Re: status of packages shipping sysv-init script without systemd unit

2025-05-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
change. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: FTBFS when /bin is before /usr/bin in PATH?

2025-05-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
rrect. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: howto customize apache service from another package

2025-04-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 29, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: What is the right way to customize the apache service from another package. Use /lib/systemd/system/apache2.service.d/$YOURPACKAGE.conf. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Is it worth spending more time on adduser? (was: Bug#1104169: wish: adduser _radvd on new installs)

2025-04-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
rally useful outside of maintainer scripts. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: "ftp:" URLs in debian/copyright files

2025-04-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
oogle instead. So what? It is recognized by tnftp. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-04-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
with Debian. No, because the goal is to be able to use the whole Debian packages ecosystem. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-04-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
s is why I almost never add overrides to binary packages. It's terminally stupid to waste space on all Debian systems in the world because our tooling is suboptimal. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-04-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 19, Michael Stone wrote: If the goal is a minimal container image, why use debian at all vs a distribution optimized for that purpose? Running alpine without perl is already a solved problem... Because I want to use a real libc, for a start. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description

Re: Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

2025-04-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
to work on this before the release. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: utmp in trixie

2025-04-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
for trixie, or else you could help him. dangerous. It is common to use them before deciding whether a host can be shut down. You may use w(1) for the time being. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: utmp in trixie

2025-04-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
h the plan implemented last year by multiple maintainers. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2025-03-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 15, "Roberto C. Sánchez" wrote: This appears, at least to me, to have rather substantially exceeded what is appropriate for an uncoordinated NMU. Indeed. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Should GPU shaders be considered firmware?

2025-03-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 12, Hakan Bayındır wrote: If we think that a shader is a firmware, any software running on the second socket on a system is also a firmware, since the program is running on a different CPU w.r.t. to Kernel. This is not how Linux actually works. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc

Re: Should GPU shaders be considered firmware?

2025-03-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
which runs outside of the OS on a different CPU. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian on /usr (Re: TC decision on ownership of top-level filesystem aliases - #1091995)

2025-03-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
installing the kernel packages. See https://www.linux.it/~md/text/factoryreset-asg2024.pdf . -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug reports for Uploaders (was: Re #397761: bugs.debian.org: please forward bug reports to Uploaders also)

2025-03-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
this area... -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

2025-02-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 26, Soren Stoutner wrote: > The purpose of this email is to propose that the expectation that > emails should be wrapped at 80 characters when they are sent should be > dropped. I am opposed. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: GCC-15 mass bug filing.

2025-02-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
Maybe this could be considered by the time GCC 16 will start getting ready to be useful? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2025-02-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 14, Colin Watson wrote: > But it doesn't. Santiago's using the data from the security tracker to > determine whether CVEs are open. And in the case of one of my own packages these CVEs have not yet been fixed upstream, not even in an unreleased branch. -- ciao, Marco

Re: Upstreams with "official" tarballs differing from their git

2025-02-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
f laziness). In my own packages I am happy to add as many ugly hacks are needed to be able to directly use the upstream repository as upstream. e.g.: varnish. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Filesystem snapshotting in dpkg (was Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?)

2025-02-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
pen at rollback ? This is why merged-/usr was so much important. (Yes, I know about conffiles. This is why my work on having /etc more empty by default is important.) -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2025-01-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
th DEP-14. > Git is a great tool for collaboration. It is sad to see that in Debian > usage of git is stifled by simple things like people not agreeing to > use a common branch naming scheme despite there being a proposal for > 10+ years now. It is not obvious at all to me how this would be stifling usage of git in Debian. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: GnuPG 2.4 before Trixie freeze

2025-01-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
SSH? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: GnuPG 2.4 before Trixie freeze

2025-01-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
o much? As a project we have no moral or technical obligations to provide choices that we do not personally care about. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Towards DEP-14 acceptance and recently proposed changes

2025-01-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
You are free not to follow With the obvious goal of becoming a standard. It's the whole point of DEPs. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Towards DEP-14 acceptance and recently proposed changes

2025-01-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
any upstream branch to the packaging repository so as > +to not confuse anyone about the purpose of the Git repository. WTF? I say instead that in the modern worlds it is a best practice to have the packaging repository as a branch of the upstream repository. Again, trying to promote person

