On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 03:25:59PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> autoremove will still usually catch this.
I'm not sure about this. Looks like it keeps Recommends or something. Or
it's a bug.
> you do refresh your chroots from time to time (don't you?);
No, I didn't even think it's ever needed unt
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 04:18:10PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> The man page recommends -udcar, which includes autoclean, and, important
> here, autoremove.
I wonder why clean+autoclean (also both are only interesting when you keep
a separate /var/cache/apt/archives)
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:51:25AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Can the imminent Stretch release be upgraded to include 4.8.19, or can the
> fix for 3758 be backported?
>
> This is the annoying bug 4.8.18 has:
> http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3758
Start with reporting this bug at our BTS.
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 01:52:29AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> Installing debhelper (+dependencies) takes about 5s here (on a 6 year
> >> old laptop with SSD+eatmydata). Most of that time seems to be spent in
> >> man-db's postinst.
> >
> > For pbuilder/cowbuilder I'm using
> > https://anonsc
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 07:25:04AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> > But in the worst case, it will be compatible with GPLv2+ and GPLv3.
> I am not sure I see this as the worst case situation.
It's worse that being compatible with GPL2 too.
> Or maybe you meant to write "incompatable"?
No.
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 09:58:07PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
> So... does this means that we are actually *now* shipping OpenSSL with
> GPL software on the same DVD?
This is permitted, or are you joking?
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:10:01PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
> Apache 2.0 is compatible with GPLv3 [1] (therefore also with GPLv2+).
It's more complicated than "therefore also".
Imagine a GPL2+ program library linked with a GPL2 library. Now also link
this program with an Apache 2.0
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 07:28:19PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> In this scenario, you can determine the intent of the program copyright
> holders, but what you need is a linking exception from the
> purely-GPL-licensed library copyright holders, not from the program
> copyright holders!
Which, I
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 04:30:28PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Andrey Rahmatullin composed on 2017-03-24 21:18 (UTC+0500):
>
> > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:51:25AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> > > Can the imminent Stretch release be upgraded to include 4.8.19, or can t
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 08:34:44AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> as by that point you've already closed the laptop and are putting it
> into your bag
I don't trust Linux enough to put my laptop into the bag not checking that
it is indeed suspended.
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On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 05:22:25PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> One thing that puzzles me though is that the bug was opened at: "Thu, 23
> Mar 2017 02:17:28 +0100" and the package was auto removed "Thu, 23 Mar
> 2017 16:39:09 +"
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858521
> htt
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 12:27:12PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> > One thing that puzzles me though is that the bug was opened at: "Thu, 23
> > Mar 2017 02:17:28 +0100" and the package was auto removed "Thu, 23 Mar
> > 2017 16:39:09 +"
&g
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 11:05:05AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> >> Sharing with wider debian community, hoping to get some support.
> >>
> >> Current version in unstable does not have any RC bugs, but recent
> >> changes in the package made release managers not happy with the quality
> >> of the
On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 08:28:38AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
wrote:
>
>
> could anyone please give me some insight, was the security problems
> are here exactly ?
Extension auto-updating is considered "phoning home".
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 04:22:40AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> could anyone please give me some insight, was the security problems
> >> are here exactly ?
> > Extension auto-updating is considered "phoning home".
>
> Isn't there a way to just disable part ?
Disa
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 07:55:48PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > rpm doesn't have a problem with config file handling and deals with
> > config files in a similar way that dpkg uses the "conffile" attribute
> > to deal with them. rpm spec files use two (one-and-a-half?) macros:
> >
> > - "%confi
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 02:12:25AM +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:05:10 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> > The reason that you can't dist-upgrade RHEL is that there's too large
> > a gap between releases.
> [...]
> > You can't dist-upgrade RHEL from 6 to 7 and you can't dis
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 08:01:40PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> I'd really prefer a website written by a programmer
[...]
> A good page is one that lets you find information quickly
Which is not the same.
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On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 09:07:52AM +, Holger Levsen wrote:
> there's just a hundred Debian workflows to maintain a package and 200
> manuals for that.
No, no, there are more workflows than manuals for them.
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On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 07:48:39PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> I see, that even in unstable openvas is still available in version 8.
Now please look in experimental.
Please also remember that we are currently frozen.
