Re: Subjects and threads

s? So you've decided to invent and follow your own 'standard'. Great. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Accepted linux-latest 75 (all source) into unstable, unstable

Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: linux-doc - Linux kernel specific documentation (meta-package) linux-headers-4kc-malta - Header files for Linux 4kc-malta configuration (meta-package) linux-headers-586 - Header files f

Accepted linux-signed 2.2 (i386 source) into unstable, unstable

-s390x Architecture: i386 source Version: 2.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: acpi-modules-4.7.0-1-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.7.0-

Accepted linux 4.7.2-1 (all source) into unstable, unstable

-smp linux-image-4.7.0-1-sparc64-smp-dbgsym linux-compiler-gcc-5-arm linux-compiler-gcc-5-s390 linux-compiler-gcc-5-x86 Architecture: all source Version: 4.7.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchi

Re: Mount namespaces

. [...] > Oh, and why does kdevtmpfs appear in the list of daemons with a > private mount namespace, but it _doesn't_ need to be stopped to do the > unmount? What is special about that one? Perhaps its unit file includes MountFlags=private. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Quantity is no substitute fo

Re: Bug#832451: ITP: aufs4 -- advanced multi layered unification filesystem version 4.x

h.debian.org/projects/filesystems/ > > > > I need a sponsor for the package. > > We have already overlayfs in modern kernels. Could you explain why we > need aufs4 as well? I believe aufs stil has these advantages over overlayfs: - Can be exported via NFS - White-outs sha

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

the size allocated to tmpfs (or rather /tmp on tmpfs) does > not > change. It is a fixed size (kernel default to 50% of RAM). That is a *limit* on the size allocated to it. > The benefit of tmpfs over ramfs (previous implementation) is that > tmpfs can be resized live. [...] He said r

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

n swap. So reading a file back from swap can involve more seeks than doing the same from a filesystem. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ? [and 1 more messages]

> away than a server that goes into pathological performance from using > swap. Agreed. Ben. > Desktops and laptops are obviously a different issue with different > tradeoffs. > -- Ben Hutchings Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Accepted linux-signed 2.1 (amd64 source) into experimental, experimental

ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: acpi-modules-4.7.0-rc7-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.7.0-rc7-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.7.0-rc7-amd64-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) affs-modules-4.7.0-r

Accepted sgt-puzzles 20160429.b31155b-1 (source) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 01:34:44 +0100 Source: sgt-puzzles Binary: sgt-puzzles Architecture: source Version: 20160429.b31155b-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Changed-B

Accepted linux 4.7~rc7-1~exp1 (all source) into experimental, experimental

<debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Closes: 690737 827790 Description: affs-modules-4.7.0-rc7-4kc-malta-di - Amiga filesystem support (udeb) affs-modules-4.7.0-rc7-5kc-malta-di - Amiga filesystem support (udeb) affs-modules-4.7.0-rc7-loongson-

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

On Fri, 2016-07-08 at 23:17 -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > On 4 July 2016 at 18:38, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: [...] > > > Also, I imagine this might one day be necessary, > > > particularly if tracking backported linux-src due to ABI change

Accepted linux-base 4.4 (source) into unstable

y: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: linux-base - Linux image base package Closes: 826779 828725 828772 828944 830171 Changes: linux-base (4.4) unstable; urgency=medium . [ Ben Hutchings ] * Update debconf template translations: - Portuguese (Américo Monteiro) (Clo

Accepted linux 4.6.3-1 (all source) into unstable

Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: acpi-modules-4.6.0-1-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.6.0-1-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.6.0-1-amd64-di - ACPI support modules

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

e giving false hope, in that the devices not supported in stable might still be unsupported in stable-backports. > On 04/07/16 23:38, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > As I understand it, xserver-xorg-video-modesetting should be used > > instead of xserver-xorg-video-intel, for chips suppo

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 10:07 +0200, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 07:05:42PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 14:01 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > > A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners > > > of

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

t; Ben, could you please lend your insight into this point? [...] I don't know what the question is.  I have no involvement in maintenance or testing of out-of-tree drivers, other than occasionally checking whether they build against the current kernel version and filing bugs on those that don't.

