be available as
an option for those sysadmins.
For others, it will break systems. That is why the option should
be accompanied by accurate and unbiased information outlining the
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cannot know what dependencies are out in the world in
the Snn/Knn approach, and which can safely be removed
on any given system.
That is why sysadmins should be able to decide if and
when to enable insserv based on accurate and unbiased
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upgrades from Lenny to Squeeze unnecessarily difficult.
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of the pros and cons of insserv but unfortunately
Julien Cristau simply closed the bug without explanation[3].
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not with a view to purging packages but
rather with a view to determining the prevalance of the problem
and ultimately a low-priority mass bug filing.
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I'm not asking for insserv to be removed. I'm asking
that Debian users be given accurate information upon
which to base their decisions rather than dangerously
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That's an excellent suggestion. Would you care to post it to #610185[1]
to be sure the maintainer sees it?
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Mike Bird schrieb:
Does insserv fail then because it is inherently unable to mimic the
Snn/Knn behaviour or due to wrong (missing, ...) dependency info in
the initscripts? If it's the latter, the right solution would be
fixing
.
Debian has unfortunately moved from excellence-driven to time-serving.
The problem is curable. Hopefully a DPL will tackle it one of these years.
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leave the KDE 3.5 package
namespace untouched, then it would be much easier for
people to continue to use KDE 3.5 whether as Debian
packages (preferred) or via external repositories such
as Trinity.
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and KDE SC 4 would be co-installable (Trinity has
achieved this) but it is not essential. What is important is
that KDE SC 4 not unnecessarily usurp the KDE 3.5 package
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have attached a proposed patch.
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diff -ruN sysvinit-2.88dsf/debian/sysv-rc.templates sysvinit-2.88dsf.NEW/debian/sysv-rc.templates
--- sysvinit-2.88dsf/debian/sysv-rc.templates 2011-01-15 14:30:43.0 -0800
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and it needs to be fixed.
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. The package is installed
but has obsolete conffiles and thereby caused insserv setup to fail.
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# dpkg -s bittorrent
Package: bittorrent
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 588
Maintainer: Michael Janssen jamu...@debian.org
Architecture: all
Version
at
this stage of the release cycle.
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Description: application/shellscript
5.0.7 acpi-support 0.109-11 /etc/acpi/resume.d/13-915-resolution-set.sh
5.0.7 acpi-support 0.109-11 /etc/acpi/resume.d/49-915-resolution
about abuse of the Debian packaging system so that people can
push their favorite software at the expense of Debian's users.
Apart from the above, Squeeze is looking to be another excellent
Debian release.
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The impression I get of Debian is that in order to contribute
I need to spend a year or so humoring somebody with a tenth my
programming experience.
snip
(1) sysv-rc upgrade
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KDE 3.5 has upstream support, an excellent code base, a stable
and well-loved product, and far far fewer bugs than KDE 4.
Kicking KDE 3.5 out of Debian is a grave disservice to
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by saying they're recommended when they can in fact be disastrous.
The mere fact that they have to be forced on people shows just how
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\_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/lsb_release -is
11474 ?S 0:00 \_ sh -c { apt-cache policy
2/dev/null;
11475 ?D 0:00 \_ apt-cache policy
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Seen in Lenny. Is it really necessary to run apt-cache in order
to shut down BIND?
Is it really necessary to send your bug reports to debian-devel?
(1) It's a question, not a bug
On Sat October 23 2010 10:58:54 Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
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On Sat October 23 2010 06:21:35 Julien Cristau wrote:
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 05:46:38 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
Seen in Lenny. Is it really necessary to run apt-cache in order
to shut down
this question any further.
Thank you both.
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imagine Testing is intended
for real users syndrome.
I would certainly like to see the kind of Testing you describe.
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actually using Mostly-Stable on my own laptop so that it
matches our servers.
Mostly-Stable is great for (most) servers though.
