Re: New set of questions for FESCo candidates?

2020-05-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
organisational thought, to be able to handle gracefully objective divergences. Because those divergences *will* eventually happen, and inventing a process at crunch time when things are on fire and everyone is too busy dealing with the fire to listen to others, is no fun.

Re: Re-Launching the Java SIG

2020-05-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
al from a technical POW, its tooling is poor sure but tooling reflects the values of the community creating and using the tools, not the reverse. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: Re-Launching the Java SIG

2020-05-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
lls today did not notice? The next generation of corp-funded enterprise code will use another language. Sincerely, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproje

Re: Is dist-git a good place for work?

2020-05-16 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
me upstream git, we are hopping between branches in different forked repos of the same upstream Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

Re: Re-Launching the Java SIG

2020-05-16 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
ithout paying someone to copy and fork the original code that this bytecode was generated from in the next project. The practical effect is technical stagnation and market capture by deep pocket companies. -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ dev

Re: Is dist-git a good place for work?

2020-05-16 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le samedi 16 mai 2020 à 11:09 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > Le vendredi 15 mai 2020 à 11:11 -0400, Simo Sorce a écrit : > > So, another way that could work, with minimal tooling is that we > > keep > > the master branch strictly mirroring whatever upstream branch we

Re: Re-Launching the Java SIG

2020-05-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le lundi 18 mai 2020 à 14:12 +0200, Michal Srb a écrit : > Hello, > > On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 11:24 AM Nicolas Mailhot via devel < > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Le vendredi 15 mai 2020 à 08:30 -0700, stan via devel a écrit : > > > On Fri, 15 May 202

Re: Re-Launching the Java SIG

2020-05-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
The difference, is that you can build a new kernel, while running an old kernel. the kernel is not constantly breaking external kernel APIs like gradle breaks the external gradle APIs a new gradle needs to be built (when building gradle with gradle, the new build is a consumer of external gra

Re: Aggressive updating (Python 3.9): Are we trying to hard?

2020-05-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
kages. BTW, that’s not a Fedora project limitation. The whole GNOME stack has been trying for years to reduce the combination complexity, by forcing the use of a limited number of stacks/runtimes. -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@l

Re: Location of executable code

2020-05-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
the past. So, no use looking for non-executable /usr/share. A lot of /usr/share is executable and will stay that way. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an emai

Re: Location of executable code

2020-05-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le vendredi 22 mai 2020 à 20:41 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot via devel a écrit : > > So, no use looking for non-executable /usr/share. A lot of /usr/share > is executable and will stay that way. Also moving executable things somewhere else would make multiarch (more of) a major hassle. Be

Re: Location of executable code

2020-05-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
years ago. :-) It got truer since. The IA stuff people want to replace traditional computing with is 100% data-driven execution. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

Re: Location of executable code

2020-05-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
d mix things. Like systemd and rpm did for multiarch. So if you care about security you’ll still need to audit the non-executable root. Except the audit will be less painful, because a lot of stuff would have been sorted by others. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___

Re: Official font

2019-11-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
nts. Font work (creation and packaging) takes a lot of commitment and attention to detail. It's hard to sustain so it comes and goes. BTW https://pagure.io/fork/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/commits/master https://pagure.io/fork/nim/packaging-committee/tree/fonts-rpm-macros (rebases hide the

Re: Encrypted DNS in Fedora

2019-11-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
e of DoH will serve to find ways to track and profile you even further. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: h

Re: Encrypted DNS in Fedora

2019-11-07 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le mercredi 06 novembre 2019 à 07:11 +0100, Tomasz Torcz a écrit : > On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 10:00:17PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot via devel > wrote: > > Le mardi 05 novembre 2019 à 19:45 +0100, Tomasz Torcz a écrit : > > > > > > I don't agree with centralis

Re: Encrypted DNS in Fedora

2019-11-07 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
designed to solve such generic situations. Network management is no longer an enterprise-only concern. Treating it as a sysadmin problem does not work. The network happened. And not only internet side. -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing l

Re: Encrypted DNS in Fedora

2019-11-09 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
recate things people found useful. Except that's not how actual people want to use their networks. So all the things that IPv6 authors rejected are slowly being standardized back because that's what people need. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___

