Re: Bug#817602: olpc-xo1: Removal of debhelper compat 4

2016-12-25 Thread James Cameron
an XO-1 or XO-1.5 should buy a new laptop. ;-) Disclosure: I'm paid by OLPC. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-10-18 Thread Cameron Norman
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 07:34:28PM +0200, Xen wrote: >> If that is the case then they have enbedded hostility into their name simply >> becaus eit offends normal grammar roles. > > I don't that's it at all. > > The reason many people react

Re: [Pkg-sugar-devel] MBF: Removing old GNOME python bindings

2016-08-01 Thread James Cameron
> > Kicking Sugar 0.88 would indeed mean that we ship only a single version > of Sugar - but kicking python-sugar would cripple Sugar, just as I guess > kicking gtk2 would cripple GNOME. Agreed. If kicking gtk2 is a goal, that would have interesting impacts. > > > - Jonas > > -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private > -- > pkg-sugar-devel mailing list > pkg-sugar-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sugar-devel -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/

Re: Dropping upstart jobs (or not)

2016-06-03 Thread Cameron Norman
py though, who run adequate) The latter seems like an undesirable. Packages should be orphaning conffiles as little as possible. -- Cameron Norman

Re: Tighter systemd integration for stretch?

2015-08-08 Thread Cameron Norman
it in udev. There should be more about this in the debian-devel archives under the ifupdown orphanage thread. Cheers, -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/bf4c6fdd-8c4a-4b2d-ba7c-d65d88fc4...@gmail.com

Re: Bug#786902: O: ifupdown -- high level tools to configure network interfaces

2015-05-27 Thread Cameron Norman
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 05:06:38PM -0700, Cameron Norman wrote: >> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: >> > Simon McVittie wrote: >> >> One thing that an adopter could very usefully do w

Re: Bug#786902: O: ifupdown -- high level tools to configure network interfaces

2015-05-27 Thread Cameron Norman
hing the ifupdown maintainer would be inclined to go out of his/her way to accomplish. You can QA upload it really easily now too. -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Re: Bug#786902: O: ifupdown -- high level tools to configure network interfaces

2015-05-27 Thread Cameron Norman
fence is required. Martin Pitt is actually working on that in Ubuntu. See the following blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/core-1505-networkd-vs-ifupdown -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-05-09 Thread Cameron Norman
new or broken). In >> this case, it is often the main internet connection and a stable name is >> important. > > Why? What does a stable name matter in the case you mentioned? > > Were you actually using ifupdown to manage the varied set of wireless > networks? Because

Re: State of Roundcube packaging in Debian?

2015-03-15 Thread Cameron Norman
ng > to do the migration manually (which I'd argue is a low price to pay). I do not think it wise to package every point release since roundcube does not intend to break the configs every point release as they did in version 1. However packaging a roundcube-1 is useful IMO (and it would be

Re: conflicts between Debian's and upstream's Debian package

2015-02-21 Thread Cameron Norman
for reporting/fixing problems. Problem: The Debian maintainer messed up the version numbers and had to introduce a "1:" for his foo package. Now upstream's package always appears to be out of date, forcing me to override apt-get. Not the cleanest option, but can upstream just introduce

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-16 Thread Cameron Norman
are the RPi and Jolla embedded systems? The weakest Raspberry Pi has almost ten times as much RAM as the vocore. And both have discrete GPUs. I don't know, it seems like a stretch to call those two embedded. -- Cameron Noramn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian

Re: init script cannot stop pid process

2015-02-11 Thread Cameron Norman
o when darkhttpd is not root. Simply adding the following in the start action of the init file, prior to starting the daemon, should do the trick: touch "$PIDFILE" chown www-data:www-data "$PIDFILE" Good luck, -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Cameron Norman
at boot is not enough. So to have them up to date in that respect, you need to either have a cron job or invoke the update-motd scripts on every login. Invoking them on every login could make it difficult to access bogged down servers. Regards, -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-28 Thread Cameron Norman
tually only have to know how to write one config format and software would only have to know how to read (parse) that same one. I do not know why I am discussing this here though, haha. Cheers, -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: init system policy

