Re: Bug#1094969: git linked with OpenSSL

2025-04-14 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Chris" == Chris Hofstaedtler writes: Chris> brian m. carlson (one of the git upstream copyright holders) Chris> claims in Bug #1094969 that git cannot be distributed when Chris> linked with OpenSSL. IIRC the Debian position is to use the Chris> system library exception. T

Re: Bug#1094969: git linked with OpenSSL

2025-04-14 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Chris" == Chris Hofstaedtler writes: Chris> brian m. carlson (one of the git upstream copyright holders) Chris> claims in Bug #1094969 that git cannot be distributed when Chris> linked with OpenSSL. IIRC the Debian position is to use the Chris> system library exception. [T

Re: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package?

2025-03-25 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Andreas" == Andreas Tille writes: >> The move to the debian namespace cannot be easily undone, as >> those repos are protected and require an salsa admin to act on >> e.g for (re)moving it. Andreas> Another upload, with the removal of the Vcs fields, would Andreas> ef

Re: Packages with a history of security issues and whose packaged version is not up to date

2025-02-18 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Santiago" == Santiago Ruano Rincón writes: Santiago> Dear Debian fellows, I am writing this email under the Santiago> hypothesis that having the latest (or longest supported) Santiago> upstream version in the next release will: 1. make it Santiago> easier to provide securit

Re: Do we need a conflict of interest policy?

2025-02-07 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Charles" == Charles Plessy writes: Charles> Hi all, we are so diverse, that when the possibility of a Charles> conflict of interest arises in a situation, it is too late, Charles> because we are not even going to agree on what a conflict Charles> of interest is, and how to

Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-28 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Russ" == Russ Allbery writes: Russ> recollection (it's been a *lot* of years so I'm hoping I'm Russ> getting this right) is that this interfered with proper symbol Russ> versioning and could cause the symbols to be resolved weirdly Russ> in a way that could cause serious bu

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-24 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Gioele" == Gioele Barabucci writes: Gioele> On 24/01/25 13:18, Colin Watson wrote: >> I agree with this. From Otto in another thread: >> >> "It is sad to see that in Debian usage of git is stifled by >> simple things like people not agreeing to use a common branch

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-23 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Otto" == Otto Kekäläinen writes: Otto> Hi, Otto> On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 at 17:52, Wookey wrote: Otto> .. >> Right. I look at bug reports for my packages (eventually). I have >> never looked at a Salsa merge request in my life. That's just >> /dev/null for my packages.

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-23 Thread Sam Hartman
Otto> Hi, >> Are discussions at Salsa preserved years down the line? Otto> confident that contents can be migrated. We already Otto> successfully migrated git.debian.org to salsa.debian.org. Actually, I think this is a lot of the problem. We did not migrate all the alioth conte

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

2025-01-23 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Otto" == Otto Kekäläinen writes: Otto> I would be curious to hear why people are *not* adopting Otto> 'debian/latest'? Because debian/latest is more to type and because until we adopt something I think has a chance of getting real conformity, I am far more interested in my own co

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-23 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Jonas" == Jonas Smedegaard writes: Jonas> Quoting Matthew Vernon (2025-01-23 15:28:00) >> Otto Kekäläinen writes: >> >> > Numerous people are posting Merge Requests on Salsa. Please >> help review them! >> >> I'd much much rather MRs were associated with bug

Re: Is HURD's lack of HOST_NAME_MAX and PATH_MAX a good architectural approach

2025-01-20 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Samuel" == Samuel Thibault writes: Samuel> And unfortunately, code that just uses PATH_MAX as Samuel> allocation size most often do not really take care about Samuel> this case, and then get possibly vulnerable. Right, I'm just not sure the HURD approach is better. The pam 1.

