Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-08 Thread Mike Bird
ence in this area. Do you find that kicking yourself enhances your ability to improve Launchpad? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For those who care about lesbians

2006-01-14 Thread Mike Bird
file a request for your expulsion. That might happen for > this one yet. If your message is merely a troll, I would respectfully ask you please to expell yourself. On the other hand, if you believe that someone should be expelled for reasons that you are unable or unwilling to state, I woul

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-17 Thread Mike Bird
kage files with the exactly the same name and different content and dependencies drove me crazy for a while until we made our migration scripts smarter. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-18 Thread Mike Bird
, the 'buildX' packages do change the source package, but by > policy, only debian/changelog is touched, to increase the version > number of the package. What please is the difference between a buildX package and all the other packages that were rebuilt without the buildX annotation? --

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-18 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 11:04, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On 1/18/06, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What please is the difference between a buildX package and all the > > other packages that were rebuilt without the buildX annotation? > > It is quite similar to

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread Mike Bird
n one occasion without any hint of an apology. Matthew, Your accusation fails to allege sufficient facts to constitute an allegation of defamation. Rather than wasting list bandwidth, please consult a solicitor. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re: utnubu-desktop for the masses

2006-04-23 Thread Mike Bird
he two mechanisms in sync. * This exposes the task recommendations to other package dependency/management systems rather than keeping them hidden in /usr/share/tasksel/debian-tasks.desc. * This would avoid having to install 1.7MB of tasksel and write an extra parser in order to obtain 15KB of dependency info in /usr/share/tasksel/debian-tasks.desc. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: utnubu-desktop for the masses

2006-04-23 Thread Mike Bird
. How does adding a package with a few hundred unversioned dependencies and no reverse dependencies slow down anything but itself? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: utnubu-desktop for the masses

2006-04-23 Thread Mike Bird
(and which tasksel could use to ensure consistency). Many people prefer tasksel. That's great. Go for it. But please don't ban meta-packages for those of us who want the simple solution which package dependencies provide and which our programs can understand. Thanks for listening, -

Re: utnubu-desktop for the masses

2006-04-23 Thread Mike Bird
lled > before it is preconfigured. In making X operate this way, the X > maintainers have *required* that the installation system have a special > case for X; castigating tasksel because I chose to implement support for > this special case in a generalized fashion in desktop.preinst is ab

Re: utnubu-desktop for the masses

2006-04-23 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 19:42, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 06:59:41PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > > * "Clogging Britney" is subjective. > > Having the metapackage kicked out of testing and having the release team > refuse to help you get it back

Re: utnubu-desktop for the masses

2006-04-25 Thread Mike Bird
problem logically rather than conceding defeat to the first sample of working code[5]. * We now have tools such as wajig[6,7] and aag[8,9] which can install a metapackage with its recommendations without changing the meaning of "apt-get install". (And such functionality could be

Wrong version in gconf2 dependencies

2006-04-26 Thread Mike Bird
ave arrived in gconf2 somewhat later than 2.10.1-2. Examples: eog, gnome-system-tools I really don't want to file separate bugs against every gnome package. (The workaround is to upgrade gconf2 early.) --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

Re: Wrong version in gconf2 dependencies

2006-04-26 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 11:31, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 26, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In working on (unsupported) dist-upgrades from Ubuntu/Breezy > > to Debian/Etch I ran into a lot of failures due to missing > FYI, this will probably horribly break t

Re: Wrong version in gconf2 dependencies

2006-04-27 Thread Mike Bird
om Breezy which probably has a greater version. Thanks Josselin. Ubuntu reported syncing gconf2 with Debian at 2.11.1 but Ubuntu's 2.12.0-0ubuntu1 (Breezy) still lacked gconf-schemas. (Ubuntu has gconf-schemas in 2.14.0-1ubuntu1.) Not a Debian problem. Sorry for the bogus report. --Mike B

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

2006-05-10 Thread Mike Bird
is it necessary to install kaffe as well as kaffe-pthreads? Thanks, --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-22 Thread Mike Bird
ddenly Debian is in court and looking at millions of dollars in legal fees even if found not liable. Most likely the Master and the Owner take most of the blame, and Debian is found liable for only a few percent. That's a few tens of millions of dollars. To the judge, it's not only

