Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
tifications. I did some research on that a while back and ended up not filing a bug about it because it looked relatively pointless. It appeared to be a deep design choice on both sides, and not something anyone was likely to solve, so I just switched to a desktop-aware locker. -- Russ Allbery (

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
esn't appear to be a Debian bug for this; it might be a good idea to open one against light-locker (or, if you confirm switching to slick-greeter per that bug, lightdm-gtk-greeter). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Consensus Call: Do We Want to Require or Recommend DH; comments by 2019-06-16

2019-05-27 Thread Russ Allbery
things easy while getting out of your way if you need to do something uncommon and complicated. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Difficult Packaging Practices

2019-05-26 Thread Russ Allbery
y maintained and integrated; it's more that they don't see any value in doing that work for the incremental thing that they're adding. They cobble together some combination of local config management and a deployment method until it works and then move on to some (from their perspective) more inter

Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-05-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Ansgar writes: > On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 09:15 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm confused. I'm a happy user of dgit and don't have to think about >> any of those things as part of using dgit. I choose to use branches, >> but I certainly wouldn't have to, and merging, mul

Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-05-02 Thread Russ Allbery
user of dgit and don't have to think about any of those things as part of using dgit. I choose to use branches, but I certainly wouldn't have to, and merging, multiple remotes, and so forth don't seem related to using dgit at all. Maybe you're using dgit in a way that's suboptimal for your workflow? --

Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
roaches, and this one seemed to cause the least amount of pain. It means I'm not renaming the upstream branches when I pull them into my repository (which is possible to do in Git but tedious and irritating if you get the .git/config runes incorrect or some tool doesn't pay attention and merges the wro

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-09 Thread Russ Allbery
file is absurd. This bit is a shell script! This bit is a configuration file! This bit is human-readable text! This bit is a patch list! This bit is a file manifest! This bit is a structured changelog! This bit is a bunch of preprocessor definitions! Aie. One syntax per file, please. --

Accepted libnet-duo-perl 1.02-1 (source all) into unstable

2019-03-09 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2019 14:36:00 -0800 Source: libnet-duo-perl Binary: libnet-duo-perl Architecture: source all Version: 1.02-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Changed-By: Russ Allbery Description

Re: Please drop anacron from task-desktop

2019-03-08 Thread Russ Allbery
n more than twenty years. This seems like a reasonable feature to add. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks damage control (was Re: usrmerge -- plan B?)

2019-02-25 Thread Russ Allbery
the same. You can use the same approach recursively and symlink every file. This is an old package manager trick that I think Nix is still using to this day, and which was used to some success by such things as GNU stow (albeit for different reasons). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Unifying logging by default

2019-02-20 Thread Russ Allbery
ontest gathered. I definitely do not want that dumped into my syslog. Maybe you could start with Xorg.0.log. :) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Unifying logging by default

2019-02-20 Thread Russ Allbery
more concrete and specific proposal with worked examples of how to deal with cases like this. As is, I think this proposal is much too vague to really discuss, let alone implement. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Accepted rssh 2.3.4-12 (source) into unstable

2019-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:58:27 -0800 Source: rssh Architecture: source Version: 2.3.4-12 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Russ Allbery Changed-By: Russ Allbery Changes: rssh (2.3.4-12) unstable; urgency=high

Re: Tainted builds (was Re: usrmerge -- plan B?)

2019-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
ture whether the build was done via sbuild, pbuilder, or cowbuilder, none of which would arguably qualify as "tainted" but which may have different behavior and may therefore be useful in tracking down a bug. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Use of the Build-Conflicts field

2019-02-16 Thread Russ Allbery
e feels like a more productive investment and would benefit every package. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Accepted rssh 2.3.4-11 (source) into unstable

2019-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 11:17:28 -0800 Source: rssh Architecture: source Version: 2.3.4-11 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Russ Allbery Changed-By: Russ Allbery Closes: 921655 Changes: rssh (2.3.4-11) unstable; urgency

Re: Namespace for system users

2019-02-09 Thread Russ Allbery
(Changing the existing ones is sadly a much more complicated problem.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Accepted rssh 2.3.4-10 (source) into unstable

2019-02-02 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 10:59:47 -0800 Source: rssh Architecture: source Version: 2.3.4-10 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Russ Allbery Changed-By: Russ Allbery Changes: rssh (2.3.4-10) unstable; urgency=high

