Bug#1083111: ITP: git-cinnabar -- Git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Hommey X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: git-cinnabar Version : 0.7.0~beta.2 Upstream Contact: Mike Hommey * URL : https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar * License : MPL-2.0 and GPL-2.0

Re: Supporting alternative zlib implementations

On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 01:55:17AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, 2024-09-25 at 00:39:10 +0200, Fay Stegerman wrote: > > * Guillem Jover [2024-09-24 17:45]: > > > Personally, I think fully migrating from zlib to zlib-ng would sound > > > great (even for trixie), but I guess we can

Re: File descriptor hard limit is now bumped to the kernel max

On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 06:39:15PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 06, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > I believe the change Luca describes is increasing rlim_max (hard limit) > > but not rlim_cur (soft limit), and the code touched by that patch is > > looking at rlim_cur, so it should be unaffect

Re: xz backdoor

On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 02:01:23AM -0400, Robert Edmonds wrote: > This backdoor abused the IFUNC mechanism in the GNU toolchain to hook into > the sshd process. Looking on my Debian sid workstation with about 1900 library > packages installed, I see a very small handful of source packages shipping

Re: Debian 13 release schedule and Debian 15 codename announcement

On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 10:50:34PM +0200, Joaquín Rufo Gutierrez wrote: > Hello Debian users, > > We are happy to announce that Debian 13, codenamed "Trixie", is > expected to be released sometime in 2024, following the usual 2-year > release cycle. Bookworm was released in 2023. The usual 2-year

Re: Backports needed for Firefox/Thunderbird ESR 78 in Buster/Stretch

On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 07:17:29PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 04:35:42PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > On 01/09/2020 14:05, Christoph Martin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am not shure if I can help, but I can try and have a look at it. > > > > > > Yes p

Re: d/changelog and experimental

On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 11:21:12PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Paolo Greppi writes: > > > What is the best approach for d/changelog when releasing a package to > > unstable after it has been through a few iterations to experimental ? > > > It would seem that the right thing to do is to keep all

Re: .deb format: let's use 0.939, zstd, drop bzip2

On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 09:01:27PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 07:37:55AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 1:38 AM Adam Borowski wrote: > > > > > Thus, even though we'd want to stick with xz for the official archive, > > > speed > > > gains from zstd ar

Re: .deb format: let's use 0.939, zstd, drop bzip2

On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 09:04:49PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2019-05-08 22:35:58 +0200 (+0200), Ansgar wrote: > > Adam Borowski writes: > > > I've recently did some research on how can we improve the speed of > > > unpacking > > > packages. There's a lot of other stages that can be improv

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:46:41PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > . > > > > Note that Firefox is built with --no-keep-memory > > --reduce-memory-overheads, and that was still not enough for 32-bts &

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 10:28:31AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 11:46 PM Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > > [ Please note the cross-post and respect the Reply-To... ] > > > > Hi folks, > > > > This has taken a while in coming, for which I apologise. There's a lot

Re: Tainted builds (was Re: usrmerge -- plan B?)

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 09:07:46AM -0200, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 07:02:07PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 02:48:32PM -0200, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > > Would you be willing to also implement > > > Tainted-By: not-built-in-a-chroot > > > ? > >

Re: Uncoordinated upload of the rustified librsvg

On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 01:21:44PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > I have worked with the Rust upstream sources > > well enough to know these issues. You have a regression in Rust 1.25 and > > you will have a very hard time trying to bisect the issues simply because > > you cannot even build 1.25 u

Re: Limiting the power of packages

On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 08:19:17PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > The problem: when a .deb package is installed, upgraded, or removed, > the maintainer scripts are run as root and can thus do anything. > > Sometimes what they do is an unwelcome surprise to the user. For > example, the Microsoft Sk

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 02:44:56PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Do, Jul 26, 2018 at 01:59:08 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Stephan Seitz - 26.07.18, 11:10: > > > I don’t understand the problem. No one forces anyone to keep the > > > package in Debian. Upstream made clear it isn’t interes

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:28:32PM +0200, Romain Bignon wrote: > On 22/Jul - 10:15, Marc Dequènes (duck) wrote: > > > but... https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/merge_requests/232 > > > > Thanks for pointing this out. It's not in yet and I've just asked upstream > > to clean this mess. > > This i

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 09:39:51AM +0900, Marc Dequènes (duck) wrote: > Quack, > > It seems the project is leaving the decision about Weboob onto me, so I'll > try to address it. > > The diversity statement tells me we should welcome others even if they are > very different and with conflicting o

Re: Firefox 60esr on Stretch ?

