Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-14 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 17:12 -0400, Mark Pearson wrote: > On 6/10/2020 2:59 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > - Audio is a constant headache (instead of earache). > - Graphics is frequently fun. Nvidia cards definitely add a challenge >

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-10 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 2020-06-10 at 08:43 -0400, Mark Pearson wrote: > Hi Yves-Alexis > > > What can be done in the Debian community to help you do that *before* > > the hardware are in the hand of volunteers, because as you already > > said that means the laptop

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-06 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, 2020-06-05 at 11:58 -0400, Mark Pearson wrote: > That's where doing a Debian pre-load would be challenging (which is > really where this conversation started). If support for a platform isn't > there until 6 to 8 months after it's shipped (

Re: Security advisory for YubiKey 4: RSA generation broken

2017-10-16 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Mon, 2017-10-16 at 21:06 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > Unfortunately, as far as I understand it, there's no easy method for > detecting these kinds of broken keys without actually attempting to > factorize them - and while that's feasible (hence the vulnerability) > it is still quite expensiv

Re: does Debian help detect gravitational waves?

2016-02-12 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2016-02-12 at 09:21 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > https://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/lscdatagrid/doc/reference-platform.html > > The Ganglia graph (top right corner of the page) appears to be generated > on a Debian host using the official packages (it has ganglia-webfrontend > in the URL

Re: Regarding the recent update on the xfce packages

2015-03-22 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2015-03-17 at 09:42 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:29 AM, Dark Serph wrote: > > > Please, think fondly in updating the xfce packages on JESSIE, before > > launching it! > > Your suggestion would probably have best been sent to the maintainers > of the Xfce packages i

Re: Systemd

2015-01-19 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun., 2015-01-19 at 09:13 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > The solution here would be either to convince upstreams not to depend on > policykit, or to provide (restore?) and package a sufficiently > functional implementation of policykit which does not depend on > libpam-systemd. Some people are tr

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-09 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2014-08-08 at 18:38 -0700, Paul C. Bryan wrote: > With all due respect to XFCE, I'd hate the interpretation to be along > the lines of, "Oh, Debian state of the art desktop environment feels > something like Windows, circa 2000." But, XFCE's lightweight. It's > meant > to lack such fancy f

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2014-08-07 at 23:57 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: > Hi Debian, About the decision itself, as Debian Xfce main maintainer, I honestly don't really care. I don't think the default desktop matters that much on Debian (while I guess it means a lot for Ubuntu, for example). I actually think havi

Re: State of the debian keyring

2014-02-28 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
of them were used for uploads since the beginning of 2013. It doesn't really change anything, does it? Sure, uploads are not the only way to check someone is active, but still, people with no upload since 2012 and a 1024{D,R} key is likely a candidate for direct contact. -- Yves-Alexis Pere

Re: State of the debian keyring

2014-02-27 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:08:43AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2014-02-27, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > Well, a quick grep on the result shows that of those 652 uploads done > > using 1024b keys, only half of them were made since the beginning of > > 2013. 327 have been

Re: State of the debian keyring

2014-02-27 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
o directly have a 4096R one, but eh). That won't actually stop me worrying for the rest of the Debian keyring, because only one compromised key is enough, and cryptography is really a field where you prefer to be safe than sorry. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis Perez signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: State of the debian keyring

2014-02-27 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
ithm issue, which could lead to signature collision attacks (wether in data signing or in key signing). Regards, -- Yves-Alexis Perez signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: State of the debian keyring

2014-02-27 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
k grep on the result shows that of those 652 uploads done using 1024b keys, only half of them were made since the beginning of 2013. 327 have been done *before* 2013. I guess those can't really be treated as “active” and are candidate for emeritus or disable after a wat run. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis Perez signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: mailing list auto subscriptions

2014-02-06 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
giant thread like the ones that made me unsubscribe from debian-devel@. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis Perez signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 20:24 +, Bart Martens wrote: > Cover up ? I did suggest approaches with full transparency among DDs. I don't think that's the meaning of “public” Steve (And Lars) initially thought about… Regards, -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed me

Re: upload processing resumed

2012-12-08 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2012-12-07 at 22:01 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 13053 March 1977, Arno Töll wrote: > >> Thanks for securing it quickly :) Is there any danger of the vulnerable > >> code being in use on other systems, e.g. as part of a dak install? > > Indeed, thanks for fixing the issue so fast. > >

Re: Presentation of iso downloads - simpler like Fedora?

