Re: Salsa CI documentation updated

2024-09-29 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2024-09-27 22:29:54, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 27 Sept 2024 at 09:38, Iustin Pop wrote: > ...> I just added a barebone config for one of my packages, and while the > > pipeline worked, I got an error for the arm64 cross-compile that seems > >

Re: Salsa CI documentation updated

2024-09-27 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2024-09-24 09:18:45, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi! > > We've overhauled the README.md at > https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline to be as complete as > possible, yet clear and to the point. If you are not yet using Salsa > CI for pre-upload quality assurance for your package, you might

Re: Salsa CI documentation updated

2024-09-27 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2024-09-24 09:18:45, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi! > > We've overhauled the README.md at > https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline to be as complete as > possible, yet clear and to the point. If you are not yet using Salsa > CI for pre-upload quality assurance for your package, you might

Re: xz backdoor

2024-04-01 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2024-03-31 22:23:10, Arto Jantunen wrote: > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: > > > Le dimanche, 31 mars 2024, 14.37:08 h CEST Pierre-Elliott Bécue a écrit : > >> I would object against creating a PGP key on the HSM itself. Not having > >> the proper control on the key is room for disaster as soon

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-03-31 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2024-03-31 08:03:40, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > On 30/03/24 20:43, Iustin Pop wrote: > > On 2024-03-30 11:47:56, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > On Sat, 30 Mar 2024 at 09:57, Iustin Pop wrote: > > > > Give me good Salsa support for autopkgtest + lintian + piuparts, and

Re: xz backdoor

2024-03-31 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2024-03-31 10:47:57, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Sun, 31 Mar 2024 at 08:39, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 12:05:54PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 11:22:33PM -0300, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > > > > As others have said, the best solution

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-03-30 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2024-03-31 00:58:49, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 10:56:40AM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: > > > Now it is time to take a step forward: > > > > > > 1. new upstream release; > > > 2. the DD/DM merges the upstream release VCS into

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-03-30 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2024-03-30 11:47:56, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Sat, 30 Mar 2024 at 09:57, Iustin Pop wrote: > > > > On 2024-03-30 08:02:04, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > > > Now it is time to take a step forward: > > > > > > 1. new upstream release; > > > 2.

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-03-30 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2024-03-30 08:02:04, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > Now it is time to take a step forward: > > 1. new upstream release; > 2. the DD/DM merges the upstream release VCS into the Debian VCS; > 3. the buildd is notified of the new release; > 4. the buildd creates and uploads the non-reviewed-in-practice

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-15 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2023-10-15 16:08:32, Wookey wrote: > I think you can consider me representative of the typical maintainer > who's intereaction with *roff languages almost entirely takes the > form: 'Oh bloody hell I really ought to write a man page for this > because upstream is too youthful to have done so - n

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-23 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2022-04-23 22:48:03, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Op 23-04-2022 om 16:10 schreef Andrey Rahmatullin: > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 03:13:29PM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > > > I see several possible options that the images team can choose from > > > > here. > > > > However, several of these o

Re: How to cleanup Ubuntu bugs for my Debian packages?

2020-11-29 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2020-11-29 14:06:31, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Hello all, > > For the sake of disclosure, I'm also an Ubuntu Developer. > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 12:58:53PM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: > > I have a Launchpad account, and the project itself lists my Launchpad > >

How to cleanup Ubuntu bugs for my Debian packages?

2020-11-29 Thread Iustin Pop
Hi all, Asking for people who have experience as Debian developers and who are annoyed by the Ubuntu bug count in the QA (debian) page. These bugs are trivial/minor, but still, I'd like to clean up. Let's take for example https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pylibacl/+bug/1876350. I h

Re: default firewall utility changes for Debian 11 bullseye

2020-01-13 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2019-12-19 12:29:59, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Hi Arturo! > > I know that this discussion took place some months ago, but I am just > now getting around to catching up on some old threads :-) Same here :) > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 01:52:30PM +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > > > 2) in

