Bug#1021750: general: the nodelalloc mount option should be used by default for ext4 in /etc/fstab

2022-10-14 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 03:37:29PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 14, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > This is obviously convenient on Guillem's part, but we have to optimize > > > systems by default for the general case and not just for dpkg -i. > > This dpkg FAQ says that this is not benefi

Bug#1021750: general: the nodelalloc mount option should be used by default for ext4 in /etc/fstab

2022-10-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 14, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > This is obviously convenient on Guillem's part, but we have to optimize > > systems by default for the general case and not just for dpkg -i. > This dpkg FAQ says that this is not beneficial for just dpkg, > but also "for any application in the system". [cit

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 01:32:41PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 2022-10-13 at 17:35 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > I'd prefer if we could make things work vs making things fail, > > however loudly. > > There seem to be a few ways to deal with this transition: (quotes reordered in Pauls pre

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-14 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 01:32:41PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > 4. Keep all non-free-firmware packages in non-free too. This would be > backwards compatible, but may expose bugs in dak, debian-cd, apt and > other tools, so IIRC this has been vetoed by the archive and CD teams. > This also wouldn't res

Bug#1021750: general: the nodelalloc mount option should be used by default for ext4 in /etc/fstab

2022-10-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-10-14 12:44:25 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 14, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > This is not "the Debian FAQ" but "the DPKG FAQ", which has been known to > > > recommend awful things in the past. > > But it is still considered in the present times by the dpkg developers. > > Bug 923423

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-14 Thread Marvin Renich
* Paul Wise [221014 01:35]: > On Thu, 2022-10-13 at 17:35 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > I'd prefer if we could make things work vs making things fail, > > however loudly. > > There seem to be a few ways to deal with this transition: > > 2. Add some code somewhere to automatically modify th

Bug#1021750: general: the nodelalloc mount option should be used by default for ext4 in /etc/fstab

2022-10-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 14, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > This is not "the Debian FAQ" but "the DPKG FAQ", which has been known to > > recommend awful things in the past. > But it is still considered in the present times by the dpkg developers. > Bug 923423 was closed several hours ago based on this dpkg FAQ: This

Bug#1021750: general: the nodelalloc mount option should be used by default for ext4 in /etc/fstab

2022-10-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-10-14 11:59:09 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 14, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > The /etc/fstab file is created using by default ext4 with just > > the errors=remount-ro option. However, the Debian FAQ recommends > > the nodelalloc mount option to avoid performance degradation and > >

MBF: dependency on policykit-1 -> polkitd or pkexec

2022-10-14 Thread Simon McVittie
A while ago I split the policykit-1 package into two binary packages: - polkitd: the authorization daemon and associated utilities - pkexec: the sudo-like tool to run arbitrary commands as root policykit-1 is a transitional package to pull in both. Since upgrading to upstream version 121 which us

Bug#1021750: general: the nodelalloc mount option should be used by default for ext4 in /etc/fstab

2022-10-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 14, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The /etc/fstab file is created using by default ext4 with just > the errors=remount-ro option. However, the Debian FAQ recommends > the nodelalloc mount option to avoid performance degradation and > preserve data safety: This is not "the Debian FAQ" but "the DP

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 10:52:01AM +0200, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > El 14/10/22 a las 13:32, Paul Wise escribió: > > On Thu, 2022-10-13 at 17:35 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > > > I'd prefer if we could make things work vs making things fail, > > > however loudly. > > > > There seem to b

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-14 Thread Santiago Ruano Rincón
El 14/10/22 a las 13:32, Paul Wise escribió: > On Thu, 2022-10-13 at 17:35 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > I'd prefer if we could make things work vs making things fail, > > however loudly. > > There seem to be a few ways to deal with this transition: > > 1. Document it in the release notes a

Bug#1021759: ITP: py-rnp -- Python bindings for librnp

2022-10-14 Thread Martin
Package: wnpp Owner: deba...@debian.org Severity: wishlist * Package name: py-rnp Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Daniel Wyatt * URL or Web page : https://github.com/rnpgp/py-rnp * License : (under investigation) Description : Intent to Package [ITP] Python bindin