Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
>> /bin/sh never hurt anybody! > > Except that it forces your interpreter to be written in sh, which Debian > doesn't > like[1][2]. > > [1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/script-with-language-extension.html > [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-poli

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ven for a severity:minor bug. I think it should, might be even a higher severity, depending on what the content of these files is - especially .install and similar files might produce not so funny results if you execute them accidentally. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian

Re: Fwd: Re: Open-FCoE for Wheezy

2011-12-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
gt; I guess I'll push it to unstable. If there are issues reported, we'll > see about its inclusion for the stable release, then. I'd suggest to do so, too. In the worst case it could be removed from testing before the release. As soon as there is a software ta

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
a DEP should not do that at all, at least not without asking on common lists first. No reaction on your DEP could just mean that people consider it as a waste of time or don't like your format. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-01-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ecurity enabled to have a more or less save-enough virtualization solution, although I'd recommend to do so. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD9

Re: lack of replacement for linux-vserver

2012-02-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ain the patch for stable releases. But they are not willing to support Debian as they neither use Debian nor have any interest in supporting the Debian kernel. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debia

Re: Bug#605090: Linux 3.2 in wheezy

2012-02-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
. Remember, just because something still applies and compiles properly it doesn't mean it works... -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD

Re: severity for bugs in ignoring TMP/TMPDIR?

2012-02-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
r me. ... and then it is just wishlist again. Having /tmp on / is as bad as having /var/log on / on busy machines. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8

Re: [DEP9] call for testing of reconf-inetd (update-inetd replacement)

2012-02-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
to /etc/initramfs-tools - that is a sane and obvious way to handle such things. -- 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: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
equire *modifications to upstream code* to > support socket-based activation. Is that compatible to what systemd requires? Various projects start supporting systemd, so enabling such a feature for upstart would be easier if the systemd stuff is implemented alread

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
s absolutely >> desirable to support several init systems in Debian. > > What is the benefit, for our users, to be able to choose between two > implementations? They are *free* in what they choose. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
en it starts to be the case because kFreeBSD doesn’t have a modern > init system available, will you reconsider? Yes. Reconsider to use Linux in case I'm forced to use stuff like systemd. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
o, just to figure out why something does not work as expected. -- 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: On init in Debian

2012-03-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
s not an issue. Obviously you were born as an expert. -- 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: On init in Debian

2012-03-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 03/20/2012 10:49 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: >> On 03/17/2012 08:20 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: >>> On Mar 17, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >>>> Have you noticed that both myself and Phil Hands took the decision to >>>> write a sy

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
; though probably just a subset so it's portable to other kernels and init > systems. Sounds like a good plan to make the fanboys of both sides of the world happy - I have no idea if its possible, but maybe also generate upstart configs? -- Bernd ZeimetzDebia

Re: Bug#631139: mosh ITP not done, just package name taken over

2012-03-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ce nearlly half a decade). I think it might even be useful to talk to both upstreams to ask them to rename one of the project to avoid such issues. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fi

Re: where is the DNSSEC root key?

2012-10-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
gt; to > be implementing it. The powerguys have an implementation, although what I've heard so far it still has some issues... -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1

Re: BSP in Banja Luka, 2012-12-10 and 2012-12-11

2012-11-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
November. Location: University Computer Centre, Vojvode Stepe Stepanovica 75, Banja Luka, Republika Srpska http://urc.rs/index.php For more details see: http://wiki.debian.org/BSP2012/12/ba/BanjaLuka -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: multipath-tools: missing files in package

2012-12-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
-tools: /lib/multipath/libpriordac.so Thanks, 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, email to debia

Re: NEW processing during freezes (Was: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R)

2013-04-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
en after packages are accepted. Maybe though, I'll be the only one saying it out loud (but I'm getting used to it...). No. Go back to start and learn why there is a NEW queue. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Debianizing the Java world?

