Re: Python2 removal: packages which are only in Ubuntu

2019-08-28 Thread Philipp Kern
that ended up on this list given that it's Py3-only in Debian these days (https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/a/alembic/unstable_changelog, specifically the changelog entry for 1.0.11-4). It needs a merge/sync, of course - it's even behind Debian stable. Kind regar

Re: Requiring Launchpad 2FA from Ubuntu uploaders

2018-08-14 Thread Philipp Kern
timately control what gets put into the archive. Shouldn't there be a way behind 2fa to contribute to Ubuntu as well? :) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: [j...@debian.org: Frontend locking in APT clients]

2018-06-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2018-06-18 14:20, Julian Andres Klode wrote: Basically, add Depends: python-apt (>> 1.7~alpha1~), and do: with apt_pkg.SystemLock(): main() Will this also allow to wait on the lock? Kind regards Philipp Kern -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify se

Re: Proposal: Let's drop i386

2018-05-12 Thread Philipp Kern
them off if not needed, the trade-off is probably more on the generating waste side than the "we need to convert everyone to more efficient CPUs"[1]. Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] Low consumption also sometimes backfires. Low water consumption now requires the utilities to waste

Re: Enabling Connectivity Checking in NetworkManager

2017-03-05 Thread Philipp Kern
On 05.03.2017 19:13, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 06:07:02PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: >> On 02.03.2017 05:54, Aron Xu wrote: >>> I'd like to see it get enabled by default eventually, but preferably >>> provide a toggle in Privacy tab for

Re: Enabling Connectivity Checking in NetworkManager

2017-03-05 Thread Philipp Kern
esponse from server via HTTPS, this would > reduce the server load and bandwidth requirement because there's no > HTTP body being transferred. Huh, isn't it using http://www.gstatic.com/generate_204? Kind regards Philipp Kern -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@l

Re: Using the dummy0 interface for a local-only service to be broadcasted by Avahi

2016-12-29 Thread Philipp Kern
a IPv6 link-local addresses. Of course devices usually broadcast all of their addresses, of which some will be routable anyway. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsub

Re: Using the dummy0 interface for a local-only service to be broadcasted by Avahi

2016-12-29 Thread Philipp Kern
spec bug[2]). Kind regards Philipp Kern [0] I understand the need for differences between IPv4 and IPv6 but I still don't understand why - of all the things - localhost was limited to a single /128 address, whereas it's a /8 on IPv4. Which means that there's also a port conflict

Re: Using the dummy0 interface for a local-only service to be broadcasted by Avahi

2016-12-29 Thread Philipp Kern
8%25br0]/"; No such site at :80 $ curl "http://[fe80::3664:a9ff:fe9a:f5b8%br0]/"; No such site at :80 If only we had universal support for interface scopes by having a unified function that parses IP addresses... Kind regards Philipp Kern -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@l

Re: Promote adobe-flashplugin over flashplugin-installer

2016-10-30 Thread Philipp Kern
e http login portal nonsense). FWIW, I think this has been fixed in recent apt versions, which have a much improved caching logic. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscrib

Re: Minutes from the Ubuntu Kernel Team meeting, 2015-03-24

2015-03-27 Thread Philipp Kern
l Changing it with the sysctl is a flawed approach, though. If anything initializes the network interface early (case in point: dropbear decryption during initrd), then that interface will still adopt pfifo_fast as its qdisc. Maybe setting the kernel parameter would be the better option?

Re: Creating Ubuntu USB sticks

2015-01-24 Thread Philipp Kern
s to ibs-size; when used with block or unblock, pad with spaces rather than NULs [...] fdatasync physically write output file data before finishing fsync likewise, but also write metadata Kind regards Philipp Kern -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: [Ubuntu-bugcontrol] Please, consider reflecting on the Canonical Contributor Agreement

2015-01-02 Thread Philipp Kern
LA is the only reason SDDM is the KDM replacement in Plasma 5 and not LightDM. And the reason why an annoying refresh bug on Nvidia hardware is not yet fixed in compiz. (It's much much harder to sign a CLA when legal departments are involved.) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- ubuntu-devel ma