2012-08-10 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2012-08-10 at 14:01 +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > some binary software forced me into downloading a RedHat flavour, so I > went for Fedora. I found it very easy to get an ISO. I mean - very very > very easy. My suggestion is to copy that for our now pending release or > to make it even ea

Re: Report from DSA Team Sprint in Oslo

2012-04-03 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On sam., 2012-03-31 at 15:54 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > That > way, US Debian Developers could ignore the whole export control issue > because they were uploading it to a host still in the US and the project > handled the notification automatically on their behalf when the packages > went to our

Re: revenue sharing agreement with DuckDuckGo

2012-03-27 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2012-03-27 at 15:56 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The second option (i.e. the 50% cut) is *not* currently on the table, > simply because DDG is not the default search engine in web browsers > shipped by Debian at present. What I'm proposing is to accept the 25% > cut that will origina

Re: Report from DSA Team Sprint in Oslo

2012-03-20 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2012-03-20 at 01:23 +, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > Comrades! > > We just finished a very productive Debian System Administration team > sprint in Oslo, Norway. First, thanks for the amazing job you do. > Hosting & Virtualization > > Virtualization has come of a

Re: ECCN

2011-05-09 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun., 2011-05-09 at 16:21 -0400, Guzzi, Greg (GE Aviation, US) wrote: > To obtain a ECCN for Debian 5.0 will I need to request this from BIS? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=debian+eccn returns http://wiki.debian.org/USExportControl as first answer. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: T

Re: Debian Linux OS /// Urgent

2011-01-21 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2011-01-11 at 15:58 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > (with my ANSSI hat on) > > On mar., 2011-01-11 at 10:32 +0100, Treuil, Malvina (GE Healthcare, > consultant) wrote: > > Dear Madam, Dear Sir, The company I work for GEHC buys the software > > containing the f

Re: Debian Linux OS /// Urgent

2011-01-11 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
hould be available soon, I'll keep you posted. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis Perez ANSSI/ACE/LAM signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian logo used for commercial purposes

2010-08-28 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On sam., 2010-08-28 at 11:50 +0200, emanuele carrea wrote: > Here it is > > http://www.zazzle.com/great_pacific_garbage_patch_sticker-217837941260564597 > > didn't know where to write it, but I think it's worth saying it. Note that it's the swirl without Debian which is the “openuse” logo. See

Re: DEP-5 meta: New co-driver; current issues

2010-08-12 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 12/08/2010 14:59, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > - Instead of writing such files (and keeping them updated), we should put more > energy into doing this task automatically. There are various tools to analyze > licenses automatically, for example from OpenLogic (commercial unfortunately) > or > http://f

Re: Support timeframe

2010-06-25 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 25/06/2010 10:52, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > As usual in Debian - which is a community effort mostly - you can get a > release > quicker or longer security support for a release, if you pay somebody to do > so. > There are several companies and consultants who employ/are Debian developers > and >

Re: re-organizing dvd

2010-06-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2010-06-01 at 23:27 +0530, V.Krishn wrote: > >>DVD 4 and 5 might be possible to club in on. > > >Hi, > > > >The packages on the CD and DVD sets are currently organised > >automatically to optimise the layout in terms of dependencies and > >popularity. That can be reasonably easily worked

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-06 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2010-05-06 at 21:16 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > If there really was a need for it, such images would already exist. > > They do already exist and are labelled "*Ubuntu." > > That's what people end up trying and installing after they waste their time > in

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-06 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 06/05/2010 11:59, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > How does the user know, which firmware he/she is going to need? It is doable > to > have the files on usb-stick or some such, if it is known which files need to > be > there. Note that firwmare.tar.gz contains quite a lot of firmwares. And, afair, the

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-05 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2010-05-06 at 03:17 -0300, Jorge Gonçalves wrote: > First, thank you for the great distro that is Debian, one of the best. > > I would like to suggest you some way so that the users keep on using > the good old KDE 3.5 when they migrate to the upcoming Lenny. > > Maybe use dummy packages

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-05 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2010-05-06 at 09:15 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I recently had to install Debian lenny on a HP ProLiant machine, which > required bnx2 firmware for the network controller. Just downloaded the > firmware .deb from packages.d.o, stuck it on a FAT32 formatted USB > stick and everything worked f

Re: CentOS using swirl-ish logo.

