Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-10-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
'm wondering if there is something Debian can do to be even more > successful in the container world. You could use dck-buildpackage --create-baseimage to do that. Feel free to create some target configs, and I'll be happy to add them. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free soft

Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-10-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
get with dependencies already installed - but I don't like manual things :o) BTW: one important point w/ dck-buildpackage for me was being able to specifiy what's in the image. I really prefer to have it really minimal. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Lin

Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-10-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
n't be so nice w/ k8s ... --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-10-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 05.10.19 03:31, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 10:49 PM Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> On 24.07.19 08:17, Marc Haber wrote: >> >>> Do we have a build technology that uses containers instead of chroots >>> yet? >> >> Something like docker-bu

Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-10-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 24.07.19 08:17, Marc Haber wrote: > Do we have a build technology that uses containers instead of chroots > yet? Something like docker-buildpackage ? --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-07-22 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
omatizing the rollout of fully-configured installations. One thing seems to be right: folks who always have been hostile towards the whole concept of distros now have a better excuse. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: Backports needed for Firefox/Thunderbird ESR 68 in Stretch

2019-07-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
timing, we can also release > build > dependency updates via stretch-security). ACK. I haven't had a chance to take a deeper look at the rust/cargo issue yet (currently too occupied with other things). If anybody could come forward with a solution, I'd be really glad. --mtx -- Enr

Re: OpenCL / handling of hardware-specific packages

2019-07-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
equivs magic. I'll have to think about this ... > The AppStream metadata format includes a field for "hardware this works > with", and beignet-opencl-icd has one, but I don't know if any existing > tools use this field. I don't like the idea of making driver pac

Re: ZFS in Buster

2019-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 01.07.19 21:06, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: Hi, > IIRC the whole things is actually about crypto stuff. Why don't zfs> folks > just use the standard linux crypto api (potentially introduce a> new algo if the existing ones aren't sufficient) ? Addendum:

Re: ZFS in Buster

2019-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
nux development (at least as far as I remember). IIRC the whole things is actually about crypto stuff. Why don't zfs folks just use the standard linux crypto api (potentially introduce a new algo if the existing ones aren't sufficient) ? --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Fr

Re: AMDGPU+OpenCL with Debian?

2019-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
cations that treat "no hardware for this driver" as "fatal error" > instead of "try the next driver". So, installing an opencl-based package pulls in *all* cl driver stacks ? Please don't do that. This IMHO clearly belongs into the operator's hands (or pos

Re: scratch buildds

2019-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
ly debianized branch) and publishes the repos to the outside world, would be a really cool thing for me. IIRC that should also cover this 'scratch builds' usecase. I admit, I haven't checked whether gitlab-ci can already do that. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free s

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 01.07.19 15:09, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 03:04:26PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult > wrote: >> On 29.05.19 17:41, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> >>>> Perhaps we should update policy to say that the .orig tarball may (or >>&g

Re: Survey results: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
nto buildd. Maybe it would be better to just differenciate the statistics between official debian and others (such as downstreams). --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
le git repo and makes interacting w/ upstream (eg. submitting patches) unncessarily hard. That's something I regularily see w/ crappy vendor kernels, which then take lots of time to bring them into some somewhat usable state :o --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free softwar

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
that by auditable process (eg. fully automatic, easily reproducable transformations) --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
idiered "applicable" (or better: when is it okay not doing that) and some rules on how the generation process shall be done. (maybe having some script with a defined name ?) --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
ou give me some more details on the intended workflow ? Why does one need that information at all ? --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
ory structure to > record what the most recent rebase is. Obviously I prefer > git-debrebase since I wrote it - using a different data model - even > after I knew about git-dpm and its data model. But maybe this isn't > the thread for that advocacy conversation. What exactly do

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
ext-based patches. git-rebase is one of my primary daily tools. > If we could figure out a way to collaborate on something like that well, > it might be a very interesting tool to have. ACK. I believe we should set some computable policies on how orig trees are generated from actual upstream r

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
d was to capture how people work *within* > Debian, where a maintainer is still required to produce a .dsc. I don't think that .dsc really makes the picture so different. It always can be generated automatically. IMHO, it's only needed as an output format for creating src repos and as a

