Re: Splitting up linux-firmware

2025-06-04 Thread Neal Gompa
well. > > Does anyone see any (other) issues with this? > I think it's a good idea, but from my experience, you'll probably want a metapackage that pulls everything in so install media and live media can include them. That *might* negate some of the benefits, depending on ho

Re: Validation of keyring changes [was: Enhancing cross-distro collaboration via foreign archive keyring] availability

2024-10-16 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 9:13 AM Robie Basak wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 08:48:25AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > Question then: what makes archlinux-keyring or debian-*-keyring > > packages different from distribution-gpg-keys? Shouldn't both of them > > get kic

Re: Validation of keyring changes [was: Enhancing cross-distro collaboration via foreign archive keyring] availability

2024-10-16 Thread Neal Gompa
se > changes are not suitable for SRU in Ubuntu. Question then: what makes archlinux-keyring or debian-*-keyring packages different from distribution-gpg-keys? Shouldn't both of them get kicked out of the Ubuntu archive for the same reason? -- Neal Gompa (FAS: ngompa) -- ubuntu-devel mailin

Re: Proposal to make MariaDB the default MySQL variant in Ubuntu 25.04

2024-09-20 Thread Neal Gompa
Provides: ) by MariaDB package(s). IMO, it is not worth it to maintain the illusion that MariaDB is a "MySQL" implementation anymore. [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F40_MariaDB_MySQL_repackaging -- Neal Gompa (FAS: ngompa) -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Enhancing cross-distro collaboration via foreign archive keyring availability

2024-09-04 Thread Neal Gompa
and if the key were to be revoked and replaced, it gets put into that package pretty much immediately. Otherwise, people's local package builds start failing. -- Neal Gompa (FAS: ngompa) -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Enhancing cross-distro collaboration via foreign archive keyring availability

2024-09-04 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 6:27 AM Luca Boccassi wrote: > > Hi, > > For developers like myself who work across distributions, it is very > valuable to have a secure, simple and transparent way to bootstrap one > distro from another without relying on external trust anchors that > have to be verified m

Re: move to deb822 sources in ubuntu:lunar docker image

2023-01-19 Thread Neal Gompa
/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources?) > doesn't exist, and then just write out the old format to sources.list as > before. > > I definitely anticipate lots of breakage from this change! I hope all > the effort will be worth it. > Having a more comprehensible apt source co

Re: Upgrade Notifications for Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio

2022-09-08 Thread Neal Gompa
identify your operating system and its upgrade path. This is something that is being worked on for Fedora KDE, so I'm aware of the possibility. -- Neal Gompa (FAS: ngompa) -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: New Ubuntu Core Developers - Olivier Tilloy and Sergio Durigan Junior!

2020-11-05 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 4:52 AM Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > After yesterday's DMB meeting, please congratulate our two new Ubuntu > core-dev members: oSoMon and sergiodj! Welcome to the team! > Congratulations! :) -- 真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth! -- ubuntu-devel

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2020-02-09 Thread Neal Gompa
On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 8:33 PM Robie Basak wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 11:38:19PM +, Seth Arnold wrote: > > Can we replace the meeting with something else entirely, something that > > fits better into the schedules of distributed, busy, people? > > Absolutely. The DMB can change how the

Re: RFC: baseline requirements for Ubuntu rootfs: xattrs and fscaps

2018-08-22 Thread Neal Gompa
On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 5:53 PM Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hi John, > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 10:09:53PM +0100, John Lenton wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2018 at 21:16, Steve Langasek > > wrote: > > > > I think it's exceedingly unlikely that anyone is going to unpack, and > > > subsequently boot, an

Re: Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git

2018-05-12 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 4:29 AM Bryan Quigley wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 7:31 PM, Simon Quigley wrote: >> Hello Mark, >> On 05/05/2018 01:15 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: >> >> > First, we have Curtin, which knows how to take a description of a >> > machine and do-the-right-thing; parti

Re: zstd compression for packages

2018-03-14 Thread Neal Gompa
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:09 AM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 09:30:16AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:11 AM, Daniel Axtens >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I looked into compression algorithms a bit in a prev

Re: zstd compression for packages

2018-03-14 Thread Neal Gompa
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:11 AM, Daniel Axtens wrote: > Hi, > > I looked into compression algorithms a bit in a previous role, and to be > honest I'm quite surprised to see zstd proposed for package storage. zstd, > according to its own github repo, is "targeting real-time compression > scenarios"

Re: aptdaemon

2017-03-20 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > I believe aptdaemon is effectively abandoned. It's been removed from Debian > but it's still hanging around in Ubuntu due to a few reverse dependencies: > > % reverse-depends aptdaemon > Reverse-Depends > === > * gnome-software >

Re: Dropping LXC backend from Ubuntu's libvirtd

2016-12-07 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 3:49 AM, Stéphane Graber wrote: > Hey there, > > Ubuntu's libvirt currently ships with its own Linux Containers > implementation (confusingly called libvirt-lxc). > > This code has nothing to do with upstream LXC, confuses users who expect > that it does and is in general a

Re: Only one qt version on the Ubuntu Desktop iso?

2016-03-21 Thread Neal Gompa
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hey there, > > The only reason the Xenial Ubuntu Desktop iso currently has qt4 still > included is because the "integration components for softwares using that > toolkit" are Recommends (appmenu-qt, sni-qt, fcitx-frontend-qt4). > > The def

Re: Knocking Python 2 off the desktop iso

2016-03-10 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > Hi Sebastien, > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 08:08:35PM +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote: >> Hey Barry, >> >> Le 08/03/2016 17:36, Barry Warsaw a écrit : >> > I know this makes things less friendly for people who need Windows >> > resources, >>