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

platform. Those are the only two architectures I'm > thinking of supporting at this point. > > Is anybody else interested in helping? Thoughts/comments? When do you anticipate this would be releasable?  Would it really be long enough before stretch, to be worthwhile? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Lo

Accepted kxl 1.1.7-16.1 (source) into unstable

hanged-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: libkxl0- multimedia library for game development libkxl0-dev - development files for libkxl0 Closes: 826519 Changes: kxl (1.1.7-16.1) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload * Change package format to 3.0

Accepted sbsigntool 0.6-3.1 (source) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 23:39:15 +0200 Source: sbsigntool Binary: sbsigntool Architecture: source Version: 0.6-3.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Pierre Chifflier <pol...@debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchi

Accepted linux-signed 1.3 (source) into unstable

linux-image-4.6.0-1-s390x-signed Architecture: source Version: 1.3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: linux-image-4.6.0-1-686-pae-signed - ${unsigned:Desc

Accepted linux 4.6.2-2 (source) into unstable

Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: acpi-modules-4.6.0-1-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.6.0-1-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.6.0-1-amd64-di - ACPI support modules (udeb)

Re: Handling Multi-Arch packages that must be installed for every enabled architecture?

other Multi-Arch value, how about adding 'Recommends: Y:every' to Y?  (This also moves the problem up from dpkg to APT.) Ben. > Any ideas on how to solve this problem? -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Accepted linux-signed 2 (i386 source) into experimental, experimental

ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: acpi-modules-4.7.0-rc4-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.7.0-rc4-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.7.0-rc4-amd64-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) affs-modules-4.7.0-rc4-

Accepted linux 4.7~rc4-1~exp1 (all source) into experimental, experimental

: 4.7~rc4-1~exp1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: affs-modules-4.7.0-rc4-4kc-malta-di - Amiga filesystem support (udeb) affs-modules-4.7.0-rc4-5kc-malt

Accepted linux-signed 1.2 (source) into unstable

linux-image-4.6.0-1-s390x-signed Architecture: source Version: 1.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: linux-image-4.6.0-1-686-pae-signed - ${unsigned:Desc

Accepted linux 4.7~rc3-1~exp1 (all source) into experimental, experimental

Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Closes: 826367 827618 Description: affs-modules-4.7.0-rc3-4kc-malta-di - Amiga filesystem support (udeb) affs-modules-4.7.0-rc3-5kc-malta-di - Amiga filesystem support (udeb) affs-modules-4.7.0-rc3-lo

Re: Next steps for gitlab.debian (Re: GitLab B.V. to host free-software GitLab for Debian project)

On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 06:12 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 10:41:33PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I don't see what's so unreasonable about that.  They're asking you to > > provide the same licence for your contributions, as the licence for the >

Accepted linux-signed 1.1 (i386 source) into unstable, unstable

linux-image-4.6.0-1-s390x-signed Architecture: i386 source Version: 1.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: linux-image-4.6.0-1-68

Accepted linux-latest 74 (all source) into unstable, unstable

linux-headers-kirkwood linux-image-orion5x linux-headers-orion5x Architecture: all source Version: 74 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: linux-doc -

Re: Next steps for gitlab.debian (Re: GitLab B.V. to host free-software GitLab for Debian project)

software and > keep those patches forever. Been there done that. For me, that isn't > acceptable.  > I don't want another Nagios.  This, however, is a concern I share.  I would be interested to know whether such a contribution has ever been offered to Gitlab and what the result of that w

Re: Next steps for gitlab.debian (Re: GitLab B.V. to host free-software GitLab for Debian project)

ware.  Every FOSS project expects that, even if they don't make such a formal statement of it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

en ping works for non-root users. > > How, just by executing dpkg-reconfigure, did I tell it this is what > I wanted?  If that's the default, why wasn't it that way to begin with? It probably was, but see bug #770492. > More generally, is it somehow possible to still run debian without > capa

Accepted linux 4.6.1-1 (all source) into unstable, unstable

Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Closes: 692333 730073 815850 Description: acpi-modules-4.6.0-1-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.6.0-1-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.6.0-1-amd

Accepted linux-base 4.3 (source) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 17:06:15 +0100 Source: linux-base Binary: linux-base Architecture: source Version: 4.3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-B

Re: Detecting install vs upgrade in postinst

On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 18:41 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 02:22:18AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 12:22 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > [Please CC me on replies.  Aside: in my previous mail, I set both > > >

Re: Detecting install vs upgrade in postinst

ution, Reply to List (Ctrl-L). > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 07:39 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 11:29 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > > > On Jun 05, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.or

Accepted linux-base 4.2 (source) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 23:03:37 +0100 Source: linux-base Binary: linux-base Architecture: source Version: 4.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-B

Re: Detecting install vs upgrade in postinst

On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 16:08 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ben Hutchings writes ("Detecting install vs upgrade in postinst"): > > The postinst script for linux-image-* behaves differently on fresh > > installation vs upgrade.  For a fresh installation, it updates the >

