Re: Adding Pre-Depends from linux-image packages to linux-base

2025-05-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2025-05-04 at 15:58 +, Bill Allombert wrote: > Le Sat, May 03, 2025 at 04:08:55PM +0200, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > Hi all, > > > > I'm proposing to add a linux-run-hooks command to the linux-base package > > [1] that will then be used in all m

Adding Pre-Depends from linux-image packages to linux-base

2025-05-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
olicy for a new use of Pre-Depends. Both packages are under kernel team maintenance, and linux-base has minimal dependencies (debconf | debconf-2.0). So I don't anticipate this causing any problems with upgrades. Ben. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux-base/-/merge_requests/14

Bug#1095775: ITP: libjwt14 -- The C JSON Web Token Library +JWK +JWKS

2025-02-11 Thread Ben Collins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Collins X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libjwt14 Version : 3.0.0 Upstream Contact: Ben Collins * URL : https://libjwt.io * License : MPL-2.0 Programming Lang: C Description : The

Re: How to conditionally patch a package based on architecture with debhelper?

2025-01-16 Thread Ben Collins
and haven't found anything quite > fitting. Can the patched code just look like: #ifdef __ARMEL__ // Patched code #else // original code with atomic memory ops #endif -- Ben Collins https://debian.org | https://ubuntu.com https://ben-collins.blogspot.com https://catchmo

Re: Documentation field? (Was: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch)

2025-01-16 Thread Ben Collins
e topical and media- grouped rather than a package naming paradigm. The RFC type could be expanded to https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc{ID}, for example. -- Ben Collins https://debian.org | https://ubuntu.com https://ben-collins.blogspot.com https://catchmobilehealth.com -- 3EC9 7598 16

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-08 Thread Ben Kallus
n/brangal", useradd will create a home directory at /home/../bin/brangal (i.e. /bin/brangal). This can be used to place a directory owned by the new user nearly anywhere on the system. -Ben Kallus && Jonah Weinbaum

Re: Moving apt (and hence bootstraps) from GnuPG to Sequioa (via gpgv-sq)

2024-11-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
mpiled without optimizations on i386: > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/rust-wide/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/patches/2001_fail_non-sse2-x86.patch [...] That's unfortunate. However, I think this a short-term problem. Since we no longer ship an i386 kernel, after the trixie release we should be

Re: Is there a point to retaining src:pth?

2024-11-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
_main_binary-amd64_Packages Package: libgm2-0 Package: genometools-common Package: libpth-dev Package: zhcon but it does seem like it can be dropped now. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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

2024-11-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
;t need > nor use the symlinks, are they still created. For most systems, they're > superfluous. > > iustin, who also dislikes these and always needs to disable them I agree they are not normally needed, but I just never got round to changing the default. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings O

Re: lintian preventing uploads

2024-10-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
ach bracket replaced with '*' (wildcard). (This is also useful for covering usr-move differences in packages that get backported.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings No political challenge can be met by shopping. - George Monbiot signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Epoch for src:fuse-ext2 to replace src:fuse-umfuse-ext2's fuseext2 binary

2024-10-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2024-10-21 at 00:49 +0200, наб wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 11:39:36PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2024-10-20 at 20:03 +0200, наб wrote: > > > I'd like to use an epoch so I'm asking for consensus per policy 5.6.12. > > > > > >

Re: Epoch for src:fuse-ext2 to replace src:fuse-umfuse-ext2's fuseext2 binary

2024-10-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
nothing to lose", is it really suitable to replace the current implementation? Perhaps it would be better not to provide any replacement until fuse- ext2 is more mature - at which point its version may have increased such that an epoch is not necessary. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Usenet i

Re: signify and signify-openbsd names

2024-10-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
away from using the Apache name, so if that package is to be renamed then something like "asf-httpd" would be better. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production: A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. signature.asc De

Bug#1084211: ITP: bedstead -- monospaced fonts inspired by SAA5050 character generator

2024-10-06 Thread Ben Harris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: bedstead Version : 002.008 Upstream Contact: Ben Harris * URL : https://bjh21.me.uk * License : CC0-1.0; parts effectively out of copyright due to age Programming

Re: signify and signify-openbsd names

2024-10-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
s > > that possible? Are there any earlier examples of re-use of the same > > source package name, but for a different package? The linux-2.6 vs > > linux analogy is not identical, it is the same source package and there > > were no source package namespace re-use happening. &

Re: signify and signify-openbsd names

2024-10-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
ource package name, but for a different package? [...] There are 2 prominent examples: - chromium (the original chromium is now chromium-bsu) - git (the oriignal git is now gnuit) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: signify and signify-openbsd names

2024-10-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2024-10-05 at 20:15 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Ben Hutchings writes: > > > On Sat, 2024-10-05 at 12:31 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > [...] > > > This will rename the binary package to 'signify-mail', as suggested in > > > the first b

Re: signify and signify-openbsd names

2024-10-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
And of course, a situation like that is also confusing to humans. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How painful is a lib(fuse) .so version bump for a distribution

2024-09-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
when that is uploaded, and as we > try to keep packages uptodate a new soname is normally uploaded every time > it's bumped by the upstream. But we *don't* rebuild when there is not an soversion bump, so the previous unintended ABI changes in libfuse3-3 may well have caused silent is

Re: Debian installation problem on Macbook pro from 2019

2024-08-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
at right? This would mean that a driver needed for the internal keyboard was missing. The keyboard-configuration package wouldn't help with this. We'll need to update the list of drivers included in the installer. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Man invented language to sa

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

2024-08-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
it heads-up. I've made a team upload of iproute2 (version 6.10.0-2) with this change reverted. Luca, please leave the symlink in place at least as long as there are packages that rely on it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Complex Cameras Micro-conference in LPC and Debian

2024-06-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
ou think will be needed from us? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Suggestions about i386 support

2024-06-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
.com/en/resources/product-security/support-policy.html>.) I also don't think these vulnerabilities are likely to be a practical concern for people using 32-bit-only CPUs. But we definitely should discourage users from using i386 kernel packages on 64-bit-capable hardware, if we don'

Re: Bug#1071236: general: keyboard, mouse, and trackpad behave inconsistently; seemingly phantom input device events occur unpredictably

2024-05-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
isn't necessary because "reportbug kernel" automagically does the right thing. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: About i386 support

2024-05-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
ansition would be desirable for group (b) but would make i386 useless for group (a). There was some talk then about creating a new port like "i386t64" for use by group (b), while i386 would serve group (a) only. Did anything come of this? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Suggestions about i386 support

2024-05-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
erry Trail devices in Debian amd64. Bookworm has added it (moved it from > multi-arch iso to amd64 isos), but trixie seems to be dropping it. If Debian > thinks 2015 is ancient enough in 2025, this suggestions can be ommited. [...] You should ask about that on the debian-cd or debian-boot list.

Re: About i386 support

2024-05-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
this point. > > The T60 will do amd64. [...] According to thinkwiki, the T60 had CPU options of Core Solo/Duo (32- bit) and Core 2 Duo (64-bit) CPUs, so this may or may not be correct. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1055954: ITP: controku -- Control Roku devices from the comfort of your own desktop

2023-11-14 Thread Ben Westover
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Westover X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: controku Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Contact: Ben Westover * URL : https://github.com/benthetechguy/controku

Re: Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686

2023-10-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2023-10-18 at 14:01 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2023-10-17 at 20:03 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Tue, 2023-10-17 at 10:57 -0500, Justin wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I have recently encountered a case where a VIA C3 N

Re: Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686

2023-10-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2023-10-17 at 20:03 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2023-10-17 at 10:57 -0500, Justin wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have recently encountered a case where a VIA C3 Nehemaiah CPU returns > > "Illegal > > Instruction" when trying to

Re: Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686

2023-10-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
-compatible). [...] ENDBR32 uses one of the previously reserved hint encodings that i686 processors are supposed to ignore if they don't specifically support them. The release notes for Debian 12 "bookworm" state that the i386 architecture now requires that: https://www.debian.org

Re: Verify upstream PGP signed sha256sums file

2023-09-02 Thread Ben Westover
Hi, On 9/1/23 08:10, Yadd wrote: > there is an issue opened for that (#1014333), contributions welcome ! Ah, thanks for the info! -- Ben Westover OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Verify upstream PGP signed sha256sums file

2023-08-31 Thread Ben Westover
ad of providing signatures for each file separately. Does Debian have any way to verify the tarball using this signed checksum file without some sort of custom script needed? Attached is an example of one such file. -- Ben Westover-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Name: p2pool-v3.6-freebs

Re: HFS/HFS+ are insecure

2023-07-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
ee we should not have UDisks probing for any of the (many) kernel filesystems that aren't being actively maintained including responding to security issues. Beyond that, I would also like to see libmount limiting the filesystems that it will probe when the fstab type is "auto". But

Bug#1041643: ITP: ktls-utils -- TLS handshake utilities for in-kernel TLS consumers

2023-07-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Hutchings X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-ker...@lists.debian.org, Steve Dickson , Chuck Lever III * Package name: ktls-utils Version : 0.9 Upstream Contact: kernel-tls-handsh...@lists.linux.dev * URL

Bug#1036077: Further information

2023-05-15 Thread Ben Zwick
Please note that I have installed the skypeforlinux program and it segfaults when this problem occurs.

