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

2024-11-12 Thread Hans
Am Dienstag, 12. November 2024, 07:14:34 CET schrieb kindusmith: In very early linux, as far as I remember in SuSE-Linux, the kernel was installed in a small partition /boot (about 3 or 4 sizes of the kernel) and a link ponting to the kernel on the root-partitiion (the one, mounted to "/") This

Bug#1087394: ITP: reproc -- reproc (Redirected Process) is a cross-platform C/C++ library

2024-11-12 Thread Valentin Vidic
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Valentin Vidic X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: reproc Version : 14.2.5 Upstream Contact: Daan De Meyer * URL : https://github.com/DaanDeMeyer/reproc * License : MIT Programming Lang: C, C++

Bug#1087395: ITP: golang-github-tc-hib-winres -- Embedding Windows icons/manifest/versioninfo/etc into Go executables

2024-11-12 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-tc-hib-winres Version : 0.3.1-1 Upstream Author : Thomas Combeléran, et al * URL : https://github.com/tc-hib/winres * License : 0BSD Programming Lang: Go Description :

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

2024-11-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 02:14:34PM +0800, kindusmith wrote: In early Unix, boot and vmunix were both stored in the root directory as programs, and boot was used to start vmunix. Debian inherited this for compatibility, but the situation has changed a lot. Today, boot is stored in the root direc

Bug#1087396: ITP: golang-github-tc-hib-go-winres -- Command line tool for adding Windows resources to executable files

2024-11-12 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-tc-hib-go-winres Version : 0.3.3-1 Upstream Author : Thomas Combeléran, et al * URL : https://github.com/tc-hib/go-winres * License : 0BSD Programming Lang: Go Description

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

2024-11-12 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2024-11-12 12:45:47, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 02:14:34PM +0800, kindusmith wrote: > > In early Unix, boot and vmunix were both stored in the root directory as > > programs, and boot was used to start vmunix. Debian inherited this for > > compatibility, but the situation has

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

2024-11-12 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2024-11-12 at 11:02:53 +0100, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Quoting Hans (2024-11-12 09:35:08) > > However, maybe a link is alo no more needed, even with a seperated /boot > > partition. > > It's just a symlink. What's the harm? For me, the default location of the symlink

Bug#1087371: ITP: golang-github-ccoveille-go-safecast -- Safe number conversion in Go

2024-11-12 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-ccoveille-go-safecast Version : 1.1.0-1 Upstream Author : ccoVeille * URL : https://github.com/ccoveille/go-safecast * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description

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

2024-11-12 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Hans (2024-11-12 09:35:08) > However, maybe a link is alo no more needed, even with a seperated /boot > partition. It's just a symlink. What's the harm? Having the symlink is very practical for bootloaders that are not grub. Pointing an extlinux.conf or a boot.scr to /vmlinuz instead of h

Bug#1087376: ITP: lomiri-tfamanager-app -- 2-Factor-Authentication Manager App for Lomiri Operating Environment

2024-11-12 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: lomiri-tfamanager-app Version : 1.7.0 Upstream Contact: Joan CiberSheep * URL : https://gitlab.com/cibersheep/tfamanager/ * License : GPL-3 Progr

Bug#1087369: ITP: golang-github-gen2brain-beeep -- Go cross-platform library for sending desktop notifications, alerts and beeps

2024-11-12 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-gen2brain-beeep Version : 0.0~git20240516.9c00667-1 Upstream Author : Milan Nikolic * URL : https://github.com/gen2brain/beeep * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: Go

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

2024-11-12 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 09:35:08AM +0100, Hans wrote: > Am Dienstag, 12. November 2024, 07:14:34 CET schrieb kindusmith: > In very early linux, as far as I remember in SuSE-Linux, the kernel was > installed in a small partition /boot (about 3 or 4 sizes of the kernel) and a > link ponting to the

Bug#1087377: ITP: golang-github-bugst-go-serial -- A cross-platform serial library for go-lang.

2024-11-12 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-bugst-go-serial Version : 1.6.2-1 Upstream Author : bug.st * URL : https://github.com/bugst/go-serial * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Go Description : cross