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by not making Testing as useful as it could be.
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On Thu July 22 2010 13:43:16 Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Jo, 22 iul 10, 12:13:41, Mike Bird wrote:
We actually have a few Testing packages (e.g. WordPress) in our
mostly-Stable servers and we backup copies of those Testing packages
both on-site and off-site against the vagaries of the Testing
speaker and obviously don't have a clue of
what you're saying.
I am a native English speaker. Klaus is perfectly correct. Marc is not.
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to enable/disable it.
Can anyone see any downside?
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unofficial-secured).
This repository holds secured packages of the insecure debian packages
just without the insecure patch (or the insecurity patched). The full
sources are available to build. At the moment the repository holds
base-files, openssh and procmail.
Excellent. Thank you.
--Mike
through and (d) they haven't listened to reason yet.
So we just watch and laugh sadly and pray that we can keep
our systems secure. Debian has survived worse and it will
survive this mess too.
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On Mon May 25 2009 06:03:40 Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
And how many people with such low power systems do run popcon? How
many use a custom kernel?
OTOH, none of the non-cmov i386 systems here run popcon either.
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Qoreutils is a reimplementation of the classic tools from coreutils,
such as ls, mkdir and cp
Thanks but this won't be necessary. We just uploaded a GCC patch
that converts coreutils to use Qt. No source changes are needed.
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to the effort of removing udev from
some systems are less likely to install popcon on those systems?
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I think he gets to accuse Mike Bird of anything he wants to.
I accuse Mike Bird of being a dolomite.
Et tu Stevie?
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is a serious mistake.
Downgrading any packages this close to Lenny is a serious mistake.
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to having apt decide by giving priority
precedence over lexical:
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The priority solution is more general and provides automatic
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of testing exists and how it's going to be managed. End of story.
Is the DPL a big enough man to admit he made a mistake and to
end the censorship of people who pointed up problems with the
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It seems to me that it ought to be against policy to use a
maintainer script to delete files belonging to another
non-conflicting non-replacing package, but I haven't found
such a policy.
Does anyone have the answer so I can give it to reportbug?
TIA,
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FWIW, adding -9 to the gzip in mkinitramfs gives a
0.5% saving, which may help with some marginal cases.
OTOH using bzip2 instead of gzip saves 10.5% but I have
no idea how much work it would take to support bzip'd
initrd's.
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empowerment,
e.g. We will place their interests first in our priorities.
(4) Therefore, the laudable but minor goal of reducing clutter is not
a DSC-compatible reason for ignoring users' interests.
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become the next Stable.
This keeps Testing as it has historically been - more stable
than Unstable and the best Debian for recent hardware.
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relevant and useful for desktops
and laptops and newer servers, and without harming Stable.
End of story.
ACK DPL. EOF.
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Artificially lowering the RC count in Testing is not always
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On Mon June 2 2008 19:05:38 Luk Claes wrote:
Mike Bird wrote:
A good idea but it doesn't go far enough. Personally I don't find
d-i tasks to be any more important than the packages I need, and
I suspect millions of Debian users have equivalent opinions.
That's what rc-alert is for.
You
harder
to use, harder to test, and harder to improve. Debian
would be better without these holes.
There are better processes for reducing RC counts and
improving Debian without crippling Debian Desktop Edition.
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better. If
there's code that needs to be updated I'll be happy to send
you a patch if you point me to the source, but my (possibly
faulty) understanding is that release team members were
generating the remove hints manually.
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On Mon June 2 2008 17:38:53 Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
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Don't create 20-day removal hints for packages with RC bugs
except when its too late for a fix to be included in the
forthcoming release.
Your proposed solution doesn't allow testing
On Mon June 2 2008 18:52:29 Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:22:28 -0700, Mike Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
A thing is best characterized by what it does and how it is used
rather than by the name we associate with it. For a moment let's
recall what Testing really is for most
are comfortable with, they
should select a distribution that better fits their needs. Debian is
not for everyone; no distribution is.
