Re: Any volunteers for lintian co-maintenance?

s Marc -- ---- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

ome of my running programs including the X11 session. Greetings Marc -- ---- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

anch. The pristine-tar branch is optional (but >default in the teams I'm working in) And not (any more?) default in the tools, thus easily forgotten. Greetings MArc -- ---- Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

salsa fulfills 50% of dgit functionality. And, a web interface which make the learning curve a lot less steep. Greetings Marc -- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

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Re: finally end single-person maintainership

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About Package Maintenance (was: Question to all candidates: What are your technical goals)

Tille wrote: > Am Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 05:53:46PM +0200 schrieb Marc Haber: > > On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 10:37:37AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > I see a big problem that we do not follow common standards. While we > > > have some teams with strict policies setting

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 13:25:04 +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: >Am Di, Apr 02, 2024 at 13:30:43 +0200 schrieb Marc Haber: >>from being vulnerable to the current xz-based attack. Just having to >>dump an ALL: ALL into /etc/hosts.deny is vastly easier than having to >>maintain a pac

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

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Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

On Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:10:37 +0100, "Jonathan Dowland" wrote: >On Tue Apr 2, 2024 at 12:30 PM BST, Marc Haber wrote: >> Please don't drop the mechanism that saved my¹ unstable installations >> from being vulnerable to the current xz-based attack. Just having to >

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

LL: ALL into /etc/hosts.deny is vastly easier than having to maintain a packet filter. Greetings Marc ¹ and probably thousands others -- ---- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header R

Re: proposal: dhcpcd-base as standard DHCP client starting with Trixie

h systemd-networkd in my world. Greetings Marc -- ---- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf,

Re: How to ask efficiently for removal of 32 bit architectures of about 40 packages (Was: reverse dependenc)

verwenden"² Greetings Marc ¹ it would be python nowadays, the saying is 25 years old ² "Use perl. You want to know how to write shell scripts, but not actually do it" -- Marc Haber | " Questi

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

more fog. Greetings Marc -- ---- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402

Re: /usr-move: Do we support upgrades without apt?

even many of our own users do what their Desktop Environment does, and our downstreams like *b*nt* recommend other ways to upgrade as well. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadres

Re: Reaction to potential PGP schism

er than it is already today. Sad Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Wor

Re: What would help the most?

s Debian special. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686

are now I am fine with the current state. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: /usr/-only image

distribution. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: DEP-5 copyright with different licenses for two parts of the same file

ification. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

DEP-5 copyright with different licenses for two parts of the same file

eem to allow to mention two Licenses in the License: line. Any hints woule be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | B

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:53:31 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: >failing >our Code of Conduct The thread went CoC and died. End of discussion for me. -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mai

Re: Upgrade package from init script to Systemd, move config folder

On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:20:34 +0200, Simon Richter wrote: >On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 04:25:19PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> I am not sure whether it is doing non-systemd users a favor to keep a >> probably outdated, bitrotting and untested init script in the >> canonical

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

ided to not go the way the project has decided to go. This inability to find consensus, to take decisions, accept and follow them is one of the most central problems that Debian has. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Q

Re: Upgrade package from init script to Systemd, move config folder

s Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

relay side, and then announced EOL for the server for end of 2022, leaving the world without the reference implementation. This is really bad. Grüße Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mai

Re: Yearless copyrights: what do people think?

when it comes to the year-information.) Amen. While I understand that having debian/copyright is vitally important, we NEED to relax our rules to reduce the effort necessary since it's demotivating busy work that I feel noone cares about. Greetings Marc -- ---

Re: Configuration files, local changes, and "managed section" markers

automation for that. Debian's way to handle conffiles is the best the Linux world has. That doesn't mean that we don't have room to improve. And sadly, we haven't moved a single inch here in 15 years. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ---

Re: need we support unshadowed passwords from the installer

don't think this belongs in the >installer anymore. Amen. NIS-based systems usually have professional administrators who are well able to change the configuration. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: Help setting dbconfig-common for MariaDB, not MySQL

On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 17:08:25 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: >Hi Marc, > >On 02-01-2023 16:58, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 16:31:17 +0100, Paul Gevers >> wrote: >>> On 02-01-2023 14:21, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >>>> A user complained that MySQL

Re: Help setting dbconfig-common for MariaDB, not MySQL

all?) It is. We need to stop having "disable IPv6" as measure 1 if something doesn't work right. It's the default IP protocol for a decade. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 15:50:56 +, Benjamin Drung wrote: >On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 08:49 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> We implemented that change last week, and promptly a bug report >> (#1014901) appeared, giving what we consider good arguments to change >> this back

Re: transition to usrmerge to start around 2022-09-15 (next Thursday)

isting conflict with the dpkg maintainer? Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Comments on proposing NEW queue improvement (Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

inspect them for bugs in debian/copyright? Of course, that would just circumvent the decision of the project and not gain us anything. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mail

Re: Epoch for node-markdown-it

xtremely confusing to >users, and an epoch is *hidden* from them. ... because it has been totally confusing to me since I started using Debian that epochs are not always shown. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Mar

