Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-18 Thread Jon Dowland
with the upstream sources via git-filter-branch. -- Jon Dowland -- 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/20120518085508.GA27744@debian

Re: dropping bup from s390

2012-05-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:23:26PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: The test tries to mmap a file with the size of slightly above 1GiB. In bup.bloom: | create(): expected = 268435456 | create(): bits = 30 | create(): size = 1073741824 | ! tbloom.py:38 4 == 4 Yes. The FTBFS can be worked

Re: big .debian.tar.xz - EG Wordpress

2012-05-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 02:20:48PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Unfortunately, swfupload *cannot* be packaged in Debian because we have no ways of building it (unless the situation changed with adobe tools... in which case, I would really like to hear about it!). The only thing you could

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-17 Thread Jon Dowland
hosting them at git.debian.org just fine. -- Jon Dowland -- 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/20120517145410.GB7703@debian

Re: big .debian.tar.xz - EG Wordpress

2012-05-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:10:55PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: If you say download some, and ignore the others in most cases, please consider that in the case you really find out that you need the source, you'll most likely be offline, and cannot do much about it (Murphy's laws apply

Bug#664185: dropping bup from s390

2012-05-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:23:26PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: The test tries to mmap a file with the size of slightly above 1GiB. In bup.bloom: | create(): expected = 268435456 | create(): bits = 30 | create(): size = 1073741824 | ! tbloom.py:38 4 == 4 Yes. The FTBFS can be worked

Bug#668997: [lelu...@gmail.com: Re: bup: breaks if PYTHONOPTIMIZE is set (reported in Debian) [PATCH]]

2012-05-17 Thread Jon Dowland
Filion lelu...@gmail.com - From: Gabriel Filion lelu...@gmail.com Subject: Re: bup: breaks if PYTHONOPTIMIZE is set (reported in Debian) [PATCH] Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 06:02:31 -0400 To: Jon Dowland j...@debian.org CC: bup-list bup-l...@googlegroups.com X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 11.95 ) Hello

Bug#664185: dropping bup from s390

2012-05-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:23:26PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: The test tries to mmap a file with the size of slightly above 1GiB. In bup.bloom: | create(): expected = 268435456 | create(): bits = 30 | create(): size = 1073741824 | ! tbloom.py:38 4 == 4 Yes. The FTBFS can be worked

Re: OT: language (was: Re: something about rm)

2012-05-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 05:33:45PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: It would be much better to originate a new word, such as heshe, or shehe, and hisher, instead of overloading an existing plural. Egan proposed/used 've', 'ver', 'vim' etc. in the book Diaspora. I was never clear what rules

dropping bup from s390

2012-05-16 Thread Jon Dowland
. Please shout if you would prefer me not to / can help fix that bug in the next few weeks before freeze. Thanks -- Jon Dowland Please CC me, I'm not on the list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-16 Thread Jon Dowland
). This is a bit of a marketing fail for 3.0., in hindsight. -- Jon Dowland -- 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/20120516123707.GA6784@debian

Re: big .debian.tar.xz - EG Wordpress

2012-05-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:53:11PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Seems like a bug, the best way to determine that sources are still buildable is to always build them. The stuff is things such as minified js. The wordpress source contains the minified copies, and you can get the originals in separate

Re: Datapacker

2012-05-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 04:33:42AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: Is, or has, anyone used Datapacker here please? If so can we correspond re my usage of it? I haven't used it, but I think it was I who originally recommended it, so I'll try best to answer your questions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: iceaweasel experimental is not true firefox in my hands

2012-05-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:55:32PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: The message below was intended to pkg-mozilla-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org list google mail complains that such address does not exist I'm afraid google mail is wrong. Did you get a bounce? Here's an archive of other

Re: help with intra-package dependencies (library and binary)

2012-05-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:21:37AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: Seems the package isn't on mentors yet? I extracted the source tarball with pristine-tar. Indeed, I later received a rejection: mentors has not updated their keyring to reflect my new PGP key yet. (I then got another rejection for

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:34:39AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: So to use the image you need either a DVD or a USB stick, and if you're using a write-once DVD you're perhaps wasting the unused space; but the download time and install footprint are still kept low and in the range of what a CD