Re: ZFS in Buster

2019-05-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
ce missing functionality. Obviously, their current proprietary userland interface can't be accepted for mainline - it has to be reworked to be conformant w/ standard uapi (eg. we already have it for things like snapshots, deduplication, quotas, ...) But it's up to ZoL developers to do the actu

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-05-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
ll superpackage for all archs, flavours, etc. - instead I'm using separate layer 2 branches for that. (for maintaining lots of kernel configs based on some meta config, I've got a separate tool) --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-05-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
ly given up the orig tarball - I'm just basing on their release tags. And, of course, there shouldn't be anything autogenerated in the git repo - always recreate everything (*especially* autotools-generated stuff). The orig tarball, IMHO, is a long obsolete ancient relic. For upstreams

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-05-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
years, but no success, so I just gave up :( --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-05-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
t (github org with same name). But the interest from dist maintainers was asymptotically approaching zero, from below. > Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult writes ("Re: Survey: git packaging practices > / repository format"): >> I'm always cloning the upstream repo, branch o

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-05-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
rst come the generic (non-deb specific) patches, then the deb specific ones. No text-based patches, or even magic rewriting within the build process. The HEAD is exactly the debianized source tree, which is then fed to dck-buildpackage. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and

Re: Introducting Debian Trends: historical graphs about Debian packaging practices, and "packages smells"

2019-04-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
ubtree, some track source tree plus debian/, some w/ extra text-based patches, some w/ patches already applied in git. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: PPAs (Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR))

2019-04-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
re). I have no plan to> rethink about the "get-orig-source" target since there are ... lots> of weird upstreams in my list... Maybe we should talk about some of these cases, to get a better idea. In general, we IMHO should rethink the workflows for creating the actual buildable debian tree from upstream releases (in many packages that's still pretty manual and hackish) --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: PPAs (Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR))

2019-04-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
outcome of that would be a generic way for fully automatically building everything from a debianzed source tree (eg. git repo) within a minimal container/jail, w/o any other extra configuration outside that source tree - even for those cases where the control file needs to be generated, which again needs some deps. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
control.bootstrap) which is used by my build machinery (dck-buildpackage) in a separate preparation step, when control file is missing. But still, IMHO, the debian packaging toolstack is much superior to anything else i've every encountered. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consu

[prototype] Debian User Repository Toolkit 0.0a release

2019-04-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
provide properly long-term maintained apt repos for the distros and arch's we use). Okay, it's just a dream, but a very nice one ;-) --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: Conflict over /usr/bin/dune

2019-01-18 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
ot;. IMHO not in official Debian repo, but I've got it hanging around in some 3rdparty repo ... --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: Limiting the power of packages

2018-12-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 19.11.18 20:24, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:29:37 +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > > (OT, but since I noticed it too:) > >> Anyways, Skype doesn't work since 8.30 as it crashes directly on >> startup. > > Apparently it

Re: git vs dfsg tarballs

2018-12-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
de, I'm not doing any code changes outside git, and I'm building packages only directly from git. Frankly, I don't see any reason why that can't be the standard case. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: git vs dfsg tarballs

2018-11-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
gardless of the> maintainer's behaviour. hmm, looks like good start. But it doesn't really look easy to clone from different distros and specific or yet unreleased versions. and one of my main problems remains unresolved: linear history ontop of the upstream's release tag. -

Re: Limiting the power of packages

2018-11-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
-trustworthy code them into a minimal container w/ fine tuned minimal permissions. Anyways, Skype doesn't work since 8.30 as it crashes directly on startup. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: git vs dfsg tarballs

2018-11-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
ecific ones While gbp can help a bit here and there, it still far away from an fully-automated process. I'm currently helping myself w/ lots of mappings and import scripts, but I'd like to get rid of maintaining all these little pieces. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

git vs dfsg tarballs

2018-11-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
except for rare cases where upstream history is extremely huge - like mozilla stuff) would be just branching at the upstream's release tag and adding commits for removing the non-dfsg files ontop of that. From that branching the debianized branch, where all patches are directly applied in git.