Re: Is HURD's lack of HOST_NAME_MAX and PATH_MAX a good architectural approach

2025-01-20 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Samuel" == Samuel Thibault writes: Samuel> Hello, Sam Hartman, le lun. 20 janv. 2025 13:21:32 -0700, a Samuel> ecrit: >> I will admit I was kind of disappointed that rather than working >> to make my package handle arbitrary hostn

Please Test Pam 1.7.0 from experimental

2025-01-20 Thread Sam Hartman
Please test pam from experimental. Upstream made some significant changes including completely rewriting the build system from autotools to meson. I've also made some significant changes around pam_limits and when we override limits set by systemd (now, we normally do not). I'd love testing of

Is HURD's lack of HOST_NAME_MAX and PATH_MAX a good architectural approach

2025-01-20 Thread Sam Hartman
TL;DR: Is it time for the rest of Debian to stop conforming to HURD's lack of maximums for path and hostname? By thispoint I think we recognize those lack of maximums as an anti-pattern for DOS prevention and other security reasons. back in the day when I got my first HURD compatibility patch, I

Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-16 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Simon" == Simon McVittie writes: Simon> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 at 09:41:51 -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: >> (We'd also need to do something about libpam0g-dev man pages). Simon> Moving user-facing documentation from libpam0g into either

Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-16 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Richter writes: Simon> Hi, Simon> On 1/16/25 01:43, Sam Hartman wrote: >> For a while we just built the man pages but if any of the docbook >> tools changed between one arch build and another, we'd end up

Re: Bug#1093222: Minimizing build-arch for pam

2025-01-16 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Simon" == Simon McVittie writes: Simon> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 at 09:38:38 -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: >> But the meson setup call is in override_dh_auto_configure. I >> don't know at that point how to figure out of I am building arch

Bug#1093222: Minimizing build-arch for pam

2025-01-16 Thread Sam Hartman
package: pam version: 1.5.3-1 severity: wishlist tags: help > "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes: [talking about pam manpages] Helmut> From a package building pov, I'd appreciate if you could Helmut> also move the tools for building the manual pages to Helmut> Build-Depends-Indep

Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-16 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Guillem" == Guillem Jover writes: Guillem> Hi! Guillem> On Wed, 2025-01-15 at 09:43:36 -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: >> My proposal is to move the man pages into libpam-doc. I'm not >> actually convinced that normal Debian use

Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-15 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "G" == G Branden Robinson writes: G> At 2025-01-15T12:45:22-0700, Sam Hartman wrote: Marvin> I have on a number of occasions used these man pages, and Marvin> having them installed locally is very helpful. I would Marvin> rather hav

Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-15 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Marvin" == Marvin Renich writes: Marvin> I have on a number of occasions used these man pages, and Marvin> having them installed locally is very helpful. I would Marvin> rather have the man pages installed without the additional Marvin> documentation in libpam-doc. Why n

Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-15 Thread Sam Hartman
TL;DR: I propose move man pages out of a multi-arch: same package into a arch all package. Asking for any downsides and usrmerge review. I'm in the process of packaging pam 1.7.0. Upstream has moved from autotools to meson and in the process has streamlined their release tarballs to remove all or

Re: Problems to find sponsors

2024-12-10 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Xiyue" == Xiyue Deng writes: Xiyue> Thanks for your input! For sure if what-you-suggest happens Xiyue> on a regular basis it would be great. I am just hoping to Xiyue> let perspective DD sponsors have less concerns that we as Xiyue> sponsees don't necessarily want to take

Re: Problems to find sponsors (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-09 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Andrey" == Andrey Rakhmatullin writes: Andrey> On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 03:30:23PM -0800, Xiyue Deng wrote: >> It would be great to have a group of DDs that are willing to >> regularly check for RFS bugs / mentors.d.n and offer sponsorship Andrey> Sure. This is true since t

Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests?

2024-12-06 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Josh" == Josh Triplett writes: Josh> In the future, I hope we have a more fine-grained mechanism Josh> that allows saying "X recommends Y if Z is installed" (or even Josh> "X depends on Y if Z is installed"). I'd really like this, both for Debian work and for downstream work o

Re: Accepting DEP14?