Re: [RFC] 12.04.5

2014-02-09 Thread Philipp Kern
act date TBD). What would the rough date for the Precise point release be then? August? Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: IPv6 bug in precise network manager

2013-12-26 Thread Philipp Kern
k at it and fix it? Note that addressing architectures that do not use 64 bit interface IDs are not in compliance with RFC4291 (e.g., 2.5.4). Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsu

Re: Ubuntu graphic stack roadmap update

2013-06-28 Thread Philipp Kern
rminal, emacs, and gvim" bug to understand its severeness. But I guess people might argue that it's somewhere in the X11 stack and Xmir will be easy to debug. Or something.) Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@li

Re: Ubuntu graphic stack roadmap update

2013-06-28 Thread Philipp Kern
mes up with a solution. Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/861268 signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: reflecting on first UDS session on "rolling releases"

2013-03-07 Thread Philipp Kern
This still needs a constant flow of newer kernels and drivers. Which then might require newer userspace components, too. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https:/

Re: Monthly snapshots Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

2013-03-04 Thread Philipp Kern
a bunch of scripts, > using a lot of disk space to publish a full copy of main + universe etc. uh, shouldn't the latter just be entries in a tag database just like they are in Debian's dak? Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing li

Re: Avoiding fragmentation with a rolling release

2013-03-04 Thread Philipp Kern
. At least you can instruct the Play Store to push different versions to different devices. The Play Store will then show "Varies with device" for the version of the app package. Depending on how much effort you put into it you can also get along with just one version. Google recomme

Re: Debian Sync - Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

2013-02-28 Thread Philipp Kern
welcomed and by default it gets released versions of software. *Thus > I'd expect our devel release to be more stable than testing.* I tap my hat for you. Good luck! Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lis

Re: Proposal to change page allocation to zero on free in the -virtual kernel

2013-02-17 Thread Philipp Kern
on't think you can be notified of a sysctl change in an easy fashion. So qemu would need to query something that's intended to be somewhat transparent. (Although qemu needed to be adjusted to provide hints of memory areas to KSM through madvise.) Kind regards Philipp Kern [0] Miłoś et al

Re: Proposal to change page allocation to zero on free in the -virtual kernel

2013-01-31 Thread Philipp Kern
me additional signalling which pages are likely to still be allocated to the guest and a way to leave them in the free pool. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: ht

Re: Ubuntu Package Management

2013-01-30 Thread Philipp Kern
uld be willing to > partake though it developing something more resource efficient. > > If something more resource efficient is not developed, I have to say > its really going to harm Ubuntu, really harm Ubuntu! On btrfs, by any chance? Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description

Re: conffile changes in SRUs

2013-01-22 Thread Philipp Kern
ntainer scripts in any case (policy 10.7.3). Normal configuration files don't get this guarantee, though. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: AppDevUploadProcess Automatic reviews

2012-09-07 Thread Philipp Kern
ve the necessary rights. If the distribution point ceases to distribute the 3rd party content when he's made aware of a violation that seems to be fair. However that wouldn't work go along well with mirroring this repository. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: D

Re: Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

2012-09-04 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 07:42:14PM -0400, Michael Hall wrote: > On 09/03/2012 04:03 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > > am Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 07:59:15PM +0200 hast du folgendes > > geschrieben: > >> * Review the spec at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppDevUploadProcess > > what

Re: Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

2012-09-03 Thread Philipp Kern
do items referencing a version numbering scheme, but I don't see it spelled out at first glance.) Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/li

Re: UEFI Secure Boot and Ubuntu - implementation

2012-06-25 Thread Philipp Kern
nux to run without much hassle. You seem to be arguing that we want to provide some sort of security to our users while we're at it. But the massive inconvience for all sorts of Linux distributions (like Debian, which might only sign some bunch of unofficial images[2]) doesn't seem to be wo

Re: lintian.ubuntuwire.org

2011-11-13 Thread Philipp Kern
bout LTS→LTS upgrades: do tools like apt-listchanges work with such stripped changelogs? Shouldn't all changelog entries since the last LTS be included? Kind regards, Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.