Re: Encrypted DNS in Fedora

2019-11-09 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le samedi 09 novembre 2019 à 11:09 +0100, Tomasz Torcz a écrit : > On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 06:18:46PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot via devel > wrote: > > > > > Here's a network management lesson for you: > - run DoH resolver* not on ::1, but on IP available on your LAN &g

Re: Encrypted DNS in Fedora

2019-11-09 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le samedi 09 novembre 2019 à 12:04 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > Le samedi 09 novembre 2019 à 11:09 +0100, Tomasz Torcz a écrit : > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 06:18:46PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot via devel > > wrote: > > Here's a network management lesson for you: >

Re: Encrypted DNS in Fedora

2019-11-09 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le samedi 09 novembre 2019 à 12:46 +0100, Marius Schwarz a écrit : > Am 09.11.19 um 10:12 schrieb Nicolas Mailhot via devel: > > That’s why DoH is intrinsically centralized and rotten to the core. > > > > DoH supporters are perfectly happy with a world where there i

Fonts packaging policy rewrite proposal

2019-11-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
few years to give packagers time to apply the new guidelines. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: h

Fonts packaging policy rewrite proposal

2019-11-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
-rpm-macros for now. They will be removed in a few years to give packagers time to apply the new guidelines. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to deve

Re: Fonts packaging policy rewrite proposal

2019-11-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2019-11-12 10:06, Akira TAGOH a écrit : On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 5:01 PM Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Hi Akira https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/builds/ showcases the new policy on 62 real-world source packages, generating 139 installation packages. Some of those are

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
ution. While that saves time, and insures dev funding, it also means it is easier to go full power on things that end up requiring deep changes to get non Red Hat adoption. It's not anyone's fault, it's the inherent nature of internal and external dev paths. Regards, -- Nicolas Mai

Re: Fonts packaging policy rewrite proposal

2019-11-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le mardi 12 novembre 2019 à 09:00 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > Hi, > > A fonts packaging policy rewrite proposal has been pushed to FPC > today: > https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/934 > > It is based on the new fonts-rpm-macros project for automatio

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
ning constrains into account, will only work for a short period of time. Unicorns do not exist in real life. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedorapro

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le mercredi 13 novembre 2019 à 06:43 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot via devel a écrit : > > The native Go component format (also, confusingly, named > module) handles those 3 constrains and won't present any core > difficulty in rpm packaging once it is finished upstream. And, B

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le mercredi 13 novembre 2019 à 06:43 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot via devel a écrit : > > Fedora modules are an horrifically complex way to pretend those basic > three constrains do not exist, while actually implementing them > (except in a broken non-working way, because the *pretence* i

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2019-11-13 07:39, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : Le mercredi 13 novembre 2019 à 06:43 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot via devel a And anyway, if anyone feels the module design is actually needed (I don’t, because the problems are elsewhere), it could have been *easily* implemented within existing tools

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
omplex that not filling this section (of course, if you take someone else’s spec and it depends on this section, you get to define BRs manually if you void it) Regards -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Creating a new project around rpm will evolve into something very close to Fedora/Suse/etc. Creating a new deployment tech within Fedora will evolve into something very close to rpm (different implementation, same behaviour). Changing either Fedora or rpm requires making both the org, and the

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
rtain that the changes needed in packages themselves, to provide the additionnal info required by this solver, will turn out to be minimal. Without a working solver multiple version streams won’t work out, upstream has not more clue (and quite often a lot less clue) on what the dep graph should

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-15 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
at obscures all dependency chain checks? Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/

Re: Modularity: The Official Complaint Thread

2019-11-15 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Hi Igor On Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 10:03 Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: Le 2019-11-14 22:01, Stephen Gallagher a écrit : wrote: On 14. 11. 19 21:32, Stephen Gallagher wrote: I proposed earlier around the major upgrade rebuilds (letting us set other modules as `buildrequires:` of `python

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-11-15 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
format will exist directly in rpm. Modules started with the end-user management framework (porcelain) part, and got lost somewhere trying to decide how to map it to low level concepts. That, does not work. Start from fundations before arguing about the roof decorations.

