Re: Contents indices files

2024-12-18 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 07:46:03PM +0100, Frank Guthausen wrote: > Hello. > > Maybe this question belongs more to debian-devel than debian-user: > > According to the repository format wiki page[1] there exists contents > indices files, e.g. in Debian bookworm main[2]. How are they generated? > Is

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-18 Thread Ananthu C V
On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 09:06:48PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > reportbug can send emails through sendmail (if you have that > configured), or it can be set up so it can bypass that entirely and send > email directly to an SMTP server. If you use something like thunderbird, you can always do so

Contents indices files

2024-12-18 Thread Frank Guthausen
Hello. Maybe this question belongs more to debian-devel than debian-user: According to the repository format wiki page[1] there exists contents indices files, e.g. in Debian bookworm main[2]. How are they generated? Is there documentation in the Debian wiki? Some tool to support this? I created

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hola, On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 05:51:34PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Hi! > > For 25 years, Postfix the MTA in Debian has been setup to run chrooted by > default (that's where most postfix internal components run chrooted in > /var/spool/postfix/, to limit possible system damage after a possib

Re: Potential MBF: packages which break with new Make 4.4.1

2024-12-18 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 09:16:32 +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: > I recently adopted the make packages from Manoj. Make 4.4.1 is available in > experimental, and I’m hoping to upload it to unstable in time for trixie, > but some packages break because of small changes in make behaviour. There’s been some

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Richard Lewis
Michael Tokarev writes: > BTW, is there a way for a systemd unit to take/inherit (security) settings > from > another unit? You might want to look at the examples here https://github.com/cyberitsolutions/prisonpc-systemd-lockdown/tree/main/systemd/system/postfix%40.service.d (from Trent W. Buck

Re: Results (Re: DEP-0, DEP0 or DEP 0?)

2024-12-18 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Wednesday, December 18, 2024 9:26:28 AM MST Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > > I changed my personal preference from DEP-0 to DEP0 as I now consider > > > DEP0 the best option based as I have seen so much of RFC822, dep3, > > > dep8 and DEP14 in use in many places. However, that +22 for DEP-0 is > > >

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Richard Lewis
"Jonathan Dowland" writes: > On Wed Dec 18, 2024 at 10:58 AM GMT, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: >> Adding a couple of lines to the systemd unit should not add any new >> dependincies to the package, or affect users of other init systems in >> any way. > > That's a very good point. In which case that's li

Bug#1090741: ITP: lomiri-online-accounts-plugins-caldav -- Online account plugin for Lomiri (generic/Nextcloud/ownCloud) CalDAV

2024-12-18 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: lomiri-online-accounts-plugins-caldav Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Contact: Lionel Duboeuf * URL : https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/lomiri-online-a

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 05:50:55PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > > > On 12/11/24 5:20 PM, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:04:52 +0530, Pirate Praveen > > wrote: > > > I think a reportbug web based front end that authenticates with salsa > > > via oauth and sends emails without any

Re: Contents indices files

2024-12-18 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:06:34 +0200 Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 07:46:03PM +0100, Frank Guthausen wrote: > > > > I created a repository with reprepro, but this generates Release > > and Packages files only, not the Contens-*.gz files. The content > > of this repository is invis

golang-github-lair-framework-go-nmap — Packaging repository available on Salsa

2024-12-18 Thread aka oday
Hello, I would like to inform you that I am working on the initial packaging of golang-github-lair-framework-go-nmap. The initial packaging repository is available on Salsa at the following link: https://salsa.debian.org/marcos.rcarvalho/golang-github-lair-framework-go-nmap Once the package is r

Bug#1090749: ITP: bird3 -- Internet Routing Daemon (version 3.x)

2024-12-18 Thread Shengqi Chen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Shengqi Chen X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, ond...@debian.org, jakub.ruzi...@nic.cz * Package name: bird3 Version : 3.0.0 * URL : https://bird.network.cz/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#1090750: ITP: asusctl -- Control fan speeds, LEDs, graphics modes, and charge levels for ASUS notebooks

2024-12-18 Thread Mitchell Augustin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mitchell Augustin X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: asusctl Version : 6.0.12 Upstream Contact: Luke Jones * URL : https://gitlab.com/asus-linux/asusctl * License : Mozilla Public License 2.0 P

Re: Results (Re: DEP-0, DEP0 or DEP 0?)

