Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 17:56:58, Steve Litt wrote: > > Because you don't want to inextricably drag a giant monolith into your > Desktop Environment just to do a few things. If you compare systemd with a Desktop Environment I'm not quite sure who's the giant ;) > And how were they handling > this tas

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 22:56:15, The Wanderer wrote: > > Not to mention that just offhand I'm not sure I'd even know how to turn > off basic tab completion - whereas turning off programmable tab > completion is pretty much just a matter of not sourcing the > tab-completion files in the effective bash e

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:51:07AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Check out what single company has 30% of the gatekeepers. Surprise, > surprise. Damned for their success. We want Linux to be successful, but woe betide any company that actually gets us there... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 18:11:31, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > > I'll never hear from you again, as you are clearly getting a kick out of > fuelling the flames. I can assure you it is not my intention to fuel the flames, though this doesn't mean I couldn't be doing it anyway, inadvertently. I hereby

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 oct 14, 15:34:22, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > I'm not so sure that squeeze-lts will be supported well enough for long > enough. Hopefully wheezy gets good support with a wheezy-lts. From https://wiki.debian.org/LTS Companies using Debian who are interested in aiding this effort

Re: how to identify reverse dependencies?

2014-10-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 oct 14, 15:00:22, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > At a later date, everything changes ... some things later than other > things. I guess that gnome's version for 7.6 is too old to /need/ systemd. As I've already said in another post, Gnome (the Desktop Environment) doesn't need systemd, b

Re: Persistent hash sum mismatch in aptitude

2014-10-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 21:57:30, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Whenever I do an >aptitude update > it seems to work OK, except for a series of messages at the end: ... > Notice that this happens with *two* mirrors. > > Is there something I should do to stop this? You could try reporting this to debian-mi

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-15 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:07:25 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > Given that your only contribution to the list is outright and offensive > hypocrisy why should you not be rightfully dismissed as an abusive and > offensive poster who contributes nothing to the subject. I do know you > and your work - an

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Martin Read
On 14/10/14 22:56, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:15:40 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: As far as I understand none of the upstreams are actually requiring systemd itself (or more accurately systemd-logind), but the interfaces it is providing. I fail to see the distinction. As long as

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.10.2014 09:11, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:51:07AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Check out what single company has 30% of the gatekeepers. Surprise, surprise. Damned for their success. We want Linux to be successful, but woe betide any company that actually gets

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 oct 14, 10:41:12, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > Maybe you want. > But I think that most users just want it to work fine and efficiently, which > does not necessarily imply being sold massively around the world. > > The fact is, that linux is actually a success, but it has nev

Re: [sendmail] outgoing mail leaves dead letter

2014-10-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 19:10:05 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > OK, here we go. > > mailx -v -s "TEST "141014_184452" 2xd1 rea...@jtan.com < /tmp/tstmsg.txt Two mails are being sent. > 550 5.1.1 <2...@2xd1.local.lan>... User unknown This one didn't make it. > Why does it go to a dead letter

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-15 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/10/14 18:43, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:07:25 +1100 Scott Ferguson > wrote: > >> Given that your only contribution to the list is outright and >> offensive hypocrisy why should you not be rightfully dismissed as >> an abusive and offensive poster who contributes

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Brian
On Wed 15 Oct 2014 at 10:41:12 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 15.10.2014 09:11, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : > >On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:51:07AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > >>Check out what single company has 30% of the gatekeepers. Surprise, > >>surprise. > > > >Damned for their

Re: OT: Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 1:58 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Well, this really is OT for debian-users, but Turns out that SMTP > WAS/IS intended to be reliable. Reliable, absolutely. 100% reliable? That simply isn't possible when people are involved in the equation (people mis-configure servers - whether

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 12:03 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > The 'silly statements' reference was about your suggestion > that it is in any way shape or form 'ok' to *accept* mail to invalid > recipients then send it to dev/null. Incidentally, yes there may be some circumstances where this could be considered ok..

How to set up services depending on encrypted filesystems with systemd (was Re: How to do this ?)

