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

2012-02-08 Thread Roger Leigh
building. If it is also possible to override the version of the generated .debs, this would make it possible to rebuild (NMU) without messing around editing the changelog. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing

Comments on introducing a new Essential package: base-init?

2012-02-08 Thread Roger Leigh
other than a pre-depends on awk.) Any comments? Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail

Re: Comments on introducing a new Essential package: base-init?

2012-02-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:49:26PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-02-08 21:03 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: This is regarding Bug #645540 (Essential package conflict between sysvinit and systemd-sysv). sysvinit is currently Essential. In order to permit the replacement of sysvinit

Re: Doesn't contain source for waf binary code

2012-02-07 Thread Roger Leigh
autoconf will use shell functions in the future.) Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail

Accepted schroot 1.4.25-1 (source all amd64)

2012-02-04 Thread Roger Leigh
Maintainer: Debian buildd-tools Developers buildd-tools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: dchroot- Execute commands in a chroot environment dchroot-dsa - Execute commands in a chroot environment libsbuild-dev - development files for the Debian

Accepted gutenprint 5.2.7-5 (source all amd64)

2012-02-04 Thread Roger Leigh
-locales escputil ijsgutenprint foomatic-db-gutenprint gutenprint-doc Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 5.2.7-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Printing Group debian-print...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: cups-driver-gutenprint

Re: mass bug filing of 'ucf: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-01-31 Thread Roger Leigh
, this precludes ever updating it. Ideally we could make it a conffile and handle it entirely with dpkg; this would probably require splitting out the variables which should never be touched into a separate file under /etc/defaults. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-22 (source all amd64)

2012-01-30 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: bootlogd - daemon to log boot messages initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V-like

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-21 (source all amd64)

2012-01-28 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: bootlogd - daemon to log boot messages initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-19 (source all amd64)

2012-01-27 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: bootlogd - daemon to log boot messages initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-20 (source all amd64)

2012-01-27 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: bootlogd - daemon to log boot messages initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V

Re: Switching /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and removing /lib/init/rw

2012-01-20 Thread Roger Leigh
. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-19 Thread Roger Leigh
package lists and being able to handle it just like we currently handle build-essential would, IMO, be a Good Thing. If it were to use the same file format that build-essential uses, we would be able to reuse that. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Switching /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and removing /lib/init/rw

2012-01-18 Thread Roger Leigh
, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Accepted schroot 1.4.24-1 (source all amd64)

2012-01-17 Thread Roger Leigh
Maintainer: Debian buildd-tools Developers buildd-tools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: dchroot- Execute commands in a chroot environment dchroot-dsa - Execute commands in a chroot environment libsbuild-dev - development files for the Debian

Re: Outstanding /dev/.udev bugs for /run migration

2012-01-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 05:01:54PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: On 13.01.2012 03:18, Roger Leigh wrote: [] All are currently broken. Whether they cause severe breakage depends upon the individual case. Some are working apparently OK, e.g. mdadm. Others are doing broken things to try

Outstanding /dev/.udev bugs for /run migration

2012-01-12 Thread Roger Leigh
-duesseldorf.de pmud Erich Schubert er...@debian.org refpolicy (U) Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org refpolicy (U) Gaudenz Steinlin gaud...@debian.org mouseemu Hideki Yamane henr...@debian.org ccstools tomoyo-tools -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Outstanding /dev/.udev bugs for /run migration

2012-01-12 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 05:08:13PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Roger Leigh wrote: There are 19 packages still using /dev/.udev after udev transitioned to /run/udev. Unless there are any objections, I'd like to raise the severity of these bugs from important to serious, given

Accepted sysklogd 1.5-6.2 (source amd64)

2012-01-12 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA384 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:01:28 + Source: sysklogd Binary: sysklogd klogd Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.5-6.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle

Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-04 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:04:04PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: Hi, Roger Leigh wrote: [/tmp mounted noexec] /run/shm (IIRC formerly /dev/shm) likely would be an alternative option, too. No, it would not. This directory is reserved for the eglibc POSIX SHM/SEM interfaces

Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-03 Thread Roger Leigh
=$(ldd /tmp/path/to/screen | grep ld-${arch} | sed -e 's/[[:space:]]*\(\/[^[:space:]]*\)[[:space:]].*/\1/') $LD /tmp/screen-94skls/screen Or query for DT_INTERP directly and run that. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh

Accepted schroot 1.5.1-1 (source all amd64)

2011-12-30 Thread Roger Leigh
Maintainer: Debian buildd-tools Developers buildd-tools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: dchroot- Execute commands in a chroot environment dchroot-dsa - Execute commands in a chroot environment libsbuild-dev - development files

Accepted gutenprint 5.2.7-4 (source all amd64)

2011-12-29 Thread Roger Leigh
-locales escputil ijsgutenprint foomatic-db-gutenprint gutenprint-doc Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 5.2.7-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Printing Group debian-print...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: cups-driver-gutenprint

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-25 Thread Roger Leigh
of accomplishing the same thing. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail

Re: many packages fail to build twice in a row again

2011-12-23 Thread Roger Leigh
, is both complex and error-prone. I'm not sure I see the problem with what is an obvious improvement to the process. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-17 (source all amd64)

2011-12-22 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: bootlogd - daemon to log boot messages initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-18 (source all amd64)

2011-12-22 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: bootlogd - daemon to log boot messages initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-21 Thread Roger Leigh
data in a separate subvolume would thus never be rolled back. I've not checked it recently, but support for subvolumes in the d-i partitioner would be a nice feature for wheezy. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh

Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 01:17:41PM +0100, J.A. Bezemer wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:11:39AM +0100, J.A. Bezemer wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: [..] Regarding the objections above, which are primarily concerned

Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 03:37:43AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 17, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: So WRT mounting /usr (and potentially /etc and other filesystems), I've pushed patches upstream for util-linux (initramfs mount option) and initramfs-tools (generate /etc/fstab

Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:11:39AM +0100, J.A. Bezemer wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: [..] Regarding the objections above, which are primarily concerned with the creation of a non-generic initramfs, how does this alternative suggestion sound: - The addition of usr

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-18 Thread Roger Leigh
capable of pruning its own cache rather than pointlessly filling up /var with thousands of downloaded packages. I'm surprised it doesn't automatically remove outdated .debs when you update, and require special configuration not to do that. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU

Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-17 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 01:29:18PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: WRT mounting additional filesystems in the initramfs, how difficult would it be to add an additional mount option to /etc/fstab entries, e.g. init or initramfs to mark them as being required for mounting in the initramfs. This could

/etc/mtab and /lib/init/rw migration; libpam-mount breakage

2011-12-17 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:54:14PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: The above have been mentioned a few times during the course of the year, but we're now at the point where all the prerequisites have been satisfied, and there are no blockers present to proceed. I've put a proposed set of packages

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-16 (source all amd64)

2011-12-17 Thread Roger Leigh
pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V-like init utilities sysvinit-utils - System-V-like

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Roger Leigh
-- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 06:19:54PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 15, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: You keep repeating arguments in favour of moving /{bin,sbin,lib}/ to /usr/ :-) Well, I think I still need persuading that this is the right direction to move the files. I

Bug#652011: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 03:31:41PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Two clarifications: Jonathan Nieder wrote: Roger Leigh wrote: The question that needs answering is this: what are the reasons, today, for a separate /usr? No, I don't think an answer to that precise question today

Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:43:38PM +0100, J.A. Bezemer wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: [..] The same argument applies to encryption. / and /usr both contain a selection of programs, libraries etc. If you're encrypting one, why would you not encrypt all of it? Speed

Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 01:57:20PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 15, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: That is to say, /usr is a split of /convenience/. The real solution would be to have /etc as a separately-mounted encrypted filesystem. So really, keeping /usr separate

Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 07:17:53PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 01:29:18PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Well, I think I still need persuading that this is the right direction to move the files. I still think that moving /usr to / is a better strategy I think we would

Re: Switching /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and removing /lib/init/rw

2011-12-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 09:35:17PM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: Le 13/12/2011 22:32, Roger Leigh a écrit : On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 09:08:10PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:54:14PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: If you have a few minutes to spare, some testing

Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 03:35:55AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 12/16/2011 01:24 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: Hi Riku, I think an important point to consider is that /usr would not disappear. It could be replaced by a symlink for new installs. This would permit older installs to continue

Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-14 Thread Roger Leigh
an continuing migration of essential packages to the rootfs. Given that a modern initramfs can mount pretty much any filesystem, either locally or over a network, what's the *real* reason for a separate /usr? It's certainly not for any booting- related reason. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh

Re: Switching /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and removing /lib/init/rw

2011-12-14 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 09:08:10PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:54:14PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: If you have a few minutes to spare, some testing of the packages would be appreciated, so make sure there are no corner cases we've missed. Upgrading initscripts

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-15 (source all amd64)

2011-12-14 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V-like init utilities sysvinit-utils - System-V

Re: options: was Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-13 Thread Roger Leigh
tied to the content of /etc. In other contexts it might be useful, but for Debian it is not. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG

Switching /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and removing /lib/init/rw

2011-12-13 Thread Roger Leigh
. Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Switching /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and removing /lib/init/rw

2011-12-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 09:08:10PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:54:14PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: If you have a few minutes to spare, some testing of the packages would be appreciated, so make sure there are no corner cases we've missed. Upgrading initscripts

Re: Switching /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts and removing /lib/init/rw

2011-12-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 09:32:40PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 09:08:10PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:54:14PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: If you have a few minutes to spare, some testing of the packages would be appreciated, so make sure

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-14 (source all amd64)

2011-12-13 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V-like init utilities sysvinit-utils - System-V

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and new -indep debhelper options

2011-12-07 Thread Roger Leigh
with the -indep target always being called unnecessarily. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your

Accepted sbuild 0.62.6-1 (source all)

2011-12-07 Thread Roger Leigh
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: buildd - Daemon for automatically building Debian binary packages from Deb libsbuild-perl - Tool for building Debian binary packages from Debian sources sbuild - Tool for building Debian binary packages from

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and new -indep debhelper options

2011-12-06 Thread Roger Leigh
affect -B though since it's calling the -arch targets directly. Your use of dh --before/--after may have confused things though. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http

Re: Lintian ERROR saying dpatch is obsolete

2011-11-29 Thread Roger Leigh
-- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Lintian ERROR saying dpatch is obsolete

2011-11-29 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:08:39AM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: * Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net [2011-11-29 10:04]: (...)  - Conditional application of patches.  Some packages have patches that are   only applied on a per-architecture or per-target-distribution basis

Accepted gutenprint 5.2.7-3 (source all amd64)

2011-11-28 Thread Roger Leigh
-locales escputil ijsgutenprint foomatic-db-gutenprint gutenprint-doc Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 5.2.7-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Printing Group debian-print...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: cups-driver-gutenprint

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-16 Thread Roger Leigh
. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:56:40AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: As touched on in the bug report, I think that being able to store 1.2GiB on /tmp is an unrealistic expectation. To qualify, I mean to expect that to work *by default*. If you

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-13 Thread Roger Leigh
though. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 04:29:14PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Roger Leigh Hi, somewhat of a tangent, so sorry for hijacking the thread: | Currently, the size limits for /tmp and other temporary filesystems | are set in /etc/default/tmpfs. Can we please stop doing things like