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 09:01:20AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 8:29 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > I expect nothing much different from previous ESR cycles: stretch will move > > to 60 after 52 goes EOL in September. > > Does anyone know when firefox-esr in unstable will swi

Re: Firefox 60esr on Stretch ?

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 02:29:59PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On 05/03/2018 02:09 PM, Julien Aubin wrote: > > Hi > > > > Firefox 60esr is due for next week. > > > > As of now Debian Stretch is bound to Firefox ESR 52 which reaches EOL > > soon. The problem is that it becomes less and less usa

Re: Automatic way to install dbgsym packages for a process?

On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 04:02:59PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2017-08-08 15:53:34 +0200, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > > Now, where to put it? Into devscripts? The disadvantage is that devscripts > > already pulls in quite a few other packages via recommends. But I don't > > have a better idea.

Re: De-Branding of Icedove, reintroducing Thunderbird packages into Debian

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:35:52PM -0500, Christoph Goehre wrote: > Hi Debian Developers and followers, > > Thunderbird is back in Debian! We also renamed other related packages to > use official names, e.g. iceowl-extension -> lightning. > > For now, we need testers to catch existing issues and

Re: Hiding library packages from apt searches by default? (was: Re: Worthless node-* package descriptions in ITPs)

On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 07:32:12PM +, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 02:32:45PM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > > On 01/05/2017 02:06 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting Riku Voipio (2017-01-05 12:53:16) > > >> Vast majority of users would only install this via dependencies

Re: [Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#833309: "Browserified" stuff (knot-resolver-module-http: please package embedded epoch.js separately)

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 05:48:00AM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > W. Martin Borgert: > > On 2016-10-12 21:41, Vincent Bernat wrote: > >> ❦ 12 octobre 2016 18:54 CEST, Martín Ferrari : > >>> I had always understood that rebuilding from source was a hard > >>> requirement. Is this not the case any m

Re: synaptics vs libinput and GNOME 3.20 no longer supporting synaptics

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 07:48:44AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 09:36:16AM +1000, Russell Stuart wrote: > > Briefly: synaptics is much better touchpad driver than libinput. > > For me, the opposite is true. After Raphael's mail yesterday, I > switched from the synaptics d

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

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 otherwise > empty directory (let's say /etc/foo/bar), the following happens at new > package

Re: Packaging of static libraries

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 06:44:45AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > > On 10/04/2016 23:08, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 02:28:02PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > >> > >> On 10/04/2016 08:05, Andreas Tille wrote: > >>>

Re: Packaging of static libraries

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 02:28:02PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > > On 10/04/2016 08:05, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > The only use case I could imagine is to create an executable that can > > > run outside of Debian. > Static builds are still common in (parts of) scientific co

Bug#793404: massive waste of CPU time in debian/rules by inline commands

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 09:08:15PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Eduard Bloch , 2015-07-23, 19:43: > >The problem: I see lots of $(shell ...) stuff. In boost, there are about > >12 such calls. And they run dpkg-architecture or dpkg-parsechangelogs or > >similar commands. When this was done a just co

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:36:15PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Bas Wijnen: > > > I have some experience with safe browsing, but indeed I have not > > looked up how it works. I do know that it continuously sends data > > to Google, and I have quite a bit of confidence in their capability > >

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 01:09:37PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:26 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > Screenshots of games during play are not the same as logos. > > Are you saying that screenshots of logos aren't derivative works of those > logos? I

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 12:57:41AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > > You could make a screenshot from where the original icons are shown, > > then re-encode those tiny 16x16px thingies into new *.ico files with > > GIMP. This is sorta like taki

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 02:38:12PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > I, myself, find our DFSG-freeness pickiness going too far, and I'm sick > > of this icon thing. So, here's what I'm going to do: unless I hear

