Bug#1074007: ITP: yubihsm-connector -- USB to HTTP bridge for the YubiHSM

2024-06-21 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: yubihsm-connector Version : 3.0.4 Upstream Contact: Yubico Open Source Maintainers * URL : https://developers.yubico.com/yubihsm-connector/ * License

Bug#1074211: ITP: python-expandvars -- bash-style environment variable expansion in Python

2024-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-expandvars Version : 0.12.0 Upstream Contact: Arijit Basu * URL : https://github.com/sayanarijit/expandvars * License : MIT Programming

Bug#1074215: ITP: yubihsm-shell -- Command-line and interactive tool for the YubiHSM 2

2024-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: yubihsm-shell Version : 2.5.0 Upstream Contact: Yubico Open Source Maintainers * URL : https://developers.yubico.com/yubihsm-shell/ * License

Bug#1074420: ITP: python-yubihsm -- Python library for the YubiHSM 2

2024-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-yubihsm Version : 3.0.0 Upstream Contact: Dain Nilsson * URL : https://github.com/Yubico/python-yubihsm * License : Apache-2.0

Re: Bug#1075905: ITP: python-fraction -- Fraction carries out all the fraction operations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, reciprocation

2024-07-08 Thread Colin Watson
an > > create a patch specifically for moarchiving. > > As reported elsewhere, moarchiving declares a dep on it but doesn't > actually import it. > This needs to be fixed upstream to. I proposed https://github.com/CMA-ES/moarchiving/pull/9 upstream. -- Colin Watson (he/hi

Re: what about Netplan?

2024-07-16 Thread Colin Watson
e context you're using it in (desktop, server, cloud, etc.). -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Ship a git .bundle in .dsc and .deb

2024-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
e quite happy with a plain directory as long as it has the right files in it, and it doesn't need a .git subdirectory. It seems as though you'd just need to have QMK_HOME fall back to /usr/share/qmk-firmware (or whatever) if it isn't explicitly set. Am I mis

Re: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts

2024-08-15 Thread Colin Watson
ut it seems a big coincidence that the symlink was dropped a few days after this IRC conversation; and yet it seems nobody bothered to do the most basic due diligence that I pointed out here, which is kind of sad. (I fixed wireless-tools after this change caused an RC bug there.) -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts

2024-08-16 Thread Colin Watson
time trying to debug them from cold, such as AppArmor profiles and example scripts, and it's just good manners to give maintainers an explicit heads-up. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-08-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 01:30:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > * for Debian trixie (current testing): > >* add dependency-only packages called something like > openssh-client-gsskex and openssh-server-gsskex, depending on their > non-gsskex alternatives >

Re: Please help me fix the build pipeline for apt-listchanges on Salsa, which is failing

2024-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
a non-deprecated way. (Sometimes that requires other adjustments too, but in this case adding the build-dependency on its own is enough.) -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: Please help me fix the build pipeline for apt-listchanges on Salsa, which is failing

2024-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
ng when you first add something to the unreleased changelog, and "dch -r" will update it when you're ready to make an upload), but it should be present. Leaving it empty isn't the usual practice among other developers as far as I've seen, and it&#x

Re: Replacing isc-dhcp-client with dhcpcd-base (Was: ifupdown maintenance)

2024-09-14 Thread Colin Watson
will be equal to the values in the packages themselves, but those values are nevertheless overridden. This means that uploading a new version of a package to attempt to change its priority or section has no effect; if you need to change those, you _must_ get ftpmaster to change the override, and otherw

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for May 14, 2004

2004-10-24 Thread Colin Watson
nvestigate why they're not reaching the debian-devel-announce readership. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for October 22, 2004

2004-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:20:39PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:51:45AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote: > > For people who care about getting sarge out, it's not useful to put out > > a report listing 726 bugs, only 150 of which matter, in a form that > > makes i

Re: Debconf is not a registry (was: Right Way to make a configuration package)

