Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-03-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
I suggest that anybody who wants to partecipate to this debate should clarify if their goal is: - choosing appropriate defaults for the general population of our users - taking a stand against the PKI system Anyway, I strongly recommend that nobody waste their time on an issue which in a couple

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-03-23 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 08:54:20 Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Use http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/590879/fef0c71560078461/ Interesting article (thank you for link). I just want to note that Startcom is no match to cacert.org in regards to free SSL certificates. Some years ago I got free certificate from St

Bug#742458: ITP: node-eventemitter2 -- A Node.js event emitter implementation with namespaces, wildcards, TTL and browser support.

2014-03-23 Thread matthewp
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: matthewp * Package name: node-eventemitter2 Version : 0.4.13 Upstream Author : hij1nx * URL : https://www.npmjs.org/package/eventemitter2 * License : MIT Programming Lang: js Description : A Node.js event emitter

Bug#742453: ITP: geophar -- Swiss army knife for the math teacher

2014-03-23 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Georges Khaznadar * Package name: geophar Version : 13.04.5 Upstream Author : Nicolas Pourcelot * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/geophar/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Swiss arm

Re: Bug#741930: reportbug: add current init system information

2014-03-23 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 08:41:48AM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > And while we are at it, do we *really* need the information about > /bin/sh in at least a significant share of today's bug reports? You probably want it, because a decent number of people use a shell other than bash or dash as /bin/sh

How long should a transition last for a package only in Sid/Testing

2014-03-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi everyone! When there's a package transition for a package that is currently in Stable, it's obvious that the transition packages should be available on the next stable release. But when the package isn't in stable (yet), and is only in Sid/testing, how long should a transition package last? Un

Keysigning, Tues., March 25, Blacksburg, Virginia

2014-03-23 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Jon Bernard and Thaddeus H. Black of the Debian Project will be signing GPG keys in Blacksburg, Virginia, Tues., March 25. If you are in the area and wish your key signed by two Debian Developers, or if you need to update your key to 4096R strength [1], you can attend. Date: Tues., March 25, 201

Re: Bug#741930: reportbug: add current init system information

2014-03-23 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Thomas, Thomas Weber writes: > And for those packages where it does not matter, it will cost extra > developer concentration/time in ignoring the noise. Sorry, but this > feels like being good for some, bad for all others. Developers > interested in the information should add bug scripts now a

Re: libphobos-dev build-dep

2014-03-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:53:55AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Steve Langasek, le Sat 22 Mar 2014 12:43:56 -0700, a écrit : > > Um, no, build-depending on virtual packages is absolutely allowed. > > Yes, but something has to make the buildd pick up one package which > provides it. It won't de

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-03-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Dmitry Smirnov > On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 07:55:05 Andreas Metzler wrote: > > FWIW there is an article about it on > > http://lwn.net/Articles/590879/ > > Thanks but LWN subscription is needed to read... Use http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/590879/fef0c71560078461/ -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user

Re: Bug#741930: reportbug: add current init system information

2014-03-23 Thread Thomas Weber
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 02:16:10PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > I think it should be in every report. reportbug currently adds the kernel > version and what /bin/sh points to, and for both of those it can just as > well be argued that they are not relevant to the majority of bug reports. > For t

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-03-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 07:55:05 Andreas Metzler wrote: >> FWIW there is an article about it on >> http://lwn.net/Articles/590879/ > > Thanks but LWN subscription is needed to read... > (Alternatively, this item will become freely available on Ma

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-03-23 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 07:55:05 Andreas Metzler wrote: > FWIW there is an article about it on > http://lwn.net/Articles/590879/ Thanks but LWN subscription is needed to read... (Alternatively, this item will become freely available on March 27, 2014). -- Regards, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53