Re: adduser default for sgid home directories

On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:10:18 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 07:06:59PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> I don't like the idea of messing with old NEWS entries at all. > >I'm trying to understand why you feel this way. It feels like rewriting history. Maybe

Re: adduser default for sgid home directories

xception might be warranted, but we need to have the long explanation somewhere in the package for the next round of this issue that is expected in the 2030ies. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are th

Please test adduser from experimental

tings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421

Re: how about telegram channel

art shipping needed firmware on official media. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nat

adduser default for sgid home directories (was: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser)

ic discussion period. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:54:52 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >And I see you uploaded ~immediately - why even bother with an ITP? Is it proper procedure to upload without an ITP? -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Q

Re: [adduser] default group for 'dynamically allocated system users'

On Wed, 06 Jul 2022 15:21:03 -0400, Matt Barry wrote: >On Mon, 2022-07-04 at 09:12 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> adduser has been putting newly created 'dynamically allocated system >> users' (adduser --system) into the nogroup group. It is also >> documented to do so. Th

Bug#1014372: ITP: journal-brief -- Show interesting new systemd journal entries

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: journal-brief Version : 1.1.8 Upstream Author : Tim Waugh * URL : https://github.com/twaugh/journal-brief * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang

[adduser] populating users group even in a usergroups system?

the docs updated as well, of course -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Right

[adduser] default group for 'dynamically allocated system users'

-- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

e box. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

can boot and install debian without needing the firmware blob is already one step better than a machine that needs an install medium with firmware. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: Project Improvements

e explicitly. That sounds nice and it's probably good to avoid accidental mass removals, but it makes the "manual" mark kind of a misnomer. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: shim-signed (was: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?)

ss refrains from putting a Debian signature on the deb and from uploading? Can the end user build the shim herself, remove the signature from the signed shim and compare the binary, preferably in a documented way? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy c

Re: shim-signed (was: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?)

On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 13:54:59 +0200, Ansgar wrote: >On Sat, 2022-04-23 at 12:21 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> >Is the presence of shim-signed on the install media enough to make >> >people feel somehow contaminated? >> >> I think so, yes. Personally, I don't care too

shim-signed (was: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?)

ree software being used overall, as will having the option to >enable only non-free-firmware without also enabling non-free. Those are the people who use Ubuntu without even trying Debian because somebody told them that Debian is SO hard to install. Greetings Marc -- ----

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

ly the same as Russ said. >If this is going to be the solution, it has to be WAY easier to do. Yes, absolutely. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Ge

Re: Keep both images but stop pretending no-free is unofficial

er asking whether the user wants a free or a usable system? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nord

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

system account but lock it. That way, a package can call deluser --lock in postrm for remove, and straight deluser in postrm for purge, while leaving the final decision what should happen with system accounts on purge to the local administrator. The default for said configuration option wi

Re: Q: systemd-timer vs cron

-- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Q: systemd-timer vs cron

On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:02:55 +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: >On 2022-03-13 11:06, Marc Haber wrote: >> The anti-systemd faction in Debian is cordially invited to step in, >> bring cron and cronie up to shape, before asking the rest of the >> Distribution to stick with esse

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

15 year old usergroups decision >would need to be revalidated by someone who cared. Wouldnt the umask patch be even more useful if we tightened down the directory permissions? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: Q: systemd-timer vs cron

s Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 14:41:35 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: >On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 10:16:24PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >>[^[:alpha:]]chown[[:space:]][^[:space:]]+\.[^[:space:]] is found 829 >>times in Debian, mostly in docs and comments, but also in a few live >>scripts. I thi

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

post a summary at the beginning of the new week. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature |

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

idea for an MBF. Sadly I do not have the time to do that. I have filed a wishlist bug for a lintian check. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Man

Re: adduser: disabling passwords, disabling logins

d account? I hate the inconsistent terminology that we have here. Thanks for testing. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Begin

Re: systemd-sysusers [Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser]

as it could get. -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:17:26 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 06:37:58AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:04:38 +0100, Ansgar wrote: >> >On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 17:29 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: >> >> Those are actually unrelate

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:01:36 +, Seth Arnold wrote: >On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 05:49:04PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> (2) >> #774046 #520037 >> Which special characters should we allow for account names? > >Please consider the leading character separately from

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

On Wed, 09 Mar 2022 21:34:33 +0100, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >Considering many have replied, I'll stick to that one: >Marc Haber wrote on 08/03/2022 at 17:49:04+0100: >> (3) >> #625758 >> --disabled-password just does not set a password for the newly creat

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

aining user names before coreutils made this change. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: adduser: disabling passwords, disabling logins

On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:57:13 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 09:00:22PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 18:40:11 +, Simon McVittie >> >--disabled-login: the new account has an empty password but is "locked"; >> >

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

both configurations are in sync to each other. Would it make sense that adduser reads login.defs if the respective setting is not overridden in adduser.conf? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions ar