Re: Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-07-28 Thread Philipp Kern
ing to upload. Furthermore he's got a better understanding than what's expected from a MOTU. So as long as it's clear that you don't randomly upload packages and screw with the packaging, I don't see why MOTU should be protected from core-devs. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: Partial dh_python2 transitions

2011-06-17 Thread Philipp Kern
aks are translated into conflicts so if they're co-installable, they'll migrate into testing. (But very likely require manual hinting by the release team, because britney would be unable to figure out a proper set by itself.) Kind regards, Philipp Kern signature.asc Description:

Re: Just gimme the IP!

2011-06-15 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 08:58:21PM -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > I'm seeing quite a bit of code duplication in scripts and packaging in > Ubuntu around the determination of IP addresses. I miss the bit why this is needed at all… Do you have some examples? Kind regards P

Re: when not to use an epoch and how to avoid a sync (was: Re: [ubuntu/oneiric] nvidia-common 1:0.2.30+1 (Accepted))

2011-06-05 Thread Philipp Kern
Ubuntu was agreed upon… Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Measuring success/failure in the installation

2011-05-17 Thread Philipp Kern
7;t think that opt-out via pre- > seeding is acceptable even if on by default is determined to be acceptable as > it limits this to expert users. Privacy should be for everyone. Doesn't popcon phone home by default, too? Kind regards, Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital s

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

2011-04-08 Thread Philipp Kern
ion. (And I was asked to get rid of Unity, it wasn't my decision neither. The whole "you won't be able to configure indicators in a meaningful way" seems to annoy people, too.) Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mail

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

2011-04-08 Thread Philipp Kern
The icon is replaced by the icon missing symbol.) (And yes, given that it isn't my laptop that's influenced by Canonical's design decisions, I didn't report those as bugs yet.) Some instructional page on the wiki how to revert to classic GNOME would be helpful, too. Kind regard

Re: Using something better than Gobby for session notes at UDS

2011-04-08 Thread Philipp Kern
e server is a stress test we cannot sensibly reproduce by ourselves.) Kind regards Philipp Kern [0] http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/newticket Sadly requires signing up nowadays because of lots of ticket spam. And albeit we do monitor Launchpad, but it's not our bug tracker. signature.as

Re: Using something better than Gobby for session notes at UDS

2011-03-24 Thread Philipp Kern
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:09:45AM -0700, Brad Figg wrote: > It is my understanding that the current plan is to usd Gobby > for session note taking at the next UDS. Please say it isn't > so. Elaborate critique. Or rather: Care to elaborate? Did you file bugs? Kind regard

Re: Shall we hide the GUI for Hibernate in Natty?

2011-01-31 Thread Philipp Kern
d to hibernate[2]. Which is kind of reasonable if it works. You need to take care to deactivate that if you scrap hibernation, though.) That said something like tuxonice makes hibernating more useful, as it's compressing the RAM contents and thus less needs to be written to disk. Given tha

Re: Lintian reports P: no-upstream-changelog even though its intended in Ubuntu

2011-01-16 Thread Philipp Kern
don't consider useful if you use this option. Adding overrides for pedantic tags is probably not worth the effort. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubs

Re: continuing conversation from UDS-N - Application Review Board

2010-11-17 Thread Philipp Kern
ld be fine, I imagine, and connotes exactly as much > support as "extras.ubuntu.com" does. FWIW (and I didn't see this raised in this thread) FQDNs do not need to be registered with the LANANA and can be used instead of a registered string (see [1]). So if you distribute

Re: Ubuntu 10.10 PPC64

2010-11-09 Thread Philipp Kern
Barry, am Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:11:23AM -0500 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > On Nov 09, 2010, at 04:57 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > >well, the userspace part is 32bit, and some packages wrongly assume a 64bit > >userland due to the presence of ppc64 in this string. Hence the re

Re: Ubuntu 10.10 PPC64

2010-11-09 Thread Philipp Kern
y in schroot.conf for instance.) Kind regards, Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel