Re: merged /usr vs. symlink farms

Am Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 11:21:38AM +0100 schrieb Luca Boccassi: > On Sat, 2021-08-21 at 22:57 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Just like no one had detected the database corruption in Ubuntu before > > I spotted the problem via code review and analysis (which I guess in > > your world translates to

Re: merged /usr

Am Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 09:23:48AM -0600 schrieb Sam Hartman: > So, even though I think the extensions to dpkg will also be complicated, > at a purely technical level, I think they are less complicated. > > I understand technical complexity is only part of the picture. > I understand the dpkg

Re: Hosting the original youtube-dl sources on salsa?

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 09:16:21AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > IANAL so I may be confused, but AIUI that takedown is based on the > notion that there is no legitimate use for youtube-dl, which is > nonsense, as this comment clealy demonstrates: > > "youtube-dl is pretty much the only thing that

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 03:03:11PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2018-05-23 09:46:09 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > Depends on obsolete WebKit version (fixed in experimental): > > > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gnucash > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/859896/gnucash-removed-from-testing/

Re: Urging for solution to the slow NEW queue process

>Looking at the oldest item in the queue (node-mimelib, 7 months), I see >that the upstream README[1] was changed on Mar 11th to read: > > NB! This project is deprecated > >All users of this project are urged to find an alternative as it is not >maintained anymore. > >Obviously, this is nothing

Re: Spam targeting nnn-done@bugs.d.o

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 03:06:04PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > I am not asking for a valid signature. It could but also just an > additional header field or something. It does not happen very ofter but > it gets more annoying each time it happens. > In the end it is just the

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 11:10:43AM +0100, Andrej Shadura wrote: > > On 01/02/18 09:45, Andrej Shadura wrote: > >> On 01/02/18 09:40, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > >>> So there was plenty of time to fix them. > >>> > >>> Why would filing a third RC bug (the "proposed-RM") and waiting one > >>> month

Re: Help requested: Packages which FTBFS randomly

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 01:12:33PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > Believe me, this is also frustrating for me. If you absolutely need a > machine to reproduce this, contact me privately. If someone creates a patch, then the bug is much more likely to get fixed, whether it's RC or not. Any FTBFS

Re: Help requested: Packages which FTBFS randomly

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 06:26:51PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > The following packages FTBFS for me randomly. First column is the bug > number, second column is the estimated probability of failure in my > build environment, which is described here: > >

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 10:57:11AM -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote: > I agree wholeheartedly, and thought about retiring it in the past, but > it proved impossible at the time. > > Maybe the output format change will make people finally switch to > something less awful. Given that the

Re: Bug#830624: ITP: xplayer -- Simple media player based on GStreamer.

m On 10 July 2016 08:59:59 CEST, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >On 07/10/2016 08:39 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> I foupml0lnd >http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2016/02/the-first-two-x-apps-are-ready/, >> which makes things clearer. Thisf seems to be

Re: system upgrade by systemd

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 10:30:54AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: But in general I think we want that our users get security updates ASAP, I think this implementation doesn't fit that problem. All of this is IIUC: A user who depends on this only gets security updates when they reboot. As long as

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 13:58 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 02/17/2014 01:37 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: Why can you not simply say something like: Well yes, there seem to be some problems and we will try to fix them if we can get hold of enough input. You DDs should be able to

Re: many packages fail to build twice in a row again

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:41:07AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: The suggestion that git clean be a solution appears to have caused some level of outrage. However, at least for '3.0 (git)', all the sources are known to git, and 'git clean' is a reliable and simple solution to the problem.