Re: Bug#995212: chromium: Update to version 94.0.4606.61 (security-fixes)

2021-12-07 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 07:05:29PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > So you being a DD and soon at work on Chromium the hope was that maybe you > could conduct some of upstream love to care about the world outside of > Google (?), here in particular Debian's effort to provide Chromium to its > users..

Re: Bug#995212: chromium: Update to version 94.0.4606.61 (security-fixes)

2021-12-07 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 08:55:00AM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > I note that Steinar Gunderson [1] is now employed by Google to work on > Chrome, so maybe there could be hope talking to him? Hi, It's right that I'm just joining the Chromium team, although probably not in an area that is interest

Re: Debian and ISO C++ package management conversations

2021-11-06 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Daniel: Not an expert on the subject, I should be reluctant to reply on list, except that 24 hours have passed and I see no other replies on list yet; so here goes. On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 04:03:31PM -0400, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > During early discussion in the SG15 mailing list[3], it became clear

Bug#993486: ITP: mirrorrib -- tool locally to mirror a Debian release, including backports

2021-09-01 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Thaddeus H. Black" X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: mirrorrib Version : 0.14.4 Upstream Author : Thaddeus H. Black * URL : https://www.derivations.org/mirrorrib/ * License

Re: Shall we serve scripts as application or as text?

2021-08-29 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Charles: On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 02:17:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Before I remove text/x-sh and the like so that shell and tcl scripts > files are served as 'application' like others, I would like to hear if > some of you see a potential problem with that. Someone might see a problem, bu

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-07-17 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 01:48:32PM +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote: > SteamOS used to be based on Debian, and Valve seems to have decided to > go with Arch instead (great news for Arch, don't get me wrong). > > The reasons for the switch have not been publicized, but I think we're > safe to assume it

Re: Unsolicited internet access in default installs (was: New service: https://debuginfod.debian.net)

2021-02-27 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 03:24:52PM +0100, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > No idea why we are still asking whether popcon should be enabled or not > because > apparently it's 2021 and it's okay to tell others out there that I just > installed Debian. This is a strawman, though. popcon c

Re: New service: https://debuginfod.debian.net

2021-02-27 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 12:29:34PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > I would prefer Kurt's option. Network silence is important. Network > noise would probably be a bug. A sysadmin should not be made to take > special precautions to avoid the inadvertent disclosure of the user&#

Re: New service: https://debuginfod.debian.net

2021-02-27 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Thanks for consulting us, Sergio, before proceeding. On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:47:40AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 03:55:17PM -0500, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > > As I said in the announcement message, I have proposed a Merge Request > > against elfutils in order to ena

Re: New service: https://debuginfod.debian.net

2021-02-24 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:25:02AM -0500, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > Hm, that's a bummer. I mean, you can certainly set up an instance for > you, but it takes a lot of time to mirror debian-debug (some days, > depending on your network connection). I don't know if that would be > interesting

Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm

2021-02-22 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 09:50:25AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > I'll still oppose installing a locate package on every system by default > which burns energy every day on millions of computers for almost noone's > benefit. > > Those who want locate, can apt install it. The rest shouldn't default

Re: Debian-wide firmware prober

2021-02-10 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 08:31:43AM +, Paul Sutton wrote: > ... I had never heard of that one, these tools need to be better known. If Enrico Zini's and Enrico Rossi's 'debtags' is installed, then try this command: debtags search hardware::detection That makes the tools better known. Add

Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm

2021-02-09 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 08:53:10PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > And there are now also many non-technical Linux users who have never > used a shell. Well, why do we include netcat, telnet or hdparm? lsof? pciutils? traceroute? host? All of these are irrelevant for a non-technical non-shell user, ye

Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm

2021-02-08 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 01:57:42PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > That doesn't make it usable for portable scripting. A script can't > assume the presence of locate without declaring a dependency on it, and > there's currently no virtual package for locate. And even if locate is > present, a script

Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm

2021-02-07 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 03:12:25PM +, Paul Wise wrote: > On my desktop a no-change update takes 40s and the I/O usage is around > 1800 K/s according to iotop-c, probably would be more painful on > HDD-only systems. That's interesting; how many files do you have on your machine, roughly? (e.g.

Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm

2021-02-07 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 10:16:29PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > locate is a purely user-facing tool, > not really usable for portable scripting, since neither its presence nor > its functioning can be assumed. Really? Basic functionality is the same between locate.findutils, mlocate and plocate.

Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm

2021-02-07 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 12:40:55AM +, Paul Wise wrote: > I support having locate in the base install, but I don't think that > the cost of daily walking the entire filesystem is low; especially > with HDDs and older storage or computers that can be a lot of I/O. I > guess it also alters the Lin

Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm

2021-02-06 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 10:18:45PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Thoughts? > I think plocate should have a Conflicts: mlocate. There is no need to > install two locate implementations in parallel, it will just create > useless IO. It's a pretty thin use-case, but someone could have scripts that c

Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm

2021-02-06 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
Hi, mlocate used to be Priority: standard; for some reason that I haven't been able to unearth (despite the efforts of several people), there is now an override for buster, so that it's no longer installed by default (and mlocate now has an override disparity). I do wonder if this was intentional

Re: Manual-page legends

2021-02-04 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 10:04:10PM +0100, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > What kind of manpages do you refer to? The kernel ones? Not kernel, but for a Debian-specific or Debian-derived facility or utility. > Could you give an example? Here are several well-written examples: adduser(8); console-s

Manual-page legends

2021-02-04 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Have the header and footer legends of Debian Project manual pages been discussed on this list? Is there convention or guidance? If so, then the search engine and I are unaware of it. My drafts [1] look like these: +-+ | FOO(1)

Re: Bug#958755: ITP: python3-swisseph -- Python extension to the Swiss Ephemeris

2020-04-24 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
an as well. We are looking for a sponsor. Thanks ahead. I'll sponsor it unless it makes more sense for the Debian Python group to do it. (I'm not a member.) -- Jaldhar H. Vyas

Re: A little "research" on nvi given the vim-tiny issue

2020-03-31 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:35 AM James McCoy wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 17:29 Tom H wrote: >> >> PPS: Gentoo's vim[minimal] is vim configured using >> "--with-features=tiny" like Debian's vim-tiny. > > Debian's vim-tiny actual uses "--

A little "research" on nvi given the vim-tiny issue

2020-03-18 Thread Tom H
Russ A said [1] that nvi "is orphaned both upstream and in Debian". I wanted to emphasize that fact by pointing out that Gentoo's removing nvi for similar reasons, and trying to install it just now resulted in this "package.mask" message: $ sudo emerge -p nvi # Michał Górny (2020-02-17) # Based o

Re: Mozilla Firefox DoH to CloudFlare by default (for US users)?

2019-09-15 Thread Amir H. Firouzian
Debian doesn't add ESNI Record into it's Name Server. Check here (ONLINE dig): https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/#TXT/ Check these two domains: _esni.debian.org _esni.cloudflare.com On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 5:31 AM Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 5:48 AM Anthony DeRobertis wro

Re: Mozilla Firefox DoH to CloudFlare by default (for US users)?

2019-09-14 Thread Amir H. Firouzian
ting disabling DoH by default to > CloudFlare in Firefox without explicit user consent to an attack on ICANN? > > But I guess that this alternative DNS root nonsense will just never die, so I > should not be really surprised. > > -- > Ondřej Surý > > > On 12 Sep 2019, at

Re: Mozilla Firefox DoH to CloudFlare by default (for US users)?

2019-09-12 Thread Amir H. Firouzian
Then you should ask why we have ICANN in the first place! PS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNIC On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 11:01 PM Ondřej Surý wrote: > > Hi, > > I haven’t found any discussion on the topic (although I haven’t searched very > hard and only looked for DoH and DNS keywords in the

RE: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-27 Thread L . P . H . van Belle
Hai, A very interesting thread this, since im doing this already for samba, my comments.. If i may .. Im running a samba repo now for jessie and stretch. ( and ubuntu 18.04 ) I really needed newer samba packages and i was not able to get them uploaded to unstable. So i decided to build th

Re: concerns about Salsa

2018-06-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > Le lundi 04 juin 2018 à 12:54:32+0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : >> >> In practice, I have found that it is much easier to deploy a >> production service directly from its git tree. This makes it much >> easier to make changes. > > I've alw

