Re: make-kpkg and 2.6.29.2 vanilla sources

2009-05-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ey're kinda weird. initramfs-tools installs proper hooks there, at least since 0.93.2. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@l

Re: make-kpkg and 2.6.29.2 vanilla sources

2009-05-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, May 03 2009, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> David Paleino wrote: >> >>> * The image postinst no longer runs the initramfs creation >>> commands. Instead, there are example scripts provided that will >>> perform t

Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage

2009-05-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
iable names upstream may be using, otherwise you'd add new problems while adding new vars. > > > So I think for next dpkg upload we should make dpkg-buildpackage stop > setting any flags by default, and switch the setting to go through the Please do so! +1 from m

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
art touching the real world where the rest of Debian lives in, kthnxgoodbye. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

VMBuilder for Debian

2009-05-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, are there any plans to adopt https://code.launchpad.net/vmbuilder for Debian? Being able to create ec2, vmware or similar images easily would be nice to have for Debian, too. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ld block spam very well there. Its not really possible to use such restrictions on the mailtainer contact mail, though. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#530280: RFH: pyro -- distributed object system for Python

2009-05-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ining the package would be appreciated. If nobody will step up and help out, the package will be orphaned. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tar delta only takes a very small amount of space compared to what is needed to store the original tarball. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
stead of blindly assuming there is none. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 09/28/2014 10:33 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:11:44PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: >> Does update-menus really need bash? Why? > > pipefail is actually a fairly useful bashism. Use mispipe from moreutils instead. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Volunteer-initiated team maintenance as a solution for packages with low activity

2012-04-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
is imho way too long and frustrating for all involved people. I would prefer a solution which involves the ctte only if there is no other way. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerpri

Re: Volunteer-initiated team maintenance as a solution for packages with low activity

2012-04-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/19/2012 05:38 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> That would require that the tech-ctte's decisions do not take months or >> years. They are fast if they really need to be, but in such general >> cases the time a descision takes is imho way to

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
modified) creates the relevant device > nodes, etc). And udev does this jus fine, I don't need systemd or whatever else on top of that. > I agree that automatically mounting usb sticks or such on servers would > be more than silly, and haven't suggested that (neither have the u

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
dencies the same as insserv? > How about old scripts lacking dependency info? Are the dependencies > computed dynamically or generated? (insserv hooks into update-rc.d) > > > Regards, > Roger > -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
about it before doing anything. If anyone fancies > doing the packaging, I'll be happy to join in. I'll probably be able > to provide a better overview once I know a bit more. > > > Regards, > Roger > -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
>> time could disrupt the boot then I think that most people would consider it >> as >> ready for a release. >> > Especially considering that we can fix stuff in Stable > if the release team agrees... Which bug number is that? -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ery > package like those listed above that needs the network to loop and retry > if the network isn't available when it first starts. This is a huge waste > of effort. > -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
do something after your devices appear, use udev. As traffic yo your iscsi disk will be queued in case the connection gets lost there is also no need to find something new to handle link up/down events. If your link is gone forever there is a broken filesystem and some stuck IO fun

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
gt;> >> udev is just the reference implementation. mdev [part of busybox] can do >> the same (modulo rules: it has a slightly simpler format that doesn't >> provide exactly the same features (yet)) > [...] > > Sure, for Linux in general you have other options like mde

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/29/2012 04:11 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 14:59 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 04/27/2012 03:28 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 08:55 +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: >>>> On 04/27/12 03:32, Adam Borowski wrote: >>&g

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
if they are not >> fitting. > > Er, what? Please don't throw out silly strawmen... Stephan's points are valid. Just having a link on your favourite cisco does not mean that you are allowed to send packets anywhere yet. Getting a ipv6 address via radvd d

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-04-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ure with debconf for the "normal" user - and that is what counts. Those who know what they want/need also know how to install exactly that. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
try to find a consensus about which program will have to be renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached, both programs must be renamed. And this is - looking at this way too long thread - the best solution for this issue imho. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Develope

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#614907: nodejs/node command conflict: why can't we have both?

2012-05-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
mailinglist. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

2012-05-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Package: wordpress Severity: grave Version: 3.3.2+dfsg-1 [CC-in d-devel@l.d.o to discuss this] Hi, although I think the wordpress maintainer are doing all they can do to keep wordpress in a good shape in Debian, I do not think that it is possible

Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

2012-05-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
installations is that the debian packages are too old to be really useful. Most plugins seem to require current versions. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
but > it's still better than fighting with integrating quilt with a VCS (in > which case, everyone with a higher number of patches would go back to > 1.0 and custom patching systems and ignore every other benefit of 3.0, > because quilt and VCS generally don'

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/18/2012 11:37 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 09:24:04AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 05/17/2012 04:52 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: >>>> I'm confused concerning the above; the point of a VCS in thi

Re: removal of Qt3

2012-05-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
t be relevant to Debian since we have it in Debian and > even have a mailing list dedicated to it: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-lsb/ > > Apparently LSB 5.0 will drop the Qt3 requirement: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-lsb/2012/02/msg9.html Then we should either

Re: Packaging on GitHub ?