2013-05-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tion systems (e.g. R and Drupal both > have their own package distribution mechanisms) and also because the > Java issues go beyond those of us who develop in Java - e.g. people now > use Eclipse for C++ and Python development. Indeed, but then eclipses uses autofoo and distutils and

Re: systemd2init PoC

2014-02-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
em automatically sounds like a good idea. It could even produce open-rc init scripts. And users can choose whatever they like to run. Sounds like good idea to me :) -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.deb

Re: RIPE Atlas probe distribution at DebConf14

2014-05-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
to do the same for debconf 15. -- 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

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
x27;d be in favour of throwing away DD built arch:all debs as soon as soon as building them on the buildds is implemented. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
(ly inferior) solutions onto social > problems... ) Sometimes simple technical solutions are easier to implement than fixing social problems. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprin

Re: ifupdown and IPv6

2011-04-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
;> them (which is not surprising if you have ever looked at the ifupdown >> source). > > Source? It's beautiful, I can say. It's literate. It's well-structured. > > Manpower? Here it is [points at himself]. > -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: time based freezes

2011-04-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
t; (and different) date for every release cycle (and not announcing it to > upstream authors *at all*), IMHO Ack! We need to be able to give our upstreams a fixed release date so they can plan ahead to have their release ready in time. If they don't manage to do so it is not our fault an

Re: time based freezes

2011-04-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/05/2011 06:55 PM, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Bernd Zeimetz [2011-04-05 15:04]: > >> On 04/04/2011 01:15 PM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >> >>> most of the work is done by our upstreams, and by simply telling >>> them "we'll freeze PICK_YOUR_MONTH e

Re: Please do not use /run yet

2011-04-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e present from early >> boot, and which will replace /var/run. > > Why this change? 20110330152010.ge20...@codelibre.net and following thread. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.o

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-07 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
package itself). Uh please not yet another file in yet another format. If you really need yet another file, please don't use yet another markup language, use something RFC822ish. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: alpha and hppa removal from unstable/experimental

2011-04-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ilable to maintain the > port. Without that the task is impossible. Getting used, old (even fast, like 1 GHz CPUs) hardware is not that hard. But you will have to find a place to host it. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e all of these? Yes. For a distribution which is targeted to support servers properly, yes, definitely. For everything else there is Ubuntu. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints:

Re: only servers pfff (Was: Re: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/13/2011 10:56 AM, Martin Bagge / brother wrote: > On 2011-04-13 10:53, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Yes. For a distribution which is targeted to support servers properly, yes, >> definitely. For everything else there is Ubuntu. > > The universal OS is only running on serv

Re: Bug#613209: O: jabberd14 -- Instant messaging server using the Jabber/XMPP protocol

2011-04-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 02/13/2011 03:45 PM, Miguel Landaeta wrote: > In fact I'm wondering if I should ask its removal from the > archive. If nobody adopt it soon I'll ask for removal. I'd suggest to do so. There are enough and better alternatives. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e the 'Desktop' task for. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...

Re: Intent to hijack haveged

2011-04-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
://git.debian.org/git/collb-maint/haveged.git > http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/haveged.git > > If anyone objects the DELAYED upload can be canceled. > > (Please Cc: me, I am not subscribed to debian-devel.) > > Cheers, -- Bernd Ze

Re: Openstack Compute nova, Cactus release, Squeeze built available in our private repo

2011-04-20 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
nt for any DD before uploading to the >> archive. > > No, it's not. With some exceptions you are able to find here: http://ftp-master.debian.org/static/lintian.tags -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: MBF: packages using deprecated GnuTLS functions

2011-04-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
igrate to the new functions properly - please link to it in your bug reports. 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

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Instead of Martin's project you might want to look into ipcfg by Wouter Verhelst, which is in experimental already. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E

Re: Mass GCC 4.6 bug filling (Re: Bug#624997: writerperfect: FTBFS: Style.hxx:36:45: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope)

2011-05-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
enough to avoid the need to repeat them all over the > place, IHMO. While we don't need this kind of bashing, the issue needs to be fixed somehow, indeed. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debi

Re: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
best if you consider unstable always in production-mode by > default. Let's freeze unstable today, call it stable and never touch it again. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Finge