2014-10-15 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Jonathan Dowland: > Next step, adjust the daemon to depend on this. In my example, > transmission-daemon supplies a .service file in the package. Copy this to > /etc/systemd/system, and add a line (the line prefixed +): > > > [Unit] > > Description=Transmission BitTorrent Daemon > > After=networ

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.10.2014 12:09, Brian a écrit : On Wed 15 Oct 2014 at 10:41:12 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 15.10.2014 09:11, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : >On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:51:07AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >>Check out what single company has 30% of the gatekeepers. Surprise,

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/10/14 22:08, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 15.10.2014 12:09, Brian a écrit : >> On Wed 15 Oct 2014 at 10:41:12 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org >> wrote: >> >>> Le 15.10.2014 09:11, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : >>> >On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:51:07AM -0400, Steve Litt wrot

Re: OT: Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/14/2014 1:58 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Well, this really is OT for debian-users, but Turns out that SMTP WAS/IS intended to be reliable. Reliable, absolutely. 100% reliable? That simply isn't possible when people are involved in the equation (people mis-configure se

preseeding question (yes, re. systemd / sysvinit-core)

2014-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Folks, So, it's been suggested here that one might write a preseed file to install sysvinit-core instead of systemd - but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to do that. What I've been able to determine so far: 1. There is now an essential metapackage called init that depends on one

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/10/2014 6:02 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > ConsoleKit, unmaintained. But fixed, for kFreeBSD A. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iF4EAREIAAYFAlQ+ZOQACgkQqBZry7fv4vtv5gEAqxefTmCV1PLqwNWgJOGeFwGD zc00RNvDgol9E3

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 3:28 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 10/14/2014 12:03 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 10/14/2014 11:17 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> On 10/14/2014 8:05 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: If you think I'm kidding, please by all means go make these silly statements on the postfix list and I'll ju

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 3:20 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 10/14/2014 11:24 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> However, once a message has been accepted - ie, *after* the DATA phase >> is complete, it should never be bounced, it should be delivered - or, >> worse, quarantined, or worst case, deleted (ie, itf it is lat

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Mike McGinn
Comments inline below: On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 06:37:57 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 15/10/14 22:08, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > Le 15.10.2014 12:09, Brian a écrit : > >> On Wed 15 Oct 2014 at 10:41:12 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org > >> > >> wrote: > >>> Le 15.10.2014 09:

Re: preseeding question (yes, re. systemd / sysvinit-core)

2014-10-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 07:49:08AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > 1. There is now an essential metapackage called init that depends on > one of systemd-sysv, or sysvinit-core, or upstart. (parenthetical > question: What distinguishes a metapackage from a virtual package? > Or perhaps, more precis

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.10.2014 12:37, Scott Ferguson a écrit : On 15/10/14 22:08, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 15.10.2014 12:09, Brian a écrit : On Wed 15 Oct 2014 at 10:41:12 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 15.10.2014 09:11, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : >On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/15/2014 at 04:08 AM, Martin Read wrote: > On 14/10/14 22:56, Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:15:40 +0300 Andrei POPESCU >> wrote: >>> And it also seems to make sense (why should every Desktop >>> Environment implement it's own solution for this?). >> And how were they handl

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/14/2014 at 04:15 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:18:01PM +0200, lee wrote: > >> Considering that the users are Debians' priority, couldn't this >> issue be a case in which significant concerns from/of the users >> about an issue might initiate a GR? Wouldn't it speak l

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/14/2014 at 03:28 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 10/14/2014 12:03 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> On 10/14/2014 11:17 AM, Jerry Stuckle >> wrote: >>> Wrong on two counts. First of all, the false notion "Security >>> through obscurity *never* works". This has nothing to do with >>> security. >>

Re: OT: Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Tanstaafl wrote: >> >> On 10/14/2014 1:58 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> >>> Well, this really is OT for debian-users, but Turns out that SMTP >>> WAS/IS intended to be reliable. >> >> Reliable, absolutely. 100% reliable? That simply is

Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Jape Person
Hi, folks! Sorry about the title. I'm just addicted to movie titles from the 60s. (-: I am seeing this during the boot sequence on a Debian testing installation. Sometimes it is actually left showing on TTY1 after the DM (lightdm in this case) comes up, and sometimes not. From TTY1 ... syst

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread John Hasler
Steve Litt writes: > Check out what single company has 30% of the gatekeepers. Surprise, > surprise. Better Red Hat than just about anybody else. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Joel Rees
2014/10/15 1:47 "Brian" : > > On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 12:06:11 -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:02:10AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:05:06 -0400 > > > Henning Follmann wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 07:56:40AM -0400, Marty wrote:

Re: how to identify reverse dependencies?