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 03:17:17PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: No, I hereby start saying good by to 3.0 I'm hoping we can revisit 3.0 (git) post-squeeze, myself. But I have also found myself to be incompatible iwth 3.0 (quilt) and used 1.0 for my last few packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 05:56:54PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Installed-Size is generated automatically by dpkg-buildpackage, so the only way that you'd get a package without it is by manually creating a package, which nearly no one does. So in practice it's always there, although it might

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:34:39AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: So to use the image you need either a DVD or a USB stick, and if you're using a write-once DVD you're perhaps wasting the unused space; but the download time and install footprint are still kept low and in the range of what a CD

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:34:39AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: So to use the image you need either a DVD or a USB stick, and if you're using a write-once DVD you're perhaps wasting the unused space; but the download time and install footprint are still kept low and in the range of what a CD

Re: Problem with Dovecot

2012-05-15 Thread Jon Dowland
there. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120515150344.GD3484@debian

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:40:10AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: There's *no* reason to think that GNOME or KDE are going to get back below the 1 CD limit at the next Debian stable release. I was under the impression that GNOME3 fit onto one CD with recent Fedora releases, but I am having trouble

Bug#402317: lha: please use update-alternatives for lha

2012-05-14 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi, I'm about to upload another LHA alternative and I think it is a shame for both of them to have to Conflicts: on the original. I plan to NMU lha with this patch before the squeeze freeze begins. Please let me know if you object or plan to do this yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#402317: lha: diff for NMU version 1.14i-10.4

2012-05-14 Thread Jon Dowland
alternatives for /usr/bin/lha, to play nice with others. +Thanks Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu). Closes: #402317. + + -- Jon Dowland j...@debian.org Mon, 14 May 2012 13:54:01 +0100 + lha (1.14i-10.3) unstable; urgency=medium * Non-maintainer upload. only in patch2: unchanged: --- lha-1.14i.orig

Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

2012-05-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:13:05AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012, Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de wrote: Being forced to upgrade to a new major version by a stable security support is nothing we should force our users to. Debian stable is known for (usually) painfree updates

Re: Version for a returning package

2012-05-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 02:23:38PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: Sounds like it would be safer to go with an epoch. You could vary the package name slightly instead, but I don't have a suggestion as to how, and you have to live with either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#672796: sopwith: spelling mistake in long description (patch)

2012-05-13 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: sopwith Version: 1.7.4-6 Severity: minor patch attached. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8,

Re: Php update killed my wiki site.

2012-05-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 06:32:20PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: For a couple of years I have used this type of link to bring content into my mediawiki: Are you using the mediawiki Debian package? I recently upgraded my Debian Linux Php to: PHP Version 5.3.3-7+squeeze9 If you can find out

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-13 Thread Jon Dowland
-level value for keys you haven't validated. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120513140517.GB32262@debian

Re: To the list admins: Call for Ban on this SPAM

2012-05-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 01:38:08PM +0100, rjc wrote: You can report SPAM using list's web archive interface. And you can contact the listmasters via listmas...@lists.debian.org - no need to further pollute the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 05:21:03PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: By the way, I finally found the time to try systemd, and I was shocked to see how fast it booted! :) The only thing is that I had no clue what started: nothing were prompted on my screen. Is there a way to have it more verbose?

Bug#672647: uswsusp: manpage spelling corrections (patch)

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: uswsusp Version: 1.0+20110509-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch The manpage for s2ram is a little mangled at the bottom and there's a mispelling. Patch attached. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')

Bug#672647: Acknowledgement (uswsusp: manpage spelling corrections (patch))

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
Another patch for s2disk --- debian/s2disk.8~ 2012-05-12 16:56:23.768227446 +0100 +++ debian/s2disk.8 2012-05-12 16:55:57.460145784 +0100 @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common\-licenses/GPL\. .SH AUTHOR .PP

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 06:16:28PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: I wasn't thinking of Enigmail/Mozilla, but Microsoft. Microsoft's software doesn't produce PGP/MIME sigs and their reading of same is broken. Or at least was last time I had to use any of their software. MS Exchange at least

