On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:51:19AM +0300, Serge wrote:
Some people asked for a thread summary. So here it is.
[Lots of drivel, including thoroughly debunked statements, snipped.
Seriously, can't you even read what's written to you? Sorry for being
angry, but there's a limit to how many times you
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 06:10:30PM -0430, Miguel Landaeta wrote:
* Package name: xz-java
Description : Java library with a complete implementation of XZ data
compression
XZ for Java aims to be a complete implementation of XZ data compression
in pure Java.
Do you happen to have
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:38:15PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:25:51PM +0100, Jamie White wrote:
Hiya
Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this
function (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated
memory, such as the stack -
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 01:07:56PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
It has to be held back. But apt-get/aptitude might select a solution
where they do get removed rather then hold back many other packages.
I'm hoping it will be held back automatically without user intervention
but that might
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:08:50PM +0300, Serge wrote:
2012/6/19 José Luis Segura Lucas wrote:
(http://wiki.debian.org/Hardening#Notes_for_packages_using_CMake),
referred by lintian-info too. Using it I only need to define export
DEB_BUILD_HARDENING=1 on my debian/rules and it adds the
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:21:39PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le dimanche 24 juin 2012 à 20:42 +0200, Arno Töll a écrit :
What makes 42 window manager acceptable but not 43?
Who said 42 is acceptable?
Sure, let's start removals with ones that hard-depend on things a window
manager
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:14:46AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Oooh, NM bashing. I like completely irrelevant NM bashing that suddenly
pops in an unrelated discussion. It’s been some time.
Reading NM bashing really makes me want to jump on my packages and
cripple their functionality so
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:29:25PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
On 28/06/12 10:43, Svante Signell wrote:
The situation is even more complicated if compiling for different OSes:
Like as host (build) Linux:i386 and guest (target) kFreeBSD:amd64 or
Hurd:i386. Any plans to support such
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:23:38AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:38:42PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
Which wm does that? I know it isn't gnome-shell at least, as I've been
using it quite successfully without nm installed.
Have you tried to use evolution without
WHOOPS, SORRY. Meant to delete this old draft, not send it.
The issue is valid, but sorry for incomplete mail.
On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 04:48:01PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:23:38AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:38:42PM +0200, Svante Signell
On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 04:22:58PM -0600, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 12:03:44AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org (07/07/2012):
Another question is if the release team would consider unblocking
updated packages (with just the switch to
On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 08:42:07PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 16:14 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
- ftp, telnet: mostly redundant with wget and nc, unless you really like
cleartext authentication
I don't get why anyone would talk about authentication in the context of
ftp
On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 07:46:52PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
Adam Borowski writes (Re: duplicates in the archive):
Breaks unrelated software on the system is a RC severity, and there's no
way one can say a windowing environment is related to core networking.
Thus, I'd say, #542095 needs
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 03:32:43PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 à 17:38 +0900, Miles Bader a écrit :
What's wrong with Recommends: in that case? It seems to perfectly
match the makes life easier for common but not universal use-case
XXX scenario you describe.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 08:04:18PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
On 11 July 2012 14:21, Noel David Torres Taño env...@rolamasao.org wrote:
Installing N-M breaks unrelated software.
I don't claim to be a networking expert, but I believe half the
conversation here is based on wrong or outdated
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 09:32:19PM -0600, Philipp Kern wrote:
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 07:21:00PM +0100, Noel David Torres Taño wrote:
Installing N-M breaks unrelated software.
No. At most it breaks *related* software.
Exactly, that's why it's the gnome-core package that's RC-buggy, not
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 02:18:12PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2012-07-14 22:59:35 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
Due to those drawbacks, I've wondered why people don't just disable
NetworkManager on their system instead of bothering with workarounds
like the above or dpkg -P
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:42:03AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Hideki Yamane wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 17:58:16 +0200
Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote:
• xz -6 (the default) is a lot slower when compressing, fast when
decompressing, needs only 10MB memory, 58% size
• xz -9
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 07:58:42PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
Simon Paillard wrote:
, I understand debian-installer ask dpkg not to fsync:
- Run dpkg with --force-unsafe-io during installation; syncing is
This only affects one particular instance of syncing (which I think may
be
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 04:58:02PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
I was wondering how to proceed with switching packages on the first CDs
to use xz compression.
