On Monday 11 May 2009 07:45:02 Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Changing defaults with a large installed base begs the
> question: Why? Random churn for churns sake is not the answer.
But upgrades would (should?) keep exim installed. A new default would only
affect new installations.
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On Monday 11 May 2009 09:49:31 Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Well, debuild calls dpkg-buildpackage most of the time, unless you give a
> > specific target (which would again possibly be of interest to those who
> > are interested in calling debian/rules b
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On 2009-05-11, Brian May wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:31:07PM +0200, Jens Peter Secher wrote:
>> +1 for ssmtp
> I found ssmtp couldn't cope with mail my various systems were
> generating, something about fixed maximum buffer lengths from memory.
Please not ssmtp. If I recall it correctly
Hi all,
I am packaging the new hylafax version, 6.0. Now that Lenny has been
released I am taking squeeze as base distribution, but I would also give
support to older distribution. Starting from sarge, all users where
strongly advised to update to 2.6 kernel; etch and lenny started
delivering packa
Philipp Kern writes:
> On 2009-05-11, Brian May wrote:
>> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:31:07PM +0200, Jens Peter Secher wrote:
>>> +1 for ssmtp
>> I found ssmtp couldn't cope with mail my various systems were
>> generating, something about fixed maximum buffer lengths from memory.
>
> Please not s
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > A separate /usr *is* the way to go if you don't want any writes in
> > that filesystem 99.9% of the time (i.e. when you're not doing an
> > upgrade).
>
> A read-only / does the trick just as well. And if you don't want
> writes to /usr you proba
Travis Crump wrote:
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
>> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 02:58:56PM -0700, Russ Allbery
>> was heard to say:
I think that lintian warning is the right way to do it.
>>> I don't -- I think there are too many false positives for a lintian
>>> warning given the thread. I also thin
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> > A separate /usr *is* the way to go if you don't want any writes in
>> > that filesystem 99.9% of the time (i.e. when you're not doing an
>> > upgrade).
>>
>> A read-only / does the trick just as well. And
* Simon Josefsson , 2009-05-11, 12:55:
+1 for ssmtp
I found ssmtp couldn't cope with mail my various systems were
generating, something about fixed maximum buffer lengths from memory.
Please not ssmtp. If I recall it correctly I found no way to get it
to send mail to a exim-based smarthost vi
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> A read-only / should work out of the box just like a read-only /usr. I
> haven't installed a fresh one in a long while though so if you know of
> problems speak up so bugs can be filed and packages can be fixed.
Last time I tried it, /etc was a pr
On May 11, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> delivering packages that do not work with kernel 2.4. Now I believe that
> 2.4 kernel is no more supported.
This has been true since lenny.
> With 2.6 kernels, we may use the "bind" option in order to mount
> a /etc/hylafax on /var/spool/hylafax/etc. So, I am f
Il giorno lun, 11/05/2009 alle 15.06 +0200, Marco d'Itri ha scritto:
[...]
> > With 2.6 kernels, we may use the "bind" option in order to mount
> > a /etc/hylafax on /var/spool/hylafax/etc. So, I am finally moving to
> > this new configuration, but I have a few concern that I would like to
> > shar
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Holger Levsen writes:
Hi,
On Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
With the include approach, we lack this feature and bad/broken local
overrides can't be detected if we only have the build log at hand.
which reminds me that we dont have build logs for pro
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 09:59:36AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > A read-only / should work out of the box just like a read-only /usr. I
> > haven't installed a fresh one in a long while though so if you know of
> > problems speak up
Jakub Wilk writes:
> * Simon Josefsson , 2009-05-11, 12:55:
> +1 for ssmtp
I found ssmtp couldn't cope with mail my various systems were
generating, something about fixed maximum buffer lengths from memory.
>>>
>>> Please not ssmtp. If I recall it correctly I found no way to get it
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Sun, May 10 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:37:46PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On Sunday 10 May 2009 13:56:04 Steve Langasek wrote:
I thought it was generally recognized that it's a Bad Idea to implement
config files using your interpreter
On Fri, 8 May 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote in [1]:
Those tasks are read from the Packages files (the Task: field that some
entries have). I'm not sure how this field is managed.
When trying to track down the origin of the task column in UDD[1] I learned
that it is just copied from the task field
On Mon, May 11 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes:
>
>> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>>> > A separate /usr *is* the way to go if you don't want any writes in
>>> > that filesystem 99.9% of the time (i.e. when you're not doing an
>>> > upgrad
On Mon, May 11 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Sun, 10 May 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> I would prefer Debian to remain a full fledged member of the free
>> software community, and continue to not let build behaviour diverge
>> whether or not dpkg-buildpackage was used -- which can
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 09:20:44AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Mon, May 11 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>
> > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes:
> >
> >> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >>> > A separate /usr *is* the way to go if you don't want any writes in
> >>>
Raphael Hertzog writes:
> BTW, just to make things clear. It's likely that those Makefile
> snippet (if we decide to go that way) become quite more elaborated as
> we try integrating support for things like hardening-wrapper (see
> #489771). Expect stuff like "if debian/control has
> Build-Optio
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> The only builds Debian supports are not just the buildd ones. As
>> members of the free software community, we should also cater to end
>> users building, tweaking, and rebuilding our software.
> You are a very special case: a
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 03:43:41PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> You are a very special case: a developer since very long time, with a
> enormous knowledge of debian policy (and dpkg internal).
> But I really think that most people outside DD use dpkg-buildpackage
> because it is the easier
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* Simon Josefsson , 2009-05-11, 15:06:
What about msmtp? http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/
AFAIK msmtp does not support local mail delivery.
I suspect that is part of the design goal of msmtp. Local mail delivery
can be handled by other tools, can't it? Generally, it seems like a
good idea to s
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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 04:38:59PM +0100, Roger Leigh
wrote:
> There's a patch for /etc/mtab elimination; it's totally unneeded nowadays.
More than unneeded, it is absolutely irrelevant when using mount namespaces.
Mike
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Ben Finney dijo [Wed, May 06, 2009 at 04:31:02PM +1000]:
> [no answers for this yet on ‘debian-mentors’, so trying here]
>
> Howdy all,
>
> I have an upstream for a package who has started using a VCS hosting
> site for publishing the code. It's possible they will continue to make
> tarball relea
Roger Leigh writes:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 09:59:36AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> > A read-only / should work out of the box just like a read-only /usr. I
>> > haven't installed a fresh one in a long while though so if you kn
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> Hi debian-devel,
>
> From policy 7.2 Binary Dependencies - Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Enhances,
> Pre-Depends
>
> Recommends
>
> This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
>
> The Recommends field should list packages that would be found tog
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog writes:
>
> > BTW, just to make things clear. It's likely that those Makefile
> > snippet (if we decide to go that way) become quite more elaborated as
> > we try integrating support for things like hardening-wrapper (see
> > #489771). E
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > If you refer to the fact, that dpkg-buildpackage cleans and rebuilds
> > everything and that it can take a lot of time, then please stop using
> > arguments that do not hold at all. you can call arbitrary debian/rules
> > targets with dpkg-buildpacka
Raphael Hertzog writes:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I still think Build-Options-Supported is fundamentally the wrong way
>> to implement that. You have to modify every package to add it
>> anyway, in which case you can just as easily support it in the
>> package's debian/rules
On 09/05/07 17:55 +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag said ...
> I filed a lintian wishlist bug (#527363) requesting a I/W tag when non
> documentation packages recommend documentation packages.
>
> With Install-Recommends being the default, many packages pull in a lot of
> associated documentation. The
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