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ill be the only game in
town. It would be a good idea to make sure as part of the deprecation of
isc-dhcp-client that we get initramfs integration of whatever is the
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On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 03:24:22PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 12:11:44 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > In Ubuntu, we are in the process of moving the i386 architecture to a
> > compatibility-only layer on amd64. ... We would like to drop [some] udebs
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and uninstallable. Would you please consider applying the
attached patch, or something like it, to omit building these binary packages
on Ubuntu?
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valid_lft and preferred_lft as recognized no-op options, which I think is
preferable to the current behavior of erroring out on options that are
allowed by the iproute2 implementation of the command.
Please consider applying this patch in Debian.
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The particular rationale for the current Ubuntu /boot sizing is given here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-auto/+bug/1716999
The formula used would sensibly apply in Debian as well, but the exact
values of kernel/bootloader/initramfs sizes should be checked in
newer upstream Freetype releases, it seems more likely
> > to happen.
> > Not carrying long-term patches to the build systems of a large number of
> > packages seems a good goal.
> Good point. I'll file a bug upstream to ask them to drop freetype-config.
> In the meantime
- get.debian.org
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 02:39:28AM -0500, Gedalya wrote:
On 11/10/2014 02:19 AM, Steve Langasek wrote:
It's not for the sysvinit-core package to fix up the installer's handling of
consoles, when sysvinit-core is not installed. Reassigning this to the
debian-installer package.
And how could
have complained about this over the years.
At issue here is a glibc regression, not the standard complaints about
static glibc being not truly static.
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was mostly not useful for the platforms I cared about because
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boot.scr/uEnv.txt infrastructure that would cope with this, than we are from
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of the 'ubiquity' source package:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/ubiquity/
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-installer/ubiquity/trunk
This has both graphical and console front-ends for use in configuring a
system at first boot of a preinstalled image.
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Well, that's a tricky one.
In finally compromised to use the common name field we have in
iso-codes in order to propose people who are using iso-codes as a
reference, the choice of either using official language names
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 02:01:09PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org (06/02/2013):
Apologies for taking as long as I have to get around to sending this mail.
Ditto for the reply.
I would like to request an unblock of the udev udeb at version 175-7.1
a critical
blocker for the release is a good way to make sure releases don't happen.
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$
Are there any objections from the d-i side to letting this package into
testing?
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this. But as
with other issues, it's probably too late to make a difference for the first
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the signature
from EFI.
Hmm, I don't remember this being discussed during the BoF. I think it's
clear from context that when the Win8 requirements speak of disabling Secure
Boot, they mean not enforcing Secure Boot /while still providing an EFI
environment/.
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On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 03:04:31PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 02:54:16PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:43:46PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
Currently it creates files in the directory /etc/console-setup. As
a result when the package
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 08:04:15PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 07:01:20AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
No, you absolutely do *not* need this. The policy rule isn't on purge,
remove all config files if the admin hasn't edited them, it's on purge,
remove *all
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:13:28PM +0300, Teodor MICU wrote:
2012/5/12 Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org:
There is no way to tell whether a file in /etc/console-setup is owned by
the package console-setup or it has been put there by the admin and is
unrelated to console-setup.
Who cares
the rootfs is read-only by default, and /etc the right place
to put the data.
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On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 09:53:14AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
On 01.05.2012 08:23, Steve Langasek wrote:
+CFLAGS := $(filter-out -Werror=format-security,$(CFLAGS))
Why do you filter this -W option?
Well, it causes a build failure if you don't. ;) I inherited this from the
previous Ubuntu
. Verbose
package build logs by default are definitely best practice so that it's
possible to do analysis of this kind of thing against buildd.debian.org.
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sick of the same
already-rebutted arguments being repeated over and over on the list as if
that makes them true.
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a SparcStation 5 here myself. But I haven't
booted it in 4 years, and even then it was too slow to actually be useful
for anything. Now, it would be too slow, and insecure besides. So I really
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problem you'll run into, and I think we've all forgotten most of the details
of how the sarge version of d-i worked by this point. :)
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be overloaded with this new functionality? (think Ockham's razor).