I would like to limit these uploads to a, packages with Priority:
optional and extra, and b, those where we gain at least 500 kB
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 03:16:59AM +0200, Ulrich Dangel wrote:
Currently the default PATH for Debian does not include /sbin, /usr/sbin, nor
/usr/local/sbin. If an user wants to run a program in either /sbin/ or
/usr/sbin
the full path must be specified.
Changing the default PATH for normal
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:22:50PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Aug 08, Arno Töll a...@debian.org wrote:
historic, rather. ifconfig and route were around already when everyone
insisted on the separation of /bin and /sbin. /bin/ip is slightly newer
and supposed to replace ifconfig/route
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:54:05PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
Please do not bother.
openrc was recently discussed on debian-devel@ and there was a large
consensus that it is not a credible alternative to upstart and systemd.
openrc is not acceptable from the very start, as it lacks a key
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:51:49PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 10:40:44PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:54:05PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
Please do not bother.
openrc was recently discussed on debian-devel@ and there was a large
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:44:32PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le samedi 11 août 2012 à 15:38 -0400, Chris Knadle a écrit :
systemd may seem better in /most/ cases because it does have some nice
features, but I don't think it's better in *all* cases. systemd doesn't
allow
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:10:18PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
In DebConf12, I talked about xz compression for Debian packages(*).
Now I'll talk about next step, suggestion for use xz with with result
from some experiment.
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:56:47PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Before wondering whether PNG files should have an additional
compression level, is there any reason why a better PNG compression
isn't used in the first place? For instance, optipng -o9 tries
various parameters and keeps the best
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 05:08:34PM +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
Package: wnpp
Package name: optional-dev
There are situations when some of the libraries listed in Build-Depends
are optional i.e. build system is smart enough to avoid failure when
such library is missing.
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 02:33:26PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
On 9 September 2012 23:21, Ztatik Light ztatik.li...@gmail.com wrote:
According to popcon, Xfce is more common on Debian than GNOME... And
How do you figure that?
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=meta-gnome3
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:41:05AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
I just sponsored the ninja-build package. I realize now that I may
have missed one point: does it need to conflict with package ninja ?
ninja-build will provide usr/bin/ninja, while ninja provides
usr/sbin/ninja.
The
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 09:07:57PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 08:26:24PM +0100, peter green wrote:
Some time ago I found that a package (I think it was openjdk but I
don't remember for sure) which relied on uname -r such that linux32
had to be used to build it in an
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 04:28:32PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:23:36AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
They probably should try to use the output of dpkg-architecture to
select the arch. Then should never check that output of uname -m.
That's living on the
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:53:36PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le jeudi 27 septembre 2012 à 14:39 -0700, Josh Triplett a écrit :
Agreed entirely. In particular, it breaks the very common use case of
running a program with sudo. sudo foo leaves $HOME set to the user's
home directory
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 05:23:22PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
if there is a build path sanitization issue, then if the
user chooses to rebuild the package they will get their own rogue
paths. So, yes, we should always fix those issues when they're found,
but at least for people using
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:39:55PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Dmitrijs Ledkovs x...@debian.org writes:
I would like to have a nocompress Debian build option that will skip any
compression/optimisation at build time.
Specifically dpkg-builddeb and dpkg-source should use not use any
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:27:20PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Nov 09, Daniel Schepler dschep...@gmail.com wrote:
I've asked a couple people in private mail about this, and haven't
gotten any answer, so I thought I'd ask here for ideas. Where would
be a good place to upload what I have
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 06:02:36PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:47:43AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
That'd make it mostly worthless. If you need to co-install amd64 packages
on the same system (but not physical machine!), memory gains are gone.
Right now the term
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 08:30:06PM +, Wookey wrote:
+++ Steve McIntyre [2012-11-10 18:28 +]:
*If* we want to include x32, it's worth describing it and
understanding the potential benefits properly and getting some
benchmarks. There's been some work in Ubuntu on the benchmarking
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 06:56:10PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Guillem Jover wrote:
Although xz-utils is currently priority required, it should really go
back to optional, as dpkg stopped Pre-Depending on it some time ago.
More like it should be in
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:37:20PM +, Wookey wrote:
+++ Daniel Schepler [2012-11-20 07:51 -0800]:
Once upon a time, Thomas Goirand wrote:
Can I also just add the above Debian repo, do --add-architecture,
and start replacing some packages? How can I for example, replace
perl, on a
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:20:11PM -0400, David Bremner wrote:
* Package name: pixz
So why another parallel xz in the archive.