2024-08-16 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Andreas" == Andreas Tille writes: Andreas> Are there any blockers to accept this DEP which I might Andreas> have missed? Honestly, the git-buildpackage default layout is good enough, and dep-14 involves change that doesn't feel like it brings enough value to me. I.E. I think t

Re: Urgent help with upload of netatalk to prevent being autoremoval from testing

2024-06-29 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Daniel" == Daniel Markstedt writes: Daniel> Hi all, I have drafted a release of the netatalk package Daniel> that addresses 5 critical deb bugs. However, I myself am Daniel> only an uploader in name and don't yet have actual upload Daniel> privileges. And my co-maintainer

Re: Builds that pass locally but fail on sbuild? (Re: Reviving schroot as used by sbuild)

2024-06-29 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Richard" == Richard Lewis writes: Richard> Otto Kekäläinen writes: >> Could you point me to some Debian Bug # or otherwise share >> examples of cases when a build succeeded locally but failed on >> official Debian builders due to something that is specific for >> sbuil

Re: Reviving schroot as used by sbuild

2024-06-28 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes: Helmut> In this work, limitations with --chroot-mode=unshare became Helmut> apparent and that lead to Johannes, Jochen and me sitting Helmut> down in Berlin pondering ideas on how to improve the Helmut> situation. That is a longer story, but

Re: Salsa - best thing in Debian in recent years? (Re: finally end single-person maintainership)

2024-05-21 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Otto" == Otto Kekäläinen writes: Otto> Would you be kind and try to understand the opposing viewpoint Otto> by trying it for one day? Otto> You could go to Otto> https://salsa.debian.org/debbugs-team/debbugs/-/merge_requests/19 Otto> and conduct a code review? I have n

Re: Bug#966621: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-07 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Luca" == Luca Boccassi writes: Luca> On Mon, 6 May 2024 at 15:42, Richard Lewis Luca> wrote: >> >> Luca Boccassi writes: >> >> > Hence, I am not really looking for philosophical discussions or >> lists > of personal preferences or hypotheticals, but for fact

Re: 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]

2024-05-07 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Johannes" == Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues writes: >> > > If [files can be deleted automatically while mmdebstrap is using them], >> > > how should applications guard against that from >> > > happening? >> > >> > As documented in tmpfiles.d(5), if mmdebstrap takes ou

Re: Y2038-safe replacements for utmp/wtmp and lastlog

2024-04-26 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Chris" == Chris Hofstaedtler writes: Chris> Fellow Developers, Chris> you are probably aware of the time_t-64bit migration :-) Chris> However, this does not magically transition all data formats to 64bit Chris> times. One such instance is the set of utmp/wtmp and lastlog fi

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-22 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Niels" == Niels Thykier writes: Niels> # The proposal Niels> I think our package helper tooling should just automatically Niels> aggregate all provided substvars of the format ${*:Depends} Niels> and append it the Depends field. Rinse and repeat for other Niels> relati

Re: Bug#1063329: libselinux1t64: breaks system in upgrade from unstable

2024-02-08 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes: Helmut> pam seems difficult: | extern time_t Helmut> pam_misc_conv_warn_time; /* time that we should warn user */ Helmut> | extern time_t pam_misc_conv_die_time; /* cut-off time for Helmut> input */ Helmut> We cannot symbol-version thes

Re: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID

2024-01-21 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Stan" == Stan Johnson writes: Stan> sysvinit-core. But if wdm really does require systemd now, Stan> that might explain this issue, with other X packages being Stan> dependent on either wdm or systemd. As I recall, wdm is the It does not look like wdm requires systemd. I set up

Please help test the PAM in experimental

2024-01-19 Thread Sam Hartman
There are a number of changes, and I'd just like a bit more confidence that it works as expected before uploading to unstable in about a week. Changes include: * Running pam_umask with usergroups support by default. * libpam-modules now depends on libsystemd0 because utmp is not y2038-clean a

