Video-team sprint 4-6 November

2015-10-14 Thread Andy Simpkins
CC to correct address this time Hi. First my apologises for net getting round to this sooner. I should have done this weeks ago. Sorry. As part of the Cambridge Miniconf [1], ARM have kindly offered the video team the opportunity to run a video team sprint in the preceding few days. We

Accepted libtext-unaccent-perl 1.08-1.2 (source amd64) into unstable

2016-02-20 Thread Andy Simpkins
org> Changed-By: Andy Simpkins <rattusrat...@debian.org> Description: libtext-unaccent-perl - provides functions to remove accents using UTF16 as a pivot Closes: 800257 Changes: libtext-unaccent-perl (1.08-1.2) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload. * changed fr

Accepted libstring-shellquote-perl 1.03-1.2 (source all) into unstable

2016-02-20 Thread Andy Simpkins
der...@argon.org> Changed-By: Andy Simpkins <rattusrat...@debian.org> Description: libstring-shellquote-perl - quote strings for passing through the shell Closes: 800302 Changes: libstring-shellquote-perl (1.03-1.2) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload. * changed from debhelper c

Re: Opt-in to continue as DD/DM? (was: I resigned in 2004)

2018-11-13 Thread Andy Simpkins
Speaking as someone who has had his world shattered by betrayal and breach of trust by an organisation (not Debian related), I can completely understand how any correspondence opens old wounds. I am not trying to justify anything here; only to say that I understand it from *both* sides, and (I

Re: Handling of entropy during boot

2019-01-21 Thread Andy Simpkins
Hi, This thread seems to have gone quite for some time. Re-Reading the thread I don't see any solutions being proposed that will truly suit everyone. If I have correctly understood the problem we are seeing a change from a more open and trusting software environment to one with more emphasis on

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-23 Thread Andy Simpkins
f them!) to either one or the other. El jueves, 22 de noviembre de 2018 20:04:33 -03 Andy Simpkins escribió: On 22/11/18 22:33, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: El jueves, 22 de noviembre de 2018 15:37:29 -03 Dmitry Shachnev escribió: Hi all! The Qt framework can be built either wit

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-24 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 24/11/2018 02:05, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Andy: explicitly CCing you because I think it answers part of a question you did but in another part of the thread. El viernes, 23 de noviembre de 2018 06:58:13 -03 Steve McIntyre escribió: On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 03:27:57AM

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-24 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 24/11/18 14:14, bret curtis wrote: >>> But even here in this place I have seen *a lot* of "cheap" arm64 boards. >>> Yes, >>> the RPI3[+] is ubiquitous. And having to render Open GL stuff by CPU is >>> precisely not the fastest thing around. >> >> "I have a Raspberry Pi (or similar mobile

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-22 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 22/11/18 22:33, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > El jueves, 22 de noviembre de 2018 15:37:29 -03 Dmitry Shachnev escribió: >> Hi all! >> >> The Qt framework can be built either with “desktop” OpenGL, or with OpenGL >> ES support. At the moment we are building it with OpenGL ES on

Re: Conflict over /usr/bin/dune

2018-12-19 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 18/12/2018 17:48, Ian Jackson wrote: Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Conflict over /usr/bin/dune"): https://www.google.com/search?q=dune+software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(software) https://www.google.com/search?q=%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fdune Under the circumstances it seems obvious that,

Re: FYI/RFC: early-rng-init-tools

2019-02-25 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 24/02/2019 20:00, Philipp Kern wrote: On 2/24/2019 8:52 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: In buster/sid, I noticed a massive delay booting up my laptop and some virtual machines, which was reduced by hitting the Shift and Ctrl keys multiple times randomly during boot; a message “random: crng init

Re: FYI/RFC: early-rng-init-tools

2019-03-07 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 03/03/19 17:59, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > I think the only sane things are: > - Use a hardware RNG (CPU, TPM, chaos key, ...) > - Credit a seed file stored during the previous boot > - Wait for new entropy from other sources > > Note that is can be a combination of all 3. > > We currently do not

Re: package management symlink

2019-02-06 Thread Andy Simpkins
Sören please see: https://xkcd.com/927/ /Andy On 05/02/2019 06:20, Sören Reinecke wrote: Dear Debian mailing list community, I am Sören alias Valor Naram and I founded the project "goeasyLinux". I will help to make linux more user friendly. A short introduction to "goeasyLinux" can be

Re: Proposition: Simlify the Installation

2019-06-24 Thread Andy Simpkins
There has been a lot of descension over the past couple of weeks about DI and what it could do to be better. I think it is important that I join that debate with a couple of requirements for any replacement / enhancement: (1)  Must work on all architectures supported by Debian (2)  Must

Re: Bits from /me: A humble draft policy on "deep learning v.s. freedom"

2019-05-23 Thread Andy Simpkins
dependancy on a random binary blob (music / fonts / game levels / textures etc) and we wouldn't put that in main. It is my belief that we consider training data sets as 'source' in much the same way /Andy On 23 May 2019 16:33:24 BST, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>>> "Andy"

Re: Bits from /me: A humble draft policy on "deep learning v.s. freedom"

2019-05-23 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 22/05/2019 03:53, Mo Zhou wrote: Hi Tzafrir, On 2019-05-21 19:58, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Is there a way to prove in some way (reproducible build or something similar) that the results were obtained from that set using the specific algorithm? I wrote a dedicated section about

Testing release images - Call for help

2019-06-30 Thread Andy Simpkins
Hi there, We have the release of Buster scheduled to happen next Saturday. As always on a release day new iso images are generated and *before* they get signed we try and smoke test them to make sure that the builds went ok and nothing critical is missing from the manifests. We do the same for

Re: Mozilla Firefox DoH to CloudFlare by default (for US users)?

2019-09-11 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 11/09/2019 06:16, Ingo Jürgensmann wrote: Am 10.09.2019 um 07:50 schrieb Florian Lohoff : On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 03:31:37PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: I for one, do trust my ISPs a lot more than I trust Cloudflare or Google, simply based on the jurisdiction. There are tons of setups

Re: regarding non-free firmware for wi-fi and ethernet

2019-07-26 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 25/07/19 14:00, Abibula Aygun wrote: > > Hello Debian Team, Hi there :-) > We have an little problem. > The installer can't detect many simple wi-fi or ethernet hardware. > Things that was ok on Stretch version. Are you able to tell us WHICH wifi / ethernet hardware worked without non-free

Bug#996000: general: System does not boot with second monitor attached

2021-10-09 Thread Andy Simpkins
Control: Severity -1 normal Package: general Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: gaff...@live.com Dear Maintainer, I installed Debian 11 on a new computer (with a single monitor during installation, connected with HDMI). Installation went well, but the monitor came up with a very limited