Bug#1030280: general: General non-recognized errors (im novice) after the installation: drivers, battery, booting errors...

2023-03-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
to test the next release, installation images for that are at <https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/>. Please report back whether you still have problems after using one of these installers. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1026990: ITP: golang-github-thought-machine-go-flags -- go command line option parser

2022-12-25 Thread Ben Westover
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Westover X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-thought-machine-go-flags Version : 1.6.2-1 Upstream Author : Peter Ebden * URL : https://github.com/thought

Bug#1026989: ITP: golang-github-go-jose-go-jose -- An implementation of JOSE standards (JWE, JWS, JWT) in Go

2022-12-25 Thread Ben Westover
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Westover X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Westover * Package name: golang-github-go-jose-go-jose Version : 3.0.0-1 Upstream Author : * URL

Bug#1026987: ITP: rdpgw -- Remote Desktop Gateway in Go for deploying on Linux/BSD/Kubernetes

2022-12-25 Thread Ben Westover
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Westover X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: rdpgw Version : 9.0.1-1 Upstream Author : * URL : https://github.com/bolkedebruin/rdpgw * License : Apache-2.0

Bug#1023164: ITP: libtomlplusplus -- TOML config file parser and serializer for C++17

2022-10-30 Thread Ben Westover
Package: wnpp X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Owner: Ben Westover Severity: wishlist * Package name: libtomlplusplus Version : 3.2.0 Upstream Author : Mark Gillard * URL : https://marzer.github.io/tomlplusplus * License : Expat Programming Lang

Re: Bug#1023083: ITP: libquazip1-qt5 -- Qt/C++ wrapper over minizip - Version 1 (Qt5)

2022-10-29 Thread Ben Westover
Hello Nilesh, On 10/29/22 11:39 PM, Nilesh Patra wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 03:12:18AM +0000, Ben Westover wrote: >> On 10/29/22 1:20 PM, Filippo Rusconi wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 03:40:13PM +, Ben Westover wrote: >>>> On 9/13/22 8:28 AM, Fil

Bug#1023083: ITP: libquazip1-qt5 -- Qt/C++ wrapper over minizip - Version 1 (Qt5)

2022-10-29 Thread Ben Westover
Package: wnpp X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Owner: Ben Westover Severity: wishlist * Package name: libquazip1-qt5 Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Sergey A. Tachenov * URL : https://github.com/stachenov/quazip * License : zlib, LGPL-2.1 with

Re: /boot partition too small

2022-10-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
> # makes somewhat smaller initrd files and buys some time > COMPRESS=zstd [...] This is the default in bookworm. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If the facts do not conform to your theory, they must be disposed of. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1021230: ITP: golang-github-abiosoft-ishell -- Library for creating interactive cli applications

2022-10-03 Thread Ben Westover
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Westover X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-abiosoft-ishell Version : 2.0.2-1 Upstream Author : Abiola Ibrahim * URL : https://github.com/abiosoft/ishell

Bug#1021228: ITP: golang-github-flynn-archive-go-shlex -- Fork of go-shlex from Google Code

2022-10-03 Thread Ben Westover
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Westover X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-flynn-archive-go-shlex Version : 0.0~git20150515.3f9db97-1 Upstream Author : Google Inc. * URL : https

Bug#1021226: ITP: golang-github-chzyer-test -- test

2022-10-03 Thread Ben Westover
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Westover X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-chzyer-test Version : 1.0.0-1 Upstream Author : ChenYe * URL : https://github.com/chzyer/test * License

Bug#1021225: ITP: golang-github-chzyer-logex -- Golang log library that supports tracking and level

2022-10-03 Thread Ben Westover
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Westover X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-chzyer-logex Version : 1.2.1-1 Upstream Author : ChenYe * URL : https://github.com/chzyer/logex * License

Bug#1021224: ITP: golang-github-abiosoft-readline -- Pure Go implementation for GNU-Readline kind library