Re: @debian.org mail

2019-06-04 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2019-06-04 17:51:56, Graham Inggs wrote: > Hi > > On 2019/06/03 10:40, Daniel Lange wrote: > > To do better, we should really offer SMTP submission/IMAP services for > > @debian.org as soon as possible and - after a grace period - publish a > > mx -all SPF record. > > I would certainly make us

Re: Do we want to Require or Recommend DH

2019-05-13 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2019-05-13 17:58:47, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 5/13/19 3:57 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On May 13, Sam Hartman wrote: > > > >> As promised, I'd like to start a discussion on whether we want to > >> recommend using the dh command from debhelper as our preferred build > >> system. > > I have al

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-10 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2018-11-10 15:31:31, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Also, indeed I'm not an HRM person, […] And especially because of that, thank you very much for your work. > I don't feel any "guilt" here, sorry. And neither should you. thanks, iustin signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: A proposal for improving transparency of the FTP NEW process

2018-03-02 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2018-03-02 13:51:24, Gert Wollny wrote: > Am Freitag, den 02.03.2018, 14:15 +0200 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: > > > > > > Counter proposal: let's work on ways in which uploaders can make it > > easy and quick for ftp masters to review packages in NEW. The idea > > should be, in my opinion, that an

Re: Non-free RFCs in stretch

2017-03-05 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2017-03-05 12:41:18, Ben Finney wrote: > Sebastiaan Couwenberg writes: > > I'd like to see a compromise in the DFSG like #4 for standards to > > allow their inclusion in Debian when their license at least allows > > modification when changing the name or namespace for schemas and the > > like.

Bug#854422: ITP: multitime -- an to time which runs a command multiple times and gives detailed stats

2017-02-06 Thread Iustin Pop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Iustin Pop * Package name: multitime Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Laurence Tratt * URL : http://tratt.net/laurie/src/multitime/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : a time-like tool which does

Re: Bits from the Stable Release Managers

2016-11-29 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-11-29 13:08:54, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 2016-11-28 23:07, Iustin Pop wrote: > > On 2016-11-27 20:42:26, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > >* The bug should be of severity "important" or higher > > > > Quick question: assuming all the other conditio

Re: Bits from the Stable Release Managers

2016-11-28 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-11-27 20:42:26, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >* The bug should be of severity "important" or higher Quick question: assuming all the other conditions are met (minimal patch, clean debdiff, etc.), this seems to discourage normal bugs fixing. Is that intentional (i.e. there must be significant

Re: Bits from the DPL -- June 2016

2016-06-27 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-06-27 18:10:00, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > - - Approved purchase of PGP hardware tokens for DAMs. (Up to 200€) Could you please tell which hardware was this? Just curious for my own use—still have to migrate to such a solution, so I'm wondering what are others use, especially in/related to Debi

Re: Vcs-* and shared repos

2016-05-27 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-05-27 18:56:21, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > Iustin, > > On 27 May 2016 at 18:34, Iustin Pop wrote: > > That is a good point indeed. I'll think about it, but unless I find a > > much nicer solution I'll go ahead with the current one. > > > > At the m

Re: Vcs-* and shared repos

2016-05-27 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-05-27 03:01:29, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > On 25 May 2016 at 17:09, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > I'm convinced we will need at some point to document VCS packaging > > layouts in a way that allow tools to use that information > > programmatically. But right now that informatio

Re: Vcs-* and shared repos

2016-05-25 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-05-25 09:25:08, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Mittwoch, den 25.05.2016, 08:25 +0200 schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: > > I just wonder whether we should also take the chance of improving the > > spec in a way that will allow, down the line, to automatically find the > > actual packaging

Re: Vcs-* and shared repos

2016-05-25 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-05-25 09:34:43, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > My vote goes for changing nothing. IMO the extra convenience does not > outweigh the costs of having to support all the specific layouts in all > our infrastructure that wants to interact with the packaging git > repositories. I'm not sure this is s