2024-12-18 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
> > I changed my personal preference from DEP-0 to DEP0 as I now consider > > DEP0 the best option based as I have seen so much of RFC822, dep3, > > dep8 and DEP14 in use in many places. However, that +22 for DEP-0 is > > pretty large majority so I have to conclude it won. > > "it won", yes, but wh

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
On Wed, 2024-12-18 at 10:38 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I would also like to see this. Perhaps it's because the maintainers > don't want to close the door to alternative init systems, by making > their package depend on systemd features? Adding a couple of lines to the systemd unit should n

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed Dec 18, 2024 at 10:58 AM GMT, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: Adding a couple of lines to the systemd unit should not add any new dependincies to the package, or affect users of other init systems in any way. That's a very good point. In which case that's likely not why there is a lag in adopting

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 12/18/24 19:38, Jonathan Dowland wrote: I would also like to see this. Perhaps it's because the maintainers don't want to close the door to alternative init systems, by making their package depend on systemd features? Most likely it is because BSD does not have systemd, and quite a lo

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Matthias Urlichs
On 16.12.24 15:51, Michael Tokarev wrote: What do you think about this aspect of postfix on debian? We now have systemd, which can sandbox far more aspects of postfix (or indeed any other daemon)'s execution than is possible with a chroot, esp. considering the hacks we need for that to actual

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 18/12/24 14:16, Simon Richter wrote: Most likely it is because BSD does not have systemd, and quite a lot of Postfix installations, especially larger ones, run on BSD. [...] I don't see this happening without upstream support. However, upstream has little incentive to do so: they currently

Bug#1090723: ITP: node-anser -- low level ANSI escape code parser

2024-12-18 Thread Philip Hands
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philip Hands X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-anser Version : 2.3.0 Upstream Author : Ionică Bizău (https://ionicabizau.net) * URL : https://github.com/IonicaBizau/anser#readme * License

Re: Results (Re: DEP-0, DEP0 or DEP 0?)

2024-12-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed Dec 18, 2024 at 2:17 AM GMT, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: https://salsa.debian.org/dep-team/deps/-/merge_requests/13 Unify DEP spelling with a dash instead of a space (e.g. "DEP-0") = +22 (-4) This leaves the door open for us to migrate DEPs to JIRA in the future. -- Please do no

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)

2024-12-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue Dec 17, 2024 at 8:35 PM GMT, Bill Allombert wrote: The actual perl problem is that, since perl is very strict about backward compatibility, perl scripts written 10 or 20 years ago still work without requiring maintainance, hence they may appear to be abandonned. Rewriting such software in

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon Dec 16, 2024 at 9:31 PM GMT, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: Anyway, systemd's hardening features are so easy and effective that I would really like to see not only postfix, but ALL services use them as much as possible. Why we still have major packages like nginx shipping without any hardening out-

Re: Results (Re: DEP-0, DEP0 or DEP 0?)

2024-12-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:17:47PM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > I changed my personal preference from DEP-0 to DEP0 as I now consider > DEP0 the best option based as I have seen so much of RFC822, dep3, > dep8 and DEP14 in use in many places. However, that +22 for DEP-0 is > pretty large majorit

Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-18 Thread Frank Guthausen
Hello. A lot of packages do default configuration in /etc/project.conf and admin related stuff in /etc/project.d/whatsoever.conf to separate the distribution part from local overrides. Every now and then it might be useful to switch changes on and off. The Debian apache2 package uses sites-availa

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Michael Tokarev
17.12.2024 00:31, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: On Mon, 2024-12-16 at 21:21 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: It turns out the reason for this is a myth, which we believed to for 25 years - a myth that "On FreeBSD, chroot is painless, but on Linux, chroot never works and is only suitable for the ones who wa

Re: RFC: Running Postfix chrooted in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Michael Tokarev
18.12.2024 16:16, Simon Richter wrote: Postfix's "master" process effectively implements an orchestrator for a microservice architecture, similar to what systemd does. This could be replaced by systemd by writing a generator that creates units from master.cf. Simply converting the default mast

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)

2024-12-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 11:57:14PM +0100, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote: > [forking to -devel] > > On Wed Dec 11, 2024 at 11:15 AM CET, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:38:57PM +0100, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote: > > > > On Sat Dec 7, 2024 at 5:15 AM CET, Paul Wis

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Richard Lewis
Bill Allombert writes: > Le Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 02:36:51PM +, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : >> The "Perl Problem" is a wider issue we should explore in much more depth. >> I'm personally a little surprised if it's true that younger people are >> unprepared to take a stab at hacking Perl. But si

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian

2024-12-18 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 15 Dec 2024 at 11:21pm +01, Philipp Kern wrote: > Rewrites after a decade usually reduce complexity and excise features > that turned out to be a bad idea. Indeed. > Or introduce some subtle bugs that get ironed out only when it sees > usage. Indeed, but this work can end up bein