APT 1.5~alpha1 landed in experimental today(ish). It includes three
big changes (one of which, the new https support, is opt-in).
[ Changes to unauthenticated repositories ]
The security exception for apt-get to only raise warnings if it encounters
unauthenticated repositories in the "update
Paul Wise writes ("Re: Declarative packaging (Was: Re: Intended MBF: maintainer
scripts not using strict mode)"):
> IIRC last time we discussed this, the recommendation was to set an
> environment variable that maintainer scripts could check to determine
> if they should do host-specific actions o
On തിങ്കള് 26 ജൂണ് 2017 07:38 വൈകു, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> If our live images are going to be good enough to meet the standards
> that Debian users deserve and expect, we need *consistent*,
> *sustained* involvement from a lot more people. Please tell me if
> you're going to help. If we don't se
Ralf Treinen writes:
> I had a cursory look over the listed maintainer scripts, and did not
> find any that does a careful checking of exit statuses. Though some
> of them are quite trivial, or even sometimes empty. It looks to me
> as not using strict mode in these cases is an oversight, and I w
On 27/06/17 18:47, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ralf Treinen writes:
>> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 11:09:26PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
>
>>> sigh.
>>> And using `#!/bin(ba)?sh -e` is not good either (there is a lintian tag
>>> about it, iirc).
>
>> what is the rationale for this? Is anyone calling mai
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:38:31AM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> APT 1.5~alpha1 landed in experimental today(ish). It includes three
> big changes (one of which, the new https support, is opt-in).
1.5~alpha2 fixes a critical security issue for people that set
a custom CaInfo option: Alpha 1
The wider community doesn't seem that concerned with the fact that all
Debian and Ubuntu users are now (with the most recent stable releases)
completely unable to change their default umask (and further have a
default setting that gives the world read access to all their
documents). I think thi
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.
Total number of orphaned packages: 1079 (new: 1)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 171 (new: 0)
Total number of packages reques
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 7:43 PM, wrote:
> The wider community doesn't seem that concerned with the fact that all
> Debian and Ubuntu users are now (with the most recent stable releases)
> completely unable to change their default umask (and further have a default
> setting that gives the world re
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