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-13 Thread Roger Leigh
rootfs. The 50% limit is not used by initscripts, where a lower 20% limit is used. This is so that the combined total of all the tmpfs filesystems does not exceed 100% and allow users to DoS the machine. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:09:16PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Roger Leigh | I may have given an incomplete picture here. While we set the defaults | there, any entry in /etc/fstab will override those defaults. Can you please not set the default in a file in /etc then, since

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-13 Thread Roger Leigh
on disc and in your working set, and in the buffer cache. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-12 Thread Roger Leigh
to satisfy your needs as you see fit. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail

Re: Bug#647995: ITP: cellprofiler -- quantitatively measure phenotypes from images automatically

2011-11-08 Thread Roger Leigh
it is nowadays. Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-07 Thread Roger Leigh
like to be able to make use of it. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-02 Thread Roger Leigh
simply be in the default path. It's not typical to need to add special directories to one's path, and it's certainly not encouraged or recommended. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-01 Thread Roger Leigh
in Debian is crippled in one way or another. We don't have a single menu system that actually does a complete job (i.e. does not miss out needed entries), which is a great pity. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-16 Thread Roger Leigh
every time a removable media is connected to the system. Or /etc/mtab. Or /etc/lvm/cache/. These should all be moved to /run. mtab will be moved shortly. The LVM and block ID caches should also move there, with backups put under /var as required. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-10-04 Thread Roger Leigh
have to have a second copy of GLib compiled to not do that, like libglib2.0-refdbg in Debian. Unbuntu use Bsymbolic by default and they are only a few faillure. Time to get this in debian too ? It would break overriding of weak symbols, would it not? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger

Re: alternative dependency ordering - with respect of packages in main

2011-09-20 Thread Roger Leigh
upon what is available and installable. For packages being build for main, the contrib and non-free archives should not be available, so such alternatives should not be considered. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh

Bug#642005: general: maximum size of SHM memory blocks to low

2011-09-18 Thread Roger Leigh
and map in 2) forking and inheriting the parent's data 3) using POSIX SHM ? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key

Re: Re: ifupdown package interfaces include function

2011-08-31 Thread Roger Leigh
epochs for this? I know they are annoying and should be avoided, but they are still a blessing compared to the current confused versioning scheme. Hopefully we'll have 0.7 in unstable soon(ish), and this will just be a temporary issue. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU

Accepted postgresql-debversion 1.0.6-1 (source amd64)

2011-08-27 Thread Roger Leigh
-tools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: postgresql-9.1-debversion - Debian version number type for PostgreSQL Changes: postgresql-debversion (1.0.6-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New upstream release. * Add support for postgresql 9.1

Re: Introduction of a lock group

2011-08-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 06:03:59PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: 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

Re: Introduction of a lock group

2011-08-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 07:36:26PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: 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

Introduction of a lock group

2011-08-15 Thread Roger Leigh
is the existence of badly broken programs³, which make stupid assumptions about lockfiles. ¹http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-April/001828.html ²https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=581884 ³http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637856 Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger

Re: Introduction of a lock group

2011-08-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 06:03:59PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: 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

Re: Introduction of a lock group

2011-08-15 Thread Roger Leigh
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: 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

Re: The archive now supports xz compression

2011-08-14 Thread Roger Leigh
(and resigned) on a faster arch? This would allow xz compression on all arches, but not require slow arches to actually do the xz compression themselves. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-25 Thread Roger Leigh
enable|disable type of action would be a major improvement, and save the need for horrible ENABLED=yes type settings in /etc/default, or manual editing of scripts. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU

Accepted gutenprint 5.2.7-1 (source all amd64)

2011-07-23 Thread Roger Leigh
ijsgutenprint foomatic-db-gutenprint gutenprint-doc Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 5.2.7-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Printing Group debian-print...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: cups-driver-gutenprint - printer drivers for CUPS

Accepted gutenprint 5.2.7-2 (source all amd64)