No. Both of those groups also have other meanings.
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installations of lenny) it is strongly recommended that you rerun lilo
after the upgrade.
Can anyone confirm that it's actually the case in lenny that lilo is used by
default is some situations? I'm not sure where in d-i to look for this.
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by Mach as a multiboot module.
Commited.
This patch was still being discussed, and Jeremie indicated he was revising
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 01:57:01AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Steve Langasek, le Tue 17 Aug 2010 16:32:17 -0700, a écrit :
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:39:18AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Jeremie Koenig, le Mon 16 Aug 2010 13:20:23 +0200, a écrit :
The /lib/ld.so symlink is what Hurd
errors.
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to the aforementioned laziness being propagated to the official d-i
builds. You are overriding a key element of the trust path used to
guarantee the integrity of the components being downloaded for assembly of
official Debian releases. This must not be done.
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 08:50:40PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:48:39AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
I object to the aforementioned laziness being propagated to the official d-i
builds. You are overriding a key element of the trust path used to
guarantee
-2.6.26-2-686_2.6.26-21_i386.deb includes the iwl3945 driver.
What about the entries listing the ipw3945d package. Is it still
useful for hardware using the iwlwifi module?
No.
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that aren't physically disk-shaped.)
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is displayed.
It's a main menu item. Doesn't the priority of udeb menu item templates
affect either a) whether the udeb is *run* by default, or b) nothing (I
can't remember which)?
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, and its translations should thus
not be very high priority.
Oh, sorry for misunderstanding. Yes, if this is about the priority of the
question about whether to *use* the driver disk that's been found, I think
medium (with a default answer of 'yes') seems reasonable.
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On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:15:20PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org):
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 09:43:03AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
I committed the changes with two extra changes:
1) the sublevel has be changed to 3. There is no reason
and will let you know if it
still has any problems (I doubt it will have any...).
This looks to be the same as bug #583592 in e2fsprogs; reassigning and
merging.
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the described hang in Ubuntu - my
understanding is the fonts would simply fail to be set. Perhaps this is
actually caused by the version of plymouth in experimental being
significantly out of date.)
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, if there wasn't a bug with nfs related to
having more than 16 groups [2].
Well, everyone should just use NFSv4 instead anyway. :-) But yes, we should
at the same time work on getting rid of some of these groups.
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in favor of plymouth. It's
not an altogether smooth transition, but usplash isn't seen as viable to
maintain in the long term.
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on the filesystem that dpkg won't be able to find anymore.
And using relative symlinks instead of absolute symlinks won't fix this,
either.
So *that* bug should be treated as RC, wherever it occurs, but I don't think
we should treat this bug in *debootstrap as RC.
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of this and that it has been a conscious
choice to accept the breakage.
Given that the package version clearly indicates it reached testing by way
of testing-proposed-updates, I think it's unwise to assume this. Cc:ing
debian-release for input on the uninstallability of gnome in testing.
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?
Note that this should be /etc/kernel/postrm.d, since update-grub scans /boot
and should therefore do its cleanup after the kernel has been removed rather
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on their own.
Downgrading this bug; I have requested that the ftp team remove these
overreaching archive checks that have no basis in Policy's requirements, and
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diffutils is, leaving a window when /usr/bin/diff is missing.
I think diff should Pre-Depend on diffutils, as we've done in the past for
other Essential package transitions.
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root password.
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installed, you can uninstall that one package or use equivs or
do a variety of other things. It doesn't make sense to ignore all package
Recommends just because there's one particular package you don't want on
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Although some people do not like me I do prefer real democratic communities
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Thank God we're not a democracy.
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Policy button at install time.
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://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/229343.
ConsoleKit only provides ACLs for logged-in users, which doesn't cover the
use case of a daemon needing access to the device.
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with € on E key
You'll be hard pressed to find a true US keyboard with a € key on it. I
think it would be more accurate to refer to this is a qwerty layout - but
would that be understood by Dutch users, and does it disambiguate it from
the other nl layout?
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with this, having felt for a while that a generic help
interface is something that we're missing from debconf (with the d-i use
case at the top of my list).