2004-11-01 Thread Colin Watson
tements like 'debconf is not a > >registry'.) > > Why is the information given during package installation stored > persistently in the first place? As a convenience so that you don't have to waste time answering questions again and again. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-11-01 Thread Colin Watson
is Section: base. and, > iiuc, base should be self-contained (that is, packages in base must > not depend on packages outside it). I don't believe such a restriction exists. "Section: base" is pretty much a relic, obsoleted long ago by debootstrap. -- Colin Watson

Re: Transitioning to Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR

2004-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
when mozilla-firefox is actually ready for testing in its own right (it's currently missing a sparc build). > Eric: Should we upload with priority=high to be ready for Sarge ASAP? britney already considers mozilla-firefox urgency=critical due to: mozilla-firefox (0.10.1+1.0PR-1) experime

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
e release management team. :-( In future, please perform such widespread audits *before* base system freezes, not *during* them. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#284219: please remove gnu-standards

2004-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
of the GFDL must be released, for which the optimists among us may still hope. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#284272: udev: fails to create /dev/pmu on PPC

2004-12-05 Thread Colin Watson
bug if necessary. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Colin Watson
stops > > believing us and finds an option that actually works. > > I started using Linux (and Debian) a couple months after Woody "came > out." Was woody due "any day now" for a year like this? To a large extent, yes. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

2005-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
ort dependency problems encountered in the configure step, nor exit non-zero when it encounters them. See bug #55364. It's much more efficient for users to keep the old .debs around and simply use dpkg -i, which will exit non-zero on errors and allow you to put the old .deb back. Seems clear that

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

2005-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:22:43AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:58:56PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > Given that -source packages do not adequately specify the dependencies > > to be able to use the output, one must NEVER run "dpkg -i" a giv

Re: Bug#295006: debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder

2005-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
virtual package > than "mp3-encoder". What would the interface provided by such a virtual package be? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder

2005-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
the bug. Well, if any program were to actually depend on this virtual package, they'd need to know which encoder was being used in order to correctly support the differing argument conventions. In which case, why not just depend on the encoders they know ho

Re: debian-policy: Virtual package: change mp3-encoder with music-encoder

2005-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:01:15PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:43:41AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Well, if any program were to actually depend on this virtual package, > > they'd need to know which encoder was being used in order to corre

Re: Package xxx has broken dep on yyy: normal?

2005-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
> the mirror push? Somehow can consistent versions of xxx and yyy > either be made sure to go out this mirror run together, or both wait > for the next run? That's the problem that the testing distribution is intended to solve. -- Colin Watson

Re: Errors in RC-bug list (was: Release-critical Bugreport for February 18, 2005)

2005-02-18 Thread Colin Watson
t; > > > Package: texgd (debian/main) > > But actually tex4ht has two RC-bugs (both tagged sarge-ignore, but the > package is being worked on, see [EMAIL PROTECTED]). > > What happened to the other RC bug? They're merged, so it only lists the first. -- Colin Watson

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
ebstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment: dh_install, which ... - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649 Cheers, -- Colin Watson [

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:59:00PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:54:27PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> > Re: Daniel Burrows in <

Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
o have 2GB mbox files? Consider a spam-bin folder that you don't split by month or whatever and don't check very often. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 04:27:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 10:23 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:45:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 00:53 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > > I have severa

Re: Problems with - and ' in some man-pages

2005-03-02 Thread Colin Watson
g particularly given the lacking support for Unicode HYPHEN in many fonts (especially on the console). (Either way, it should still be configurable, and manual pages should still be fixed.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mipsel drop / buildd situation Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space]

2005-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
ork with the well-founded expectation that it would be part of sarge. It's not fair to do this sort of thing at the last minute. After sarge is a different matter, though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Colin Watson
y making it an essential part of our infrastructure? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Colin Watson
is whether it goes on ftp.d.o or scc.d.o. There's a point of view that says that committing to release powerpc from scc.d.o means that we're committed to making sure that we *can* release architectures from scc.d.o, which is a good thing ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: ports.debian.org (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Colin Watson
-wise points to http://www.debian.org/ports/)? I like this idea. SCC was a working codename that I think was originally intended to be changed as soon as somebody thought of something better, but nobody ever quite got round to it ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PR

