Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
tial future debugging significantly (and is a cleaner/ safer solution if other init systems would gain basic or partial support for systemd units (e.g on kfreebsd)). Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann pgpKxndgICXp4.pgp Description: Digitale Signatur von OpenPGP

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
/usr/share/doc// and the space this required in the package indices, e.g. Packages.gz) for these would far bigger than the potential gain of stripping them out (the only advantage would be being able to drop the dependency on lsb-base, a whopping 51 KB installed package size --> not worth it, eve

Re: Hardware detection

2016-01-07 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
do, you're quickly leaving the pure-blend domain and venture into the derivatives land[3]. You'll probably find an audience with more specific knowledge in these particular areas on the debian-derivati...@lists.debian.org and debian-l...@lists.debian.org lists. Regards Stefan L

Re: Bug#752450: ftp.debian.org: please consider to strongly tighten the validity period of Release files

2014-09-14 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
pdate or Acquire::Check-Valid-Until "0"; for apt. For these reasons I would suggest against changing the current intervals, especially least not into the hour- or single day regions. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann [1] and even for security.d.o I don't believe th

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-02 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
the expectations of contemporary applications, without compromising on system memory. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann [1] by bind mounting /var/tmp/ on /tmp/, either backed by a separate /var/ partition or a dedicated /var/tmp/ partition on servers [2] using KDE4 o

Re: Packages still in experimental but removed in unstable

2012-05-26 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
t merged mainline. While it might make sense to update/ overhaul this package for unstable, the current version in experimental definately can't work with anything newer than lenny. Disclaimer: I can't speak for the maintainer and haven't actually tested mISDN in a long time.

Re: [Pkg-x2go-devel] Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-13 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
rts buildable - and that's where my concerns of massive code duplication of the full X.org 6.9 source tree return. Yes, I'm aware of how well the NX protocol works over high latency and low bandwidth links, but I also know how much of a nightmare it is to work on that imake hell of the

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-13 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On Friday 13 January 2012, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: [...] > > 1. Did anybody *really* *honestly* tried to base NX protocol > > on plain X libraries? If this is not possible > > FreeNX upstream tried to rebase them to X.org long time ago and claimed This wa

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-13 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
f coders? No, it's a very intentional decision to make them the sole contact for commercial uses. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201201131651.12067.s@gmx.de

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-12 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
3.5 code base rather soon? In a similar fashion FreeNX appears to be dead upstream since November 2008 (and already was dead way before that). Wouldn't it make more sense to concentrate on filling the gaps to re-use something like Red Hat's SPICE protocol for remote desktop uses? Regards

Re: iw: priority should be "optional"

2011-12-30 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
wireless-regdb are basically required to apply the regulatory settings for modern wlan cards, both acting about regulatory hints stored in the card's EEPROM/ OTP or, as intersection, received through IEEE 802.11d from the access point and/ or based upon the local configuration[3]. Regards

Re: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#591102: iw: priority should be "optional"

2011-12-30 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
ern mac80211 based drivers) and wpasupplicant, shows that both packages are currently regarded "optional" as well, although I do recognize that the regdom setting is a bit lower level than actually using the wlan. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann [1] The only "common"

Re: Bug#642198: ITP: r8168 -- dkms source for the r8168 network driver

2011-09-20 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
the module > builds fine with squeeze and sid kernels. I don't have the hardware to > actually test it. So if someone who actually needs it wants to take over > maintainership, he is welcome. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/

Re: /run in experimental

2011-05-13 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On Friday 13 May 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 09:07:04PM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > > On Friday 13 May 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:40:13PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at

Re: /run in experimental

2011-05-13 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
nrolling: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 May 13 20:58 /etc/network/run -> /dev/shm/network lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 13 20:59 /dev/shm -> /run/shm Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
uations, due to lots of accumulated changes happening at once and often with little coordination)) points of view. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann (aptosid developer) [1] releases are snapshots of the repository state (Debian and our own) of the release date, installed system

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-04 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
can be configured/ operated through the cli, and with minimal dependency chains is more important than a pretty GUI. Maybe new solutions targetted at the embedded sector, like ConnMan or the new netlink based network manager planned for OpenWrt, can fill this void, but personally I doubt network-ma

Re: Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.

2010-11-21 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On Sunday 21 November 2010, Keng-Yu Lin wrote: > 2010/11/5 Stefan Lippers-Hollmann : > > On Thursday 04 November 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 19:21 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > >> > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:

Re: Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.

2010-11-04 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
%larry.fin...@lwfinger.net> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=rtlwifi Assuming RTL8192CE support gets merged for 2.6.38, introducing a new package providing dkms support it during a freeze might not be very effective. Once it gets actually me

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
e firmware replacements have (had?) also been started for prism54/ p54 wlan cards, although I'm not aware of its status. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann [1] http://packages.debian.org/a56 [2] http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/fullstory/

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-09 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
$(ARCH)_$(FEATURESET)_$(FLAVOUR)_kernel-package: [...]$(kpkg_image) build [...] install-image_$(ARCH)_$(FEATURESET)_$(FLAVOUR)_kernel-package: [...]$(kpkg_image) kernel-image [...] Due to this, the bootloader setup relies on postinst_hook/ postrm_hook and do_initrd in /etc/kernel-img.conf and honours the rest

Bug#513974: Fwd: ITP: openfwwf -- Open Firmware for Broadcom b43 wlan devices

2009-02-02 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Package: wnpp Owner: "Stefan Lippers-Hollmann" Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: Rene Engelhard * Package name: openfwwf Version : 5.1 Upstream Author : Lorenzo Nava Francesco Gringoli Michael Buesch Uni

Bug#513973: ITP: b43-asm -- assembler and disassembler for Broadcom BCM43xx firmware

2009-02-02 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Package: wnpp Owner: "Stefan Lippers-Hollmann" Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: "Rene Engelhard" * Package name: b43-asm Version : 0~20080619 Upstream Author : Michael Buesch * URL : http://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git * License : GPL-

Re: Bug#470622: ITP: qtnx -- NX client for QT

2008-03-17 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
would stand a chance for Debian inclusion. If there is a chance for this (namely a plan to get rid off nx-X11 and a few more code contributors), I am very interested in participating in that endeavour, but as it stands, chances for that don't seem to be very encouraging. > cheers,