another problem class from /usr-merge [Re: Bug#1036920: systemd: please ship a placeholder in /usr/lib/modules-load.d/]

2023-05-30 Thread Helmut Grohne
Context for d-devel: Andreas Beckmann noticed that systemd ships an empty directory /usr/lib/modules-load.d. When removing a package that ships a file in /lib/modules-load.d (such as multipath-tools), dpkg may in some circumstanced delete the empty directory owned by systemd. On Mon, May 29, 2023

Re: another problem class from /usr-merge [Re: Bug#1036920: systemd: please ship a placeholder in /usr/lib/modules-load.d/]

2023-05-30 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:53:01AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Are there other kinds of resources in dpkg that can be shared like > directories? Thinking... Yes, regular files. How can files be shared? > Via Multi-Arch: same. Can that happen for real? Yes. I've attached an > artificial reproduce

Re: another problem class from /usr-merge [Re: Bug#1036920: systemd: please ship a placeholder in /usr/lib/modules-load.d/]

2023-05-30 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 30 May 2023 at 10:53, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Context for d-devel: > > Andreas Beckmann noticed that systemd ships an empty directory > /usr/lib/modules-load.d. When removing a package that ships a file in > /lib/modules-load.d (such as multipath-tools), dpkg may in some > circumstanced d

Re: another problem class from /usr-merge [Re: Bug#1036920: systemd: please ship a placeholder in /usr/lib/modules-load.d/]

2023-05-30 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Luca, On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:23:07AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > - unmerged-usr paths are no longer supported > > > > Then you argue that this bug would affect only unmerged systems, while > > it actually is in reverse. Unmerged systems are unaffected by this bug > > class. The deleti

Re: another problem class from /usr-merge [Re: Bug#1036920: systemd: please ship a placeholder in /usr/lib/modules-load.d/]

2023-05-30 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 30 May 2023 at 14:09, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Hi Luca, > > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:23:07AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > - unmerged-usr paths are no longer supported > > > > > > Then you argue that this bug would affect only unmerged systems, while > > > it actually is in reverse

Bug#1036951: ITP: bitsnpicas -- Bitmap & Emoji font creation & conversion tools

2023-05-30 Thread Gürkan Myczko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gürkan Myczko X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: bitsnpicas Version : 2.0+ds Upstream Authors: Rebecca G. Bettencourt URL : https://github.com/kreativekorp/bitsnpicas * License : MPL-1.1 Desc

Re: [2016] client-side signature checking of Debian archives (Re: When should we https our mirrors?)

2023-05-30 Thread James Addison
In follow-up to: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/10/msg00592.html As an update here: the default recommendation in the Debian release notes now recommends[1] HTTPS instead of HTTPS by default. Despite the validity of many of the theoretical concerns about APT over HTTP, I reckon that t

Bug#1036962: ITP: libovxlib-dev -- Lightweight wrapper for OpenVX Neural-Network Extension provided by VeriSilicon to facilitate the deployment of Neural-Networks on OpenVX enabled hardware accelerato

2023-05-30 Thread Leonardo Held
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Leonardo Held X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name : libovxlib-dev Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name * URL : https://www.example.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Programming Lang: (C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.) D

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-30 Thread Diederik de Haas
[Please CC me in replies as I'm not subscribed to this list] I hope I'm not too late for this discussion ... Steve McIntyre wrote: > Luca Boccassi wrote: > >On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 12:42, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> I'm planning on stopping publishing installer images for i386 > >> soon. Why? We

Bug#1036965: ITP: libplack-middleware-prometheus-requesttimes-perl -- Perl module that records response times with a prometheus histogram

2023-05-30 Thread mtj
Package: wnpp Owner: Mason James Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libplack-middleware-prometheus-requesttimes-perl Version : 0.0001 Upstream Author : Colin Newell * URL : https://metacpan.org

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 12:51:06AM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > >+1 for stopping publishing installers for i386, it has been mentioned > > >many times but it's always worth repeating: electricity costs to keep > > >running i386 hardware are already way higher than what it costs to buy > > >a

Re: Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-30 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Diederik de Haas (2023-05-31 00:51:06) > > If people have strong opinions about that plan, let us know please. > > I have *strong* opinions about this. > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2023/01/msg00372.html was a message/ > plea to not forget about supporting OLD systems. >