Re: Overcoming Debian(Linux?) paranoia - a gnome-ppp example

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 05:02:31AM +0100, elbbit wrote: myhost$ adduser ricky dialout Furthermore, the user created by the debian installer (uid 1000) is automatically in this group. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:14:12AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: Wrong again (you're trying too hard). header from track on CDDA = RIFF���WAVEfmt What ripper did you use to extract the track? Since a raw redbook audio encoded track is not very useful it's highly likely that your ripper has

Re: ..neat wee litigation trap, was: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:27:36AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: And it's not a problem as a kernel module either, seeing as though it's the user who has to manually load it. For that, the license could be proprietarded. It's a problem if you ever want help if/when there's a bug or problem with

Re: Regarding installation of xipdump-1.5.2.tgz on red hat linux 5 Enterprise Edition

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:48:17AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Isn't it possible to write to this list, without being subscribed? Perhaps this person doesn't receive mails from the list :D, I guess we need too CC. It is, but the mailing list code of conduct says When replying to messages on

Re: Overcoming Debian(Linux?) paranoia - a gnome-ppp example

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:24:53PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Sat 12 May 2012 at 09:06:30 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 05:02:31AM +0100, elbbit wrote: myhost$ adduser ricky dialout Furthermore, the user created by the debian installer (uid 1000) is automatically

Re: ..neat wee litigation trap, was: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 08:25:04AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: If it's a problem with the module, contact the module maintainers. If it's a problem with the kernel, unload the module, and contact the kernel maintainers. I don't see the problem. Please read up on tainted mode. You can't just

Re: ..neat wee litigation trap, was: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 05:52:49PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..another question is, what kinda performance enhanchement can zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux deliver, 5%, 50% or even 500%, compared to the best GPL file systems? And, no risk of vendor lock-in? Performance is a multi-faceted thing: You

filesystem/block-level deduplication (was Re: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux)

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:14:36AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: A word of caution: as tempting as deduplication might be, avoid it. Unless you have significant RAM, and a fast RAID-0 SSD ZIL, I would advise against it. It causes massive performance problems, and the benefit isn't worth the

Re: Regarding installation of xipdump-1.5.2.tgz on red hat linux 5 Enterprise Edition

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 05:46:07PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: In this case I suspect CC is wanted ;). I don't think the OP is subscribed to this list. You may well be right, but how to know? If one posts requests for help on a mailing list, I think the onus is on one to read the list

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 06:37:35PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2012 16:39:49 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Camaleón, Enigmail does it with no user intervention. I don't use Enigmail, but I'd place a small wager that it can be set up to either pull

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 05:32:25PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: So, the OP signs his mail to a list. I would guess that no web of trust exists between him and 99.9% of the list members. What is the benefit of such a signature? I don't know Phil Dobbin, I haven't ever met him and I

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 06:57:45PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: That is certainly not the way mailing lists work, so causing a block of some 400 characters to be sent to each and every subscriber is pure self-indulgence, on the scale of insisting on sending HTML-formatted mail. On balance,

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

2012-05-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:04:21AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: To me an audio CD/DVD is a format of CD/DVD readable by CD players (music only). WAV files. Audio CDs do not use WAV format, they use an encoding specified in the red book standard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

2012-05-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 06:29:29PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: Oh right - 2-channel signed 16-bit Linear PCM sampled at 44,100 Hz, as per the Red Book standard. My mistake, I was confusing it with WAV, LPCM-encoded, containing two channels of 44,100 samples per second, 16 bits per sample

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

2012-05-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 06:49:22PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: Red Book audio format *is* a WAV format - as described above. It is not. For a start the WAV header is omitted entirely. If you take the literal ones and zeroes of red book audio they cannot be decoded as WAV. Go back, re-read the

alternatives to CDs and MP3s (was Re: putting audio files onto a DVD)

2012-05-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:46:09AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Don't use CDs and MP3s as long as you can hear very good. What do you recommend instead: 24bit and upwards digital files, or are you an analog loyalist? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Things we should know about PGP