Re: Limited security support for Go/Rust? Re ssh3

2024-01-16 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson writes: Simon> Right, these are slightly different technical problems, but Simon> as far as the brief discussion in the release notes -- Simon> https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#golang-static-linking

Re: 64-bit time_t: updated archive analysis, proposed transition plan with timeline

2024-01-06 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Steve" == Steve Langasek writes: >> At one level, krb5-multidev only has an rdep of 5, but I suspect >> the rdep count for libkrb5-dev is somewhat larger:-) I don't know >> how many packages would be removed from the transition if we >> decide most of the krb5 libraries do

Re: 64-bit time_t: updated archive analysis, proposed transition plan with timeline

2024-01-05 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Steve" == Steve Langasek writes: Steve> - In multi-library packages, there is no reliable way to map Steve> from a set of headers in a dev package to specific shared Steve> libraries in a runtime library package that's not Steve> additionally computationally prohibitive; we

Re: Bug#1060034: ITP: python-openai -- OpenAI Python API library

2024-01-05 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Mo" == Mo Zhou writes: Mo> On 1/5/24 11:45, Ansgar wrote: >> Then the package should be in main. >> >> We do not require external software to be free as well, be that >> Web APIs provided by Github, Twitter, or the NVidia firmware >> required for Nouveau, microcode

Re: allow missing description fields and empty long descriptions for Rust/etc packages?

2023-09-20 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Paul" == Paul Wise writes: Paul> Hi all, I have noticed that almost all Rust packages in Debian Paul> have boilerplate long descriptions that aren't very useful to Paul> Debian users. The only useful info is the crate name, but that Paul> is also in the package name. Pa

Re: lpr/lpd

2023-09-18 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Christoph" == Christoph Biedl writes: Christoph> "cups-bsd | lpr". For lpr, that might be xpaint. For Christoph> lprng, I have no idea. And there's little chance to know. For a long time (possibly still) MIT's printing infrastructure required lprng and I don't think made it easy

Re: sysadmin configuration of sparse-/etc vs prepopulated-/etc?

2023-09-16 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Josh" == Josh Triplett writes: Josh> If we're talking about developing a solution that doesn't Josh> already exist, why not have that solution *be* the Josh> notification-and-diff/show-the-defaults mechanism you're Josh> describing? For instance, provide a declarative mecha

Re: Do not plan to support /usr/lib/pam.d for Debian pam

2023-09-16 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery writes: Russ> Sam Hartman writes: >>>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Pentchev writes: Peter> Hm, what happens if a sysadmin deliberately removed a file Peter> that the distribution ships i

Re: Do not plan to support /usr/lib/pam.d for Debian pam

2023-09-15 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Pentchev writes: Peter> On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 09:53:24PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: >> On Fri, 15 Sept 2023 at 21:08, Sam Hartman wrote: Peter> Hm, what happens if a sysadmin deliberately removed a file Peter

Re: Do not plan to support /usr/lib/pam.d for Debian pam

2023-09-15 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Luca" == Luca Boccassi writes: Luca> With the provision that I know next to nothing about pam - if Luca> I understood correctly how it works, why not simply do both? Luca> Ship the default file in the package under both /usr and Luca> /etc. Then, you get the semantics you w

Do not plan to support /usr/lib/pam.d for Debian pam

2023-09-15 Thread Sam Hartman
Apropos of the discussion about removing default configuration from /etc. Upstream PAM now supports doing that. You can set up a vendor directory such as /usr/lib where pam.d and security live. I thought about doing that for Debian PAM, and have decided against. My rationale is that I actually

Re: armhf NEON exception for chromium

2023-09-15 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Andres" == Andres Salomon writes: Andres> Any thoughts on this? Please explicitly Cc me on replies, as Andres> I'm not subscribed to any of the lists. Makes sense to me.