2014-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Thanks to those who've provided scripts and pointers to apt- capabilities. But... both out of curiosity and practicality - to the Debian developers out there - are there any tools on the SCM or build servers that run dependency graphs across the package database? Miles Fidelman Andrew McGla

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-15 16:14 +0200, Jape Person wrote: > I am seeing this during the boot sequence on a Debian testing > installation. Sometimes it is actually left showing on TTY1 after the > DM (lightdm in this case) comes up, and sometimes not. > > From TTY1 > ... > systemd-gpt-auto-generator[152]: Fail

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2014 8:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/14/2014 3:28 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> On 10/14/2014 12:03 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> On 10/14/2014 11:17 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/14/2014 8:05 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > If you think I'm kidding, please by all means go make these silly >

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:09:53 +0100 Brian napísal: > On Wed 15 Oct 2014 at 10:41:12 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org > wrote: > > > Le 15.10.2014 09:11, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : > > >On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:51:07AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > >>Check out what single company has

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2014 10:17 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 10/14/2014 at 03:28 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > >> On 10/14/2014 12:03 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> >>> On 10/14/2014 11:17 AM, Jerry Stuckle >>> wrote: > Wrong on two counts. First of all, the false notion "Security through obscurity *never*

Re: OT (Sorta): Pepperflash Now Working on Wheezy 64-bit

2014-10-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Patrick Bartek wrote: Just got latest upgrade of Chrome Stable (38.0.2125.104-1) for my Wheezy 64-bit (Openbox WM only) directly from Google repo. Pepperflash player (15.0.0.189) now working. And it only took a month and a half. ;-) B with libc6 from Jessie? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Jape Person wrote: > From dmesg > ...[4.853751] systemd-gpt-auto-generator[154]: Failed to determine > partition table type of /dev/sda: Input/output error > [4.854298] systemd[151]: > /lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-gpt-auto-generator failed with error > code 1.

Re: how to identify reverse dependencies?

2014-10-15 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:31:02 +0300 Andrei POPESCU napísal: > Using Debian package dependencies this is expressed as > Depends: libpam-systemd by those packages that actually require those > interfaces > > $ aptitude search '?depends(libpam-systemd)' Not always right results: aptitude

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/15/2014 at 12:11 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 10/15/2014 10:17 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 10/14/2014 at 03:28 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> Then what is that if it isn't "obscurity"? >> >> "Security by obscurity" isn't "no one knows the password" or "no >> one knows the account name"

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Jape Person
On 10/15/2014 11:34 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-10-15 16:14 +0200, Jape Person wrote: I am seeing this during the boot sequence on a Debian testing installation. Sometimes it is actually left showing on TTY1 after the DM (lightdm in this case) comes up, and sometimes not. From TTY1 ... sy

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:02:03 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 14 oct 14, 17:56:58, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Because you don't want to inextricably drag a giant monolith into > > your Desktop Environment just to do a few things. > > If you compare systemd with a Desktop Environment I'm not

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/15/2014 at 12:06 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 10/15/2014 8:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> On 10/14/2014 3:28 PM, Jerry Stuckle >> wrote: >>> But you just said it was OK to delete emails. >> >> Please don't misquote me. I said it was the *worst case*, meaning, >> only marginally better tha

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/15/2014 12:25 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 10/15/2014 at 12:11 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> You're limiting it too much. From Dictionary.com: >> >> obscurity >> noun, plural obscurities. >> 1. the state or quality of being obscure. >> 2. the condition of being unknown: >> ... > That's a def

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/15/2014 12:06 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 10/15/2014 8:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 10/14/2014 3:28 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> But you just said it was OK to delete emails. >> Please don't misquote me. I said it was the *worst case*, meaning, only >> marginally better than *bouncing*

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:11:10 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:51:07AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Check out what single company has 30% of the gatekeepers. Surprise, > > surprise. > > Damned for their success. We want Linux to be successful, but woe > betide any compa

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 09:08:26 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 14/10/14 22:56, Steve Litt wrote: > > And how were they handling this task before systemd? > > They were using ConsoleKit, which was orphaned upstream some time > after systemd-logind came along. I rest my case. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: preseeding question (yes, re. systemd / sysvinit-core)

