Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org [121013 10:56]: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 09:17:32AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: part at all) will only weaken security. So I think what you say is an argument for keeping md5sum, so that noone think they can use that information for security

Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
sha2 sums on their own and use them. Using the debsums system (which has no security part at all) will only weaken security. So I think what you say is an argument for keeping md5sum, so that noone think they can use that information for security. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: ${HOME} vs. g_get_home_dir ()

2012-09-27 Thread Bernhard R. Link
picture as obsolete and/or legacy and thus not worth to support. So users outside Debian would profit more to push patches to all programs to properly prefer HOME instead of hoping to persuade upstream of the library (and Debian would profit from having a smaller diff). Bernhard R. Link

Re: ${HOME} vs. g_get_home_dir ()

2012-09-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
.) The documentation for g_get_home_dir[1] also documents what a proper program can do, it's a simple: const char *homedir = g_getenv (HOME); if (!homedir) homedir = g_get_home_dir (); instead of using get_get_home_dir directly. Bernhard R. Link (And tip of the day: If you are working

Re: assumptions about the build environment.

2012-09-21 Thread Bernhard R. Link
usually be kept away from chroots? Bernhard R. Link -- 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/20120921232531.ga20...@client.brlink.eu

Re: packaging a tiny/trivial blob in a DFSG-clean way?

2012-09-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
a good solution ( if you want to make it even better, you can set up a regular private rebuild on that architecture to make sure it still is buildable all the time... ;- ) Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-21 Thread Bernhard R. Link
architecture is just a case of a serious bug that does not yet show up on the more common architectures or only very seldom, but lurking in the dark, waiting till it can also hit your more users later if ignored now. Bernhard R. Link [1] As a C program can give very little information, almost

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. (There is a lot of unmaintained software out there, but as I said, not much difference to getting any other patch in). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
of our users, perhaps they are not really a loss. /scnr Bernhard R. Link -- 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/20120818174632.ga8...@client.brlink.eu

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. things that already show a mime type before you open it) is simply introducing a security bug. Bernhard R. Link -- 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

Accepted reprepro 4.12.4-1 (source amd64)

2012-07-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:30:12 +0200 Source: reprepro Binary: reprepro Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.12.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Accepted tinyirc 1:1.1.dfsg.1-2 (source amd64)

2012-07-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:52:42 +0200 Source: tinyirc Binary: tinyirc Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1:1.1.dfsg.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link

Accepted fracplanet 0.4.0-3 (source amd64)

2012-07-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:36:55 +0200 Source: fracplanet Binary: fracplanet Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.4.0-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link

Re: Bug#679078: ITP: acpi-support-minimal -- minimal acpi scripts

2012-06-27 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. After you were closing two bug reports by just dismissing the issue, a if that gets closed again is a totally objective way to describe expectations. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#679078: ITP: acpi-support-minimal -- minimal acpi scripts

2012-06-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Package name: acpi-support-minimal License : GPL2+ Description: minimal scripts for handling base ACPI events This package contains minimal scripts to react to various base ACPI events such as the power

Re: Lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions version numbering

2012-06-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
into LDFLAGS or or or. It's all mostly trivially done but there are quite a number of variants. Anything not having CPPFLAGS is usually simply so non-standard that a human has to look at it anyway and no automatic approach will help. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions version numbering

2012-06-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
not using make but some python or shell script to do the actual compilation or any other of the many strange things found in software packages. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Accepted reprepro 4.12.3-1 (source amd64)

2012-06-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:04:55 +0200 Source: reprepro Binary: reprepro Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.12.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

which flags to pass to gcc/g++

2012-06-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
it will preprocess anything, pass CPPFLAGS. Note that CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS are in the format as you need to give them to gcc/g++, i.e. every ld option not understood by gcc needs a -Wl, and so on... Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions version numbering

2012-06-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
by Autoconf. However, it is now embedded into the implicit rules of GNU Make, so every Makefile that doesn't override the rule for compiling a .c file to a .o file uses CPPFLAGS. Where now means since 1990. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Maintainers, teams, Uploaders, DMs, DDs, etc.