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 01:55:10PM +0200, Maria Bisen wrote:
> It's been drawn to my attention the topic included in this thread:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2017-06/msg00084.html
>
> I've got the feeling that the distribution the thread talks about is
> precisely yours, Debian's. As stated th
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 09:47:30AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> Is it possible to share a link to the survey results? I saw it when I
> submitted
> my entry, but I closed the window before my brain parsed it, so I can't
> retrieve
> it without submitting the survey again, skewing the results
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 08:34:57AM +, Holger Levsen wrote:
> but YOU MUST INSTALL THIS BINARY BLOB
How is it worse than the blobs already in your hardware?
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 01:01:51PM +, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > The same complaint can be said about the AMD microcode updates.
> quite probably, yes. but that doesn't make any crap any better.
Yet "don't buy anything" is not a good advice.
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 02:08:20PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > Yet "don't buy anything" is not a good advice.
> Have we ruled out all ARM vendors yet? :)
Are we still talknig about general-purpose computers?
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On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 07:05:10PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Is our install images excepmt from our Policy that all dependencies must
> be in Debian, or am I mistaken that we have such Policy?
Do we? The Debian Policy covers only debs.
Also, dak isn't in the archive either.
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On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 08:12:55PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > Is our install images excepmt from our Policy that all dependencies must
> > > be in Debian, or am I mistaken that we have such Policy?
> > Do we? The Debian Policy covers only debs.
> > Also, dak isn't in the archive either.
On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 06:55:53PM -0700, Ryan Finnie wrote:
> The 2ping package is in an odd state at the moment. For background, on
> Saturday morning (UTC) I made two source-only uploads, 4.0-1 then 4.0-2,
> which exposed some issues (a dependency problem and problem with the
> unittest suite,
On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 09:27:14AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> I'm getting the following lintian error message:
>
> E: e2fsprogs changes: orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature
> e2fsprogs_1.43.5.orig.tar.gz
> N:
> N:The packaging includes an upstream signing key but the corresponding
> N:
On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 07:28:08AM +, Dr. Bas Wijnen wrote:
> I can't think of a situation where you would not want it
The "I don't want yet another thing that can cause subtle breakages and
doesn't give me anything" situation (see disabling selinux after install
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On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 01:40:27PM +, Garrett R. wrote:
> Is there a good reason why Ubuntu font is not found in Debian repositories?
> Is there a formal way to request that it be added to a repository?
There is a formal way, and it was already done:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.c
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:56:07PM -0700, nob...@gmail.com wrote:
> I just upgraded my system (Debian sid with main, contrib, non-free) to
> the most recent unstable version, running "apt-get update" and
> "apt-get dist-upgrade".
>
> Unfortunately, this uninstalled most of KDE, including
> "plasma
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 03:47:56PM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> Why Archive, maybe Queue is more accurate (Q-Team), isn't it?
Several mails in this thread seem to assume that the main or even the only
job of the ftp team is processing the NEW queue. This is not true.
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andrey Drobyshev
* Package name: adv-17v35x-dkms
Version : 5.0.3.0
Upstream Author : Advantech Co., Ltd
* URL :
http://support.advantech.com/support/DownloadSRDetail_New.aspx?Doc_Source=Download&SR_ID=1-1W8FZ5
* Lic
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 10:20:27AM +, Dr. Bas Wijnen wrote:
> Let me put it differently then: for me, one of the major benefits of Debian
> over (most of) our derivatives is that I can set the system up in a way that
> allows me to live in a free software bubble.
So you don't update the non-f
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 06:58:50AM +, Dr. Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > > Let me put it differently then: for me, one of the major benefits of
> > > Debian
> > > over (most of) our derivatives is that I can set the system up in a way
> > > that
> > > allows me to live in a free software bubble.
> >
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 08:55:43AM +, Dr. Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > > Are you saying that a Debian system where only main is enabled is unsafe?
> > [...]
> > > If that is correct, it is a huge problem that that is the default setup
> > > we ship, don't you think?
> > It is, but solving it most like
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 03:01:03PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> While I'm pretty happy with the way Debian organizes this thing, was
> this idea of having separate changelogs to lessen confusion born at
> Debian or some other GNU/Linux distribution. If so, where and when
> this idea was born, impl
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 03:51:22PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Dear Dominique,
>
> Thank you for sharing about lcdproc as response to my mail. For my 2
> cents, I disliked the idea (of lcdproc) immediately as simply applying
> maintainer changes defeats the very purpose the tool declares or
> cl
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 10:46:16AM +, Dr. Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > > > > Are you saying that a Debian system where only main is enabled is
> > > > > unsafe?
> > > > [...]