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-23 Thread Mike Bird
problematic. And that is why, in legal matters, Debian needs the combined expertise of the volunteer lawyers on debian-legal, rather than the "legal opinion" of a programmer. Fair's fair. I wouldn't trust most attorneys to fix a device driver. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-24 Thread Mike Bird
y binding document signed by Sun which clarifies and/or amends Sun's license. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-04 Thread Mike Bird
e covert actions of the "small cabal" were openly reviewed. The license (for convenience), any relevant written promises from Sun (if any), and any relevant written legal opinions from counsel (if any) should forthwith be posted to debian-legal. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-06 Thread Mike Bird
downside. Why is "building a relationship with Sun" so important to Debian that it's worth the risk to Debian of indemnifying Sun, Sun's licensors, and all their successors in interest? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-07 Thread Mike Bird
wever, all software in Debian archives is signed in by a DD, a member of Debian's web of trust. A new upstream bug does not affect Debian until Debian is changed by the DD's incorporation of the upstream version containing the upstream bug. When that change is signed in to Debian, that is a c

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-10 Thread Mike Bird
x compliant. Within the Debian world, this is a dash bug. Possible solutions include Debian-specific patches to either make dash's test compatible or to disable dash's incompatible test. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-10 Thread Mike Bird
m scripts that everyone has for backups or nagios extensions or adding users or emptying cameras etc etc. Not everyone writes scripts to the same high standards as Debian but it would still be very unfortunate if a Debian update broke them. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-11 Thread Mike Bird
ebian making it easy for /bin/sh to be changed by those Debian users who wish to make such a change, possibly even during D-I. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-11 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon February 11 2008 06:53:43 Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:33:54AM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > > On *production* Debian systems, saving 30 seconds in a boot > > which may occur once a year for a kernel security update is > > not worth a single broken

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-11 Thread Mike Bird
tiny shell scripts in the big wide world are written by people who are not the best of programmers. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-11 Thread Mike Bird
users through such a change would be extremely detrimental to both Debian users and Debian. I'd much prefer that Debian changed its own scripts to use #!/bin/sh.minimal without affecting user scripts, where /bin/sh.minimal could be linked to any shell meeting Debian's minimal criter

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-11 Thread Mike Bird
to expect of /bin/sh. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-11 Thread Mike Bird
breakage on naive Debian users: none. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-11 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon February 11 2008 02:20:26 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 11/02/2008, Mike Bird wrote: > > On *production* Debian systems, saving 30 seconds in a boot which > > may occur once a year for a kernel security update is not worth a > > single broken script, nor a single failed

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Mike Bird
t the unnecessary reordering has no side-effects? Would you mind repeating the (hopefully automated) proof for each Lenny release candidate? Thanks, --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

2008-02-22 Thread Mike Bird
dentify any benefit that cannot be achieved with less disruption. In short, the sole dubious identified benefit can be easily achieved by an alternative approach that is non-disruptive. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance

2008-02-24 Thread Mike Bird
s for #281057 and #432893, and my implementation of `Breaks' > support in dselect, are outstanding too, since early November. For those like me with short memories, would you mind (re-)posting links to the specs for Triggers and Breaks and any other features you're suggesting. T

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-29 Thread Mike Bird
that could be better spent programming or packaging or playing with the grandkids. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-29 Thread Mike Bird
Ian's productivity, and the teacher of such a class might help Guillem develop his skills better than Ian could. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-29 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri February 29 2008 09:26:32 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > > I'm not a DD but I've been programming since 1963 when I was 7. > > Based on decades of software engineering experience, I would > > just like to remin

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-03-02 Thread Mike Bird
ature and have the new developer restart development of the trivial new feature from scratch. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-03-04 Thread Mike Bird
aphael seems to have the power to block your packages but he has no rational excuse. Can the tech committee overrule Raphael or does Debian need to fork a dpkg under more sensible maintainers? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-03-05 Thread Mike Bird
objects here within 48 hours that Ian should proceed with his update? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-03-05 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed March 5 2008 13:30:06 Otavio Salvador wrote: > Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed March 5 2008 12:29:08 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >> I've been added to dpkg's Uploader a few weeks ago, I'm not dpkg's main > >> coordinator.