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 09:28:24 +, Simon McVittie wrote: >On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 at 06:37:58 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> Are we using ACLs [by] Default already in other places of the Debian >> system? > >For user-facing purposes I don't think so (although they're available

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

dy behaves. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

ould intentionally be group-readable, not all files created >anywhere. Are we using ACLs bei Default already in other places of the Debian system? Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are

Re: adduser: disabling passwords, disabling logins

On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 18:40:11 +, Simon McVittie wrote: >On Tue, 08 Mar 2022 at 17:49:04 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> (3) >> #625758 >> --disabled-password just does not set a password for the newly created >> account (resulting in '*' in shadow) while --disabled-logi

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 14:10:04 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: >On 2022-03-08 17:49:04, Marc Haber wrote: >> (1a) would it be necessary to handle --system accounts differently? I >> think yes. > >I think it would be helpful to define "system account" and "n

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 17:02:06 -0600, Richard Laager wrote: >On 3/8/22 10:49, Marc Haber wrote: >> (1) >> #202943, #202944, #398793, #442627, #782001 >> The bug reporters are requesting the default for DIR_MODE to be changed >> from 0755 to 0700, making home directories

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

ourtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 00:12:25 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 05:49:04PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >>... >> (2) >> #774046 #520037 >> Which special characters should we allow for account names? >> >> People demand being able to use a dot (w

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

ystems...) It surely references an administration style that sadly does not fit these days. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | B

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

things to be able to judge whether a discussion from 15 years ago is still valid today. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Begin

Re: special characters in account names

On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 18:31:48 +, Simon McVittie wrote: >On Tue, 08 Mar 2022 at 17:49:04 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> (2) >> #774046 #520037 >> Which special characters should we allow for account names? >> >> For system-accounts, I'd like to stick to ASCII

Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

ng adduser being a better package! Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421

Re: Getting in contact with the i386 porters

a9a1b711dcc2303/www/bookworm/arch_spec.yaml#L108 That was a very helpful idea (and a very helpful porter). Things are going forward now. Thanks for helping. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Getting in contact with the i386 porters

see Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC in the logs, but also CONFIG_MGEODE_LX=y in Debian's i386 kernel. Please advise, thanks. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Comp

Re: Do we need to hide packages in NEW queue

U as I think these are probably the most >prominent areas for potential copyright lawsuits), even if it costs >50k. Even if a lawyer says A, it doesn't buy us anything if J Robert DD gets sued and the judge says B, or "not A". Greetings Marc -- ------

Re: Cloud team plans for cloud-hosted mirrors

On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 15:27:53 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: >On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 07:25:18AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> Are the IP ranges of the Cloud Providers registered that badly that >> deb.debian.org wouldn't reliably point to the mirrors inside the >> prov

Re: Cloud team plans for cloud-hosted mirrors

On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:38:00 -0800, Ross Vandegrift wrote: >On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 07:25:18AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:47:49 -0800, Ross Vandegrift >> wrote: >> >The cloud team wants to make folks aware of a possible change to the cloud >

Re: Cloud team plans for cloud-hosted mirrors

t from a Debian mirror? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "

Re: The future of src:ntp

ings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Extending debspawn

a login prompt from an already running debspawn container? What magic have other people built around debspawn? Or is everybody using a fully-fledged docker for all non-trivial things? Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber

Re: merged-/usr transition: debconf or not?

ent and go on with their business. It's a pity that we have actually THINK about alternatives to that trivial and obvious approach because we leave our core package maintainers too much freedom to stall. Grüße Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - M

Bug#998844: ITP: oas -- Output Address Selection for outgoing IPv6 connections

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: oas Version : (nor formal release yet) Upstream Author : Thomas Noll * URL : https://github.com/ThomasNoll/oas * License : MIT Programming Lang: C

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

On Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:34:12 +0200, Vincent Blut wrote: >Le 2021-09-28 13:00, Marc Haber a écrit : >> On Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:15:58 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> >On Sep 28, Noah Meyerhans wrote: >> >> For what it's worth, my preference would be transition to >&g

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

eetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

ings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

or systems with Wi-Fi or a GUI. Afaik, NetworkManager uses an external DHCP client and thus is not a solution for the problemt hat ISC DHCP client is EOL. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are th

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

arc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Freeipa-client in Debian11

On Sat, 4 Sep 2021 09:05:35 +0300, Timo Aaltonen wrote: >On 3.9.2021 19.02, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 01:10:17PM +, Domagoj Bazina wrote: >>> This package is not available in Debian 11 distribution, and version from >>> older Debian 10 can't

Re: Freeipa-client in Debian11

ebian docs. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany| lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421

Re: Debian choice of upstream tarballs for packaging

On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 19:16:05 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >Quoting Marc Haber (2021-08-17 18:56:59) >> There is, for example, one distribution that is based on Ubuntu (maybe >> they thought that ubuntu would be too hard to install) and does not >> support upgrades. Thei

Re: merged /usr

d until the transition is complete. In an ideal world, we would have the possibility to fix dpkg so that it doesn't get confused with this (predictable) state of the system any more. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

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