Re: Processed: ipv6 release goal

2010-03-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 08:55:09PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Hendrik Sattler > wrote: > > > BTW: How can I force that page to _not_ use the "preferred language" of the > > browser? Having to change that in the firefox/iceweasel settings every time > > is a bit...

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:49:55PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 2/ You explain that you have no reason to switch to the new formats. Fine. >I have explained you that I believe there are good reasons for >switching (I won't repeat the wiki page). Why are you insisting to not >switch w

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:24:17PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:49:55PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >> 2/ You explain that you have no reason to switch to the new formats. Fine. > >>I have explained you that I bel

Re: migration to testing

2010-03-27 Thread Mike Hommey
Cc'ing to -devel, as it is a more general problem and I'd like to hear feedback from other fellow developers. On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:05:37PM +0100, Simon Paillard wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 02:16:58PM +0300, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > One of my packages, fuse-convmvfs (uploaded by a

Re: migration to testing

2010-03-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:21:29PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Mike Hommey] > > There is a general problem with fuse, actually. fuse-utils is needed by > > any program using libfuse and allowing users (i.e not root) to mount a > > filesystem: In this case, libfuse

Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins [Was: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team]

2010-04-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:54:41PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 25.04.2010, 23:51 +0200 schrieb Yves-Alexis Perez: > > On dim., 2010-04-25 at 18:58 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > > What should we do? > > > > > > I think we should start using the new naming policy to add the >

Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins

2010-04-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:03:54AM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Ok, I added it to the poll, but i doubt that it will win against > browser-plugin-*. Really, this is getting out of proportion. How about we don't care and try to improve searching by debtags in the various apt frontends? (if that e

Re: Bug#579796: ITP: othman -- electronic Quran browser in Python

2010-05-01 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:48:47PM +0300, أحمد المحمودي wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 11:27:27AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > "Harm others" is a vague term that can be applied to a wide range of > > activities usually considered ok[1]. > > I am indeed discussing this matter with upstream. Th

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 09:47:36AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 06 mai 2010 à 21:11 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit : > > These days, the init.d script dependencies in Squeeze are quite > > complete, so complete that it is actually possible to run all the > > init.d scripts in paral

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 01:04:22PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Harald Braumann wrote: > > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:48:19AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > >> Will be done in base-files 5.4. > > > > I think that this change was done prematurely. There is

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 02:55:20PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > And it was said in this thread that UID == GID is not always true with > > UPG. You only need to create a group for that to become false for users > > you would create afterwards. > > I'd say if Debian's idea of UPG doesn't matc

Re: APT do not work with Squid as a proxy because of pipelining default

2010-05-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:54:28PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Petter Reinholdtsen: > > > I am bothered by http://bugs.debian.org/56 >, and the fact > > that apt(-get,itude) do not work with Squid as a proxy. I would very > > much like to have apt work out of the box with Squid in Squeez

Re: SRWare Iron: Chromium without the data-mining

2010-05-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 08:39:00PM -0400, Ryan Oram wrote: > >From the Ubuntu mailing list, in case of you aren't subscribed there: > > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Dane Mutters wrote: > > I think some of you would be interested in reading this page that > > (allegedly) documents some of the

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:26:02AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hi! > > * Philipp Kern [2010-05-27 08:11:36 CEST]: > | As far as I understood it, it's not that much about unpacking, because > | the format is pretty clear then, but about packing (or in this case > | repacking) the source p

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:27:40PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:00:47PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > Why they want it unfortunately is a wrong reasoning - the actual > > > pending and still unanswered question is "why it is needed". T

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:44:40PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > * Mike Hommey [2010-05-27 12:00 +0200]: > > There is one possible benefit: impossibility to create a native package > > when the .orig.tar.gz is missing, which happens much too often. > > Doesn't look like it

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-14 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 01:25:11PM +0200, Jarek Kamiński wrote: > Na grupie linux.debian.devel napisałe(a)ś: > > I believe that now we fixed ~everything which can be fixed, so this > > leaves us with the proprietary Java implementation which apparently Sun > > is unwilling to fix. > > Unless the ma