2014-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 07:49:08AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: 1. There is now an essential metapackage called init that depends on one of systemd-sysv, or sysvinit-core, or upstart. (parenthetical question: What distinguishes a metapackage from a virtual package? Or p

Re: OT: Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Joel Rees wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/14/2014 1:58 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Well, this really is OT for debian-users, but Turns out that SMTP WAS/IS intended to be reliable. Reliable, absolutely. 100% reliable? That simply isn't

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 23:37:37 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > 2014/10/15 1:47 "Brian" : > > > > Give me swearing in posts rather than innuendo and attempted > > character assassination of a group dedicated workers. > > Do you realize that a lot of your posts, jumping on anti-systemd > topics, might app

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Jape Person
On 10/15/2014 11:53 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Jape Person wrote: From dmesg ...[4.853751] systemd-gpt-auto-generator[154]: Failed to determine partition table type of /dev/sda: Input/output error [4.854298] systemd[151]: /lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-gpt-aut

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-15 17:53 +0200, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Jape Person wrote: > >> I'm also having the drive checked by smartmontools at boot time and >> have received no warnings. > > You're basically not supposed to get I/O errors on drives like that. I'd > try running smartctl -a /d

Re: OT: Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/15/2014 12:50 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I'll close by noting that this branch of discussion started with a focus > on silently dropping spam, and whether that's a violation of standards. Actually, no, this branch started with a focus on whether or not it is a good idea to break SMTP by a

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Sven Joachim wrote: > I don't think there is actually an I/O error here, looking at the code > systemd-gpt-auto-generator makes this error up: > > , > | errno = 0; > | r = blkid_probe_lookup_value(b, "PTTYPE", &pttype, NULL); > | if (r != 0) { > |

Re: how to identify reverse dependencies?

2014-10-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/10/2014 3:22 AM, Slavko wrote: > But e.g. my dbus package doesn't depends on systemd at all: > > LANG=en aptitude show dbus | grep Depends -A2 > Depends: libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.17), libcap-ng0, libdbus-1-3 (>= > 1.7.6), l

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:42:58PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > They were using ConsoleKit, which was orphaned upstream some time > > after systemd-logind came along. > > I rest my case. There's nothing at all (not even Red Hat) preventing anyone (even you!) from stepping up and taking over devel

Re: preseeding question (yes, re. systemd / sysvinit-core)

2014-10-15 Thread Brian
On Wed 15 Oct 2014 at 12:29:23 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > any thoughts re. conflicts between what's in, say > > tasksel tasksel/first standard, web-server > and > d-i pkgsel/include string sysvinit-core systemd-shim I don't believe there are any. I think what happens is that standard and web

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Brian
On Wed 15 Oct 2014 at 12:53:52 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 23:37:37 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > > > 2014/10/15 1:47 "Brian" : > > > > > > > Give me swearing in posts rather than innuendo and attempted > > > character assassination of a group dedicated workers. > > > > Do you

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Jape Person
On 10/15/2014 01:38 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Sven Joachim wrote: I don't think there is actually an I/O error here, looking at the code systemd-gpt-auto-generator makes this error up: , | errno = 0; | r = blkid_probe_lookup_value(b, "PTTYPE", &pttype, NU

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2014 12:34 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 10/15/2014 at 12:06 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > >> On 10/15/2014 8:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> >>> On 10/14/2014 3:28 PM, Jerry Stuckle >>> wrote: > But you just said it was OK to delete emails. >>> >>> Please don't misquote me. I said it was t

Re: OT: Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/15/2014 12:50 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: I'll close by noting that this branch of discussion started with a focus on silently dropping spam, and whether that's a violation of standards. Actually, no, this branch started with a focus on whether or not it is a good idea to

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2014 12:40 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/15/2014 12:06 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> On 10/15/2014 8:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> On 10/14/2014 3:28 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: But you just said it was OK to delete emails. > >>> Please don't misquote me. I said it was the *worst case*, me

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:42:58PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: They were using ConsoleKit, which was orphaned upstream some time after systemd-logind came along. I rest my case. There's nothing at all (not even Red Hat) preventing anyone (even you!) from stepping up and ta

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Martin Read
On 15/10/14 17:30, Steve Litt wrote: Pre-cisely. I see Red Hat's fingerprints all over that unmaintained status. If not for Red Hat, somebody would have picked up ConsoleKit. After all, as shown in http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/whos-writing-linux , there's plenty of money floating a

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Keith Peter
On 14 October 2014 17:10, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, Marty wrote: >> It seems like free software employment and market share come with >> increasing risk to objectivity and technical quality. > > People have to eat. Almost everyone who works on Debian has someone who > pays them.

