Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Russ Allbery
a lot of packages, instead of putting the conflicting packages on hold. unattended-upgrades would be my guess. It's the only package in Debian that I know of that does things like that. (It's independent of init systems; it would do the same if you were running upstart or sysvinit.) -- Russ

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Russ Allbery
options, which is great. The question, in my mind, is why you're getting surprised with something using the method that you don't prefer. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to important

2015-08-24 Thread Russ Allbery
, this means a *lot*. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: Minutes from the 32bit architectures in Debian-bof

2015-08-24 Thread Russ Allbery
do that? My remaining i386 systems, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, are systems that I've been continuously dist-upgrading for some time precisely because I don't want to rebuild a system from scratch. If cross-grading were supported, I'd just do that and switch to amd64. -- Russ Allbery (r

Accepted webauth 4.7.0-3 (source amd64 all) into unstable

2015-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
webauth-tests webauth-utils webauth-weblogin Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 4.7.0-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org Changed-By: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org Description: libapache2-mod-webauth - Apache module for WebAuth authentication libapache2

Re: Bug#765632: ForwardX11Trusted set to yes over a decade ago, for release reasons?

2015-08-19 Thread Russ Allbery
to get particularly excited about doing work to try to enable it, and it feels really dubious to do it by breaking the command-line option everyone is used to using. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Accepted krb5-sync 3.1-1 (source amd64) into unstable

2015-08-18 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:45:35 -0700 Source: krb5-sync Binary: krb5-sync-plugin krb5-sync-tools Architecture: source amd64 Version: 3.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org Changed-By: Russ

Re: How to update control file time stamps

2015-08-16 Thread Russ Allbery
remove the timestamp line and not bother with it. It's not worth manually updating. It's not required; having it there is just a convention. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Accepted libnet-duo-perl 1.01-1 (source all) into unstable

2015-08-16 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 12:01:54 -0700 Source: libnet-duo-perl Binary: libnet-duo-perl Architecture: source all Version: 1.01-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org Changed-By: Russ Allbery r

Re: Debian is not welcome on Microsoft Azure

2015-08-15 Thread Russ Allbery
of capitalism in general, you're probably not a big fan of this manifestation of it, but it's certainly not illegal and, by capitalism rules, not unethical. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: apt-get source linux behaves weird

2015-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
, is to figure out what version you want with apt-cache show and then specify it with the = syntax. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: Mass bug filing about non free lena image.

2015-08-12 Thread Russ Allbery
the higher social cost than developer effort), and I think the chances of Playboy ever caring about uses of this picture at this point is so low as to be ignorable. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Accepted remctl 3.9-2 (source amd64) into unstable

2015-08-08 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 libremctl1 - Library

Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide

2015-08-02 Thread Russ Allbery
purposes. So regardless of the merits or drawbacks of such a feature, it's rather irrelevant to the discussion that we're having here. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide

2015-07-29 Thread Russ Allbery
is obviously wrong. Also, anyone who describes their own format as flawless raises HUGE red flags for me. It indicates some really scary hubris. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to deal with fixed but open bugs

2015-07-29 Thread Russ Allbery
are there primarily to fix the version if it was closed with an incorrect version or with no version. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Metapackage dependencies: Depends or Recommends?

2015-07-28 Thread Russ Allbery
have yet to break. :) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87oaiww4qh

Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide

2015-07-27 Thread Russ Allbery
comprehensive advantages specifically for our binary package format over existing compression methods. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-07-19 Thread Russ Allbery
of attacking hosts. GitHub recommend using SSH key passphrases, which provide a degree of protection against machine compromise: https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-ssh-key-passphrases/ Which protects only against a tiny fraction of those attacks. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-07-19 Thread Russ Allbery
there that aren't free software, but that's not the role that Debian plays in the world. The whole *point* of this project is to develop and use free software. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Russ Allbery
of different styles of tread. It looks like you maintain daemon, in fact. :) This is a little like uploading yet another MTA. People are reasonably asking do we need *another* one? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net writes: On 2015-06-16 09:12:36 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: There are a lot of really complex things you can do with versioning and cases where that version number is meaningful, but for the vast majority of libraries, I recommend not worrying about

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Hendrik Sattler p...@hendrik-sattler.de writes: Am 18. Juni 2015 03:54:56 MESZ, schrieb Russ Allbery r...@debian.org: Shared library symbol versioning makes the problem go away. Package dependencies try to solve the problem at the wrong level. The problem is rather that the package