Bug#626424: Please implement a method to save and restore netfilter rules at boot

2011-05-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
nfiguration. Or even better, use ferm instead. -- 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

Re: Alioth status update, take 3

2011-05-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
n be used > to run any random stuff by anyone). What happened to the crontabs? I hope that importing upstream's git and svn repositories into those used for Debian development is not 'random stuff'. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-05-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
not funyy and such massice changes without even discussing them first makes the new alioth unusable for me. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D4

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-05-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tp://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=devscripts/devscripts.git Even better would be http://git.debian.org/devscripts/devscripts.git which is easy to handle with some rewrites. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehtt

Re: Bug#593706: [kl...@ethgen.de: Re: Bug#593706: install-info breaks dpkg]

2011-05-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
nobody will be able to help you. The only thing you are doing is to waste time. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-05-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/.+\.git.*$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/repos/.*$ RewriteRule ^.*$ /gitweb.cgi%{REQUEST_URI} [L,PT] which should be similar to alioth's needs. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Please reconsider public vcs naming on alioth

2011-05-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ly I fail to understand why it should not be possible to find a sane way to make it available. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36

Re: Semantic change for dpkg triggers?

2011-05-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
heir awaited triggers? > > python-support seems to need that; python does not see files in > /usr/share/pyshared/, so until update-python-modules has run, a python > module cannot be used. python-support should be removed at some point in the future. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Color Management in Debian

2011-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
uld be taken care of as soon as possible imho. Unfortunately I'm swamped with work so I want have the time to help and discuss, but if you need a sponsor for packages don't hesitate to ask. Cheers and thanks for your work, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU

Re: Linux 3.0

2011-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/31/2011 04:03 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Can't we fix that in a point release, by backporting fixes? That would be appreciated! -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-06-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
le to just accept some of the changes we've made even > though you think it makes URLs uglier. They're done to avoid cyclic > dependencies between services. Please explain that. I can't see how a cyclic dependency could happen there. And I still think loosing

Re: Bug: dh_make fails to make driver symbolic links without absolute paths

2011-07-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/05/2011 12:35 PM, SP wrote: > Has this been fixed in upstream? Is there a work around? > > Bug has been filed here: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dh-make/+bug/803882 Please file it in the debian bug tracker. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebi

Re: massive bug report to replace "!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386" kludges with dpkg wildcards

2011-07-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/17/2011 08:13 AM, Neil Williams wrote: > > More usefully, the dd-list of the packages is attached. > > Bernd Zeimetz >gpsd >zbar Both fixed in git, will be included in the next upload. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Develop

Re: scribus(-ng)?

2011-07-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
such a bugfree condition that it could be used without problems at all. But its a long time ago that I looked into the differences and talked with the maintainer about it. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.d

Re: No bzcat when installing the weekly/daily builds of GNU/Linux installer.

2011-07-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/19/2011 11:16 PM, Svante Signell wrote: > Couldn't you block the creation of weekly and daily builds when things > like this happen? Weekly and daily builds of the installer are done to be able to find such bugs. We can't predict the future unfortunately :) --

Re: Docs/examples on how to package a PostgreSQL needing app

2011-08-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
em in postgres. If it runs somewhere else, you can't modify the remote pg_hba.conf. To add new databases (and roles) to postgres, look into dbconfig-common. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian

Re: Package for OpenAxiom

2011-08-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
please file an ITP bug, otherwise a RFP bug. See the 'Using wnpp' part of http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ > Any advices are strongly welcome. If you intend to maintain the package in Debian, http://mentors.debian.net/ is a good start. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
would get a lot of issues which are nothing porters need to solve, like libraries not being available as the hardware just doesn't exist for that architecture or test suites failing for various random reasons. If you want a help from a porter, imho you should present a problem in a wa

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
maintainer probably know the source times better than the porter and you should be able to come up with something useful to debug much faster? We don't have enough porters to throw all the longish tasks on them, imho the maintainer should go to porters with an arch specific problem to solve, no

