Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-08 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi, On 2024-05-07 09:43, Russ Allbery wrote: > I understand your point, which is that this pattern is out there in the > wild and Debian is in danger of breaking existing usage patterns by > matching the defaults of other distributions. This is a valid point, and > I appreciate you making it. Th

Re: xz backdoor

2024-04-02 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi, On 2024-03-30 10:49, Jonathan Carter wrote: > Another big question for me is whether I should really still > package/upload/etc from an unstable machine. I have been using unstable myself on most of my systems for the past several years. There are many advantages, including being able to actu

Re: 64-bit time_t transition: cargo needs manual intervention

2024-03-16 Thread Emanuele Rocca
On 2024-03-16 04:21, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > With libcurl3t64-gnutls cargo can now be rebootstrapped on armhf And on armel too. Fixed armhf/armel packages uploaded. > Fabian: it seems that cargo's build-depend on git can be dropped? The > package builds fine without, tests includ

Re: 64-bit time_t transition: cargo needs manual intervention

2024-03-16 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi! On 2024-03-16 02:29, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 at 22:03:57 -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > For example curl isn't building on armel/armhf now and numerous packages > > that > > depend of curl are not building on armel/armhf. > > I believe a maintainer upload or NMU of #10

Re: Enabling -fstack-clash-protection for trixie [armhf rebuild]

2023-11-25 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hello Lucas! On 2023-10-25 08:55, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 14/08/23 at 14:53 +0200, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > > I'm not sure how the deal with AWS is (how many credits we have > > available and such) but would it be possible to repeat the experiment > > for armhf too?

Re: Linking coreutils against OpenSSL

2023-11-15 Thread Emanuele Rocca
On 2023-11-11 09:32, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > While libraries are dependencies of Essential packages, they > themselves are distinctively not Essential, they are pseudo-essential. Fair enough, but still the general point of being very careful about what we make (pseudo-)essential is valid and

Re: Linking coreutils against OpenSSL

2023-11-10 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi, On 2023-11-09 07:31, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > If you can get upstream a patch so that coreutils could try to dlopen > OpenSSL and use it if it is available, but skip it if it is not, that > might be one way to avoid OpenSSL going into essential. The challenge > is that OpenSSL is not known for

Re: Enabling -fstack-clash-protection for trixie [armhf rebuild]

2023-11-02 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi Lucas! On 2023-10-25 08:55, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Is this still of interest? Not really, we've flipped the switch now. Thanks nonetheless. :-) Emanuele

Re: Bug#1021292: Enabling branch protection on amd64 and arm64

2023-08-31 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi Guillem, On 2023-08-31 02:12, Guillem Jover wrote: > So this happened, and Johannes reported that this seems to be breaking > cross-building. :( > > The problem, which is in fact not new, but is made way more evident > now, is that the flags used are accepted only per arch, so when > passing f

Re: Enabling -fstack-clash-protection for trixie

2023-08-14 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi Lucas, On 2023-08-12 08:18, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Results: > http://qa-logs.debian.net/2023/08/11.stackclash-arm/ > > I only included logs for builds that succeeded in a vanilla build, > but failed with the custom build. Thank you so much, this is great! There's not much fallout. I'm not s

Re: Enabling -fstack-clash-protection for trixie

2023-08-10 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi, On 2023-08-10 02:43, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > What I would need is a script that customizes a chroot. This is what I'm passing to sbuild --chroot-setup-commands for my builds: sbuild --chroot-setup-commands='printf "APPEND CFLAGS -fstack-clash-protection\nAPPEND CXXFLAGS -fstack-clash-prot

Re: Enabling -fstack-clash-protection for trixie

2023-08-10 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi, On 2023-08-06 11:25, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > I worked with Lucas a while back and he made an archive rebuild on amd64, > only a minimal list of packages will need to be adapted: > http://qa-logs.debian.net/2023/05/24/ Can we do the same for arm64? As far as I understand the archive rebuild

Bug#1040194: ITP: parsec-tool -- Command line tool to communicate with the Parsec service

2023-07-03 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emanuele Rocca X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-r...@lists.debian.org * Package name: parsec-tool Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Parsec Project Contributors * URL : https://github.com/parallaxsecond/parsec

Re: Enabling branch protection on amd64 and arm64

2023-06-21 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hey Moritz, On 2022-10-26 08:20, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > I think this should rather be applied early after the Bookworm > release (and ideally we can also finish off the necessary testing > and add -fstack-clash-protection at least for amd64 and other archs > which are ready for it (#918914)).

