Re: getaddrinfo() return value chaos

2013-08-28 Thread Thomas Hood
urther discussion can best be carried on in the upstream Bugzilla ticket. Arising from the discussion in that ticket an effort has begun better to describe the desired behavior of getaddrinfo(). Initial results can be seen here: http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/NameResolver -- Thomas Hood -- To

Re: Preventing government subversion in Debian, verification of binary package uploads

2013-08-24 Thread Thomas Hood
e doing so. So perhaps the more pertinent question is, what safeguards does Debian have against infiltration? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Re: Fwd: /etc/hosts and resolving of the local host/domainname - 127.0.0.1 vs. 127.0.1.1

2013-08-09 Thread Thomas Hood
Op 8 aug. 2013 17:49 schreef "Tom H" het volgende: > The output below is from Debian Sid with libnss-myhostname installed [...] > [root@debdeb:/etc]# cat hostname > debdeb > [root@debdeb:/etc]# cat hosts > 127.0.0.1 localhost > [root@debdeb:/etc]# getent hosts 127.0.1.1 > 192.168.1.250 debdeb T

Re: Fwd: /etc/hosts and resolving of the local host/domainname - 127.0.0.1 vs. 127.0.1.1

2013-08-07 Thread Thomas Hood
Op 7 aug. 2013 10:33 schreef "Wouter Verhelst" het volgende: > Historically, "localhost" has always been "127.0.0.1". It feels wrong to > change that, simply because "localhost" starts showing up in places it > was never meant to show up in. To clarify, no one is proposing that 'localhost' be ass

Fwd: /etc/hosts and resolving of the local host/domainname - 127.0.0.1 vs. 127.0.1.1

2013-08-05 Thread Thomas Hood
.g., 'localhost' appearing in log files) then I'd like to see the malfunctioning packages fixed in advance of the transition from 127.0.1.1 to 127.0.0.1. And before making this potentially disruptive change, I'd like to see evidence that the current practice actually causes problem

Re: getaddrinfo() return value chaos

2013-07-11 Thread Thomas Hood
nameserver replies that the hostname does not exist: EAI_FAIL > - The nameserver doesn't reply, or replies with a temporary failure: EAI_AGAIN > - You used AI_NUMERICHOST or AI_NUMERICSERV and didn't give a number: > EAI_NONAME Further discussion can best be carried on in the upstre

Re: getaddrinfo() return value chaos

2013-07-08 Thread Thomas Hood
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Here are my results: > > > Making resolv.conf empty > Results of looking up www.google.com: status = -11, errno = 111 > Results of looking up a bogus name: status = -11, errno = 111 > Writing nameserver option to reso

Re: getaddrinfo() return value chaos

2013-07-08 Thread Thomas Hood
It looked to me as if #582916 and roughly duplicate #671789 could have been fixed in libc6 2.17-7 which it includes two commits http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=cfde9b463d63092ff0908d4c2748ace648e2ead8 http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=3d04f5db20c8f0d1ba3

Re: getaddrinfo() return value chaos

2013-07-07 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > A related bug is #582916 > Thanks. Besides that, #671789 and #713799 are also probably related. The latter was closed by the 2.17-7 release which is the most recent in unstable; I should be testing with that version rather than with the whee

getaddrinfo() return value chaos

2013-07-07 Thread Thomas Hood
Continuing on from the "boot ordering and resolvconf" thread; cc:ed to Helmut in case this gets filtered again; bcc:ed to 683...@bugs.debian.org since this is relevant for how that issue is addressed... Executive summary: The getaddrinfo() returns different values depending on the OS and on nsswit

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-07-06 Thread Thomas Hood
have different findings and I think we should get to the bottom of this difference since it is relevant for how we think about ntpd bug report #683061. Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:40:03PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > A problem is that getaddrinfo() doesn't distin

Re: Updating /etc/hosts automatically / behavior of sed command

2013-07-05 Thread Thomas Hood
le were dynamically updating /etc/hosts in 1999 but I hope that no one has to do that any longer. :) -- Thomas Hood

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-07-04 Thread Thomas Hood
etworkManager and dnsmasq-base by default: NetworkManager runs an instance of dnsmasq as a forwarding nameserver. But there is no need to introduce new restrictions and policy unless, perhaps, it does turn out that large numbers of libc resolver clients need to be modified, which so far as I know is not the case. -- Thomas Hood

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-07-03 Thread Thomas Hood
blob;f=man/resolvconf.8 -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51d43cc2.4030...@gmail.com

