Update policies for security bugs [Was, Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian]

2013-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:42:05AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Steve Langasek writes (Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian): To me, being redirected to stable-updates constitutes a refusal/denial by the security team to use the security updates channel. Again, if it's a security issue that's

Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2013-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:51:40PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org schrieb: I understand the motivation (like everyone else they have more to do than they have time to do it in), but I think the outcome, whereby the security team denies use of the security

Re: Introducing dgit - git integration with the Debian archive

2013-08-25 Thread Steve Langasek
*, not importing the package history from the archive would make dgit much less useful for the common case than UDD is today. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Introducing dgit - git integration with the Debian archive

2013-08-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 08:11:56PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Steve Langasek writes (Re: Introducing dgit - git integration with the Debian archive): I don't think removing the automatic importer is an improvement at all. I agree. Except that I wanted something I could deploy and use

Re: Introducing dgit - git integration with the Debian archive

2013-08-25 Thread Steve Langasek
just fell short of the ideal. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2013-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
if the end product could be made public. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2013-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
window instead. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2013-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
. As far as I'm concerned, a security fix that isn't worth being pushed to security.debian.org is also not worth me spending time on as a maintainer to push to stable-updates. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Accepted rpcbind 0.2.0-8.1 (source i386)

2013-08-12 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:11:48 +0200 Source: rpcbind Binary: rpcbind Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.2.0-8.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar ani...@debian.org Changed-By: Steve Langasek vor

Re: python-debian: switch ar implementation to python-arpy

2013-08-01 Thread Steve Langasek
has a responsive upstream and maintainer. The python-arpy package in the NEW queue doesn't have a python3 version, so this would regress python-debian. You might want to fix this first. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: /etc/hosts and resolving of the local host/domainname - 127.0.0.1 vs. 127.0.1.1

2013-07-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 03:46:29PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 07/31/2013 08:30 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: What I'm missing your email is a problem statement explaining what it is you're trying to solve. The current implementation has been working reliably for years. He did wrote

Re: /etc/hosts and resolving of the local host/domainname - 127.0.0.1 vs. 127.0.1.1

2013-07-30 Thread Steve Langasek
then which usually makes it really clear what happens. You have overlooked the fact that only one of these can be the canonical hostname of 127.0.0.1, and having the hostname and localhost canonicalize to each other causes problems. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 03:15:12PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 07/18/2013 01:29 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: - Reliable, low-maintenance system startup (no races / ordering bugs) Could you point at these bugs? No. Look, Thomas, you asked what the goals of event-based init systems

Re: /usr (was: Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this) means for our ports

2013-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:06:27PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:25:42AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 05:07:39PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: - using the same infrastructure, it's also possible to mount /etc in the initramfs so that you can

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:17:58AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 07/16/2013 02:19 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:18:17PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: If OpenRC goes up to the shape I expect, it will have a huge advantage over systemd and Upstart

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-17 Thread Steve Langasek
today. But being told that things will work out in the long term is cold comfort for anyone who needs a working system in the meantime. I wonder what systemd integration problems will be handwaved as somebody else's problem, the way the kernel audio driver issues were for PA. -- Steve Langasek

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:36:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/17/2013 09:26 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:58:49AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I am sorry, but in my eyes, people who claim that PulseAudio is useless simply don't realize

Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:55:16PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/17/2013 09:45 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: That's Fedora, right, which adopted PulseAudio in 2007 and told the rest of the world it was ready for production use? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases

Re: /usr (was: Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this) means for our ports

2013-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
/fstab. This is *not* how this should be handled. The initramfs should take the information about the root filesystem from the kernel commandline, and its information about /usr from /etc/fstab *on the root filesystem once it has been mounted*. Anything else is a wrong design. -- Steve Langasek

Re: /usr (was: Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this) means for our ports

2013-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
this is a bug in e2fsprogs for treating / specially wrt fsck after mount. We should fix this in e2fsprogs, not work around it by changing the semantics of fsck-at-boot. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-15 Thread Steve Langasek
. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-15 Thread Steve Langasek
with non-Linux kernels. Not sure where this idea comes from. upstart has never supported non-Linux kernels; we're open to it being ported to other kernels, but prctl is a minor detail for kernel compatibility compared with other, more significant features that upstart relies on. -- Steve

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 07:48:22PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/15/2013 07:11 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: Not sure where this idea comes from. upstart has never supported non-Linux kernels; we're open to it being ported to other kernels, but prctl is a minor detail for kernel

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-15 Thread Steve Langasek
. It will just be an improvement, and that's it. It will be a minor improvement that does nothing to address the problems with sysvinit that upstart and systemd aim to solve, which means implementing it in Debian will be a waste of our time and distract from solving the real problems. -- Steve