Bug#1028626: ITP: parsec-service -- Abstraction layer for secure storage and operations

2023-01-13 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emanuele Rocca X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: parsec-service Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Parsec Project Contributors * URL : https://github.com/parallaxsecond/parsec * License : Apache

Re: Switch default from PulseAudio to PipeWire (and WirePlumber) for audio

2022-10-04 Thread Emanuele Rocca
On 2022-09-29 01:41, Simon McVittie wrote: > It's fine to control Pipewire via PulseAudio's IPC protocol (that's what > gnome-control-center and gnome-shell do!) and if that doesn't work, > then it means pipewire-pulse is not fully doing its job. Is it fine, or is it a necessity? What I understand

Re: Switch default from PulseAudio to PipeWire (and WirePlumber) for audio

2022-09-29 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi, On 2022-09-08 05:58, Dylan Aïssi wrote: > I have been asked several times regarding when Debian will switch its default > sound server from PulseAudio to PipeWire without having an official answer. > Thus, I suppose it's the right time to start a discussion about that. PipeWire seems to be wo

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-24 Thread Emanuele Rocca
On 23/01 02:32, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > We're arguing different points, and I fear talking past one another. Yeah. FWIW the two of us did eventually end up agreeing that including firmware while giving the chance to opt-out would be a workable compromise, though. I think we did, at least! :)

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-23 Thread Emanuele Rocca
On 22/01 08:30, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > Taking away the choice for users who care about software freedom to > opt out of non-free content in the installer and find alternative > options would be a loss of freedom, in service of convenience for > users who aren't as invested in trying to minimize th

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-21 Thread Emanuele Rocca
On 15/01 03:30, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > This boils down to a debate over whether the Debian community values > convenience over ideals. This is not about convenience, it's about being able to install Debian on real hardware or not. Without firmware, the installer does not do the only thing it is s

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-15 Thread Emanuele Rocca
On 12/01 05:14, Sven Joachim wrote: > Provide a way to discover the working netinst with non-free firmware, > right now it seems to be impossible to find. > > The official netinst image advertised on the homepage is for servers and > virtual machines only. How is an average user of Windows or eve

Bug#906930: ITP: prometheus-trafficserver-exporter -- Prometheus exporter for Apache Traffic Server

2018-08-22 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emanuele Rocca * Package name: prometheus-trafficserver-exporter Version : 0.0.2 Upstream Author : Greg Dallavalle * URL : https://github.com/gdvalle/trafficserver_exporter * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang

Bug#837089: ITP: prometheus-varnish-exporter -- Varnish exporter for Prometheus

2016-09-08 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emanuele Rocca * Package name: prometheus-varnish-exporter Version : 0.1.0+git20160622.2.a3e-1 Upstream Author : Jonne Nauha * URL : https://github.com/jonnenauha/prometheus_varnish_exporter * License : MIT

Re: RFH: How to debug FTBFS of erlang on sparc (UltraSPARC III)?