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:25:59AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > Seeing as though upstream Firefox 3.6 released December 1, 2008, and > upstream Thunderbird 3.1 released just a couple days ago, it might be > high time to get xulrunner 1.9.2 into Sid, as both Iceweasel 3.6 and > Icedove 3.1 will dep

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:35:17AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 28, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > Unfortunately, as xpcom is guaranteed forward compatible but not > > backwards compatible, some plugins and extensions, once built against > > xulrunner 1.9.2, are lik

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:55:22AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2010-06-28, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > If there is no manpower to do better than this then I feel that it would > > be more honest to just use volatile. > > The catch-all for "I can't maintain this stuff properly"[1] is not volatile,

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 05:36:11AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > Ah yes, Iceape. Their releases are so few and far between, this could > possibly mean that we won't see Iceweasel 3.6 or Icedove 3.1 for some > time, correct? Upstream Seamonkey 2.1 will be build against gecko 1.9.3, > but its release

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 02:29:54PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 28, PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel > wrote: > > > Do you have an entry explaining how to create from scratch a symbol file > > for a given library ? > > You add "dh_makeshlibs -- -c4" to debian/rules and then edit the diff in > th

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 02:57:32AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Mozilla actively makes it hard to stay up to date > (by providing as little information as possible in their advisories); > webkit (for the most part except for Apple announcements) makes it > easy. This means security fixes are go

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:24:00AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > No, my proposal is to move the package to a better home: backports. Same question as for Md with volatile: apt-cache rdepends xulrunner-1.9.1 libmozjs2d libwebkit-1.0-2 What do you do with these packages ? backports too ? Do you

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:35:28AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:37:46 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 02:57:32AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > > Mozilla actively makes it hard to stay up to date > > > (by providi

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:51:47AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > The point I was trying to make in that paragraph is that there are two > browser codebases (webkit and mozilla) that need to be supported, which > could be halved by dropping one. As long as there are people to support both, why d

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:06:04PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:29:20 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:24:00AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > > No, my proposal is to move the package to a better home: backports. > > >

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-30 Thread Mike Hommey
ttempt at assembling a sound argument > supporting this proposal. Note that my only vested interest in the > outcome of any decision is reducing the burden on the security team. I > understand that Mike Hommey is ultimately responsible for any decision > that may be made, and the con

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:58:28AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > Am 30.06.2010 02:31, schrieb Michael Gilbert: > > > Advantages of switching to backports: > > - very simple for the maintainers to keep up to date with respect to > > security updates (a matter of just recompil

Re: chromium-browser in Debian Sid

2010-06-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:27:43AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On 06/30/2010 01:18 AM, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: > > On 06/30/2010 06:15 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > >> I just noticed that the chromium-browser package releases in Debian > >> GNU/Linux unstable are synced version-for-version with the

Re: upcoming issues with python-hulahop, python-xpcom, xulrunner-1.9.2

2010-07-14 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 06:07:27PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > hi folks, > > i don't know if you're aware of the ... issues shall we say ... > surrounding xulrunner 1.9.2 but there's a few changes going on. > python-xpcom is being *dropped* from xulrunner as a first class > citize

Re: upcoming issues with python-hulahop, python-xpcom, xulrunner-1.9.2

2010-07-14 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:52:59AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > For people interested in more intelligible information than the above > rant, some xpcom exposed interfaces in xulrunner have been "tweaked" > such that they will only work when called from javascript. Such > inte

Re: Bug#589229: vmfs-tools: possible FHS violation, as fsck.vmfs is not in /sbin

2010-07-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:42:07PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Package: vmfs-tools > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 9.1.1 > > > Hi. > > I might have spotted a policy violation here (therefore the sevirity serious). > > Policy section 9.1.1. specifies: > "The location of

Re: upcoming issues with python-hulahop, python-xpcom, xulrunner-1.9.2

2010-07-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:28:26PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton may or may not have written... > > [snip] > > basically, an interpretation of the decision from the mozilla foundation is > > that all languages but javascript can get lost. i do not understa