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:07:00PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > BTW, that's something that would need to be resolved once and for all by > > an SPI lawyer, because a) Mozilla's lawyers consider those icons kocher > > as MPL-licensed icons and b) that's a problem broader than just > > iceweasel, as

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:56:29PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Nikolaus Rath writes ("Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality"): > > On Jul 15 2015, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > So I made this experiment with Iceweasel. These are the requests it > > > makes with a fresh profile, before you even

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 02:18:08PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:26:16PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 03:51:42AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:06:28AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > >

Re: Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 03:50:18PM +, Christoph Riehl wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 03:51:42AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:06:28AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > > POST > https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/downloads?client=Iceweasel&appver=38.1.0

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:09:47PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > FUD is easy. How about documenting yourself on how Safe browsing > > actually works? Hint: urls are _never_ sent to Google. The worst thing > > that Goo

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:06:28AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > GET http://www.ebay.com/favicon.ico > GET http://en.wikipedia.org/favicon.ico > GET http://www.yahoo.com/favicon.ico > GET http://www.google.com/favicon.ico > GET http://www.amazon.com/favicon.ico > GET http://www.yahoo.com/favicon.ico >

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 03:51:42AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:06:28AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > POST > > https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/downloads?client=Iceweasel&appver=38.1.0&pver=2.2&key=no-google-api-key > > + a few dozens of GET requests to https://

Re: libre version of iceweasel

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:42:19AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:40:45AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Jun 09, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > > > open question: is there a perceived need to dig into the source code > > > of firefox and, just as was done

Re: Developer repositories for Debian

On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 09:23:26AM +0200, Mechtilde wrote: > Hello > > Am 05.05.2015 um 23:45 schrieb Mike Hommey: > > On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 02:22:04PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > >> Hello world, > >> > >> Now with wheezy happy and out the door, we sh

Re: Developer repositories for Debian

On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 02:22:04PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Hello world, > > Now with wheezy happy and out the door, we should finally tackle a long > open issue. Developer repositories (AKA PPA) for Debian. Now with jessie happy and out the door, what is the status of Developer repositories

Re: Find out what symbols in dynamic library have not been compiled with -fPIC

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:03:56PM +0100, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: > Dear Debian developers, > > When trying to create a package that includes the library, I am reported > the following error by lintian: > > E: libosra1: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/libosra.so > > I understand what the problem i

Re: Bug#762839: bash without importing shell functions from the environment

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 01:37:48PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On 26 September 2014 12:08, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > > brian@aquitard:~$ sudo echo='() { /bin/echo bar; }' bash > > > root@aquitard:/home/brian# echo hello > > > bar > > > > I think you have that backwards, don't you? Shouldn't that

Re: Bug#762839: bash without importing shell functions from the environment

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 04:29:05PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Package: bash > Version: 4.1-3 > > I have prepared bash packages which do not honour any shell functions > they find in the environment. IMO that is a crazy feature, which > ought to be disabled. (I'm running this on chiark now and n

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 02:02:18PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Bernhard R. Link: > > * Mike Hommey [140713 12:55]: > > > Contrary to what you seem to believe, this only really works if *both* > > > libraries have versioned symbols. Otherwise, yo

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 08:17:51AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Thomas Goirand: > > Well, I don't agree with this view. If LibreSSL pretends to be a > > replacement for OpenSSL, then they should care about being ABI > > compatible, so we can easily switch from one implementation to the

Re: New project goal: Get rid of Berkeley DB (post jessie)

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:29:59PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 19 juin 2014 à 11:38 +0200, Ondřej Surý a écrit : > > Debian Evolution Maintainers > > > >evolution-data-server > > I think this change is already underway upstream. Most evolution > databases use SQLite now, but Be

Re: Why not 03 ?