2022-10-03 Thread Ben Westover
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Westover X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-abiosoft-readline Version : 0.0~git20180607.155bce2-1 Upstream Author : Abiola Ibrahim * URL : https://github.com

Bug#1020450: ITP: golang-github-allan-simon-go-singleinstance -- Run only one instance of a software

2022-09-21 Thread Ben Westover
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Westover X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-allan-simon-go-singleinstance Version : 1.0.0-1 Upstream Author : Allan Simon * URL : https://github.com/allan

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

2022-09-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
If PipeWire does, I think that's a serious limitation in PipeWire, and it is not ready for us to make it the default. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Design a system any fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Package uploads silently discarded: how to investigate?

2022-06-27 Thread Ben Finney
Andrey Rahmatullin writes: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 09:02:30AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > In this thread I want to discover: How can I find out what's > > happening and why the Debian archive is no longer sending me any > > email messages about my package up

Re: Package uploads silently discarded: how to investigate?

2022-06-26 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > > The trouble is, I can only guess, because there are no messages from > > anything in the Debian archive telling me what went wrong. > > My recollection is that if the signature on the upload is invalid, we > intentionall

Package uploads silently discarded: how to investigate?

2022-06-26 Thread Ben Finney
n essential ingredient of | `\ successful work.” —Donald Knuth, _The Art of Computer | _o__) Programming_ | Ben Finney

Bug#1013164: ITP: freenom-dns-updater -- Tool written in Python to update Freenom DNS records

2022-06-17 Thread Ben Westover
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Westover X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, kwestover...@gmail.com * Package name: freenom-dns-updater Version : 1.2.9 Upstream Author : Maxisoft * URL : https://github.com/maxisoft/Freenom-dns-updater * License

Re: ifupdown/dhcp

2022-05-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
g it, or was there another problem? Ben. > so if you are using nfsroot > or any other network-based rootfs, it appears to still be the only game in > town. It would be a good idea to make sure as part of the deprecation of > isc-dhcp-client that we get initramfs integration

Re: Project to improve Debian support model

2022-05-16 Thread Ben Finney
“Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be | `\ over here, looking through your stuff.” —Jack Handey | _o__) | Ben Finney signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Project to improve Debian support model

2022-05-15 Thread Ben Finney
a man to make fire, and he will be warm for a day. Set a | `\ man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.” | _o__) —John A. Hrastar | Ben Finney

Re: Debian DSA-5095-1 : linux - security update

2022-03-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
headers-5.10.0-11-amd64. So long as you install the metapackage linux-headers-amd64, replacements like this should be upgraded automatically. > libirs-export161_1:9.11.19+dfsg-2.1 This is the only version available in Debian. It is built separately from bind9 and is only used by the ISC DHC

Re: MBF: valgrind-if-available

2022-02-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
ed list of > > valgrind architectures in sync between my debian/control and > > debian/rules. > > if which valgrind >/dev/null; then This should use "command -v", not which, I think? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Short description disapearing from package tracker

2021-11-11 Thread Ben Tris
Now you say it, I remember that I had already noticed the same name binary. Thanks for the quick responce and the link. > Op 11-11-2021 19:28 schreef Andrey Rahmatullin : > > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 07:16:50PM +0100, Ben Tris wrote: > > Maybe I did make a mistake. Is the

Re: Short description disapearing from package tracker

2021-11-11 Thread Ben Tris
eef Andrey Rahmatullin : > > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 05:50:02AM +0200, Ben Tris wrote: > > Sorry, for instance. > > > > haskell-hopenpgp-tools > Sure, are you saying it had a description before? > Because there is no binary package with this name. > > -- > WBR, wRAR

pan blend lists game powder should be removed (relative: debichem science medical)

2021-11-10 Thread Ben Tris
The package powder is a (non-free) game. It is listed on several pan pages. It should be removed from these pages. At least. https://wiki.debian.org/SynchrotronRadiationSoftware https://blends.debian.org/pan/tasks/packagelist https://blends.debian.org/pan/thermometer/ I have made a pan category,

Re: Short description disapearing from package tracker

2021-10-28 Thread Ben Tris
Sorry, for instance. haskell-hopenpgp-tools > Op 28-10-2021 13:12 schreef Andrey Rahmatullin : > > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 12:50:05PM +0200, Ben Tris wrote: > > Short descriptions disappeard after a package update. > Do you have any specific examples? > &g

Short description disapearing from package tracker

2021-10-28 Thread Ben Tris
Short descriptions disappeard after a package update. Example, just try some. https://www.gezapig.nl/Software/MaintGroup/Debian_Haskell_Group2021.html Is that suspected? Maybe handy. https://www.gezapig.nl/Free.html

Bug#993551: ITP: proton-caller -- Run any Windows program through Proton

2021-09-02 Thread Ben Westover
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Westover X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: proton-caller Version : 2.3.2 Upstream Author : Ben Westover * URL : https://github.com/caverym/proton-caller/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming

Re: Future of /usr/bin/which in Debian?