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-11-15 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le samedi 16 novembre 2019 à 08:37 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > > Sure, do some rpm fixing if necessary so the result feels less like a > kludge than %dist. But, don’t rely on an external framework to do > things for you instead of doing the necessary work (if any) at the > c

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-11-16 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
at means maintainers of modular things will get the rug pulled under them whenever the default stream changes in incompatible ways. Tough luck. The only reliable way we have to coordinate Fedora activity is this default stream. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-11-16 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le samedi 16 novembre 2019 à 18:42 +0100, clime a écrit : > On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 at 08:38, Nicolas Mailhot via devel > wrote: > > Le samedi 16 novembre 2019 à 03:38 +0100, clime a écrit : > > > > A true solution would be blending modularity into RPM. > > &

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-11-16 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le samedi 16 novembre 2019 à 19:05 +0100, clime a écrit : > On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 at 18:54, Nicolas Mailhot via devel > wrote: > > Le samedi 16 novembre 2019 à 18:42 +0100, clime a écrit : > > > On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 at 08:38, Nicolas Mailhot via devel > > > wrote: >

Re: Is the MBS (Module Build Service ?) alright?

2019-11-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
to make actual mass rebuilds, triggered by upstream changes, faster. regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://

Re: RFC: Modularity Simplified

2019-11-26 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
ifically inside a stream. And that's just a Requires: something with stream(streamname) > * All standard Conflicts/Requires/Obsoletes/… will simply work Yes, please make it back a single unified rpm-level dependency graph instead of separate module universes that don't behave wi

Re: Is 50+ RPM Subpackages too extreme?

2019-11-27 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
ad of moving some package creation steps outside our the shared and audited build infra. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Co

Re: Is 50+ RPM Subpackages too extreme?

2019-11-27 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
e the requirements of each plugin from the requirements of the others Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Is 50+ RPM Subpackages too extreme?

2019-11-27 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2019-11-27 10:37, Tom Hughes a écrit : On 27/11/2019 09:30, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: The clean way to do it is to put the list of things to generate against in a spec variable, and write the generator logic in a (lua) rpm macro. That keeps the generation inside the spec instead of

Re: Is 50+ RPM Subpackages too extreme?

2019-11-27 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
... I know that I usually just install all of them on new systems. TEX includes things shared with the rest of the system (for example fonts), forcing the users of those things to install a huge TEX blob just to get the subset they need is not a good user experience. Regards, -- Nicolas Ma

Re: do not remove arpack package from Fedora

2019-11-29 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
do it and find their own contributors. We’ll see if they still dismiss concerns of current contributors when *they* have to do the work.” Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an emai

Re: Provisional pyproject RPM macros: Dynamic BuildRequires for Python packages

2019-11-30 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
ts. As long a you do it this way it’s fairly easy to manipulate the filelist in %build (or even %install) if the automated process made mistakes. But, generally, a well tested automated generation process will make less errors than a human toiling by rote. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot __

Re: RFC: Modularity Simplified

2019-12-01 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2019-12-02 07:23, Igor Gnatenko a écrit : On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 9:23 PM Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: Le mardi 26 novembre 2019 à 16:58 +0100, Igor Gnatenko a écrit : > And we can't actually > have multiple versions of a package with same name (without "mangled&quo

Re: RFC: Modularity Simplified

2019-12-01 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
ion worthwhile. The only people it makes happy are the devs that loathed any community or distribution engagement in the first place. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: RFC: Modularity Simplified

2019-12-01 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
fairy will ever materialize to contradict you, is easier design-side. But, it’s 100% a gamble that can (and most often will) misfire. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to dev

Re: RFC: Modularity Simplified

2019-12-02 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2019-12-02 08:38, Igor Gnatenko a écrit : On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 8:28 AM Nicolas Mailhot via devel Having all build elements in the package repos themselves is the CORE feature that makes the “share” community dimension of Fedora work. Anyone can take the packages and do whatever he wants