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
here. Right. We might need to do either etch-ignore or a lower severity in the meantime, though; Architecture: would take a little while to implement properly. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ports.debian.org (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:38:30PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:10:30PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > #include > > * Colin Watson [Mon, Mar 14 2005, 02:40:56PM]: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:31:30PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > >

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
if we could simply use the current support in britney for declaring that an architecture isn't keeping up to date and that any problems with it shouldn't block the rest of testing. I'm not sure what the consequences of that would be for the usability of testing on non-releasin

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:18:44AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:36:33AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > There is no transfer needed at all, IOW the capability to do releases > > from ports.debian.org exists (and is a very good thing, as Colin >

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
tax considerations, most of the things you list don't really seem to be among them. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Uploading amd64 packages

2005-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
s on the so-called > > "mirror split". > > I guess so, but I haven't seen any status update about this. > Are there even people working on it? Apparently so: http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2005/11/16#2005-11-16-dak -- Colin Watson

Re: Bug#340404: ITP: libemail-valid-loose-perl -- Email::Valid which allows dot before at mark

2005-11-23 Thread Colin Watson
27;print Email::Valid->rfc822(q([EMAIL PROTECTED]))' 1 I think the description needs to be improved; perhaps it means "dot (.) immediately before at-mark (@)", which *is* invalid in RFC822. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To U

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-30 Thread Colin Watson
d, but I think mostly good). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-30 Thread Colin Watson
ing and checking more and more iterative hash functions that don't actually add significant collision-resistance when you check them all together, a generalised checksumming tool as proposed seems an obviously sensible and desirable thing to have. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Automatic closing of bugs

2005-12-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 02:01:28PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > A lintian-like test to see if the listed bugs match the package before > uploading seems more useful to me. It would have prevented this > particular problem. yaclc provides this. -- Col

Re: kernel-package hooks transition

2005-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
ngs for other languages (see the changelog entry for debconf 0.3.74). My impression is that these days maintainer scripts are much better about not mixing up debconf interaction with normal use of stdout, and so it's still possible that the fd 3 hack will be removed some day. -- Colin Watson

Re: kernel-package hooks transition

2005-12-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:43:19AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:30:26PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on &3, so any > >

Re: kernel-package hooks transition

2005-12-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:51:00AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:30:26PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on &3, so any > >

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
> > Ubuntu's apt package ships only the Ubuntu archive keyring, not the Debian > archive keyring, so no update is needed when Debian keys change. That doesn't mean we (Ubuntu) have solved the problem of how to rotate *our* keys in the event of a key compromise. (To my knowledge, we

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
g, I agree it's not the best phrasing and for grammatical reasons should be changed to "synced from Debian". Matt has already said he'll ask for this to be changed (it's on Mark's personal wiki page, so changing it directly would be a bit rude), so hopefully we can

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
lude socket support. Socket support does seem to be there: $ dpkg -c /mirror/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.2-1ubuntu2_i386.deb | grep socket -rw-r--r-- root/root 49608 2006-01-17 12:59:02 ./usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_socket.so

Re: Pre-Depends for Xorg 7.0

2006-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
gt; . symlink paths hardcoded as specified in policy (11.8.7, "Installation directory issues") would continue to work as well. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debconf and cdebconf are coinstallable now

2006-03-01 Thread Colin Watson
bian-devel/2005/08/msg00136.html [2] http://bugs.debian.org/328498 Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-03-02 Thread Colin Watson
. If not, the usual workaround is for > ndiswrapper to instead declare an Enhances relationship on foo. Traditionally Suggests have been OK, although one of the main reasons why Enhances was invented as a reverse-Suggests was to allow all references to non-free packages to be removed from main&

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-03-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:27:48PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 08:32:46AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > It's common for e.g. network card manufacturers to provide their images > > on a floppy disk. If ndiswrapper were integrated into d-i, then it woul

