Re: FTBFS when /bin is before /usr/bin in PATH?

2025-05-07 Thread Michael Biebl
't that high. That said, around 750 packages are shipping about 1300 binaries in /usr/games. So that would be quite a bit of churn to update them all to move to /usr/bin. Thankfully, this would be quite an easy change compared to usrmove, as we wouldn't have any dpkg related file losses

Re: status of packages shipping sysv-init script without systemd unit

2025-05-07 Thread Michael Biebl
there are plans to do so. I read the bug report like this: By the time Trixie ships and once Forky opens up for development, the sysv-generator is going to be removed. I.e. it will be a change affecting Forky, not Trixie. Which leaves us 2 years to fix the remaining stragglers. Regards, Mich

Re: FTBFS when /bin is before /usr/bin in PATH?

2025-05-07 Thread Michael Biebl
idea is to move everything to /usr. The approach taken by symlinking the directories is an implementation detail. Regards, Michael OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1104297: ITP: python-pyslurm -- Python Interface to Slurm

2025-04-28 Thread Michael Fladischer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Fladischer X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-...@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: python-pyslurm Version : 24.11.0 Upstream Contact: Toni Harzendorf * URL

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-04-20 Thread Michael Lazin
but I redid it in bash with awk and it ran faster. Thank you, Michael Lazin .. τὸ γὰρ αὐτὸ νοεῖν ἐστίν τε καὶ εἶναι. On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM Josh Triplett wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 10:12:24PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Container size is obviously not a priority

Re: POSIX sh compatibility (Re: Dropping awk?)

2025-04-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 10:55:20PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: This just hasn't been my experience. You don't need perfect compatibility (or certification). By restricting myself to the POSIX specifications of sh, awk, find, grep and sed, I've profitably written several non-trivial programs that

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-04-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 04:09:53PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: * Michael Stone [250419 15:47]: If the goal is a minimal container image, why use debian at all vs a distribution optimized for that purpose? Running alpine without perl is already a solved problem... This is true for a lot

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-04-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 10:17:12PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: They likely lack perl, as well. Most/all awk usage in maintainer scripts could probably be replaced with perl. But, if you are in the minimizing game, perhaps you'd rather remove perl from the essential set? A substantially harde

Re: POSIX sh compatibility (Re: Dropping awk?)

2025-04-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 08:05:54PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: I have interpreted scripts that I want to run on any FreeBSD and Debian machine, because they are part of my OS bootstrapping. What else is there than POSIX sh for this? Therefore, it's still relevant. With that requirement, what y

Re: POSIX sh compatibility (Re: Dropping awk?)

2025-04-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 02:52:17PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: On Thu 17 Apr 2025 at 08:02pm -05, Richard Laager wrote: So, personally, I think getting mktemp(1) added to POSIX would be better for portability in the long run anyway. Eventually. POSIX.1-2017 is going to be the thing to target f

Re: Bug#1094969: git linked with OpenSSL

2025-04-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 03:38:38PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: I believe that is a fairly new (~5 years?) approach within Debian. Debian used to treat OpenSSL incompatible with GPLv2 and that all code that link to OpenSSL has to have a GPL+OpenSSL exception. Does anyone recall how and when thi

Re: "Missing" entries in timezone tables

2025-04-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 12:08:05PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote: I got bit (not in pytz) by US/Pacific disappearing, so I understand the annoyance from the user perspective. However, as that is what has happening in tzdata, I don't think we should have individual packages trying to fight that in

Bug#1102489: ITP: jome -- keyboard centric emoji picker

2025-04-09 Thread Michael Jeanson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Jeanson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: jome Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Contact: Philippe Proulx * URL : https://github.com/eepp/jome * License : MIT Programming Lang: C

Re: "Missing" entries in timezone tables

2025-04-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 06:42:43AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: But ./gen_tzinfo.py in python-tz adds extra timezones it believes should be present, including some backwards-compatible entries such as "US/Pacific". Adding these timezones is possible, but I am loath to diverge from tzdata..