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 08/29/2011 07:15 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 29/08/11 at 18:21 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 08/29/2011 04:49 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >>> I'm also completely tired of investigating issues which are already >>> known to porters, which is unavoidable if

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ms which run Debian or derivates of Debian. So looking at the list of architectures, the only one I could imagine to get rid of at some point would be sparc, maybe powerpc and ia64. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
on edge firewalls because it's way easier > for a standard linux / debian admin. And please don't put hurd-i386 in > the same camp as kbsd. They're not. Hurd is far away from being useful while kfreebsd offers a great mic of a good kernel and a usable userland (instead of t

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
armel computers do ? The mipsel port is used by the Lemote Notebooks/mini Desktops for example, which come pre-installed with Debian. Not sure if they have popcon enabled at all. And I guess mipsel is more a target for Embedian. No idea about usage statistics there, though. -- Bernd Z

Re: forwarding bugs upstream - opt-in, delayed, automated

2011-09-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ribe to the bug mails of a package. We should make it easier for upstreams to subscribe to bts mails. May be also implement a weekly summary of bug mails instead of spamming every single bug mail. Just my 2c :) Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebi

Re: Debian as Software Appliance

2011-09-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
the licenses If you just use Apache to serve stuff and the ldap server - then there are no restrictions. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 D

Re: buildd machines vs. resource-hungry packages (ITK)

2011-09-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
_CFLAGS = $(CFLAGS) else GMIC_CFLAGS = -g -O0 endif endif endif Not the best solution as it means that gmic will be slow(er) on arm and mips at least, but the only working solution. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.d

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-09-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
hink that is true - the exported *FLAGS broke various of the packages I maintain, mainly due to LDFLAGS breaking the build of Python extensions or other kinds of plugins. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.d

Reminder - Debian Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg/Austria - 17-19 April 2015

2015-03-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
27 Dec 2014 16:42:20 +0100 From: Bernd Zeimetz Reply-To: debian-events...@lists.debian.org To: debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org Debian Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg/Austria - 17-19 April 2015 == After the release i

Re: Misc Developer News (#38)

2015-03-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 10.03.2015 04:54, Paul Wise wrote: Gitorious and Codehaus closing -- And google code: http://google-opensource.blogspot.fr/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/16/2015 05:04 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > I'd rather see gitlab.debian.net <http://gitlab.debian.net> :) or gitblit, which would be easier to integrate into ldap/sso/ssh imho. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
s will change while upgrading hardware versions in vmware. -- 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 t

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
roller will start.... -- 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

Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide

2015-07-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
1883f250e44ab66410c0f462 foo1.tar.lz 84393a8d1883f250e44ab66410c0f462 foo2.tar.lz lzip indeed does what you'd like to have, but imho it is much easier for you (and with you I mean the openstack people) to use pristine-tar instead of trying to implement lzip support in dp

Re: How to update control file time stamps

2015-08-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
your file is in a similar format. --news Specify that the newsfile (default debian/NEWS) is to be edited -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Debian is not welcome on Microsoft Azure

2015-08-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
in Debian for years. Recently it was updated to the latest > version. Please check https://packages.qa.debian.org/w/waagent.html ... it just never made it into a stable release -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Rebuilding reverse-deps in salsa pipeline?

2018-12-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, I'm wondering if somebody implemented a salsa pipeline to rebuild the reverse-deps of a library? Is there some example/docker image to build on? Thanks, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: How to deal with meaningless SOVERSION bumps from upstream?

2019-03-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
y try to talk to upstream? That should be the first thing to do Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Debian vs Linux namespaces

2019-03-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
stead. >> >> >> Thanx in advance >> >> Harri >> >> https://bugs.debian.org/888569 >> https://bugs.debian.org/888743 >> https://bugs.debian.org/858837 >> https://bugs.debian.org/924551 >> > -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Hurd-i386 and kfreebsd-{i386,amd64} removal

2019-04-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
easing a hurd buster release using ports. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Hurd-i386 and kfreebsd-{i386,amd64} removal

2019-04-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tive I have is to make the release now with the RC > bugs. There is no real difference between the normal archive and ports. Uploads will happen after buster was released. If your binary packages are built on official debian machines or the debian-ports machines does not make a big difference.