Re: AGPLv3 Compliance and Debian Users

2013-07-11 Thread Steve Langasek
, even when they aren't free in other aspects of their lives that we don't have control over. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: AGPLv3 Compliance and Debian Users

2013-07-11 Thread Steve Langasek
developer. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor

Re: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#715110: Broken library symlink detected in libsamba-util-dev

2013-07-06 Thread Steve Langasek
of the other bugs are similar. Please downgrade the bugs from your MBF to a more appropriate severity. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Broken library symlink detected in libsamba-util-dev

2013-07-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 04:10:16AM -0400, Dave Steele wrote: On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: serious when there's a grand total of 0 packages that use this -dev package for linking against the library? Not hardly. I think this severity: serious

Re: Is updating utmp when logging in a user a requirement in Debian?

2013-07-03 Thread Steve Langasek
this fix has not made it into the Debian package yet, though. lightdm still doesn't create wtmp entries; but as TTBOMK 'last' is the only command that cares about wtmp rather than utmp, and this is effectively just a log, I think this is a lower-priority issue. -- Steve Langasek Give

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-07-02 Thread Steve Langasek
make /etc/resolv.conf a real file and resolvconf won't mess with it any further. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Accepted mountall 2.49 (source amd64)

2013-07-02 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:51:12 -0700 Source: mountall Binary: mountall Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.49 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org Changed-By: Steve Langasek vor

Re: Hardening Flags for sg3-utils

2013-06-25 Thread Steve Langasek
do this, which is the preferred way to enable hardening now anyway? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org

Re: system time has change while installing

2013-06-19 Thread Steve Langasek
-ignorant BIOS will be correct. But who looks at the time in the BIOS anyway? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Steve Langasek
removed that complexity, you can't re-synthesize it from thin air in order to autogenerate init scripts; you have to maintain it somewhere. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-06-11 Thread Steve Langasek
, but there are some important cases (such as split-DNS over a VPN) that couldn't be handled in the kernel. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Accepted nfs-utils 1:1.2.8-4 (source amd64)

2013-06-01 Thread Steve Langasek
Changed-By: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org Description: nfs-common - NFS support files common to client and server nfs-kernel-server - support for NFS kernel server Closes: 707960 Changes: nfs-utils (1:1.2.8-4) unstable; urgency=low . * The configure option name is --with-gssglue

Re: Custom Reload command/signal in upstart

2013-05-31 Thread Steve Langasek
claimed https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/893021 for himself in response to this thread. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Accepted nfs-utils 1:1.2.8-3 (source amd64)

2013-05-31 Thread Steve Langasek
Changed-By: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org Description: nfs-common - NFS support files common to client and server nfs-kernel-server - support for NFS kernel server Closes: 707960 Changes: nfs-utils (1:1.2.8-3) unstable; urgency=low . * Add myself as comaintainer, per 518fcece.7050

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
covered before, so I'm disappointed to see this claim being repeated. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/02/msg00896.html -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu

Re: Multi-Arch for plugin packages

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
transition, by having the plugin-loader load from both locations. Right. The rule of thumb here should be to only put plugins to a multiarch directory if the loader of the plugins is a library that it's interesting to enable as Multi-Arch: same. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
changing the default init comes with no obligation on maintainers to write configuration files for the new thing before they're convinced of its utility. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:12:58PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:38:40AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: development (because unlike the systemd developers, the upstart developers aren't trying to sell anyone a bill of goods about how their existing units are perfect

Re: How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
function you can call to check if init is upstart, and if so, neuter your init script: if init_is_upstart; then exit 1 fi Doing this automatically by including /lib/lsb/init-functions would be EBW. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
is *the very purpose* of Debian's existence, is not for systemd upstream (or any upstream) to dictate. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:36:42PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: ❦ 30 mai 2013 23:07 CEST, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org : . /lib/lsb/init-functions (Which should be near the top of your init script already.) This will automagically invoke systemd or upstart if appropriate

Re: How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:41:56PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:07:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:00:40PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:39:55PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: Practical question: if I were

Re: Ubuntu and Plymouth

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
; that one is still on my radar, though I'm sorry to say I don't know when I'll have a chance to work on it. Patches to make the plymouth 'details' plugin support passing through fsck status info would be most welcome.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Re: MBF: transition from texi2html to texinfo

2013-05-28 Thread Steve Langasek
. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor

Re: MBF: transition from texi2html to texinfo

2013-05-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:45:25PM -0400, Ryan Kavanagh wrote: On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 05:08:06PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: There have been two responses to your proposal so far, neither of which particularly looks to be in favor of your plan. I don't think it's reasonable to proceed

Accepted myodbc 5.1.10-3 (source amd64)

2013-05-28 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 17:23:39 -0700 Source: myodbc Binary: libmyodbc Architecture: source amd64 Version: 5.1.10-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org Changed-By: Steve Langasek vor

Accepted freetds 0.91-4 (source all amd64)

2013-05-28 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 19:01:28 -0700 Source: freetds Binary: freetds-common libct4 freetds-bin tdsodbc libsybdb5 freetds-dev Architecture: source all amd64 Version: 0.91-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Langasek

Re: using upstart in Debian

2013-05-27 Thread Steve Langasek
for services and should not be used except in special cases. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:40:19AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, 23 May 2013 12:50:00 -0700, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: Also worth noting: ~/systemd$ find . -name '*.c' | grep -vE 'tests|test/|intl/|udev/' \ | xargs wc -l | tail -n1 149081 total $ find . -name

Re: using upstart in Debian [was, Re: Debian systemd survey]

2013-05-24 Thread Steve Langasek
parallelization. Definitely. This is why upstart offers the 'expect fork' and 'expect daemon' options in the first place, and why this limitation in using fork/daemon is important for us to fix. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-23 Thread Steve Langasek
, the libraries, and a little-known daemon called 'udev'. The systemd init is *not* in Ubuntu and there are no plans to change that. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-23 Thread Steve Langasek
wish. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor

Re: Upstart kFreeBSD port for Debian

2013-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
...@debian.org wrote: On 20/05/13 at 18:19 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: - Neither systemd nor upstart are likely to be ported to kfreebsd soon, as they both rely on many Linux-specific features and interfaces. Well, Colin Watson, Matthias Klose, Steve Langasek, James Hunt and I

Re: Debian launchd survey

2013-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
it be possible to port that to Debian/kFreeBSD? It's designed to run in a BSD userland, after all. That doesn't seem like it would help at all with the concern about keeping our userspace aligned across kernels. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

using upstart in Debian [was, Re: Debian systemd survey]

2013-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
, and at the end calls 'initctl emit startup' to call into the rest of the boot sequence; then you pass '--startup-event=real-startup-event' to init on the kernel commandline. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
GNOME and freedesktop.org without regard to integration with our existing system, because if Lennart says it's right it must be so. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 07:45:32PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 22 mai 2013 à 09:41 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 02:45:54PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: When you compare the time it takes to write an upstart job file or a systemd unit file

Re: /bin/sh

2013-05-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 01:10:06PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:21:33PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:03:34AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I think that, to convince people that flexibility won't cause stability and complexity

Re: Jessie goals, and /etc/host.conf

2013-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
configuring the behavior of the libc resolver. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread Steve Langasek
if they choose. But I don't see any reason why an end user should care about this, period. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: /bin/sh

2013-05-14 Thread Steve Langasek
, it should again be possible to use a simple local diversion to do so. Yes. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Re: Apport for Debian

2013-05-13 Thread Steve Langasek
be a start. It could help users request debug packages from package maintainers. This is a poor use of package maintainers' time. The problem of debug symbols packages needs to be solved centrally for the whole archive, not with continued use of one-off builds. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Apport for Debian

2013-05-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 05:56:25PM +0100, Wookey wrote: +++ Steve Langasek [2013-05-13 11:22 -0500]: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 06:21:24PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Monday 13 May 2013 03:55 PM, Arno Töll wrote: note that, unlike Ubuntu we do not provide automated debug packages

Re: systemd^wfoo on linux, bar on bsd,so what (Re: /bin/sh

2013-05-13 Thread Steve Langasek
in Ubuntu. Replacing consolekit with logind is an eminently sane thing to do, and we should definitely adopt this in Debian. But logind being bundled with systemd source is no more an argument for adopting systemd as an init system than the embracing and extending of udev is. -- Steve Langasek

Re: parsable copyright format 1.0 (jessie release goals)

2013-05-12 Thread Steve Langasek
copyright format available does not imply that it's mandatory to use it. I stand by this position, and am opposed to any efforts to make this mandatory until there is very good tooling for generating these files painlessly that the project has a high degree of confidence in. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Bug#707601: ITP: debmake -- helper script to make the Debian source package

2013-05-12 Thread Steve Langasek
packages seems like a sure recipe for both tools falling behind in the long term. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
choice. It is about providing a high quality, free operating system to our users. This ridiculous complexity in /bin/sh handling undermines that quality. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
. Debian should not tether itself to an implementation that's going to hinder us, when you're already swimming against the current by trying to enforce this requirement. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 08:17:51PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Steve Langasek (2013-05-11 18:33:03) On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:22:10AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [...] the real goal of the change was to be able to have more than *2* packages provide /bin/sh

Re: epoch fix?

2013-05-09 Thread Steve Langasek
maintainers try very hard to avoid. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Re: Depends: libfoo:foreign ???