Re: "Missing" entries in timezone tables

2025-04-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 04:50:58PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote: Option C would also keep the whole system consistent. But in that scenario, installing python-tz indirectly adds system-wide timezone values. I'm hesitant about that idea; it feels like "spooky action at a distance". FWIW, that'

Re: Should be wtmp considered as successor of who(1)?

2025-04-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 05:19:38PM +0200, Dirk Lehmann wrote: in relation to the discussion of 'utmp in trixie' * https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/04/msg00011.html It looks like, that wtmp is an well alternative to who(1). For that the command $> last -p now No. utmp and wtmp ar

Re: utmp in trixie

2025-04-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 05:52:13PM +1100, Craig Small wrote: Yes, there is definitely a Y2038 issue *for trixie*? there are also issues with utmp not being handled consistently and some security issues around who can do what to the file. Stuff that has been true literally decades. If someon

Re: utmp in trixie

2025-04-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 09:10:42PM +0200, Dirk Lehmann wrote: On 4/3/25 2:58 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote: I never cared about /run/utmp in itself, but I got used to last(1). FWIW, a new implementation of last is now provided by wtmpdb. +1 great, it looks like that * wtmpdb(8) could be a wel

Re: utmp in trixie

2025-04-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 12:47:07AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Apr 02, Bill Allombert wrote: Does that breaks the usual unix commands like 'who' ? If yes this is who(1) specifically, yes. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1079575 . Maybe the coreutils maintainer is alrea

Re: utmp in trixie

2025-04-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 03:43:03PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: Can your package handle the classic on-disk format when it is compiled with 64 bit time_t? I remember there was some discussion about that back then. If you touch /run/utmp you'll see it is still working fine with any packages that ha

Re: utmp in trixie

2025-04-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 12:46:03AM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: But the thing that needs looking at is why who in Debian behaves like it does, and if it doesn't work right, fix that in who or wherever else it needs fixing in the stack. Because I haven't turned it on, because I'm really unh

Re: utmp in trixie

2025-04-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 07:52:12PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Apr 03, Michael Stone wrote: The issue isn't making a change, the issue is what change is the right thing to do. IMO, dropping utmp without any kind of a transition or deprecation period is the wrong thing to do. H

Re: utmp in trixie

2025-04-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 04.04.25 um 00:46 schrieb Chris Hofstaedtler: Maybe it needs some additional work to fully function with current systemd versions.  IIRC procps also only recently added some new code to deal with new systemd behaviours. Maybe try the attached patch. With it applied I get: michael@mars

utmp in trixie

2025-04-01 Thread Michael Stone
/run/utmp is no longer provided in trixie, which means that the mechanisms used to show active sessions in unix for several decades no longer work. There's a replacement mechanism provided by systemd, but it's not 1:1. I propose that for trixie *both* mechanisms are active, so a person can choo

Bug#1101760: ITP: python3-miltertest -- Pure Python implementation of the milter protocol

2025-03-31 Thread Michael Jeanson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Jeanson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python3-miltertest Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Contact: Paul Arthur * URL : https://github.com/flowerysong/miltertest * License : GPL-3

Bug#1101373: ITP: python-pytest-shell-utilities -- fixtures and code to help with running shell commands on tests

2025-03-26 Thread Michael Fladischer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Fladischer X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: python-pytest-shell-utilities Version : 1.9.7 Upstream Contact: Pedro Algarvio * URL : https

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 08:36:45PM +0900, Simon Richter wrote: We're not obligated to validate their questionable choices in buying hardware that ships with non-free firmware There are a lot of competing priorities here, and it's the height of arrogance to be so certain that one's own opinion

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 01:32:47PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Another way to look at this outcome, and the one I personally prefer by a wide margin, is that it'd be very cool to have them, but at this time their utility is … questionable, given that I personally own zero (out of umpteen) co