Manoj,
You know Debian better than most Debian users. What do you
recommend to actual or potential Debian users with recent
desktop or laptop hardware?
--Mike
On Fri May 30 2008 10:20:51 Russ Allbery wrote:
Mike Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All packages on live servers and workstations are installed with dpkg
-i to ensure we're using a tested combination. We could manually copy
the package lists or apt-get install foo=x.y.z but dpkg -i is more
.
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On Thu May 29 2008 16:58:41 Russ Allbery wrote:
Mike Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Many people do extra levels of testing before
rolling out updates with dpkg -i. With apt-get
you never know when the package lists will be updated.
Uh... the package lists are updated when you run apt-get
to this disaster.
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), and preparing Debian's response for the next disaster.
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On Thu May 15 2008 10:34:01 Peter Samuelson wrote:
Who is this we? Whose serious efforts? Who is investigating? Most
importantly, should we assume that, as in the past, you, Mike Bird,
intend to do nothing but talk?
Debian is still one of the world's best distros and I hope it
continues
disjunctions,
a possible solution would be for apt to do so.
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On Sat May 10 2008 12:14:22 Julien Cristau wrote:
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:09:52 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
On Sat May 10 2008 11:03:40 Julien Cristau wrote:
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:59:44 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
How should a package depend on a package built by module-assistant
libcap2 version 2.08-2 in Lenny just changed priority from required
to optional. The package itself didn't change. Is there a package
or some other object that tracks priority changes, ideally via
packages.qa.debian.org or packages.debian.org or similar.
TIA,
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On Thu April 3 2008 14:38:14 Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
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Stable is a poor solution for desktops because it doesn't support
recent hardware. For a long time now we've had to run Testing
mixed with the Unstable versions of xserver-xorg
size, mirroring time, CD set size, and
download times for users.
Lucas made a good point. Better to save 20% on ten 10MB packages than
saving 10% on one 100MB package.
Although we can probably have both, modulo decompression RAM issues.
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) Issue warning message and try to boot cliques in lexical order.
3) Issue warning message and try to boot cliques in installation order.
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have to be like dpkg. Take a look at the TeX maintainers.
They do a wonderful job despite a very challenging upstream. Maybe we
can find a clue to a solution by examining the teams that work well.
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On Sun March 30 2008 13:25:15 Joey Hess wrote:
dpkg in experimental supports triggers now
THANK YOU IAN for persisting with triggers despite the tedious delays by
blistering incompetents. And thanks Joey for the interesting use cases.
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On Sun March 30 2008 14:01:33 Raphael Hertzog wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Mike Bird wrote:
THANK YOU IAN for persisting with triggers despite the tedious delays by
blistering incompetents. And thanks Joey for the interesting use cases.
Ian has nothing to do with the experimental upload nor
several 0.1% architectures
than for Debian as a whole to continue the slide towards irrelevance.
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[0] http://popcon.debian.org/
for the 8086 also supported a tiny mode which code
and data in the same 16-bit segment.
Beware that these names have radically different meanings on some
architectures[0].
--Mike Bird
[0] http://www.esacademy.com/automation/docs/c51primer/c02.htm#2.1.2
.
AFTER the long-delayed features have been merged and any remaining patches
have been picked up from the BTS would be an appropriate time to think
about refactorings.
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forking. Do you have a constructive alternative to suggest?
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Hi Guillem,
Ian wrote that you recently committed 402 diff lines of stuff
like this:
-static void usage(void) {
+void
+usage(void)
+{
It's easy to see negatives such as making it harder to merge
long-awaited features. What positives do you see for Debian?
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]:
To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
Example:
After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave.
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[2] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/need
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simpler programming tasks before taking on something as crucial as dpkg.
On the other hand, fer crissake Ian stop using 0 for NULL! You can use
(char*)NULL if it helps.
