Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-30 Thread Diederik de Haas
[Please CC me in replies as I'm not subscribed to this list] I hope I'm not too late for this discussion ... Steve McIntyre wrote: > Luca Boccassi wrote: > >On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 12:42, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> I'm planning on stopping publishing installer images for i386 > >> soon. Why? We

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-31 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Wed May 31, 2023 at 12:44 PM CEST, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 12:51:06AM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > While it may be a no-brainer for a person with a $/€ 1000 a month residual > > income to just buy new hardware whenever they feel like it, t

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-06-02 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Friday, 2 June 2023 20:59:27 CEST Wouter Verhelst wrote: > "complain on -devel" is not part of the job That wasn't my intend, but I obviously horribly failed at that. Won't happen again o/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev (causing FTBFS)

2023-08-19 Thread Diederik de Haas
[please CC me as I'm not subscribed to debian-devel] On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 21:45:13 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 00:07, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 at 22:38:20 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > > > Currently, there are 219 build-dependencies and 29 (direct) >

Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev (causing FTBFS)

2023-08-19 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Saturday, 19 August 2023 10:54:20 CEST Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2023-08-19 10:03 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > [please CC me as I'm not subscribed to debian-devel] > > > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 21:45:13 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > >> On Mon, 17 Jul

Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev (causing FTBFS)

2023-08-19 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Saturday, 19 August 2023 11:14:02 CEST Andreas Metzler wrote: > > What is the recommended/appropriate way to deal with such issues? > > The agreed reached was not "let's ignore it, lintian has been warning > about it". Instead a way forward that /should/ have avoided any breakage > (versioned p

Re: Bug#885698: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?

2023-09-19 Thread Diederik de Haas
Hopefully I'm not too late and I hope I won't make any ('dumb') mistakes as I'm not as well-versed in licenses and packaging as other participants. On Sunday, 10 September 2023 18:16:07 CEST Russ Allbery wrote: > > * The license is DFSG-free. > > * Exactly the same license wording is used by all

Re: Linking coreutils against OpenSSL

2023-11-10 Thread Diederik de Haas
https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2021/06/msg1.html is the start of a thread about support for encryption in HW, which AFAIK uses the Crypto API. That's available on a number of arm64 devices. It may be useful to specify/detail a test so that people can (uniformly) test the performance on

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-19 Thread Diederik de Haas
> 3. We could stop pretending that the non-free images are unofficial, and > maybe move them alongside the normal free images so they're published > together. > This would make them easier to find for people that need them, but is > likely to cause users to question why we still make

Re: Download page/options (was: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?)

2022-04-24 Thread Diederik de Haas
> My background is as a longtime debian user and support volunteer in #debian. Thanks for doing that! I haven't been on that channel for a while, but I do remember what an incredible help you've been to many there :) Apologies for my harsh wording wrt auto-download. I shouldn't have have put my

Re: ifupdown/dhcp

2022-05-08 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Sunday, 8 May 2022 21:34:39 CEST Michael Tokarev wrote: > What's up with ISC dhclient? "ISC DHCP Client and Relay End of Maintenance" @ https://www.isc.org/blogs/dhcp-client-relay-eom/ Couple of quotes: "ISC plans to end maintenance of the ISC DHCP client and relay by the end of Q1, 2022."

Re: Switch default from PulseAudio to PipeWire (and WirePlumber) for audio

2022-09-18 Thread Diederik de Haas
On 23 February 2022, I wrote this in https://bugs.debian.org/999363#35: On 23 Feb 2022 17:21:29 +0100 Diederik de Haas wrote: > On 10 Nov 2021 15:40:21 +0100 Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > Switching the default sound service is an option but should probably be > > a project discu

Re: /boot partition too small

2022-10-06 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Thursday, 6 October 2022 15:41:52 CEST Ben Hutchings wrote: > > my laptop runs with a default partition layout created by Debian > > Installer 4 years or so ago: > > > > Device StartEnd Sectors Size Type > > /dev/nvme0n1p120481050623 1048576 512M EFI System > >

Re: /boot partition too small

2022-10-06 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Thursday, 6 October 2022 16:23:27 CEST Diederik de Haas wrote: > That doesn't change my perspective that the fundamental aspect of /boot > being too small should be addressed (directly) and not try to workaround > it. With workarounds I was thinking of using a better comp

Re: Re: /boot partition too small

2022-10-06 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 17:14:56 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 06.10.22 um 16:23 schrieb Diederik de Haas: > > That doesn't change my perspective that the fundamental aspect of /boot > > being too small should be addressed (directly) and not try to workaround > > it. >

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-02-26 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Sunday, 26 February 2023 17:59:52 CET Bill Allombert wrote: > > During the last weeks I had a look at the Vcs situation in Debian. > > > > For the allowed systems the situation in unstable is the following: > > ... > > svn is used by ~130 packages, many of which point to bad URLs. > > > > We c

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-02-26 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Sunday, 26 February 2023 20:06:26 CET Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 07:25:57PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > Apart from me not liking proprietary systems in general and M$ GitHub in > > particular, you also run the risk of things disappearing entirely without

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-02-26 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Sunday, 26 February 2023 22:38:51 CET Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 09:57:34PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > On Sunday, 26 February 2023 20:06:26 CET Adrian Bunk wrote: > >... > > > > > For anything in Debian, the package sources in Debian wo

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-02-26 Thread Diederik de Haas
[please CC me in replies as I'm not subscribed to d-devel] Russ Allbery wrote: > Diederik de Haas writes: > > Question as I don't know: is that only the package change that gets > > uploaded to the Debian archive, or is there also a place where the (git) > > histo

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Monday 09 November 2015 17:47:09 Daniel Baumann wrote: > An abrupt End to Debian Live I am extremely saddened by what happened and I find it disgraceful the way it happened. I feel very proud that Debian Live was one of the first Debian projects I actually made a contribution to and seeing m