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-07-02 Thread Thomas Hood
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I think changing /etc/resolv.conf automatically is broken at all. What's the malfunction? > We should have a generated /run/resolv.conf that's overridden by the > settings in /etc/resolv.conf (if it exists). This allows you to have a > consistent set of domains searched

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-06-30 Thread Thomas Hood
Helmut Grohne wrote: > All that I am aiming for is to declare one of the following practises > as broken: > > * Treating an empty /etc/resolv.conf as a permanent error or failing >to discover changes in /etc/resolv.conf later on. > * Changing /etc/resolv.conf during startup of a local dns ca

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-06-30 Thread Thomas Hood
> In addition resolvconf does not properly support mode (A), due to the > "local forwarding nameserver is running" requirement. It can leave > /etc/resolv.conf empty until the name server is actually started. Well, you are right that resolvconf was designed to support mode B, and only supports mo

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-06-28 Thread Thomas Hood
nameservers and reconfigures them based on input from DHCP clients, ifup and NetworkManager. Support for bind9 and unbound could easily be added (see bug report #483098). -- Thomas Hood resolvconf maintainers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

socket-based activation has unmaintainable security?

2013-02-05 Thread Thomas Hood
to. Can someone please give me the golden clue? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5110dcec.4010...@gmail.com

On init in *Debian*

2012-03-21 Thread Thomas Hood
files, and so on. Or do you see some other approach as more compatible and consistent? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caj

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-26 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 17:24, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Maybe the solution isn't event base or dependency based. Maybe the > right solution is event based and dependency based. In one sense this is obviously right. Any solution has to respond to various kinds of events and has to be able to

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 20:17, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:58:08AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Upstart also does not support Should-Start which makes it impossible to >> provide corect init scripts for a number of services. For example autofs >> will not work if

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-23 Thread Thomas Hood
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:58, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Upstart also does not support Should-Start which makes it impossible > to provide correct init scripts for a number of services. For example > autofs will not work if it uses nis because nis is not started before > autofs. Due to the lac

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-23 Thread Thomas Hood
s systemd which in turn starts service daemons. Does this make any sense, and if so, what would be the advantages and disadvantages of this? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Eliminating bash scripts?

2011-09-28 Thread Thomas Hood
bash script will not necessarily run faster if it has to be rewritten to run on sh. This is especially true if ${//}s are replaced by pipes to sed. -- Thomas Hood

Re: /run in experimental

2011-04-19 Thread Thomas Hood
Resolvconf 1.49, which makes use of /run instead of /lib/init/rw for storing run-time data, has just been uploaded to experimental. Those testing the experimental initscripts package (2.88dsf-13.4) are invited to test this experimental resolvconf package along with it. -- Thomas Hood resolvconf

Re: Only forbid use of old alternatives to /run in wheezy+1?

2011-04-17 Thread Thomas Hood
> This is not to say we couldn't remove it on startup though. You should not remove /lib/init/rw on the next reboot. If the upgrade stops due to an error then the system might be rebooted before the upgrade is continued. /lib/init/rw needs to remain present until all packages using it have bee

Re: /run support for wheezy: final (I hope) call for testing

2011-04-17 Thread Thomas Hood
char *saved_names[MAX_NESTED_LINKS + 1]; -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dab404a.9080...@gmail.com

Only forbid use of old alternatives to /run in wheezy+1?

2011-04-16 Thread Thomas Hood
lib/init/rw at least until the wheezy version of its postinst runs. But this occurs after initscripts's postinst runs. And that is the last chance initscripts has to eliminate /lib/init/rw in wheezy. So I conclude that initscripts should only eliminate /lib/init/rw in wheezy+1. -- Thomas

Resolvconf trigger? (Re: #567059)

2011-04-15 Thread Thomas Hood
s and other pitfalls should I watch out for? 3. What is an appropriate name for the trigger? 4. Does anything have to be approved or discussed on a particular mailing list or can I go ahead and introduce the trigger and then ask the maintainers of caching nameservers to make use of it? -- T

Re: Default size limits for /run (/var/run) and /run/lock (/var/lock)

2011-04-13 Thread Thomas Hood
I just realized that I misunderstood Roger Leigh's posting and so my previous message was mostly superfluous. My apologies. 1. His statement "but you have to mount many more to be able to break your system" was correct (and can be made more explicit by adding "... by filling them all"). 2. His p

Re: Default size limits for /run (/var/run) and /run/lock (/var/lock)

2011-04-13 Thread Thomas Hood
First of all, thanks to Roger Leigh for leading this effort. Roger Leigh wrote: > Proposal: > Switch the default for all tmpfs mounts from 50% to 20%; it's > still very large, but you have to mount many more to be able to > break your system. He should have said "... but you have to mount *and f

openresolv vs. resolvconf

2010-11-30 Thread Thomas Hood
maintained[1]. If openresolv is truly a drop-in replacement for resolvconf then migration from resolvconf to openresolv would be one way of solving this undermaintenance problem. What further pros and cons do people see out there? [0]http://roy.marples.name/projects/openresolv/wiki/OpenResolvRea

How to warn about need to port changes to new configuration file?

