Re: Bits from the DPL (April 2019)

2019-04-30 Thread Esokrates
) and that there is no solution at this time, but it would be great if Debian would try to collaborate with gitlab on this issue so in the future the switch would be possible. On 30.04.19 19:32, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>>> "Esokrates" == Esokrates writes: > > Esokrates>

Re: Re: [RFC] Enabling bindnow by default in dpkg-buildflags

2016-12-14 Thread Esokrates
It seems no one cares, there is no movement whatsoever. Why not just go forward and enable it in sid? Others have done and it worked, there has been sufficient testing in Ubuntu. In fact this was even simply enabled in GCC for a short period of time deliberately. I do not see the problem here.

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-09 Thread Esokrates
On Tuesday, April 07, 2015 10:11:18 PM Niels Thykier wrote: On 2015-04-07 21:10, Niels Thykier wrote: On 2015-04-04 12:58, Esokrates wrote: On Saturday, April 04, 2015 10:54:09 AM Niels Thykier wrote: [...] I know predictions are hard, but is there a plan to get things done

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-09 Thread Esokrates
On Thursday, April 09, 2015 09:25:44 AM Esokrates wrote: So mostly that is more a decision making (political) problem, than a technical one. Stretch is a two year time frame though, which makes me kinda sad. Thanks for you effort though, keep up the amazing work! If I understand correctly

Debian package security policies

2015-04-05 Thread Esokrates
Hi, I am asking myself the following questions and am wondering if there is a policy covering the aspects: * Are source packages of free software packages required to only contain source code without binaries (maybe with the exception of the linux kernel and its firmware blobs)? * Inspired by

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-04 Thread Esokrates
On Saturday, April 04, 2015 10:54:09 AM Niels Thykier wrote: Last time I checked, dak was still missing code to handle the generated .ddeb files. Cheers, And it *still* does! But there are a few things that have changed! * There is an experimental branch for debhelper to generate

Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?

2015-04-02 Thread Esokrates
Hi, I am particularly interested in automatic debug packages, as the current situation is pretty messy imho. I found https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages. Does anyone know the status of this? Will this be a goal for Stretch? This and reproducible builds would make Debian the perfect