2009-10-24 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On sam., 2009-10-24 at 18:36 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > I believe that confusion isn't good for any of the projects. > What do you think about?. I don't really think anybody would confuse CentOS and Debian because of that theme. -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digital

Re: One more upload queue

2009-05-15 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven, 2009-05-15 at 10:15 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Upload the .changes again, the rest of the files are still there. This > time it should actually work. :) Worked fine, thanks. Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: One more upload queue

2009-05-15 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
.changes has bad PGP/GnuPG signature! > Removing /epdfview_0.1.7-2_amd64.changes, but keeping its associated files > for now. cor...@hidalgo: gpg --verify epdfview_0.1.7-2_amd64.changes gpg: Signature made ven 15 mai 2009 08:32:06 CEST using DSA key ID C5C05BAE gpg: Good signature from "Yves-Al

Re: Twittering on planet.d.o?

2009-04-09 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer, 2009-04-08 at 11:11 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > I think it would be nice to have because > - the !debian group on identi.ca is IMO pretty useless since > everybody who turns on their computer and knows how to spell > d-e-b-i-a-n seems to !need !to !tell !the !world !about !it >

Re: Question about the amount of security updates available

2009-02-16 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun, 2009-02-16 at 12:02 +, Thomas Nguyen Van wrote: > My questions are: > 1. Do you confirm the amount of new security updates? If yes, what is the > link? > 2. Did you change the public key available for security updates? http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214 -- Yves-Alexis -- To

Re: FOSDEM videos released

2009-02-15 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On dim, 2009-02-15 at 17:33 +, James Bromberger wrote: > Perhaps we could > encourage people unable to physically attend to still watch and be on > IRC for Q&A? I know that last year (or the year before) people in the Debian devroom used gobby to comment and add stuff about the talk. With live

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-26 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:30:02PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > The Debian Contributor class is a class of people that can't do anything. Sure, it really sounds good… -- Yves-Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Debian Logo Use

2008-04-15 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar, 2008-04-15 at 20:48 +0300, Mario Spinthiras wrote: > Debian on the desktop? It's called Ubuntu! plonk. -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian Logo Use

2008-04-14 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun, 2008-04-14 at 21:44 -0700, Will Kaiser wrote: > Yeah, I had actually already looked into the Debian Live CD project. > Unfortunately there is no product available for download at this time > that I can line up with my images for comparison. So, we really have > no idea what's included on th

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun, 2008-02-25 at 23:53 +, MJ Ray wrote: > Many countries still sometimes have > heads of state and government from opposing political views (French > "cohabitation") and it puts the brakes on the more radical reforms, > but the fifth republic (for example) hasn't fallen yet. President and

Re: Debian Maintainers

2007-05-31 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu, 2007-05-31 at 17:19 +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: > How about improving the NM application process so that people don't > have > to spend 4 months waiting for an AM[1,2,3,4], or to have their > accounts > created [5,6,7,8], or to be approved by FD[6,7]. Is it really in "the NM application

Re: Change of the debian code-name base?

2007-05-28 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun, 2007-05-28 at 22:37 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > that the first seasons of > simpsons were created on a proprietary operating system (irix) with > proprietary software. And what does the common knowledge says about the OS used to create toy story characters? -- Yves-Alexis -- To UNS

Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-14 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu, 2007-03-15 at 01:41 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > If person X is a DD and maintaining 2 packages and has never sponsored > anything, then (I dont like 'demoting' as it is an insult to their > contribution) they would not notice a change in their status if it > still allows them to contribute i

Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-14 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mer, 2007-03-14 at 20:50 +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > My first thought: do we really need this new class of contributors? I > mean how many people do you currently know fitting in this category > (don't like to become DD just maintainers). I guess there will be > some, > but I think the amoun

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-05-13 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 14:58 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Most Jabber servers... topic is -irc-.debian.org, iirc -- Yves-Alexis Perez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-05-02 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
out moving *irc*.debian.org from an irc network to another. If you don't want to use irc, nobody forces you. But why posting here a mail that has nothing to do with the initial message ? -- Yves-Alexis Perez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]