2010-06-18 Thread Thomas Hood
need to warn the administrator that he should (presumably) re-implement his changes in the new file? If so, what is the best way to warn him? Should debconf notes be used? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: libnss-myhostname instead of mangling /etc/hosts

2010-06-16 Thread Thomas Hood
. Please see http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2005/06/msg00173.html for one of the earlier discussions about this issue. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: Getting resolvconf back into testing

2008-06-25 Thread Thomas Hood
Peter Samuelson wrote: > Looks like you just need to wait 4 more days. Lenny isn't frozen yet, > not for optional packages. OK, thanks. (I was under the impression that some sort of intervention was required in order to undo a removal.) -- Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Getting resolvconf back into testing

2008-06-24 Thread Thomas Hood
quest from the DDs on the resolvconf maintenance team. I hope that some DD who reads d-d can take care of ushering resolvconf back into testing. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Interim maintainer needed for thinkpad and tpctl

2006-05-02 Thread Thomas Hood
: critical. Therefore I am seeking an interim maintainer of thinkpad and tpctl, preferably someone who would like to carry on as co-maintainer with Martin. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Emphasize teams, not packages

2006-03-31 Thread Thomas Hood
2004-07-12 > FD checks completeness of report Approved on 2006-02-21 by Marc > Brockschmidt (he) > DAM Approval Approved on 2006-03-20 by Joerg Jaspert > (joerg) -- Thomas Hood

Re: Emphasize teams, not packages

2006-03-29 Thread Thomas Hood
of Debian as a problem. However, you always have the option of participating in some other project, such as Ubuntu, which does recognize contributions other than package maintenance.) -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dicussion about patches ... ignoring patches make motivation to provide them fall

2006-03-21 Thread Thomas Hood
rded as elementary politeness in some spheres, but Debian's social norms are not the same as those of everyday life. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dicussion about patches ... ignoring patches make motivation to provide them fall

2006-03-20 Thread Thomas Hood
y more projects like Foo in the future. Not within Debian, anyway. Purely hypothetical case, but it could happen. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: conffile purging and maintainer scripts

2006-03-10 Thread Thomas Hood
l have to manually remove conffiles in their maintainer scripts > until at least etch+1 by my reckoning. Is this correct? Again, postrms should not remove files that are currently conffiles. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /run vs. /lib/run

2006-01-25 Thread Thomas Hood
x27;t forget to set ownership and permissions. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

GPL version option

2006-01-24 Thread Thomas Hood
My guess is that there may be other packages out there that need to be reviewed with respect to the granting or non-granting of the GPL version option. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-23 Thread Thomas Hood
imal. Thus if upstream's concern is that users not have a stripped down python, then Debian provides a stripped down "python-minimal" instead. -- Thomas Hood

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-20 Thread Thomas Hood
icated back directly to the Debian > developers responsible for that package in Debian and record the patch > URL in the debian bug system. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-20 Thread Thomas Hood
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=debian-devel&m=113768382100129&w=2 -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: udev naming problems for eth*

2006-01-18 Thread Thomas Hood
me # Rename it to the temporary name. # Then try several times to rename it to new name Now "trying several times", etc., may work, but it's a kludge. There are sound ways of resolving contention for a shared resource. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-18 Thread Thomas Hood
> In any case I am hoping to see python-minimal included in Debian. I now see that it is already in sid. :) $ apt-cache madison python-minimal python-minimal |2.3.5-5 | http://ftp.nl.debian.org sid/main Packages -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: udev naming problems for eth*

2006-01-18 Thread Thomas Hood
looks at its properties, and... * Kernel creates eth1 * ...tries to rename it to 'eth1', but that name is taken -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-18 Thread Thomas Hood
re that python-minimal be Essential: yes in Debian. In any case I am hoping to see python-minimal included in Debian. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New experimental sysvinit