Accepted rssh 2.3.4-9 (source) into unstable

2019-01-28 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 21:03:59 -0800 Source: rssh Architecture: source Version: 2.3.4-9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Russ Allbery Changed-By: Russ Allbery Closes: 919623 Changes: rssh (2.3.4-9) unstable; urgency

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

2019-01-23 Thread Russ Allbery
ne can tell, that viewpoint did not prevail. Maybe it's used less now and it might be easier to get rid of it? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

2019-01-23 Thread Russ Allbery
pfile in this case), the f2 file, the cmd2 command, >and finally the f3 file. Pretty nifty, eh? Note also that you can modify @ARGV in the program and then use <>, and I know of Perl programs (I have even written Perl programs, back in the day) that do this to introduce pipes and other constr

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

2019-01-23 Thread Russ Allbery
e discussions of this on perl5-porters, and there's some general consensus that it was a bad idea originally, but changing this destroys backwards compatibility. You just can't; it's like removing strcpy from libc. The best you could do would be to add a pragmata to turn it off, and *maybe*, *someday*, enable that pragmata by default with a sufficiently new version in "use". -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Nix and non-standard-toplevel-dir

2019-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
k it's worth writing an explicit Policy exception for this, since it's a single edge case. Instead, I think it's a good use of a Lintian override documenting what's going on. Obviously, if Nix becomes really popular in the long run, we can then go back and write this into Policy. -- Russ Allbery (r..

Re: including complete corresponding licence information should stay a requirement (was Re: Debian Policy 4.3.0.0 released)

2018-12-23 Thread Russ Allbery
ck to having Policy say one thing but having the standards for the archive be something else entirely, something that we all have been collectively unhappy about for probably at least a decade. I think there's a pretty strong consensus for keeping the wording of Policy in tighter alignment with what ftp-ma

Re: Sending using my @debian.org in gmail

2018-12-05 Thread Russ Allbery
ntation, and client configuration to send all mail from debian.org addresses through project infrastructure would be a lot of work, particularly since I'm sure that, in the grand Debian tradition, there are at least as many ways we all send mail as there are Debian developers. -- Russ Allbery (r..

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
, it's still the wrong way to go > around this. Does this imply that you're considering adding support for merging /usr *properly* directly inside dpkg, with all the correct updates to dpkg's metadata? Because that would be an awesome way to fully support this. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Tainted builds (was Re: usrmerge -- plan B?)

2018-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
using problems. But perhaps the reproducible build testing infrastructure is the better solution to this problem. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Tainted builds (was Re: usrmerge -- plan B?)

2018-12-02 Thread Russ Allbery
need to be in place. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: wicd-daemon-run_1.0_amd64.changes REJECTED

2018-11-28 Thread Russ Allbery
ckages, or ship something that just notes that the unit file can be autoconverted. This would cut down on the maintenance burden of the primary package maintainer a lot. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Russ Allbery
That will give us something concrete to debate and to test against the risks that people perceive, and hopefully will reduce the hardening of positions on all sides. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin

2018-11-27 Thread Russ Allbery
n using the env trick. This therefore makes your point even stronger. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: individual packages moving binaries from /bin to /usr/bin

2018-11-22 Thread Russ Allbery
ive years from now has to do a bunch of work to finally finish, assuming that happens at all. But it would be backward-compatible the entire way. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-22 Thread Russ Allbery
sion *now*, when the problems are fresh in our mind, and then defer *action* to early in the bullseye release cycle (which I suspect is likely to happen anyway given how long it usually takes us to sort through questions of large migrations like this). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-22 Thread Russ Allbery
at we can lean on a single, well-tested, robust implementation. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-22 Thread Russ Allbery
e disagree. To support my side of that, I promise to not mischaracterize consensus on *what we're debating* as consensus on *what the outcome should be*, and keep those two things entirely separate. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Stone writes: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 02:19:56PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Doing this check in reproducible-builds definitely helps allievate my >> concerns as a backstop, but this is still fragile and we don't have a >> tight test/fix cycle. And, in general,

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-21 Thread Russ Allbery
d then allow running it on both merged and unmerged systems. There are so many places that binary paths creep into software build processes, and so many different upstream software build processes to analyze. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Holger Levsen writes: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 12:38:53PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> But it's not just my opinion that matters. I think we need to decide >> this somehow as a project, whether via the TC or via GR or something, >> because there's a real disagreement her