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-16 Thread Russ Allbery
when I changed SONAMEs anyway, and could have saved a lot of maintenance overhead by just using this approach. I wasn't getting much benefit from being more precise. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-15 Thread Russ Allbery
symbol@LOW1). I'm pretty sure Russ was indeed talking about versioned symbols at DSO level. Having debian/symbols doesn't solve the issue at hand here. Yup, I was talking about the DSO level. debian/symbols doesn't help (although it's certainly nice for other things). -- Russ Allbery (r

Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide

2015-06-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes: Did you try using the same pristine-tar xz thing but with a different version of xz-utils, for example the one in Trusty vs the one in Sid? Yup, I do this all the time. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide

2015-06-15 Thread Russ Allbery
, and way more different compression formats than there are actually meaningful distinguishing features that could only be implemented in that format, because everyone seems to want to write their own thing. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-14 Thread Russ Allbery
for a lot of edge packages where the upstream maintainers are building shared libraries without really understanding how they work, but it's so hard to properly manage library upgrades without symbol versioning. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: git and https

2015-05-29 Thread Russ Allbery
for other reasons, and that's worthwhile. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: git and https

2015-05-28 Thread Russ Allbery
then assuming we have some control over the client. I was assuming a general client where we'd have to play nice with the normal CA roots. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: git and https

2015-05-28 Thread Russ Allbery
into a worthwhile security protocol. It's not exactly trivial to work out the UI and integration problems, and it doesn't help for people not coming from a Debian system (at least as much), but it might be worth considering. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: git and https

2015-05-27 Thread Russ Allbery
security means. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87pp5l5l8p@hope.eyrie.org

Accepted webauth 4.7.0-2 (source amd64 all) into unstable, unstable

2015-05-06 Thread Russ Allbery
webauth-tests webauth-utils webauth-weblogin Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 4.7.0-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org Changed-By: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org Description: libapache2-mod-webauth - Apache module for WebAuth authentication libapache2

Accepted lbcd 3.5.2-1 (source amd64) into unstable

2015-04-26 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 17:15:58 -0700 Source: lbcd Binary: lbcd Architecture: source amd64 Version: 3.5.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org Changed-By: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org

Accepted libpam-krb5 4.7-2 (source amd64) into unstable

2015-04-26 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 20:23:59 -0700 Source: libpam-krb5 Binary: libpam-krb5 libpam-heimdal Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.7-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org Changed-By: Russ

Re: GitHub “pull request” is proprietary, incompatible with Git ‘request-pull’

2015-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
contributions via email or git request-pull. AOL. Oh, certainly. (Well, like Neil, I've never heard of git request-pull before this thread and have never seen anyone use it, but if someone did, it would be an interesting learning opportunity.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

Re: GitHub “pull request” is useful and can be easily integrated'’

2015-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87lhhot4ey@hope.eyrie.org

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-17 Thread Russ Allbery
in the long run than if they'd tried to support both bzar and Git (and Mercurial and the other ones that were looking viable) at the start. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Russell Stuart russell-deb...@stuart.id.au writes: On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 23:13 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: However, I still stand by the decision to only support a single VCS, at least when you start, because you can move a lot faster and implement a lot more functionality that people care

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-17 Thread Russ Allbery
more towards the GitHub pull and fork model than the Gerrit up-front code review model. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Funny, this is why I don't get why people are so upset that some use GitHub. Because of how Git works, the impact of lock-in is pretty much limited to the non-repository stuff (issues and so forth). Yet

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-17 Thread Russ Allbery
/pull model) running on a service like Alioth would be very neat. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
workflows, etc. +1. VCS agnosticism means you waste a bunch of time making each new feature work with every supported VCS, which can include trying to shoehorn pretty foreign workflows into the model of some other VCS. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Jessie Release Date: 2015-04-25

2015-04-05 Thread Russ Allbery
non-free area is not part of the Debian system... It's RC for the package, but not for Debian. In other words, if the bug isn't fixed, the package would be pulled from the release, but it's pretty unlikely that it would hold up the release itself. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Re: aptitude has Priority: standard, why?