Re: debconf and cdebconf are coinstallable now

2006-03-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 11:59:02AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-02 05:08]: > > Joey has been campaigning [1] for a while to get everything in the > > archive changed to depend on debconf | debconf-2.0 or similar rather > >

Re: Ubuntu Patches

2005-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
uot;themeable", i.e. the display style is in code in /lib so you can't customise it locally without having it trashed on upgrade, and so on. Fixing that would be good. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ubuntu Patches

2005-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
-traffic enough to be readable anyway.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ubuntu Patches

2005-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
I'm not interested in extra merge effort due to an Ubuntu patch for a spelling error, so I generally just make these in Debian directly as I notice them and only hurry the merge to Ubuntu if they're user-visible. I hope this helps to clarify things a little. It's a hug

Re: update-menus runs in the background?

2005-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
kgrounding itself if it's there and if there isn't already an update-menus process waiting. It could be an apt DPkg::Post-Invoke hook, but this is no good for people running 'dpkg -i' directly; really, it's an ideal use case for the as-yet-unimplemented dpkg trigger mec

Re: Should Debian use lsb init-functions?

2005-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
ersion 2.0-6 in unstable; look for log_*_msg. The main current issue with these functions, IMO, is that the output is not user-configurable. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Mail loss, please resend

2005-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
uld resend. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Right of a maintainer not to respect FHS

2005-04-11 Thread Colin Watson
verity (and, honestly, what's the point of the release-critical severities otherwise)? We can block packages from testing, but it's awkward to do that routinely for single bugs, and I wouldn't want to encourage that situation. -- Colin Watson [

Re: apt in experimental (Re: APT 0.6 migration -- second status report)

2005-05-04 Thread Colin Watson
gt; > it into sid and not worry about the dependency issue, right? > > > > i've been using apt .6 on one of my machines, and while i haven't kept > > a super-close eye on it, i haven't noticed anything that would make > > me think it an unsuitable candidate

Re: FW: Processing of tla-load-dirs_1.0.21ubuntu1_source.changes

2005-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
we hope should make this less likely to happen again. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FW: Processing of tla-load-dirs_1.0.21ubuntu1_source.changes

2005-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:21:04PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:11:09AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:39:30AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > What it means: the Ubuntu maintainer for tla-load-dirs (sorry, don't kno

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-01 Thread Colin Watson
eems to > > assume udeb support and Debian is not there yet. > > I have no idea what you mean. What does running hpoj as non-root have to do > with udebs? s/udeb/udev/g -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-02 Thread Colin Watson
average more along the lines of handling different archive layouts than insanely voluminous translation changes, I'll feel less like I'm bloating the d-i repository up with stuff that doesn't benefit Debian by committing it there. -- Colin Watson

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-02 Thread Colin Watson
ly, depending on how much time we have available to make the code better and more generic versus just making it work so that we can ship something. Yes, fixing that situation could be very useful for other derivative distributions too. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: C++ ABI change for etch -- freeze unstable for all C++ libs with changed or new sonames

2005-06-05 Thread Colin Watson
the change as close to the beginning of a release cycle as possible in order to have as much time as possible to clean up any resulting problems. This had nothing to do with fictional business models and everything to do with straightforward practical release management. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-06 Thread Colin Watson
er? I think that's pretty unlikely, personally ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:45:59PM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: > On 06/06/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:13:50AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > > > Is it your hope that the debian project will switch to the new software > > &

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Colin Watson
at. > > That answers my question. Whatever amount of work the porters can do for > these architectures, they won't be accepted. That's an incorrect paraphrase of what Steve said. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:44:17AM -0500, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:55:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:45:59PM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: > > > ditto, plus, isn't there meant to be a few more good features coming > &

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Colin Watson
about needing more buildd maintainers; he was talking about the task of chasing up issues involved in trying to get required package uploads built everywhere, which currently ends up being a very significant time drain on the release team (since that's the set o