2014-11-20 Thread Cameron Norman
/system/package.service /lib/systemd/system/package.service /etc/systemd/system/package.service.d/* /lib/systemd/system/package.service Seeing as systemd upstream is pushing the "stateless systems" idea, and there is definitely merit to it, I think this is the best way to tackl

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-15 Thread Cameron Norman
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: >>>>>> "Cameron" == Cameron Norman writes: > > >>> OK, so the system has syslog-ng installed. For what ever reason > >>> syslog-ng > >>> is not starting automat

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-15 Thread Cameron Norman
ng just leaving -devel because of discussions like these. Thanks, -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CALZWFR+pec6=sPec4wmT0+JRTWdd5�wbkt16m4qeulm-0...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Cameron Norman
El jue, 13 de nov 2014 a las 6:57 , Cameron Norman escribió: El jue, 13 de nov 2014 a las 6:53 , Russ Allbery escribió: Patrick Ouellette writes: On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 06:19:32PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Ow. No, that's definitely a bug. I'd love to understand what happe

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Cameron Norman
perienced it: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760426 Cheers, -- Cameron Norman

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Cameron Norman
What syslog implementation are you running? Thanks, -- Cameron Norman

Re: Bug#741930: reportbug: add current init system information

2014-11-04 Thread Cameron Norman
tart check gave a false negative). 3. Maybe you should embed the check for Upstart, so that you do not have to source all of the init functions, and if that file is ever not available you still get the correct check. 4. There is a tiny typo in the Upstart check. It needs an extra right parenthese at

Re: Re: piece of mind

2014-10-24 Thread Cameron Norman
an if you use PRCTL_SET_CHILD_REAPER (only on Linux 3.4+ I think), or do not support forking daemons. Both options are undesirable in different ways, but systemd already requires the prctl so any alternative would not be any worse than systemd in that respect. -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-21 Thread Cameron Norman
e I missed the point. Cheers, -- Cameron

Re: piece of mind

2014-10-20 Thread Cameron Norman
you try it with? I thought these types of issues were fixed in Sid :/ Thanks, -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CALZWFRLKjJ+mX3eUsU7jeaAc=35ZxPxB27=6xyy32zgyuop...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Migration from cron to cron-daemon?

2014-10-18 Thread Cameron Norman
but not depend on the actual full crontab implementation? This would allow for a more minimal cron daemon on certain setups (or no cron daemon, plus the systemd glue that has appeared, systemd-cron). Thanks, -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debia

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-16 Thread Cameron Norman
ixed with the recent releases of cgmanager and systemd-shim, just waiting for maintainers to verify and close them. (as well as for those version to make it to testing in a week or so) Cheers, -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: virt-manager

2014-09-27 Thread Cameron Norman
ntal to > unstable before the freeze (in less than 6 weeks). Looks like this bug filed onto the version in experimental: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740047. Seems like the maintainer might need help with it. Cheers, -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Fwd: bash without importing shell functions from the environment

2014-09-25 Thread Cameron Norman
ested in working on fully transitioning to /bin/sh could just find the reverse depends of bash and the packages affected by the lintian warning. Best regards, -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-13 Thread Cameron Norman
y will both use the same lack of a configuration file format (in favor of a directory format) :) Best, -- Cameron

Re: PackageKit cleanup: Do you use these functions?

2014-09-11 Thread Cameron Norman
ays online should be present (in PK's configuration). Is this how the feature has been implemented? Do you think upstream (and you as an AppStream supporter / developer) would be enthusiastic about adding this, if it is not the status quo? Thanks for the communication, -- Cameron Norman

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-08 Thread Cameron Norman
ver logind implementation), just switching the dependencies around, or using virtual packages for logind dependencies (since apt knows what is the best decision already). Please consider the above prospective actions, and give feedback or results. Thank you for your time and effort, -- Cameron Norman

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-07 Thread Cameron Norman
El dom, 7 de sep 2014 a las 3:45 , David Weinehall escribió: On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 12:37:12PM -0700, Cameron Norman wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Noel Torres wrote: >> So we are clearly failing to follow the least surprise (for the u

Re: There should not be dependencies on systemd

2014-09-07 Thread Cameron Norman
emd as PID 1. With the above scenario (virtual packages like logind), apt would be smart and install the least disruptive package. Do you think that would be systemd-shim (no removal of current init) or systemd-sysv (removal of packages)? Best, -- Cameron Norman