Re: Vcs-* and shared repos

2016-05-25 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-05-25 18:00:55, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Mittwoch, den 25.05.2016, 09:34 +0200 schrieb Raphael Hertzog: > > I fear that adding such expressivity is encouraging bad practice. While > > I can understand that a single repository can be convenient and easier > > to manage than prop

Vcs-* and shared repos

2016-05-24 Thread Iustin Pop
Hi all, The Debian Haskell team has migrated a while back from per-package repositories to a single repository which contains the packaging (only debian/) for the vast majority of packages (https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-haskell/DHG_packages.git/). This makes sense for us since the packaging

Re: PIE + bindnow for Stretch?(Re: Time to reevaluate the cost of -fPIC?)

2016-05-15 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-05-15 21:45:55, Bálint Réczey wrote: > Hi Niels, > > 2016-05-15 20:49 GMT+02:00 Niels Thykier : > > Bálint Réczey: > >> Hi, > >> > >> [...] > >> > > > > Hi, > > > >> I think making PIE and bindnow default in dpkg (at least for amd64) would > >> be > >> perfect release goals for Stretch. >

Re: Interaction between dpkg's directory removal and dpkg-maintscript-helper

2016-05-05 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-05-06 11:07:57, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 02:16:32AM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm doing something wrong, looking > > for advice. If one wants to deprecate a conffile locate in an

Interaction between dpkg's directory removal and dpkg-maintscript-helper

2016-05-05 Thread Iustin Pop
Hi, I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm doing something wrong, looking for advice. If one wants to deprecate a conffile locate in an otherwise empty directory (let's say /etc/foo/bar), the following happens at new package install time: - before files unpacking, new-preinst is called; from d

dpkg-genchanges warning for -dbgsym packages

2016-05-03 Thread Iustin Pop
Hi all, I'm very glad for the automatic debug packages, but I wonder if I'm doing something wrong since I get this warning: dpkg-genchanges: warning: package foo-dbgsym listed in files list but not in control info The package is generated, so this mostly seems like a harmless warning

How to properly remove obsolete init script?

2016-05-03 Thread Iustin Pop
Hi and sorry for what is a basic question, but I can't find a clear answer. It seems that dpkg-maintscript-helper is the tool to remove conffiles, but it doesn't seem to have any special handling for init scripts. Which means that simply calling "rm_conffile …" will just remove the /etc/init.d/ sc

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-01-04 23:41:40, Eric Valette wrote: > On 04/01/2016 20:43, Michael Biebl wrote: > > >an initramfs is not mandatory as long as you don't have /usr on a > >separate partition. > >No initramfs + split /usr is not supported and has been broken for a while. > > Did you actually test it? It wor

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-01-04 12:03:07, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 19:15:18 +0100, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > >Anyway, if you think that the merged /usr scheme is about systemd then > >you are automatically disqualified from taking part in this discussion > >because you are not understandi

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-01-03 22:22:16, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Iustin Pop wrote: > > On 2016-01-03 12:59:01, Tom H wrote: > >> > >> I don't like usr-merge because it goes against my historical > >> expectation that "/{,s}bin" be separate

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-01-03 12:59:01, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: > I don't like usr-merge because it goes against my historical > expectation that "/{,s}bin" be separate from their /usr namesakes and > contain binaries required for boot. OK, so adjust your historical e

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-01-03 17:03:02, Simon McVittie wrote: > […] For > instance, /bin -> /usr/bin is needed because otherwise #!/bin/sh would > stop working, […] This brings to mind—I wonder if the performance impact of having /bin/sh be read through two indirections (/bin/sh → /usr/bin/sh → /usr/bin/{dash, ba

Re: [Fwd: Re: [DNG] FW: support for merged /usr in Debian]

2016-01-03 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-01-03 15:59:37, Svante Signell wrote: > Hi,  > > This message was not intended to be sent to a debian-* mailing list by > the author. However, since it is (in my opinion) of large interest I > got the permission to forward it to debian-devel. Hopefully, also some > of the debian-devel subs