Re: upcoming issues with python-hulahop, python-xpcom, xulrunner-1.9.2

2010-07-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 08:02:41AM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:28:26 (EDT), Darren Salt wrote: > > > I demand that Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton may or may not have written... > > > > [snip] > >> basically, an interpretation of the decision from the mozilla foundatio

Bug#591894: ITP: pyxpcom -- XPCOM bindings for Python

2010-08-06 Thread Mike Hommey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Hommey * Package name: pyxpcom Version : 0.0~hg20100212-1 Upstream Author : ActiveState Tool Corp. * URL : http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/pyxpcom * License : MPL-1.1 or GPL-2 or LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: C

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 06:27:01PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > Thus, getting to the main point of this long e-mail: what are we going > to do with libcairo2 in squeeze? If we keep it at 1.8.10, I think it > makes sense to apply the above mentioned patch, because it has been > accepted by up

Seeking fellow developers feedback for iceweasel in squeeze (transient homepage & upgrade notification)

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi, For those not reading debian-rele...@l.d.o, I planned to include some further changes to iceweasel before the freeze, except that the freeze happened earlier than I expected. Anyways, the plan was more or less accepted by the release team, but now that I actually started to make the changes, I

Re: For those who care about their packages in Debian

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 01:42:34PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Russ Allbery writes ("Re: For those who care about their packages in Debian"): > > Ben Hutchings writes: > > > > > Please stop filing ITPs and concentrate on packages that should be > > > included in squeeze. The sooner squeeze is ou

Re: Seeking fellow developers feedback for iceweasel in squeeze (transient homepage

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 03:44:54PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > >So maybe these transient homepages (remember they only show up when > >the xulrunner version changes, which won't happen in squeeze > >stable/security updates or when running iceweasel for the first > >time) should just thank user

Re: Backports service becoming official

2010-09-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:46:56AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 06/09/10 at 20:32 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Lu, 06 sep 10, 17:52:17, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Alexander Reichle-Schmehl writes ("Backports service becoming official"): > > > > Because of limitations in the Debian Bug Tra

Re: Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 12:27:14PM +0200, Salvo 'LtWorf' Tomaselli wrote: > On Tuesday 07 September 2010 12:02:38 Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > > What about using nc ? > > nc -l < /etc/passwd > > > > http://localhost:/ => bingo. > > > > We will probably not convince you, but there are

Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable

2010-09-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 07:31:45AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > Then unstable/testing would roll further as usual > > How does a major, disruptive, transition get done? I think his proposal boils down to this: we *always* have unstable and testing to upload whatever we want and handle transiti

Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable

2010-09-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 08:26:22AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:47:31 +0200 > Mike Hommey wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 07:31:45AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > Then unstable/testing would roll further as usual > > >

Re: recovering from compromised keys

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:50:26PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 03:13:06PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > ... > > By policy, we use full-disk encryption at my workplace (where full-disk > > really means "except the bootloader and /boot"). For a 2-year-old recipe for > > it, wh

Re: Backports service becoming official

2010-09-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:29:46PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 28/09/10 at 09:16 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:37:55AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > OK, thanks for the clarification. Still, we need to decide—sort of > > > > now—whether we need to add s

Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

2010-10-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:36:59AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 09:57:23AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:20:56 +0200 > > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > > Indeed, installling Squeeze (without any task) needs 460MiB > > > > If you want to trim that

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:03:30PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:35:34AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > I have a package my-apt-config that installs the gpg key for the local > > repository, a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ file, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ file > > and /etc/a

Re: Untrusted search path vulnerabilities

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:04:07PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 22:58, Jakub Wilk wrote: > >> A number of packages in the archive sets the PYTHONPATH environment > >> variable > >> in an insecure way. They do something like: > >> > >>      PYTHONPATH=/spam/eggs:$PYTHONPATH

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-11-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:37:17AM -0600, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Mike Hommey >python-xpcom (U) I /think/ this could be solved by not using a pre-depends on xulrunner-1.9.1. OTOH, the pre-depends solves a part of another problem though not entirely, due to triggers ordering: the xul

Bug#604728: general: Cannot play anything in totem or gnome-mplayer while a flash movie is running in iceweasel