2012-05-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
r home. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: Packaging on GitHub ?

2012-05-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
https://gitorious.org/gitorious/ > --cut: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitorious -- > > PS. An RFP, perhaps? Better look into packaging gitlabhq. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.d

Re: Debian documentation permalinks

2012-05-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
documentation are you talking about? Most official documentation should have a fixed URL. If you are talking about the wiki: retrieving a fixed version from moinmoin is the same as in mediawiki. So I can't see a useful argument here, only FUD trying to talk people into using Mediawiki. --

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
that is only really possible to do with "social pride" > which is lacking when maintainer is outside of Debian. Yet another job for the sponsor. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debia

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ul input on how to fix an obviously broken (since years!) process instead of trying to forcibly trying to choke down people who actively want to improve Debian. Welcome to the dictatorship of the TC. > [...] -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/31/2012 04:57 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 31/05/12 15:11, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 05/31/2012 03:03 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: >>> [...] >> >>> A hijack is, by definition, a declaration by the hijacker that >>> they believe they are not answera

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/31/2012 06:25 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 31/05/12 18:15, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> >> Part of the common and established procedure is to mail d-devel if >> you intend to hijack a package > > True, but it is _not_ common (nor acceptable) to let only 2-3 days fo

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
just nobody uses it anymore because it is too old? 'Please package the current upstream version'-bugs are wishlist only, unfortunately. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fin

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-06-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
also an active maintainer which is able to refer such cases to the TC by himself, there is no need to crowd-source this. > As for the TC never having removed a maintainer against their will: I think > the TC is institutionally conservative by design, and will tend to favor the > s

Re: Debian documentation permalinks

2012-06-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
I couldn't get it to bridge from my wifi to the ethernet port. > [...] -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
package with various uploaders (from a team...) got DM upload permissions and the other team members became DMs later - obviously they got the same permissions then as soon as they were in the Keyring. Which bad things happened that we have to change the current process? -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Bug#677474: Substvars for Build-Depends in the .dsc file

2012-06-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
I don't think that your case is special enough to add yet an extra option to dpkg-source. I have two packages where I'm changing much more than the build-dependencies automatically, for example. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://

Re: Bug#677474: Substvars for Build-Depends in the .dsc file

2012-06-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 06/14/2012 11:04 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi Bernd, > > Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2012, 10:32 +0200 schrieb Bernd Zeimetz: >>> I would like to see more flexibility in dpkg-source as to where the >>> effective build depends come from. My use case are (as y

Re: Why is irqbalance package so out of date?

2012-06-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
t;Source Code: irqbalance-0.56.tar.bz2 (28Kb) >> >> ? > > The project home page moved. The old one is out of date. And that is mentioned where? -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org G

Re: Build environment bug: 675125

2012-06-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
7;t just > freeze on the current slang but ship the > broken environment. Try gcc/g++ 4.6 instead of 4.7. Maybe check if "S-Lang load path" (wherever that is stored) is initialized in a sane way. I had a similar issue where an integer was 0 all the time - although not being initialized

Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
bugs on the version in Squeeze, while Peter Palfrader (weasel) took care of Tor related things and Debian sysadmin work, including starting on the new bugs and udd hosts. Phillip Hug (hug) worked on the debian.ch infrastructure. Together with Miroslav Suchý from Red Hat Bernd Zeimetz (bzed) worked

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
#x27;t see a reason why we should not use it. It is much more pain free to use than any other solution we have in Debian. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 06/21/2012 02:55 PM, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Seriously, thats all fine stuff, but if having a hangout with 10+ people >> on google+ helps Debian to get the bugs squashed, I can't see a reason >> why we should not use it. It

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ake the free software to do it with freedom. Exactly. Or we can even use a hangout to develope a replacement for the google+ hangout. :) -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint:

Re: The future (or non-future) of ia32-libs

2012-06-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> > There were quite some bugs with that tool AFAIR. Does it also cover > things that are not supported by Canonical? How does the development and > testing of the tool work? I think we can do better than having to rely on a weird tool to fix the issues we produced by not d

Re: Best Practices on testing-proposed-updates vs unstable vs experimental after testing freeze

2012-06-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
to fix the issues in wheezy. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Best Practices on testing-proposed-updates vs unstable vs experimental after testing freeze