Re: Do we want to Require or Recommend DH

2019-05-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
en as well). I strongly second this, although I'm not sure if cdbs should be involed or not, but yes, dh should be used these days and turning that into a "must" should happen sonner than later in my opinion. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer h

Re: Do we want to Require or Recommend DH

2019-05-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
understand that in any case. Doesn't matter if its dh, cdbs or old dh_* stuff. > dh will hide everything. It isn't simpler, it *LOOKS* > simpler, but it's a way more complex. No idea where you think that dh hides something - make and dh both print what they are doing. -- Be

Re: scratch buildds

2019-06-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
h a commit and it would be built and tested automatically. afaik the CI runners use k8s to schedule their work, so I think using the default CI stuff from gitlab requires an architecture supported by k8s. arm64 is supported and I know that some people cross-compiled k8s for mips(el?), but I doubt i

Re: Notes on packaging PCYNLITX

2019-07-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
r some other reliable build system - you might also need that if you want to build the source on other architectures or cross-build it... tl;dr - first fix the source and build-system, then think about Debian. Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer ht

Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?

2019-07-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
t gain worth pursuing. definitely. we are able to see the daily logrotate/ run in our power usage statistics... -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D48

Re: tag2upload (git-debpush) service architecture - draft

2019-07-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
we might also not be able to trust the linked list of commits a git tag is pointing to. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: tag2upload (git-debpush) service architecture - draft

2019-07-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
to sign a tag for upload. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ime a service needs to shutdown, so some random sleep was added instead of handling it in a sane way. This issues are luckily fixed forever with systemd - it just knows, whats going on. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Git Packaging Round 1: Hopefully Easy Stuff

2019-08-26 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> VCS Packaging Info > == > > If you have a public repo then you should use vcs-git and vcs-browser. > I'm reasonably sure this is even already well documented. Definitely. If that is not yet in policy, it should go in there asap. Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz

Consensus?

2019-08-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
ps://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep14/ and drive it forward. Please remember that it should be easier and more fun to contribute to Debian. Keeping packaging in the stone age jsut because some people still live there is not what you should strive for. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Consensus Call: Git Packaging Round 1

2019-09-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
have exactly the same amount of history you keep in your repository when you discuss patch files in the BTS. > > You may not care about that, but others do. > > That's why there are interesting trade offs to balance. > > --Sam > -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Consensus Call: Git Packaging Round 1

2019-09-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
tion, no patch) same for me, I'm happy to send pull requests, but usually you won't see a patch from me in the BTS. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Consensus Call: Git Packaging Round 1

2019-09-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
es and discussion on salsa, and on the BTS you end up with a mess of patches in the best case. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Consensus Call: Git Packaging Round 1

2019-09-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
since I have my bigger packages (like open-vm-tools, gpsd...) on github/salsa, I've started to get *a lot* more pull requests than I got patches in the bts on all of my packages. Also it is much more easy to review pull/merge requests - I even do it on the mobile phone sometimes - and merge

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
xample - otherwise you would install *all* plugin dependencies with collectd, which would be a big waste of space. The other option would be to make one packe per plugin as redhat does, but do we really want 20 packages with a single file? Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: dpkg --verify not helpful?

2024-03-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
e /usr/share/doc/zsh/changelog.gz (from zsh package) (By default it scans all packages...) If md5sums are really something the Debian project should trust on and if the way we ship them without an easy way to verify them.... its a different issue. -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: proposal: dhcpcd-base as standard DHCP client starting with Trixie

2024-03-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
h systemd-networkd now, but I would rather spend time on supporting such a combination and getting rid of all the old ways of configuring networking stuff than implementing yet another "client" solution. Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http:

Re: Rebuilding old packages to get rid of overalignment on amd64 which reduces ASLR

2024-03-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
, thereby, request to rebuild affected packages. So as I understand it: this will be fixed by itself as soon as somebody uploads or binNMUs the package? Then I would wait for some point near the release. And packages that haven't been touched since buster might need some qa

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