Re: A message from CMake upstream: announcing dh-cmake

2018-11-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
to do so), in order to make sure that nothing in that really complex cmake file can even try build/use any piece of them. the package was just meant for an inhouse installation for my client, so i didn't care much about policies and orig tarball handling - I've just patched directly in t

Re: You are not seriously considering dropping the support of sysVinit?!

2018-11-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
affected packages. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: Limiting the power of packages

2018-10-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
, as it's completely broken and unusable anyways - for several month now. We could reconsider once the Upstream (Microsoft) manages get it at least running w/o segfaulting. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: Limiting the power of packages

2018-10-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
ckager ? Is there any extra quality gate (before the user) ? > * default: install files in /usr only That's bad enough, if the package is of bad quality or even malicious. Finally, I'd really like to reduce complexity, not introduce even more. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Announce: docker-buildpackage

2018-05-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
ht require some local customizations. (planned for future releases) I'm also hacking on another tool which automatically clones repos and calls dck-buildpackage for building whole pipelines - but that's still experimental and hackish: https://github.com/metux/deb-pkg --mtx -- Enri

Re: FHS: Where to store user specific plugins / code

2018-03-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
pplications, eg. moz). --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

Re: MIA ? Miriam Ruiz

2017-10-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
alk to her. --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287

substvars in *.install + friends

2017-05-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Hi folks, is it possible to use the substvars mechanism for the *.install and similar files, just like w/ control file ? For multi-version installations, I'm keeping the whole package in a prefix w/ the version number (see my other mail - nodejs). I don't like to change lots of files which each

Re: Packaging nodejs-7.9

2017-05-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 04.05.2017 09:26, Jérémy Lal wrote: > At the moment, in debian, /usr/lib/nodejs is there to store all node > modules installed from debian packages. hmm, would that conflict w/ having certain "nodejs-$version" subdirs w/ the actual engines (the whole tree - not splitted out the several FHS par

Packaging nodejs-7.9

2017-05-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Hi folks, I'm currently packaging nodejs-7.9 for various deb Distros. I'll have to maintain some applications that use the fanciest new features, and precompiled binaries from untrusted sources (eg. nvm+friends) of course are not an option. Before I go all of this alone - is there anybody here

Re: Bug#857394: Debian Policy violation -- libgegl-dev contains duplicate copy of openCL library files

2017-04-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 14.04.2017 14:34, ian_br...@mail.ru wrote: > I was right -- it IS a Debian Policy violation: > > * 4.13 Convenience copies of code * I've got a similar problem while packaging recent webkit (latest surf needs a newer one). Their git repo is >GB (!). No idea how much I'll have to cut out

Re: init system agnosticism [WAS: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system]

2017-04-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 13.04.2017 11:27, Vincent Danjean wrote: > For me, the first argument explain in the first mail is not this one. > systemd is not portable on lots of system (hurd, kFreeBSD, ...), This is just one of many arguments for not making applications depending on it. (and they shouldn't depend on a

init system agnosticism [WAS: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system]

2017-04-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 17.02.2015 18:49, The Wanderer wrote: Hi folks, just digging out an older thread that was still laying around in my inbox - w/ about 2yrs distance, I hope it was enough cool down time so we discuss it more objectively about that. > libsystemd0 is not a startup method, or an init system. It

Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian?

2017-04-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 11.04.2017 10:22, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 04:22:40AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult > wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> could anyone please give me some insight, was the security problems >>>> are here exactly ? &

Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian?

2017-04-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 09.04.2017 22:58, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 08:28:38AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult > wrote: >> >> >> could anyone please give me some insight, was the security problems >> are here exactly ? > Extension auto-updating is

Re: What's a safe way to have extensions in chromium in Debian?

2017-04-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
could anyone please give me some insight, was the security problems are here exactly ? --mtx -- mit freundlichen Grüßen -- Enrico, Sohn von Wilfried, a.d.F. Weigelt, metux IT consulting +49-151-27565287