2021-08-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
mp;apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=CentOS+7.1&arch=default&format=html>, <https://carlowood.github.io/which/> (1999 or earlier). This is written in C. So 'which' has a very long history in csh, which was the default interactive shell in many versions of Unix. Its a

Re: Kernel building question (Is -j8 safe and correct?)

2021-06-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
licy/ch-source.html#main-building-script-debian-rules>. > That has no effect in this case. The makefile being used is debian/rules.gen, not debian/rules. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

Re: Kernel building question (Is -j8 safe and correct?)

2021-06-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
t suggested on > [1]? Because no-one thought to add them yet. Please report this as a bug in the "kernel-handbook" package (which is the source for this web site). If you can provide a patch, that would be even better. Ben. > Best, > Antonio > > [1] > https://kerne

Re: Missing samba DSA-4513 changelog in https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/

2021-04-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
not included in Debian10.2 ? >  See https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20191116 Because the package didn't get copied to the main archive. The common reason why this may fail is that a maintainer uploads a different orig tarball to the security archive. However, the two versions agree on the

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
re. For AMD hardware the amdgpu driver absolutely requires it; the others might be semi-functional without. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#978636: move to merged-usr-only?

2021-01-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
that don't need an initramfs are also supported options. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed - Carolyn Scheppner signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
table kernel branches (KAISER) was sufficiently different from that used upstream, that i386 support has not been added to it. As a result, stretch:i386 is still vulnerable when running the default (4.9-based) kernel. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve

Bug#972399: ITP: zig-game -- A fast paced, retro style, 2D vector arcade game with 50 levels.

2020-10-17 Thread Ben Campbell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Campbell * Package name: zig-game Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Ben Campbell * URL : https://github.com/bcampbell/zig * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : A fast paced, retro style, 2D

Bug#968237: ITP: auctex-12 -- AUCTeX version 12, LaTeX environment for Emacs

2020-08-11 Thread Itaï BEN YAACOV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Itaï BEN YAACOV X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: auctex-12 Version : 12.2 Upstream Author : GNU Project * URL : https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ * License : GPL v3 Description

Bug#958812: ITP: jinja-vanish -- Jinja2 environment for non-HTML auto-escaping

2020-04-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Hutchings * Package name: jinja-vanish Version : 0.2~gitXXX Upstream Author : Marc Brinkmann * URL : https://github.com/mbr/jinja-vanish * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : Jinja2

Re: What should I learn for applications befor, C or C++?

2020-04-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
rn first? C or C++? > Thanks in advance! If you hate system programming, why pick a system programming language? But if you want to do it anyway, Rust is another option to consider. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Re: trends.debian.net updated

2020-04-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
o unlikely to have a test suite. They might build, > but the resulting binaries might not work. Which is why I think we need to rebuild anyway, and have users of testing/unstable report such regressions. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Re: trends.debian.net updated

2020-04-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
correctly with the current build tools (failure to build at all would usually be caught and reported, though) I think we should be rebuilding everything at least once per release cycle, so we don't have a nasty surprise when these "mature" packages need bug fixes. Ben. -- Ben H

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
uot; or something similar will > be implemented to solve this. Linux 5.6 introduces time namespaces - though currently they only allow offsets to monotonic clocks (so containers can have monotonic time when migrated), not CLOCK_REALTIME. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of

Re: Is there still a point in installing libgcrypt to /lib instead of /usr/lib

2020-02-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
se-notes/ch-information.en.html#late-mounting-usr So although usrmerge is optional, I believe there is no need to install libraries under /lib except for the dynamic linkers (which the kernel loads using absolute paths). Ben. > TIA, cu Andreas -- Ben Hutchings Any sufficiently advanced bug i

Re: moving mg from salsa to github?

2020-02-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2020-02-15 at 18:26 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 05:02:03PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2020-02-15 at 14:16 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I am maintainer for mg, currently on salsa. Proble

Re: Can Debian packaging changes require a CLA?

