Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Knadle
Paul Wise: > On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 1:32 PM Chris Knadle wrote: > >> A logical place to check or the lack of BIOS virtualization features and >> show an >> error message for this would be within the .postinst script for the >> virtualbox >> package in Debian. This way when Virtualbox is install

Re: Rust now available on 14 Debian architectures

2018-11-08 Thread Eddy Petrișor
În vin., 2 nov. 2018, 18:49 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de a scris: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi! > > This week we managed to bootstrap the Rust compiler for four more Debian > architectures [1]. This means, that the Rust compiler is now avai

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 1:32 PM Chris Knadle wrote: > A logical place to check or the lack of BIOS virtualization features and show > an > error message for this would be within the .postinst script for the virtualbox > package in Debian. This way when Virtualbox is installed the user installing

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Knadle
Juliusz Chroboczek: >> When discussing virtual machines it would be helpful to mention which virtual >> machine hypervisor is being used, because the resulting behavior can differ >> depending on hypervisor. > > It was VirtualBox under Windows. The underlying issue was that VT-x was > disabled in

Work-needing packages report for Nov 9, 2018

2018-11-08 Thread wnpp
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: 1310 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 163 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques

Re: Q: secure boot

2018-11-08 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On November 6, 2018 1:14:03 AM UTC, Paul Wise wrote: >So, really the only reason to support Secure Boot is to avoid users >having to turn Secure Boot off in their BIOS and avoid having to >document how to do that on every firmware implementation that is being >shipped on new hardware. I think i

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-08 Thread Tony Godshall
If VT-x is disabled, the virtual machine will be sluggish, so if it works, it'll be a bad experience. Don't do that. On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 11:04 AM Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > > When discussing virtual machines it would be helpful to mention which > > virtual > > machine hypervisor is being

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-08 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> When discussing virtual machines it would be helpful to mention which virtual > machine hypervisor is being used, because the resulting behavior can differ > depending on hypervisor. It was VirtualBox under Windows. The underlying issue was that VT-x was disabled in the BIOS, and hence VirtualB

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-08 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> I've been encouraging my students to install Debian on their personal >> machines, and we've found out that a lot of them get the wrong Debian >> installer: >> >> - some of them attempt to install an AMD64 version of Debian in >> a 32-bit-only virtual machine; > Why are they creating 32-bit vi

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-08 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> This is not what I get. > - 32bit debian on 64bit machine: this should be working fine > - 64bit debian on 32bit machine: I get the attached message > If it's not what they get, there is some bug and more investigation is > needed. I no longer have access to their machines, so I'm unfortunatel

Re: Uncoordinated upload of the rustified librsvg

2018-11-08 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Seth Arnold schrieb: > It doesn't help that the distributions in general want to support Firefox > on more platforms than the Rust team supports as tier-1 platforms. A > constant cadence of updates every six weeks is faster than anything else > excepting the Linux kernel. It's a lot of work. Why

Re: Uncoordinated upload of the rustified librsvg

2018-11-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 03:12:38PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 08:39:30AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 06:45:14PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > It doesn't help that the distributions in general want to support Firefox > on more platforms than the Rust

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-08 Thread Alex Muntada
Hi Jacob, > Ideally we’d change the default notification settings in Salsa > to always send emails but that won’t work because then all DDs > would get emails about all the merge requests in the Debian > group. I was wondering whether the following setup could work to have notifications enabled b

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-08 Thread Alex Muntada
Hi Matthew, > Relatedly, what's the etiquette about commits to master? I > recently discovered that someone else had pushed a commit to > the tip of master of one of the packages I maintain (and not > notified me); when I complained I was told that emailing would > be too much effort. Am I wrong t

Bug#913235: ITP: yavta -- Yet Another V4L2 Test Application

2018-11-08 Thread Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado * Package name: yavta Version : 0.0~git20181108.487d395 Upstream Author : Laurent Pinchart * URL : http://git.ideasonboard.org/?p=yavta.git;a=summary * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C Desc

Re: Uncoordinated upload of the rustified librsvg

2018-11-08 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 08:39:30AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 06:45:14PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > > It doesn't help that the distributions in general want to support Firefox > > on more platforms than the Rust team supports as tier-1 platforms. A > > constant cadence o

Re: Uncoordinated upload of the rustified librsvg

2018-11-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 06:45:14PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: It doesn't help that the distributions in general want to support Firefox on more platforms than the Rust team supports as tier-1 platforms. A constant cadence of updates every six weeks is faster than anything else excepting the Linux

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-08 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 04:32:29PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, 2018-11-06 at 15:00:03 +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > Jacob Adams writes: > > > The consensus seems to be that people should enable email > > > notifications in salsa and open a bug when filing a merge request.