2012-06-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 06/25/2012 06:45 PM, YunQiang Su wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 06/25/2012 09:49 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: >>> On 25/06/12 06:07, YunQiang Su wrote: >>>> 1. upload 2.0 to experimental, and unstable users should install it

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Future of update-rc.d in wheezy+1

2012-06-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ore easy to maintain than all the other crap^Winit systems (including insserv) floating around. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6F

Re: yum 3.4.x failing: I need some help

2012-06-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
hows your issue in two lines - did you look if that file actually exists or resides somewhere else? Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432

Re: Audit of Debian/Ubuntu for unfixed vulnerabilities because of embedded code copies

2012-07-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
I'm not 100% sure about that :) And the openssl source is expected to contain the openssl source. Otherwise I think it might be worth to integraet such a check into the qa tools Debian runs regularity. Thanks for your work! Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: "Hijacking packages for fun and profit" BoF at DebConf

2012-07-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
oken? I think we had some rare cases over the last years which were discussed and solved. Do we really need that extra work of introducing tokens? Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.o

Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict

2012-07-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
d usually something's gone wrong. >> It's _good_ to inform the whole project about it. It is educational and >> keeps the voting population informed. > > Definitely, +1. +2 :) -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.

Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict

2012-07-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
g with aliases and sign your mails or use your real name and email address at least. What I think is that you know that well and you are just lying. Yet another reason to ask the listmasters to ban you. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

2012-08-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
t is even more insane than what recent windows versions require. Can we please have a sane default desktop for people with older hardware? Maybe just chosen in d-i, depending on the hardware. - -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: RFC: terminate init script when service is ready

2012-08-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
t is IMHO also > mature > as Distributions like OpenSuse or Fedora ship systemd per default. I would not consider stuff Fedora ships as mature. Fedora is a nice testbed for stuff that will get into RedHat some years later, and a nice distro for those who like the latest shiniest bugg

Re: node-like file conflicts

2012-08-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
r-suid-wrapper: open-vm-tools open-vm-toolbox They even build from the same source yet another thing to fix for Wheezy. > ptest: pacemaker parmetis-test > siggen: siggen tripwire > tcpd: tcm tcpd > vuname: util-vserver umview > > Any volunteers to file bugs? > -- B

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tories to $PATH in $SHELLrc/profile/ Experienced users should be able to do this easily. And those who don't knwo what to do with the tools in */sbin/* probably don't want/need them in $PATH. So I think at least for now its just fine to have the directories and PATH settings separa

Re: adopting a recently removed package

2012-08-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
would have been shipped with wheezy anyway. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
atever which does the job. Then the miniaturized version comes with their original source (yet another copy of...) and everybody would be happy. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Finger

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
is missing essential pieces of the software, so people who download it for non-Debian usage will fail to run the shipped source just because we removed an otherwise free piece of software. > [0] “The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be > incl

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
upstream seems to be pretty active these days. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-d

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/17/2012 10:21 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Luca Falavigna wrote: >> 2012/8/17 Bernd Zeimetz : >>> But it usually does and also results in a source tarball which is >>> missing essential pieces of the software, so people who dow

Re: Bug#684726: ITP: check_v46 -- Icinga / Nagios plugin for dual stacked (IPv4 / IPv6) hosts

2012-08-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
work for you out of the box (and you have the recommended packages installed), file a bug. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tation, > which would be a disgrace. So far I can see nothing that would make me feel limited by openrc. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D4

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
pen source software because I want to to be able to choose. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Archive-wide rebuilds using scan-build (was: Re: Proposal: Making Debian compiler agnostic)

2012-08-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
all packages respect CC/CXX would be good to have not only to build them with different compilers. Cheers and thanks for your work, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint

Re: Bug#684726: ITP: check_v46 -- Icinga / Nagios plugin for dual stacked (IPv4 / IPv6) hosts

2012-08-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
a full texlive installation while installing a tiny nagios plugin), file a bug. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
licitly endorsing the work on more >> exotic ports to stop this derogatory, impolite and contraproductive >> behavior. > > I'd second it, in exactly that hope. Me too. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Are you sure you didn't find such things? Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 09/17/2012 12:49 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:59:44AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 09/17/2012 11:56 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >>> Modifying conffiles is forbidden by policy 10.7.3 >> Well, conffiles are sometimes modified due to the resul

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 09/17/2012 01:18 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 17, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> So we shall drop things like automatic configuration of postfix? It >> actually even asks the user if the config file should be modified. That >> is just one example of a lot others t

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 09/17/2012 01:57 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 01:24:51PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Oh well yes, bad example. We still have a lot of packages which modify >> /etc/default/* with debconf. Portmap, sysstat, ... - and they are >> supposed to be conff

Re: default MTA

2013-05-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Are there any objections other than "but I like it this way!"? Are there new reasons other that 'I don't like it this way' ? - -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.or