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-05 Thread Cameron Norman
good way to do this is through random dependencies of DE's or network manager. > > Thus, unless the user explicitly tells the apt{-get,itude} subsystem not > to switch to systemd (by whatever means, the details of which I personally > am not at all interested in), a dist-upgrade should do

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Cameron Norman
-supported, well-tested solution, than > the Debuntu-specific hack to use it with an inferior init system. Another purely functional POV is that upgrading from wheezy to jessie should not require switching your init system (or removing NM and GNOME and more), as it does currently. Cheers, -

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-04 Thread Cameron Norman
in their kcmdline will experience breakage due to systemd-shim conflicting with systemd-sysv, however this is actually not likely at all according to the shim maintainer). Best, -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Jessie without systemd as PID 1?

2014-09-03 Thread Cameron Norman
n as the default init system by then (not true for the other two actions). I hope that helps you understand how the graph does not depict how many users elected to use systemd as their init system. Best regards, -- Cameron Norman

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-12 Thread Cameron Norman
* contain text, like scrollbars? Probably relevant to Michael's inquiry: can we just get a few screenshots? It would be a lot easier to compare. Best regards, -- Cameron

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-12 Thread Cameron Norman
GNOME. :-) I would appreciate if you went into a little detail on what pain you had with GNOME for comparison purposes. Thank you, -- Cameron Cheers, - Ted

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-10 Thread Cameron Norman
able or limited bandwidth network connections (luckily it is perfect for me, someone who uses GNOME and has a good internet connection :) Best regards, -- Cameron Norman

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Cameron Norman
peal to the blind or non-english speaking, it is one of the biggest DE's, and that makes it less accesible to poorer people. Bye, -- Cameron Norman

Re: unlocking encfs during boot (Re: systemd now appears to be only possible init system in testing)

2014-07-28 Thread Cameron Norman
citly enable it. Although that would cause the MTPT to be unmounted if the file is deleted (unless the ExecStop= is removed)... Anyway, pretty cool. Thanks for sharing, -- Cameron Norman

Re: systemd-sysv/shim in testing

2014-07-27 Thread Cameron Norman
estion to the TC, now that the situation has actually occurred, or begin a General Resolution. As far as I understand, a GR would only need a majority since the TC did not really make a ruling. Best wishes, -- Cameron Norman

Re: systemd now appears to be only possible init system in testing

2014-07-25 Thread Cameron Norman
El Fri, 25 de Jul 2014 a las 3:42 PM, Russ Allbery escribió: Cameron Norman writes: Oh this is easy. The init script calls s-s-d and does not check the return code (so always exits 0). I am just going to use set -e in the init script, only a couple tweaks are needed. Please don'

Re: systemd now appears to be only possible init system in testing

2014-07-25 Thread Cameron Norman
Cheers, -- Cameron Norman

Re: systemd now appears to be only possible init system in testing

2014-07-25 Thread Cameron Norman
luding a few unresolved bugs so far), and packages like GNOME or policykit should support more than just systemd-sysv. -- Cameron Norman

Re: systemd now appears to be only possible init system in testing

2014-07-22 Thread Cameron Norman
NM and udisks and a lot of other packages. Best wishes, -- Cameron Norman

Re: Where to upload official OpenStack Debian images?

2014-07-18 Thread Cameron Norman
El Fri, 18 de Jul 2014 a las 4:49 AM, Steve McIntyre escribió: I think we could/should have space on cdimage etc. [for OpenStack images] - how big are we talking? He said 350-400 GB, but it is highly probably he meant to type MB.

Re: OpenRC status (was: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian)

2014-06-04 Thread Cameron Norman
to reimplement. [1] http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2014/02/19/on-portability/ (towards the end) Best regards, -- Cameron

Re: MBF (Re: correct use of su)

2014-05-12 Thread Cameron Norman
El Mon, 12 de May 2014 a las 10:53 PM, Brian May escribió: On 13 May 2014 15:44, Cameron Norman wrote: I found another use of su that may need to be added to your list. rabbitmq (oddly) wraps itself up in a shell script, /usr/sbin/rabbitmq-server, which asserts the user is root or rabbitmq

Re: MBF (Re: correct use of su)