- - This one seems about 25% faster compressing in some simple tests I
ran (compressing a 2.7G file with 6 threads, maximum compression).
You mean, 25%
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 02:07:03PM +, Bart Martens wrote:
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 02:34:34PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
If there is code in a font that has a license attached to it which does
not meet the DFSG, then it should go out of Debian; not because we're
not allowed to keep it
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:56:25AM +, Jon Dowland wrote:
For anyone else following along at home who is slightly puzzled by all this,
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html
explains the different mbox formats, what 'From_' means, etc.
Quoting from
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 07:52:16AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
* Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl [121127 16:32]:
So, what's the reason mbox is still the default in Debian?
Because it works and causes the smallest amount of problems
given all the other changes.
Like, locking issues
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:20:34PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2012-11-29 01:28:37 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
But it also has disadvantages to the mbox formats which may be crucial
for some people:
- wasting a lot of storage, which can be significant even if you use
small
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 04:32:33PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2012-11-29 16:16:25 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
*cough* btrfs -ocompress=lzo. Small files are packed inline in metadata
blocks, and you get compression you wanted. Using lzo is faster than no
compression for most loads
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 04:23:03PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2012-11-29 15:46:35 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
But it will in a UTF8 locale,
Unfortunately the C locale is the only really portable one.
Debian's glibc has C.UTF-8 always available these days.
or in an ISO-8859-1
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 10:21:43PM +, Jon Dowland wrote:
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 01:26:50PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:22:52AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I'd therefore like to ask if anyone here would be willing to help me
to get
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 06:12:55AM +0100, Xavier Guimard wrote:
* Package name: libstring-perlidentifier-perl
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?String%3A%3APerlIdentifier
Description : Perl extension that generate a random name for a variable
String::PerlIdentifier
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 06:59:02PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote:
You installed a 32-bit application on a 64-bit system. That will only
work if you also install the 32-bit supporting libraries, including the
dynamic linker. This is not a bug in Debian.
And no, installing 32-bit libraries by
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 01:54:34PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
I agree on all what you said (eg: difficulties in doing such a maintenance,
the fact we don't have unlimited manpower, etc.), but I'm still convince it
would be worth a try.
On 01/06/2013 04:39 AM, Neil Williams wrote:
It's
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:32:45PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
There are some issues when you do have an architecture dependent header file
which needs to be in the multiarch specific include directory. If the header
file is directly located in /usr/include, then moving it to
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 01:21:41PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 12:06 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
Adam Borowski kilobyte at angband.pl writes:
#define DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH x86_64-linux-gnu
And then #include DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH /foo/bar.h or what?
Is that even
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
Hello,
This blogpost is months old but it makes some interesting reflections:
http://www.pappp.net/?p=969
It appears to be the most insightful thing about systemd vs the rest of the
world I've ever read. READ IT, FOLKS!
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 08:16:40PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:57:58PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 14:41 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
This blogpost is months old
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 08:45:49PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes:
There are two ways to design a system:
* a monolithic well-integrated system, granting features and efficiency at
the cost of portability and hackability
* the traditional Unix way
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 02:25:56PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
+ char real[MAX_PATH];
I guess you meant PATH_MAX here, in any case POSIX does not guarantee
MAX variables to be defined, it would be better to use the POSIX.1-2008
variant of realpath(3) that allocates when passed a NULL (by
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 04:36:44PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
At least to me my work on Haskell in Debian feels more than pretending,
and from personal experience with the creators of the language, I have
strong doubts that they are Idiots.
In fact I don’t see how you can have modern
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 05:30:51PM +, Jon Dowland wrote:
And in particular, where a problem cannot be solved in pure Debian, I don't
want Debian to interfere with the bit of the solution that lives outside of
its domain. That may include not attempting to package/patch/alter/adjust
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 01:52:55AM +0100, iceWave IT wrote:
Ok here is the specific place:
I've got blacklists, some with over 1 million entries, so the .deb
packages have a big size.
Debdelta doesn't function good, because so the whole list would be
uninstalled and the new list
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 01:50:59PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
Amen to this. I care a lot about having fairly complete Unicode coverage
in my display fonts, and I've often had to trawl through aptitude to try
to guess at which font
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:45:04AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:17:34AM +0100, alexdeb wrote:
Imposible to shutdown or logout graphically in gnome-shell
I saw just a black screen and the system do nothing.