2012-06-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to have happened). Bernhard R. Link -- 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/20120613163535.ga30...@client.brlink.eu

Accepted git-dpm 0.8.4-1 (source all)

2012-06-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:39:54 +0200 Source: git-dpm Binary: git-dpm Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Accepted xtrace 1.3.1-1 (source amd64)

2012-06-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:07:01 +0200 Source: xtrace Binary: xtrace Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.3.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Accepted reprepro 4.12.1-1 (source amd64)

2012-06-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:44:11 +0200 Source: reprepro Binary: reprepro Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.12.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Accepted reprepro 4.12.2-1 (source amd64)

2012-06-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:58:53 +0200 Source: reprepro Binary: reprepro Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.12.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Re: Starting services automatically after install

2012-06-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
once its configuration is complete) means I have to tweak another config file, which is uncessary annoying work. Bernhard R. Link [1] Exceptions being specific things like unconfigured dhcp servers, but I never met one that would run by default as it first needs a subnet configured. But if I

Re: Starting services automatically after install

2012-06-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
repeating others here). Bernhard R. Link -- 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/20120603115132.ga4...@client.brlink.eu

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

2012-05-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to configure /tmp differently, the user is able to set TMPDIR differently. my 0.02: I personally think having tmpdir on /tmp might be a good default for new systems. If systems get changed to that from something else on upgrade without asking, I consider that quite an ugly bug. Bernhard R

Accepted reprepro 4.12.0-1 (source amd64)

2012-05-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 16:09:02 +0200 Source: reprepro Binary: reprepro Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.12.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Re: Bug#481129: Bug#671503: general: APT repository format is not documented

2012-05-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
is: don't use it, it's an ugly hack. Bernhard R. Link -- 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/20120519090516.ga5...@client.brlink.eu

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

2012-05-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
a source tree. Which is why I use it exclusively to work on my 3.0 (quilt) packages. Bernhard R. Link -- 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

Accepted libnss-extrausers 0.6-3 (source amd64)

2012-05-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 11:28:03 +0200 Source: libnss-extrausers Binary: libnss-extrausers Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.6-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R

Re: problems with quilt and 3.0 (quilt) format again

2012-05-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
within itself. Requiring patched being able to applied without any magic (which might hide mistakes and result in changes different from the intended ones) is a reasonable thing to do. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Accepted ntl 5.5.2-2 (source amd64)

2012-05-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Description: libntl-dev - Number Theory Library, development files libntl0- Number Theory Library, shared library Closes: 667300 Changes: ntl (5.5.2-2) unstable; urgency=low . * add more optional symbols to avoid failure

Accepted git-dpm 0.8.3-1 (source all)

2012-05-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 12:14:26 +0200 Source: git-dpm Binary: git-dpm Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Accepted libnss-extrausers 0.6-2 (source amd64)

2012-05-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 14:35:28 +0200 Source: libnss-extrausers Binary: libnss-extrausers Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.6-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R

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

2012-05-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
or will be overruled by the TC at the end. Bernhard R. Link -- 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/20120502124909.gb18...@server.brlink.eu

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable

2012-05-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [120501 18:18]: David Bremner brem...@debian.org writes: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: My suggestion to everyone feeling the need to tell anyone on a public mailing list that they should shut up because they are no contributors is thus: Please

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable

2012-05-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
their arguments because you they are not insiders, which this is from some point of view, is the noise that makes an discussion in my eyes the most unwelcoming and thus a good reason to only expect noise and no more signal. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Enabling hardened build flags for Wheezy

2012-05-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. Bernhard R. Link -- 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/20120501095606.ga2...@client.brlink.eu

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable

2012-05-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
chance to come back to it till the discussion will be over, but once that point is reached there really is no sense it keeping it up. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Enabling hardened build flags for Wheezy

2012-04-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
='$(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS)' or CFLAGS='$(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS)' or even something like CFLAGS='$(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)'. So what we have is already the most efficient default and also the only one always working. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Accepted git-dpm 0.8.2-1 (source all)

2012-04-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:07:52 +0200 Source: git-dpm Binary: git-dpm Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Accepted reprepro 4.11.0-1 (source amd64)

2012-04-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:23:49 +0200 Source: reprepro Binary: reprepro Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.11.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Re: Bug#668556: ITP: dparser -- a scannerless GLR parser generator

2012-04-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Markus Wanner mar...@bluegap.ch [120414 13:32]: On 04/14/2012 11:22 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: Sure, they are also much more common than GLR. And if you are just interested in parsing and not a computer scientists, there's a chance you've never heard about any of them. Based on two votes for

Accepted libnss-extrausers 0.6-1 (source amd64)

2012-04-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:38:14 +0200 Source: libnss-extrausers Binary: libnss-extrausers Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.6-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R

Accepted inoticoming 0.2.3-1 (source amd64)

2012-04-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:01:03 +0200 Source: inoticoming Binary: inoticoming Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.2.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Accepted git-dpm 0.8.1-1 (source all)

2012-04-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:48:32 +0200 Source: git-dpm Binary: git-dpm Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Accepted gv 1:3.7.3.90-1 (source amd64)

2012-04-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:45:11 +0200 Source: gv Binary: gv Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1:3.7.3.90-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Accepted reprepro 4.10.0-1 (source amd64)

2012-03-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:28:59 +0200 Source: reprepro Binary: reprepro Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.10.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-21 Thread Bernhard R. Link
'? Bernhard R. Link -- 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/20120321090152.ga2...@client.brlink.eu

Re: Quilt patch for patching things in the debian folder

2012-03-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
easy way, especially because packaging information has a canonic place and is not changed by patches. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Enabling hardened build flags for Wheezy

2012-03-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
++ code. In the easy case of only having c++ code that means you might need to give CXXFLAGS into a variable named CFLAGS. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

the advantages of supporting many architectures.

