Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Josh Triplett
Russ Allbery wrote: > Josh Triplett writes: > > That looks really promising. What would it take to get the default > > /etc/issue changed to include all the necessary information to make the > > current dynamic motd obsolete? > > ssh support for /etc/issue escapes, which seems incredibly unlikel

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Josh Triplett writes: > That looks really promising. What would it take to get the default > /etc/issue changed to include all the necessary information to make the > current dynamic motd obsolete? ssh support for /etc/issue escapes, which seems incredibly unlikely. I certainly wouldn't want t

Bug#776182: ITP: vncterm -- Export virtual console sessions to any VNC client.

2015-01-24 Thread Peter Spiess-Knafl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Peter Spiess-Knafl" * Package name: vncterm Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Johannes E. Schindelin, Christian Beier * URL : https://github.com/LibVNC/vncterm * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Expo

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Josh Triplett
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > Modern agetty allows escapes in /etc/issue (see section ISSUE ESCAPES > in agetty(8)) to insert values directly from uname(2) and /usr/lib/os-release. > It should be plenty enough for the common case of displaying > the distribution name and kernel version. Some

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:56:33AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > > I'm also no longer convinced, that running a huge shell machinery (as > > root) during login via PAM is a good idea. > > Agreed. > > > If we go the update-motd route, I'd like to see the update-motd calls be

Bug#776178: ITP: python-xcffib -- A drop in replacement for xpyb

2015-01-24 Thread Tycho Andersen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tycho Andersen * Package name: python-xcffib Version : 0.1.10 Upstream Author : Tycho Andersen * URL : https://github.com/tych0/xcffib * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : A drop in repla

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Riley Baird writes: > Sort of off topic, but as far as I can tell, the historical purpose of > MOTD was to send a message to all users of a system. Is it still used > for this? Yes. Stanford used, and presumably still uses, this pretty regularly for head nodes of compute environments to alert u

Re: new pre-dependency: perl{,-base,-modules} -> dpkg (>= 1.17.17)

2015-01-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Niko Tyni writes ("Re: new pre-dependency: perl{,-base,-modules} -> dpkg (>= 1.17.17)"): > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:15:04AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I've not looked into the details yet, but just to comment that there's > > been talk about possibly reverting that fix, because in some erro

Re: Prevent #568008 from being archived

2015-01-24 Thread Don Armstrong
found 568008 linux-2.6/3.1.8-2 found 568008 linux-2.6/3.0.0-3 found 568008 linux-2.6/2.6.32-5 fixed 568008 linux/3.2.21-1 found 568008 linux/3.16.0-4 submitter 568008 Patrick Häcker thanks On Sat, 24 Jan 2015, Patrick Häcker wrote: > I could not find the reason why #568008 got archived again. Cou

Re: Prevent #568008 from being archived

2015-01-24 Thread Patrick Häcker
On Saturday, 24. January 2015, 17:00:05 Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > I did not read that bug report, but usually maintainers prefer to have > a new bug report (with a reference to the old bug) in the case of > regression. Ok, thanks a lot for the tips. I will do this next time. Patrick signature.a

Re: Prevent #568008 from being archived

2015-01-24 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Patrick Häcker wrote: > > I could not find the reason why #568008 got archived again. Could someone > please tell me what I have to do to avoid having it automatically archived in > its current state? > Or was it a mistake to reopen a bug when I assume there is a r

Prevent #568008 from being archived

2015-01-24 Thread Patrick Häcker
Hi, I could not find the reason why #568008 got archived again. Could someone please tell me what I have to do to avoid having it automatically archived in its current state? Or was it a mistake to reopen a bug when I assume there is a regression? Thanks in advance for enlighten me. Kind regar