When i do shutdown -h now or /etc/init.d/gdm3
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:23:45PM +, brian m. carlson wrote:
If your script does require some feature that is not available in mawk
or original-awk, you explicitly need to call gawk, since /usr/bin/awk is
an alternative and you cannot assume that it will point to gawk.
I wonder, would a
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 09:35:13AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:17:16PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
The bigger concern is that this is a web bug, whether it wants to be
or not. Whoever hosts any of the
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 05:12:30PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
Christoph Biedl debian.axhn at manchmal.in-ulm.de writes:
Now it's appearently back online, but a web tracking has been
added, as seen in #703298. That's disgusting.
It’s not only disgusting but also breaks display in Lynx
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:56:52AM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
Hi,
On Thu Mar 28, 2013 at 11:21:29 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:02:11 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
Putting debian-devel@l.d.o on CC for this bug report, as this change
might have larger
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 03:32:24PM +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote:
I've just realized that debian/rules might not be a makefile, but can
be a script in any language.
The policy says:
# 4.9. Main building script: `debian/rules'
# -
#
# This file must be an
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 04:19:19AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
Actually, in the event of aptitude not being able to resolve the dependencies
satisfactorily the first round (from aptitude install foo), aptitude allows
you
to interactively pick other solutions, or tell it what to do:
Have you
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 02:34:50PM +0200, Simon Chopin wrote:
* Package name: kitchen
Description : Cornuscopia of useful Python code
s/s//
The -s- spelling has a bunch of google hits, but they seem to be all either
French, or referring to a French band.
--
ᛊᚨᚾᛁᛏᚣ᛫ᛁᛊ᛫ᚠᛟᚱ᛫ᚦᛖ᛫ᚹᛖᚨᚲ
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 08:51:01PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
The following snippet seems suspect, although not a big issue anyway
as it's just removing a cache file, although it might leave files
behind on remove/purge:
,---
if [ -d /usr/lib/gio/modules ]; then
# Purge the cache
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:29:27PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
On 25/04/13 20:39, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
It boils down to jpeg6-2 is the only important thing. Forget about
jpeg8 and jpeg9, which bring incompatible changes.
There are other features in newer libjpeg that packages do
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:46:44PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 03:21:43PM +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote:
On 23/04/13 15:13, Benjamin Drung wrote:
[...]
You can use xz for the source and binary package to reduce the size. The
default compression level for xz reduces
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 06:11:48AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
Am 24.04.2013 11:23, schrieb Ondřej Surý:
do you have some insight how openjpeg enters this game? apparently some
packages
already use openjpeg explicitly to support some jpeg2000 features.
Irrelevant to this discussion, as
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 10:00:07AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Anyway, given that our infrastructure builds binary packages from a fresh
unpacked source package, I would prefer if we keep the compromise that
imperfect clean targets are not release-critical problems.
Note that for a big
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 12:08:06AM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
As far as bootstrapping is concerned, the OCaml sources include
precompiled (bytecode) executables that are used in a first stage of the
build process (i.e. ocaml doesn't build-depend on itself). So no need
for cross-compilation
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 04:12:45PM +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote:
In a shadow of Debian 7 release, Dyson - a Debian port to illumos kernel -
became self-hosted and now has an installer :-)
http://osdyson.org/projects/dyson/wiki/Dyson_Installer
I just tried it and ported some stuff to it, it seems
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 04:30:05AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
On 05/05/13 at 03:06 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 10:00:07AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Anyway, given that our infrastructure builds binary packages from a fresh
unpacked source package, I would
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:49:33PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 11:40:50PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
what needs to be touched to achieve aspects of the following
features: (Again not implying that they are all desired.)
* Permitting source-only uploads.
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 01:59:38AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
(b) It's completely useless on a Debian system, as the kernel doesn't
support x32 binaries.
Is there a big reason to not enable CONFIG_X86_X32 in default kernels?
It doesn't seem to have more downsides than your average kernel
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 09:46:02AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
What I think should be fixed is the fact that it doesn't
appear in the filename. I never understood why they
don't. Did I miss something?