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
t defined what the > existing unqualified locale names mean, save in the defaults, /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED is a little more than "the defaults", I think. It's at least standard across systems that use glibc (in that you may get additional entries, but you won't get differen

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
Debian could make it the > default; I already did: groff (1.18.1.1-7) unstable; urgency=low * Too many fonts are missing the Unicode HYPHEN character, so I give up. Render "-" as HYPHEN-MINUS (ASCII 0x2D) by default. (Of course, manual pages using "-" when they

Re: automated updates of debian/changelog considered harmful

2005-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
a correct way, but certainly don't touch debian/changelog). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: C++ ABI change -- freezing unstable for new C++ library packages

2005-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
e now require manual intervention from the release team? Yes, for the moment getting that into testing requires release-team approval (which is unlikely to be withheld - it's just so that the udeb can be synced at the same time). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROT

Re: C++ ABI change -- freezing unstable for new C++ library packages

2005-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:31:06PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > On Friday 10 June 2005 15:27, Colin Watson wrote: > > Yes, for the moment getting that into testing requires release-team > > approval (which is unlikely to be withheld - it's just so that the udeb > > can

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 CD/DVD images updated (r0a)

2005-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 12:05 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > This is an update to the CD and DVD images of Debian 3.1r0. > > Colin, > > is there any good reason why this announcement was not made to > debian-a

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for June 10, 2005

2005-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
;t in a freeze any more. Also, please don't quote the entire long list when replying to it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ~ in package versions

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Watson
Code ported from dpkg. [...] -- Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 27 Apr 2003 01:23:12 -0500 (further fixed in 0.5.11, 10 Sep 2003) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Minutes of Debian Installer IRC meeting of 20050618

2005-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
ogress for etch, but not yet finished), so support for new kernels in sarge starts to look increasingly unlikely after 2.6.11. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
ere, along with a good deal of code. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
in languages that aren't just ASCII. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alioth Project Approved - and now?

2005-06-27 Thread Colin Watson
to remove the debconf support for it from the openssh package recently. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alioth Project Approved - and now?

2005-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:52:36PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 05:43:24PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > > > Does anyone still use ssh1? It seems quite common for it not to be > > > supported these day

Re: HashKnownHosts

2005-07-02 Thread Colin Watson
umentation directories going missing entirely in some cases. I'll give it another try soon. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HashKnownHosts

2005-07-02 Thread Colin Watson
There is such a tool, which I mentioned in the changelog: - ssh and ssh-keyscan now support hashing of known_hosts files for improved privacy. ssh-keygen has new options for managing known_hosts files, which understand hashing. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: HashKnownHosts

2005-07-02 Thread Colin Watson
pound command are not tested, and are added to the history regardless of the value of HISTIGNORE. In any case, I do not see "information exposed over there" as a reason in itself why information should be exposed over here, especially when the exposure over

Re: HashKnownHosts

2005-07-02 Thread Colin Watson
t; this option by default. Also, this is not true in a world where many desktop users are using GUI frontends to sftp or the like. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HashKnownHosts

2005-07-02 Thread Colin Watson
-hashed names. -R hostname Removes all keys belonging to hostname from a known_hosts file. This option is useful to delete hashed hosts (see the -H option above). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PR

Re: HashKnownHosts

2005-07-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 02:16:08AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 03, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then I'm afraid you simply haven't read the documentation ... > > I did. But I cannot remove entries if I do not know the hostname. That&#x

Re: HashKnownHosts

2005-07-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 12:17:13AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 11:19:26AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > (BTW, would you mind fixing #284874? It's six months old and should be > > trivial...) > > Sorry I haven't got round to this

Re: HashKnownHosts

2005-07-03 Thread Colin Watson
t just fine. (Of course, people with unusual requirements can always disable HashKnownHosts, but I'm interested in a sane default.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-07-03 Thread Colin Watson
#x27; >This declares an absolute dependency. A package will not be >configured unless all of the packages listed in its `Depends' >field have been correctly unpacked. This is incorrect. Depends is as described in policy, with the addition that dpkg will arb

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