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-21 Thread Russ Allbery
s definitely a valid point. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeremy Bicha writes: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 3:39 PM Russ Allbery wrote: >> But it's not just my opinion that matters. I think we need to decide >> this somehow as a project, whether via the TC or via GR or something, >> because there's a real disagreement here over whe

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Stone writes: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 09:59:24AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> If we just force-merge every system on upgrade, none of those >> inconsistencies matter, and I do believe we could successfully complete >> that process (with some bumps, of course). &g

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Marco d'Itri writes: > On Nov 21, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I think there are some arguments to be made for just force-merging and >> moving on, but they're mostly "tidiness" arguments (letting everyone > No, they are not that at all. I have never argued about "

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-21 Thread Russ Allbery
erge and be done with it, or whether we're going to do a much slower migration by some more robust strategy of (for example) moving each binary out of /bin manually, but either way, the current strategy does not seem viable to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin

2018-11-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin"): >> Marco d'Itri writes: >>> Actually this is the root problem: policy says that packages should >>> use the $PATH to search for commands, but your pac

Re: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin

2018-11-19 Thread Russ Allbery
d use > the $PATH to search for commands, but your package (like many others) > hardcodes their full path. Policy only says that for maintainer scripts. I agree that it's not a good idea in any location, but I don't believe we've explicitly forbidden it anywhere. -- Russ

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Carsten Leonhardt writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> The general principle that I would advocate for here, though, is that >> if someone says clearly and explicitly "never contact me again," we >> should do what we can to never contact them again. > If the

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-10 Thread Russ Allbery
never been able to contact them again. To be clear, I think his reply was unnecessarily nasty, and I greatly appreciate the work that you're doing. This is not intended as any sort of dissatisfaction with your work, just a suggestion for if this comes up again. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Q: secure boot

2018-11-06 Thread Russ Allbery
o run Debian on non-free hardware and leave that choice up to the user. (I also don't think this would be useful from a tactical standpoint; vendors making such locked-down hardware don't care whether Debian runs on it.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Should libpam-elogind Provide libpam-systemd ?

2018-11-02 Thread Russ Allbery
a PAM module that determines which logind is running and then dispatches the PAM calls to the appropriate module for the running logind. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: no{thing} build profiles

2018-10-25 Thread Russ Allbery
The Wanderer writes: > On 2018-10-25 at 20:00, Russ Allbery wrote: >> The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is >> required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of >> functionality. > This does not actually seem to

Re: no{thing} build profiles

2018-10-25 Thread Russ Allbery
is in any way doing something wrong given what Policy says right now. This *clearly* meets the definition of Depends as currently stated in Policy. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: no{thing} build profiles

2018-10-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Russ Allbery writes ("Re: no{thing} build profiles"): >> Minimal installation size is *not* the only goal here. Ease of use and >> lack of surprise is important to. Personally, I'd much rather have >> numerous unused packages install

Re: no{thing} build profiles

2018-10-22 Thread Russ Allbery
in this thread are too worried about trying to remove as many packages from their system as possible and not worried enough about a straightforward user experience. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:24 AM Russ Allbery wrote: >> Timer units are also a more complicated problem since they're not a >> superset of cron behavior. They do some things better than cron jobs; >> they do other things much *worse* than cron jo

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Philipp Kern writes: > On 17.10.2018 06:52, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I think a package of a daemon that does not inherently require any >> systemd-specific features and would work straightforwardly with >> sysvinit, but has only a systemd unit file and no init script, is not

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Russ Allbery
should solve the problem of timer/cron de-duplication before opening the door to timer units. I agree that timer units would be a very valuable addition to a lot of packages, but timer/cron de-duplication feels like an entirely tractable problem that's useful to resolve in its own right. Maybe

Re: Bug#906183: Dependency change and upgrade

2018-09-25 Thread Russ Allbery
bian user that they use apt instead of apt-get as their normal interaction mechanism with the package system. Sometimes the other tools are useful for getting more specific behavior, but the defaults of apt seem well-tuned for the typical user and typical use cases. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Bumping epoch and reusing package name "elisa"

2018-09-25 Thread Russ Allbery
strongly against epochs. When I first got involved in Debian, it was common to use epochs whenever we had to package an older version of upstream for some reason, but my impression is that this has fallen out of favor. That reduces the use of epochs considerably. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Bumping epoch and reusing package name "elisa"

2018-09-24 Thread Russ Allbery
t would give me pause is going from a 0.x to a 1.x version number, since that carries some more semantic weight.) But I could see some people being irritated by the request. I think there's no substitute for knowing upstream and having a feel for how they'd react. -- Russ Allbery (