Bug#1092287: ITP: joycond -- System service to use Nintendo joy-cons as joypads

2025-01-06 Thread Marco Trevisan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marco Trevisan (Treviño) X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, ma...@ubuntu.com * Package name: joycond Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Contact: Daniel Ogorchock * URL : https://github.com/DanielOgorchock/joycond * License

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
base and it reliably kills itself when something goes wrong. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 19, Frank Guthausen wrote: > Is it reasonable to use this idea as "best practice" and implement it > into Debian style administration recommendations? It works very well No: the expected default for systemd-managed services is to use /etc/$SERVICE/ . -- ciao, Marco

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
him. The security track record of Postfix is good enough that I believe that chrooting is overkill. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)

2024-12-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
re is no need to update all code every few years because backward compatibility is preserved basically forever at this point. Perl is still a fundamental tool for system administrators. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Epoch accept request for plasma-dialer and spacebar

2024-11-30 Thread Marco Mattiolo
fix the upgrade process, I would like to add an epoch to the version number. I think this is the only way to handle this correctly, but I'm not so experienced so any hint is welcome. Is it fine for the Debian project to add the epoch to these 2 apps' version number? Kind r

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-11-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
ive. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-11-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
ument for pristine-tar if it boils down to such an infrequent use case. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-11-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
ally better, so I do not need to carry around files which we like to rebuild anyway). Actually I use gbp.conf to make sure that pristine-tar is disabled. [1] except than the openbsd-derived ones, because CVS. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: FQDN mandatory or can a machine could not have a domain ?

2024-11-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 24, Bastien Roucariès wrote: > > > Do you think it is a good idea to set the testbed hostname to a FQDN ? > > Please do. This has been a pain for the INN CI as well. > > Thanks marco > > How can we get some improvment on this side ? Just set in the CI containe

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
super fast fork of pbuilder with overlayfs support: https://salsa.debian.org/md/pbuilder/-/commits/overlayfs/ -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2024-11-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
not trivial. :-( -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2024-11-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
lysis of how much the size of a minimal system would change? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2024-11-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 12, Iustin Pop wrote: > The question is why on a default install with grub, which doesn'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

Re: FQDN mandatory or can a machine could not have a domain ?

2024-11-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 08, Bastien Roucariès wrote: > Does it seems a reasonable assumption to use a domain for an host even if it > is localdomain or test ? > > Do you think it is a good idea to set the testbed hostname to a FQDN ? Please do. This has been a pain for the INN CI as well. --

Re: Binary uploads into the archive

2024-10-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
tal for the first upload of the pair). -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: s390x architecture status?

2024-10-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
ore. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Will i386 released for Trixie and if no can we stop working on it now?

2024-10-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
mbling under the weight. Make the main R package, or another key dependency, build-depend on 64 bit support, ask for removal of the existing dependencies and you will not have to do anything else in the future. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Alternative signature mechanisms for upstream source verification

2024-10-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
, like configure. > Although, as stated by Simon, git signatures are based on SHA-1 so not > unbreakable anymore, but the point here is to illustrate the > git-buildpackage feature. This has been already discussed and it is not true. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: signify and signify-openbsd names

2024-10-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
get OpenBSD's signify > instead of the new 'signify-mail' package after an upgrade. Is that > problem really worth caring about? No: popcon == 58. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Alternative signature mechanisms for upstream source verification

2024-10-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
which are released by the upstream maintainers only as tar archives (because OpenBSD). -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: proposal: Hybrid network stack for Trixie

2024-09-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
s are wary of adding an indirection layer which nobody asked for. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: proposal: Hybrid network stack for Trixie

2024-09-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 23, Holger Levsen wrote: > ifupdown2 is like ifupdown, just rewritten in python. Yes, that's the problem: there was a consensus that it is not an appropriate dependency for the base system. ifupdown2 will still be around for anybody who wants to install it. -- cia

Re: proposal: Hybrid network stack for Trixie

2024-09-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
lan on Debian. > actionable option that we have on the table and strikes a good compromise. As > a This is not a "compromise". There is no other "more Netplan" option which you are not considering. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Community survey on network stack for Trixie

2024-09-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
n we could reference a single Netplan configuration, > that would get applied to both of the underlying stacks. As stated > previously, advanced users can easily configure the underlying stack > natively and Netplan will get out of their way. Do we even have general documentation about co

Re: Community survey on network stack for Trixie

2024-09-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
is appropriate for a modern system (I have been using it for close to 30 years and at this point I think that it has served its purpose and there are better defaults...). -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1080344: ITP: bcachfs-tools -- bcachefs userspace tools

2024-09-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
much appreciate anyone willing to co-maintain the package > with me. Especially someone with any serious Rust experience would be > very helpful. LOL (sorry). -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: DEP18 follow-up: What would be the best path to have all top-150 packages use Salsa CI?

