Re: time_t progress report

2024-03-15 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Team. It would be nice if the update included information on how to figure out whether one's packages are likely to fall into this "rare cases" bucket. Something like that might have provided in the past, but giving it greater visibility would help a lot IMO. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: 64-bit time_t transition: cargo needs manual intervention

2024-03-13 Thread Andrea Bolognani
it make sense to migrate hurd-i386 to 64-bit time_t regardless of the plans for hurd-amd64? Contrary to linux-i386, it's not like there is a wealth of (possibly proprietary/binary-only) hurd-i386 software out there that we would benefit from remaining compatible with. -- Andrea Bologn

Re: Libfuse interoperability/ABI broken.

2024-03-11 Thread Andrea Bolognani
luding 3.13 have one ABI and 3.13 > >>> to 3.16 have a different ABI. Not strictly related to the change at hand, but since we're discussing recent-ish changes that negatively affected backwards compatibility in libfuse I will mention this too: https://bugs.debian.org/1031802

Re: /usr-merge and DEP17 update: what happens next and how you can help

2023-10-09 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 08:16:32PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 02:10:27PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > Am I missing something? > > Yes, you are and what you are missing really is not obvious, so thanks > for asking! > > For one thing, dh_

Re: /usr-merge and DEP17 update: what happens next and how you can help

2023-10-09 Thread Andrea Bolognani
ng to push things forward, I never quite managed to fully absorb the problem space. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Activity of the libvirt team?

2023-08-19 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 05:54:11PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 04:17:11PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 11:25:42AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > > > Andrea, I've bumped your privileges so things don't block on me

Re: Activity of the libvirt team?

2023-08-19 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 11:25:42AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 05:03:19PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 01:37:23PM +0200, Lee Garrett wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've packaged rhsrvany [0], whic

Re: Issues in the Patch Tagging Guidelines

2023-08-16 Thread Andrea Bolognani
https://salsa.debian.org/libvirt-team/libvirt/-/blob/26c4e495779fc9e7649956983818735bbc7300fd/debian/patches/backport/src-fix-max-file-limits-in-systemd-services.patch -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Activity of the libvirt team?

2023-08-14 Thread Andrea Bolognani
The wiki page looks pretty outdated, yes. If you have time to change it so that it points to up-to-date resources, that would be very much appreciated! Just as you taking the time to package rhsrvany is :) -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

tracker.d.o displaying inconsistent information

2023-08-12 Thread Andrea Bolognani
s://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libvirt [2] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1451405/accepted-libvirt-960-1-source-into-unstable/ [3] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/libvirt [4] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=libvirt -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbag

Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches

2020-08-30 Thread Andrea Bolognani
stent with the existing upstream/latest. So, for whatever it might be worth, you have my +1 for this change. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: IPv6-only buildds and AI_ADDRCONFIG

2020-07-18 Thread Andrea Bolognani
anaged to track down the root cause very quickly. The fix is now upstream and will be part of libvirt 6.6.0, which is going to be released in 2/3 weeks. So, thanks a lot :) -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Please do not drop Python 2 modules

2018-04-24 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:17:08PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2018-04-25 01:05:59 +0200 (+0200), Andrea Bolognani wrote: > [...] > > So you could say that RHEL is taking the approach described above - > > having a transitional period where both versions are available side

Re: Please do not drop Python 2 modules

2018-04-24 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:42:15PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2018-04-24 22:39:48 +0200 (+0200), Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > To give a concrete example, Fedora switched to using Python 3 > > as the default several releases ago[1]; despite that, Python 2 > > is still ava

Re: Please do not drop Python 2 modules

2018-04-24 Thread Andrea Bolognani
me is true for FreeBSD and, I believe, Ubuntu. I'm not familiar with the approach other distributions and OS are taking, but I would expect it to be fairly similar. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage coll

Re: sid on openvz

2016-07-05 Thread Andrea Bolognani
s still not ready. Maybe we can make this work after all? [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Virtual_Private_Server [2] https://bugs.openvz.org/browse/OVZ-6384 -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Keysigning in Toronto?

2016-03-13 Thread Andrea Bolognani
nto this August, maybe some of the people attending might be DDs? Cheers. [1] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Help request: intel-microcode and old Intel processors

2014-08-28 Thread Andrea Bolognani
bove commands on Wheezy be of any help to you? Have a nice day. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: arm laptops and d-i

2013-08-20 Thread Andrea Bolognani
ing with a reasonable amount of effort? Thank you. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/ -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-09 Thread Andrea Bolognani
his would ensure a single copy of the headers is present in the archive, but it would also add yet another binary package per library to the Packages file… -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [PHP-DEV] Suhosin patch disabled by default in Debian php5 builds

2012-02-02 Thread Andrea Bolognani
ackages, I fail to see why PHP should be treated differently. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Failed to make a .deb package of PECL uploadprogress on squeeze. Any solution?