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-07 Thread Michael Biebl
I wonder if we get a reply from the OP or if this was just an attempt to trigger a flame war. We will see... OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Improvement of headless server upgrades

2025-03-05 Thread Michael Banck
ems; if we are able to detect that there will be a problem and warn the person running the command, that sounds sensible to me, but I have not looked at the details. Michael

Re: Misconfigured bookworm upgrades

2025-02-28 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 28.02.25 um 16:34 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: I'd say that this is rather a bug in unattended-upgrades. unattended-upgrades uses this default configuration: // "origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename}-updates"; // "origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename}-proposed-updates";

Re: Gnome 48 dependency on Xwayland

2025-02-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.02.25 um 16:27 schrieb Jeremy Bícha: On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM Stephan Verbücheln wrote: According to reports and changelogs, Gnome 48 should be working without Xwayland. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/blob/main/NEWS Can you remove the package dependency in Debian? No. We

Re: Debian Policy 4.7.1.0 and program names

2025-02-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 20.02.25 um 11:13 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: Hi, On 2025-02-20 17:51:40 +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: I just pushed version 4.7.1.0 of the Debian Policy Manual and related documents to the binary-NEW queue for sid. Below you will find the significant normative changes from the previously-announce

Re: GCC-15 mass bug filing.

2025-02-18 Thread Michael Biebl
sumes of course you can somehow (automatically) determine the list of packages that are fixed by that one popular library. Michael OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: GCC-15 mass bug filing.

2025-02-18 Thread Michael Biebl
CC build failure like this one will hit them rather late. Michael OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Automatically detecting header-only libraries and setting Static-Built-Using automatically

2025-02-16 Thread Michael R. Crusoe
builtusing/dh_builtusing.1.en.html [3] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#debian-binary-package-control-files-debian-control Cheers, -- Michael R. Crusoe OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Gnome 48 beta packages in Sid

2025-02-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 06.02.2025 um 20:48 schrieb Jeremy Bícha: No. The Debian GNOME team intends for Debian 13 "Trixie" to include GNOME 48. This is great to hear. Thanks Jeremy and the whole GNOME team! Regards, Michael

A little help needed with postfix packaging (debconf)

2025-02-05 Thread Michael Tokarev
Hi! I'd love to have little help with postfix before trixie. There are 2 open issues which needs fixing, both involving debconf, and I haven't dealt with debconf before (despite being a long-term DD), and my time these days is scarce, - so it would be difficult for me to complete the task before

Re: DEP-14: Default branch name 'debian/latest' objections?

2025-01-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
24.01.2025 04:06, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: I would be curious to hear why people are *not* adopting 'debian/latest'? Why does the majority of Debian packages still use 'master' or 'debian/master' branch as the main development branch? For me it's 3 things. 1. "debian/*" is just more to type th

Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

2025-01-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 11:49:05AM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: Shared infrastructure of course. Note that this includes an update of the initramfs, which is CPU bound and takes a bit on this system. You can take around 45s off the clock for the initramfs regeneration in each run. I did a cou

Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

2025-01-02 Thread Michael Tokarev
02.01.2025 03:00, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: Sure but I wouldn’t know how to do that since I’m calling apt and force-unsafe-io seems to be a dpkg option ? echo force-unsafe-io > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.conf.d/unsafeio before upgrade. /mjt

Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

2025-01-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jan 01, 2025 at 03:15:25PM +, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Julien Plissonneau Duquène writes: Le 2024-12-30 21:38, Nikolaus Rath a écrit : If a system crashed while dpkg was installing a package, then my assumption has always been that it's possible that at least this package is corrupted.

Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

2024-12-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 06:44:58PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 10:32:09AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: On my system, which has a Western Digital Black SN850X NVMe (PCIe 4) formatted ext4, dpkg runs really fast (and feels like it runs faster than it did a few years ago on sim

Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

2024-12-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 05:31:36PM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: It feels wrong to me to justify such a heavy performance penalty this way if Well, I guess we'd have to agree on the definition of "heavy performance penalty". I have not one debian system where dpkg install time is a bottleneck.

Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

2024-12-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 08:38:17PM +, Nikolaus Rath wrote: If a system crashed while dpkg was installing a package, then my assumption has always been that it's possible that at least this package is corrupted. You seem to be saying that dpkg needs to make sure that the package is installed

Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

2024-12-29 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 08:22:17PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: Note that it's not a sync, but rather, under certain circumstances, we initiate writeback --- but we don't wait for it to complete before allowing the close(2) or rename(2) to complete. For close(2), we will initiate a writeback on a

Re: Bug#1091394: nproc: add new option to reduce emitted processors by system memory

2024-12-26 Thread Michael Stone
I think that's basically what you need to do. Do you see the computation of allocatable RAM as something we can accommodate in coreutils? Michael suggested adding "nmem" between the lines. Did you mean that in an ironic way or are you open to adding such a tool? It would solve a qu

Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

2024-12-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 09:23:36PM +0900, Simon Richter wrote: My feeling is that this is becoming less and less relevant though, because it does not matter with SSDs. To summarize: this thread was started with a mistaken belief that the current behavior is only important on ext2. In reality t

Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

2024-12-26 Thread Michael Tokarev
24.12.2024 17:10, Simon Richter wrote: Hi, On 12/24/24 18:54, Michael Tokarev wrote: The no-unsafe-io workaround in dpkg was needed for 2005-era ext2fs issues, where a power-cut in the middle of filesystem metadata operation (which dpkg does a lot) might result in in unconsistent filesystem

A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

2024-12-24 Thread Michael Tokarev
Hi! The no-unsafe-io workaround in dpkg was needed for 2005-era ext2fs issues, where a power-cut in the middle of filesystem metadata operation (which dpkg does a lot) might result in in unconsistent filesystem state. This workaround slowed down dpkg operations quite significantly (and has been

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-22 Thread Michael Tokarev
22.12.2024 10:24, Helmut Grohne wrote: Hi Michael and Simon, Hello Helmut! :) On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 10:16:12PM +0900, Simon Richter wrote: If they were to ship unit files, they'd end up in the same documentation .. I'm not sure the generator approach needs to be ruled out th

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-19 Thread Michael Tokarev
17.12.2024 00:31, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: Anyway, systemd's hardening features are so easy and effective that I would really like to see not only postfix, but ALL services use them as much as possible. Why we still have major packages like nginx shipping without any hardening out-of-the-box? I wo

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Michael Tokarev
18.12.2024 16:16, Simon Richter wrote: Postfix's "master" process effectively implements an orchestrator for a microservice architecture, similar to what systemd does. This could be replaced by systemd by writing a generator that creates units from master.cf. Simply converting the default mast

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Michael Tokarev
17.12.2024 00:31, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: On Mon, 2024-12-16 at 21:21 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: It turns out the reason for this is a myth, which we believed to for 25 years - a myth that "On FreeBSD, chroot is painless, but on Linux, chroot never works and is only suitable for the one

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-16 Thread Michael Tokarev
16.12.2024 20:55, Michael Tokarev wrote: 16.12.2024 20:08, Russ Allbery wrote: So, I wouldn't object to undoing that given upstream's stance, but maybe it would be good to do that in conjunction with adding more hardening to the default configuration with systemd?  systemd-analyz

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-16 Thread Michael Tokarev
16.12.2024 20:45, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 16, Michael Tokarev wrote: What do you think about this aspect of postfix on debian? I do not remember ever having any issues about this, and I have been using Postfix since before it was called Postfix. But if Wietse says that a chroot defau

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-16 Thread Michael Tokarev
16.12.2024 20:08, Russ Allbery wrote: So, I wouldn't object to undoing that given upstream's stance, but maybe it would be good to do that in conjunction with adding more hardening to the default configuration with systemd? systemd-analyze security postfix@- shows a whole lot of things that coul

RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-16 Thread Michael Tokarev
Hi! For 25 years, Postfix the MTA in Debian has been setup to run chrooted by default (that's where most postfix internal components run chrooted in /var/spool/postfix/, to limit possible system damage after a possible compromise). This setup has been criticized for 25 years, because of signific

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 07:00:36PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 10:08:19AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 12:22:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > They are planning to remove the --badname option from useradd, making > it impossible to even try

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 12:22:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: They are planning to remove the --badname option from useradd, making it impossible to even try UTF-8 user names, without patching useradd. Or edit the passwd file (vipw), or use any non-passwd-file authentication mechanism, or use a

Re: [MBF]: Proposing `Rules-Requires-Root: no` being the new default

2024-11-30 Thread Michael Biebl
rtant indicates some kind of urgency, so maybe it would be good to mention in the bug report template when you plan to implement those changes. I personally prefer if such MBFs mention what release they target. Regards, Michael OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: It makes no sense to link vmlinuz and initramfs to the root directory

2024-11-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 04:39:28PM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: Indeed. But even the comment, by itself, I think raises a question - why do we (still) do this? Because there's very little incentive to change it.

Re: It makes no sense to link vmlinuz and initramfs to the root directory

2024-11-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 11:10:54PM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 02:14:34PM +0800, kindusmith wrote: > In early Unix, boot and vmunix were both stored in the root directory as > programs, and boot was used to start vmunix. Debian inherited this for > compatibility, but the situ

Re: It makes no sense to link vmlinuz and initramfs to the root directory

2024-11-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 02:14:34PM +0800, kindusmith wrote: In early Unix, boot and vmunix were both stored in the root directory as programs, and boot was used to start vmunix. Debian inherited this for compatibility, but the situation has changed a lot. Today, boot is stored in the root direc

Re: dpkg-maintscript-helper and usrmerge

2024-10-01 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 01.10.24 um 20:15 schrieb Mark Pearson: On Tue, Oct 1, 2024, at 7:44 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 01.10.24 um 12:17 schrieb Michael Biebl: The issue is, that the path used in dir_to_symlink changed pre and post usrmove. I don't think you can express that via a .maintscript file.

Re: dpkg-maintscript-helper and usrmerge

2024-10-01 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 30.09.24 um 18:53 schrieb Mark Pearson: The firmware-sof-signed 2024.06 package: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/firmware-sof-signed In particular the sof-ipc4-tplg package that is being converted from a directory to a symlink. The dpkg-maintscript-helper complains about /usr/lib/firmwa

Re: dpkg-maintscript-helper and usrmerge

2024-10-01 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 01.10.24 um 12:17 schrieb Michael Biebl: Am 30.09.24 um 18:53 schrieb Mark Pearson: The firmware-sof-signed 2024.06 package: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/firmware-sof-signed In particular the sof-ipc4-tplg package that is being converted from a directory to a symlink. The dpkg

Re: dpkg-maintscript-helper and usrmerge

2024-09-30 Thread Michael Biebl
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Re: ifupdown maintenance

2024-09-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 09:49:24AM +0200, Ansgar 🙀 wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 23:07 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 02:13:26PM +0200, Daniel Gröber wrote: > If ifupdown's paradigm were working for people we wouldn't be having this > conversation. >

Re: ifupdown maintenance

2024-09-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 02:13:26PM +0200, Daniel Gröber wrote: If ifupdown's paradigm were working for people we wouldn't be having this conversation. Well, the problem is that there's a selection bias in people having this conversation--the people who are using ifupdown without issues aren't

Re: ifupdown maintenance

2024-09-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 10:57:39AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Agreed: either it's drop-in compatible or we may as well switch the default to NM and/or systemd-networkd. Well, here's a heretical thought: why don't we do that anyway, at least for new installations? Frankly the default

HEADS-UP: removing support for dhclient in NetworkManager

2024-09-04 Thread Michael Biebl
ager will automatically fall back to the internal client in this case. Regards, Michael OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

removing a non-static version of qemu-user?

