On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:37:27PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 10/17/2014 04:34 AM, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > So debconf needs to read configuration files, but it doesn't know how to
> > parse them. So it does the only thing it can: it uses its cache. Which
> > means that each and every package
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> maintenance of them, like for example moving a directive from one
> section to another (when this happens upstream).
Sounds like you want one of these:
Config::Model based config file upgrades:
https://wiki.debian.org/PackageConfigUpgrad
On 10/17/2014 04:34 AM, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> So debconf needs to read configuration files, but it doesn't know how to
> parse them. So it does the only thing it can: it uses its cache. Which
> means that each and every package that uses debconf must make sure that
> they read the configuration fil
Package: wnpp
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The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.
Total number of orphaned packages: 611 (new: 3)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 141 (new: 3)
Total number of packages request
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Martin Read wrote:
> On 15/10/14 23:01, Adam Borowski wrote:
>>
>> shim doesn't appear to work, at least for me. To get basic functionality
>> like shutdown from GUI, suspend or mounting USB drives, I needed to
>> downgrade the whole Utopia stack to their last wor
Hi Bas,
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 08:27:37PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> Ok. Is it supposed to be possible to install more than one blend
> simultaneously? Is that technically prevented with Conflicts?
Not at all. I have not tested but I would bet that you can install all
existing metapackages of
As I wrote in the blend thread, reading through bug #311188 raised some
new questions for me about this one.
I will start by explaining the original problem again; it seemed to me
that it wasn't understood by everyone. Then I'll add some new thoughts
based on that bug. Finally, I present some co
Hi!
I sent the attached message to debian-release, but I was told to ask in
debian-devel.
So here is the mail.
Shade and sweet water!
Stephan
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On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 20:36 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 05:35:09PM +0100, Martin Read wrote:
> > mormegil@cocytus:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00dontbeanidiot
> > Aptitude::ProblemResolver {
> > SolutionCost "priority, removals, canceled-actions";
> > }
>
> That looks very use
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 05:35:09PM +0100, Martin Read wrote:
> mormegil@cocytus:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00dontbeanidiot
> Aptitude::ProblemResolver {
> SolutionCost "priority, removals, canceled-actions";
> }
That looks very useful, thanks!
Bas
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 08:47:19AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Would this use case also be a reason for creating a personal blend? Or
> > even an official one?
>
> Jonas has answered this question. I'd like to add that I'm no fan of
> "personal" things since you spoil the idea of for
Package: wnpp
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Hi,
I request an adopter for the adns package.
The package description is:
adns is a resolver library for C (and C++) programs. In contrast with the
existing interfaces, gethostbyname et al and libresolv, it can be used in
an asynchronous, non-blocking manner. M
2014-10-15 15:02 Ian Jackson:
Many of our lookup interfaces don't give out a clear indication of the
status of the person you are looking up. Eg db.debian.org contains
DMs and DDs and the public lookup doesn't distinguish.
www.debian.org/devel/people lists maintainers, DMs and DDs without
distin
On 16/10/14 12:20, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
Apitude, too, *really* likes to choose 500 deletions rather than upgrading
even a single package to a version with slightly-lower priority (as defined
in /etc/apt/pref*), but at least you can tell it to try harder. :-/
I got sick of "remove half the pl
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On Oct 16, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > | If one of the members of the tech ctte considers that we should
> > | either overwrite the udev-maintainer or move printf to /bin, we
> The coreutils maintainer may still decide to do just that.
> That’s what would help the most.
In a few years, when /{bi
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:29:11AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lee:
> > I'm sure we could find quite a few supporters for having a GR amongst
> > the users (here).
>
> We don't do a GR among our users. We do that among Debian
> members/maintainers/developers/take-your-pick.
>
> Of t
On 2014-10-16 10:23, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
The mails to the @buildd addresses are of course private to those
behind the
list, so the peanut gallery on -devel can't see what tg wrote nor judge
for
ourselves whether it was whiny or not, but characterising it as such
here is
not helpful. TG's ma
On 2014-10-16 10:10, Andreas Barth wrote:
Wrong again, I dist-upgraded the chroots and gave back the package.
But as before, facts are difficult.
FWIW, you did not update neither the d-d nor the buildd.d.o thread about
that. Which means that the other people think that it's still open.
