Re: hdparm needs a new maintainer

2016-03-02 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
t; Further I suggest to use gbp [0] and also switch to debhelper. > > > > I've played a bit already with the package and ready to push the first > > draft. > > > > Shell I go ahead and create the collab-main/hdparm.git ? ( hope I still > > have the rights for it

Re: Debian name change

2016-01-03 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
                                                                      >                                     Signed  >                                                                               >                                          Jermane King. -- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer'

Re: Huge data files in Debian

2015-07-18 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 10:41:44AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > Pedro Larroy writes: > > Wouldn't a p2p system scale better than any server based solution? > > Also in regards to cost... > > I am a bit afraid about the long-term availability of any non-standard, > new solution: Anything we imple

Re: Huge data files in Debian

2015-07-17 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 09:38:06PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Ole Streicher , 2015-07-17, 10:34: > >But: These packages sum up to ~25 GB, with the maximal package > >size of 3.5 GB. > > Well, that's a lot. Just as data points: > > * The biggest binary package currently in the archive, > ns3-doc

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-12-04 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
dencies'. I am sure some mainframes have the level of upgradeability debian has, but you can't design a new mainframe CPU on a mainframe, and I can design a CPU (slowly) with tools in the debian archive. -- ---------

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-12-04 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 03:06:17PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > Great you like it! Many people are busy working on smoothing the edges > uncovered by all the inflowing bugreports, so the occasional "thanks!" > is a nice boost to troop morale. :) I will second the thank you.. I

Re: policy regarding redistributable binary files in upstream tarballs

2014-11-27 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 04:44:51PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Troy Benjegerdes: > > How hard would it be to add hooks/helpers to dpkg-buildpackage to know how > > to deal with git and mercurial repositories, and deterministically generate > > the &#

Re: policy regarding redistributable binary files in upstream tarballs

2014-11-22 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
sitories, and deterministically generate the 'source' tar.gz from the repo? If you take this approach a little farther, I think there's an argument (I am not sure it's a good one yet) that the debian source archive will take up quite a bit less space if it's using git/mercur

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-21 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
now are running systemd instead of what they are used to. There's no particularly good way around this. ---- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' ho...@hozed.org 7 elements earth::wat

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-09-27 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 08:42:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > In the case of bash, dpkg can (and does!) use bash explicitly (i.e., > > > without going through /bin/sh), so removing bash will pretty much nuke > > > your system. > > > > H

bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-09-27 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
So far, I need to do the following to remove bash (and associated risk of 0-days until something sane is done about functions) So far everything I've tested on one desktop and one server is fine. What reasonable ways might there be to support changes to a few packages to run wheezy without bash,