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:21:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Xavier Roche writes: > > > I have a rather silly question: most (all ?) packages are built by > > default with -02 - something which is inherited from autotool's '-g -O2' > > default flagsd, I presume. > > > Is -O3 considered too da

Re: preparing for GCC 4.9 (bug squashing on May 16/17)

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 02:56:39PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > With gcc-4.9 now available in testing, it is time to prepare for the change of > the default to 4.9, for a subset of architectures or for all (release) > architectures. The defaults for the gdc, gccgo, gcj and gnat frontends > alre

Re: Debian default desktop environment

On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 11:53:21AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 07 avril 2014 à 23:55 +0100, Wookey a écrit : > > +++ Kevin Chadwick [2014-08-27 20:55 +0100]: > > > It also supports focus follows mouse, no raise on click > > > > I had forgotten, but this was the 'killer feature' tha

Re: jquery debate with upstrea

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 08:06:14AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > I guess it just unpacks, removes and repacks. Which also means it would > > be quite annoying in my own workflow which involves unpacking/repacking > &g

Re: jquery debate with upstrea

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:02:27PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Mittwoch, den 12.03.2014, 18:37 -0300 schrieb Lisandro Damián Nicanor > Pérez Meyer: > > > Do you (or anyone) know if it repacks the file consistently? I.e. will > > > two developers, who both use uscan to get the origi

Re: Upcoming switch to ESR24 for iceweasel in stable-security

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 06:11:29PM -0400, David Prévot wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi, > > Le 16/01/2014 17:36, Moritz Mühlenhoff a écrit : > > > quick heads up for everyone maintaining xul-ext-* packages: > > (CCing pkg-mozext-maintainers@lado then) > > > We

Re: Switching default dpkg-source compressor for V2+ formats to xz

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 03:52:51AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to switch the default dpkg-source compressor to xz for V2+ > (not for V1) source formats, as suggested by Ansgar Burchardt in [0]. > > [0] > > After ha

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:33:03PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Hi, > we need to change the way security fixes are handled for Mozilla > in stable-security. The backporting of security fixes is no > longer sustainable resource-wise. > > As such, we'll switch to releasing the ESR releases of

Re: default MTA

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:09:07PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 28 mai 2013 à 10:34 +0100, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : > > There is an impedence mismatch between packages which consider an MTA and > > the > > sendmail interface to be standard and those desktop components that make no

Re: jessie release goals

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:49:57PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Hi, > > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > for jessie. Here are some points that come into my mind right now (and > some were already discussed very recently): > > * multiarch compatible binNM

Re: Bug#602034: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 05:01:50PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > Libjpeg-turbo website [3] has all the signs of an healthy open source > project - A SVN repo with many commiters, bug tracker, a mailing list > with open discussion etc. libjpeg-turbo is also used by webkit, blink, and gecko. Mike -

Re: Linux Future

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 03:05:58PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 22 janvier 2013 à 14:57 +0100, Svante Signell a écrit : > > Worthwhile to read, definitely. > > Yet full of misinformation, like the idea that using D-Bus makes a > service less scriptable (while the reality is a complet

Re: Math Fonts for Iceweasel and MathJax

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 02:50:05PM +0100, Frédéric WANG wrote: > Dear Debian maintainers, > > I raised this issue about math font dependency in Iceweasel a couple > of time ago but I still don't see any changes at > http://packages.debian.org/sid/iceweasel... The issue was discussed > again on the

Re: Math Fonts for Iceweasel and MathJax

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 03:15:26PM +0100, Frédéric WANG wrote: > On 18/12/2012 15:07, Mike Hommey wrote: > >And it doesn't. What you can see on > >http://packages.debian.org/sid/iceweasel is that the packages for > >alpha, hppa and powerpcspe, which are all outdated (3.

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 02:51:27PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > What I mean is that this still happens: > > # ifup eth0 > ... > # ifconfig eth0 down > # ifup eth0 > ifup: interface eth0 already configured > > People talk about how ifupdown works well with other configuration > tools, unlike Netw

Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:23:56PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:55:02AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > Andreas Tille wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:39:05AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > > Part of the problem is that we lack go

Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:55:02AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:39:05AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > Part of the problem is that we lack good tools to do this extra work > > > for us. > > > > As an unrelated idea which popped up when reading

Re: CD sizes again (and BoF reminder!)

