Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The current aptitude, by contrast, seems both powerful and elegant: it
> rarely gets in my way, deals well with problem situations, and offers
> powerful features should I want them (aptitude of years past could also
> be kinda cranky though).
The last time
Martin Schulze wrote:
> FWIW: This would mean to remove all of Mozilla and friends, since they
> don't receive any security support upstream, and neither the maintainer
> or the security team are in a position to backport all fixes and correcte
> all stuff in the older versions. (upstream does onl
On Tue, 31 May 2005 21:37:28 -0700, Stephen Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Darren Salt([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 21:49:
> > For those who've missed the first three broadcasts today, there's one more
> > at
> > 01:05 GMT; also see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/1478157.stm>.
>
> Why
On 04/03/10 20:00, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > Josselin Mouette writes:
> > > Letting alone policy issues: what do you propose, *concretely* to
> > > improve the situation?
A man page containing a *brief* (one or two lines) description of what
the program does and pointers to further more compre
On 18/05/10 11:00, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Not to speak about, that UPG is anyway a questionable abuse of the
> user/group concept.
>
> Neither to speak about the fact, that in the 17 years debian exists
> now,... no majority missed that "feature" (apparently).
Debian has been using UPG
On 18/05/10 03:10, Robert Collins wrote:
> Given that pipelining is broken by design, that the HTTP WG has
> increased the number of concurrent connections that are recommended,
> and removed the upper limit - no. I don't think that disabling
> pipelining hurts anyone - just use a couple more concu
On 19/05/10 22:20, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> btw: What happened to the idea of movin umask completely away from
> /etc/profile?
> I mean regardless of the discussion about UPGs and which value is the
> "best" default for umask, I found it to be a good idea to drop it there.
This is a good
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 07:00:25PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:47:56PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > As a practical matter, downgrading these dependencies will cause
> > aptitude and other package managers to believe that the documentation
> > is unnecessary a
On 07/08/14 23:10, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> Popularity: One of the metrics discussed by the tasksel change proponents
> mentioned popcon numbers. 8 months after the desktop change, Xfce does not
> seem
> to have made a dent on install numbers. The Debian GNOME team doesnât feel
> popconâs data
On 11/09/14 14:50, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> I think it's not realistic to expect upstreams to support online updates
> for every application. Once you have plugins or external data, it's hard
> to keep working properly after an upgrade.
Surely the solution to this is to restart the affected appli
On 01/05/12 15:10, Chris Knadle wrote:
> I think the reason Exim does not do this protocol conversion is that from the
> point of view of an MTA author, the point of an MTA is to transmit the body
> of
> the message without any modification to it once received, and body
> modification would be
On 02/05/12 02:00, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 07:47:08PM +0100, Roger Lynn wrote:
>> I have enabled accept_8bitmime in every exim I've installed for the last
>> 10 years and no one has reported any problems. I think the risk of
>> encountering
[sorry for the lengthy quoting below]
On 12/07/12 10:10, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Noel David Torres Taño writes:
>> Not so minimal if you want your gnome set to be up to date, including new
>> applications being installed.
>
> It is very minimal. 5 minutes of work. Been there, done that, posted the
On 08/08/12 12:30, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 08/08/2012 06:21 PM, David Given wrote:
>> ifconfig (before this discussion I'd never even *heard* of ip)
>>
> This kind of remark make be say that probably, it'd be
> nice to have ifconfig display a warning as this one:
>
> "ifconfig is deprecated,
On 19/08/12 03:20, Charles Plessy wrote:
> - PHP scripts can be executed by Apache httpd through libapache2-mod-php5 or
>php5-cgi. Debian recommends libapache2-mod-php5, but there are still
>thousands of installations wich report the use of php5-cgi according to the
>Popularity Contes
On 05/09/12 18:10, W. Anderson wrote:
> It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any
> other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect,
> give great public support to AMD in regard Linux, when the company has
> for many years been decidedly ambiva
On 19/09/12 13:50, anarcat wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> [x] E: Host lists on their own server in someones basement
>
> See that's exactly what I'm talking about - *I* can do this, I can host
> lists in my "basement" (or my "freedombox", call it what you like), as
> I am an experienced sysadmi
On 30/05/13 16:30, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> 2013/5/30 Marco d'Itri :
>> The /etc/ /lib/ /usr/lib/ split with files overriding each other,
>> invented because RPM systems do not prompt the user on package upgrades
>> and Red Hat does not support upgrading to the next major release.
> Well, that migh
On 31/05/13 07:50, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
> A utility to scan syslog and convey important information to the user
> would be much more useful than configuring all mailers in Debian to read
> root's local mail by default. I know how to redirect root's mail
> elsewhere, thank you for not makin
On 06/06/13 14:00, Chris Knadle wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 05, 2013 15:35:14, Marc Haber wrote:
>> On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 19:53:59 -0400, Chris Knadle
>> wrote:
>> >Attempting to use an FQDN is also troublesome, because Exim tries to use
>> >DNS to look up the FQDN, and falls back to using 'uname -n'
On 06/06/13 21:10, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:58:00AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Be aware that x32 has sizeof(time_t) > sizeof(long), so you should expect
>> SUBSTANTIAL porting of packages to be required. Particularly since that
>> arrangement is explicitly unsupported b
On 03/07/13 14:30, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Jackson writes ("Re: boot ordering and resolvconf"):
>> 4. Therefore in most installations there should be a local
>>proxy or cache. It should use DHCP-provided, PPP-provided or
>>similar, as a forwarder. The local DNS provider addr
On 24/10/13 03:00, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:21:25AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>> 2013/10/24 Steve Langasek :
>> > Well, that's one more reason the init system and the dbus services should
>> > be
>> > separated out in the packaging.