2011-10-28 Thread Andrea Bolognani
u’ll have to be a little bit more patient: bumping a thread more often than once every ten days or so is considered rude. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#646804: ITP: cheermeup -- Send affirmative messages to the user via the notification library

2011-10-27 Thread Andrea Bolognani
This (and the parent message) made my day. Please make this an actual polygen grammar! -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-16 Thread Andrea Bolognani
nto my exim–running VPS, grab the formatted mail message from the nullmailer queue and use the remote sendmail instance to actually send it. Not exactly confortable, but guaranteed to work. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#637351: ITP: urfkill -- urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.

2011-08-12 Thread Andrea Bolognani
a of having a special daemon running to handle a subset of the special keys when there’s a more general solution to the problem already in the archive. That said, urfkill might have advantages I don’t see. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#617304: ITP: cattle-1.0 -- Brainfuck language toolkit

2011-03-07 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrea Bolognani * Package name: cattle-1.0 Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Andrea Bolognani * URL : http://kiyuko.org/software/cattle * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : Brainfuck language

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2010-11-17 Thread Andrea Bolognani
anyway; when a no–screenshot–needed request is received, the moderator just needs to check the request looks valid (ie. the package is a library) and add the package to the blacklist. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-18 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:29:32 + (UTC), Philipp Kern wrote: > > And what should we do if a localized manpage is in fact > the authoriative one? That doesn't change a thing: if the date in the .TH line is supposed to be that of the last update (making a lintian check based on that date would ot

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-18 Thread Andrea Bolognani
> This is just my own personal use of .TH in all my projects > , using sbuild as an example: > > TH SCHROOT 1 "@RELEASE_DATE@" "Version @VERSION@" "Debian > sbuild" > > where @RELEASE_DATE@ is the date of the release, which > gets substituted in by autoconf's configure script > (schroot.1.in -> s

Re: Dueling Banjoes

2009-07-02 Thread Andrea Bolognani
We haven't got multiarch yet, and you ask for multibanjos support already? That's pretty rude if you ask me. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. pgpa82LhbtB8l.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-06-19 Thread Andrea Bolognani
by conveys the same information and is more easily understandable IMHO. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. pgpDQfuEuDkPi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-03 Thread Andrea Bolognani
oes not contradict within > a single sentence. There is no contradiction in that sentence; please read it more carefully. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. pgpl3lKU9eegc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What should postrm purge actually do?

2008-06-04 Thread Andrea Bolognani
out if some > extra security policy is active like apparmor or selinux? > > Sorry, the only sane option which is left is to keep maintainer scripts > out of users home. Given your response, I see either you didn't read the whole message or I didn't explain myself clearly.

Re: What should postrm purge actually do?

2008-06-04 Thread Andrea Bolognani
che files which do not belong to any installed program. -- Andrea Bolognani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. pgpjr9jWpdgfG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 09:57:31 +0100 Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday 03 April 2008 07:19, Anibal Avelar wrote: > > Totally I agree. Testing is fine for a personal Desktop machine. > > I disagree. > > It's fine for some persons desktops, yes. > > But it is neither

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-01 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:38:36 -0300 Joel Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that the testing or above releases may be suitable for the > desktop of a EXPERT linux user. I need a stable release because my > desktop must simply to work; it is not a so critical system like a > server but this

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-19 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:27:12 +0200 Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag 18 September 2007 schrieb Ken Spath: > > If after I install casu or netdiag, I type man casu or man netdiag > > there is nothing. > > > > whereis / find / apt-cache search / apt-file search were necessary

Re: update htop to 0.65

2007-05-24 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 24 May 2007 12:35:48 +0530 shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > Forgive if this is not the correct list to post to. I like htop > & the latest version of htop is 0.6.5 > http://htop.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=downloads while the package > even in unstable is at 0.6.3 >

Re: Bug#422137: ITP: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 -- l33t h4x0r numb3r

2007-05-03 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 3 May 2007 20:28:49 +0200 Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 > Version : 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 > Upstream Author : MPA

Re: Bug#388701: Why Beryl has just four packages?

2007-04-23 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:55:47 -0500 "Anibal Avelar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If both projects joins but you don't upload them in unstable, but > while we can have beryl, I like beryl than compiz due to the > beryl-manager ;) I guess beryl-manager will be merged as well (probably renamed). --

Re: ajax comparision help

2007-04-20 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:18:09 +0200 Laszlo Boszormenyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to develop a PHP web application, which would heavily use > AJAX. [...] This is a mailing list about Debian development, not a generic development mailing list. Please find a more appropr

Re: Debian Development environments.