2012-02-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Uoti Urpala uoti.urp...@pp1.inet.fi [120227 22:02]: Bernhard R. Link wrote: While there might be some problems originating from some architecture, but most problems you will see and people claim to be problems specific to fringe architectures are actual bugs in the program you just do

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-02-27 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Uoti Urpala uoti.urp...@pp1.inet.fi [120226 20:20]: If someone complained about a nontrivial s390-specific problem in a context where I was upstream, I'd likely ignore him. In the Debian context, people other than porters should not be obligated to do significant work to resolve problems

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no [120223 22:21]: ]] Bernhard R. Link Your shell is most likely implemented in C, but it's not like you sit down and have to debug it every other day. Why do you assume that you need to do so just because policy is encoded in .ini-like files instead of shell

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no [120224 10:45]: ]] Bernhard R. Link * Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no [120223 22:21]: ]] Bernhard R. Link Your shell is most likely implemented in C, but it's not like you sit down and have to debug it every other day. Why do you assume that you need

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. :-) If you want to know why something does not start then this won't help much. Bernhard R. Link -- 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/20120224120746

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
of lots of eyes. So software will ever be without bugs. The question is not: Will it have bugs? The question is: What effects will bugs have? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
working for everyone and not support systemd at all. Bernhard R. Link -- 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/20120223123238.ga16...@server.brlink.eu

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
shares to allow Linux to actually work? Bernhard R. Link -- 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/20120223155737.ga2...@client.brlink.eu

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk [120223 17:34]: On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 16:57 +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it [120223 15:24]: Not an option: we really need an events-based init system. If you want legacy at all costs, I think that Slackware is looking

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
a reason against supporting systemd, not for only having it. Bernhard R. Link -- 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/20120223165431.gb3

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
not your opinion with insults I will not take much efford to fix your packages but rather try to get the packages I use in a working state. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Accepted cuyo 2.0.0brl1-1 (source all amd64)

2012-02-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:26:22 +0100 Source: cuyo Binary: cuyo cuyo-data Architecture: source all amd64 Version: 2.0.0brl1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
within some C daemon with plugins, so using systemd will be quite a costly bet for most people) Bernhard R. Link -- 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

Re: Multi-arch all-architecture plugins

2012-02-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
as it would be libc6 on most architectures, but libc6.1 or libc0.1 on others. Bernhard R. Link -- 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/20120214120003.gb2

Accepted ntl 5.5.2-1 (source amd64)

2012-02-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Description: libntl-dev - Number Theory Library, development files libntl0- Number Theory Library, shared library Closes: 512636 585158 Changes: ntl (5.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=low . * this is still a preview, but most likely

pdiffs

2012-02-10 Thread Bernhard R. Link
, which speeds up everything and avoids unnecessary traffic. Bernhard R. Link -- 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/20120210094246.ga

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-10 Thread Bernhard R. Link
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Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-10 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk [120210 14:45]: On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 13:00 +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk [120209 20:45]: There is a similar issue with linux-image-*-amd64, which I would definitely like to remove from i386 as soon as possible

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012-02-10 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org [120210 14:47]: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 01:00:50PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: Needing multi-arch enabled (with all the dangers of getting the wrong packages installed Multi-arch enabled apt makes it hard to install the wrong ones. Also

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

2012-02-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
not modify the md5sums files, too?). It is useful for reliability, as it checks for files being corrupted by bad discs[1], bad memory[1], bad DMA controlers[1], ... Bernhard R. Link [1] Been there, got bitten, learned to love debsums. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Breaking programs because a not yet implemented solution exists in theory (Was: Bug#658139: evince: missing mime entry)

2012-02-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
a program for a given mime type. (xdgopen has still not got an option to specify the mime-type, has it?) Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

essential and transitivly-essential

2012-02-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
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Re: essential and transitivly-essential

2012-02-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org [120201 12:32]: On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 11:03:44AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: It's also a pity that it is not that easy to see which packages are in this set. Given that transitively-essential means: - the package must be unpackaged manually

Re: Do symbols make sense for C++

2012-01-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
visible at symbol level. As C++ is more likely to show differences at symbol level in this cases the danger of cases where dpkg-symbols introduces wrong dependencies might be lower with C++. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Do symbols make sense for C++