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-18 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Roberto" == Roberto C Sánchez writes: Roberto> sources." I mean, if you're going to wave the code of Roberto> conduct around (or Andy in the case of the initial report), Roberto> then perhaps we ought to distinguish between what the code Roberto> of conduct was very clearly

Re: Potential MBF: packages failing to build twice in a row

2023-08-15 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Lucas" == Lucas Nussbaum writes: Lucas> But unless we go further than that and decide that we don't Lucas> care at all about 'source builds after successful builds', Lucas> the bugs (which where filed severity:minor) remain valid. FWIW in terms of building toward a consensus.

Re: proposal: dhcpcd-base as standard DHCP client starting with Trixie

2023-07-12 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Lukas" == Lukas Märdian writes: Lukas> That would lead to a situation where users would need to Lukas> differentiate what system they are on when doing their Lukas> network configuration: Debian Cloud (Netplan) No, I think if the user is feeding configuration into a cloud image

Re: proposal: dhcpcd-base as standard DHCP client starting with Trixie

2023-07-12 Thread Sam Hartman
> "nick" == nick black writes: I consider anything that requires me to write wpa_supplicant config to be a bad idea (unless I'm running an AP) and NetworkManager driving wpa_supplicant is a better idea. --Sam

Re: proposal: dhcpcd-base as standard DHCP client starting with Trixie

2023-07-11 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Lukas" == Lukas Märdian writes: Lukas> Therefore, I'd love to see Netplan to be used in combination Lukas> with this! It's a clean, declarative configuration language Lukas> not specifically tied to systemd-networkd as an Lukas> implementation. So it could also be used on

Re: Second take at DEP17 - consensus call on /usr-merge matters

2023-07-10 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Timo" == Timo Röhling writes: Nod, I was wrong. Wanted to ex plicitly acknowledge that, although I think it is also obvious from other mails.

Re: Second take at DEP17 - consensus call on /usr-merge matters

2023-07-10 Thread Sam Hartman
Hi. I have read both of your messages over the weekend multiple times. I don't think replying point-by-point is going to be all that helpful, although if there are any cases where you'd like me to do that, I will. * I am really impressed with the work you are putting in on all this. You have do

Re: Second take at DEP17 - consensus call on /usr-merge matters

2023-07-08 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes: Helmut> Hi Sam, Helmut> On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 08:50:49AM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: >> >> TL;DR: It looks like if we do not want to encode merged /usr into >> the bootstrap pr

Re: proposal: dhcpcd-base as standard DHCP client starting with Trixie

2023-07-07 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Bastian" == Bastian Blank writes: Bastian> On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 09:06:24PM -0300, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: >> For the moment, ifupdown is still installed by the >> debian-installer as default network interfaces manager. And after >> sleeping over it, and discussing

Re: Second take at DEP17 - consensus call on /usr-merge matters

2023-07-07 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Hartman writes: Sam> TL;DR: It looks like if we do not want to encode merged /usr Sam> into the bootstrap protocol, we must keep some aliases and Sam> cannot move all files in data.tar. I think removing all Sam> aliasing i

Re: Second take at DEP17 - consensus call on /usr-merge matters

2023-07-07 Thread Sam Hartman
TL;DR: It looks like if we do not want to encode merged /usr into the bootstrap protocol, we must keep some aliases and cannot move all files in data.tar. I think removing all aliasing is important and so I am firmly in the camp of doing usrmerge in the bootstrap protocol. > "Helmut" == Helm

Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal

2023-07-06 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes: Helmut> I concur. Given Simon's analysis and the replies even when Helmut> combined with earlier messages, I now see significantly more Helmut> voices for the opinion: Helmut> i386 primarily exists for running legacy binaries and He

Re: Second take at DEP17 - consensus call on /usr-merge matters

2023-07-06 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Russ" == Russ Allbery writes: Russ> Helmut Grohne writes: Russ> What Sam is trying to Russ> say, I think, is that a different phrasing offers a way to Russ> avoid that discussion and agree to disagree on the best Russ> architecture in the abstract by pointing out an a

Re: Second take at DEP17 - consensus call on /usr-merge matters

2023-06-28 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes: I believe I'm up on this discussion to at least comment on the consensus calls you discuss in the mail. Except where noted below, I support your reading of consensus. Helmut> Consensus proposal #1: Helmut> This updated DEP17 is a complete rep

Re: Policy consensus on transition when removing initscripts.