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-03-05 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed March 5 2008 14:52:04 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 05 Mar 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > > Please post the URL for this policy. I apologize if you've already > > posted and I missed it, but Google couldn't find it for me. > > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dp

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-09 Thread Mike Bird
d work their way up through simpler programming tasks before taking on something as crucial as dpkg. On the other hand, fer crissake Ian stop using 0 for NULL! You can use (char*)NULL if it helps. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-09 Thread Mike Bird
back to the obstructionists. If Anthony has posted an explanation I have not seen it. You will recall Anthony - he alienated many Debian developers with the Dunk-Tank fiaco and thereby significantly delayed the release of Etch. This apparently makes Anthony a natural ally of the dpkg blocking team.

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-09 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun March 9 2008 14:46:50 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 09/03/2008, Mike Bird wrote: > > Ian hijacked his own program back from the people who had been > > blocking updates for six months - including the triggers enhancement > > which is needed for boot time improvements >

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-09 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun March 9 2008 16:07:58 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ian hijacked his own program back from the people who had been blocking > > updates for six months - including the triggers enhancement which is > > neede

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-09 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun March 9 2008 17:30:51 Daniel Stone wrote: > [Not subscribed, Cc if you want me to see it.] > > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 01:19:58PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > > Ian hijacked his own program back from the people who had been blocking > > updates for six months > &

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-09 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun March 9 2008 18:40:25 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In simple terms: "dpkg triggers" is a highly desirable precondition for > > dependency-based initscripts, but so are several other preconditions, >

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-10 Thread Mike Bird
essary" homework you could have saved the readers of this thread the "necessity" of ignoring your post? needed[2]: To want strongly; to feel that one must have something. Example: After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave. --Mike Bird [2] http://en.wi

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-11 Thread Mike Bird
Hi Guillem, Ian wrote that you recently committed 402 diff lines of stuff like this:   -static void usage(void) {   +void   +usage(void)   +{ It's easy to see negatives such as making it harder to merge long-awaited features. What positives do you see for Debian? --Mike Bird

Re: dpkg with triggers support (again)

2008-03-12 Thread Mike Bird
h the task instead of time-wasting. AFTER the long-delayed features have been merged and any remaining patches have been picked up from the BTS would be an appropriate time to think about refactorings. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-12 Thread Mike Bird
ver developers-reference. Ian appears to have chosen to speak truth to power rather than forking. Do you have a constructive alternative to suggest? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg with triggers support (again)

2008-03-15 Thread Mike Bird
; mode which was larger and slower than "large" although I forget the details. IIRC, the Mark Williams compiler for the 8086 also supported a "tiny" mode which code and data in the same 16-bit segment. Beware that these names have radically different meanings on some architectures[0]. --Mike Bird [0] http://www.esacademy.com/automation/docs/c51primer/c02.htm#2.1.2

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Mike Bird
itectures fall by the wayside for lack of interest then so be it. Better to lose several 0.1% architectures than for Debian as a whole to continue the slide towards irrelevance. --Mike Bird [0] http://popcon.debian.org/

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun March 30 2008 13:25:15 Joey Hess wrote: > dpkg in experimental supports triggers now THANK YOU IAN for persisting with triggers despite the tedious delays by blistering incompetents. And thanks Joey for the interesting use cases. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun March 30 2008 14:01:33 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > > THANK YOU IAN for persisting with triggers despite the tedious delays by > > blistering incompetents. And thanks Joey for the interesting use cases. > > Ian has nothing to do

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-03-31 Thread Mike Bird
iques in parallel. 2) Issue warning message and try to boot cliques in lexical order. 3) Issue warning message and try to boot cliques in installation order. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-03-31 Thread Mike Bird
towards finding a solution, and that is to recognise the problem. It doesn't have to be like dpkg. Take a look at the TeX maintainers. They do a wonderful job despite a very challenging upstream. Maybe we can find a clue to a solution by examining the teams that work well. --Mike Bird

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

2008-04-02 Thread Mike Bird
s going to have > the biggest impact on mirror size, mirroring time, CD set size, and > download times for users. Lucas made a good point. Better to save 20% on ten 10MB packages than saving 10% on one 100MB package. Although we can probably have both, modulo decompression RAM issues.

