Re: Bug#1068017: Y2038-safe replacements for utmp/wtmp and lastlog

2024-04-26 Thread RL
Chris Hofstaedtler writes: > you are probably aware of the time_t-64bit migration :-) > However, this does not magically transition all data formats to 64bit > times. One such instance is the set of utmp/wtmp and lastlog files. > > Thorsten Kukuk and others have been working on replacements for

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

2024-04-02 Thread RL
Colin Watson writes: > GSS-API key exchange > > However, OpenSSH upstream has long rejected it > All the same, I'm aware that some people now depend on having this > facility in Debian's main openssh package > How does this rough plan sound? > > * for Debian trixie

Re: dpkg --verify not helpful?

2024-03-03 Thread RL
Andreas Metzler writes: > Hello, > > iirc it was recently proposed to add a suggestion to run dpkg --verify > to the trixie upgrade notes to find missing files due to the usr-merge > transition. (Cannot find the reference right now). https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/12/msg00167.html

Re: New requirements for APT repository signing

2024-03-03 Thread RL
Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues writes: >> APT 2.7.13 just landed in unstable and with GnuPG 2.4.5 installed, >> requires repositories >> to be signed using one of >> >> - RSA keys of at least 2048 bit >> - Ed25519 >> - Ed448 >> >> Any other keys will cause warnings. These warnings will

Re: Bug#1060006: ITP: brpc -- Apache's brpc - Industrial-grade RPC framework

2024-01-04 Thread RL
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: > * Package name: brpc > Version : 1.7.0 > Upstream Contact: d...@brpc.apache.org > * URL : https://brpc.apache.org/ > * License : Apache-2.0 > Programming Lang: C++ > Description : Industrial-grade RPC > Apache bRPC is

Re: Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686

2023-10-22 Thread RL
Paul Gevers writes: > On 17-10-2023 22:16, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: >> Yes, assuming the pre-bookworm Debian i386 architecture fully supports it, >> as I don't know what *exactly* was allowed in the "almost i686" >> stretch-bullseye i386. > > According to the release notes (which *should* be

Re: systmd-analyze security as a release goal

2023-07-03 Thread RL
Russell Coker writes: > https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/SystemdAnalyzeSecurity > > I think we should make it a release goal to have as many daemons as > possible running with systemd security features to aim for a low score > from "systmd- analyze security". This repos from Trent Buck has

Re: Policy consensus on transition when removing initscripts.

2023-06-25 Thread RL
Mark Hindley writes: > Debian Policy no longer requires that packages which provide a systemd > .service file also provide an initscript. This permits maintainers who > so wish to remove initscripts from their packages. However, > initscripts remain used and useful[1], and uncoordinated removal

Re: #932957 Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-05-20 Thread RL
Holger Wansing writes: > However, I may have some objections against the migration at all: > as far as I know, sphinx/reStructuredText is still lacking some functionality, > which is heavily used in the release-notes. > That is the use of substitutions within URLs. > In docbook speach these were

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

2023-05-13 Thread RL
Luca Boccassi writes: > I think documentation is fundamental for dealing with local > changes. When I say that I don't think we should worry about strange > local-only changes I mean exactly as you said, that I don't think we > should start shipping complicated code that tries to deal with

Re: adduser default for sgid home directories

2022-07-24 Thread RL
Marc Haber writes: > ... Here is what the adduser team considers possible > documentation for this, and we itend to include this in NEWS.Debian as a > rationale for the change. As a user who reads NEWS.Debian (via apt-listchanges) i found the text didnt give me the answers i was looking for. I

Re: [RFC] changes to rsyslog

2021-11-23 Thread RL
Holger Levsen writes: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 10:57:11AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> > Do you know of a tool that does what logcheck does, but operating >> > directly on the journal?  Logcheck is the only reason I still have >> > rsyslog installed on the servers I maintain. > > same here, I use