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 03:16:38PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > In theory. But in practice, folks make practical decisions as to > expenditure of time and resources. For example, once Debian > committed to systemd, Ubuntu followed suit - I expect that upstart > will promptly whither and die. Y

Re: preseeding question (yes, re. systemd / sysvinit-core)

2014-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Thanks Brian. See follow-up question embedded below. Brian wrote: On Wed 15 Oct 2014 at 12:29:23 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: any thoughts re. conflicts between what's in, say tasksel tasksel/first standard, web-server and d-i pkgsel/include string sysvinit-core systemd-shim I don't believe

Re: segfaults and error 4 in ld-2.13.so with soffice.bin and kate (SOLVED)

2014-10-15 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/12/2014 09:30 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 10/11/2014 06:28 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Gary Roach wrote: After cloning my bad drive to a new one and installing the new drive (see previous messages titled excessive CPU usage) i am left with the following problem: Kate and l

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 10/15/2014 07:08 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 15.10.2014 12:09, Brian a écrit : On Wed 15 Oct 2014 at 10:41:12 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 15.10.2014 09:11, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : >On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:51:07AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >>Check ou

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/10/2014 6:49 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > reported bugs will get less attention nowtoo). But the consolekit > deprecation happened a long time before the tech-ctte decision > about systemd. Some one/people could have picked it up long ago. > I

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 07:22:55AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > ConsoleKit has been fixed for kFreeBSD build, I expect fixing it in > normal Debian/GNU wouldn't have been harder than choosing systemd. It really needs (needed) adopting upstream, not just in Debian, because it's upstream where p

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Mark Carroll
Martin Read writes: (snip) > * The set of people hostile to systemd seems to include a lot of people > who don't see much need for the likes of ConsoleKit either. (snip) This is actually a rather good point. The machines I am most conservative about, and wanting to make sure that they boot well

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Joe
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:15:24 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > It is either OK to delete an email or it is not. You can't have it > both ways. It is *not* OK to silently delete an already accepted email, it does indeed break SMTP as a reliable protocol ('reliable' as in: 'either we deliver it

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 10/15/2014 12:39 PM, Steve Litt wrote: We've actually been in this place before. Wonderful Linux company Caldera became SCO (oversimplification, but you know what I mean). Wonderful Linux company Corel changed their CEO, and promptly accepted money from Microsoft and dropped all their Windows

Re: preseeding question (yes, re. systemd / sysvinit-core)

2014-10-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 03:34:40PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Thoughts? I'm drawing blanks at the moment, but I'm glad you are looking at this. I'll see if I can poke about a bit Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: OT: Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Joe
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:13:27 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Tanstaafl wrote: > > My position is that: > > > > 1. email to invalid recipients should be rejected at the RCPT-TO > > stage, > > Easier said then done - at least when a server does relaying, but > clearly ideal when possible. > It's

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 oct 14, 09:46:47, The Wanderer wrote: > > I suspect that the answer is "they just didn't provide the functionality > which ConsoleKit, and later systemd-logind, now enable them to provide", > but I'm not aware - in a clear-understanding, defined-boundaries sense - > of exactly what that

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-15 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 09:43:00AM +0200, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:07:25 +1100 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > Given that your only contribution to the list is outright and offensive > > hypocrisy why should you not be rightfully dismissed as an abusive and > > offensive

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Joel Rees
2014/10/16 5:46 "Ric Moore" : > > On 10/15/2014 12:39 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > >> We've actually been in this place before. Wonderful Linux company >> Caldera became SCO (oversimplification, but you know what I mean). >> Wonderful Linux company Corel changed their CEO, and promptly accepted >> money

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 21:44:30 +0100 Joe wrote: Hello Joe, >It is *not* OK to silently delete an already accepted email, it does Unfortunately, it happens; Send an email with a large attachment(1) and there are quite a few servers that will silently drop it. The worst of it is you can never kno

Re: how to identify reverse dependencies?

