Re: speech question.

2024-11-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mike Coulombe, le sam. 16 nov. 2024 16:45:31 -0800, a ecrit: > When I used the net installer to install bookworm, it saw my > internal card, but the latest testing image didn't so I had to use an USB > speaker it did see. Ah, then espeakup is kept configured to use that card. Change ALSA_CARD in /

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 10:26:12 +0100, a ecrit: > Gioele Barabucci, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 10:22:02 +0100, a ecrit: > > On 19/12/24 10:19, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Gioele Barabucci, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 10:15:47 +0100, a ecrit: > > > > * A

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ansgar 🙀, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 16:21:03 +0100, a ecrit: > On Thu, 2024-12-19 at 11:16 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Also, /etc would thus be full of empty /etc/$proj directories? I don't > > see the point of not just putting the example files there? Why making it > &

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Gioele Barabucci, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 10:15:47 +0100, a ecrit: > * Admin can override the standard configuration via /etc/$proj/foo.conf [...] > Upstream projects are moving to this style. I hope that one day Debian > packages will stop shipping files under /etc. Having pre-filled configuration f

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Gioele Barabucci, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 10:22:02 +0100, a ecrit: > On 19/12/24 10:19, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Gioele Barabucci, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 10:15:47 +0100, a ecrit: > > > * Admin can override the standard configuration via /etc/$proj/foo.conf > > [...] > >

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josh Triplett, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 02:05:30 -0800, a ecrit: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 09:55:17AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Josh Triplett, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 19:05:56 -0800, a ecrit: > > > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > Ansgar 🙀, le jeu. 19 déc

Re: norust profile, and setting it by default on alpha, hppa, m68k, sh4, x32 port buildds

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Julian Andres Klode, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 12:21:37 +0100, a ecrit: > # setting the profile > > I then propose we inject the > > DEB_BUILD_PROFILES=norust > > in the buildds for the ports architectures that do not have > a rustc. wanna-build would also need to be told to drop build-

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josh Triplett, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 19:05:56 -0800, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Ansgar 🙀, le jeu. 19 déc. 2024 16:21:03 +0100, a ecrit: > > > And it is actively harmful as if one edits the example configuration to > > > have a useful configuration as dpkg will

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Henrik Ahlgren, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 11:32:37 +0200, a ecrit: > On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 09:55 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > But isn't it what we already have? If I don't modify the example in /etc > > and only add files to .d/, I'm getting upgrades without ques

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Richard Lewis, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 09:42:11 +, a ecrit: > but perhaps what is missing is a way to see what changed on upgrade > (you'd want to save the clean version from the _previous_ version of a > package to be able to do that after the upgrade)? You mean ucf? Samuel

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Henrik Ahlgren, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 13:47:24 +0200, a ecrit: > On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 12:01 +0100, Ansgar 🙀 wrote: > > With empty-/etc, you would (ideally) only have explicit local > > configuration in /etc which makes it much, much easier to see what the > > local admin changed to diagnose problem

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ansgar 🙀, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 13:07:36 +0100, a ecrit: > On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 13:00 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Ansgar 🙀, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 12:01:24 +0100, a ecrit: > > > On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 11:50 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > What I comple

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ansgar 🙀, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 12:01:24 +0100, a ecrit: > On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 11:50 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > What I completely fail to understand is why people would want to not > > see any file in /etc. What harm does it *actually* cause? > > It makes it hard to

Re: Is HURD's lack of HOST_NAME_MAX and PATH_MAX a good architectural approach

2025-01-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sam Hartman, le lun. 20 janv. 2025 17:12:05 -0700, a ecrit: > The pam 1.5.3 hurd compatibility patch simply defines PATH_MAX to 4096. > I believe that previous krb5 patches have done something similar. > I think this approach is quite common to how people approach HURD > compatibility. Yes, and t

Re: Is HURD's lack of HOST_NAME_MAX and PATH_MAX a good architectural approach

2025-01-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Julien Plissonneau Duquène, le mar. 21 janv. 2025 11:24:31 +0100, a ecrit: > Le 2025-01-20 21:21, Sam Hartman a écrit : > > One of the issues is HOST_NAME_MAX in modules/pam_xauth/pam_xauth.c. > > It doesn't make much sense to allow arbitrarily long host names. I'm more > reserved for path names a

Re: DEP-14: Default branch name 'debian/latest' objections?