2014-05-12 Thread Cameron Norman
serts the user is root or rabbitmq, and drops down to rabbitmq if it is root (using su), then starts the actual binary. The problem with this one is that it is upstream code and cannot use s-s-d for obvious reasons. If I am wrong in thinking this usage would be buggy, then carry on. Best, -- Cameron Norman

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-12 Thread Cameron Norman
in these cases ? Is it not possible to tell if the sysvinit or upstart packages were installed manually, and give a prompt then (in addition to something like you described) ? Best, -- Cameron Norman

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Cameron Norman
I do not believe that list is at all comprehensive. One example would be the init script for the package "rotter". Best regards, -- Cameron Norman

Re: A question about patches for upstream

2014-05-05 Thread Cameron Norman
patch-centric and more > human-centric. I am sorry if this was mentioned earlier in the conversation, but are you talking about a specific package here? Best, -- Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: standalone logind (Re: Bits from the systemd + GNOME sprint)

2014-05-05 Thread Cameron Norman
se _and_ the packages depending > on them, or are you picking on systemd for non-technical reasons here? > > Sorry, but I suspect the latter. Please do not assume bad faith; I hold none. Best wishes, -- Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: standalone logind (Re: Bits from the systemd + GNOME sprint)

2014-05-04 Thread Cameron Norman
El Sun, 4 de May 2014 a las 5:59 PM, Marco d'Itri escribió: On May 05, Cameron Norman wrote: Example one: someone does not need logind, but removing it would remove their init system. So do not try to do it. Constructive solution you have got there. Example two: someone

Re: standalone logind (Re: Bits from the systemd + GNOME sprint)

2014-05-04 Thread Cameron Norman
El Sun, 4 de May 2014 a las 4:24 PM, Marco d'Itri escribió: On May 04, Kevin Chadwick wrote: packages. I know our systems have no functional use for systemd-logind and yet lots seems to depend on it but it is less clear what depends on which parts and so why each of the many packages do so

Re: Bits from the systemd + GNOME sprint

2014-05-03 Thread Cameron Norman
appreciate that. v210 adds a AppArmorProfile stanza. Oh, and Ubuntu too. Regards, -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://list

Re: Source Requirements

2014-04-29 Thread Cameron Norman
t recent stable version of Go, so you would need Go 1.3 to compile Go 1.4 -- goc 1.1 would not compile anything but <=1.2. Best, -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CALZWFRKTf7vzO4XH01xsr-T2e=tkgwow6b-qz99rsgggbwd...@mail.gmail.com

Re: what to do with wayland, python3, gdm3/systemd, ...

2014-04-28 Thread Cameron Norman
running systemd as their session init system. I am assuming that the systemd user session stuff does not require you to install anything systemd specific (except maybe libsystemd-daemon) and still allows you to run ibus w/o systemd. Best, -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-24 Thread Cameron Norman
es with explicitly configured (by the package maintainer or user) profiles, and would not cause any harm to non-confined applications. This is forgivably irrelevant, because you are talking about confined applications. Best regards, -- Cameron Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-req

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-23 Thread Cameron Norman
more ideas, please add them to the wiki page. If you have more information, please add it to the wiki page. If you would like to help, please choose an item and start work. Would the inclusion of more AppArmor profiles be applicable? Thanks, -- Cameron Norman

Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-02 Thread Cameron Norman
rnatively, you could work on OpenRC, or even Epoch init. Best Regards, -- Cameron Norman

Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it

2014-03-29 Thread Cameron Norman
tor agreements; allows for disagreements and difficulties with upstream to be avoided; and finally increases portability of the init system. Cheers, -- Cameron Norman

Re: Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-29 Thread Cameron Norman
specifically created to allow for even deeper remote fs situations (specifically, network mounted root). I think any change to a new network configuration should not ignore the scenario of a network mounted /usr, as NM and connman seem to have done. My 2¢, -- Cameron Norman

Re: stop posting useless cruft and get to work (systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it)

2014-03-28 Thread Cameron Norman
El Fri, 28 de Mar 2014 a las 1:19 AM, Olav Vitters escribió: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:38:40AM -0500, Kevin Toppins wrote: On 26 March 2014 10:13, Cameron Norman wrote: [...] > That is pretty much impossible, according to the developers of the logind > API and its single implemen

Re: stop posting useless cruft and get to work (systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it)