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:42:03AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Hideki Yamane wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 17:58:16 +0200 > > Adam Borowski wrote: > > > • xz -6 (the default) is a lot slower when compressing, fast when > > > decompressing, needs only 10MB memory, 58% size > > > • xz -9 has v

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useful

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:29:46AM +0300, Serge wrote: > 2012/6/1 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > All the complaints about /tmp as tmpfs come down to one simple issue: > > The size of the tmpfs isn't chosen well. > > Mounting /tmp to tmpfs not just breaks a lot of apps and reduces system > stab

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useful

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 08:20:46PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 26/05/12 19:43, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: > >> On 26/05/12 19:13, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > >>> I find some of the assertions in this thread confusing. I've been > >>> using tmpfs /t

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 06:59:35PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > I hesitate to prolong this thread further, but I do have a couple of > data points. (and couldn't let Neil's nonsense go). > > +++ Neil Williams [2012-05-25 16:15 +0100]: > > > So instead of fixing the defaults you suggest everybody to drop

Re: amd64 as default architecture

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 02:00:21PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 11:27 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Ben Hutchings writes: > > > > > Most new PCs have an Intel or AMD 64-bit processor, and > > > popcon.debian.org shows amd64 numbers almost matching i386. > > > > > >

Re: Version for a returning package

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:40:14PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-05-13 11:49 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Mike Hommey, le Sun 13 May 2012 11:16:13 +0200, a écrit : > >> The versions they had by then had an epoch. Supposedly, to make the new > >> versi

Version for a returning package

Hi, I'm going to reintroduce unversioned libnspr4 and libnss3 for various reasons. These packages used to exist in the Debian archive, but the last time they were seen was in sarge. The first release *not* including them was etch. This is quite some time ago. The versions they had by then had an

Re: On init in Debian

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:09:57AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-03-29 02:43:33 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > > $ sudo apt-get remove network-manager* > > $ sudo apt-get install wicd wicd-curses wicd-gtk > > ^ wicd-kde ? > > $ wicd-curs

Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 09:16:47AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 03:53:18AM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 01:39:13AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:00:30AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > > Your complaint, then, is ag

Re: Enabling hardened build flags for Wheezy

On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:58:23PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Kees Cook writes: > > > Speaking to the false positives problem, I've discussed with some people > > the idea of having build flags be included in some sort of ELF > > comment-like area that can be examined. That way it's becomes tri

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 04:51:18PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Excuse me, but what you're implying here is that systemd can dictate > the development of kernel interfaces. Sorry, but that's too far. > Can't you see the massive problem here? You are now preventing > cgroups being removed from the

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 04:25:22PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" writes: > > > I also fail to see how upstart or systemd add anything new while they > > obscure or delete previous good work (by suggesting init(1) is to be > > deleted). > > I would like to st

Re: Help (voodoo, really) needed [Re: failed i386 build of iceweasel 11.0~b1-2]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:28:49PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:41:03PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 06:08:59PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:00:32PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > >

Re: Help (voodoo, really) needed [Re: failed i386 build of iceweasel 11.0~b1-2]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 06:08:59PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:00:32PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 06:40:28PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Mike Hommey, le Fri 17 Feb 2012 18:36:56 +0100, a écrit : > > > >

Re: Help (voodoo, really) needed [Re: failed i386 build of iceweasel 11.0~b1-2]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 06:40:28PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Mike Hommey, le Fri 17 Feb 2012 18:36:56 +0100, a écrit : > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 06:23:00PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Mike Hommey, le Fri 17 Feb 2012 18:09:37 +0100, a écrit : > > > &g

Re: Help (voodoo, really) needed [Re: failed i386 build of iceweasel 11.0~b1-2]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 06:23:00PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Mike Hommey, le Fri 17 Feb 2012 18:09:37 +0100, a écrit : > > > sydney_audio_alsa.c:504:5: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be > > > > Would anyone have a clue as to what the hell is happening

Help (voodoo, really) needed [Re: failed i386 build of iceweasel 11.0~b1-2]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 07:14:59PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:25:19AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 05:16:16AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 05:09:13PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > > H

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 05:13:20PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:19:17 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Well, it does mean that you might be lacking important information > > because the other changelog wouldn't be present on the system. > > While the implicit Replaces seems

Re: Breaking programs because a not yet implemented solution exists in theory (Was: Bug#658139: evince: missing mime entry)

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 12:27:40AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 02 février 2012 à 19:11 +, brian m. carlson a écrit : > > The mime-support solution is part of Policy. It is a perfectly working, > > fully-implemented solution. > > This is a blatant lack of knowledge of the curr

Re: Versionned dependencies

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 12:10:17PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Mike Hommey (02/02/2012): > > As discussed on irc, if you instead do iceweasel-api-3.6, iceweasel-api-4.0, > > etc. you end up having crazy dependencies like: > > Depends: iceweasel-api-3.6 | iceweasel-api-4.