> > > > > If that is correct, it is a huge problem that that is the default
> > > > > setup
> > > > > we ship, don't you thin
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:03:36AM +0200, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> > My position is that it should acceptable for a program in main to require
> > a non-free service, or data, or whatever, as long as that program itself
> > is free and running it doesn't compromise the freedom of the user.
> > contri
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 01:51:16AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> > Actually, I haven't seen anyone citing the following part of policy
> > 2.2.1: "None of the packages in the main archive area require software
> > outside of that area to function."
> >
> > If we agree that "functioning softwa
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 02:54:59PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> I hope that this email alone is enough for at least some maintainers
> to integrate/schedule this change without the bug overhead, as this is
> low priority.
Can you please publish a dd-list?
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 06:58:51PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> > I hope that this email alone is enough for at least some maintainers
> > to integrate/schedule this change without the bug overhead, as this is
> > low priority.
> Can you please publish a dd-list?
A
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 09:15:01AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Adding a 'firmware' repository (and even enabling it by default), while
> it would similarly both improve that out-of-the-box experience and make
> the free-software bubble easier to achieve for those who want it, would
> not remove th
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 05:33:12PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> structures. Any transition plan which did that based on xdg files
> would be quite horrible because it would involve mixing, in a single
> file, data maintained by the trad Debian menu folks with data
> maintained by the XDG folks.
ITY
On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 12:47:41PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Just yesterday I completely broke a key package used to build
> many Java packages, and I couldn't even rebuild it to fix the issue.
Why? Does it B-D on itself?
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On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 07:18:58PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Andrey Rahmatullin writes ("Re: source-only uploads"):
> > On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 12:47:41PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> > > Just yesterday I completely broke a key package used to build
> > &g
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 01:40:08AM -0300, Francisco Vilmar Cardoso Ruviaro
wrote:
> * License : Coherent Graphics Ltd Non-Commercial Use License
This is suitable only for non-free, and only if this is acceptable:
2. The Coherent Graphics Ltd is granted back, without any restrictions or
li
On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 04:47:23PM +, Bastien Roucaries wrote:
> Will implement a lintian tag that will output statistics about not common
> license.
>
> It will help to add common license
Add where? Surely not to /usr/share/common-licenses? We already have
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On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 07:15:15PM +0200, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> no, it is much simpler. I just wanted to offer the license text in a format
> that is immediately usable in your debian/copyright (adding a correct
> License:-line, indentation, empty lines).
Note that the "machine-readable" debia
On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 07:37:00PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> > manually working on debian/copyright can be nasty from time to time.
>
> What do you mean by "nasty" ? What are the painful points ?
Changing a long free-form text file into a deb822 multiline block, when
you want to use the "ma
On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 08:56:25PM +0200, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote:
> I think virtualbox-guest-utils (v-g-u) have to fix the issue with ntp
> instead remove it.
How are you proposing to fix that conflict?
> The main problem is that the ntp server was not designed to run inside
> of a virtual machin
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 09:12:45AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > lintian doesn't scan build logs, it scans source and binary packages.
>
> Right. I always forgot that. What is the mechanism used for
> shlib-calls-exit, does it rely on source parsing ?
No, it just looks at the imported symbol
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 10:52:04AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> If you're going to use localisation (which is fine, I do too), then if
> you're trying to ask for help, please get into the habit of reproducing
> the bug under LC_ALL=C:
Unfortunately that doesn't help when you are reporting someth
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 03:40:25PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> The rationale for keeping qt4 in the archive for me (same for gtk1,
> gtk2, etc.) is so that people could continue to build or run
> out-of-distro legacy software far into the future. It saddens me that I
> could very likely run an
On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 12:37:03PM -0800, Ankit Gandhi wrote:
> I have just joined this mailing list.
>
> I wanted to know how one can start contributing to debian operating system.
Hello!
https://www.debian.org/intro/help is a good start. It really depends on
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On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 08:50:14PM +, eamanu15 . wrote:
> Particularly, I want to be a debian developer, so if that is you intention
> I recommend you read this:
Note that being a Debian Developer and maintaining packages are different
things, and you don't need to get an official status to do
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:52:18PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I would like to establish a way to prevent this.
Why would the project do that, though?
> (There are even whole Debian derivatives who have as one of their
> primary goals, preventing this.
Good.
> We should aim for most of the chang
On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 02:39:12PM +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> > It would have been best for him to download the ISO with non-free
> > firmware embedded, do you know how he made the decision to download
> > the ISO without non-free firmware?