2008-01-07 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hello Sergei, * Sergei Golovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2008-01-08 0:53 +0300]: > I'd be happy to find the bug but I don't have an access to UltraSPARC > III hardware. I do have access to an Ultrasparc III+ workstation, I can try to reproduce the bug tomorrow. ciao, ema -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Bug#441838: ITP: midori -- very lightweight web browser based on WebKit

2007-09-11 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: midori Version : 0.0.6 Upstream Author : Christian Dywan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://software.twotoasts.de/?page=midori * License : GPL Description : very lightweight web browser based on WebKit Mid

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-14 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* Luis Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2007-06-14 1:14 +0100]: > Qui, 2007-06-14 às 01:04 +0200, Emanuele Rocca escreveu: > > Another option could be calling each snapshot cut -MM, or cut > > -MM-DD if we plan to release them more than once per month. > > th

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-13 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2007-06-11 19:56 -0400]: > Testing also needs periodic snapshots and guaranteed upgradability to > be useable by more users, amoung other points I discuss at > http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/debian/cut/ "Snapshots should be made available regularly, so that user

Re: Compiling Debs on AMD vs. Intel and 32bit vs. 64bit

2007-03-16 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2007-03-16 15:10 +0100]: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 07:14:27AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > ... and just for completeness: x86_64 was the name the Linux kernel people > > chose for AMD64. I don't know where the term came from, exactly. > > Both

Debian qualified as a OMG operating system

2007-03-15 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi guys, quoting http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSystem#systemadministration "Debian has been qualified as a OMG operating system for administrators, primarily because of its ease of use, security and straight-forward common sense usage." What is a "OMG operating system"? In my head OMG could m

Re: Ifupdown 'extra' package with network ({pre,post}) testing scripts

2006-08-16 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hello Javier, * Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2006-08-15 19:41 +0200]: > I have written and collected some network testing scripts in a new > 'ifupdown-extra' package which is right now available in > http://people.debian.org/~jfs/ifupdown-extra > > This package provi

Bug#370119: ITP: xfce4-mount-plugin -- mount plugin for the Xfce4 panel

2006-06-03 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Xfce Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xfce4-mount-plugin Version : 0.4.5 Upstream Author : Jean-Baptiste Dulong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://download.berlios.de/xfce-goodies/ * License : GPLv2

Re: Bug#366033: ITP: python-paste -- Tools for using a Web Server Gateway Interface stack

2006-05-08 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hello Piotr, * Piotr Ozarowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2006-05-04 17:32 +0200]: > * Package name: python-paste >Version : 0.9 >Upstream Author : Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://pythonpaste.org/ > * License : MIT >Programming Lang: Pytho

Bug#350470: ITP: xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin -- search the web via the Xfce4 panel

2006-01-29 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Xfce Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Emanuele Rocca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://people.debian.org/~ema/ * License

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-27 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hello, * Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2005-12-27 10:12 +0100]: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > (There's plenty of ways to make that not a problem, such as using the > > Uploaders: field; but the above might be a useful datapoint) > > With the Uploaders field, you miss all non-DD team membe

Re: Bug#331325: ITP: xfce4-cpufreq-plugin -- cpufreq information plugin for the Xfce4 panel

2005-10-03 Thread Emanuele Rocca
owner 331325 Debian Xfce Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thanks Hello Stefan, * Stefan Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2005-10-03 14:47 +0200]: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 02:29:20PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Best coordinate this with Debian Xfce Maintainers > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I i

Re: Bug#325709: ITP: xmms2 -- XMMS2 is a redesign of the XMMS music player

2005-09-02 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2005-09-01 11:42 -0500]: > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 08:52 -0400, Bryan Donlan wrote: > > The only thing shared between xmms1 and xmms2, really, is the name. Hey, they're both music players as well. :) > So is this a fork of XMMS? If not, I can't see a re

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway? (Was: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal)

2005-08-23 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hello David, * David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2005-08-21 19:44 -0400]: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:29:51PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Wouter Verhelst] > > >b) the three beforementioned teams could already refuse to > > >support a port anyhow, simply by not doing the w

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-09 Thread Emanuele Rocca
; replace debconf. [...] > Emanuele Rocca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > fwanalog A new version which fixes the problem is sitting in incoming. ciao, ema signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#308521: ITP: mousepad -- simple Xfce oriented text editor

2005-05-10 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Xfce Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mousepad Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Erik Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.xfce.org/~benny/apps.html * License : GPL Description : sim

Bug#308368: ITP: exo -- Library with extensions for Xfce

2005-05-09 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Xfce Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: exo Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://libexo.os-cillation.com/ * License : GPL Description : Library wit