Re: Bumping epoch and reusing package name "elisa"

2018-09-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrey Rahmatullin writes: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 09:21:14AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> apt is going to have no idea what to do for a system that already has >> the previous package installed. > This is not a problem as upgrading to an unrelated software is not > som

Re: Bumping epoch and reusing package name "elisa"

2018-09-24 Thread Russ Allbery
of software. Version numbers should be monotonically increasing, and I think it's reasonable for a lot of software to bake in the assumption that's the case. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Russ Allbery
that address CVEs or Debian > bug reports? For the record, I've found these curated summaries of the upstream changes *incredibly* helpful more times than I can count. So I'd love to see these continue to be available somewhere. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Updating the policy for conflicting binaries names ? [was: Re: Re: New package netgen-lvs with binary /usr/bin/netgen - already taken]

2018-09-12 Thread Russ Allbery
oth your original phrasing and "this is a lie" (unintentionally, I assume) implied. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Updating the policy for conflicting binaries names ? [was: Re: Re: New package netgen-lvs with binary /usr/bin/netgen - already taken]

2018-09-09 Thread Russ Allbery
ontinues to expand, and not all of the problems have relatively easy solutions. (Node, which came up elsewhere in this thread, was a particularly challenging problem because it was an interpreter and had to be referenced in #! lines. Hopefully we won't have that specific problem frequently.) --

Re: Updating the policy for conflicting binaries names ? [was: Re: Re: New package netgen-lvs with binary /usr/bin/netgen - already taken]

2018-09-08 Thread Russ Allbery
l use the other program. It's not totally unheard of to have to modify PATH to use a package, particularly one that wants to use a bunch of very generic command names. That was always the official way to use MH, for example. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Accepted krb5-strength 3.1-2 (source) into unstable

2018-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 17:07:43 -0700 Source: krb5-strength Binary: krb5-strength Architecture: source Version: 3.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Russ Allbery Changed-By: Russ Allbery Description: krb5-strength

Accepted xfonts-jmk 3.0-22 (source) into unstable

2018-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:52:25 -0700 Source: xfonts-jmk Binary: xfonts-jmk Architecture: source Version: 3.0-22 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Russ Allbery Changed-By: Russ Allbery Description: xfonts-jmk - Jim

Accepted libpam-krb5 4.8-2 (source) into unstable

2018-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:57:00 -0700 Source: libpam-krb5 Binary: libpam-krb5 libpam-heimdal Architecture: source Version: 4.8-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Russ Allbery Changed-By: Russ Allbery Description

Accepted krb5-sync 3.1-2 (source) into unstable

2018-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 18:17:15 -0700 Source: krb5-sync Binary: krb5-sync-plugin krb5-sync-tools Architecture: source Version: 3.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian QA Group Changed-By: Russ Allbery

Accepted libpam-afs-session 2.6-2 (source) into unstable

2018-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:11:10 -0700 Source: libpam-afs-session Binary: libpam-afs-session Architecture: source Version: 2.6-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian QA Group Changed-By: Russ Allbery Description

Accepted gnubg 1.06.002-1 (source) into unstable

2018-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 15:02:10 -0700 Source: gnubg Binary: gnubg gnubg-data Architecture: source Version: 1.06.002-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Russ Allbery Changed-By: Russ Allbery Description: gnubg

Accepted kstart 4.2-2 (source) into unstable

2018-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 13:34:55 -0700 Source: kstart Binary: kstart Architecture: source Version: 4.2-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Russ Allbery Changed-By: Russ Allbery Description: kstart - Kerberos kinit

Re: Debian 9.5 Installer

2018-08-11 Thread Russ Allbery
ere may already be one). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-21 Thread Russ Allbery
he package. It's completely obvious that the word "boob" is referring to female anatomy, and the rest of the package is an extended riff on that joke. You can certainly disagree about how important that is or what impact it might have, but let's at least be honest about the obvious i

Re: Bug#903815: ITP: pw -- A simple command-line password manager

2018-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
beros ticket cache implementation (still a non-standard one, though) that uses this mechanism since it even works across processes if one is careful. It's a really interesting trick, although it has a few drawbacks. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Concerns to software freedom when packaging deep-learning based appications.

2018-07-12 Thread Russ Allbery
the same way any user of the package would: instantiating the net and further training it, or starting over and training a new network. That may have been a better example to ask about than my scientific data example. (For those who are curious, this is the file gnubg.weights in the gnubg source packa

Re: Concerns to software freedom when packaging deep-learning based appications.