2006-01-15 Thread Thomas Hood
base in regarding this to be a candidate for release to unstable. Again, TIA for testing it. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-15 Thread Thomas Hood
your package. I have seen changes in some packages that looked gratuitious, but then I have been comforted by the thought that the perpetrators of gratuitous changes are the ones who have to pay the price for it, because they have to carry such changes forward. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-13 Thread Thomas Hood
uld everyone be happy then? I doubt it. [0] Here: http://ubuntu.com/ubuntu/relationship?highlight=%28debian%29 there's a claim that "they send their bugfixes to the Debian developers responsible for that package in debian and record the patch URL in the debian bug system." -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-13 Thread Thomas Hood
be suitable for Debian. I agree that it would be nice if Ubuntu developers tried to get their changes into sid. It is certainly not their responsibility to do so, but in my experience Ubuntu developers have been very cooperative when they have been approached. So I don't see a big problem. -- Th

Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-12 Thread Thomas Hood
ded. :) As pointed out by Peter Samuelson, this dir should be removed by the postrm on purge. I would advise not including /var/run/foo in the package since it is superfluous and its presence could hide a bug in your directory-creation code. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-06 Thread Thomas Hood
Would it be useful if the initscript that clears /var/run also created a directory hierarchy under /var/run? (There are different ways of implementing thus, but we can talk about details if this feature is deemed worthwhile.) -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-04 Thread Thomas Hood
e simultaneously. I'd call it the "obscure the point game", because the pairs of statements were meant to illustrate a difference in attitude, not a set of absolute contradictions. But I think you know that. Because you are really playing another game, which I'll dub &qu

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-04 Thread Thomas Hood
e current NM process would regard those points as weaknesses in Debian's defenses, which should be closed rather than advertized. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
mprehensive listing of all the Debian _maintainers_ accompanied with a list of packages they maintain", instead of "...developers..." (which would also be more accurate since non-DD maintainers are already listed). And so on. Reword with the principle in mind that there are many contributors to Debian who are not Debian Developers®. -- Thomas Hood

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
here should be room for different kinds of projects, including exclusive hobby clubs. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Package dependencies due to documentation relationships?

2005-12-30 Thread Thomas Hood
recommendations about how documentation relationships should be reflected in package dependencies? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New experimental sysvinit

2005-12-27 Thread Thomas Hood
> A new version of sysvinit is being prepared for release to experimental. OK, sysvinit 2.86.ds1-8 is now in incoming. TIA for testing it. ;) -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New experimental sysvinit

2005-12-23 Thread Thomas Hood
m trying to modify an existing feature (to make it compatible with a read-only root filesystem) without altering its behavior any more than necessary. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New experimental sysvinit

2005-12-23 Thread Thomas Hood
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > How well that works with /var in a separate partition? It should work fine because S55bootmisc.sh runs after S45mountnfs.sh. -- Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New experimental sysvinit

2005-12-22 Thread Thomas Hood
plete: DELAYLOGIN=yes No-login mode never: rm -f /var/lib/initscripts/nologin ; DELAYLOGIN=no No-login mode always: touch /var/lib/initscripts/nologin ; DELAYLOGIN=no Anyone see any problems with this scheme? Any better ideas? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

New experimental sysvinit

2005-12-22 Thread Thomas Hood
never: DELAYLOGIN=no No-login mode always: rm -f /etc/nologin ; :> /etc/nologin Anyone see any problems with this scheme? Any better ideas? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-22 Thread Thomas Hood
r things can be done to help individual maintainers fix more bugs and fix them better? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Thomas Hood
re feeling in a conspiracy-theorist mood then > I'd suggest that those who are promoting team maintainance are trying > to gain power while evading responsibility. Well, you do suggest it here. And what you suggest makes no sense, so let's not rule out the possibility that you are

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Thomas Hood
vel. That's less of a burden than that imposed by many another Debian rule. Fortunately for your position, it probably won't take arguments to kill this idea. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Thomas Hood
stellar job that they need a babysitter is a bit... insulting. This is not a fair characterization of what the introduction of a two-maintainer rule would be doing. No one should be insulted by general rule changes designed to make Debian work better. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Thomas Hood
litary package ownership has made some Debian packages into bastions of untended bugs. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-20 Thread Thomas Hood
> > Tmpfs memory can be swapped out, so is this even a hypothetical > > problem? > > Maybe it isn't on Linux. I wasn't aware tmpfs could be swapped out. > > That still leaves the question of just which features we want to require > from our non-Linux kernels for basic operation, I guess. Yes,

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-20 Thread Thomas Hood
Gabor Gombas wrote: > ... I'd like to have a check for /run (or /lib/run or whatever) > being empty at the end of the boot process The new mountvirtfs prints such warnings for all the "virtual" filesystems. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: /run vs. /lib/run

2005-12-20 Thread Thomas Hood
nowing that their programs face special storage problems is shifted onto the sysvinit maintainers and admins who have to ensure that writable space is shoved under /var/run by the time any of the H tries to write there. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/run vs. /lib/run