2024-08-25 Thread Michael Tokarev
Hi! I'd love to get some input about an idea which I expressed in https://bugs.debian.org/1079603 - namely, to move static qemu-user emulation binaries from qemu-user-static package to qemu-user package (which contains dynamically-linked binaries with exactly the same functionality), effectively

Re: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts

2024-08-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 04:54:02PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Quite. If nothing else, I think the code actually in the Debian archive that relies on the old path ought to be changed _first_, e.g. via an MBF. I see a bunch of cases that are relatively subtle and might suck a lot of other people'

Re: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts

2024-08-15 Thread Michael Stone
The first time I rebooted after iproute2 removed the /sbin/ip link, my system failed to boot. I eventually discovered this was because /sbin/vconfig (from the "vlan" package) calls /sbin/ip and when that failed the network was not configured. This meant having to boot into single user mode for dia

Bug#1078680: ITP: python-django-timescaledb -- database backend and tooling for Timescaledb

2024-08-14 Thread Michael Fladischer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Fladischer X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: python-django-timescaledb Version : 0.2.13 Upstream Contact: Rasmus Schlünsen * URL : https

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Re: Moving libdeflate from Debian-Med to a more appropriate team

2024-08-08 Thread Michael R. Crusoe
On 08/08/2024 07.02, nick black wrote: Michael R. Crusoe left as an exercise for the reader: Please create a new group on salsa and then we can move the repo[0] from the debian-med namespace. done: https://salsa.debian.org/deflate-team Thank you Nick, I've moved the libdeflate Salsa

Re: Moving libdeflate from Debian-Med to a more appropriate team

2024-08-07 Thread Michael R. Crusoe
ip as well. Hi Nick and Michael, I'd be happy to join this hypothetical team as well. I already maintain multiple C++/CMake packages, and I'm looking into using libdeflate in Pistache, a library which I maintain both upstream and in Debian. Thank you Andrea and Nick for volunteering!

Moving libdeflate from Debian-Med to a more appropriate team

2024-08-06 Thread Michael R. Crusoe
aging team. liblzma-dev (from xz-utils, 4381 reverse build-depend) has never been under team maintainership as far as I can tell. Thanks! [0] According to `build-rdeps --distribution unstable libdeflate-dev` -- Michael R. Crusoe OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1076735: ITP: python-django-zeal -- Detect N+1s in your Django app

2024-07-22 Thread Michael Fladischer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Fladischer X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: python-django-zeal Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Contact: Tao Bojlén * URL : https://github.com/taobojlen

Bug#1076652: ITP: python-async-property -- decorator for async properties

2024-07-20 Thread Michael Fladischer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Fladischer X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: python-async-property Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Contact: Ryan Anguiano * URL : https://github.com

Bug#1076144: ITP: python-jq -- lightweight and flexible JSON processor

2024-07-11 Thread Michael Fladischer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Fladischer X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: python-jq Version : 1.7.0 Upstream Contact: Michael Williamson * URL : https://github.com

Re: default network management tools

2024-07-10 Thread Michael Biebl
p as smcv said, would be to make d-i/netcfg networkd aware. At the beginning, this could be opt-in (for testing purposes) and we could make it the default later on. Any takers? Regards, Michael OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: File descriptor hard limit is now bumped to the kernel max

2024-06-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 14.06.24 um 14:13 schrieb Mourad De Clerck: PSA: as of systemd/256~rc3-3 the open file descriptors hard limit is bumped early at boot from 1048576 to the max value that the kernel allows, which on amd64 is currently 1073741816. Hi, It seems some proprietary software (the JetBrains IDEs) has

Bug#1073003: ITP: python-django-structlog -- Structured Logging for Django

2024-06-11 Thread Michael Fladischer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Fladischer X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: python-django-structlog Version : 8.1.0 Upstream Contact: Michael Fladischer * URL : https

