Bug#818705: general: multipackage issue

2016-03-19 Thread Richard Jasmin
Package: general Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software Dear Maintainer, when sshfs is mounted IE: my webserver and I do a package update(updating libreO, so must be removed first) lxdesktop file manager crashes. Im noticing it sometimes generically with the sshfs mount,

Bug#816247: general: hardening distro is an afterthought

2016-02-28 Thread Richard Jasmin
Package: general Severity: normal Tags: newcomer upstream patch Dear Maintainer, In RE of my overview of debian security(and the forced do-it-yourself mentality) I am providing a general coverage of hardening policy with Debian STABLE. There is much to learn from other distros here, namely the

Bug#796742: general: system takes a hit when encryption used

2015-08-23 Thread Richard Jasmin
Package: general Severity: important Tags: lfs modern day systems have 6GB/sec connections and GBs of RAM and Ghz of speed. There is simply no reason that ANY cipher algorithm should slow a system to a crawl. Cached data or not. Yet this is clearly the case.I tried both EncFS and

Bug#796464: general: there is no auto crash reporting

2015-08-21 Thread Richard Jasmin
Package: general Severity: important debian should implement an automatic crash detection and reporting system like Fedora and Ubuntu teams have.If not mistaken, Fedora uses upstream of what ubuntu uses --apport. There is no reason for debian to not have this feature.Yes, it is mostly a gui

Bug#796467: general: if user has mail then how do we tell them if in GUI mode?

2015-08-21 Thread Richard Jasmin
Package: general Severity: important telling user has mail is easy as pi in console mode and when using a server. But how do we tell the user they have mail without a configured mail client when under runlevel 5? The activation of X11 practically hides all console activity. We would need a UI