Re: RFC: Modularity Simplified

2019-12-02 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2019-12-02 10:45, Igor Gnatenko a écrit : On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 8:48 AM Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: Le 2019-12-02 08:17, Igor Gnatenko a écrit : Building communities takes time and energy and has no immediate benefit. But, long-term, it's the most efficient way to do things

Re: RFC: Modularity Simplified

2019-12-02 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2019-12-02 10:49, Igor Gnatenko a écrit : On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 8:58 AM Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: Le 2019-12-02 07:47, Igor Gnatenko a écrit : > Hi Neal, > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 11:58 PM Neal Gompa wrote: >> I think we need to recognize that we've done so

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Disallow Empty Password By Default

2019-12-02 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
e than coping with Linux systems fragmentation. Trying to invent desktop-only things, when the Linux desktop market share is marginal, and a large part of this marginal userbase is people also working on Linux servers, is not likely to succeed. Regards, -- Nicolas M

Re: Unannounced library bump: thrift 0.10.0 -> 0.13.0

2019-12-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
ide are trying to shove all the language bindings in a single homogeneous hierarchy. That ends up conflicting with the conventions of each language. Anything Thrift-related definitely requires a lot of packager care. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Disallow Empty Password By Default

2019-12-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
st humans. That’s even the case in ultra-secure environments like the NSA. How do you think wikileaks happened? -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Disallow Empty Password By Default

2019-12-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
oose a layout) are not configured properly by the distribution and will fallback to qwerty. Really, we should try to change the default to Azerty or the Russian layout for a release. That would teach qwerty users what is hostile to users of other layouts or not. -- Nicolas Mailhot _

Re: Should we discontinue the Python Classroom Lab?

2019-12-06 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
classical technical debt accumulations. Lots of unhealthy technical compromises, to be first to market, and get adopted (that worked fine), and no plan to deal with what happens afterwards (long term maintenance, evolution, and support). Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Disallow Empty Password By Default

2019-12-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
t methods, one for their primary language, the other to deal with all the latinicisms pushed on them by the ways computers work today. American and UK users are the only ones the low-level computer tech has been designed for. Don’t take them as exemple, they are not representative. -- N

Re: nettle: heads up soname bump

2019-07-16 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
participants contains cycle breaking bootstrap conditionals If that fails, refuse the update and wait till humans deal with the mess It's not rocket science, I've already described multiple times on this list how to handle cycles gracefully, because Go is full of those -- Nicol

Re: nettle: heads up soname bump

2019-07-16 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
package, or you may unadvertently still depend on things you think you removed -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: true or false: pkgconfig(foo) vs foo-devel

2019-07-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
not a way to state you're not using pkgconfig, it's a way to get broken builds when the package you depend on gets restructured. rpm filename deps are less reliable than rpm font package deps, which are themselves less reliable than automatically computed virtual deps -- Nicol

Re: Vim and spec template

2019-07-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
have default settings. Default-less unconfigured apps are just painful to use. Having httpd default to realaudio mime types for rpm files was quite painful… -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe se

Re: true or false: pkgconfig(foo) vs foo-devel

2019-07-19 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
tiple providers > exists. > > One example is pkgconfig(openssl) In quite a lot of cases versionned requires can disambiguate Otherwise I suppose it would make sense to add a Provides: pkgconfig(foo)(default) in the package providing the primary Fedora implementation Regards, -- Nicolas Mail

Re: Discussion around app retirements and categorizations by the CPE team

2019-07-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
instances, that are supposed to tell those things to the generous sponsor, and keep it informed of the real state of its sponsored project. And, they are clearly failing to pass the message. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing lis

Re: Discussion around app retirements and categorizations by the CPE team

2019-07-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2019-07-22 17:29, Pierre-Yves Chibon a écrit : On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:19:17AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: Le 2019-07-22 10:22, Miro Hrončok a écrit : > Personally, I wish we had spent less engineering time in > infrastructure on Modularity and more on the contribu

Re: Discussion around app retirements and categorizations by the CPE team

2019-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
edora as a packaging org will become a legacy pile. rpm, dnf, koji, pagure… they’re all components of the general packaging experience stack. Dropping some of them means the project as a whole does not believe in its own future. Regards, -- Nicolas Ma