Bug#885583: ITP: node-json-parse-better-errors -- Node.js library for context errors on JSON.parse()

2017-12-28 Thread H GS
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hari Govind S X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-json-parse-better-errors Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Kat Marchán * URL : https://github.com/zkat/json-parse-better-errors#readme * License

Re: Naming of network devices - how to improve it in buster

2017-07-14 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2017, Tom H wrote: >> The classic naming scheme for network interfaces applied by the kernel >> is to simply assign names beginning with "eth0", "eth1", ... to all >

Re: Naming of network devices - how to improve it in buster

2017-07-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 6:14 AM, Russell Stuart wrote: > On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 05:20 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> Stateless "/etc". >> >> Systems with multiple NICs where the order in which they're >> recognized by the kernel can vary. > > I aske

Re: Naming of network devices - how to improve it in buster

2017-07-13 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Russell Stuart wrote: > > I still don't understand what use case the current scheme is aimed at. Stateless "/etc". Systems with multiple NICs where the order in which they're recognized by the kernel can vary.

Re: P.S. Re: Debian 9 in a VM with Proxmox 5 system

2017-07-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Roger Lynn wrote: > On 10/07/17 19:40, Marvin Renich wrote: >> >> There is an easy fix to revert the default behavior while still allowing >> knowledgeable sysadmins to get the new behavior. On the other hand, >> those who need to administer systems but are not sys

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-06 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > dnsmasq-base: lxc > * BAD: how often are you on a network without a DNS server? The dnsmasq-base "recommends" is about providing a dhcp server for containers not a dns server. libvirt-daemon-system has the same "recommends" for its VMs.

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-04 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > The initramfs-tools does not depend or recommend mdadm. However, > initramfs-tools is modular and its mdadm support is supplied by the > mdadm package. > > Dracut isn't modular, and its mdadm support is built-in. This is a key

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 03:48:09PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> >>> I didn't say RPM *doesn't* deal with changed files; I said ours >

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-29 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 04:21:17AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> Did Linux development move as quickly as it does now? >> Did users experience more problems or failures when running those >> dist-upgrades? >

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-29 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 07:53:57AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> >>> The "packages drop files in /usr/*, sysadmins override in /etc" way of >

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 2:34 AM, Brian May wrote: > On 2017-04-27 16:19, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> >> It seems you've missed the point (which was about 4 years between RHEL >> releases). > > There was almost three years between Woody (July 19th 2002) and Sarge (June > 6th 2005), yet we still al

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Luca Capello wrote: > On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:05:10 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> You can't dist-upgrade RHEL from 6 to 7 and you can't dist-upgrade >> Debian from 6 to 8 in one leap. > > Debian *does* support dist-upgrading betwe

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 07:53 -0400, Tom H wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> The "packages drop files in /usr/*, sysadmins override in /etc" way of >>> doing

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-26 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > All of this is caused by Red Hat having no support for upgrades: > > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/21964 > > # Red Hat does not support in-place upgrades between major versions 4, 5 and > # 6 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (A major vers

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-26 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > The "packages drop files in /usr/*, sysadmins override in /etc" way of > doing things is prevalent in the RPM world; in Debian, however, we > traditionally have packages drop files in /etc, and let the maintainer > change them in place. T

Re: Chromium browser

2017-02-05 Thread Amir H. Firouzian
Hello, That's really funny. 😀 On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Michael Meskes wrote: > Hi, > > could anyone please enlighten me why we have a chromium version in stable > security that is newer than what we have in unstable? The same version I > did > find, though, in experimental. However, I wo

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2017-01-08 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 10:49:23AM -0500, Tom H wrote: >> >> You can use >> >> ip a sh lo (if you have bash-completion installed, "a" will >> complete to "addr" and "sh" wil

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2017-01-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Toni Mueller wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 09:01:51PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:30:26AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >>> Ifconfig has been deprecated; you should probably use "ip a show >>> dev lo" instad of the shorter and m

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 2:32 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > Do you really think that > > wlp3s0: flags=4163 mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.** netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.** > inet6 fe80::** prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20 > ether e4:**:ca txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)