Having a colon in CD/DVD images is likely to cause problems, with the chance
of breakage
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 10:28:54AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 08:26:13AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be writes:
Not sure what a clean way of escaping the colon would be.
apt already saves it with %3a in
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:17:39AM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
Hi,
On 05/07/2013 21:49, Guillem Jover wrote:
As mentioned some months ago [0], I'm planning to switch dpkg-deb default
compressor from gzip to xz, as there seemed to be consensus that was
the way to go, and given the
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:08:21AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:55:48AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
wget -q -O- http://angband.pl/tmp/foo%3Abar
:
-- should be %3A !
And serving .deb files via http isn't exactly a fringe use case...
URL encoding is well
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 07:19:09PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 04:56:00PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
Wheezy. It's obvious, isn't it? It comes between Squeeze and Jessie.
/sarcasm
Wheezy is a brand.
[...]
No, it really isn't. Everything on the front page of
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 06:14:36PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 09:49:03PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
As mentioned some months ago [0], I'm planning to switch dpkg-deb default
compressor from gzip to xz, as there seemed to be consensus that was
the way to go, and
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 06:15:37PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
package requires
a fairly complete C++11 support in order to compile. I have tried to
signify this by adding Build-Depends: gcc (= 4:4.7) to the dependencies.
On PowerPC, despite gcc version 4.7 (and, indeed, 4.8) being
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 07:12:26PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
I can already say that it won't be binary identical to the 64+32 build,
because even the 64-bit standalone build isn't binary identical to the
64-bit side of a combined build (even though they're configured the
exact same way). I'm
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 11:38:46PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
On 05/18/2013 08:30 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
I've noticed that virtualbox moved from main to contrib
FYI, this has been discussed here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=691148
It's a major loss.
However, Watcom
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 09:55:41AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 05/23/2013 06:56 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
As you may know, systemd is developed by a large amount of
contributors
How on earth does that contradict with the fact that 40%, i.e.
the minority of all
Hi folks!
A while ago, someone raised the possibility of recompressing PNG files.
Unlike xz, this would save space not only on mirrors but also on live
installed systems. PNGs are nearly incompressible so this is mostly
independent from xz.
At least by number, there's a lot of PNG images:
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 07:42:49PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote:
A while ago, someone raised the possibility of recompressing PNG files.
Unlike xz, this would save space not only on mirrors but also on live
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:09:07PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le mardi 28 mai 2013 à 10:34 +0100, Jonathan Dowland a écrit :
There is an impedence mismatch between packages which consider an MTA and
the
sendmail interface to be standard and those desktop components that make no
such
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:07:04AM +0200, Arno Töll wrote:
Why not consider something light, better suited for most systems which
need nothing but a sendmail binary which is suited to relay to a
real(tm) mail-server and deliver local mail and does not involve lots of
configuration and/or
A while ago, someone raised the possibility of recompressing PNG files.
It turns out that since recently, some crazy googlers are guilty of zopfli
which can optimize PNGs even better, but taking all the CPU in the world for
doing so. This doesn't sound useful for automated use during package
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 07:37:52AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
It might help if we used a bit more precision in terimonolgy. Not a full
blown MTA as described here is a Mail Submission Agent (MSA). See RFC
5598 for details:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5598#section-4.3.1
A mere MSA
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 04:24:27PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le mardi 28 mai 2013 à 13:07 +0200, Bjørn Mork a écrit :
The local MTA serves as a common configuration for the external SMTP
server, with a well known interface supported by every single package
which wants to send mail.
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 05:58:15PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
I was going to say that by default, this mail was sent to root, but
checked before I typed and... what? I do have unread local mail!? Just
to say: at the moment, there's no obvious notification about local mail.
In addition, it
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:04:22AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
On Wed, 29 May 2013, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Bastien ROUCARIES
roucaries.bast...@gmail.com wrote:
not sure about svgz... On a typical svg file:
-rw-r--r-- 1 bastien bastien 452K mai 28
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 05:11:35PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le mercredi 29 mai 2013 à 16:31 +0200, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino a
écrit :
Take for example, smartmoontools [1]. Currently, if an end-user
installs smartmoontools and a hard-disk fails (i.e. smartd detects a
problem with
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 11:27:15AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 10:23:14AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
tglase@tglase:~ $ fgrep X32 /boot/config-3.9-1-amd64
# CONFIG_X86_X32 is not set
See http://wiki.debian.org/X32Port and
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