Re: dpkg packaging problems

2015-01-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 02.01.2015 17:08, Martin Pitt wrote: Hi, > Yes, man dh_fixperms. Shared libraries don't need to and should not be > executable. Oh, wasn't aware of that. Just used to that as gcc sets that flag. Is it a bug in gcc, or are there platforms where +x is required ? cu -- Enric

dpkg packaging problems

2015-01-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
s might have an idea ? See: https://github.com/metux/fskit/tree/jessie/master https://github.com/metux/fskit/tree/trusty/master the build process is driven by: https://github.com/metux/packaging cu -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consulting +49-151-27565287 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-06 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 25.11.2014 16:29, Philip Hands wrote: > How is it that Debian changing the default for something on some of What about the enforced replace on dist-upgrade, which at least produces lots of extra work and can easily cause systems being unbootable ? cu -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-12-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 29.11.2014 19:15, Svante Signell wrote: > Since there is no interest in adding a debconf message on new installs, > I wish for a menu entry in the advanced part of the installer to be able > to install a new system with sysvinit-core or upstart! +1 -- mit freundlichen Grüßen

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
ystemd faction ? cu -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consulting +49-151-27565287 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54812e53.9080...@gr13.net

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
systemd then. Same for me. If there really is some functionality which some DEs really need, why not having an entirely separate tool for that ? Anyways, I still didn't understand why udev is bundled within systemd. cu -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consulting +49-151-27565287 -- To UNSUB

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
: Why do these things all have to be so deeply interdependent ? I would even question, why each DE needs it own display manager ? What's so wrong with all the other DMs ? Certain DEs (like GNOME and KDE) seem trying to build their own operating system - I really fail to understand why.

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
ill install a system w/o systemd ever going into my system - instead of replacing it later (eg. some option in the installer) ? cu -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consulting +49-151-27565287 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

mass hosting + cgi [WAS: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution]

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
#x27;s meanwhile an efficient solution for fully on-demand startup (and auto-cleanup) of fcgi slaves with arbitrary UIDs, and how much overhead copying between processes (compared to socket-passing) produces on modern systems (back when I wrote muxmpm, it still was quite significant) OTOH, for

gnome depending on apache [WAS: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution]

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
r computers on the local network seems like > perfectly reasonable and useful feature to me. Okay. But WebDAV would be one of the last protocols, I'd consider for that (maybe for the wide internet, but not for local networks). cu -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consulting +49-151-27565287 --

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
t a decade ago, I've wrote muxmpm, which ran individual sites under their own uid/gid, chroot, etc. That made things like cgixec, php's safe_mode etc practically obsolete. It was even shipped by several large distros, eg. suse (the orignal one, not novell). cu -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT con

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
the way: didn't GNOME originally have the intention of being crossplaform, not Linux-only ? cu -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consulting +49-151-27565287 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
've got the impression that these guys still value traditional unix concepts, like using the filesystem for simple hierarchical data structures and access control, tiny and easily compositable servers and tools, etc. cu -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consulting +49-151-27565287 -- To UNSUB

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 27.11.2014 02:18, Josh Triplett wrote: > gnome Depends: gnome-core, which Depends: gnome-user-share, which > Depends: apache2-bin (or apache2.2-bin in stable, which is a > transitional package depending on apache2-bin in unstable). gnome depends on apache ? seriously ? cu -- Enric

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
cific stuff has to optional) b) we will continue to provide the existing alternatives, including fresh installation (choosable at installation time, or separate installer images) c) the init system will never be switched w/o _explicit_ order by the operator d) this decision stands until

incomplete de translation of maintainer guide

2012-06-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, just seen that the German translation of the maintainer guide is quite incomplete. Perhaps I could find some time for fixing it, if anybody explains me how to do that ;-) cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service

Packaging entirely via git

2012-06-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
to push a signed tag (to the debianized branch) and let the machinery run ;-) cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq:

Re: wwwoffle

2012-06-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
created a .deb via git-buildpackage. Uploaded it to github, maybe somebody likes to have a look at it: https://github.com/metux/wwwoffle/ cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 e

wwwoffle

2012-06-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
n yet, so please let me know what should be done here. thx -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427

Re: Packaging best practice when upstream git contains more directory levels than the upstream tarball?