Re: Planned NMU of w3-recs would use much archive disk space

2016-10-27 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 08:41:12AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > so I'd say go ahead even if it is 200GiB. That would be pretty amazing. It's 200MiB, of course, as you and Paul note. > That said, Thaddeus, if you do go ahead with the upload please check if > you can minimize that s

Re: Planned NMU of w3-recs would use much archive disk space

2016-10-27 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
This reply responds to the messages of Marco d'Itri and Paul Wise. Summary: the package w3-recs provides the standards by which web pages are developed; its compressed source would be about 200 MiB in size. On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 09:50:28AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > What is the purpose of th

Planned NMU of w3-recs would use much archive disk space

2016-10-26 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
I am moving [1] to NMU a big non-free package, w3-recs [2][3], last updated five years ago. During the last five years, upstream has grown, both in volume [4] and in scope [5], for legitimate reasons. The new *.orig.tar.gz or *.orig.tar.xz would be about 200 GiB in size, six times what it is now.

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-17 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 09:53:52 +0100, Tom H wrote: >> >> Lennart didn't even say that he wanted to get rid of "EnvironmentFile=". >> >>> From the same-named thread on systemd-devel@: >> >&g

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-10 Thread Tom H
Sorry. Not meant for list. :( On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Tom H wrote: > Off-list. > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> >> What is the advantage of having a optional-merged-/usr? > > Imagine the opposition if this had been propos

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-10 Thread Tom H
Off-list. On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > What is the advantage of having a optional-merged-/usr? Imagine the opposition if this had been proposed as a non-optional change! (BTW, I'll take this opportunity to thank you for two of your recent proposals, the re-work of

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-10 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:03 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2016-01-04 11:30, Marc Haber wrote: >> >> Please also notice that this is the only option for ExecStart in >> systemd units. Well played, Lennart. > > Similarly skeleton-based init scripts use the full path as well. It helps if > you can st

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Iustin Pop wrote: > On 2016-01-03 12:59:01, Tom H wrote: >> >> I don't like usr-merge because it goes against my historical >> expectation that "/{,s}bin" be separate from their /usr namesakes and >> contain binaries

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Daniel Reurich wrote: > On 03/01/16 22:33, Philip Hands wrote: >> Daniel Reurich writes: >>> Because systemd doesn't work without /usr on the root partition isn't a >>> good reason either. >> >> You are right ... it is a poor reason, because it is pure fantasy.

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 03:53:03PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Jan 01, Ian Jackson wrote: >> With a merged /usr you would be able to serve the whole OS over NFS (and >> even share it among multiple systems without the constant threat o

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-11 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Bjørn Mork writes: >> >> "/usr/lib/sysctl.d/" is systemd specific. Dropping files there won't do >> anything unless you run the systemd-sysctl service. > > Sorry, should have researched this better first. sysctl WILL use > "/usr/lib/sysctl.d

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-11 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Tom H writes: >> >> systemd isn't the first package to allow/promote shipping distro >> settings in "/lib" or "/usr/lib" and overriding them via "/etc"; udev >> and polkit/policykit

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-11 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > > I violently disagree. We have always done it the other way, and had > the advantage that our conffile handling (which used to be and IMO > still is far superior to everything else other distributions have) > could notice if _both_ local chang

Bug#795980: ITP: beaker-notebook -- Data Scientist Notebook

2015-08-18 Thread Kristoffer H Rose
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kristoffer H Rose * Package name: beaker-notebook Version : 1.3.4 Upstream Author : Scott Draves * URL : http://beakernotebook.com * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : Data Scientist

Bug#795775: ITP: zorba -- NoSQL Query Processing

2015-08-16 Thread Kristoffer H Rose
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kristoffer H Rose * Package name: zorba Version : 3.1 Upstream Author : Cezar Andrei, Vinayak Borkar, Matthias Brantner, Nicolae Brinza, William Candillon, Federico Cavalieri, Dana Florescu, David Graf, Chris Hillery, Donald Kossmann

Bug#795246: ITP: beluga -- Functional programming language designed for formal reasoning.

2015-08-12 Thread Kristoffer H Rose
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kristoffer H Rose * Package name: beluga Version : 0.8.2 Upstream Author : Brigitte Pientka * URL : http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/beluga/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: OCaml Description : Functional

Re: Q: why binary-log by systemd-journald is not enabled by default?