2010-11-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:19:05PM +0100, marcin wrote: > Package: general > Severity: important > > I'm sorry but I cannot tell which package exactly is the source of the problem > so I put it in 'general' section. While there is a flash movie content running > in iceweasel (for example from yout

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 03:53:27PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > But right now from the point of view of dpkg maintainers, this bug is a > "wontfix" at our level. > > Just to sum up what dpkg --unpack does in 1.15.8.6: > 1/ set the package status as half-installed/reinst-required > 2/ extract al

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:52:07AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 16:09:10 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > How about dpkg doesn't care, like it used to, *except* for really > > important packages (say, essential ones, or priority importan

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 07:18:17AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > What's going on here? sync_file_range() is a Linux specific system > > call that has been around for a while. It allows program to control > > when writeback happens in a very low-level fashion. The first set of > > sync_file_ran

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:35:11AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Mike Hommey, le Tue 30 Nov 2010 10:07:55 +0100, a écrit : > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 07:18:17AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > > What's going on here? sync_file_range() is a Linux specific system

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu

2010-12-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 11:11:18AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 11:27:44AM +0100, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > > Lucas Nussbaum wrote on 2010-12-03 10:36: > > > > > No, sorry. I must admit that I didn't spend any time investigating the > > > failures. However, my irssi backlog

Re: Reportbug not translated (Was: Bug#605892: please state that mails will be publically archived)

2010-12-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 01:22:19PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 10:46:44AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > > Unfortunately, it will require translations though... > > > > Reportbug is not translated :) > > While the not translated fact makes things easier in the issue of th

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-12-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:37:53PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Mike Hommey , 2010-11-19, 09:18: > >>Mike Hommey > >> python-xpcom (U) > > > >I /think/ this could be solved by not using a pre-depends on > >xulrunner-1.9.1. > > Indeed. > &

Re: Bug#606791: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-12-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 09:41:54PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Mike Hommey , 2010-12-21, 20:59: > >>I think you could manually trigger xulrunner-1.9.1 in > >>python-xpcom's postinst if it's not already registered. See the > >>attached patch (well, except

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-12-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 08:36:38PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 21 décembre 2010 à 20:59 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > Adding update-python-modules -p in python-xpcom postinst could make > > things slightly better, but that would still leave xulrunner-1.9.1

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-12-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 09:08:14PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 27 décembre 2010 à 18:57 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 08:36:38PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > You could use dpkg-trigger to force the trigger to be run after >

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-12-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:59:16PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Mike Hommey writes ("Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results > available"): > > Unfortunately, while some cases were fixed, the original case for which > > the pre-depends was added fails agai

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:50:06PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Mike Hommey writes ("Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results > available"): > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:59:16PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > So the problem is that python-xpcom

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 01:52:13PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 29 décembre 2010 à 12:50 +, Ian Jackson a écrit : > > If so, that's a bug in python-xpcom. Any package which registers a > > hook with another package must be prepared for its hook to be run even > > when the regis

Re: Safe File Update (atomic)

2010-12-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 03:30:29PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > name the temp file properly, and teach your program to clean old ones up > > *safely* (see vim swap file handling for an example) when it starts. > > What about restoring meta-data? File-owner? owner, permissions, acl, xattrs,

Re: devel files and libraries in /lib

2011-01-04 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 03:29:08AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Nice write-up, you raise many good points I agree with. > > Just a small remark: > > On 05.01.2011 01:25, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > 2) /usr is mounted read-only for security and safety > > > >Mounting /usr read-only is commo

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 02:27:44PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On su, 2011-01-09 at 15:18 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > * Lars Wirzenius , 2011-01-09, 14:00: > > > [3] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?rev=153&sc=0 > > > > > >If you are interested, please give the spec a quick rea

Re: DiscussionsAfterSqueeze [ Was: how to communicate removals ]

2011-01-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 05:03:46PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Stefano Zacchiroli (lea...@debian.org): > > > varying degrees of flame-ness. Also, still IIRC, the release team has > > already acknowledged that they intend to work on improving various > > aspects of the release process

Re: DiscussionsAfterSqueeze [ Was: how to communicate removals ]

2011-01-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 06:24:19PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org): > > > It looks like you forgot what was happening before 6 months ago, which > > we should really not be reproducing. (and here, mostly, I'm thinking > >

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 09:58:57PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 21:43 +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 22:05, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > * Throwaway DD built .debs (well, let's have the fight^Wdiscussion) > > > > could you please keep in mind the bandwid

Re: Build logs (was: Sourceful uploads)

2011-02-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 05:45:56PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:09:05 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > getbuildlog(1) from devscripts downloads (almost, if you ignore a > > > small header/footer) text-versions of build logs. > > it is exactly that header and footer th

What should we do with iceweasel/xulrunner/libmozjs?

