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> Joerg Jaspert writes:
> > python-support
>
> This one is probably not *directly* useful to users of a standard
> system, but I'm not sure what effect the change in priority has for
> the presence of this package on installation media.
If it is correctly defined as a dependency of other packages
Russell Coker wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> > Not really. SELinux is not even close to functional after a standard
> > installation. For one thing, it gets installed *after* the initrd gets
> > generated and the initrd does not get regenerated, so the admin has to
> > do that manually after rebooting
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:48:04PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
> I'd rather see strace and gdb leave Standard. If one has to stay, let
> it *not* be gdb.
>
> It's not as if there is a gdb-tiny.
Agreed. There could be a gdb-tiny - but it would still be about 3.5MB
installed, as opposed to the 8MB
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Joerg Jaspert writes:
> python-support
This one is probably not *directly* useful to users of a standard
system, but I'm not sure what effect the change in priority has for
the presence of this package on installation media.
Since this package is a ‘Depends’ requirement for installation of a
gr
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:33:41 +0100
Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Steve Langasek (30/12/2008):
> > > strace
> > > mtr-tiny
> >
> > I think these are useful troubleshooting tools that we ought to
> > install by default. mtr-tiny is the only traceroute tool included in
> > standard currently.
>
> I co
Steve Langasek (30/12/2008):
> > strace
> > mtr-tiny
>
> I think these are useful troubleshooting tools that we ought to
> install by default. mtr-tiny is the only traceroute tool included in
> standard currently.
I concur for strace (at least).
> I think we ought to even consider adding gdb in
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:31:40PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > > strace
> > > mtr-tiny
> > I think these are useful troubleshooting tools that we ought to install by
> > default. mtr-tiny is the only traceroute tool included in standard
> > currently.
> > For comparison, both of these p
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > It's difficult to see how any of these packages fail the *definition* of
> > standard.
> Its difficult to see how any of these packages fulfill the *definition*
> of standard.
>
> The definition is wide enough to let us discuss without end.
Yet you
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:11:08PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > The policy definition of 'standard' is:
> > These packages provide a reasonably small but not too limited
> > character-mode system. This is what will be installed by default
> > if the user doesn't s
On Wednesday 31 December 2008 08:09, Frans Pop wrote:
> > I think this needs to be at Priority: standard as a necessary step in
> > SELinux bootstrapping, but I realize this is contentious.
>
> Not really. SELinux is not even close to functional after a standard
> installation. For one thing, it g
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:00:04PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > For that reason I suggest that ispell, iamerican and ibritish entries
> > be modified *right now* to be optional instead of standard. wbritish
> > seems to be already optional.
>
> For most languages tasksel will automatically install
> Is there any rationale from these internal discussions about why these tools
> have been demoted? It's hard to refute an argument that hasn't been
> presented.
It was a discussion taking some time with us looking at the packages and
then seeing how many of us are in favour.
> The policy defin
Steve Langasek wrote:
>> selinux-policy-default
>
> I think this needs to be at Priority: standard as a necessary step in
> SELinux bootstrapping, but I realize this is contentious.
Not really. SELinux is not even close to functional after a standard
installation. For one thing, it gets installe
Mike Bird writes:
> Every system with a network uses mtr or traceroute. If the system's
> owner doesn't use them then the sysadmin does.
Well, YMMV. I'm a professional sysadmin and I hardly ever use traceroute.
I don't really care if it's installed or not, but it's not particularly
useful in a
On Tue December 30 2008 12:31:40 Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> Is "standard" in some sense also targeted at those who do lots of stuff
> other than hacking with their computer systems? If so, I doubt that the the
> output of strace will be very useful to those, and neither will those have
> any idea
[...]
>
> The policy definition of 'standard' is:
>
> These packages provide a reasonably small but not too limited
> character-mode system. This is what will be installed by default
> if the user doesn't select anything else. It doesn't include
> many la
Kalle Kivimaa writes:
> Agustin Martin writes:
>> There was the opinion that there should be a wordlist of standard
>> priority, and that the best for that was wamerican, formerly
>> wenglish. So wamerican may be left with standard priority.
> Why does standard need an English wordlist?
Becaus
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:34:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> after some discussion within the ftpteam we just modified a few override
> entries (15 to be exact). The following packages moved from standard to
> optional:
> In case you see a good reason why the above is wrong, feel free to repl
> For that reason I suggest that ispell, iamerican and ibritish entries
> be modified *right now* to be optional instead of standard. wbritish
> seems to be already optional.
For most languages tasksel will automatically install relevant
dictionaries. It currently does not do so for English _beca
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:41 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:06:41AM +0100, Arthur de Jong wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 12:02 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > I don't know whether these are also a problem in practice - but if so,
> > > using sprintf(buf + strlen(buf)
Agustin Martin writes:
> There was the opinion that there should be a wordlist of standard priority,
> and that the best for that was wamerican, formerly wenglish. So wamerican
> may be left with standard priority.
Why does standard need an English wordlist?
--
* Sufficiently advanced magic is
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:34:35PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> after some discussion within the ftpteam we just modified a few override
> entries (15 to be exact). The following packages moved from standard to
> optional:
...
>
> For the time right after the release we also intend to move ispell
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:06:41AM +0100, Arthur de Jong wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 12:02 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > I don't know whether these are also a problem in practice - but if so,
> > using sprintf(buf + strlen(buf) [...]) is definitely wrong.
> I don't know if any of my code use
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Hi
after some discussion within the ftpteam we just modified a few override
entries (15 to be exact). The following packages moved from standard to
optional:
strace
sharutils
policycoreutils
tcsh
python-support
python-newt
mtools
mtr-tiny
finger
libustr-1.0-1
libsemanage1
libdb4.7
python-semanage
On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 12:02 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I don't know whether these are also a problem in practice - but if so,
> using sprintf(buf + strlen(buf) [...]) is definitely wrong.
I don't know if any of my code uses such a construct but why is that
wrong as long as [...] doesn't contai
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
Right, mkstemp gives you a file name that you can then safely open. In
code where I didn't want to break the existing flow, I've used the
following pattern many times:
fd = mkstemp(filename);
if (fd < 0) {
perror("mkstemp");
return N
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
Also, mkstemp(3):
The last six characters of template must be "XX" and these
are replaced with a string that makes the filename
unique. Since it will be modified, template must not be a
string constant, but should be decl
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