2013-05-09 Thread Steve Langasek
, but should be satisfiable within each architecture; britney just needs to support them. This would let us finally make use of Multi-Arch: allowed in the archive. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-08 Thread Steve Langasek
mounting /usr from the initramfs. Until we have that, all the should/shouldn't, do it by default, etc. discussions are pointless. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Removal of the /selinux directory

2013-05-07 Thread Steve Langasek
, ie. no selinuxfs mounted there. +1. The system created this directory as an exception to the FHS; it should take care of cleaning it up as obsolete. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Steve Langasek
layout. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-07 Thread Steve Langasek
is working against us. Which is exactly why we should merge them. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 01:43:03AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 05/08/2013 12:40 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 11:34:20AM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 07:31:36PM +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote: What about merging / and /usr ? No please. We

Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Steve Langasek
the delta on this package now. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Re: Derivatives, MongoDB and freezes

2013-04-22 Thread Steve Langasek
, trying to push for more collaboration when you can. That is the policy that I am trying to apply to myself, and I hope it will be appreciated from both sides (eg: Debian and Ubuntu) in the long run. Well said. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: multiarch and interpreters/runtimes

2013-04-19 Thread Steve Langasek
modules. But you need the foreign-architecture libperl installable, for the perl modules to be linked against. This is the bit that's unimplemented today (for most such interpreters, anyway). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: multiarch and interpreters/runtimes

2013-04-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 05:26:41PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:01:17PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 04:18:38PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: I don't see a need to have the perl:i386 interpreter installed on amd64 in order to build third party

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-16 Thread Steve Langasek
? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org

Re: DPL 2013: Lats call for votes

2013-04-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:29:06AM +0200, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 8367b943-96ac-4530-afbd-529da5fc4fd5 [ 7 ] Choice 1: Gergely Nagy [ 3 ] Choice 2: Moray Allan [ Q ] Choice 3: Lucas Nussbaum [

Re: Debian two-factor auth, GSoC?

2013-04-12 Thread Steve Langasek
, by making such a tool a dependency of the Java plugin package itself!), I think it's a very bad idea for Debian to get entangled with any such implementation. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-09 Thread Steve Langasek
that *directly contradict what the user requested on the commandline*. http://bugs.debian.org/661678 -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Accepted edk2 0~20121205.edae8d2d-1 (source all)

2013-04-09 Thread Steve Langasek
-By: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org Description: ovmf - UEFI firmware for virtual machines Changes: edk2 (0~20121205.edae8d2d-1) unstable; urgency=low . * Initial release. Checksums-Sha1: 5838a4873c060bfe341fe4cd8fc1efe8d0c6da83 2053 edk2_0~20121205.edae8d2d-1.dsc

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-07 Thread Steve Langasek
may or may not be appropriate to apply, but in no case should you be referencing LVM volumes by UUID on /etc/fstab. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Accepted freetds 0.91-3 (source all amd64)

2013-04-02 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:55:10 + Source: freetds Binary: freetds-common libct4 freetds-bin tdsodbc libsybdb5 freetds-dev Architecture: source all amd64 Version: 0.91-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Langasek

Re: dak-roulette activated

2013-04-01 Thread Steve Langasek
enclose the documentation for your reference. This seems to be a misnomer. The documentation makes it clear that it's based on Russian roulette, not on roulette the casino game; dak-roulette is as a result misleading, we should find a better name for this. How about dak-svidanya? -- Steve

Bug#704054: /etc/environment.d

2013-03-27 Thread Steve Langasek
, but having to generate files in /etc from other files is ugly and should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
common pre-deps seem to be multiarch-support, and dpkg). So I think this is a clear cut legitimate use of a Pre-Depends, but of course this should still get other eyeballs on it in case I've missed something. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
rules; so preferably, those udev rules would be the *only* place the device perms need to be handled, and that means making sure the rules are valid at unpack time. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I

Accepted mountall 2.48 (source amd64)

2013-03-08 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:36:22 + Source: mountall Binary: mountall Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.48 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org Changed-By: Steve Langasek vor

Re: Bootstrapping: list of 81 self-cycles in Debian Sid

2013-03-05 Thread Steve Langasek
proposed syntax.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com

Re: Incompatible change in the ifupdown hooks interface

2013-03-05 Thread Steve Langasek
), it appears that avahi would have misbehaved in the same way. I don't know why these --all calls are a useful thing for ifupdown to do, but I do think it's the responsibility of the avahi package to sensibly ignore values of $ADDRFAM that it doesn't understand. -- Steve Langasek

Accepted sqsh 2.1.7-2 (source amd64)

2013-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:50:59 + Source: sqsh Binary: sqsh Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.1.7-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org Changed-By: Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org

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