2011-02-18 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi, Now that squeeze is released, it's time to start pushing new things to unstable. I've been asked several times already how things would be evolving in the near future, to which I answered it would quite stay the way it is now until upstream releases 4.0, at which point I'd upload 4.0 to unstab

Re: What should we do with iceweasel/xulrunner/libmozjs?

2011-02-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:12:42AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > As I mentioned above, my initial idea was to go with the second option, > breaking most rdeps in the process, but then I remembered that 4.0 > doesn't work on all our architectures, and I'm hesitating, now. > &

Re: What should we do with iceweasel/xulrunner/libmozjs?

2011-02-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:59:46PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 10:29 +0100, Benjamin Drung a écrit : > > I favor a combination of idea one and two, which is: Keep 3.5 in > > unstable and push the last 4.0 betas/rc to experimental. Push 4.0 to > > unstable when it

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 03:53:08PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Julien Cristau writes: > > > I'm still not sure how 'Build-Depends: foo [i386] | bar [amd64]' > > would make sense (as opposed to making it an 'and'). > > They're equivalent, so I would view it as intended for human readers, not > f

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 08:13:06PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 01:51:35AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thursday 03,March,2011 12:02 AM, Marius Vollmer wrote: > > > [...] > > > - Instead, we move all packages that are to be unpacked into > > > half-insta

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:32:23AM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > Not everything gets set up in DNS and ssh caches the host > > key so doing a mitm attack after the initial handshake is prevented. > > It's not like it'll magically be pulled in on servers or anybody is > > suggesting making it

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 01:43:19PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Olaf van der Spek > wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > >> On to, 2011-03-03 at 12:47 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > >>> some package announce their existance to

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

2011-03-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 10:58:47AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 06/03/11 at 10:43 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 10:10 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > > I prefer the situation where we empower users to make the switch if they > > > decide to, to the situatio

Re: cdn.debian.net as a project service?

2011-03-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 08:58:55AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > What would it take to get cdn.debian.net become a service provided by > the project? In other words, cdn.debian.org, instead of cdn.debian.net. > > If we had cdn.debian.org, we could make it into a default mirror (which > could pote

Re: Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-14 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:05:37AM -0400, James Vega wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Svante R Signell wrote: > >> Sorry, but the problem persists, since a few days by now! > > > > The problem seem to be continuing: apt-get update on any computer and > > distribution from ftp.se.debian.o

Keysigning in Nagoya, JP

2003-10-20 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi Debian Developpers, I'll be in Nagoya on November 1, 2 or 3 (for now, I couldn't say on which day(s) I'll be there, that will partly depend on the answers I'll get to this email ;) ). If there are any people interested in keysigning during that week-end, drop me a message. By the way, if the

Re: discover or alsa?

2004-10-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:17:59PM -0400, sean finney wrote: > likewise for me. i've found that after a fresh debian install, one of > the first things i have to do is add a bunch of modules to hotplug's > blacklist. the first thing I had to do after a fresh install was to remove discover1 to avo

Re: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists (was Re: discover or alsa?)