2023-06-28 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Simon" == Simon Richter writes: >> It also seems a bit strange to require more from the maintainer >> when they are dropping an init script than we would if a >> maintainer started depending on a feature like socket activation >> such that their packkage simply would not wo

Re: Policy consensus on transition when removing initscripts.

2023-06-28 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Russ" == Russ Allbery writes: Russ> I think the open question is whether we're happy to just break Russ> init scripts in unstable, since that migration path means Russ> there will always be a window where a fully-upgraded unstable Russ> system has no init script for a packa

Re: booststrapping /usr-merged systems (was: Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg)

2023-05-17 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes: Helmut> Moving on to category 4 feels rather obvious, especially Helmut> because work has been done there in debootstrap. The Helmut> approach in debootstrap however is one that I see as a dead Helmut> end, because it causes us to maintain t

Re: booststrapping /usr-merged systems (was: Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg)

2023-05-17 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes: Helmut> I think at this point, we have quite universal consensus Helmut> about the goal of moving files to their canonical location Helmut> (i.e. from / to /usr) as a solution to the aliasing problems Helmut> while we do not have consensus o

What *is* the amd64 ABI

2023-05-15 Thread Sam Hartman
We've all been talking about the x86_64 ABI, and I'm realizing I'm never read it. Are we talking about https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/elf/x86_64-abi-0.99.pdf --Sam

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-05-08 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes: Helmut> Hi Luca, Helmut> On Sun, May 07, 2023 at 12:51:21PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: >> The local/external aspect is already covered in Ansgar's reply >> and subthread. Helmut> I hope that we can at least agree that we don't have

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-05-02 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes: Helmut> Luca Boccassi kindly pointed me at config-package-dev Helmut> though. This is a tool for generating local packages and it Helmut> also employs dpkg-divert. There is a significant risk of Helmut> breaking this use case. If we were to

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-04-26 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Simon" == Simon McVittie writes: Simon> You might reasonably say that "the maintainer of bar didn't Simon> add the correct Breaks/Replaces on foo" is a RC bug in bar - Simon> and it is! - but judging by the number of "missing Simon> Breaks/Replaces" bug reports that have to

Re: An email address for drive-by bug reports?

2023-04-09 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Ivan" == Ivan Shmakov writes: >> Having a bunch of problem reports that no one is interested in >> cluttering up package pages has a cost. Just for the same >> reasons you don't want these reports cluttering up your bugs from >> page, I perhaps don't want them cluttering

Re: An email address for drive-by bug reports?

2023-03-01 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Gioele" == Gioele Barabucci writes: Gioele> For example I have opened bugs years ago against packages Gioele> that I do not use anymore. These reports are still valid and Gioele> sometime others comment on them, but I would no longer be Gioele> able to, for example, respond

Re: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nowerror

2023-02-27 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Steve" == Steve Langasek writes: Steve> If this is for people doing out-of-archive builds who don't Steve> want to deal with failures from -Werror, I can see how having Steve> a single environment toggle is useful to them; but it doesn't Steve> seem useful to *Debian* when s

Re: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nowerror

2023-02-27 Thread Sam Hartman
Helmut> The problem here specifically arises, because we do not have Helmut> consensus on -Werror being a bad idea in release builds. I agree with your reading of consensus and for that reason support registering an option to say do not use -Werror.

Re: Bug#1031634: ITP: gum -- A tool for glamourous shell scripts

2023-02-22 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Antonio" == Antonio Terceiro writes: Antonio> On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 09:24:29AM -0700, Scarlett Moore wrote: >> >> On 2/21/23 15:03, Ryan Kavanagh wrote: >> > On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 09:01:56AM -0700, Scarlett Moore wrote: >> > > Description : A tool for glamourous sh

Re: Yearless copyrights: what do people think?

2023-02-22 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Peter" == Peter Pentchev writes: Peter> 3. Now, what about the `Files: debian/*` section of the Peter> debian/copyright file? The common wisdom seems to be that, if Peter> only to make it easier to submit patches to the upstream Peter> project, the debian/* files ought to b

Re: Yearless copyrights: what do people think?

2023-02-22 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Peter" == Peter Pentchev writes: Peter> Hi, So I've seen this idea floating around in the past couple Peter> of years (and in some places even earlier), but I started Peter> doing it for the couple of pieces of software that I am Peter> upstream for after reading Daniel Ste

Re: rust-*/librust-* arch:any vs. arch:all and cross-compilation support

2023-02-15 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Fabian" == Fabian Grünbichler writes: Fabian> All in all it seems to me like the problem currently is more Fabian> a theoretical one - it doesn't seem to cause (much, if at Fabian> all) additional breakage on top of stuff that is already not Fabian> cross compilable at the m

Re: rust-*/librust-* arch:any vs. arch:all and cross-compilation support

2023-02-15 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Fabian" == Fabian Grünbichler writes: Fabian> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023, at 7:51 PM, Fabian Grünbichler wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm writing this mail in order to get further input from >> knowledgeable, but not directly involved DDs - mostly those >> involved with cross-bui

Re: 32bit arch packages are built with wrong ownership due to fakeroot bug

2023-02-10 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Johannes" == Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues writes: Johannes> This will of course just paper over the issue without Johannes> fixing the underlying cause. It's what I called "not a Johannes> good idea" in my last mail. I like the explicit chgrp style because it explicitly do

Re: Consensus on closing old bugs

2023-02-06 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Tomas" == Tomas Pospisek writes: Tomas> All that said, I have never received negative feedback to Tomas> these bug triages that I am occassionaly doing and am under Tomas> the impression that the maintainers *do* appreciate someone Tomas> going over their packages bugs from

Re: Please, minimize your build chroots

2023-01-28 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Santiago" == Santiago Vila writes: Santiago> El 28/1/23 a las 20:44, Sebastian Ramacher escribió: >> On 2023-01-28 15:03:04 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 12:24:47PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: ... * Those bugs are RC by definition and have been

Re: Should singularity-container make it to next release?

2023-01-26 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Nilesh" == Nilesh Patra writes: Nilesh> Since I had done quite a bit of work on this, I'm a sad to Nilesh> see this happen, as fasttrack still has much less visibility Nilesh> / availability than an official stable release, or even Nilesh> backports. Well, if you and a gro

Re: need we support unshadowed passwords from the installer

2023-01-14 Thread Sam Hartman
> "nick" == nick black writes: nick> it's 2023 and imho time to stop supporting unshadowed nick> passwords from the installer. Yes, absolutely. I am familiar with nis/PAM/shadow/LDAP, have deployed NIS (although not nisplus), and have been around long enough to understand the issues.

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-10 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Andreas" == Andreas Metzler writes: Andreas> Afaiui Graham's *question* was in response to Bastian's Andreas> "However, please describe an actionable plan." Obviously it Andreas> would be a lot easier if we could require to have all NEW Andreas> uploads go to experimental in

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-09 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Graham" == Graham Inggs writes: Graham> Hi All Graham> On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 00:33, Bastian Blank wrote: Graham> Would it be a bad thing to require all uploads that need to Graham> go through NEW (source and binary) to target experimental? Graham> I have been doing t

