Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 10:58 PM Lyndon Brown wrote: > The problem with using testing as a rolling distro Your mail reminded me about Constantly Usable Testing: https://cut.debian.net/ > Using testing and manually pulling in select upgrades from unstable in > such situations addresses that issu

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 11:04 AM Devops PK Carlisle LLC wrote: > If I know that, for instance, a kernel update will break a wifi dongle > driver or NVIDIA driver, either I must not use automatic updates at all > and I must remember which packages I don't want to update and manually > exclude those

Re: /usr/bin/open now in use through the alternatives system.

2020-12-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Dear Charles, thanks for driving this. On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 08:15:45AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I went ahead and uploaded to Sid mime-support version 3.68, which > provides /usr/bin/open as a symbolic link to /usr/bin/run-mailcap using > the alternatives system, at a priority of 30. I w

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2020-12-27 at 16:04 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > I'm pretty sure it's not default because the security team do not > consider unattended-upgrades sufficiently robust.  I'm sorry for not > going ahead and verifying but I thought it should be mentioned. Looks like you are correct, it is ins

/usr/bin/open now in use through the alternatives system.

2020-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
[Please CC me, I am not subscribed] Dear all, I went ahead and uploaded to Sid mime-support version 3.68, which provides /usr/bin/open as a symbolic link to /usr/bin/run-mailcap using the alternatives system, at a priority of 30. I welcome other alternatives. I also changed the behaviour of run

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-27 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 27 Dec 2020 at 08:11AM GMT, Paul Wise wrote: > I think Debian stable users should enable automatic upgrades (IIRC > that is the case now). Debian unstable/testing users should probably > only enable safe upgrades that don't remove packages. I'm pretty sure it's not default because

Bug#978482: ITP: rx-java -- Reactive Extensions for the JVM

2020-12-27 Thread Olek Wojnar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olek Wojnar * Package name: rx-java Version : 3.0.7 Upstream Author : David Karnok * URL : https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava * License : Apache 2 Programming Lang: Java Description : Reactive Extensions for the

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-27 Thread Lyndon Brown
On Sun, 2020-12-27 at 15:33 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 12:16:22PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > > ... > > Ubuntu might have some good ideas here: if I understand correctly, > > their inconsistent unstable-equivalent is not generally used > > (except by > > buildds), while

Bug#978480: ITP: golang-github-muesli-termenv -- Advanced ANSI style & color support for your terminal applications

2020-12-27 Thread Francisco Vilmar Cardoso Ruviaro
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francisco Vilmar Cardoso Ruviaro X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, francisco.ruvi...@riseup.net * Package name: golang-github-muesli-termenv Version : 0.7.4 Upstream Author : Christian Muehlhaeuser * URL : https://gith

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-27 Thread Lyndon Brown
On Sun, 2020-12-27 at 05:42 -0500, Devops PK Carlisle LLC wrote: > I would like to be able to selectively exclude-with-a-warning some > packages from automatic update as I choose, and to have the update > process remember those choices from one update instance to the next: > > Chrome browser: Vers

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-27 Thread Lyndon Brown
On Sun, 2020-12-27 at 06:01 +, M. Zhou wrote: > Hi folks, > > I don't quite understand the meaning of automatic upgrades on a > rolling > system such as Debian/Sid. According to my own experience, such > automatic upgrades could be dangerous. > > Recently package ppp is pending for upgrade bu

Re: one more, i am still fed up

2020-12-27 Thread Richard
I for now do not deny or admit officially. Marc, are you someone with authority? I will clarify myself later, pretty lease On wo, 2020-12-23 at 20:08 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:43:18 +0100, Richard > wrote: > >I want to clarify I feel not up to seriously reading and thinki

Bug#978472: ITP: b3sum -- Command line tool for the BLAKE3 hash

2020-12-27 Thread karthek
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: karthek X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, frustra...@karthek.com * Package name: b3sum Version : 0.3.7 Upstream Author : Jack O'Connor * URL : https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3 * License : CC0-1.0 or Apach

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-27 Thread Kyle Robbertze
Hi, On 2020/12/27 08:01, M. Zhou wrote: > Hi folks, > > I don't quite understand the meaning of automatic upgrades on a rolling > system such as Debian/Sid. According to my own experience, such > automatic upgrades could be dangerous. > > Recently package ppp is pending for upgrade but it does n

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 12:16:22PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: >... > Ubuntu might have some good ideas here: if I understand correctly, > their inconsistent unstable-equivalent is not generally used (except by > buildds), while their internally-consistent testing-equivalent is updated > from thei

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-27 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 at 06:01:45 +, M. Zhou wrote: > I don't quite understand the meaning of automatic upgrades on a rolling > system such as Debian/Sid. According to my own experience, such > automatic upgrades could be dangerous. You're using a suite named "unstable". It does what the name su

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-27 Thread Gürkan Myczko
Hi On 27.12.2020 11:42, Devops PK Carlisle LLC wrote: I would like to be able to selectively exclude-with-a-warning some packages from automatic update as I choose, and to have the update process remember those choices from one update instance to the next: you could use aptitude-robot, which h

Bug#978432: ITP: astroalign -- Astrometric registration of images when no WCS info is available

2020-12-27 Thread Ole Streicher
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ole Streicher X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-as...@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name : astroalign Version : 2.3.1 Upstream Author : Martin Beroiz * URL : http://astroalign.

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-27 Thread Devops PK Carlisle LLC
I would like to be able to selectively exclude-with-a-warning some packages from automatic update as I choose, and to have the update process remember those choices from one update instance to the next: Chrome browser: Version a.b.c will be installed Firefox: Version d.e.f will be installed Kernel

Bug#978420: ITP: confy -- Conference schedule viewer written in Python.

2020-12-27 Thread Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: confy Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : fabrixxm * URL : https://confy.kirgroup.net/ * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: Python Desc

Fwd: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-27 Thread Paul Sutton
Sorry, just sending this to the list, as I sent originally it to Leandro directly. Regards Paul Forwarded Message Subject: Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default? Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 08:17:18 + From: Paul Sutton To: Leandro Cunha On 27/12/2020 06:13

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-27 Thread Paul Sutton
On 27/12/2020 08:11, Paul Wise wrote: M. Zhou wrote: I don't quite understand the meaning of automatic upgrades on a rolling system such as Debian/Sid. According to my own experience, such automatic upgrades could be dangerous. I have been automatically upgrading Debian testing 4 times dail

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-27 Thread Paul Wise
M. Zhou wrote: > I don't quite understand the meaning of automatic upgrades on a rolling > system such as Debian/Sid. According to my own experience, such > automatic upgrades could be dangerous. I have been automatically upgrading Debian testing 4 times daily using the unattended-upgrades packag