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
Any other defenders of /lib/run? Of /run? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
Anthony Towns wrote: > Developers have been known not to be completely familiar with policy, > but it's admins and upstream programmers that I'm particularly > thinking of. I don't see any problems arising from rampant /run use by _admins_. They are always free to do what they want with their syst

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
'run' rather than 'lib'. Hence R should be /run. Briefly, if R is like /var/run except that it supports programs needed to boot the system and run commands on the root filesystem, then it should be another "run" directory, but at the top level. Here's another possible argument: Putting R in /lib spoils the otherwise read-only character of that directory. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please test the new sysvinit

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
So, has anyone tested the new packages? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
ot occur until the filesystem underlying /run is mounted read-write and programs must not use /run before the cleaning has been completed; it would probably be easier to drop the cleanliness-at-boot guarantee and let programs clean out their own stale files. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
eryone agrees that /run is to be used only for those very few purposes for which /var/run cannot be used. If there are worries about abuse then I would suggest the addition of a sentence to Policy forbidding such abuse. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
ore than "-policy support" would be an > appropriate claim if Manoj had said it looked okay. Agreed. Fortunately, I didn't claim that. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Thomas Hood
ble by hiding it in /lib > alongside /lib/modules. The problem is that some people find /lib/run uglier than /run. ;) -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Please test new sysvinit, sysv-rc, initscripts

2005-12-17 Thread Thomas Hood
INIT_VERBOSE=yes kernel parameter. Is the boot more verbose? Any glitches in any of the messages? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ALSA packager needed

2005-12-17 Thread Thomas Hood
does involve some work. There is a new upstream release candidate out now (1.0.11rc1) and I would like to take the opportunity to go through the process with the new volunteer. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Co-maintainers sought

2005-12-09 Thread Thomas Hood
I seek co-maintainers for: mwavem thinkpad, tpctl resolvconf -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ALSA packager needed

2005-12-09 Thread Thomas Hood
The ALSA packaging team needs help. We really need someone with expertise in programming for the ALSA library. If you are able to help us, please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Not delete symlinks to directories in /var/run/ ?

2005-11-22 Thread Thomas Hood
tories. "! -xtype d" in the absence of "-L" matches everything except directories and symbolic links to directories. Thus IIUC the latter eliminates the need for the former. I am cc:ing this to debian-devel in order to solicit opinions. Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to t

How to use lsb init-functions

2005-11-22 Thread Thomas Hood
lure_msg "Foo failed." ; fi Is this what I should do, or is there another solution I am overlooking; or do we need more functions; or does the whole system need to be reworked? -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#272066: Patch?

2005-11-22 Thread Thomas Hood
directories and symbolic links to directories. Thus IIUC the latter eliminates the need for the former. I am cc:ing this to debian-devel in order to solicit opinions. Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to the list. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-14 Thread Thomas Hood
lication breaks if 'localhost.localdomain' is included on the 127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-13 Thread Thomas Hood
revert. However, I think that applications should work properly whether /etc/hosts contains 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost or 127.0.0.1 localhost especially considering the fact that the sarge installer writes /etc/hosts with the former. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: apt-get in Sid broke sound and /etc/modules?

2005-10-13 Thread Thomas Hood
> That did it, unloaded the snd-intel8x0 and 8x0m and then reloaded i810_audio > and things worked again. i810_audio is an OSS module, not an ALSA module. You fixed sound by switching from ALSA to OSS. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: hotplug blacklists

2005-09-30 Thread Thomas Hood
For backward compatibility that behavior should probably be preserved. When a final decision has been made about how hot plug blacklisting will be implemented in the future, please file a bug report against alsa-base explaining what changes need to be made, if any. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-09-29 Thread Thomas Hood
following files which might appropriately be kept in a subdirectory of /run/. /etc/nologin /etc/mtab /etc/network/run/ifstate /etc/resolvconf/run/* -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-07 Thread Thomas Hood
Andreas Metzler wrote: > Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [command -v] > > It is not even useful as a which(1) replacement. Whereas "which" > > prints the pathname of the first executable file on the PATH, > > "command -v" prints the pat

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-06 Thread Thomas Hood
Marco d'Itri wrote: > Andreas Metzler wrote: > > Thomas Hood wrote: > > > Is there anything else which dash supports but posh does not? > > command -v > > Which is the well known which(1) replacement, and basically mandatory > in a sane Debian shell. I keep

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-04 Thread Thomas Hood
ard for people to find updates. > To change it know is just silly political correctness. I think that the kernel packaging team members should be able to do their work without being insulted. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-03 Thread Thomas Hood
;.) If you agree then it would be helpful to mention this in #294962. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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