2014-10-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 oct 14, 18:22:28, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:31:02 +0300 Andrei POPESCU > napísal: > > > Using Debian package dependencies this is expressed as > > Depends: libpam-systemd by those packages that actually require those > > interfaces > > > > $ aptitude search '?depends(lib

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:42:58PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 09:08:26 +0100 > Martin Read wrote: > > > On 14/10/14 22:56, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > And how were they handling this task before systemd? > > > > They were using ConsoleKit, which was orphaned upstream some time

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 10/15/2014 12:34 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: That's a problem in itself. There should be room for real discussion as is taking place here on the debian-user list, without fear of having posts filtered. I agree, but they (the moderators) have a vested interest when someone posts something

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 oct 14, 21:37:57, Scott Ferguson wrote: > As far as I'm aware Debian has *never* been sold anywhere, nor are > there plans to - did I miss another meeting down the docks? http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ No, that's not meant as a joke. As far as I understand, this is about the only w

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 15 October 2014 22:44:18 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 15 oct 14, 21:37:57, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > As far as I'm aware Debian has *never* been sold anywhere, nor are > > there plans to - did I miss another meeting down the docks? > > http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ > > No, that's

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 10/15/2014 05:06 PM, Joel Rees wrote: 2014/10/16 5:46 "Ric Moore" mailto:wayward4...@gmail.com>>: > > On 10/15/2014 12:39 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > >> We've actually been in this place before. Wonderful Linux company >> Caldera became SCO (oversimplification, but you know what I mean). >>

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ric Moore wrote: On 10/15/2014 12:34 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: That's a problem in itself. There should be room for real discussion as is taking place here on the debian-user list, without fear of having posts filtered. I agree, but they (the moderators) have a vested interest when someone

Re: preseeding question (yes, re. systemd / sysvinit-core)

2014-10-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 oct 14, 12:29:23, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > 3. Is there a way to list all packages with priority "standard" - > preferably via the package repo or one of the staging servers rather > than having to first setup up a jessie installation and pulling in the > source list? You don't need

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Joel Rees
2014/10/16 5:59 "Andrei POPESCU" : > > On Mi, 15 oct 14, 09:46:47, The Wanderer wrote: > > > > I suspect that the answer is "they just didn't provide the functionality > > which ConsoleKit, and later systemd-logind, now enable them to provide", > > but I'm not aware - in a clear-understanding, defi

Re: preseeding question (yes, re. systemd / sysvinit-core)

2014-10-15 Thread Brian
On Wed 15 Oct 2014 at 15:34:40 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > So where in base system is systemd installed? > > This is the list of packages in base (from the source for the jessie > version of debian-installer/build/pkg-lists/base as of yesterday): [A little snipping] I'd suggest that the prin

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:30:26PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > I completely understand not reinventing the wheel, but if all you need > is a spoke, you don't construct an interface to a whole wheel just to > get your spoke. A wise old owl lived in an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The les

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Joel Rees
2014/10/16 8:14 "Chris Bannister" : > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:30:26PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > I completely understand not reinventing the wheel, but if all you need > > is a spoke, you don't construct an interface to a whole wheel just to > > get your spoke. > > A wise old owl lived i

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Marty
On 10/15/2014 04:19 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 10/15/2014 07:08 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 15.10.2014 12:09, Brian a écrit : On Wed 15 Oct 2014 at 10:41:12 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 15.10.2014 09:11, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : >On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
wande...@fastmail.fm: I have a similar lack of awareness and/or understanding about all of > the *kit packages / projects / tools / what-have-you, actually; I'm > not positive I even know how many there are, much less all of their > names. This should help: Put yourself in the position of som

Re: how to identify reverse dependencies?

2014-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:34:05AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Thanks to those who've provided scripts and pointers to apt- capabilities. > But... both out of curiosity and practicality - to the Debian developers > out there - are there any tools on the SCM or build servers that run > dependenc

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Du, 12 oct 14, 18:47:09, lee wrote: >> Andrei POPESCU writes: >> >> > On Mi, 08 oct 14, 16:01:37, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> >> >> >> The tech-ctte exploration was extremely thorough, entirely transparent >> >> and I >> > >> > In addition, the tech-ctte took specia

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/10/14 00:14, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 15.10.2014 12:37, Scott Ferguson a écrit : >> On 15/10/14 22:08, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >>> >>> >>> Le 15.10.2014 12:09, Brian a écrit : On Wed 15 Oct 2014 at 10:41:12 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wro

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