2012-01-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
y* from an git tag without having an upstream/orig tarball at all ? cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux

dokuwiki and /usr [WAS: from / to /usr/: a summary]

2012-01-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Tanguy Ortolo schrieb: > Enrico Weigelt, 2011-12-31 03:55+0100: > > IMHO this is completely wrong, those files should be under > > /usr/lib/... or maybe even /usr/share/... as they're not > > dynamic data. > > Well, when people install new plugins or new the

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2012-01-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
m-branch is enough. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2012-01-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Fernando Lemos schrieb: > Are you guys applying for maintainership for this huge delta > you want to introduce between upstream and us? Actually, yes. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.me

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
is to provide an consistent, robust and mainainable environment. Sometimes the distro maintainers have to bite in the bitter apple and cleanup upstreams's dirt. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metu

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Tanguy Ortolo schrieb: > Enrico Weigelt, 2011-12-30 06:21+0100: > > Which packages ship files in /var ? > > Many install directories there. And one of my packages, dokuwiki, also > installs files under /var/lib/dokuwiki/lib/{plugins,tpl}. These files > define the default s

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
or an admin-tool can pick them up) cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 2

Re: Conffiles (was: from / to /usr/: a summary)

2011-12-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
without operators used to look at /etc and comparing current config with new defaults. Not sure how Debian handles this, but Gentoo's etc-update mechanism has shown to be very handy. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, m

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
large hosters have rescue boot), maybe even using containers etc. But the big problem are the uncountable existing systems which might become troublemakers with that change. We need practical and reliable migration strategies first. In the end, I'm curious if it's really worth all o

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-22 Thread Enrico Weigelt
t; Things have changed a lot since the FSSTD first came out. True. But the need for quick and easy system maintenance remains. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 em

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-22 Thread Enrico Weigelt
t thing we could do in this regard is to move some stuff from > /usr to /usr/share or some other tree that is more convenient for placing on > a > different filesystem. What exacty do you intend to put to /usr/share ? cu -- ----------

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-20 Thread Enrico Weigelt
the rest. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Linux / Portierung

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-07-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
upstream packages to meet your > personal preferences, even if you continue to dress them up as > requirements. Seems like you still didn't get the idea. As upstream, you don't need to do *anything*. That's the whole purpose of OSS-QM: leave the upstream alone and do the redunda

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-07-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ybe even as an synthentic filesystem. The interesting question is how this behaves on high-load scenarios. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +4

Re: Software quality metrics in Debian?

2011-07-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
be disabled) -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Linux

Re: anyone interested in adopting ICU?

2011-07-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
than Gentoo's slotting + revdep-rebuild approach ;-p). I'll yet have to pull it through my own embedded QM process and build machinery first, so we'll also get crosscompile fixups etc as a buy-product here ;-) cu -- ---

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-07-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Tollef Fog Heen schrieb: > ]] Enrico Weigelt > > | Autoconf (w/o automake) offers no means to tell additional m4 > | include pathes (eg. in configure.ac), so that just calling > | autoreconf (w/o any additional parameters!) can do a full > | regeneration all on its own. >

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-07-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
nd pam. That would also solve the static linking problem. Perhaps something like Plan9's factotum ? cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de

Re: Using -Werror in CFLAGS for a debian package build

2011-07-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
but often can give good hints where there *might* be some bug. So, IMHO, maintainers should always enable them for testing and try to fix the problems. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ pho

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-05-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
) which upstreams tend not to do. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 ic

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-05-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Neil Williams schrieb: (forgot attachments) ... -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-05-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
standardized. > > Not true. Those things MUST work together in every permutation within a > specific jurisdiction or people can die. Debian and autotools are > nowhere near that level of importance. Probably not. But why not learning from the other areas of engineering ? cu -- ---

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-05-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ing autoreconf (w/o any additional parameters!) can do a full regeneration all on its own. Right ? cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-05-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
s, for some I could work around by moving all the complexity to the distro build system, but I dont wanna open that pandorra box anymore, so I'll fix the source). And for those packages, having the source in a modern VCS (eg. git) is a big big bonus

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-05-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
system, handle them in the individual package itself and provide a common interface, which (for autoconf'ed packages) looks like this: #1: ./autogen.sh #2: CC=.. LD=.. ... ./configure #3: make #4: make DESTDIR=... install cu -- ----

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-05-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
s build descriptors (whichever distro you're looking at). And if that changes, the distro's package maintainer has to find out early enough to (manually) adapt properly. Leaves too much manual works and chances of breaks for my taste. cu -- ---

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