2007-04-12 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:27:25 +0200 Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 20:25:35 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > Still I don't see the advantage of having a complete development > > environment on a live CD. Who is supposed to

Re: Debian Development environments.

2007-04-12 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:18:27 +0200 Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think a live CD aimed at developers would be quite useless. But > > feel free to correct me. > > The Université Jussieu (Paris) found it useful. They distribute a live > CD based on Knoppix to the students, called

Re: Debian Development environments.

2007-04-12 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:28:50 +0100 Luis Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since this inquiry is valid however, it seems to me that it would make > > sense the think about some CDD specialised for developers. > > This would be very nice ... maybe some livecd's? ( it does not need > necessarilly

Re: Bug#418552: ITP: umit -- nmap frontend, developed in Python and GTK

2007-04-12 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:02:56 +0200 Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The reference to GTK is useless, too. > > We have tags for that sort of things. > > I disagree. Tags can express a lot more of information of what does fit > a *short* description. One has to make a choice about w

Re: Bug#418552: ITP: umit -- nmap frontend, developed in Python and GTK

2007-04-11 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:05:40 +0200 Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:31:02PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > Description : nmap frontend, developed in Python and GTK > > Is it interesting for the user/sysadm that the frontend is developed in > Python?

Re: I *love* goodbye-microsoft.com

2007-02-26 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:49:13 +1100 Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not register change-linux.com and have it document how to convert between > all the different distributions? If someone finds that Debian doesn't suit > them then I welcome them to change to Fedora - they may change

Re: localisation in system wide daemons

2007-01-15 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:38:29 +0100 Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the very least, if we're going to translate log messages, then there > should be an easy switch to disable such translation for log messages > alone (while not for the rest of the system). If we want to provide our

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

2007-01-05 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:55:00 +0100 Jorge Salamero Sanz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And if they are going to be viewable also offline, there should be a way to > > disable the download: I don't use a GUI frontend, so I don't want to > > download tons of PNG files I will never use. > > neither me

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

2007-01-05 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 11:41:19 + Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > X-pic: http://screenshots.debian.net/package/version.jpg > > This way multiple package versions can have distinct images, eg. the > package in Etch, the package in Lenny, and the package in Sid. Each > of w

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

2007-01-05 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:16:25 +0100 Jorge Salamero Sanz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > those extra fields like homepage and screenshot have their point in > integration with gui pkg managers. It seems just overkill to me. If the screenshots are going to need an Internet connection to be viewed anywa

Re: RFC: Proposal for official screenshot repo

2007-01-05 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:32:52 -0500 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would really appreciate any comments and suggestions on this. What I don't really get is, why would we want a similar service in Debian? We should already be pointing to the upstream site with the Homepage: pse

Re: Bug#402650: ITP: mozilla-foxyproxy -- advanced proxy management tool for iceweasel

2006-12-22 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:43:58 -0500 Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've decided to go with no prefix, since mozilla- prefix is a trademark > and point of having it nowadays is quite absent. > > So now the package is simply "foxyproxy". I will tag it > accordingly: > > implemented-i

Re: Bug#396618: ITP: dns-flood-detector -- DNS Flood Detector was developed to detect abusive usage levels on high traffic nameservers and to enable quick response in halting the use of one's nameserv

2006-11-02 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 09:43:54 +0100 Jan Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrea, > > On Wednesday 01 November 2006 23:03, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > Jan Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Description : DNS Flood Detector was developed to detec

Re: Bug#396618: ITP: dns-flood-detector -- DNS Flood Detector was developed to detect abusive usage levels on high traffic nameservers and to enable quick response in halting the use of one's nameserv

2006-11-01 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:57:15 +0100 Jan Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Jan Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: dns-flood-detector [...] > Description : DNS Flood Detector was developed to detect abusive usage > levels on high tra

Re: Bug#354831: ITP: bfc -- Brainfuck compiler

2006-03-02 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:58:12 +0100 Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you claim that this is _not_ just a proof-of-concept item? No. It's fully usable and enjoinable. -- KiyuKo "Like Russian Rulette with six bullets loaded" pgpWVdTmi9Ukg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#354831: ITP: bfc -- Brainfuck compiler

2006-03-02 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:43:54 +0100 Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scripsit "Tim Olsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > A programming language with the minimum number of instructions > > necessary to be turing-complete and have I/O may be more than a toy > > for some people. > > Perhaps.

Re: Bug#354831: ITP: bfc -- Brainfuck compiler

2006-03-01 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:59:12 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Besides that? BrainFuck is Everyone's Favourite Programming Language (TM). -- KiyuKo "Like Russian Rulette with six bullets loaded" pgp4IRdXe6FQQ.pgp Description: PGP signature