2015-04-01 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/871tk3eqa5@hope.eyrie.org

Re: Misc Developer News (#38)

2015-03-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Setting it up is a little like trying to set up dak yourself: it's possible, and people have done it, but it's not common, so it's not painless and may require a fair bit of elbow grease and some swearing. But it is possible; I know people who have done it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: * Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [150222 21:51]: It won't with something more complex on all architectures. I think there are architectures (i386, maybe?) where you can link non-PIC code into a shared library with a performance penalty

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-22 Thread Russ Allbery
to time in various upstream projects where I wanted to assemble a shared library from various internal helper libraries. Take a look at all the work that Libtool does to handle convenience libraries for exactly this reason. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
option or something. As upstream, it's already easy to tell all my code that's systemd-aware to stub out that stuff if wanted. But, as you say, I think it's unlikely that this is really the low-hanging fruit for very resource-constrained embedded environments. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Russ Allbery
could even say that it's a primary *purpose* of that library. So, yay, I guess? The world is much better than you had thought and already as good as the compromise position you thought you could get! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-15 Thread Russ Allbery
. Or, alternately, you could research how and why one would use shared libraries in a binary distribution to support optional features. But that's boring, prosaic, and nowhere near as much fun to write about. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bug#777643: general: possibly, some keyboard layouts should use U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR instead of U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT

2015-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
the last word.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87lhk5ueu9

Bug#777089: ITP: python-moto -- Mock framework for boto AWS library

2015-02-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org * Package name: python-moto Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Steve Pulec * URL : https://github.com/spulec/moto * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : Mock

Re: Bug#776992: ITP: python-dicttoxml -- Convert a Python dict or other data type to XML

2015-02-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org * Package name: python-dicttoxml Version : 1.5.8 Upstream Author : Ryan McGreal r...@quandyfactory.com * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dicttoxml

Bug#776992: ITP: python-dicttoxml -- Convert a Python dict or other data type to XML

2015-02-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org * Package name: python-dicttoxml Version : 1.5.8 Upstream Author : Ryan McGreal r...@quandyfactory.com * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dicttoxml * License : GPL 2.0 Programming Lang

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-26 Thread Russ Allbery
pam_motd with pam_issue. Unless that module does something different than what its man page says it does, I don't believe this is possible. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Russ Allbery
to the man page for pam_issue. If you log in with public key authentication, does it even show anything? I bet it doesn't. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Russ Allbery
with PasswordAuthentication (as opposed to ChallengeResponseAuthentication). If it's instead a different variation on pam_motd, that's better. But I think it would still be even better to make the login flow as stupid and simple as possible, not do a bunch of dynamic string expansion in C. -- Russ Allbery

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Russ Allbery
should do by default. We certainly shouldn't remove the code that lets people do more complicated stuff if they really want. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Russ Allbery
installed six weeks ago but never used? I suggested a cron job, but maybe there are better ways, like apt hooks, dpkg triggers, etc. A cron job is strictly worse than running it at boot in every metric that I can think of. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
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Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
is the upstream default). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87d263o2wc@hope.eyrie.org

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-23 Thread Russ Allbery
to be doing; each site can handle that. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: Who gets an email when with bugreports [was: Re: Unauthorised activity surrounding tbb package]

2015-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
systems require at least a weak authentication step before letting you comment on a bug, so there's some reasonable binding of identity of the person commenting with an email address. This is not true for the Debian BTS. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Bug#775436: ITP: xlennart -- An XBill fork but with Lennart and SystenD instead of Bill and Wingdows

2015-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/871tmu46yn@hope.eyrie.org

Bug#775246: general: Debian does wake from suspend. It either hard reboots or remains unresponsive.

2015-01-12 Thread Russ Allbery
release, and should be fixed shortly. See: http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/linux-suspendresume-regression-in-debian-78.html -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: length of a package extended description

2015-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
the right package. And having at least *some* description for humans to view with a pager and forward search is really nice. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: motd handling in jessie beyond

2015-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net writes: On Wed, 2014-12-31 at 12:04 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I think UsePAM yes is the only sane default for Debian, though, and people who choose to change that default are legitimately on their own. I've used UsePAM no for many years

Re: motd handling in jessie beyond

2014-12-31 Thread Russ Allbery
handling, so you lose Kerberos ticket setup, may lose account locking and expiration, and all sorts of other stuff that is managed via PAM. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Accepted libpam-krb5 4.7-1 (source amd64) into experimental

2014-12-25 Thread Russ Allbery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 19:36:00 -0800 Source: libpam-krb5 Binary: libpam-krb5 libpam-heimdal Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.7-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org Changed-By: Russ

Re: one package altering other package's postrm

2014-12-15 Thread Russ Allbery
to occasionally get wiped out. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87h9wwdebi