2004-10-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:52:10AM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > so, on a typical install of Debian, it is quite possible that discover > and hotplug are installed at the same time. It's more than quite possible, it's what you get after installing sarge, except if it changed since the snapshot I trie

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:28:29PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > This is a fallacy. In the past, when we did freeze unstable, > it never forced me to do anything but twidle my thumbs for months > until things got moving again. The reason that freezing unstable did > not make me fix any

Bug#188439: ITP: kernel-patch-bootsplash -- Kernel patch to display a graphical boot splash-screen

2003-04-10 Thread Mike Hommey
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-10 Severity: wishlist * Package name: kernel-patch-bootsplash Version : 3.0.7 Upstream Author : Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.bootsplash.org/ * License : GPL Description : Kerne

Bug#188440: ITP: splashutils -- Set of utilities to manage boot splash-screen

2003-04-10 Thread Mike Hommey
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-10 Severity: wishlist * Package name: splashutils Version : no upstream versioning Upstream Author : Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.bootsplash.org/ * License : GPL Description :

Re: Bug#189347: stop the "manage with debconf" madness

2003-04-17 Thread Mike Hommey
t easily) losslessly parse their configuration files. OTOH, xml config files (like fontconfig's config) could be losslessly parsed through xslt processing... -- Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "This will go a long way towards the war on terror. Terrorists won't be able to ins

Fwd: ITP: xpi2deb -- Mozilla's xpi package converter

2003-04-17 Thread Mike Hommey
oops, forgot to Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: ITP: xpi2deb -- Mozilla's xpi package converter Date: Thursday 17 April 2003 11:47 From: Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] retitle 131404 ITP: xpi2deb -

Re: Gnome2, libgtk2 & gtk2 apps like gaim / mozilla

2003-05-14 Thread Mike Hommey
ont, you need to edit ${HOME}/.mozilla/profile_name/something.slt/chrome/userChrome.css adding * { font-size: 10pt !important; font-family: FreeSans; } to this file will make Mozilla use FreeSans 10pt font. -- Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "This will go a long way towa

Re: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer

2009-02-01 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 03:22:07AM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: > On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 00:19 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > In article <87bptnccj6@mid.deneb.enyo.de> you wrote: > > > What needs to be done so that these two issues can be fixed? > > > > > > | Disk devices may change on rebo

Re: cgroup mount point

2009-02-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:26:11PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 18:00 -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Some software I intend to package work with the new cgroup feature in > > Linux. I would like to open a discussion about what would be the be

Re: cgroup mount point

2009-02-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:55:34AM -0800, Paul Menage wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Gustavo Noronha wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 23:44 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > >> I agree with all that Thadeu Lima says here. I would add that cgroups > >> are nothing to do with device nodes, so def

Re: Bug#514411: [Resolvconf-devel] Bug#514411: resolvconf breaks all network operations

2009-02-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 05:31:24PM +, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > Thomas Hood wrote: >>> iface eth0 inet static >>> address 172.17.207.12 >>> gateway 172.17.207.1 >>> netmask 255.255.255.0 >> >> >> I'll assume that interface eth0 is configured using the "ifup" command. >> >> Add this line to

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2009-02-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:03:27PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > I don’t think it’s a good idea to use triggers for > > update-desktop-database. There are many .desktop files without a > > MimeType key, and for all of them calling update-desktop-datab

Re: DebConf10 to take place in New York City, USA

2009-02-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:31:24PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Further, we're definitely going to be giving people invitation letters and > other advice to make sure they present themselves in the best (accurate) light > they can to the visa or border officials, as well as separate exaggeration

Re: ITP: a routing failover daemon

2009-03-04 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:30:43PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > I have written a little Perl program that can ping two routers and configure > the routing table to route data to whichever router works. > > Among other things it can be configured to run a script when a router becomes > availab

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:43:37PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Thu Mar 12, 2009 at 22:37:41 +0100, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: > > > - a more usable status line syntax, with the ability to display the first > > line > > of output of a specific command; > > That is also possible in GNU Scre

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-13 Thread Mike Hommey
or symlink attacks, if nothing else. > > [Mike Hommey] > > Screen does that too, so that would hardly be less secure than screen. > > Well, if by "in /tmp" you mean "in /var/run/screen". Well, that's a Debian thing. Upstream default is /tmp/screens, and last time

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

2009-03-14 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 02:30:59AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > ifeq (,$(findstring nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))) > STRIP += -s > LDFLAGS += -s > INT_INSTALL_TARGET = install > else > INT_INSTALL_TARGET = install > endif I doubt dpkg-buildpackage sets LDFLAGS to -s. That would mean

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