2025-01-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michael Tokarev, le ven. 24 janv. 2025 09:16:50 +0300, a ecrit: > 3. "latest" is a misnomer (unlike "main" or "master"). For example, I often > use > "experimental" branch which is more recent than "master", yet the main > development is happening in "master". Yes, that's why I wouldn't use

Re: Is HURD's lack of HOST_NAME_MAX and PATH_MAX a good architectural approach

2025-01-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Sam Hartman, le lun. 20 janv. 2025 13:21:32 -0700, a ecrit: > I will admit I was kind of disappointed that rather than working to make > my package handle arbitrary hostnames, the patch simply introduced an > arbitrary constant for HURD. It should not have, indeed. > * Having different li

Re: Is HURD's lack of HOST_NAME_MAX and PATH_MAX a good architectural approach

2025-01-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sam Hartman, le lun. 20 janv. 2025 15:48:00 -0700, a ecrit: > My restatement is that it's possible to create paths where the full path > name is longer than PATH_MAX. > > I guess a better way to look at this would be that paths beyond PATH_MAX > may break. And unfortunately, code that just uses P

Re: GCC-15 mass bug filing.

2025-02-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Antonio Terceiro, le mar. 18 févr. 2025 10:00:18 -0300, a ecrit: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 09:06:53AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Give the scale if build failure (hundreds of failures for the Debian Med > > packaging team for instance), > I don't think that "OMG my packages have bugs and I ne

Re: Bits from the DPL

2025-06-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
c.bu...@posteo.jp, le mar. 03 juin 2025 07:19:33 +, a ecrit: > And by the way: "AI" is a marketing and sci-fi term. AI is also a very well-established scientific term that does encompass LLMs. Samuel

Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 - Request for corrective action before release

2025-07-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Lucy, you are piling rhetoric over rhetoric, that won't make a fruitful discussion. Lucy, le mer. 23 juil. 2025 12:01:59 +0200, a ecrit: > Debian has never just been “a Linux distro.” It has always stood for > deliberation, control, and the ability to resist upstream when needed. That's n

Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 - Request for corrective action before release

2025-07-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Lucy, le mer. 23 juil. 2025 11:01:36 +0200, a ecrit: > 2. The double-click change is functionally regressive > > Single-click has been the KDE default for over a decade I have always found this behavior surprising because on desktop computers, I've only seen it in KDE. And thus I find it

Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 - Request for corrective action before release

2025-07-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, To people who may wonder why it's so obvious that AI was at the very least used to "improve" the writing, it already merely comes from the vocabulary being used: Lucy, le jeu. 24 juil. 2025 09:16:12 +0200, a ecrit: > How delightfully ironic > Your theatrical performance > you've weaponiz

Re: a tool to rebuild a bunch of packages ?

2025-07-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues, le jeu. 24 juil. 2025 09:43:19 +0200, a ecrit: > Quoting Jochen Sprickerhof (2025-07-24 09:11:41) > > * picca [2025-07-24 07:39]: > > >I prepared a directory with a bunch of sources packages. > > > > > >Now I need to build them in the right order with sbuild. > >

Re: Technical objection to KDE double-click default in Debian 13 - Request for corrective action before release

2025-07-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lucy, le jeu. 24 juil. 2025 09:16:12 +0200, a ecrit: > @Samuel: Ah yes, "ChatGPT-written polemic." Your AI is not even able to grasp who said what. Discussion can only stop here. Samuel

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