2024-08-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
r documentation to make life easier for > package maintainers. It is authoritative, but apparently I was better than the actual CI maintainers at figuring out the simplest possibile recipe. :-) -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: DEP18 follow-up: What would be the best path to have all top-150 packages use Salsa CI?

2024-08-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
ECT/-/pipelines/, and you will also get emails for pass/fail transitions. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Representing Debian Metadata in Git

2024-08-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
irefox repos from a sloppy Internet connection for a packaging > analysis or an occasional contribution.) But --depth 1 should work around this. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: DEP18 follow-up: What would be the best path to have all top-150 packages use Salsa CI?

2024-08-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
lsa.debian.org/$NAMESPACE/$PROJECT/-/pipelines/new This allows to see how Salsa CI works with very low friction and no committment at all: worst case it can be disabled again and nobody will notice. :-) -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-01 Thread Marco d'Itri
ub. It And I highly doubt that they vet their contributors the same way that we do. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Developers needed for mentors sponsorship - 2024-07-28

2024-07-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
r message, maybe as part of the WNPP one? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: default network management tools

2024-07-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
THAT feature. > Shouldn't "systemctl reload systemd-networkd" do exactly that? Indeed, it does. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ifupdown maintenance

2024-07-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
anxious about it. I do not believe that I can help you further. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ifupdown maintenance

2024-07-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
for having bought switches from Nvidia.) -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: what about Netplan?

2024-07-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
u to the features that it actually implements from each backend and you have an indirection layer that must be used when interacting with the backend daemon. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ifupdown maintenance

2024-07-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 09, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Just tried to point out that automatic conversion will be hard. And And I believe that nobody argued to do that. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ifupdown maintenance

2024-07-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
But we switched to NM for Wi-Fi enabled systems and the sky has not fallen yet. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ifupdown maintenance

2024-07-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
tch the default to NM and/or systemd-networkd. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Q: Create non-free package

2024-07-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
Architecture field. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Reviving schroot as used by sbuild

2024-06-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
builder/build/ then all the actual action will happen in RAM. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Mandatory LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during package building

2024-06-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
to call debian/rules. This is the resilient and future-proof option. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: File descriptor hard limit is now bumped to the kernel max

2024-06-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
ing rlim_cur. Something did, because inn would start reporting ~1G available fds and then explode, and that patch solved the issue. :-) -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: File descriptor hard limit is now bumped to the kernel max

2024-06-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
time, and I never noticed that it allocates some data structures for all available fds. Apparently this worked well enough for 1M file descriptors, but not for 1G. :-) The solution was easy enough: https://salsa.debian.org/md/inn/-/blob/master/debian/patches/limit_getfdcount -- ciao, Marco

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

2024-05-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
t a worse or second class Debian > installation when you upgrade it than if you installed from scratch. I strongly disagree: it is a bad choice to change on upgrades a default which may cause data loss. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Binary conflict between Midnight Commander and MinIO Client

2024-04-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
ing what several other distributions have done[2], I'm > planning to name the source/binary packages "minio-client" and the > binary provided from that package will be `mcli`. Go for it, I think that there is no good solution for this case. Everybody who cares then will manually cr

Re: dash and mutt

2024-04-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
that he is real. Or maybe I am part of the plot as well? How can you know? > If this is not solved I will cease to stop using Debian and Debian will > die. OK, good luck with your next operating system. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

2024-04-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
ild . pbuilder build $(ls -1tr ../*.dsc | tail -1) dupload ... Check the rpki-client repository for an example. (Using gbp is not mandatory, but it allows to import with just one command the upstream tar archive or git tree reference.) And now having the full git history of my packages is invaluable w

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-04-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 07, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > There are more than enough ways to keep the entries based on dns > records in your l3 firewalls uptodate, I can't see how this should > warrant to keep yet another patch Jan^WMarco. Not for the form *.domain.tld. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc De

