > the result that you will _not_ compile systemd with: > > libselinux.so > libpam.so > libwrap.so > libaudit.so > libkmod.so > > because they are mar

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 11:10:38AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Since you repeat this claim: over the last year and a bit, systemd has > seen 21 releases. I agree this is quite a lot, but it's hardly twice a > week. The number of Linux releases over the samer period is only about half that, w

Re: default MTA

2013-06-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 12:45:07PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Sendmail has just one more layer of indirection by virtue of the m4 > macros. Postfix has most of its behavior hard coded in the C sources, > while exim's behavior can be controlled by run-time configuration if > an advanced user wants t

Re: Bug severity and private data disclosure

2013-06-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 08:10:22PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > Life for the maintainer or for the user? Well, the severity of a bug, from a user POV, makes no guarantee on how serious the maintainer takes it, nor whether they will actually fix it. Admittely some users get comfort from being

Re: Bug#711570: ITP: libsdl2-mixer -- Mixer library for SDL2

2013-06-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
At some point in the recent past the SDL team was effectively dead and the games team took over maintenance. ISTR sponsoring at least one upload of an SDL component during that time. However, it's possible that the SDL time was revived since. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Re: Bug#711570: ITP: libsdl2-mixer -- Mixer library for SDL2

2013-06-11 Thread Barry deFreese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/11/2013 11:56 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 07:04:30AM -0400, Stephen M. Webb wrote: >>> Normally you would keep the old version's changelog. But even if you don't, >>> there's no need >>> for an ITP in cases like this,

Re: Bug#711570: ITP: libsdl2-mixer -- Mixer library for SDL2

2013-06-11 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 07:04:30AM -0400, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > > Normally you would keep the old version's changelog. But even if you don't, > > there's no need for an ITP in cases like this, or when part of a package > > starts > > to be shipped from a different source upstream. It's like ope

Re: x32 “half”arrived… now what?

2013-06-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Daniel Schepler gmail.com> writes: > (Sorry about the lack of threading... for some reason I'm unable to find the > links to download mbox archives for replying to the messages.) https://www.mirbsd.org/cvs.cgi/contrib/hosted/tg/getarticle?rev=HEAD Just call that with either the Message-ID sans

Re: About Re-Distribution

2013-06-11 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 10.06.2013 14:13, schrieb Shivam Pandya: > Hello sir/ Ma'm > > I'm Shivam Pandya, and study in my last year, I want to develop a OS > in my final year project, I found debian from wiki, Can you help me > out from this. can you please guide me that how could I develop (re > distr

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-06-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Ian Jackson chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > B. resolv.conf is not static and may change due to network >environment changes. > Implications: > 1. All existing DNS applications must be modified to notice >changes to resolv.conf. OpenBSD implements that: http://www.openbsd.o

Re: Why not to let all DDs to execute "gb"-command

2013-06-11 Thread Wookey
+++ Matthias Klumpp [2013-06-07 23:50 +0200]: > 2013/6/7 Tollef Fog Heen : > > ]] Nicolas Dandrimont > > > >> The "accepted by DSA part" is a bit complicated. We didn't really want to > >> bother one of the busiest teams in Debian when the software wasn't even > >> packaged, and, when it came up, I

Re: Bug#711570: ITP: libsdl2-mixer -- Mixer library for SDL2

2013-06-11 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 06/11/2013 04:34 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > Normally you would keep the old version's changelog. But even if you don't, > there's no need for an ITP in cases like this, or when part of a package > starts > to be shipped from a different source upstream. It's like opening an ITP for

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ondřej Surý > Tollef, it is still unclear to me as well. Ok, I'll try to be clearer then. > You said: > > > I'd like to align with upstream here (and in general): If upstream says > > a component is optional, that's a configuration I'd in general want to > > support. If upstream says a com

Re: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:22:32AM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > [...] > I've also seen another laptop that is on the fringe of a wifi coverage > zone getting into a bad state where multiple copies of the wifi password > window appear - if the laptop is unattended for a few hours, you can > come ba

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-11 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Thomas Goirand > > > If what you say above is right (I have no opinion on that yet, I just > > trust what you say), then this renders the "systemd is modular" argument > > completely useless, because practically, the user wont be able

Re: Why not to let all DDs to execute "gb"-command

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:10:53AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Chow Loong Jin (11/06/2013): > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:29:33AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > I said random, not deterministic. Giving back until a certain test > > > succeeds, for instance. Because some bad code triggers a

Re: Why not to let all DDs to execute "gb"-command

2013-06-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Chow Loong Jin (11/06/2013): > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:29:33AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > I said random, not deterministic. Giving back until a certain test > > succeeds, for instance. Because some bad code triggers a segfault > > on almost every try except that it sometimes works. > > Tha

Re: Why not to let all DDs to execute "gb"-command

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:29:33AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Chow, > > am Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 09:15:48AM +0800 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:56:24PM +0200, Anton Gladky wrote: > > > > So, I think the developer should have a set of tools (including gb and > > >

Re: Bug#711570: ITP: libsdl2-mixer -- Mixer library for SDL2

2013-06-11 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 11/06/13 03:27, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:31:07PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:17:26PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > * Package name: libsdl2-mixer Isn't this packaged already? You don't need to file WNPP bu

Re: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-11 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 11/06/13 01:11, Michael Banck wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 09:24:39PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> Every copy of jessie could be distributed with one of the red hoods >> referred to in this article: >> >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistle

Re: Why not to let all DDs to execute "gb"-command

2013-06-11 Thread Philipp Kern
Chow, am Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 09:15:48AM +0800 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:56:24PM +0200, Anton Gladky wrote: > > > So, I think the developer should have a set of tools (including gb and > > > even "slight" removal commands), which allow him to do the most of > >

Re: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-11 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 11/06/13 00:37, Jens Roder wrote: > Hello, > > just like to add that today this "feature" with the popup blocked my gnome > within the suspend procedure, which I did not see but got a hot running > laptop in the bag. When I opened the laptop again I saw the problem and when > clicking on canc