2012-05-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:36:14PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: And why do we need this? We could notarized emails + use or computer readable ID cards, anyway, this in addition won't make mailing list mails more true or less true. There's more untruth for notarized papers than for non-notarized

Re: ..neat wee litigation trap, was: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

2012-05-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 06:40:53PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..it is (at least in theory) possible to crack both GNU/Linux and */kfreeBSD at the same time, and it is also possible to attack GNU Hurd at the same time as the former 2, even if I agree with Microsoft FUD that by extension holds

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:46:40PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: It also means that I don't get a pile of noise in etckeeper from all the upgrades of default configurations, so that my commits to etckeeper primarily consist of my own local changes. I don't personally use etckeeper but it strikes

Re: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

2012-05-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:22:35AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 9 May 2012 19:18:28 +0100, Jon wrote in message 20120509181828.GG8272@debian: On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:07:51PM +0100, Lists wrote: I'm looking at using ZFS for a box that will serve as a storage/backup box. I'm

Re: Things we should know about PGP

2012-05-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 09:17:17PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Regarding to security. Assumed somebody always sign the mails to a mailing list. Isn't it possible that somebody hacks the view of a mailing list archive? Make it look like if a nice guy said odd things for signed mails. He never

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable (was: switching from exim to postfix)

2012-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 04:58:53PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: We should have had some enthusiastic replies and constructive comments on how we could make this happen, how we could improve OpenRC to fit our needs. Instead, I have read posts criticizing without knowing. If I was Patrick, I'd

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable (was: switching from exim to postfix)

2012-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
Russ, I flagged your message as one to respond to, but not to debate any particular point you raise, but rather to thank you for raising it at all, despite it being potentially controversial. I'd also like to thank you for tirelessly participating on the list, especially in recent times: I find

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:29:31PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: Bob's PGP signature is valid - yours is not You waste our time and bandwidth. In what way? I can verify Mika's signatures just fine. The signatures are valid. Bob's key validates his identity - yours does not. I can verify that

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 04:15:28PM -0400, Celejar wrote: I'm no expert in all this, but can you explain and document what you mean by the claim that headers ... must be verified? All emails have their headers modified en route (e.g., Received: and Delivered-To are added, as are all kinds of

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:23:06AM +0200, Frank Lanitz wrote: Am 08.05.2012 13:11, schrieb Indulekha: -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:20:15PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 09/05/12 18:56, Jon Dowland wrote: In what way? I can verify Mika's signatures just fine. The signatures are valid. All his posts? Is cutting and pasting a hobby? Do you between some and all? The ones I've bothered

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:18:56PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: (you've trimmed my initial investigation which indicates he has at least one signatory.) investigation? Huh? How hard was it to see the key is signed by... the key holder (or another person called Mika?), using a key that

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:37:23AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The signature of Tiberius was trusted by Pilatus and Herodes. The signature of Philippus wasn't trusted by Lysanias or anybody els. I couldn't find a key on public servers for Hannas and Kaiphas, but fortunately the key of

Re: Things we should know about PGP

2012-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 01:32:12PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: When the subject was gpg/pgp noise Jon Dowland wrote: I clearly explained that his key was signed by another he owned, which in turn was signed by *someone else entirely*. A chain of unsigned keys for one and the same person

Re: zfs-fuse or zfsonlinux

2012-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:07:51PM +0100, Lists wrote: I'm looking at using ZFS for a box that will serve as a storage/backup box. I'm aware of Debian/kFreeBSD, which seems to be the best solution if I want to use Debian, but it does introduce some limitations, so I haven't decided on it

Re: Licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses

2012-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 05:10:07PM +0800, Yao Wei (魏銘廷) wrote: Creative Commons are also a common licenses which many artworks are using it, but it does not necessary to attach the legal code on it. Is it reasonable to put Creative Commons licenses (at least DFSG-compatible ones) into a single

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable

2012-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 09:41:30PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: FWIW there's a [debian-private] mailing list: debian-private: Private discussions among developers and this list is not archived. Actually it is:

Re: RAID broken .... /dev/sd? drive name changed

2012-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 11:13:14AM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i have got 4 drives. /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd /dev/sda raid mirror with /dev/sdc and /dev/sdb was raid mirror with /dev/sdd now this time i unplug the /dev/sdd for some problem diagnostics now