2015-05-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Hideki Yamane, 2015-05-10] >> On Sun, 10 May 2015 00:56:43 -0300 >> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >>> >>> And I wish it would keep /var/log/dmesg (and its rotation). That thing is >>> really useful for user support when dealing with

Re: Debian's contact info

2015-03-29 Thread Clement H. via Brewster
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Keysigning, Tues., March 25, Blacksburg, Virginia

2014-03-23 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Jon Bernard and Thaddeus H. Black of the Debian Project will be signing GPG keys in Blacksburg, Virginia, Tues., March 25. If you are in the area and wish your key signed by two Debian Developers, or if you need to update your key to 4096R strength [1], you can attend. Date: Tues., March 25

default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:28:56 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 02/20/2014 09:02 PM, Tom H wrote: Thanks for your answer and apologies for the delay in responding but my $dayjob's been keeping me very busy. >> What features does sysvinit+openrc have that sysvinit+sysv-rc+inss

default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:19:30 +0900, hero...@gentoo.org wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen writes: >> >> It's probably better to just contribute your changes to the sysv-rc >> version and so make that one able to manage openrc in addition to the >> others it already knows how to. No point in forking it. > >

Bug#729535: general: mouse sometimes slow upon boot. must reboot to fix.

2013-11-13 Thread Tim H
Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outc

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Tom H
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:50:53 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > It's not necessarily the init script author who might want the degrees > of freedom, but the local system administrator. > > The most basic is the idea that whether you can control (via shell > scrpit fragments) whether or not a service

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

2013-08-08 Thread Tom H
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 13:08:28 -0400, Thomas Hood wrote: (I had an exchange of emails with Thomas off-list and he suggested that I reply on-list.) > With the nsswitch configuration > > hosts: files ... dns ... myhostname > > myhostname resolves the system hostname if nothing else does so > first.

Re: Plan to release a gplv3 compliant debian-based release

2013-07-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
is left as an exercise for reader. Since it was over a decade ago, I seriously doubt anyone would use anything that ancient as a basis for a modern kernel. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@sbih.org http WARNING: I cannot b

Why are mailboxes in /var/mail owned by group mail?

2012-12-19 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
mailboxes to be owned by group mail when in Debian we have per-user groups and AFAIK no daemons or other system processes belong to the mail group? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-21 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
remove comments, or compare against the skeleton (which did get counted, but I removed README) Not that I think it matters at all, but I did also find 30 occurences of sleep being called. Anywhere from .1 seconds, up to 5 seconds. -- John H. Robi

Re: Bug#651093: ITP: libyui -- Qt, GTK+ and ncurses UI-Engine

2011-12-05 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Björn Esser googlemail.com> writes: * Package name: libyui the package for the Yahoo! User Interface toolkit is called libyui-js which is bound to cause confusion. Can you rename yours to maybe libyastui or something? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] sean finney > > | export PATH=/usr/lib/nodejs:$PATH > | > | and problem solved, right? > > PATH isn't considered for #! lines, so not really. It is if you use #!/usr/bin/env node -- John H. Robinson, IV

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
s-2.3.pdf pg 19 [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.pdf pg 5 -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cat

Bug#632642: ITP: qasmixer -- mixer for the sound system ALSA powered by a QT GUI

2011-07-04 Thread Sebastian H.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Sebastian H." * Package name: qasmixer Version : 0.12.1 Upstream Author : Sebastian Holtermann * URL : http://www.xwmw.org/qasmixer/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : mixer for

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-06-09 Thread chris h
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > [various URLs have been fixed] http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/ has a link to http://git.debian.org/?s=pkg-java . This doesn't give a flat 404, but an index page that's rather useless. I suppose a flat redirect from http://git.debian.org

Re: Request for testing: /run and initscripts

2011-05-10 Thread chris h
Roger, I could not find any references to debootstrap installations with the new /run setup. How is debootstrap - and any other program installing Debian - supposed to handle /run, esp. with the initscripts postinst detecting chroots and it not bringing in the preferred setup? Thanks, -ch (Pl

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-28 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:55 PM, John H. Robinson, IV > wrote: > > Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > > That's not our problem, is it? > > > > It is, if we are trying to be as compatible as possible. > > Compatible with what? Bug