Re: Detecting install vs upgrade in postinst

On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 07:39 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 11:29 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Jun 05, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > > > The postinst script for linux-image-* behaves differen

Re: Detecting install vs upgrade in postinst

On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 11:29 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 05, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > > The postinst script for linux-image-* behaves differently on fresh > > installation vs upgrade.  For a fresh installation, it updates the >

Accepted linux-base 4.1 (source) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 02:13:38 +0100 Source: linux-base Binary: linux-base Architecture: source Version: 4.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-B

Detecting install vs upgrade in postinst

and removing it in postrm.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindberg signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Rebuilding the linux kernel quickly

he powperpc flavor from a powerpc system ? I think there's been a regression somewhere in the rules for setting architecture variables.  Adding 'dpkg-architecture -apowerpc -c' in front of the command may help. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Accepted linux 4.5.5-1 (source) into unstable

ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: acpi-modules-4.5.0-2-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.5.0-2-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.5.0-2-amd64-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) affs-modules-4.5.0-2-4kc-malt

Re: trying to use wireless not from gnome... what's the incantation?

t require systemd as pid 1.  It does, I assume, depend on udev and/or systemd-logind. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Usenet is essentially a HUGE group of people passing notes in class.   - Rachel Kadel, `A Quick Guide to Newsgroup Etiquette' signature.asc Description: This is a digital

Re: trying to use wireless not from gnome... what's the incantation?

On Tue, 2016-05-24 at 00:06 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 01:17:08PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 12:10 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:39:06AM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote

Re: trying to use wireless not from gnome... what's the incantation?

user > > login. > Right... so you say non-Gnome users should keep a Gnome installation just to > enter the wifi password, and log out+log in to Gnome whenever they visit a > new place (which on a laptop means, quite often) then log out+log in back to > their regular environment?  I

Accepted linux-signed 1~exp6 (source) into experimental

Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: linux-image-4.5.0-2-686-pae-signed - Signatures for Linux 4.5.0-2-686-pae kernel and modules linux-image-4.5.0-

Accepted linux 4.6-1~exp1 (all source) into experimental, experimental

<debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: acpi-modules-4.6.0-trunk-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.6.0-trunk-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.6.0-trunk-amd64-di - ACPI support modules (udeb)

Accepted linux 4.5.4-1 (all source) into unstable

ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Closes: 821225 822393 824162 824435 Description: acpi-modules-4.5.0-2-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.5.0-2-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.5.0-2-amd64-di - ACPI support m

Re: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=debug

ault is to distribute debug symbols separately rather than to strip them entirely. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#823465: dpkg: Won't run at all on i586 Pentium MMX due to illegal instruction

sense to me than doing weird things behind the filesystems's back.  Implementing a shutdownfs in initramfs-tools is certainly something I'd like to do, though I don't have any solid plans. Ben. --  Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#824057: ITP: bitkeeper -- source code management system

/tmp > vulnerabilities found with a simple grep, and the author said that no one > had cared because it was only deployed behind firewalls. That's a stunningly blasé attitude to security at this point in time. I really don't think we need more known-vulnerable software in the archive. Ben. --

Accepted linux-signed 1~exp5 (source) into experimental

Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: linux-image-4.5.0-2-686-pae-signed - Signatures for Linux 4.5.0-2-686-pae kernel and modules linux-image-4.5.0-

Accepted linux 4.6~rc7-1~exp1 (all source) into experimental, experimental

<debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: acpi-modules-4.6.0-rc7-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.6.0-rc7-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.6.0-rc7-amd64-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) affs-m

Re: Debian i386 architecture now requires a 686-class processor

ile is crashing on my  > AMD Turion 64 X2, as well on my older K8 cpu. IMO these cpu's should be still  > supported. > > Can you tell me, if the my EEEPC 1005HGO cpu, which is an IBM N260 cpu is  > still supported or not? It's still supported. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you see

Accepted klibc 2.0.4-9 (source) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 08 May 2016 21:59:37 +0100 Source: klibc Binary: libklibc-dev libklibc klibc-utils Architecture: source Version: 2.0.4-9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: maximilian attems <m...@debian.org> Changed-B

Accepted linux 4.5.3-2 (source) into unstable

ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: acpi-modules-4.5.0-2-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.5.0-2-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.5.0-2-amd64-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) affs-modules-4.5.0-2-4kc-malt

Re: Bug#823465: dpkg: Won't run at all on i586 Pentium MMX due to illegal instruction

our should have provided some early warning of the change - linux-image-586 was changed to depend (indirectly) on linux-image-4.3.0-1-686, which would fail to boot.  At that time the old kernel image would remain installed as a fallback, so this was recoverable. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Accepted linux 4.5.3-1 (source) into unstable

ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: acpi-modules-4.5.0-2-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.5.0-2-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.5.0-2-amd64-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) affs-modules-4.5.0-2-4kc-malt

Re: Debian i386 architecture now requires a 686-class processor

On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 13:45 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Hi, > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > Last year it was decided to increase the minimum CPU features for the > > i386 architecture to 686-class in the stretch release cycle.  This > > means dropping sup

Accepted linux-signed 1~exp4 (amd64 source) into experimental, experimental

Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: linux-image-4.5.0-2-686-pae-signed - Signatures for Linux 4.5.0-2-686-pae kernel and modules linux-image-4.5.0-

Accepted linux 4.6~rc5-1~exp1 (all source) into experimental, experimental

<debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: acpi-modules-4.6.0-rc5-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.6.0-rc5-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.6.0-rc5-amd64-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) affs-m

Accepted linux-latest 73 (source) into unstable

Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: linux-doc - Linux kernel specific documentation (meta-package) linux-headers-4kc-malta - Header files for Linux 4kc-malta configuration (meta-package) linux-headers-

Accepted linux 4.5.2-1 (all source) into unstable, unstable

ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Closes: 811351 815977 821442 821741 822084 822267 822364 822666 Description: acpi-modules-4.5.0-2-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.5.0-2-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.5.

Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main

see that, for example, busybox-initramfs is not really missing from Debian (it's an extra binary built from busybox, while in Debian the regular busybox binary package provides binaries for the initramfs). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to cha

Accepted linux-signed 1~exp3 (source) into experimental

Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: linux-image-4.5.0-1-686-pae-signed - Signatures for Linux 4.5.0-1-686-pae kernel and modules linux-image-4.5.0-

Accepted initramfs-tools 0.125 (source) into unstable

ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: initramfs-tools - generic modular initramfs generator (automation) initramfs-tools-core - generic modular initramfs generator (core tools) Closes: 821346 Changes: initramfs-tools (0.125) unstable; ur

Accepted busybox 1:1.22.0-19 (source) into unstable

System Team <debian-b...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: busybox- Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems busybox-static - Standalone rescue shell with tons of builtin utilities busybox-syslogd - Provides syslogd and klogd u

Accepted initramfs-tools 0.124 (source) into unstable

ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: initramfs-tools - generic modular initramfs generator (automation) initramfs-tools-core - generic modular initramfs generator (core tools) Closes: 762634 814965 81 820037 Changes: initramfs-tools (0.124) unsta

Accepted linux-signed 1~exp2 (amd64 source) into experimental, experimental

Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: linux-image-4.5.0-1-686-pae-signed - Signatures for Linux 4.5.0-1-686-pae kernel and modules linux-image-4.5.0-

Accepted linux-latest 72 (source) into unstable

Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: linux-doc - Linux kernel specific documentation (meta-package) linux-headers-4kc-malta - Header files for Linux 4kc-malta configuration (meta-package) linux-headers-

Accepted linux 4.6~rc3-1~exp1 (all source) into experimental, experimental

org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: acpi-modules-4.6.0-rc3-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.6.0-rc3-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.6.0-rc3-amd64-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) affs-modules-4.6.0-rc3-4kc-malt

Accepted linux 4.5.1-1 (all source) into unstable, unstable

ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Closes: 550379 566356 573483 812487 814855 815848 816500 817016 817816 818598 819336 819377 819379 819385 819393 819725 819748 820008 820834 820890 Description: acpi-modules-4.5.0-1-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb)

Re: Opt out style recommends

before it starts using the library, typically right before calling foo_init(), but it wouldn't need to use dlsym().  However this would absolutely depend on lazy binding, i.e. the application would break if LD_BIND_NOW was set. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are ra

Re: Overall bitrot, package reviews and fast(er) unmaintained package removals

On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 01:02 +, Potter, Tim (HPE Linux Support) wrote: > On 7 Apr 2016, at 10:52 AM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> > wrote: > > > > > Given the low quality and lack of unit tests in many scientific > > applications, how confident

Re: Overall bitrot, package reviews and fast(er) unmaintained package removals

stuff [...] Given the low quality and lack of unit tests in many scientific applications, how confident can we be that the 'old' packages (that have now built with newer toolchains and libraries) actually still produce the same results they used to?  If we are not, even that historic value is lost.