2012-01-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the maintainer has to manually increase the versions in the symbols file, just as they needed to increment the shlibs file before (unless they used auto-updating by using dh_makeshlibs -V without any version anyway)). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Accepted reprepro 4.9.0-1 (source amd64)

2012-01-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:17:19 +0100 Source: reprepro Binary: reprepro Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.9.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Accepted cuyo 2.0.0~beta3.brl1-1 (source all amd64)

2012-01-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:47:56 +0100 Source: cuyo Binary: cuyo cuyo-data Architecture: source all amd64 Version: 2.0.0~beta3.brl1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R

Re: dpkg-source again broken wrt to 3.0 (quilt)???

2012-01-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
but then read some other changes of the same directory in the form of a patch places in the same directory? I'd say that is the exactly opposite of allows to see what the changed of the NMU are. So to answer you question: Yes, it is that evil. Bernhard R. Link [1] especially debhelper

Accepted xtrace 1.3.0-1 (source amd64)

2012-01-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:58:47 +0100 Source: xtrace Binary: xtrace Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.3.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Accepted cuyo 2.0.0~beta2.brl1-1 (source all amd64)

2012-01-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:58:00 +0100 Source: cuyo Binary: cuyo cuyo-data Architecture: source all amd64 Version: 2.0.0~beta2.brl1-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2012-01-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
demanding volunteers to do a specific work. Bernhard R. Link -- 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/20120102223722.ga2...@server.brlink.eu

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2012-01-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [111231 18:41]: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: My experience is rather that people usually stick to their core packages as personal property and won't except patches to make them more well behaved. That experience aside, we're not talking about

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2012-01-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org [111231 10:54]: Le samedi 31 décembre 2011 à 10:23 +0100, Bernhard R. Link a écrit : If people maintain some core piece of software and want to decide what the package looks like, listen to what other people want. If you want to use too much work

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-31 Thread Bernhard R. Link
much work as excuse, then file a RFA. Bernhard R. Link -- 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/20111231092302.ga2...@server.brlink.eu

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org [111226 12:02]: Sorry, but what kind of argumentation is that? If the admin doesn't notice reboots and/or file tampering, I could just replace the kernel with my modified one and reboot. Now of course you could increase your paranoia and boot the kernel from

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russell Coker russ...@coker.com.au [111226 14:16]: For many of the things that can be done by loading a kernel module an attacker can achieve similar goals by replacing libc or by using ptrace to install hostile code in a long-running process that runs as root. Except replacing libc does not

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Andrey Rahmatullin w...@wrar.name [111227 07:53]: On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 06:59:07PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: It is a good thing to run with minimum privs, but compiling a new kernel to support this seems to be a lot of work for a fairly small benefit. First of all it is quite

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Philipp Kern tr...@philkern.de [111227 04:04]: As you pointed out so nicely: modules_disabled is only a replacement if you have a custom initramfs and do not allow that to be modified automatically. So from the point of the original discussion, modules_disabled is no solution. You just

Accepted reprepro 4.8.2-1 (source amd64)

2011-12-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:53:58 +0100 Source: reprepro Binary: reprepro Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.8.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Accepted gv 1:3.7.3-1 (source amd64)

2011-12-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:52:02 +0100 Source: gv Binary: gv Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1:3.7.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org

Accepted git-dpm 0.8.0-1 (source all)

2011-11-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:18:41 +0100 Source: git-dpm Binary: git-dpm Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Accepted tla 1.3.5+dfsg-18 (source all amd64)

2011-11-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:48:43 +0100 Source: tla Binary: tla tla-doc Architecture: source all amd64 Version: 1.3.5+dfsg-18 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link

Accepted sweep 0.9.3-6 (source all amd64)

2011-11-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:50:33 +0100 Source: sweep Binary: sweep sweep-dev Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 0.9.3-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link

Accepted ircii 20060725-1 (source amd64)

2011-11-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:57:07 +0100 Source: ircii Binary: ircii Architecture: source amd64 Version: 20060725-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link brl

Accepted sweep 0.9.3-5 (source all amd64)

2011-11-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:45:23 +0100 Source: sweep Binary: sweep sweep-dev Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 0.9.3-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link

Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on menu.

2011-10-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
-only window manager I do not understand your categorisation and guess your scripts are buggy. Why blame a recommend as specious even though the package has a menu-method script? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: A debian/rules target to rebuild pre-built stuff?

2011-10-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
in there (most of the time that ugliness it called libtool, though). When using libtool I guess it makes sense to retool it, but I think without libtool it depends how much changes you want to do to the build system. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

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