>
> Every time I need a Debian ISO, it takes me mi
On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 05:10:37PM +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> > Currently the stable amd64 netinst is linked from the front page (top
> > right corner).
>
> It is, indeed. Never saw it before...
It's a relatively recent improvement.
> > Of course, the stable amd64 netinst is useful only fo
On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 03:34:04PM +, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>
>
> On December 1, 2017 7:15:04 AM EST, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
> wrote:
> ...
> >Other thing is the branding topic. I would like to promote usage of
> >Debian testing for standard desktop/laptop users in personal
> >environment
On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 12:02:45PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Look over the fence. How long did it
> take for Windows XP to disappear? Before that, how long was Windows 98
> king? How many users still cling to Windows 7? They don't need the
> newest, shiniest software. They want something stable t
On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 10:14:21PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> > > It would have been best for him to download the ISO with non-free
> > > firmware embedded, do you know how he made the decision to download
> > > the ISO without non-free firmware?
> >
> > Every time I need a Debian ISO, it takes
On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 12:32:29PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > > http://get.debian.org
> > > Might not be beautiful, but it has the needed information, clearly
> > > spelt out.
> >
> > besides that I find that page still too confusing / not simple enough,
> > it also lacks information about t
On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 11:18:53AM +, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-12-02 at 06:06 +0200, Victor Porton wrote:
> > For this I need the upstream versions of "python2.7" and "xsltproc".
>
> The upstream version of a Debian package can be deterministically
> extracted from the package versio
On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 10:39:30PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> IMHO you should document yourself
> *before* trying something, and I am not even considering firmware at
> all. Or, if you prefer, you should not assume that everything works out
> of the box (in any field, thus not IT-restricted).
Th
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 11:39:18AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > I at least, and probably a lot of Debian contributors, would start
> > hating Debian for promoting hardware that needs non-free drivers if the
> > non-free ISO was the default one.
>
> Are we promoting hardware that *doesn't* re
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 11:21:49PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> and the Debian Project promotes hardware that doesn't
> require non-free firmware (because the Debian system by default needs no
> extra drivers for that hardware).
... equally with the hardware that uses pre-flashed firmware.
> > I don
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:34:05AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> For the discoverability, I would be quite comfortable with putting both
> the free and the non-free download links prominantly on the page with the
> non-free link going to or closely tied with a page that discusses the
> issues, expla
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 06:49:05PM +, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > There are alternatives?
>
> always.
Non-x86, I assume.
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On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 09:45:33AM +0800, Yao Wei wrote:
> About alternatives, I found it difficult to buy a brand-new laptop with
> 802.11ac wifi chip which is available on the market. All of them
> requires firmware or even non-free Linux modules.
All wifi chips use firmware so this is a bad a
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 12:28:16AM -0600, Steve Robbins wrote:
> So all I can present is that it was accepted for a long time and then
> suddenly not accepted.
Accepted or just not checked?
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On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 11:00:38PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
> they will most likely simply not understand the point, and what makes
> free hardware so much better.
> massively encourage users to use non-free hardware
> link to a page suggesting free hardware over similar non-free hardware
The
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 12:16:01PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
> > > link to a page suggesting free hardware over similar non-free hardware
> >
> > There is no such thing. There is only non-free hardware without updates
> > for its software.
>
> "Whatever". My main point is imho to both make it ea
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 04:56:25PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
> > My point is you shouldn't educate with lies and half-truths.
> Good point. Then you get to do it the correct way. Deal?
That's not how these things work though.
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On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 05:57:21PM +, Dr. Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > > they will most likely simply not understand the point, and what makes
> > > free hardware so much better.
> >
> > > massively encourage users to use non-free hardware
> >
> > > link to a page suggesting free hardware over simi
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 11:17:32PM +0300, Виталий Филиппов wrote:
> The single thing that I found aptitude useful for is finding and removing
> packages that are unavailable in current debian release anymore :)
Try apt-show-versions
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 01:35:21PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> > A pre-depends is very much the wrong hammer here, userspace can't
> > usefully rely on a kernel package or module through package
> > dependencies.
>
> Can you please elaborate here ?
>
>
> Problem is: virtualbox is picky abo
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 10:58:24AM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> > ... especially if you use DEB_HOST_ARCH_ENDIAN to do it. See
> > dpkg-architecture(1).
>
> Shouldn't that be DEB_TARGET_ARCH_ENDIAN?
No, "target" makes sense only in the context of building cross-compilers.