Re: Discussion around app retirements and categorizations by the CPE team

2019-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
ributors, that’s because they’ve been tasked to do minimal changes without rocking the boat (and given the corresponding resources). Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: x86-64 micro-architecture update

2019-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
cursor moved enough x86 kernels are being retired, there would be nothing wrong in moving this functional split at another technical level. Old hardware and new hardware will always exist. Trying to handle both in a single arch is just going to clash somewhere. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: Discussion around app retirements and categorizations by the CPE team

2019-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2019-07-23 09:23, Mikolaj Izdebski a écrit : On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:20 AM Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: Huge Red Hat investments, in the Java ecosystem, that fail to translate into an healthy Fedora Java ecosystem. To the point that when IBM wants its Java guys to join there is

Re: Tips to add optional arguments on dnf using plugin

2019-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
s reposync, since one typically wants the system to use the remote repos once synced, so every repo has one personality for reposync, and another for the system dnf itself. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: x86-64 micro-architecture update

2019-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2019-07-23 12:48, Peter Robinson a écrit : On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 11:31 AM Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: Le 2019-07-23 07:02, drago01 a écrit : > Please just take back this change and come back at April first if it > was supposed to be a joke - if not then submit again in ab

Re: Tips to add optional arguments on dnf using plugin

2019-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2019-07-23 14:09, Stephen John Smoogen a écrit : On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 08:00, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: Le 2019-07-23 12:01, Fellipe Henrique a écrit : Hi First, Thanks very much for you reply... I need to add a "global" argument so I can change the layer of a reposit

[RFC] target font model on Freedesktop systems

2019-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
cros https://pagure.io/fork/nim/fonts-rpm-macros https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/builds/ https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nim/fonts-rpm-macros-noreg/builds/ [5] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2019-June/006546.html -- Nicol

Re: [Fontconfig] [RFC] target font model on Freedesktop systems

2019-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2019-07-24 13:49, Akira TAGOH a écrit : Hi Akira On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 10:45 PM Nicolas Mailhot wrote: No foo variable, foo hebrew, foo narrow, foo caption, just a single foo with different available features (full variability or fixed states on the default axis, real upstream provided

Re: [RFC] target font model on Freedesktop systems

2019-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le mercredi 24 juillet 2019 à 14:37 +0200, Kevin Kofler a écrit : Hi, Kevin Thank you for taking the time to answer, > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > 2. fontconfig strives to hide all the legacy ways to designate > > different > > parts of this ideal font, and strives to

Re: [Heads up] Fedora Container base image is getting smaller

2019-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
only in the minimal install, because some users could not be bothered to select the fonts group when they needed a system with fonts, and pestered maintainers till a font was added to the default install (and DejaVu Sans is good value for that, because it provide

Re: HEADS UP: Source File Verification

2019-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
single %gpgverify call that loops over all the available variables. With a declarative syntax there is less boilerplate in spec files, the implementation can be changed later, or even moved outside the build process, without requiring the rewrite of thousands of spec files Regards, -- Nicolas

Re: systemd-243-rc1

2019-07-31 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
could not test new Fedora devel kernels for about a month, because newer kernels exposed a bug in networkd, and the current systemd release + packaging process was unable to produce a Fedora devel systemd, that worked with Fedora devel kernels Regards, --

Re: systemd-243-rc1

2019-07-31 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le mercredi 31 juillet 2019 à 17:03 +0200, Andreas Tunek a écrit : > > > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, 16:10 Nicolas Mailhot via devel, < > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Le 2019-07-31 14:13, Lennart Poettering a écrit : > > > > Hi Lennart > > > &

Re: Rolling out Phase I of rawhide package gating

2019-07-31 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
lities, than the ones we built in our tools. TLS stacks are heavily biaised towards refusing to connect as soon as something does not matches their expectations (and they usually forget to tell you what they didn't like). -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel ma

Re: Rolling out Phase I of rawhide package gating

2019-07-31 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le mercredi 31 juillet 2019 à 13:34 -0700, Kevin Fenzi a écrit : > On 7/31/19 12:05 PM, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > > Le mercredi 31 juillet 2019 à 12:25 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III a > > écrit : > > > > > > > > "KF" == Kevin Fenzi wri