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. If Anthony has posted an explanation I have not seen
it. You will recall Anthony - he alienated many Debian developers with
the Dunk-Tank fiaco and thereby significantly delayed the release of Etch.
This apparently makes Anthony a natural ally of the dpkg blocking team.
--Mike Bird
On Sun March 9 2008 14:46:50 Cyril Brulebois wrote:
On 09/03/2008, Mike Bird wrote:
Ian hijacked his own program back from the people who had been
blocking updates for six months - including the triggers enhancement
which is needed for boot time improvements
Is dpkg handling the boot
On Sun March 9 2008 16:07:58 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
Mike Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ian hijacked his own program back from the people who had been blocking
updates for six months - including the triggers enhancement which is
needed for boot time improvements
dpkg triggers
On Sun March 9 2008 17:30:51 Daniel Stone wrote:
[Not subscribed, Cc if you want me to see it.]
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 01:19:58PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
Ian hijacked his own program back from the people who had been blocking
updates for six months
So Ian Murdock would be perfectly
On Sun March 9 2008 18:40:25 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
Mike Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In simple terms: dpkg triggers is a highly desirable precondition for
dependency-based initscripts, but so are several other preconditions,
not least of which is a substantial test period
that Ian should proceed with his update?
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On Wed March 5 2008 12:29:08 Raphael Hertzog wrote:
I've been added to dpkg's Uploader a few weeks ago, I'm not dpkg's main
coordinator. I have no veto power, I was mainly trying to give my view
On Wed March 5 2008 14:52:04 Raphael Hertzog wrote:
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008, Mike Bird wrote:
Please post the URL for this policy. I apologize if you've already
posted and I missed it, but Google couldn't find it for me.
http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/GitUsage
Hi Raphael,
I had already
to have the power to block your packages but he has
no rational excuse. Can the tech committee overrule Raphael or
does Debian need to fork a dpkg under more sensible maintainers?
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developer restart development of the trivial new feature from scratch.
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On Fri February 29 2008 09:26:32 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Mike Bird wrote:
I'm not a DD but I've been programming since 1963 when I was 7.
Based on decades of software engineering experience, I would
just like to remind you to USE THE FSCKING SOURCE!!!
I am
?
Would you mind repeating the (hopefully automated) proof for each Lenny
release candidate?
Thanks,
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In short, the sole dubious identified benefit can be easily achieved
by an alternative approach that is non-disruptive.
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to be changed by those Debian users who wish to make such a
change, possibly even during D-I.
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On Mon February 11 2008 06:53:43 Adam Borowski wrote:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:33:54AM -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
On *production* Debian systems, saving 30 seconds in a boot
which may occur once a year for a kernel security update is
not worth a single broken script, nor a single failed
scripts; and should not wantonly cause
outages, data loss, and data corruption - all of which are guaranteed
in large numbers because even the best of programmers make some mistakes
and a lot of tiny shell scripts in the big wide world are written by
people who are not the best of programmers.
--Mike
be extremely detrimental to both Debian users and Debian.
I'd much prefer that Debian changed its own scripts to use
#!/bin/sh.minimal without affecting user scripts, where
/bin/sh.minimal could be linked to any shell meeting Debian's
minimal criteria.
--Mike Bird
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On Mon February 11 2008 02:20:26 Cyril Brulebois wrote:
On 11/02/2008, Mike Bird wrote:
On *production* Debian systems, saving 30 seconds in a boot which
may occur once a year for a kernel security update is not worth a
single broken script, nor a single failed backup, nor a single lost
. Within the Debian world, this is a dash
bug. Possible solutions include Debian-specific patches to either
make dash's test compatible or to disable dash's incompatible test.
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that everyone has for
backups or nagios extensions or adding users or emptying cameras etc etc.
Not everyone writes scripts to the same high standards as Debian but it
would still be very unfortunate if a Debian update broke them.
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