Bug#1072491: Dead keys stopped working in unspecified environment

2024-06-07 Thread Michael Rasmussen
losed with solution 'works here, must be user error' ;-) Sore to all for the noise. -- Hilsen/Regards Michael Rasmussen Get my public GnuPG keys: michael rasmussen cc https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/A1306C5094B5E31B7721A3A66F4844C7CA7501AA mir datanom net https://key

Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building

2024-06-06 Thread Michael Biebl
ting those things via debian/rules. Afaics, this would actually make efforts like reproducible builds *easier* as settings provided by reproducible-builds wouldn't be overwritten by debian/rules. Michael OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-13 Thread Michael Biebl
/master/debian/patches/debian/Bring-tmpfiles.d-tmp.conf-in-line-with-Debian-defaul.patch?ref_type=heads This patch/change was added in 2012 and has required very little to no maintenance since that time. So the cost of keeping it is very low maintenance wise. Michael OpenPGP_signature.asc

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 06.05.24 um 12:35 schrieb Simon Richter: Hi, On 5/6/24 17:40, Michael Biebl wrote: If we go with a/, then I think d-i should be updated to no longer create /tmp as a separate partition. I think if the admin explicitly configures tmpfs as a separate file system, then that should be

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-06 Thread Michael Biebl
feedback from all affected parties to make an informed decision. What upstream is doing should not be the only driving factor. Michael OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 06.05.24 um 12:15 schrieb Barak A. Pearlmutter: We have two separate issues here: a/ /tmp-on-tmpfs b/ time based clean-up of /tmp and /var/tmp I think it makes sense to discuss/handle those separately. Agreed. I also don't see any issue with a/, at worst people will be annoyed with it

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 05.05.24 um 22:04 schrieb Luca Boccassi: This will be mentioned in NEWS (and I guess in the release notes when the time comes), together with the instructions to override for anybody wanting to keep the old behaviour, which is as trivial as: .. touch /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf This doesn'

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-06 Thread Michael Biebl
t time minus the age field." I'm not sure if we have software on long running servers which place files in /tmp and /var/tmp and expect files to not be deleted during runtime, even if not accessed for a long time. This is certainly an issue to be aware of and keep an eye on. M

Bug#1069851: ITP: python-calendra -- Worldwide holidays and working days helper and toolkit

2024-04-25 Thread Michael Fladischer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Fladischer X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: python-calendra Version : 7.9.0 Upstream Contact: Jason R. Coombs * URL : https://github.com/jaraco

Re: Binary conflict between Midnight Commander and MinIO Client

2024-04-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 21.04.2024 um 18:31 schrieb Mathias Gibbens: Currently, Midnight Commander is packaged for Debian as `mc`. I am looking at packaging the MinIO Client (needed for a future release of Incus), which also unfortunately names its binary `mc`. MinIO upstream has been pretty clear that they don't

Bug#1069579: ITP: python-neapolitan -- quick CRUD views for Django

2024-04-20 Thread Michael Fladischer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Fladischer X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: python-neapolitan Version : 24.2 Upstream Contact: Carlton Gibson * URL : https://github.com

Bug#1068803: ITP: python-sphinxcontrib.django -- improves the documentation of Django apps

2024-04-11 Thread Michael Fladischer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Fladischer X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: python-sphinxcontrib.django Version : 2.5 Upstream Contact: Timo Brembeck * URL : https

Re: xz backdoor

2024-04-06 Thread Michael Shuler
, as we use them at work, so thanks for your work. I appreciate it, and I'm guessing there's a rather large, quiet group of people thinking the same. Kind regards, Michael

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-04-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 01:30:10AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: * add dependency-only packages called something like openssh-client-gsskex and openssh-server-gsskex, depending on their non-gsskex alternatives * add NEWS.Debian entry saying that people need to install these packages

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