>> Some of the services consume fun
On 31/10/13 09:30, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Op 30-10-13 23:09, Steve McIntyre schreef:
>> So... In that situation, would you care about having more than just a
>> netinst available for initial booting? Beyond that, people can get on
>> the network to a mirror, or to other machines hosting the DVD i
On 15/10/11 22:00, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Needing to send mail through specific per-user smarthosts is the exception,
> > not the rule. Most machines have a designated forwarding smarthost based on
> > who their ISP is, not based on which email address someone wants to us
On 04/04/14 00:50, Stephen Allen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 08:18:41AM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
>> I think Xfce is much better *default* desktop environment (DE) than Gnome.
>>
>> As KDE fan I do not like Gnome. Those who forget to choose DE in installer
>> (just like I did more than on
On 14/04/14 14:30, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2014-04-14 14:14:14 +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote:
>> No, there is no optimisation in that case, so there is no warning. It only
>> warns when it uses the knowledge that "(signed) integer overflow isn't
>> possible" to optimise away some redundant co
On 13/05/14 20:30, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> In data martedì 13 maggio 2014 19:42:32, David Goodenough ha scritto:
>> > service foo works across Linux distributions, with or without
>> > systemd, and does the right thing.
>>
>> The big shame with service is that tab completion does not work proper
On 16/08/11 00:10, Carsten Hey wrote:
> bzip2 has a better compression on average for some filetypes, xz[1] has
> a better compression on average for others:
>
>gzip bzip2 xz bzip2+xz[3]
> text files[2] 94312922 73496587 77783076 73496587
> other files
On 29/11/14 13:30, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> ❦ 29 novembre 2014 12:41 GMT, Alastair McKinstry
> :
>> One concern I'd have is the lack of flexibility to produce a cut-down
>> system. The option of "a dedicated init=/custom-program", but lack of
>> an ntpd, for example, because ntp has been absorbe
On 09/09/19 14:40, Bjørn Mork wrote:
Ondřej Surý writes:
Otherwise it doesn’t make any sense to remove external links to logos
and JavaScript from the documentation and then send everything to one
single US-based provider.
Exactly. I'd be worried if anything in Debian came preconfigured with
On 15/05/2023 19:00, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Sun, 14 May 2023 at 23:37:34 +0200, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> People build things on Debian that are not Debian packages. People
>> compile binaries on Debian, and expect them to work on any system that
>> has sufficiently new libraries.
>
> *raises ha
On 21/05/2023 07:00, James Addison wrote:
> On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 22:58, Ansgar wrote:
>> One of the problems with popcon is that it draws too much attention to
>> old releases which isn't really interesting when talking about future
>> developments. If one looks at arch usage per release (as re
On 15/01/2024 18:00, Russ Allbery wrote:
> When you have the case of an application that optionally wants to do foo,
> a shared library that acts as a client, and a daemon that does foo, there
> are three options:
>
> 1. Always install the shared library and daemon even though it's an
>optiona
On 29/08/2021 15:20, Simon McVittie wrote:
The major difference is fallback behaviour. If a client (web browser or
email client or similar) receives a file with a text/* type for which it
has no special handler, in the absence of other context it is expected
to treat it like text/plain, and show
On 18/12/2021 15:00, Michael Biebl wrote:
I'm not a user of logwatch, so I don't know, if logwatch nowadays can
handle RFC 5424 timestamps, but even if so, I think the benefits
outweigh the potential breakage. And it's easy enough for users to
create a drop-in config snippet with
$ActionFileDefa
On 05/10/19 22:20, Samuel Henrique wrote:
On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 14:51, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
Note that email already has a "tree-like" structure, since forever. You
just don't see it if you (ironically) use web application email clients
like gmail that decided to not show it. Most console/des
On 28/02/17 01:00, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 16:09 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Right, ntpdate for some reason doesn't set the flag to do this.
>
> There is a very good reason, which is that without continuous
> adjustment the system clock cannot be assumed more stable than the
On 10/07/17 19:40, Marvin Renich wrote:
> There is an easy fix to revert the default behavior while still allowing
> knowledgeable sysadmins to get the new behavior. On the other hand,
> those who need to administer systems but are not sysadmins by trade (and
> thus will have to do significantl
On 13/07/17 12:40, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 05:17:57AM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Roger Lynn wrote:
> > > SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}=="1c:1b:0d:9a:34:98", NAME="eth0"
> >
> > I
On 06/11/2024 19:20, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Le Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 05:35:59PM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt a écrit :
>> Hello, and thanks for your time.
>>
>> I've been a Debian user and contributor for a while, and have noticed a
>> rather frustrating issue that I'm interested in potentially
>> contri
On 20/12/2024 12:30, Ansgar 🙀 wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 13:00 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> Ansgar 🙀, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 12:01:24 +0100, a ecrit:
>> > It also avoids the problem of removed-but-not-purged packages.
>>
>> With files copied into /etc, you will still have configuration files
On 03/03/2025 19:10, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> On Monday, March 3, 2025 11:38:29 AM MST Philipp Kern wrote:
>> Mine doesn't wrap properly either, especially on wide screens. Neither
>> Thunderbird nor Roundcube. 80 characters are perfectly readable,
>> long-lines are increasingly annoying to read.
>>
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