Re: Signatures (was: Panning the screen to get an usable GNOME desktop in netbooks)

2012-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 02:10:37PM +, Camaleón wrote: I had to remove 33 lines of wasted text coming from your GPG code and your extra-large signature :-) Consider using something like t-prot, which does this automatically, or most PGP-aware mailers, which will decode the signature, verify

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 06:07:25AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 01:51:48PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: That keyserver which you are using seems to be offline and I don't know how used it is. The recommended keyserver is pool.sks-keyservers.net according to

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 08:28:35AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: And on top of it, everyone else on the list gets held hostage and is forced to jump through so many hoopes just to avoid being inconvenienced. So rude... With respect, I don't think you have the right to speak for 'everyone else'

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 07:38:49AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: They don't support the considerate version of gpg/pgp. Now that I know that people using this actually have a choice and choose to be rude, it does make it rather tempting to set up an autoresponder and filter to nag them... Why not

Re: Does anyone care about dialup?

2012-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 10:09:44AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: What's there to throttle? With 56kbits/s (theoretical max. speed) it's barely usable with today's sites. I think you are being generous - gmail, google reader etc. are completely unusable at that speed unfortunately :( Last time I

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 02:26:33PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote: One of the considerable costs involves the number of systems in place in the ham community that are not easily physically accessible should the upgrade/change break the system. These systems may be on mountain tops, high

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 04:20:46PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 10:11:41PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: You also don't address the issue of a user who installs both packages and now gets varying behavior depending on their $PATH - a result not of a local

Bug#596741: regression: CPU fan fast after resume: won't climb back down (patch from upstream)

2012-05-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:59:29PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Even easier is testing using the upstream source. It works like this: Thanks again for the detailed instructions. They really are a help. I was not aware this was possible for the debian flavours. Good stuff. 2. Fetch point

Bug#596741: regression: CPU fan fast after resume: won't climb back down (patch from upstream)

2012-05-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:59:29PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Even easier is testing using the upstream source. It works like this: Thanks again for the detailed instructions. They really are a help. I was not aware this was possible for the debian flavours. Good stuff. 2. Fetch point

Re: Where have the mailing lists gone?

2012-05-04 Thread Jon Dowland
Feedback on Debian websites should be directed to debian-...@lists.debian.org (or by filing bugs against a suitable pseudo package: a list of all pseudo is at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: How do I remove a bad file??

2012-05-03 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 06:20:11PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list; -? ? ?? ?? Inbox.msf I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I have thought of to get rid

Re: It is not worthwhile reporting a bug on Debian wheezy/sid..

2012-05-03 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 02:15:57PM +0100, Brian wrote: Your version (1.2.10-2.1) of gorm.app appears to be out of date. The following newer release(s) are available in the Debian archive: testing: 1.2.10-2.1+b1 unstable: 1.2.10-2.1+b1 This version is for kfreebsd only. Are you using

Re: It is not worthwhile reporting a bug on Debian wheezy/sid..

2012-05-03 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 05:09:16PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: No, this isn't a reportbug bug. This is reportbug simply saying You're running stable. The bug you're about to report may already have been reported and fixed in testing or unstable. No, it isn't. He's running version 1.2.10-2.1 of

Re: It is not worthwhile reporting a bug on Debian wheezy/sid..

2012-05-03 Thread Jon Dowland
As Kelly (and later Darac) have said, you can press 'Y' anyway, so please do so. I will attempt to independently confirm the reportbug bug and report it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#671154: ITP: lhasa -- lha archive decompressor

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland j...@debian.org * Package name: lhasa Version : 0.0.4 Upstream Author : Simon Howard frag...@removethistoemailme.gmail.com * URL : http://fragglet.github.com/lhasa/ * License : ISC Programming Lang: C

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:44:12AM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: No it doesn't if 8BITMIME annouces are turned off! If exim receives an 8 bit mail, even if it hadn't announced 8BITMIME in the EHLO response, it will relay that message verbatim to other hosts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 07:05:14PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: Having mail be silently corrupted is not acceptable. Can you expand on silently corrupted, here? Is that when you re-encode the mail and send it on as 7-bit, or when you leave it alone and send it as 8 bit to a host that doesn't