Re: Rolling out Phase I of rawhide package gating

2019-07-31 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le mercredi 31 juillet 2019 à 16:10 -0700, Brian C. Lane a écrit : > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 09:05:21PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot via devel > wrote: > > Le mercredi 31 juillet 2019 à 12:25 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III a > > écrit : > > > > > > > > "KF&quo

Re: systemd-243-rc1

2019-08-01 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le mercredi 31 juillet 2019 à 21:05 +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek a écrit : > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 08:52:36PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot via devel > wrote: > > And when, > > finally, systemd makes a new release, it does not even use > > integrator > > and automa

Re: Rolling out Phase I of rawhide package gating

2019-08-01 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le jeudi 01 août 2019 à 00:27 -0700, Samuel Sieb a écrit : > On 7/31/19 11:41 PM, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > > Le mercredi 31 juillet 2019 à 16:10 -0700, Brian C. Lane a écrit : > > > If so you can pass > > > inst.noverifyssl to anaconda to tell it to ignor

Re: systemd-243-rc1

2019-08-01 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
anything else that works for everyone (and many tried). The preversion in semver is basically "it will break right and left, who cares, no one will use it". Written by idealists that forgot the point of preversions is to be used and deployed so some testing is done before final release. --

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 31 Beta Freeze

2019-09-02 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
to reduce confusion. Therefore, banning the 24:00 notation is necessary for interoperability, even if one does not agree with the IETF decision. (00:00 however is well-defined and not ambiguous) Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- d

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 31 Beta Freeze

2019-09-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2019-09-02 19:27, Kevin Kofler a écrit : Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: 2. However the IETF explicitely forbid it when defining the ISO 8501 subset allowed on the Internet RFC 3339> Although ISO 8601 permits the hour to be "24", this profile of ISO RFC 3339> 8601 on

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
dy manages. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guideli

Re: F29 liberations-fonts dependencies are messed in several packages(or it's dnf)

2019-09-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
) not explicit package name) Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/co

Re: F29 liberations-fonts dependencies are messed in several packages(or it's dnf)

2019-09-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2019-09-13 10:39, Kevin Kofler a écrit : Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: The correct thing would have been never to create a narrow liberation subpackage in the first place since narrow is just a face of a font (like bold). In theory, in an ideal world, that makes sense. But in practice

Re: F29 liberations-fonts dependencies are messed in several packages(or it's dnf)

2019-09-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le vendredi 13 septembre 2019 à 12:18 +0200, Kevin Kofler a écrit : > Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > > That's an historical artefact, that made sense when everyone used > > the > > same dozen font on windows, and when each and everyone of them > > could

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-06 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
kes harder. However, because out packa -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-06 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2020-01-06 19:05, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : Handling those checks is where the packaging toil is (that is, as long as Fedora is a deployment project). It is not something the packaging format makes harder. However, because our packaging format streamlines those checks, and forces to apply

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
k/Amazon/Microsoft oligopoly. People feel "free" to switch corporate masters, they to not feel the urge to make commons work. -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
t that good marketing has something to do with it. They had good marketing in the form of a billionaire publicly showering cash around “in the public interest”. The press (especially the non- technical press) loves this kind of story. Unfortunately, it’s not something cheap or easy to replic

Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!

2020-01-07 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le mardi 07 janvier 2020 à 18:37 +0100, Clement Verna a écrit : > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020, 18:21 Nicolas Mailhot via devel < > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Le mardi 07 janvier 2020 à 17:14 +0100, Iñaki Ucar a écrit : > > > > > > I'm

Re: Lagging system with latest kernels

2020-01-09 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
without swap, with or without heavy copying. The kernel does not seem to understand the difference between latency-sensitive usb input and throughput-sensitive non input usb traffic. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ devel mailing list -- devel

Re: Fedora 32 Self-Contained Change proposal: Provide OpenType Bitmap Fonts

2020-01-09 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
in slightly different conditions, but also triggers app bugs. The old files are not "harmless". > As it stands, having more than *.otb causes the weird hex number > rectangle glyph "Terminus Italic", Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot _

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