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I believe is the plan that's been discussed.
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. Anything less is unhealthy as it will
just become another XMMS with lots of patches ontop of it to fix bugs.
No, it'll become another grub1 with lots of patches on top of it to fix
bugs.
Oh wait, it already is that.
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On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:05:43AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote:
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 08:53 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:13:32AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote:
I agree here too. I think these install paths could be replaced by
ext2linux as well, if that is what
these
users to grub (1 or 2), we ought not mess with it.
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Hi,
freetype 2.3.9-4 is ready to go into testing, but it includes a udeb.
debian-boot, is this ok to update?
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as a pre-commit hook in the svn repo, since we
can mechanically detect broken .po files and avoid committing them?
(http://wordaligned.org/articles/a-subversion-pre-commit-hook)
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the groups problem for all the usual reasons.
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up not working for me, and being involved in d-i hasn't been important
enough to me to make time for those meetings, so... take that for what it's
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[1] http://linuxwave.blogspot.com/2008/09/ubuntu-forgotten-password.html
This link explicitly shows overriding the init value in the bootloader.
That doesn't appear to have anything to do with vulnerabilities with how the
root account is set up.
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thanks
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 01:43:05AM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:12:52 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote:
since there is no root password set up during installation, a local
attacker can simply boot into the root account (without being
per-subarch kernel images for alpha in Debian for a long time (not since
they were required for MILO), and the generic kernel is expected to work on
all alphas without the need for per-subarch hacks.
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it in the
Subversion repository.
Which is, however, incorrect, and interferes with being able to correctly
track the status of this issue.
Bug reopened, closure documented in the changelog.
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:09:02PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org):
Why do you say that? It's still fair to give lower priority to translation
of strings that would only be used in Ubuntu, but any translations from the
Debian package would
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 07:05:56AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
- 2.6.26-13 kernel upload and subsequent kernel udebs uploads
Why is this a blocker? There's no ABI change between -12 and -13, so what's
in -13 that warrants further delaying of the RC for a udeb respin?
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as other Spanish translations).
This is the standard Spanish translation for devices; using it also for
hardware generally may lead to loss of clarity.
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posibilidad muy pequeña de que un initrd
dirigido más pequeño no tenga todos los
controladores necesarios.
The emphasized no word must be deleted.
Spanish l10n team, confirmation ?
Confirmed, the 'no' should go.
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On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:11:06PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
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The emphasized no word must be deleted.
Spanish l10n team, confirmation ?
Confirmed, the 'no' should go.
Is there any chance that this might misguide users strongly enough
firmware. Is that what you're talking about here?
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problem to solve.) How release team verify distro consistency?
No. Why would Debian be providing regression tests for software we don't
ship?
Could you point an url with the correct answers to these questions?
No.
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If d-i is working on mips* right now using mklibs-copy, is there any reason
left to treat this bug as RC for lenny? It really does not appear to be
blocking anything for release in practice.
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there are some prospective Telugu translators who
would be motivated to do the work, but don't see anything in this email that
tells them how to get started. :)
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frontends requires installing packages that
are only Suggests: of debconf (gnome-utils/libgnome2-perl, or libqt-perl).
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This is a request for a freeze exception on freetype 2.3.7-1, just uploaded
to unstable to fix RC bug #487101.
The full debdiff is attached.
This is a straightforward fix, but freetype provides a udeb, so I'm asking
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to be an option for lenny, and the sooner we get
2.6.26 into unstable the sooner we can get everything smoothed out for
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This task sets up your system to be a file server, supporting both
NetBIOS
and NFS.
This caught my attention as it flashed by in my mailer. :) I think
for this, or otherwise get this
changed for lenny, or will this have to wait until after the lenny release
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empathy towards the people that
are negatively affected by such decisions, because to me the messages
written in the defense of these removals come across as callously
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it's natural that the release
team should find themselves bearing the brunt of the complaints from those
who aren't happy with the idea of ntp being replaced by openntpd.
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There is no Debian Installer team which is an entity that holds copyright.
Please don't do this.
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