2020-02-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
or, I don't think it is viable to keep the Debian packaging in the upstream project's repository. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: moving mg from salsa to github?

2020-02-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
o use (or are not allowed to use) Github. Ben. > Every helpful comment is highly appreciated > Harri > > https://github.com/hboetes/mg > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/mg -- Ben Hutchings Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Master-Slave terminology Re: [Piuparts-devel] piuparts.d.o stalled?

2020-02-13 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 13/02/2020 21:14, Timo Weingärtner wrote: I don't think giving slaves new labels helps them in any way; they will still be slaves. True, but once "freed", they could compete to be Employee of the Month. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2020-02-09 at 11:57 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Ben Hutchings: > > > If I recall correctly, glibc *will* provide both entry points, so there > > is no ABI break. But the size of time_t (etc.) exposed through libc- > > dev is fixed at glibc build time. >

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
32 bit version of the functions. LFS is a great example of how *not* to do it. 23 years on, we still have open bugs for programs that should opt in but didn't. Not every program needs to handle > 2 GiB files, but there are now filesystems with 64-bit inode numbers and they break every non-LFS pr

Re: Kernel parameters protecting fifos and regular files

2020-01-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
tallations since it's only Priority: important. Is there a higher priority package, independent of init system, that would be suitable for carrying the Debian sysctl policy? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm not a reverse psychological virus. Please don't copy me into your signature. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Condorcet Internet Voting Service

2020-01-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
tity. I think many of us can guess the sender's identity. Don't give him the attention. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFH: drawxtl seg-faulting (#853829)

2019-12-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
destructor is wrong and the delete is correct. If it has been allocated in some unusual way, then the direct call to the destructor is probably correct and the delete is wrong. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Lowery's Law: If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: d/changelog and experimental

2019-12-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
for unstable. [...] So long as the experimental versions are listed in the changelog, so that the BTS recognises the new version as based on them, you don't need to close the bugs again. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humour is the best antidote to reality. signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: According to one update package

2019-11-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
; pls which one I can choice for my system ? > > --- > Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1+deb8u1 (2017-02-22) x86_64 > GNU/Linux [...] You have skipped nearly 3 years of kernel updates and you are worrying about an obscure sudo secur

Re: Init systems and docker

2019-10-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
ny init system. All that said, Docker has name recognition to the point that's is almost synonymous with containers, so people are going to keep trying to use it for things it doesn't do well. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice ver

Re: Handling of entropy during boot

2019-09-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
nstall haveged, and > this helps for general cases. But then I have corner cases like when > the root filesystem is readonly then haveged doesn't work. > > I'm not using ancient hardware I'm on a modern arm64 processor, but it > is an embedded environment with no keyboard or

Bug#939028: ITP: syncevolution -- Sync personal information data via SyncML/CalDAV/CardDAV

2019-08-31 Thread Itaï BEN YAACOV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Itaï BEN YAACOV * Package name: syncevolution Version : 1.5.3 Upstream Author : * URL : http://www.syncevolution.org * License : LGPL 2.1 ou 3 (choice given) Programming Lang: C++ Description : Sync personal

Re: dput problem: Ancient sha256sum?

2019-08-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
need to build your source package using the same orig tarball as before. Ben > Hello, > > Unfortunately your package "dmagnetic" was rejected because of the > following > reason: > > dmagnetic dsc reference dmagnetic

Re: Bypassing the 2/3/4GB virtual memory space on 32-bit ports

2019-08-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2019-08-09 at 00:28 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On 2019-08-08 22:23, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > > 1a. Require 32-bit build environments to be multiarch with the > > related 64-bit architecture also enabled. > > Indeed, but that looks like the first step. Fr

Re: Bypassing the 2/3/4GB virtual memory space on 32-bit ports

2019-08-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
ny comments, ideas, or help here? [...] 1a. Require 32-bit build environments to be multiarch with the related 64-bit architecture also enabled. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed - Carolyn Scheppner signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#932769: [moreinfo] DoS via DHCP request

2019-07-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
el. > > Is it possible to reduce the problem to something easily demonstratable? > > This seems to be an important issue to me. > > I think the problem here *might* be a kernel problem? Re-assign this to > kernel package? [...] So far as I know, the kernel only ever does DHC

Re: default firewall utility changes for Debian 11 bullseye

2019-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
ssages aren't very helpful. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If God had intended Man to program, we'd have been born with serial I/O ports. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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