Re: Debian 12 released with two RC bugs in Sylpheed

2024-04-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
rwise I will become a Debian developer > and package it myself. Big Jia Tan vibe here... -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-04-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
while I am working on a package. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-04-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
sshd, which is not the default for good reasons. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-04-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
S-based ACLs which cannot be supported by L3 firewalls. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-03-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
ote > and using gbp-import-orig's --upstream-vcs-tag you get the best of > both worlds. No: I get nothing of value by doing that and the repository will be cluttered by commits that I do not care about. Also: upstream VCS snapshots. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-03-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
ture in > the archive. The only place the upstream signature would then live is in > Salsa. Totally worth it! -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: xz backdoor

2024-03-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
Are you both talking about unstable hosts, or unstable chroots, or...? I am talking about our own computers. Obviously everything is built and rebuilt in unstable chroots. But I think that we have to eat our dog food. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: xz backdoor

2024-03-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
should really still use code-signing keys which are not stored in (some kind of) HSM. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: On merging bin and sbin

2024-02-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 28, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Please allow me to push back on this one as well by raising a few > concerns. Also, I think that the benefits from doing this are tiny, and just adding /usr/sbin/ to the $PATH would solve almost everything. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Descriptio

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
ps --exclude=/usr/lib/news/bin/auth/passwd/auth_krb5 -- \ -dSuggests $D/usr/lib/news/bin/auth/passwd/auth_krb5 \ -dDepends -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1063508: ITP: node-long -- Class for representing 64-bit two's-complement integer value

2024-02-08 Thread Marco Trevisan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marco Trevisan (Treviño) X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-long Version : 5.2.3 Upstream Author : Daniel Wirtz * URL : https://github.com/dcodeIO/long.js#readme * License : Apache-2.0

Re: Proposal for how to deal with Go/Rust/etc security bugs

2024-01-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
ons, it is hell for daemons or other system services which need integration with the OS. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Proposal for how to deal with Go/Rust/etc security bugs (was: Re: Limited security support for Go/Rust? Re ssh3)

2024-01-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
rk and these problems with integrating complex Rust software in distributions, e.g. https://www.linux.it/~md/text/rpki-validators-euroix2023.pdf . -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: HFS/HFS+ are insecure

2024-01-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
a crafted USB stick to a computer with a locked screen. Also, the listed file systems are not used or not used anymore on removable devices. Certainly not on removable devices used by regular users. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#810018: New Essential package procps-base

2023-11-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 20, Craig Small wrote: > Also why is killall5 not a candidate too? Probably because it makes no sense outside of sysvinit, except that as a footgun. (Also, is it equivalent to pkill --inverse?) -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1053165: ITS: nunit

2023-09-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
about abandoned packages. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2023-09-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
d,session,session-noninteractive} which are > constructed at package install time and therefore are inappropriate to ship > in /usr. Actually it would still help a lot, because pam-auth-update can be run on the first boot to rebuild the /etc/pam.d/*common-* files. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2023-09-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
time (severity: wishlist), but they can also choose to not care. > Accomplishing things like this in Debian has a large social component that > I think is being neglected. After having initiated a few things like this in Debian I suspect that I am beginning to understand why this may happen.

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

2023-09-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
fs=/var/ --tmpfs=/tmp/ \ -D /var/lib/machines/empty/ You could add --tmpfs=/etc/ too, but then logins would fail. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2023-09-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
well as automatic support for > flagging changes on upgrades and suggesting a three-way merge (similar > to ucf)? This is not, but it could be added on top of it by anybody interested. > With some care for convention-over-configuration, debhelper > could auto-populate this declarative data in many cases. This is intriguing. :-) -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: /usr/-only image

2023-09-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
erimenting and trying to figure out what we can and cannot do. I am not even sure that general distribution-wide support for this is a reasonable goal, but I expect that it will not be hard to have support for the base system and cooperating packages. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: /usr/-only image

2023-09-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
s to be fixed. I suggest that you join #debian-systemd. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?

2023-09-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
license didn't diverge from what it looks like. I'd > love to use SPDX IDs there, for example. In an ideal world, I'd like to > autofill debian/copyright with SPDX IDs from upstream metadata. Having a > link to a file goes closer to having a declarative license ID. Agreed

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

2023-08-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 15, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > The proper approach is IMO one of these: Or else, if you know that they do not actually need to be rebuilt: just disable in the makefile the target which causes them to be rebuilt. This is what I do in my packages. -- ciao, Marco signature.

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >