Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-09-24 Thread Sven Bartscher
Hi Am 24.09.23 um 18:41 schrieb Salvo Tomaselli: Without an ftpteam hat on, but my point of view -- I believe the team would absolutely reject a package only based on its name (see: #914179). Not very consistently though: $ apt search penis | grep penis | wc -l 2 Can you please clarify what

Re: Automating signing of DKMS modules with machine owner key

2020-08-06 Thread Sven Bartscher
Hi, Am Thu, 6 Aug 2020 17:24:08 + schrieb Jeremy Stanley : > The idea is that UEFI/BIOS checks the signature for GRUB before > executing it, and does so instructing GRUB to verify the signature > for its config. GRUB then checks the signatures on the kernel and > initrd before handing off con

Re: Automating signing of DKMS modules with machine owner key

2020-08-05 Thread Sven Bartscher
Hi, On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 12:31:04 + Jeremy Stanley wrote: > Okay, so for systems to which a malicious party may gain physical > access (or remote console access) there's sort of a third risk this > addresses. A special case of the second risk really. *If* you're > also encrypting the filesyste

Re: Init systems and docker

2019-10-12 Thread Sven Bartscher
Hi, Am 12.10.19 um 19:00 schrieb Tomas Pospisek: > However running a service ("a single application") often implies > surrounding services. F.ex. you want logs to be saved? Maybe you need to > run cron or at? Maybe you want to get notified about problems, stats, > whatever via email? > > Now you

Re: GR: Declassifying debian-private: First call for votes

2016-10-09 Thread Sven Bartscher
- - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- d495b767-7754-4e61-80ea-8b31c07f3595 [ 2 ] Choice 1: Repeal previous GR [ 1 ] Choice 2: Acknowledge difficulty [ 4 ] Choice 3: Remain private [ 3 ] Choice 4: Further Discussion - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between T

Re: Policy 12.3: should I rename?

2016-07-28 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 23:09:36 +0200 Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Sven Bartscher > > > I am a developer and regardless of the distribution I use, I often have > > a slow internet connection. So having to download possibly large > > documentation is a problem for me.

Re: Policy 12.3: should I rename?

2016-07-26 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:59:43 +0200 Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Jonas Smedegaard > > > Quoting Tollef Fog Heen (2016-07-23 18:58:37) > > > ]] Geert Stappers > > > > > >> FWIW I agree with both '"main package "should have > > >> documentation' and 'additional documentation in separate doc >

Re: Bug#796529: ITP: local-apt-repository -- Ready to use local apt repository

2015-08-23 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 13:24:03 +0200 Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi Marvin, > > Am Samstag, den 22.08.2015, 16:47 -0400 schrieb Marvin Renich: > > I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that part of the > > purpose of /srv was to allow complete admin discretion with the > > directory struct

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-16 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 09:04:07 -0600 Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > I'd rather see gitlab.debian.net :) I don't a reason to have gitlab/github/someother git stuff for debian, since we already have alioth. Maybe someone can enlighten me. Regards Sven pgphXmA_4Agbj.pgp Description: Digitale Signat

Re: GHC FFI libraries depend on unversioned SO.

2014-08-21 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 21:16:41 +0200 Sven Bartscher wrote: > Greetings, > > I noticed that libghc-regex-pcre-dev doesn't depend on libpcre6, which > causes it to fail at import. > I tried to fix that and noticed that ghc searches for the unversioned > SO (i.e. libpcre.so

GHC FFI libraries depend on unversioned SO.

2014-08-20 Thread Sven Bartscher
Greetings, I noticed that libghc-regex-pcre-dev doesn't depend on libpcre6, which causes it to fail at import. I tried to fix that and noticed that ghc searches for the unversioned SO (i.e. libpcre.so instead of libpcre.so.3). Is this normal with GHC or is this just some bug in regex-pcre? If thi

Re: Hardware Support

2014-08-19 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:49:42 -0600 Ryan Burchett wrote: > Hello! My apologies if this is the wrong email to contact for my issue. debian-u...@lists.debian.org would have been better. > I would absolutely love to use Debian. I cannot do this however. The problem > I am having is that you guys do

Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-19 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:55:37 +0100 Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi again Sven, > > I would just ask one (I hope little) feature, I'm not an haskell guy, so I > find rather difficult to submit a patch :) > > I would like to see also this > outputUrl = > "people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/

Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-19 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:15:25 +0200 Sven Bartscher wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:53:52 +0200 > Jérôme Vouillon wrote: > > > Hi Joachim, > > > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:07:57, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > unfortunately, comigrate doesn’t cut it for our c

Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-19 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:53:52 +0200 Jérôme Vouillon wrote: > Hi Joachim, > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:07:57, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > unfortunately, comigrate doesn’t cut it for our case. From the page > > for haskell-hgettext, I get redirected to haskell-uniplate, and from > > there to other pa

Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-19 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:55:37 +0100 Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > I would just ask one (I hope little) feature, I'm not an haskell guy, so I > find rather difficult to submit a patch :) > > I would like to see also this > outputUrl = > "people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/u

Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-19 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 23:51:43 +0200 Pietro Abate wrote: > Hei Sven, > > On 18/08/14 18:10, Sven Bartscher wrote: > > If we have a package, which doesn't migrate to testing, we usually > > check the "Why does package X not in testing yet?" page or the PTS

Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-18 Thread Sven Bartscher
Greetings, If we have a package, which doesn't migrate to testing, we usually check the "Why does package X not in testing yet?" page or the PTS. Usually they do a great job in telling us why our package doesn't migrate. But sometimes you have packages, which have complicated dependencies, that d

Re: suspension bug

2014-08-14 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:23:05 +0200 Sven Bartscher wrote: > Greetings, > > I have found a bug and don't know which package to report it on. > The bug is that my computer immediately awakes from suspension if > certain USB devices are connected. > Can anyone point me at

Re: suspension bug

2014-08-14 Thread Sven Bartscher
issue can be dug into. I'm running testing, with systemd. I switched to systemd recently, but the with sysvinit I had the same problem. If you (or anyone else) have further questions, you can find in me in #debian-next (name: Kritzefitz). > On 14 August 2014 19:45, Sven Bartscher > wro

Re: suspension bug

2014-08-14 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:34:23 -0300 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > On Thursday 14 August 2014 19:23:05 Sven Bartscher wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I have found a bug and don't know which package to report it on. > > The bug is that my computer immed

Re: suspension bug

2014-08-14 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 20:13:04 +0200 Tomasz Nitecki wrote: > On 14/08/14 19:23, Sven Bartscher wrote: > > I have found a bug and don't know which package to report it on. > > The bug is that my computer immediately awakes from suspension if > > certain USB devices are

suspension bug

2014-08-14 Thread Sven Bartscher
Greetings, I have found a bug and don't know which package to report it on. The bug is that my computer immediately awakes from suspension if certain USB devices are connected. Can anyone point me at the right package? Regards Sven signature.asc Description: PGP signature

NVIDIA CUDA headers

2014-08-05 Thread Sven Bartscher
Greetings everyone, I recently tried to compile some library against libcuda1. However I couldn't do so because the headers, in this case cuda.h, were missing. I searched a lot through the different cuda and nvidia packages but couldn't find a package containing the headers. A search on packages.d

Re: systemd-sysv/shim in testing

2014-07-27 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:21:56 +0200 Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Sonntag, 27. Juli 2014, Dominik George wrote: > > >To make it short: I suggest that systemd should only migrate together > > >with systemd-shim. > > ACK! > > I think you missed the mail (on this list) which explained that syst

systemd-sysv/shim in testing

2014-07-27 Thread Sven Bartscher
Greetings everyone, As brought up in this[0] thread, systemd-shim became incompatible with the latest versions of systemd and the alternative dependency was removed. While this is something I can totally understand, I don't think that systemd should migrate to testing without the possibility to u

"thanks" messages on mailing lists/bug reports

2014-06-27 Thread Sven Bartscher
Greetings everyone, I recently started contributing to debian. Before that, most of my writing with people I don't know personally through the internet was on Stack Exchange. On Stack Exchange, messages that only consist of thanking people or agreement are not considered helpful. This in mind I'm

Re: DFSG : Really useful?

2014-04-27 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 14:16:31 +0200 Solal wrote: > > I see that you don't like the DFSG. But as already has been said: We > > are Debian and follow our own contract and not a contact of some other > > project/company. > > I think if you have problems with the DFSG you should propose changes > > to

Re: DFSG : Really useful?

2014-04-27 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 12:05:21 +0200 Solal wrote: > The two documents are incompatible, and the DFSG is very laxist and do > not protects completely freedom. FSDG protects freedoms : it resolves > issues : proprietary software is totally banned, patents are prohibited, > trademarks limited, etc. >

Re: DFSG : Really useful?

2014-04-25 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:14:49 +0200 Solal wrote: > Why not just take the Free Software Definition[0] instead lose a lot of > time in specific guidelines. > I think use the Free System Distribution Guidelines published by the > FSF[1] is the best way. Use the FSDG instead of the DFSG will : > -Be m

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-09 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 13:04:09 -0500 Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Each of us will have different anecdotary evidence pushing the opinion > one way or the other. We cannot please everyody with a single DE, and > that's (part of) the reason there are so many. I can speak you of the > users I switched over tha

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-09 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 23:10:13 -0300 converge wrote: > The point is: is all this effort pointing to the future of linux > desktop, or is it just some workaround to try to make users a bit happy > for now ? > > The truth is that linux still doesn't have a competidor for windows and > mac window

Re: identifying unused manually installed packages

2014-03-28 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:05:49 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Sven Bartscher wrote: > > > Also I'm not really sure if this is even a good idea, or if there is > > maybe another program already present which does already identify > > unused

identifying unused manually installed packages

2014-03-27 Thread Sven Bartscher
which does already identify unused, manually installed packages and I just didn't find it. But if this approach is maybe a good idea. Would it be worth to consider packaging it? If so, I would be able to maintain it, even though I would need a sponsor. What are your thoughts on this approach

Re: "contrib" and "nonfree" distribs

2014-02-28 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:21:13 +0100 Bálint Réczey wrote: > Hi Solal, > > 2014-02-28 19:24 GMT+01:00 Solal Rastier : > > Le 28 févr. 2014 à 19:22, Octavio Alvarez a > > écrit : > > > >> On 02/28/2014 09:29 AM, Solal Rastier wrote: > > > My mail client top-posting automtically. I don't compare W

Bug#739538: ITP: libghc-setlocale -- Haskell bindings to setlocale()

2014-02-19 Thread Sven Bartscher
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sven Bartscher * Package name: libghc-setlocale Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Name l@web.de * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/setlocale * License : PublicDomain Programming Lang: haskell Description