Re: Debian Stretch new user report (vs Linux Mint)

2017-11-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 1:36 AM, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > * no support for the wifi interface of the dekstop machine (this was > expected, fixed by installing non-free package by hand, since no > network) It would have been best for him to download the ISO with non-free firmware embedded,

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-11-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:52:18PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Over the years, d-legal has discussed a number of packages which > automatically download non-free software, under some circumstances. > > The obvious example is web browsers with extension repositories > containing both free and non-f

Re: seccomp jailing for applications

2017-11-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Seth Arnold writes: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 01:29:44AM +, Colin Watson wrote: >> but should be much easier to maintain, and would probably also make it >> easier to switch to a syscall-set-confining library if such a thing >> exists in the future. > Would a version of OpenBSD's pledge() sy

Re: seccomp jailing for applications

2017-11-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Colin Watson writes: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 12:35:06AM +, Colin Watson wrote: >> (Hmm, though maybe a reasonable stopgap would be to copy the relevant >> syscall lists from systemd's code. That would leave me updating things >> manually from time to time, which isn't great, but it would p

Re: seccomp jailing for applications (was: recommends for apparmor in newest linux-image-4.13)

2017-11-30 Thread Seth Arnold
On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 01:29:44AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > but should be much easier to maintain, and would probably also make it > easier to switch to a syscall-set-confining library if such a thing > exists in the future. Would a version of OpenBSD's pledge() system call have looked appeali

Re: seccomp jailing for applications (was: recommends for apparmor in newest linux-image-4.13)

2017-11-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 12:35:06AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > (Hmm, though maybe a reasonable stopgap would be to copy the relevant > syscall lists from systemd's code. That would leave me updating things > manually from time to time, which isn't great, but it would probably > still be better th

Work-needing packages report for Dec 1, 2017

2017-11-30 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 1179 (new: 7) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 148 (new: 1) Total number of packages reques

Re: seccomp jailing for applications (was: recommends for apparmor in newest linux-image-4.13)

2017-11-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 05:36:30PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincas Dargis writes: > > Since mentioned, I would like that these daemons would implement seccomp > > filtering themselves, meaning like within application itself, using > > libeseccomp. Thy can fine-grain what thread what syscalls c

Re: Auto-update for sid? Auto-backport?

2017-11-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Adrian Bunk writes ("Re: Auto-update for sid? Auto-backport?"): > Sometimes I see bug reports in the BTS where it is evident that a user > has spent hours or days on debugging an issue and writing a marvelous > bug report. I read the bug 10 years later with no other message ever > in the bug. >

Debian Stretch new user report (vs Linux Mint)

2017-11-30 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
Hi, Please take this email as another call to keep the hard work in improving our operating system and user experience, specially for new users. Several times I've detected that we lack reports from final users using our system, so here is another case. Recently a friend of mine tried his first t

Bug#883195: ITP: node-lexical-scope -- detect global and local lexical identifiers from javascript

2017-11-30 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: ro...@debian.org X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-lexical-scope Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : James Halliday (http://substack.net) * URL : https://github.com/substack/lexical-scope * License

Re: Upload host down?

2017-11-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 30 November 2017 at 07:38, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | Hi all, | | Just built R 3.4.3 which was released a few hours ago, but I can't push it | via dput and dupload. Everything times out. | | Is usper.debian.org down or unreachable? Better now, and r-base_3.4.3 is being upload. Thanks to w

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-11-30 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:52:18PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > I would like to establish a way to prevent this. Why would the project do that, though? > (There are even whole Debian derivatives who have as one of their > primary goals, preventing this. Good. > We should aim for most of the chang

Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

2017-11-30 Thread Ian Jackson
This mail is going to a lot of lists. I have set the followups to d-policy because ultimately this is hopefully going to result in a change to policy. Over the years, d-legal has discussed a number of packages which automatically download non-free software, under some circumstances. The obvious

Re: Upload host down?

2017-11-30 Thread Pirate Praveen
On വ്യാഴം 30 നവംബര്‍ 2017 07:08 വൈകു, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Hi all, > > Just built R 3.4.3 which was released a few hours ago, but I can't push it > via dput and dupload. Everything times out. > > Is usper.debian.org down or unreachable? > > If a made a simple mistake of not catching a n

Upload host down?

2017-11-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi all, Just built R 3.4.3 which was released a few hours ago, but I can't push it via dput and dupload. Everything times out. Is usper.debian.org down or unreachable? If a made a simple mistake of not catching a new upload mechanism, could someone kindly clue me in (maybe by private email repl

Processed: Re: Bug#883134: general: Add new package header Upstream-Version:

2017-11-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tags -1 moreinfo Bug #883134 [general] general: Add new package header Upstream-Version: Bug #883133 [general] general: Add new package header Upstream-Version: Added tag(s) moreinfo. Added tag(s) moreinfo. -- 883133: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?b

Bug#883134: general: Add new package header Upstream-Version:

2017-11-30 Thread Geert Stappers
Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 04:25:54AM +0200, Victor Porton wrote: > I am writing software which should call a program in specific version range > (or fail to call it if the program in this version range is not installed). Please elaborate the problem you want to solve. Gr

Re: Has Copyright summarizing outlived its usefulness?

2017-11-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 at 23:46:00 -0600, Steve Robbins wrote: > On Tuesday, November 28, 2017 9:00:10 AM CST Chris Lamb wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sorry for the rejection but "Copyright: See individual source files" > > unfortunatley does not meet the high standards we strive for within Debian. > > [Fo

Bug#883168: ITP: javabeans-activation-framework -- JavaBeans Activation Framework

2017-11-30 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: javabeans-activation-framework Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Oracle * URL : https://github.com/javaee/activation * License : CDDL-1.1 or GPL-2 with Classpath exception Programming Lang