2014-03-26 Thread Cameron Norman
El Wed, 26 de Mar 2014 a las 9:03 PM, gustavo panizzo escribió: On 03/26/2014 11:49 PM, Cameron Norman wrote: I wonder if dbus activation could be used to accomplish this. Of course, then one would not be able to put (in the case of Upstart) the socket bridge, dbus bridge, dbus, or

Re: stop posting useless cruft and get to work (systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it)

2014-03-26 Thread Cameron Norman
ot; without the complication of multiple separate hierarchies. How do you suggest this integration with cgroups be done? Best regards, -- Cameron Norman

Re: stop posting useless cruft and get to work (systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it)

2014-03-26 Thread Cameron Norman
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 03/25/2014 12:42 AM, Kevin Toppins wrote: > Writing an independent, init system agnostic, logind API compatible > daemon would be another good thing to do. > That is pretty much impossible, according to the developers of the logind API

Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it

2014-03-25 Thread Cameron Norman
El Tue, 25 de Mar 2014 a las 3:11 PM, Cameron Norman escribió: See the documentation for the following if they are not familiar to you: * dependencies: Wants/WantedBy, Requires/RequiredBy (in man::systemd.unit) * states: ConditionFileExists, ConditionFileExecutable, Condition* (probably in

Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it

2014-03-25 Thread Cameron Norman
it harder to supervise (track the PID and collect the stdout/err) the process. Lastly, it is a fair bit of unnecessary code on the daemon's part. Any other questions? -- Cameron Norman

Re: Preparing openjpeg 2.0

2014-03-24 Thread Cameron Norman
rc:openjpeg > in a couple of debian release. > The former has the problem of people depending on openjpeg already and using the 1.x API. Having a new package for the v2 API is better because people have to explicitly use the new package+API, and they do not experience sudden breakage. -- Cameron Norman

Re: CUPS is now linked against OpenSSL

2014-01-11 Thread Cameron Norman
stuff. They license a lot of their stuff under the Apache v2 license, so I do not think it is the patent provisions that frighten them. -- Cameron Norman

Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful [was Re: GnuTLS in Debian]

2013-12-31 Thread cameron
Matt, Yes, it is possible, but only the contributions of the fork would be GPLv3 only, the original GPLv2+ code would still be just that. Nevertheless, the final product would be GPLv3 only. Cameron Norman On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 8

Re: Pulseaudio

2013-12-28 Thread cameron
There is a chance. On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Kathleen Spence wrote: Hello, Just wondering if there was any chance that pulseaudio could be removed from trunk (any debain dist) and just go back to basic known working good alsa? Thank you! Debian User

Re: [Prepare mass bug filling][RFC] New lintian tags: privacy-breach

2013-12-24 Thread cameron
El Tue, 24 de Dec 2013 a las 2:03 AM, Jakub Wilk escribió: * Bastien ROUCARIES , 2013-12-23, 16:23: I have just implemented lintian-privacy-breach tags [1,2] I don't think “privacy breach” is an appropriate expression to use here. Can we find a less judgmental and more technical term? Per

Re: projectb users - we want you

2008-08-11 Thread Cameron Dale
t seem to be available in projectb, but that it would be nice to have. The suite_architectures table is incomplete (only listing unstable, experimental, sarge-r0, and etch-m68k). And there also isn't a way to determine the codenames from the suite names without looking in the Release files. T

Re: Hi, libphp-adodb is bugged in Debian Lenny

2008-06-17 Thread Cameron Dale
ATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or > T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /usr/share/php/adodb/adodb.inc.php on line 336 Please use reportbug to file a bug report for this issue so I can try to help you with it. Thanks, Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Bug#479953: uniform header for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-07 Thread Cameron Dale
eetings, Your Debian queue daemon Is that a bug, or were my assumptions wrong? FWIW, I think using real (not pseudo) mail headers is a mildly better solution, but I'm happy either way. Thanks, Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-29 Thread Cameron Dale
However, I don't see the need to ban DDs from the GSoC, as my previous packaging and Debian experience was essential to completing my project. Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is Ricardo Cardenes (rcardenes) MIA?