Bug#820013: general: Touchpad not working on Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 after updating from 8.3 to 8.4

t see any obviously relevant changes.  What does this command show:     ls -l /sys/class/input/mouse*/device/device/driver ? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings No political challenge can be met by shopping. - George Monbiot signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#820036: Debian does not run on systems with Secure Boot enabled

Package: general Severity: important Most new desktop/laptop PCs cannot run Debian without the firmware being reconfigured to disable Secure Boot. This is a known problem that is being worked on, but it hasn't so far been properly recorded in the BTS. This is a tracking bug which will be marked

Bug#820006: ITP: linux-signed -- Signatures for Linux kernel and modules

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> * Package name: linux-signed Version : 1 Upstream Author : Ben Hutchings * URL : https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/linux-signed.git/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang:

Accepted kmod 22-1.1 (source) into unstable

y: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: kmod - tools for managing Linux kernel modules libkmod-dev - libkmod development files libkmod2 - libkmod shared library libkmod2-udeb - libkmod shared library (udeb) Closes: 819089 Changes: kmod (22-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium

Re: Registering URI scheme handler on package installation?

as well, and xdg-open could then use that register. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Larkinson's Law: All laws are basically false. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Possible MBF: Packages depending on iceweasel but not firefox/firefox-esr

ces, and if not could that be added?  Does it report enough information to tell how many users install experimental versions?) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Editing code like this is akin to sticking plasters on the bleeding stump of a severed limb. - me, 29 June 1999 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Accepted linux-tools 4.4.6-1 (all source) into unstable, unstable

source Version: 4.4.6-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: hyperv-daemons - Support daemons for Linux running on Hyper-V libcpupower-dev - CPU frequency

Accepted linux-tools 4.5-1~exp1 (all source) into experimental, experimental

source Version: 4.5-1~exp1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: hyperv-daemons - Support daemons for Linux running on Hyper-V libcpupower-dev - CPU frequency

Re: Possible MBF: Packages depending on iceweasel but not firefox/firefox-esr

h.  It seems > > perfectly sensible to me. > Leaving aside any other reasons: many packages have a versioned > dependency on iceweasel, and we don't have versioned provides. [...] Yes we do, since dpkg 1.18. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Accepted linux 4.5-1~exp1 (all source) into experimental, experimental

Architecture: all source Version: 4.5-1~exp1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Closes: 815627 816067 818174 818487 Description: acpi-modules-4.5.0-trunk-686-di -

Accepted linux 4.4.6-1 (source) into unstable

Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: acpi-modules-4.4.0-1-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.4.0-1-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.4.0-1-amd64-di -

Accepted ethtool 1:4.5-1 (source) into unstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 11:15:00 + Source: ethtool Binary: ethtool Architecture: source Version: 1:4.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <ani...@debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchi

Accepted linux 4.4.4-2 (source) into unstable

Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: acpi-modules-4.4.0-1-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.4.0-1-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.4.0-1-amd64-di -

Accepted linux 4.5~rc7-1~exp1 (all source) into experimental, experimental

~rc7-1~exp1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: acpi-modules-4.5.0-rc7-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.5.0-rc7-686-pae-di - ACPI sup

Accepted linux 4.4.4-1 (source) into unstable

Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: acpi-modules-4.4.0-1-686-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.4.0-1-686-pae-di - ACPI support modules (udeb) acpi-modules-4.4.0-1-amd64-di -

Accepted linux-tools 4.5~rc7-1~exp1 (source) into experimental

: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: hyperv-daemons - Support daemons for Linux running on Hyper-V liblockdep-dev - Runtime locking correctness validator (development files) l

Accepted kernel-handbook 1.0.17 (source) into unstable

ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: debian-kernel-handbook - reference to Debian Linux kernel packages and development debian-kernel-handbook-ja - reference to Debian Linux kernel packages and development (Japane Changes: kernel-hand

Re: HTTPS in DEP-5

ght as well advocate for changing the URLs used to identify XML namespaces to use the 'https:' scheme, and with the same effects on compatibility (negative) and security (none whatsoever). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Accepted odhcp6c 1.1+git20160131-1 (i386 source) into experimental, experimental

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:22:04 + Source: odhcp6c Binary: odhcp6c Architecture: i386 source Version: 1.1+git20160131-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Changed-B

Accepted linux-tools 4.5~rc5-1~exp3 (source) into experimental

: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: hyperv-daemons - Support daemons for Linux running on Hyper-V liblockdep-dev - Runtime locking correctness validator (development files) l

Accepted linux-tools 4.5~rc5-1~exp2 (all source) into experimental, experimental

: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-ker...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Description: hyperv-daemons - Support daemons for Linux running on Hyper-V liblockdep4.5 - Runtime locking correctness validator (shared library)

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