Bug#1004120: ITP: debianutils-tempfile -- tempfile from debianutils

2022-01-20 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, jo...@debian.org * Package name: debianutils-tempfile Version : 4.11 Upstream Author : Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues * URL : https://salsa.debian.o

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 09:52:42AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > I don't have anything like a design for how that should look in my head > though -- I guess interested parties should get together and come up > with a design _before_ we start trying to implement it :-) This sounds like you need some

Work-needing packages report for Jan 21, 2022

2022-01-20 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 1223 (new: 5) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 188 (new: 3) Total number of packages reques

Re: The future of src:ntp

2022-01-20 Thread Richard Laager
On 1/20/22 8:04 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 1/19/22 20:34, Richard Laager wrote: For people that want something more than systemd-timesyncd, e.g. to get NTS, I think either are acceptable choices. It seems that the consensus for new installs is towards chrony over ntpsec. But I don't think we

Re: The future of src:ntp

2022-01-20 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 at 20:09:18 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Do we really need a dummy package for upgrades to work? Yes, we do need transitional packages. > Can't ntpsec binary package just add Provides: ntp (=$source:Version) ? No, apt won't automatically replace a real package "ntp" with a

Re: The future of src:ntp

2022-01-20 Thread Pirate Praveen
2022, ജനുവരി 19 5:27:28 PM IST, Paride Legovini ൽ എഴുതി >Richard Laager wrote on 19/01/2022: >> On 1/18/22 11:21 AM, Paride Legovini wrote: >> > I'd prefer making ntp a dummy package depending on ntpsec rather than >> > having src:ntpsec takeover bin:ntp. >> >> If I understand correctly, you'

Re: The future of src:ntp

2022-01-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 1/19/22 20:34, Richard Laager wrote: For people that want something more than systemd-timesyncd, e.g. to get NTS, I think either are acceptable choices. It seems that the consensus for new installs is towards chrony over ntpsec. But I don't think we as the distro need to push either over sys

Re: The future of src:ntp

2022-01-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 19, Paride Legovini wrote: > That's what I had in mind, but the other option: > > > Another option would be to have src:ntpsec build the bin:ntp dummy > > package and remove src:ntp entirely. > > also looks sensible to me after all. No strong opinion. I think that this would be better s

Re: The future of src:ntp

2022-01-20 Thread Bjørn Mork
Bernhard Schmidt writes: > - Since NTS leverages X.509, how does it work with a broken clock on > boot that is ticking outside of the certificate validity period? I don't know how it is intended to work, but it seems pretty obvious that NTS certificate validation must ignore the validity perio