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On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 01:02:09AM +0200, Dmitry Katsubo wrote:
> Thanks, James! I tried to search for "linux-image" but it finds only
> kernels from squeeze and wheezy repos:
>
> > https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=linux-image
The page says "Your keywor
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 09:47:39AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> I am not the OP but want to offer two suggestions.
> 1) In cases like this where the number of hits are large, show results
> from current stable version onwards. That is instead of presenting
> results from squeeze, wheezy etc.
Hello,
Some of you may have noticed that the service for analysis of ABI changes in
Linux libraries is not available any more: http://upstream-tracker.org/
The archive from 21 July 2015 is still available and supported by ROSA team:
http://upstream.rosalinux.ru/
But ... Good news everyone! I'v
On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 03:26:30PM -0200, Albino B Neto wrote:
> > is the postfix package still maintained?
> >
> > There seems to be no activity since November 2014.
>
> really?
>
> https://packages.debian.org/jessie/postfix
This package is from November 2014.
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On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 11:04:20PM +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> >> Because systemd doesn't work without /usr on the root partition isn't a
> >> good reason either.
> >
> > You are right ... it is a poor reason, because it is pure fantasy.
>
> Then why is it that since the introduction of system
On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 11:40:34AM +0100, Eric Valette wrote:
> The debian installer should first loudly warn that having a separated / and
> /usr may break things in the future
ITYM "already breaks things"
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On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 03:59:37PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> This message was not intended to be sent to a debian-* mailing list by
> the author. However, since it is (in my opinion) of large interest I
> got the permission to forward it to debian-devel. Hopefully, also some
> of the debian-de
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 09:35:31AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> For running a local set of meta packages I would like to
> express package dependencies depending upon other packages
> installed, e.g.
>
> Package: xyz
> Version: all
> Depends: ${misc:Depends}
> , dbus (systemd >= 215)
>
> H
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 09:09:45AM +, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote:
> make[5]: Entering directory '/<>/tango-9.2.0~a+dfsg/build/doc/src'
> cd ../../../doc/src; /usr/bin/lyx --export pdf2 tango.lyx
> LyX: Creating directory /sbuild-nonexistent/.lyx/
> Failed to create directory. Exiting.
>
> i
Hello,
I continued to maintain ABI report for the Linux kernel:
http://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/linux/
The report represents history of ABI changes since 2.6.36 up to 4.4.5 version
of the kernel. It is now generated by the ABI tracker, ABI monitor, ABI dumper
and ABI compliance chec
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 09:05:36AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> whether it is advisable to try hard to provide static libraries even if
> upstream build system does not easily provide both.
Note that it's only a wishlist severity bug if you don't provide it.
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Note that you mix two completely different questions in your email.
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 02:22:54PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/indices/override.stretch.main.gz
>
> I find there more than 48.000 overrides; which means that almost *all*
> packages are overridden.
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 05:57:16PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > whether it is advisable to try hard to provide static libraries even if
> > > upstream build system does not easily provide both.
> > Note that it's only a wishlist severity bug if you don't provide it.
> I do not mind about the s
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 08:34:18PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
> > Note that you mix two completely different questions in your email.
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 02:22:54PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
> >> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/indices/override.stretch.main.gz
> >>
> >> I find there mo
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 10:13:14PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
> >> Question is wich information they cover. For me, "optional" means:
> >> conflict free by policy.
> > You are still mixing two completely separate things.
> Which?
The existence of the override mechanism and the optional vs extra pr
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 02:06:56AM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote:
> I'm very glad for the automatic debug packages, but I wonder if I'm
> doing something wrong since I get this warning:
>
> dpkg-genchanges: warning: package foo-dbgsym listed in files list
> but not in control info
>
> The pac
On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 06:50:43PM +0200, Pierre Ynard wrote:
> This is my production system and I run a lot of services on it.
You are running sid on your production system, correct?
> So are there release notes somewhere?
I'm sure they will be there in the stretch release notes.
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On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 01:32:19PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> If the pie hardening option is enabled, then dpkg-buildflags --get
> LDFLAGS emits:
>
> -fPIE -pie -Wl,-z,relro
>
> According to the dpkg-buildflags man page:
>
>LDFLAGS
> Options passed to the compile
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 08:48:19AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/hardening-no-pie.html says "It is
> unlikely to work when compiling static libraries or executables (gcc
> -static)."
>
> However e.g. https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening does not mention this
> proble
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 12:23:59PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 08:48:19AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > https://lintian.debian.org/tags/hardening-no-pie.html says "It is
> > unlikely to work when compiling static libraries or executab
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