2011-07-23 Thread Roger Leigh
ijsgutenprint foomatic-db-gutenprint gutenprint-doc Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 5.2.7-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Printing Group debian-print...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: cups-driver-gutenprint - printer drivers for CUPS

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Roger Leigh
particularly special in this respect. Take a look at apache, for example. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please

Re: register files in dpkg database programmatically? (was Re: How Debian Deals with Data)

2011-07-16 Thread Roger Leigh
files in /var which currently require special handling in postrm. Obvious this could cause problems if not coordinated between packages, but it certainly serves a needed purpose and has the potential to improve our maintainer scripts greatly. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh

Accepted sbuild 0.62.5-1 (source all)

2011-07-13 Thread Roger Leigh
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: buildd - Daemon for automatically building Debian binary packages from Deb libsbuild-perl - Tool for building Debian binary packages from Debian sources sbuild - Tool for building Debian binary packages from

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-13.11 (source all amd64)

2011-07-13 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V-like init utilities sysvinit-utils - System-V-like

Re: Switching /etc/mtab to symlink to /proc/mounts

2011-07-10 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 11:26:58AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 02:02:01PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Roger Leigh wrote: /etc/mtab - symlink to /proc/self/mounts (494001) debootstrap (but seems ok; only removes file not symlink) busybox Not configured

Re: /run in *unstable*: migration of /lib/init/rw, /dev/.*

2011-07-09 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 02:02:01PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Roger Leigh wrote: /etc/mtab - symlink to /proc/self/mounts (494001) debootstrap (but seems ok; only removes file not symlink) busybox Not configured to use or write /etc/mtab AFAICT (CONFIG_FEATURE_MTAB_SUPPORT is not set

Accepted sbuild 0.62.4-1 (source all)

2011-06-25 Thread Roger Leigh
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: buildd - Daemon for automatically building Debian binary packages from Deb libsbuild-perl - Tool for building Debian binary packages from Debian sources sbuild - Tool for building Debian binary packages from

Accepted schroot 1.4.23-1 (source all amd64)

2011-06-25 Thread Roger Leigh
Maintainer: Debian buildd-tools Developers buildd-tools-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: dchroot- Execute commands in a chroot environment dchroot-dsa - Execute commands in a chroot environment libsbuild-dev - development files for the Debian

Accepted ifupdown 0.7~alpha5+really0.6.10 (source amd64)

2011-06-14 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:48:20 +0100 Source: ifupdown Binary: ifupdown Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.7~alpha5+really0.6.10 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Anthony Towns a...@debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh

Accepted ifupdown 0.7~alpha5.1 (source amd64)

2011-06-14 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:44:11 +0100 Source: ifupdown Binary: ifupdown Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.7~alpha5.1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Andrew O. Shadoura bugzi...@tut.by Changed-By: Roger Leigh

Accepted sbuild 0.62.3-1 (source all)

2011-06-14 Thread Roger Leigh
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: buildd - Daemon for automatically building Debian binary packages from Deb libsbuild-perl - Tool for building Debian binary packages from Debian sources sbuild - Tool for building Debian binary packages from

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-13.8 (source all amd64)

2011-06-09 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V-like init utilities sysvinit-utils - System-V-like

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-13.9 (source all amd64)

2011-06-09 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V-like init utilities sysvinit-utils - System-V-like

Accepted sysvinit 2.88dsf-13.10 (source all amd64)

2011-06-09 Thread Roger Leigh
maintainers pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Description: initscripts - scripts for initializing and shutting down the system sysv-rc- System-V-like runlevel change mechanism sysvinit - System-V-like init utilities sysvinit-utils - System-V-like

Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them

2011-05-29 Thread Roger Leigh
think that adding special-case user locking to deluser is the correct course of action. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key

Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them

2011-05-29 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:04:35PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 03:06:00PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Steve Langasek writes (Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them): On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 09:31:47PM +0200, sean finney wrote: I second your original proposal

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