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-25 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
ut the subsequent ones? As mentioned, and mirror seeding would have to be synced anyway. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as

Re: Stepping the clock during boot

2010-08-02 Thread Jaldhar H . Vyas
. > I haven't really looked into the new dependency-based stuff so this might be a naive question but wouldn't "X-Starts-After: chrony" in dovecots init script be a better idea? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Jaldhar H . Vyas
ner might be interested if someone told him about it. Like with a wishlist bug to the BTS maybe? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Bug#579636: ITP: libdatetime-format-dbi-perl -- Finds a DateTime::Format parser class for a database connection

2010-04-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" * Package name: libdatetime-format-dbi-perl Version : 0.33 Upstream Author : Claus Faerber * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime-Format-DBI/ * License : GPL+Artistic Programming

Bug#579233: ITP: libhtml-template-dumper-perl -- Output template data in a test-friendly format

2010-04-26 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" * Package name: libhtml-template-dumper-perl Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Timm Murray * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Template-Dumper/ * License : GPL2+Artistic Programming

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-13 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
not, since the project decided to include > the kfreebsd architectures. That's part of porting. What is wrong with porting kfreebsd behaivour instead? -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I can

Bug#576881: ITP: fsmap -- Graphical description in a concept map of the free software world

2010-04-07 Thread h
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: René Mérou Owner: René Mérou * Package name: fsmap Version : 3 Upstream Author : René Mérou * URL : http://es.gnu.org/~reneme/fsmap/ * License : GFDL Description : Graphical description in a concept map of the fr

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-28 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:38:58PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > > This is one place where Solaris has gotten this right: /etc/nodename > > refers to the system itself, while each interface has its own (cf: > > /etc/hostname.hme0). >

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
, etc. I generally like to assume my computer isn't > going to break badly because I have to change the output hostname -f returns. This is one place where Solaris has gotten this right: /etc/nodename refers to the system itself, while each interface has its own (cf: /etc/hostname.

Re: [Need Help] About file lock in Debian Sarge

2009-12-21 Thread Muhammad H Hilman
Wow, it's work but, must I change the code on my application that needed filelock? because, filelock code on that application stated as ubuntu command (just filelock) as far as I know debian command on filelock is (filelock-create) can you tel me what's the different between (filelock-create) com

[Need Help] About file lock in Debian Sarge

2009-12-16 Thread Muhammad H Hilman
Dear Debian developers I run DOVIS 2.0 (docking application) in cluster server using Debian Sarge Then I got *"Can not get init lock!"* notification here is the screenshoot [image: http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/7643/35869453.png] I already asked the developers about this problem They said

Bug#560767: ITP: libfile-dircompare-perl -- Perl module to compare two directories

2009-12-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" * Package name: libfile-dircompare-perl Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Gavin Carr * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-DirCompare/ * License : GPL+Artistic Programming Lang: Perl D

Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility

2009-11-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
omeone is on the > whatwg/w3c lists and would like to bring this up there, that would be > great. +1 -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above,

Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility

2009-11-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
basically like Firefox. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type. spiders.html

Bug#554431: ITP: yui3 -- Yahoo! User Interface Library Version 3

2009-11-04 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" * Package name: yui3 Version : 3.0.0 Upstream Author : Yahoo! Developers! <http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/> * URL : http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/ * License : BSD Programming Lang:

Re: dir-or-file-in-var-www on single-HTML file web "apps" or the like

2009-11-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
> file, usually) > - add an index.html -> file.html symlink in that dir We have webservers other than Apache. % aptitude search -F %p '~Phttpd'|wc -l 22 Only 4 of those are Apache. apache2-mpm-(event|itk|prefork|worker) -- John H. Ro

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
ad? What about those packages that have multiple lintian blockers? One NMU for each, as they are unrelated, and have the problem that they are all blocked due to other outstanding lintian blockers, or have one giant NMU that touches various pieces parts? -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.

Re: Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-12 Thread Jaldhar H . Vyas
Russell Coker coker.com.au> writes: > > On Sunday 11 October 2009 23:49:22 Nicolas François wrote: > > IIRC, it was a problem for the support of shared mailboxes. > > Index files are created whose permissions mimic the mailbox' permissions. > > The 'mail' group ownership would require dovecot to

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