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Mike Bird
t hardware in a stable manner but the pain is real and we may have to switch desktops back to Ubuntu. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu April 3 2008 14:38:14 Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On 2008-04-03, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stable is a poor solution for desktops because it doesn't support > > recent hardware. For a long time now we've had to run Testing > > mixed with

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-04 Thread Mike Bird
ote that once installed, people of all skill levels are very happy using Debian. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-04-12 Thread Mike Bird
oo. I haven't figured out why. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Priority Changes

2008-04-29 Thread Mike Bird
libcap2 version 2.08-2 in Lenny just changed priority from required to optional. The package itself didn't change. Is there a package or some other object that tracks priority changes, ideally via packages.qa.debian.org or packages.debian.org or similar. TIA, --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBS

Re: Will nvidia-graphics-drivers ever transition to testing?

2008-05-10 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat May 10 2008 12:14:22 Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:09:52 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > > On Sat May 10 2008 11:03:40 Julien Cristau wrote: > > > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:59:44 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > > > > How should a package depen

Re: ssl security desaster (was: Re: SSH keys: DSA vs RSA)

2008-05-15 Thread Mike Bird
ed as a flippant attitude to this disaster. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssl security desaster (was: Re: SSH keys: DSA vs RSA)

2008-05-15 Thread Mike Bird
(or several orders of magnitude less likely), and preparing Debian's response for the next disaster. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssl security desaster (was: Re: SSH keys: DSA vs RSA)

2008-05-15 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu May 15 2008 10:34:01 Peter Samuelson wrote: > Who is this "we"? Whose serious efforts? Who is investigating? Most > importantly, should we assume that, as in the past, you, Mike Bird, > intend to do nothing but talk? Debian is still one of the world's be

Re: Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess

2008-05-15 Thread Mike Bird
age priorities in resolving disjunctions, a possible solution would be for apt to do so. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Handling of removed packages

2008-05-29 Thread Mike Bird
e package lists will be updated. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Handling of removed packages

2008-05-29 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu May 29 2008 16:58:41 Russ Allbery wrote: > Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Many people do extra levels of testing before > > rolling out updates with "dpkg -i". With "apt-get" > > you never know when the package lists will be update

Re: Handling of removed packages

2008-05-30 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri May 30 2008 10:20:51 Russ Allbery wrote: > Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > All packages on live servers and workstations are installed with "dpkg > > -i" to ensure we're using a tested combination. We could manually copy > > the packag

Re: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-02 Thread Mike Bird
ally desktop or laptop users who need Testing for hardware support. Artificially lowering the RC count in Testing is not always preferential to keeping Testing in a state amenable to testing. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-02 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon June 2 2008 19:05:38 Luk Claes wrote: > Mike Bird wrote: > > A good idea but it doesn't go far enough. Personally I don't find > > d-i tasks to be any more important than "the packages I need", and > > I suspect millions of Debian users have equival

Re: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-02 Thread Mike Bird
coerce DDs into fixing RC bugs. They make Debian harder to use, harder to test, and harder to improve. Debian would be better without these holes. There are better processes for reducing RC counts and improving Debian without crippling "Debian Desktop Edition". --Mike Bird -- To U

Re: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-02 Thread Mike Bird
n and ad hominem attacks from those who should know better. If there's code that needs to be updated I'll be happy to send you a patch if you point me to the source, but my (possibly faulty) understanding is that release team members were generating the remove hints manually. --Mike Bir

Re: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-02 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon June 2 2008 17:38:53 Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 02/06/08 at 15:04 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > > "Don't create 20-day removal hints for packages with RC bugs > > except when its too late for a fix to be included in the > > forthcoming release". > > Yo

Re: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-02 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon June 2 2008 18:52:29 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:22:28 -0700, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > A thing is best characterized by what it does and how it is used > > rather than by the name we associate with it. For a moment let's > &g

Re: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-02 Thread Mike Bird
ian users with recent desktop or laptop hardware? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#484009: removed bugs are marked as 'obsolete'

2008-06-04 Thread Mike Bird
strongly supports user empowerment, e.g. "We will place their interests first in our priorities." (4) Therefore, the laudable but minor goal of reducing clutter is not a DSC-compatible reason for ignoring users' interests. --Mike Bird [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contra

