Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-08-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 30/07/13 at 12:00 -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > Hi all Debianites, > > I've been inspired by the "Developer Advisory Team" in another > project [1], and so I want to create a similar team within Debian. > In this email, first I'll summarize what the concept of Developer > Advisory Team is, and

Re: Finding correct component for Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution issue

2013-08-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Paul Wise (2013-08-03): > We need to implement DEP-11 so that we can map hardware (and other > things) to packages. > > isenkram/PackageKit needs to be extended to use DEP-11 information. > > isenkram (or similar DEP-11 solution) needs to be run from the Debian > installer. Depends: python (>=

Re: [Popcon-developers] Encrypted popcon submissions

2013-08-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:14:02PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 11:27:12PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 05:08:08PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Dear Debian people, > > > > > > I upload popularity-contest 1.58 which add support for encrypt

Re: new hashes (SHA512, SHA3) in apt metadata and .changes files?

2013-08-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 03-08-13 13:45, Ondřej Surý wrote: > I think it's useless to upgrade to SHA512 (or SHA-3), It's never useless to upgrade to a stronger hash. The cost might outweight the benefit, yes. But that's a different matter. -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

2013-08-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 12:08:15PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I'm currently processing the answers to the survey I mentioned in [1]. > Looking at what I've processed so far, one of the conclusions, I think, > will be that a very large proportion of people who managed to get their > first p

Re: new hashes (SHA512, SHA3) in apt metadata and .changes files?

2013-08-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-08-04 at 16:45 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On 03-08-13 13:45, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > I think it's useless to upgrade to SHA512 (or SHA-3), > > It's never useless to upgrade to a stronger hash. > > The cost might outweight the benefit, yes. But that's a different matter. What mak

We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 12:37:17AM +, Paul Richards Tagliamonte a écrit : > Hi maintainer, > > sysdata.rda appears to be in your source, which is a dataset compressed > into pickled R objects. > > Can you assure me of one of two things: > > 1. that this data is *not* used anywhere in the b

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-04 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 09:57:35AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear Paul and everybody, > > it is the common practice in upstream R packages to store data in binary > objects. Those objects can be modified with R, and exported into various > formats. The Debian archive if full of them. This

Non-identical files with identical md5sums on Debian systems?

2013-08-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi all, I do occasionally check for identical files on different systems by comparing their md5sums. So, just out of interest, could someone tell me (how to find out) how many non-identical files with identical md5sums there are there on a typical (say, amd64) Debian system? Thanks! - Fabian

Re: Non-identical files with identical md5sums on Debian systems?

2013-08-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Fabian Greffrath writes: > I do occasionally check for identical files on different systems by > comparing their md5sums. So, just out of interest, could someone tell me > (how to find out) how many non-identical files with identical md5sums > there are there on a typical (say, amd64) Debian syst

Re: Non-identical files with identical md5sums on Debian systems?

2013-08-04 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Hi all, > > I do occasionally check for identical files on different systems by > comparing their md5sums. So, just out of interest, could someone tell me > (how to find out) how many non-identical files with identical md5sums > there are t

Re: Non-identical files with identical md5sums on Debian systems?

2013-08-04 Thread Michael Welle
Hello, Russ Allbery writes: > Fabian Greffrath writes: > >> I do occasionally check for identical files on different systems by >> comparing their md5sums. So, just out of interest, could someone tell me >> (how to find out) how many non-identical files with identical md5sums >> there are there