Re: Versionned dependencies

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:33:01AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:14:43AM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Am 02.02.2012 10:54, schrieb Tanguy Ortolo: > > > Packages can currenctly declared dependencies on specific ve

Re: Versionned dependencies

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:14:43AM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > Am 02.02.2012 10:54, schrieb Tanguy Ortolo: > > Packages can currenctly declared dependencies on specific versions of > > other packages, with simple relations: <<, <=, =, >= and >>. For > > instance: > > Pack

Re: Do symbols make sense for C++

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:53:04PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'm currently working on the Policy modification to document (and > recommend) use of symbols instead of shlibs, but I'd only personally used > symbols with C libraries. Today I decided that I should try adding a > symbols file to a C

Re: Do symbols make sense for C++

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 08:58:55AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: > > 4. Once I had a symbols file that resulted in a successful build and that > >I could have uploaded, I started thinking about how I was going to > >maintain it. With a C

O: libxslt -- XSLT 1.0 processing library - runtime library

Package: wnpp Severity: normal Due to lack of time and interest, I intend to orphan the libxslt package. The package description is: XSLT is an XML language for defining transformations of XML files from XML to some other arbitrary format, such as XML, HTML, plain text, etc. using standard XSL

O: libxml2 -- GNOME XML library

Package: wnpp Severity: normal Due to lack of time and interest, I intend to orphan the libxml2 package. The package description is: XML is a metalanguage to let you design your own markup language. A regular markup language defines a way to describe information in a certain class of documents

Re: buildd on Armel, PowerPC and S390(x)? agree on narrowing error, why?

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 10:41:35AM +0100, Steffen Möller wrote: > Dear list, > > I just sponsored a package that built nicely locally with g++ 6.4.2-5 on > amd64 but fails on the platforms listed in the subject line: > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=ball&suite=sid > > which

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 11:47:49PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > For those who haven’t followed, the latest debhelper upload includes the > following change: > >* Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the > desired configuration. No further changes are plan

Re: armhf and s390x

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:14:59PM +, Mark Hymers wrote: > Hi, > > Earlier today, two new architectures had their base systems bootstrapped > into unstable. These new architectures are armhf and s390x. > > armhf went onto the mirrors with the 1952 dinstall mirror pulse and > s390x will follo

Re: Increasing minimum 'i386' processor

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 01:58:53PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 08:48:08PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Would it be worth adding a lintian check for instructions that may not > > be supported (bearing in mind that a fair few packages will need to > > ove

Re: zfs-fuse in debian

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:38:11PM +0200, József Dániel wrote: > Hello, > > Quick question. I see you maintain zfs-fuse. > > 0.7.0 is out since March, but it's not even in Sid. Is there some deep > reason to this, or just lack of time? The latter. It's on mentors, I need to go through the packag

Re: Move all to /usr

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 01:13:38AM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > Marco d'Itri writes: > > On Oct 11, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le mardi 11 octobre 2011 à 16:32 +0200, Marco d'Itri a écrit : > > >>> I am still not 100% persuaded that this would be easy to do, but at > >>> least

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:52:15PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:01:54PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > Just to be explicit, PIE tends to have small (<1%) performance hits on > > register-starved architectures (i386) in most cases, for for certain work > > loads (e.g. python)

Re: buildd machines vs. resource-hungry packages (ITK)

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:06:58PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Hi, > > I am having a huge problem getting insighttoolkit (ITK) to build due > to the fact that it takes a huge amount of disk, memory, and time to > build. In fact, the build is now generally failing because either > disk or mem

Spending Debian money for porter boxes [Was: The archive now supports xz compression]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:19:02PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 11/08/11 at 19:52 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 2011-08-11, Adam Borowski wrote: > > >> Think of both user systems and the Debian buildds which will waste more > > >> time - an especially bad problem on slower architectures.

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