Re: one package altering other package's postrm

2014-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
bcron, handle this? It feels cleaner to me to have cron be aware that systemd-cron (or some other package) has taken over those files, instead of making other packages do edits of the package metadata. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-06 Thread Russ Allbery
can certainly document this in the release notes even if it doesn't get better before the release. We should definitely sort out the exact working instructions for what we ship with jessie and get them into the release notes before we release. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-12-05 Thread Russ Allbery
very frustrated by the GPL-only tags on various keyring features, but that's another argument). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-12-05 Thread Russ Allbery
, and I'm quite happy about it, although it's going to be a few years before it propagates into my current work (where we're using Ubuntu LTS for complicated reasons). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
of standard CGI (merits of allowing that aside -- it's hard to turn insecure things off when tens of thousands of people have written lots and lots of web sites assuming that behavior). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
for the motivation for systemd to them again, a kitten dies. Please, think of the kittens. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Russ Allbery
, this has always been custom, replacing /etc/inittab with a local configuration file, so the analysis isn't trivial.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-26 Thread Russ Allbery
that assertion. Not just a gut feeling. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-26 Thread Russ Allbery
institution server, let alone companies with more locked-down production environments. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: systemd, fstab, noauto and nofail

2014-11-22 Thread Russ Allbery
but can't start ssh. In theory, that's possible with a split / and /usr, but as we've discussed in other threads, that's an extremely unusual configuration these days. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: systemd, fstab, noauto and nofail

2014-11-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-11-22 18:01:12) I also like the idea of not having ssh depend on all local file systems to be mounted. I think it's going to be pretty rare to have a system that has /lib and /etc mounted but can't start ssh. In theory

Re: systemd, fstab, noauto and nofail

2014-11-21 Thread Russ Allbery
that declare a dependency on mounted file systems never start because the file systems aren't successfully mounted. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com writes: Le 19 nov. 2014 21:33, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org a écrit : Yes, absolutely. Likewise for cron jobs, etc. That's something that I don't think we're doing a great job of right now, and really should improve. Could lintian help here

Re: init system policy

2014-11-20 Thread Russ Allbery
tool or not. Personally (and this is just a wishlist), I'd love to have functionality similar to apt-listchanges that would (optionally) show me a report of every change to any unit file that I've overridden on each upgrade. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

Re: Bug#769907: general: non-sysvinit init systems are made of fail

2014-11-20 Thread Russ Allbery
that mount points that are defined but always fail will be handled differently under systemd. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-19 Thread Russ Allbery
correct that policy.d is the only mechanism to achieve that. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-19 Thread Russ Allbery
will be circumvented when cron triggers log rotation. Yes, absolutely. Likewise for cron jobs, etc. That's something that I don't think we're doing a great job of right now, and really should improve. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-19 Thread Russ Allbery
and won't start a service that's not already running, otherwise something specifically crafted for that service that has the right semantics. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: init system policy

2014-11-18 Thread Russ Allbery
, and sometimes dpkg-maintscript-helper) will be of limited help. I think I'd be inclined to do this, as a one-time migration, Yeah, this seems like the right solution to me too. Drop a configuration fragment in /etc/systemd that overrides the user and group and then don't touch it again. -- Russ

Re: on reloading services from logrotate

2014-11-18 Thread Russ Allbery
situations than using invoke-rc.d. Maybe in cases where the daemon is running but policy.d says it shouldn't be? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: init system policy

2014-11-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Sam Hartman hartm...@debian.org writes: Russ == Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Russ Yeah, this seems like the right solution to me too. Drop a Russ configuration fragment in /etc/systemd that overrides the user Russ and group and then don't touch it again. well, debconf

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
or the other. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87zjbpyf2p@hope.eyrie.org

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
this into a cloud image, everything will run properly. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
were using it based on that. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/874mtxy6l5

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
rare, AFAIK. Is there any other way to do it? I am not aware of any other way. If that is the only way then it must be in use by everyone who needs it. Maybe I am missing a better alternative? update-rc.d service disable -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
to remove the wontfix tag even after I've changed my mind. :/ Closed is another matter entirely -- that means I'm pretty sure the bug report should just go away. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-16 Thread Russ Allbery
recall there being a specific good reason at the time. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Russ Allbery
until 2020 and there still wouldn't be any consensus. And that has its own risk. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Russ Allbery
taking people's arguments at face value and extending the assumption of good will that people proposing technical solutions are doing so because they thought about the problem and thought the solution was superior, not because of a marketing campaign. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

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