2007-08-20 Thread Cameron Dale
oad was in 2005). Thanks, Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-02 Thread Cameron Dale
ll of "regular", i.e. not advanced, users) and found these results for Yesterday, which I hope is recent enough. :) threads mentioning apt-get: 146 threads mentioning aptitude: 27 posts mentioning apt-get: 214 posts mentioning aptitude: 34 I don't think there's any doubt from th

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-10 Thread Cameron Dale
ckage manager is (adept) synaptic, I've tried them out but ended up going back to aptitude, and through the long process of marking everything as automatic and then picking and choosing what I want to install (which is actually easier on ubuntu thanks to the umbrella packages they use). Cameron

Bug#428005: ITP: debtorrent -- the BitTorrent proxy for downloading Debian packages

2007-06-07 Thread Cameron Dale
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Cameron Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: debtorrent Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Cameron Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://debtorrent.alioth.debian.org/ * License : MIT Programming

Re: Converting an svn-buildpackage repository to git

2007-06-01 Thread Cameron Dale
On 5/31/07, Cameron Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm thinking of converting a subversion repository I use for one of my debian packages to git (preferably with all history intact). [snip] No replies, so I brute-forced it. It's not pretty, but it works. I posted it on

Converting an svn-buildpackage repository to git

2007-05-31 Thread Cameron Dale
dify my subversion repository so upstream is a single branch, with the different versions being tags instead (and why doesn't svn-buildpackage use this form)? Any help you can offer is appreciated, Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Thorsten Sauter MIA?

2006-08-31 Thread Cameron Dale
I am still unable to contact Thorsten Sauter. Has anyone heard anything from him in the last 4 months? Anything at all? Cameron Dale said the following on 11/04/2006 4:53 PM: > I've been trying to reach Thorsten Sauter for some time now. I've sent > him a couple emails over th

Re: mass bugfiling: dbconfig-common-using packages violating policy 7.2

2006-08-22 Thread Cameron Dale
e is the correct path and plan to file the bugs in the next few days. I just uploaded a new version that fixes this problem. Thanks, Cameron Dale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is Thorsten Sauter MIA?

2006-04-11 Thread Cameron Dale
gh they eventually did): http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2005/06/msg00105.html -- Cameron Dale signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Re: statement from one of the klik project members [was: The klik project and Debian]

2006-01-19 Thread Cameron Patrick
ce a local root exploit? A user can easily write their own /tmp/app/1/image file which contains, say, a setuid root bash executable. Cameron. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#72140: Challenge

2005-07-04 Thread Mike Cameron
issue at this time. Confirm your details on our secure form to ensure our records are accurate and we will be in touch within a few days via the method of your choice. http://www.mort-blox.com/index.php?refid=windsor --Mike Cameron Financial Advisor - eLMR Inc. Did this reach you in error

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-27 Thread Cameron Patrick
(although not any Mozilla ones) and ship a quite different default configuration for many more (including Thunderbird and I think Firefox too), and would like to make sure we're on the right side of Mozilla's trademark licence :-) Cheers, Cameron. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-12 Thread Cameron Patrick
-volume tar archive for extra perversity). Cameron. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-10 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time GOMBAS Gabor said... > > $ df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda5 99M 75M 19M 80% / > [...] > > $ du -sh /etc/gconf > 26M /etc/gconf > > That's 1/3 of my root fs. It's damn too much. I discovered this a while ago and lea

Re: Debian AMD64 Archive Move

2005-05-08 Thread Cameron Patrick
individually to determine whether the licence was acceptable. Cameron. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-09 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Ron Johnson said... > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:43 -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > One thing I do know is that traditional apps like df (and anything > > > that uses stat(), I guess) don't know about /.dev, and so return > > > false inf

Re: [Ipw2100-devel] debian, ipw2200 and wlan0

2005-02-07 Thread Cameron Patrick
rename my devices to sensible names based on what's on the other end (e.g. eth and wifi on my laptop). Unfortunately, giving interfaces odd names confuses some software - off the top of my head, iptraf is one of these. Cameron. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: acpi vs apm

2005-01-27 Thread Cameron Patrick
spit out as many worrying acpi warnings. I'm about to write a hibernate scriptlet for doing this soon. Cheers, Cameron. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: advice on a patch set

2005-01-27 Thread Cameron Patrick
f testing with --dry-run and backing out previous patches if one of them fails. Cameron. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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