Bug#614907: Question of sincerity on the node/nodejs nausia

2012-05-04 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Patrick Ouellette , 2012-05-04, 19:12: (I'm assuming Jonathan Nieder is some how acting with their knowledge or approval at some level) Why? I wouldn't assume so. -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Bug#614907: Question of sincerity on the node/nodejs nausia

2012-05-04 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Can anyone explain to me why the message I sent with a proposal containing a MAJOR concession to the Node.js maintainers has not received a response from the Node.js maintainers but rather caused them (I'm assuming Jonathan Nieder is some how acting with their knowledge or approval at some level) t

Re: Complain about Christoph Martin

2012-05-04 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Sebastian Urbach [2012-05-04 19:20]: [...] > The right reaction should be to say thanks for the info and > immediately start the work on the package update. His reaction till > today is exactly zero. Without commenting on anything else that you wrote, because I can't judge the situation

Re: AX25 and related software's future in Debian

2012-05-04 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 11:28:04AM -0500, Steve Kostecke wrote: > > I've not had time to read that entire thread, but it seems to me that > renaming well known binaries violates the Principle Of Least > Astonishment. > > Has anyone considered making nodejs and ax25 conflict? That would be an > ea

Bug#552688: Please decide how Debian should enable hardening build flags

2012-05-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Russ Allbery wrote: > Why? No strong reason. The tech-ctte is free to decide any matter of technical policy they choose to, so there's no constitutional reason to go the way I was suggesting. Since it sounds like you've thought about this carefully already, I'm satisfied. Sorry for the noise.

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 08:38:43AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael's approach of creating a compatibility symlink in postinst during > upgrades but not for new installs sounds better to me the more I think > about it, since that addresses the major concern of breaking someone's > system during

Bug#552688: Please decide how Debian should enable hardening build flags

2012-05-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> I believe at this point the dpkg-buildflags solution has proven >> reasonably successful and is being widely deployed. I think we should >> confirm that the TC agrees with that approach and close out this bug. > While I understand that the PR eff

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-04 Thread Russ Allbery
The Fungi writes: > I think this is part of the misunderstanding. If these systems are nodes > on an AX.25 network, what's being renamed (and potentially broken) is > the userspace binary which connects the machine to the network. Think of > it as if you're suggesting a rename of /usr/sbin/sshd t

Bug#552688: Please decide how Debian should enable hardening build flags

2012-05-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Russ, Russ Allbery wrote: > I believe at this point the dpkg-buildflags solution has proven reasonably > successful and is being widely deployed. I think we should confirm that > the TC agrees with that approach and close out this bug. While I understand that the PR effect would be good, I e