Re: default MTA

2013-05-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
atically added when a user starts icedove or $fav_mua -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
I being to stupid to show all the settings in a useful way. I'd guess the card has several pcm channels, all wih their own chorus/reverb/ settings - so the gui could group then properly and show nice buttons -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux De

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ome mirrors into trouble - is it possible to push the mirrors with high bandwith more often than those with bandwith issues? Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint

Re: packaging Postgres binary dump files

2013-09-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
it might be possible that the ascii version just works well for older postgres versions, you might end up with needed pg_restore form 9.x just becuase you dumped it with it. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehtt

Re: qmake and "make dist"

2013-09-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
gish time, but something like dist.target = foobar.tar.gz dist.commands = git archive --useful-options dist.depends = .git QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS += dist should work. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.d

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
go without saying that embedding a new upstream > release in a patch just to get a such "carte blanche" exception is also > considered abuse. What about bugfix point-releases from upstream, like postgres and other sane upstreams do it? thanks & cheers, Bernd - -- Bernd

Re: Insufficient RAM on build-machines (was Bug#726009: yade: FTBFS on i386 (and others))

2013-10-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
gt;> -O3 (in that order) compiles code in -O3, which is way too much AFAIK. >> >> Ref: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html ... If you >> use multiple -O options, with or without level numbers, the last such >> option is the one that is effective. ... >

Re: GPM and clickpad devices

2013-10-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ained and the upstream project is not >> very active either. > > I do, but I don't have any hardware that only has 1 button so I > currently don't have problems with it. Same here. And I'm happy to have it, being able to copy and paste stuff is sometimes really useful.

Re: mips64el port build failed list

2013-10-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
but I don't see that building pps-tools failed, at least its not in the list. Am I missing something or is there just something confused about the right order to build packages? Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: [unstable/admin 9mount] Website update

2011-10-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
t; to sqweek.dnsdojo.org from pages like > http://packages.debian.org/sid/9mount ? Its generated from the information in the control file of the last uploaded version - the way to change it would be to upload a fixed package. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU

Re: usb sata docking station: backup button?

2011-10-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 10/09/2011 03:26 PM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > Does anybody know some way to bind an action to the button > most usb sata docking stations come with? please ask on debian-user, which is a much more appropriate list for such questions. Thanks, Bernd -- B

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ot;jimtcl". Although it's probably smaller. As network-manager is the reason why usb-modeswitch is in the default desktop install (which makes sense) - does size really matter here? NM pull in a lot of libraries and tools, without checking it I'd guess that adding tcl or jim

Re: segfault error 4 in libpthread-2.13.so X86_64

2011-10-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Do not use TOFU on Debian lists. It just makes a mess. On 10/29/2011 09:55 PM, Dallas Clement wrote: > How can I link with libc6-dbg instead of regular libc6? Thanks. http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer h

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
epends also mean that we diverge from upstream? I don't think so. And I believe that NM should not be something gnome should depend on as there are various other ways to configure your network. Imho it should Recommend network-manage | wicd-gtk | similar-tools-if-they-exist. Cheers, Bernd --

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 11/01/2011 05:54 PM, Florian Reitmeir wrote: [...] > i believe a way of installing network-manager, but disabling it > completly would be enough for many people. Although harddisk space is cheap these days, this should not be the preferred way. -- Bernd Z

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 11/01/2011 11:23 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> And I believe that NM should not be something gnome should depend on as >> there are various other ways to configure your network. Imho it should >> Recommend network-manage | wicd-gtk | similar-tools-if-t

Re: Minified files and source code requirement

2011-11-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
. How the source is distributed does not matter. Please don't abuse this for yet another dpkg 3.0 git discussion. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
nto conflict. I think we should for these cases where it is obvious that one software exists for a much longer time than the other. We should not force old projects to rename themselves just because the developers of a new project did not investigate if they use an existing name. Checking filenames of

The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ill be orphaned soon and I'll file bugs to remove it from the packages which build-depend on it. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 12/03/2011 05:33 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> - Ubuntu splitted the package and applied various changes without getting in >> contact with their Debian upstream about it. I'm not willing to try to figure >

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
gt; was going on and how he could help, if he had approached me saying that > Debian sucks. Yes, I'm glad too that he didn't experience the same issue with about 50% of the packages he uses as he would think in a different way then. -- Bernd ZeimetzDe

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
yes, you could even fork (its open source!) a dh_install package - or instead of wasting ftp master resources, just ship your own dh_install script in your debian folders. I'll happily use the new dh_install feature instead of whining. -- Bernd ZeimetzDeb

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 12/09/2011 07:42 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> On 12/07/2011 11:47 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: >>> Now that we’ve made incredible progress in terms of obfuscation, I’d >>> appreciate if we could have a working solution that does

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