Re: Removing the MTA from the default install

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 10:37:31AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 10:02:37AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Is this the right time to do it? No. Cron needs some way to report about its jobs, mdadm has to notify about failures, etc, etc. Indeed, some form of tighter

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 05:53:54PM +0100, Wookey wrote: Just a quick question - is there an easy way to do this? I worry sometimes that I might be creating a binary name that is already used somewhere, and thus a potential clash, but it is not obvious to me how to check. Strictly this applies

Bug#671154: ITP: lhasa -- lha archive decompressor

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland j...@debian.org * Package name: lhasa Version : 0.0.4 Upstream Author : Simon Howard frag...@removethistoemailme.gmail.com * URL : http://fragglet.github.com/lhasa/ * License : ISC Programming Lang: C

Bug#671154: ITP: lhasa -- lha archive decompressor

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland j...@debian.org * Package name: lhasa Version : 0.0.4 Upstream Author : Simon Howard frag...@removethistoemailme.gmail.com * URL : http://fragglet.github.com/lhasa/ * License : ISC Programming Lang: C

Re: W: best way to clone server data using rsync

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 01:08:14PM +0200, Tuxoholic wrote: rsync seems like the right choice, but how will it handle job canceling when I'm done for the day? Yes. But, for the initial sync, I tend to prefer a tarpipe which is a lot quicker. ( cd /srcdir tar cf - . ) | ssh user@somehost '(

Re: genisoimage and truncating of file names

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 04:13:46PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: So everything is fine now? Can you share the script? It was probably 'rename s/ /_/g *\ *' which was posted as a reply to Sharon in another thread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Exim panics

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:29:19AM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: You need to find out the source of the problem. Do you regularly restart Exim? In my experience, with the Debian packaging, this is usually caused by exim conflicting with itself. I've never figured the problem out entirely, but

Re: Debian problem

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On 02/05/12 11:08, Johan Mazel wrote: I have a problem with Debian Testing on an Dell Optiplex 960. Can I ask for some help on this list or should I use another way ? That's what the list is for. Please make sure use a descriptive subject for the post with your problem in it. Thanks

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:45:25PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i resize the LV from 300 GB to 400 GB Exactly what command did you type, and what feedback did you get? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-01 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 09:30:23PM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: Hello, On Tue, 1 May 2012 20:18:07 +0200 Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org wrote: So just stop Postfix doing the conversion? Or teach Exim to announce 8BITMIME by default. No, Exim should not announce 8BITMIME, or it will

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 778872] Re: vte use causes /tmp file writing during text scrolling

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi, sorry for the noise. I can't see this patch applied to the vte3 package. Should it be? Is there a separate bug to track for that package? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to vte in Ubuntu.

non-satisfyable Recommends: in main (was Re: Bug#661329: recommends doom-wad which is only provided by non-free doom-wad-shareware)

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
then satisfy this technical requirement and thus the argument would go away. It would also be a poor imitation of Freedoom (lack features), confusing to users and generally be a complete waste of time. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:56:21AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: How do you define really available? When the link is up (and your favourite cisco is still blocking traffic to figure out its STP fun?) or you default gateway is pingable (and waits for you to start your VPN/authentication/whatever

Re: non-satisfyable Recommends: in main (was Re: Bug#661329: recommends doom-wad which is only provided by non-free doom-wad-shareware)

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:24:17PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 04/30/2012 05:33 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: Oh joy-of-joys, a context free drive-by-CC to -devel, and a bug which indicates an NMU without warning, DELAYED queue use or nmudiff, for a package to which the maintainer

Re: non-satisfyable Recommends: in main (was Re: Bug#661329: recommends doom-wad which is only provided by non-free doom-wad-shareware)

2012-04-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 09:27:19PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: So it's, of all Doom resources, the lack of _levels_ working with original (-llish) Doom code that's the problem? This would sound a lot more dire if less than, say, 1/3 of us who remember the times of original Doom made our own

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