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-01 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-01-01 13:39:35, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 12:23:20PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > > Thanks to my conversion program in usrmerge there is no need for a flag > > > day, archive rebuilds or similar complexity and we can even c

Re: git, debian/ tags, dgit - namespace proposal [and 1 more messages]

2015-11-16 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2015-11-16 13:27:33, Ian Jackson wrote: > [resending because my MUA messed up] > > Ben Hutchings writes ("Re: git, debian/ tags, dgit - namespace > proposal"): > > Deliberately creating identifiers that differ only by case seems > > gratuitously confusing. > > I acknowledge that this is a dow

Re: git, debian/ tags, dgit - namespace proposal

2015-11-15 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2015-11-15 21:26:52, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 21:10 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > [...] > > So this message is: > > > > * A request for anyone to say if they know of a reason I shouldn't do > >   this. > [...] > > Deliberately creating identifiers that differ only by case see

Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-09-29 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2015-09-28 22:14:44, Ben Hutchings wrote: > We propose to drop support for i386 processors older than 686-class in > the current release cycle. This would include folding libc6-i686 into > libc6, changing the default target for gcc, and changing the 586 kernel > flavour to 686 (non-PAE). > > S

Bug#787185: ITP: haskell-js-flot -- bundles the minified Flot code into a Haskell package

2015-05-29 Thread Iustin Pop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Iustin Pop * Package name: haskell-js-flot Version : 0.8.3 Upstream Author : Neil Mitchell * URL : https://github.com/ndmitchell/js-flot * License : BSD Programming Lang: Haskell Description : bundles the

Bug#787184: ITP: haskell-js-jquery -- bundles the minified jQuery code into a Haskell package

2015-05-29 Thread Iustin Pop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Iustin Pop * Package name: haskell-js-jquery Version : 1.11.3-1 Upstream Author : Neil Mitchell * URL : https://github.com/ndmitchell/js-jquery * License : BSD Programming Lang: Haskell Description : bundles the

Re: patch-tracker down?

2015-05-03 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2015-05-03 18:32:03, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Thanks for your prompt answer, Iustin, > > On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 04:16:26PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > > So: > > > > - we could have the current patch tracker resurrected easily as a stop > > gap measur

Re: patch-tracker down?

2015-05-03 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2015-05-03 15:31:28, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 02:50:17PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > > PS: Long-term, the current codebase needs some redoing - e.g. it uses > > cheetah as templating engine, and that's not available under Python 3, > > etc. &g

Re: patch-tracker down?

2015-05-03 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2014-05-29 17:19:50, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: > > > are you looking for new volunteers? > > I'm not a Debian sysadmin but yes, new volunteers are needed for > patch-tracker.d.o. > > Requirements are that you need to be a Debian member, but y

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-16 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2015-04-17 10:54:43, Russell Stuart wrote: > Github has all but > annihilated SourceForge in the hosting market place, and the stand out > change is it's UI. That is in spite of SourceForge's impressive mirror > network and SourceForge being VCS agnostic. I think the VCS agnosticism is actuall

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-12 Thread Iustin Pop
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:21:56AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Iustin Pop wrote: > > > Packaging branches and tags > > > === > > > > > > Packaging branches should be named according to the code

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-11 Thread Iustin Pop
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:26:24PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > following the initial discussion we had in August > (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/08/thrd2.html#00499), I have > written a first draft of the Debian Enhancement Proposal that I suggested. > It's now online

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-29 Thread Iustin Pop
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 09:44:43AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 08:25:38AM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > Hi Hilko, > > > > Hilko Bengen writes: > > > This is a pity for those of us who don't really subscribe to "get > > > everything from github as needed" model o

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

2012-05-27 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 05:39:21AM +0300, Serge wrote: > 2012/5/25 Iustin Pop wrote: > > > And no, "I really can't think of any popular application" is not a valid > > discussion point. > > But there're already popular applications and usecases tha

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

2012-05-25 Thread Iustin Pop
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 08:14:10PM +0300, Serge wrote: > 2012/5/25 Neil Williams wrote: > > Different hardware -> different software selection. > > I don't understand your point. I could understand it if we were choosing > among benefits that most users get from /tmp being on disk and /tmp being >

Bug#665911: ITP: haskell-ekg -- remote monitoring of Haskell processes over HTTP

2012-03-26 Thread Iustin Pop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Iustin Pop * Package name: haskell-ekg Version : 0.3.0.3 Upstream Author : Johan Tibell * URL : https://github.com/tibbe/ekg * License : BSD Programming Lang: Haskell Description : remote monitoring of Haskell

Bug#664466: ITP: shelltestrunner -- test command-line programs or arbitrary shell commands

2012-03-17 Thread Iustin Pop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Iustin Pop * Package name: shelltestrunner Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : Simon Michael * URL : http://joyful.com/shelltestrunner * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Haskell Description : test command-line

Re: [Long] UEFI support

2012-01-09 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 04:29:12PM +, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Wookey, 2012-01-09 15:04+0100: > > I assume evyone here is aware of mjg's useful posts about the issue of > > key-management in UEFI secure boot? > > > > We need to do one of: > > > > * get our bootloaders signed by something like t

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-26 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 04:42:45PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:38:10AM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: > > > > All admins I know have at least some servers with custom kernels (in the > > > > past it was said, to build your firewall/se

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-26 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:08:57PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-12-25, Stephan Seitz wrote: > > All admins I know have at least some servers with custom kernels (in the > > past it was said, to build your firewall/server kernels without module > > support, so that no rootkit module could b

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-08 Thread Iustin Pop
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 08:16:57PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 07, Stephan Seitz wrote: > > > If this is the future way and the way the developer want to go, then > > the way will succeed in time, but as Goswin said, it will take time. > > > > The admins who think the new way is bad will

Package mailing lists (was: bits from the DPL for September 2011)

2011-11-08 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 03:48:35PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > - I've made the "private email aliases considered harmful" point [10], > in a somehow unrelated thread. I ask you to watch out for interactions > in Debian that could happen only through private email addresses. > There are

Re: Trivia: very old files on incoming.debian.org

2011-11-08 Thread Iustin Pop
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:50:27PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 06:34 +0900, Iustin Pop wrote: > > Not sure where else to send this… but while checking for a small upload > > I did I saw some very old files on incoming. If you check sorted by

Trivia: very old files on incoming.debian.org

2011-11-08 Thread Iustin Pop
Hi all, Not sure where else to send this… but while checking for a small upload I did I saw some very old files on incoming. If you check sorted by date, http://incoming.debian.org/?C=M;O=A, you'll see some very old things (1997, 2003, 2007, etc…). Their size is not big, but seems… unclean to not

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-22 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 09:27:25AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 05:39:08PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > > Since liblzmaX exists, would it be a simple matter of using it in order > > to make mandb handle such compressed man pages without having to fork? >

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-21 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 04:03:57PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 08:30:24PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > > It's worth mentioning that man-db has had xz support since March last year > > (upstream). This is available in testing. > > Although I'd also like to mention that I exp

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-15 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:59:07PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Lars Wirzenius (l...@liw.fi) [110815 23:27]: > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:04:51PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > > > * Lars Wirzenius [2011-08-15 18:33 +0100]: > > > > raw gz xz > > > > 584163 134 file

Re: Introduction of a "lock" group

2011-08-15 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 06:00:50PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 05:35:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 04:11:49PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > Are these any other downsides we need to consider? One issue is the > > > existence of badly broken pr

Re: Introduction of a "lock" group

2011-08-15 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 04:11:49PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Hi folks, > > Fedora has moved to having /var/lock (now /run/lock) owned by > root:lock 0775 rather than root:root 01777. This has the advantage > of making a system directory writable only by root or setgid lock > programs, rather th

Re: Integrating Emdebian Grip into Debian

2011-08-08 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 05:43:55PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Neil Williams > > | The discussions have resulted in quite a few points which I've now put > | on the wiki: > | > | http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianIntegration > | > | Please refer to the wiki before raising possible technical