2018-07-12 Thread Russ Allbery
is rendered helpless. This is a great argument. I'm convinced. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Concerns to software freedom when packaging deep-learning based appications.

2018-07-12 Thread Russ Allbery
ientific data, reproducing a result data set is not trivial and the concept of "source" is pretty murky. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: get-orig-source and standardized source repacking (was: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released)

2018-07-05 Thread Russ Allbery
ration and build on the tool that's already solving 95% of this problem. (Or, alternatively, a lower-level tool that uscan itself, as well as other tools like dgit, can use, and that borrows from the work uscan has already done.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-07-02 Thread Russ Allbery
n the get-orig-source target, specifically Files-Excluded in debian/copyright. See the documentation of Files-Excluded in uscan(1). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: concerns about Salsa

2018-06-05 Thread Russ Allbery
is more dubious and often doesn't add much value for them. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: dep.debian.net unavailable now (force HTTPS with wrong cert?)

2018-06-04 Thread Russ Allbery
like you now want https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/ (probably because the repository migrated to Salsa). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Accepted tf5 5.0beta8-7 (source) into unstable

2018-05-26 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 19:03:58 -0700 Source: tf5 Binary: tf5 Architecture: source Version: 5.0beta8-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Changed-By: Russ Allbery <r...@d

Re: make compilation not so gray

2018-05-25 Thread Russ Allbery
eral. But things like this may be a nice solution for the 80% case. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Accepted libnet-duo-perl 1.01-2 (source all) into unstable

2018-05-07 Thread Russ Allbery
ain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Changed-By: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Description: libnet-duo-perl - Perl API for Duo multifactor authentication service Changes: libnet-duo-perl (1.01-2) unstable; urgency=medium . [ Russ Allbery ] * Contribute the package to the Debian Perl Group. - Chang

Accepted remctl 3.15-1 (source) into unstable

2018-05-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Urgency: medium Maintainer: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Changed-By: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Description: libnet-remctl-perl - Perl client for Kerberos-authenticated command execution libremctl-dev - Development files for Kerberos-authenticated command execution libremct

Accepted rssh 2.3.4-8 (source) into unstable

2018-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 10:58:03 -0700 Source: rssh Binary: rssh Architecture: source Version: 2.3.4-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Changed-By: Russ Allbery <r...@d

Re: Comma in Maintainer field

2018-04-20 Thread Russ Allbery
ere there be dragons, you may not want to go down this path." -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster

2018-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> writes: >> Thus, there are locales where a purely ASCII word sorts differently >> when capitalized and when not. > Yes, including en_US. Just to head off the noise of the corrections fo

Re: Comma in Maintainer field

2018-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> writes: > From my understanding the names in quotes should be parsed correctly, > right? Definitely not. They will absolutely break with some tools. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Comma in Maintainer field

2018-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
e Maintainer field for various purposes (tracker.debian.org, dd-list, etc.). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster

2018-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> writes: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:19:46AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> That said, nearly all US English writers will just omit the accents >> anyway. At least US English (I can't speak for UK) really aggressively >> drops acce

Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster

2018-04-18 Thread Russ Allbery
t easier to just leave them off.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Lucas Kanashiro and Athos Ribeiro salvaged my package

2018-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
as just a miscommunication, but the NMU process is spelled out to try to avoid exactly this miscommunication, and also because it provides a lot of signal for figuring out what packages do need a change of maintainers. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-04-12 Thread Russ Allbery
and I also don't think this fairly unusual edge case requires standardization. That said, I think guidance for good practices for edge cases is always useful if someone wants to write it up, and the Developer's Reference seems like a good place to accumulate such things. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-04-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 5:02 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Rather than documenting this fallback in Policy, why not add that >> fallback directly to uscan? > uscan is used in situations where one does not want arbitrary code from > so

Re: Updated proposal for improving the FTP NEW process

2018-04-11 Thread Russ Allbery
osed of integers. Getting another integer is free, and there is not a limited supply. We won't run out, and missing sequence numbers cause no problems in the world. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-04-11 Thread Russ Allbery
if there is really no chance to use uscan) seems > important to me, Rather than documenting this fallback in Policy, why not add that fallback directly to uscan? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-04-11 Thread Russ Allbery
moving it outside the scope of Policy, such as how to document dependencies required for running the get-orig-source target. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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