Re: looking for debian friendly web app technology

2022-12-12 Thread Sam Hartman
>I wrote too early sry. A desktop app is also possible. I will use qt. >Thanks for your time. QT accessibility has improved a lot, but I suspect that a single page web app with vuejs and a good widget set on top of that is going to be more accessible than a QT app even today. I find I stumble

Re: [DEVEL] Enable support for Renesas platform (section: live images)

2022-11-21 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Huỳnh" == Huỳnh Thành Hưng writes: Huỳnh> Hi all, Special thanks to all of you, your replies really Huỳnh> help me to know what I need to do. Weekly build image will Huỳnh> help me reach to the target sooner than "Bookworm version". Let us clarify a bit. Our hope is that you

Re: libpaper and gnulib

2022-11-13 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Reuben" == Reuben Thomas writes: Reuben> I am a bit torn here: with my DM hat on, stripping out Reuben> gnulib sources where possible and using Debian's gnulib Reuben> package seems the right thing to do. With my upstream hat Reuben> on it leads potentially to bug reports

Re: TMPDIR behaviour in maintainer scripts [was: Re: Bug#1023778: mysql-server-8.0: fails to restart on upgrade with libpam-tmpdir]

2022-11-13 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Otto" == Otto Kekäläinen writes: Otto> Instead of manually trying to manage TMPDIR env variable in Otto> various places, we should have a standardized way to run Otto> maintainer scripts in clean shell sessions that have all env Otto> variables set automatically correctly.

Re: Sunsetting sso.debian.org

2022-10-17 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Stephan" == Stephan Lachnit writes: Stephan> On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 11:57 AM Bastian Blank wrote: >> >> Everyone coming up with solutions, please review the old thread >> about that >> https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20200405184610.ga581...@waldi.eu.org

Moving netboot debian-installer binaries out of main?

2022-10-05 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Steve" == Steve McIntyre writes: Steve> Hi all! [ I've also blogged about this - see Steve> https://blog.einval.com/2022/10/02#firmware-vote-result ] Steve> I'm assuming that there will be no surprises and Kurt will Steve> shortly confirm the result that devotee reported

Re: Switch default from PulseAudio to PipeWire (and WirePlumber) for audio

2022-09-28 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Dylan" == Dylan Aïssi writes: Dylan> We cannot talk about PipeWire without mentioning its session Dylan> manager. Thus, this change should go along the switch of the Dylan> default session manager, i.e. from the deprecated Dylan> pipewire-media-session to WirePlumber. We

Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-26 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Simon" == Simon McVittie writes: Simon> I don't think building from the least-derived form is always Simon> the right thing to do. For instance, take rust-glib-sys, a Simon> package of Rust bindings for the GLib library, which is one Simon> of the libraries whose handling p

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-20 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Andrey" == Andrey Rahmatullin writes: Andrey> More sensible than not filing it? This defeats both Andrey> purposes of an ITP: getting it discussed and working as a Andrey> mutex for people who are thinking about packaging the same Andrey> software. Are there other purposes?

Re: RFC: Switch default from netkit-telnet(d) to inetutils-telnet(d)

2022-07-19 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Guillem" == Guillem Jover writes: Guillem> Hi! There's been talk about switching away from Guillem> netkit-telnet and netkit-telnetd as the default Guillem> implementations for some time now, and replacing them with Guillem> the ones from inetutils, which is a maintained p

Re: Bug#1013132: ITP: BabaSSL -- BabaSSL is a base library for modern cryptography and communication security protocols.

2022-06-30 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Stephan" == Stephan Verbücheln writes: Stephan> As far as I understand it, the main point of BabaSSL is to Stephan> add support for Chinese developed ciphers and algorithms. It looked like there were two main points. The first was in fact these ciphers. I don't think that's a good

Re: Firmware: Scope of non-free-firmware

2022-05-10 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Vincent" == Vincent Bernat writes: Vincent> ❦ 10 May 2022 14:30 -06, Sam Hartman: >> 2) We value being able to build from source when we can. We value >> being able to have reproducible builds when we can. We don't want >>

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