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-29 Thread Iustin Pop
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 08:23:57PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 29.07.2011 18:02, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:27:09AM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > >> What virtualisation solutions should be supported? > > > > Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is the only format that

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-24 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 01:17:50PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > > No. systemd wants to throw out init scripts, because they are shell > > scripts, and Shell Scripts Are Bad!!!1!! oh noes. > > I don't get that impression. Rather, I think both systemd and upstart > wan

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Iustin Pop
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 03:59:13PM +, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Wouter Verhelst debian.org> writes: > > IMAO, a statement of (paraphrased) 'portability is for weenies' isn't > > Keeping portability in mind is a good thing especially if you're doing > something > that is easily implementable with

Re: Small transition: protobuf 2.4.0

2011-02-20 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:39:38PM +0100, Jan Dittberner wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 07:01:55PM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: > > Depends: > > python-protobuf.socketrpc > > I maintain this in DPMT. > > The python-protobuf.socketrpc module works fine with python-protob

Small transition: protobuf 2.4.0

2011-02-20 Thread Iustin Pop
Hi all, I've uploaded to experimental the new protobuf version (2.4.0a) and this brings as always a SONAME increase. It also has a new experimental backend (C++-based) for the Python language bindings, hence the heads-up. Here is the list of packages that is affected by this (assuming my grep-dct

Re: The future of m-a and dkms

2011-02-15 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 02:43:23PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:19:37PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Am So den 13. Feb 2011 um 23:21 schrieb Patrick Matthäi: > > > since we have got a stable release with dkms now, I am asking myself, if > > > it is stil

Re: The future of m-a and dkms

2011-02-13 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 06:00:10PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:52:22 +0100 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > > On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 23:21 +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > > > since we have got a stable release with dkms now, I am asking myself, if > > > it is still nec

Re: package testing, autopkgtest, and all that

2011-01-29 Thread Iustin Pop
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 03:19:32PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Iustin Pop writes ("Re: package testing, autopkgtest, and all that"): > > I think even without a full archive integration, having this spec > > publicised a bit among developers would be useful; I know I

Re: package testing, autopkgtest, and all that

2011-01-27 Thread Iustin Pop
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 02:45:57PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("package testing, autopkgtest, and all that"): > > Regarding this specific point (tests run on packages as if they were > > installed), IIRC Ian Jackson worked a bit on the matter, producing some > > code (aut

Re: autopkgtest (was Re: Bits from the Security Team (for those that care about bits)

2011-01-24 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:37:26AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Montag, 24. Januar 2011, Iustin Pop wrote: > > Second, README.test are designed for human consumption, whereas a > > standardisation of how to invoke the tests would allow for much more > > auto

Re: Bits from the Security Team (for those that care about bits)

2011-01-23 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 06:45:56PM -0500, Michael Hanke wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:19:32AM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: > > First, tests run during a package build are good, but they do not > > ensure, for example, that the package as installed is working OK. I've > >

Re: Bits from the Security Team (for those that care about bits)

2011-01-23 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:52:54AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Iustin Pop wrote: > > > First, tests run during a package build are good, but they do not > > ensure, for example, that the package as installed is working OK. I've >

Re: Bits from the Security Team (for those that care about bits)

2011-01-23 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:32:07PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > Hi! > > In the weekend 14-16 January 2011, the Debian Security Team convened in > Linux Hotel, Essen. We discussed many things, a lot of security work was done > and of course the necessary socialising wasn't forgotten. We'd like

Re: Backports service becoming official

2010-09-07 Thread Iustin Pop
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 08:35:05PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > I really would like to see us trying to work together more effectively > instead of objecting to things right ahead without even knowing wether > it is such a big relevant deal to make a fuzz about. IMHO it isn't, far > from it. We

Re: Backports service becoming official

2010-09-07 Thread Iustin Pop
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:46:56AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Now that backports are becoming official, I think that it is the right > time to reconsider the maintenance model of backports. I would > personally prefer if we had the same rules of packages ownership as for > normal packages ("nor