Re: Bug#484009: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-04 Thread Mike Bird
filtered package list would become the next Stable. This keeps Testing as it has historically been - more stable than Unstable and the best Debian for recent hardware. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#484009: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-04 Thread Mike Bird
ange could make that work much more relevant and useful for desktops and laptops and newer servers, and without harming Stable. > End of story. ACK DPL. EOF. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread Mike Bird
FWIW, adding "-9" to the gzip in mkinitramfs gives a 0.5% saving, which may help with some marginal cases. OTOH using bzip2 instead of gzip saves 10.5% but I have no idea how much work it would take to support bzip'd initrd's. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Policy question - deleting files belonging to another package

2008-06-22 Thread Mike Bird
It seems to me that it ought to be against policy to use a maintainer script to delete files belonging to another non-conflicting non-replacing package, but I haven't found such a policy. Does anyone have the answer so I can give it to reportbug? TIA, --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Testing removal policy (was: Mechanism in place...)

2008-06-29 Thread Mike Bird
clear over the years why our version > of testing exists and how it's going to be managed. End of story. Is the DPL a big enough man to admit he made a mistake and to end the censorship of people who pointed up problems with the way the new release team handles Testing? --Mike Bird --

Re: Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess

2008-08-21 Thread Mike Bird
o this in the past three > months: no, this looks like a very good solution. No one objected to having apt decide by giving priority precedence over lexical: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg00388.html The priority solution is more general and provides automatic consistency betwe

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread Mike Bird
jackals who delight in ruining the Debian experience for the majority. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Override changes standard -> optional

2008-12-30 Thread Mike Bird
#x27;s owner doesn't use them then the sysadmin does. Downgrading mtr is a serious mistake. Downgrading any packages this close to Lenny is a serious mistake. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-20 Thread Mike Bird
have the power to carry their actions through and (d) they haven't listened to reason yet. So we just watch and laugh sadly and pray that we can keep our systems secure. Debian has survived worse and it will survive this mess too. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...

setgid umask override versus global umask change

2010-05-30 Thread Mike Bird
enable/disable it. Can anyone see any downside? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005300944.50893.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: Anounce of a secure repo for debian

2010-05-30 Thread Mike Bird
ocmail. Excellent. Thank you. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005301408.58438.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: Anounce of a secure repo for debian

2010-05-31 Thread Mike Bird
ou are not a native speaker and obviously don't have a clue of > what you're saying. I am a native English speaker. Klaus is perfectly correct. Marc is not. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-22 Thread Mike Bird
removed X from Testing for internal release master reasons - please don't imagine Testing is intended for real users" syndrome. I would certainly like to see the kind of Testing you describe. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-22 Thread Mike Bird
tros then although I'm actually using Mostly-Stable on my own laptop so that it matches our servers. Mostly-Stable is great for (most) servers though. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: removal of packages from testing.

2010-07-22 Thread Mike Bird
an awful amount of effort by not making Testing as useful as it could be. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007221308.51340.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-22 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu July 22 2010 13:43:16 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 22 iul 10, 12:13:41, Mike Bird wrote: > > We actually have a few Testing packages (e.g. WordPress) in our > > mostly-Stable servers and we backup copies of those Testing packages > > both on-site and off-site agains

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users

2010-07-23 Thread Mike Bird
roblem. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007230456.02598.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

bind runs apt-cache during shutdown????

2010-10-23 Thread Mike Bird
\_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/lsb_release -is 11474 ?S 0:00 \_ sh -c { apt-cache policy 2>/dev/null; 11475 ?D 0:00 \_ apt-cache policy --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: bind runs apt-cache during shutdown????

2010-10-23 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat October 23 2010 06:21:35 Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 05:46:38 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > > Seen in Lenny. Is it really necessary to run apt-cache in order > > to shut down BIND? > > Is it really necessary to send your bug reports to debian-devel?

Re: bind runs apt-cache during shutdown????

2010-10-23 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat October 23 2010 10:58:54 Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On 10/23/2010 11:55 AM, Mike Bird wrote: > > On Sat October 23 2010 06:21:35 Julien Cristau wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 05:46:38 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > >>> Seen in Lenny. Is it really necessary to r

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