Re: Bug#304521: ITP: wanna-build -- Database management for package (re-)compilation/status control

2005-04-15 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hello Jesus, * Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2005-04-15 13:24 +0200]: > I have checked already (pointed by Guillem Jover) and we were not able to > find > the CVS/SVN repository where you commit. > > That is why I started using some internal repo and thought about commiting > the > c

Bug#304325: linda: Please provide a more informative long description

2005-04-12 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: linda Severity: wishlist Hello, as the recent thread on -devel [0] pointed out, there is a bit of confusion about linda and lintian. IMHO it would be a good idea to provide an improved description for linda; I CCed -devel to hear also other opinions. Here it is my proposal: Linda is

Re: lintian & linda (was: Automatic testing of Debian packages)

2005-04-11 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* [ 11-04-05 - 22:03 ] Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-11 22:00]: > > Why are there Vi and Emacs? > > Why are there Perl and Python? > [...] > But thats not my problem. The programs etc. you showed are very > different in using, look etc

Re: lintian & linda

2005-04-11 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi Lars, * [ 11-04-05 - 13:25 ] Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ma, 2005-04-11 kello 13:19 +0200, Emanuele Rocca kirjoitti: > > It would be very nice to add these to linda's description. > > This way, every user can decide to install linda rather than

Re: lintian & linda

2005-04-11 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi Steve, * [ 11-04-05 - 12:39 ] Steve Kowalik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:45:04 +0200, Emanuele Rocca uttered > > Everybody agrees here, but (AFAIK) this is not the situation we are > > discussing. No 'Better Ideas' in linda. > Speak

Re: lintian & linda

2005-04-11 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* [ 11-04-05 - 09:14 ] Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ISTM that the good reason for writing-from-scratch duplicate > functionality is if you have a Better Idea (better data structures, > better interfaces, extra functionality, etc, etc) that are so > fundamental that You Can't Get Th

Re: lintian & linda

2005-04-10 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi Bernd, * [ 10-04-05 - 23:33 ] Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a lot differences between linda and lintian, especially the > programming language. We would like to know which are these differences. :) Nico's original question was "why are there linda and lintian?". ht

Re: lintian & linda

2005-04-10 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi Bernd, * [ 10-04-05 - 20:28 ] Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Ok thats a reason. But why not merge these projects now? I > > really recommend this because in my opinion this are two > > projects which do the same job twice which is

Re: lintian & linda (was: Automatic testing of Debian packages)

2005-04-10 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* [ 08-04-05 - 15:38 ] Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is another thing that I don't understand often. Why > are there linda and lintian? > In my opinion this makes things difficulter. Both have to > coordinate themselves and keep their policy rules up to > date. [...] > The on

Re: xfce-goodies - help needed; Rudy Godoy MIA?

2005-01-19 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* [ 19-01-05 - 15:57 ] Rudy Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El d?a 18/01/2005 a 12:53 Emanuele Rocca escribio ... > > > WNPP bugs for some of the -goodies need to be retitled from O: to ITP:. > > They wouldn't be ITA? Indeed. > > I found the time to

Re: xfce-goodies - help needed; Rudy Godoy MIA?

2005-01-19 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* [ 19-01-05 - 04:53 ] Andrew Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would be willing to help co-maintain them and get them back on the road > again. Cool. > One thing that would get the ball moving again would be to check > everything into a svn.debian.org tree so that almost anyone can chip in

Re: xfce-goodies - help needed; Rudy Godoy MIA?

2005-01-18 Thread Emanuele Rocca
> currently. > > To be honest I'd been expecting others to sort out the -plugins for > sarge given people had said they would. You're right, but (for what concerns me) I am a bit busy with real life in these days. > Likewise Emanuele Rocca seemed interested. I am.

Re: Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on metacity

2004-12-14 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* [ 14-12-04 - 15:33 ] Marco Nenciarini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Description : An enanced Window Manager based on metacity s/enanced/enhanced/ > expocity is an effort to integrate an efficient means of switching between > applications into the window manager metacity, similar to Exp