Re: FYI: code.google.com downloads & uscan - fixed

2010-09-03 Thread Iustin Pop
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 10:02:15PM +0200, David Paleino wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 21:37:21 +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:10:02PM +0200, David Paleino wrote: > > > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 20:12:28 +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > > > > >

Re: FYI: code.google.com downloads & uscan - fixed

2010-09-03 Thread Iustin Pop
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:10:02PM +0200, David Paleino wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 20:12:28 +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > > > After some discussion on how the actual links should be presented so > > that uscan can find them while still keeping the desired UI behaviour, > >

FYI: code.google.com downloads & uscan - fixed

2010-09-03 Thread Iustin Pop
Hi all, [resend since my original mail from Aug 26th got lost] As promised during Debconf, I went and talked with the code.google.com people about the changes to the download list which broke uscan. For the record, the rationale for the changes was (quoted with permission): > Background: We used

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-27 Thread Iustin Pop
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:54:03AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2010 23:44:52 +0200 > Iustin Pop wrote: > > > There is nothing wrong with a source package that glides through > > > several stable releases without needing a rebuild, especially if it >

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-26 Thread Iustin Pop
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:34:32PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2010 22:59:25 +0200 > Iustin Pop wrote: > > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:43:36PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > > On 05/24/2010 11:05 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > > * The

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-26 Thread Iustin Pop
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:43:36PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 05/24/2010 11:05 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > * The plan concerning dpkg-source and the default source format has been > > clarified. In the long term, the default format will disappear and > > debian/source/format will

Re: debian/watch problem due to http://code.google.com download page's link format change

2010-05-23 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 06:48:41PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 05:16:08PM +0800, Asias He wrote: > > Hi, All > > > > Recently, code.google.com changed the download page link format. > > As a result, the old debian/watch file in packages whose upstream source > > co

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread Iustin Pop
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:34:27AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2010-03-03, Neil Williams wrote: > > Changing to SHA won't help. I'm for ditching all md5sums from packages. > > It's not a lot of disc space gained but it does give a false sense of > > security or 'insurance' if you want to avoid

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Iustin Pop
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:12:30PM +0100, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > > On Dec 31, 2009, at 15:04, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2009-12-31 14:10:46 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 02:02:36PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >>> POSIX says: > > Have we resolved where the can

Re: quilt 3.0 source format and dpkg-source/dpkg-buildpackage

2009-12-28 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 01:38:43AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mo, 28 Dez 2009, Iustin Pop wrote: > > Sorry to hear about your bad experience. I use the same workflow, > > git-buildpackage + 3.0 (quilt) and I have no problems so far. > > Good for you. > > >

Re: quilt 3.0 source format and dpkg-source/dpkg-buildpackage

2009-12-27 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 01:14:46AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > Can someone of the proposers of this (nice? stupid? rubbish?) format > explain me please why on earth: > - git-buildpackage > - dpkg-buildpackage > - and in fact at the bottom dpkg-source > fuck around in my git repository, applyin

Bug#562658: ITP: ganeti-htools -- Cluster tools for Ganeti

2009-12-26 Thread Iustin Pop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Iustin Pop * Package name: ganeti-htools Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Iustin Pop * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: Haskell Description : Cluster tools for Ganeti

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-06 Thread Iustin Pop
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 02:56:20PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > In particular, from the replies to my question the picture I get is > that everybody is using ad hoc solutions to implement what some people > are pretending to be properly supported by Debian. I found it not > defendable, maybe

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-05 Thread Iustin Pop
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:36:02PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I have been told by upstream maintainers of one of my packages and by > prominent developers of other distributions that supporting a standalone > /usr is too much work and no other distribution worth mentioning does it > (not Ubuntu,

Re: Yes, we have bugs

2009-04-15 Thread Iustin Pop
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 09:57:25PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Luca Niccoli > > | But what if I don't need hotplugging? Why should I bear hal flaws if I > | don't need its features? > > A machine without USB or PCI is not a particularly common sight those > days. Heck, even machines with

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