Kind
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Ian Jackson wrote:
> | If one of the members of the tech ctte considers that we should
> | either overwrite the udev-maintainer or move printf to /bin, we
The coreutils maintainer may still decide to do just that.
That’s what would help the most.
bye,
//mirabilos
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Thorsten Glaser writes ("Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)"):
> I’d rather prefer to see this resolved by getting #428189 fixed.
Clearly you would, but #428189 (moving coreutils printf to /bin) was
also implicitly rejected by the TC in its decision on #539158. The
question of w
Lars Wirzenius writes ("Re: Bug#765512: general: distrust old crypto algos and
protocols perdefault"):
> Merely defending one's opinions is a recipe for long threads. A good,
> productive discussion about Debian development requires understanding
> other people's arguments, evaluating one's own po
Hi,
Florian Lohoff:
> is it intentional that gnome is removed when systemd is replaced by
> sysvinit-core?
Please always retry this kind of thing with aptitude, and try to let it
choose alternate resolutions to the dependency chains.
Apitude, too, *really* likes to choose 500 deletions rather t
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:47:41PM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >but it seems there is some dependency in jessie which makes gnome
> >unavailable
> >without systemd.
>
> It is there because upstream requires it. There is no GNOME without systemd.
> This is not specific to Debian.
*örg
On 16/10/14 12:47, Dominik George wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> but it seems there is some dependency in jessie which makes gnome
>> unavailable
>> without systemd.
>
> It is there because upstream requires it. There is no GNOME without systemd.
> This is not specific to Debian.
No, that's wrong.
$ sudo a
Hi,
>but it seems there is some dependency in jessie which makes gnome
>unavailable
>without systemd.
It is there because upstream requires it. There is no GNOME without systemd.
This is not specific to Debian.
-nik
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On 15/10/14 23:01, Adam Borowski wrote:
shim doesn't appear to work, at least for me. To get basic functionality
like shutdown from GUI, suspend or mounting USB drives, I needed to
downgrade the whole Utopia stack to their last working versions.
Out of interest, what's the bug number?
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Hi,
is it intentional that gnome is removed when systemd is replaced by
sysvinit-core?
an
apt-get install sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils
on a fresh jessie removed most of the gnome desktop.
I dont want systemd and i'd like to remove as much of the blob as possible. I
thought
systemd-sh
Hi Christoph,
thanks for closing this bug again!
:-)
cheers,
Holger
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Quoting Andreas Tille (2014-10-16 08:47:19)
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 07:49:32PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote:
>> On occasion, I've needed a single-use system; something that boots up
>> into an application and that shuts down when that application exits.
>> (Having the full power of Debian in the bac
On Wed, 2014-10-15 at 23:36 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Actually, the problem is indeed in policy. In its resolution of
> #539158 the TC decided unanimously (but unfortunately slightly
> implicitly) that printf ought to be provided by our /bin/sh.
>
> Unfortunately the policy has not been properly
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > > But it’s now resolved, thanks Philipp!
> >
> > Wrong again, I dist-upgraded the chroots and gave back the package.
> > But as before, facts are difficult.
>
> Likewise, you could have pointed this out without being quite so condecending.
Uhm ye
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:10:46AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> You didn't ask a wider audience, you whined to one, and that on
> something totally unrelated to the thing you really wanted.
The mails to the @buildd addresses are of course private to those behind the
list, so the peanut gallery on
* Thorsten Glaser (t.gla...@tarent.de) [141016 09:39]:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Andreas Barth wrote:
>
> > Buildd administration — @buildd.debian.org
> > lists a couple of people. And also a working mail address. Contacting
> > people via a role account is always prefered.
>
> Yeah, that’s whom I
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> I see it a bit differently:
> RC4 is broken. Full stop.
> Therefore new versions clients and servers should per default not
> use/enable/accept it.
Sorry, but I *have* to nitpick here.
RC4 as used by SSL is mostly broken. (A server could res
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Actually, the problem is indeed in policy. In its resolution of
> #539158 the TC decided unanimously (but unfortunately slightly
> implicitly) that printf ought to be provided by our /bin/sh.
Somewhat.
> As the maintainer of a minority shell, Thorsten h
Package: wnpp
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Andreas Barth wrote:
> Buildd administration — @buildd.debian.org
> lists a couple of people. And also a working mail address. Contacting
> people via a role account is always prefered.
Yeah, that’s whom I contacted first, on Friday. It was just not
getting any sort of respo
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