Removing some kernel-related virtual packages

2013-09-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
to be the name a real package, which was replaced between etch and lenny by linux-libc-dev. There is one remaining reverse-dependency (libkxl0-dev, #724639) which would need to be fixed first. Any objections? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
to remove it, unless both vesa and fbdev also fail on this hardware. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The world is coming to an end. Please log off. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: ports and multiarch

2013-10-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
drop support for perfectly usable machines, but most of those 32-bit Macs are soon going to be too slow or too broken for practical use (if they aren't already). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth

Re: Collect Suspend Tweaks

2013-10-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
be best. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131007191950.ga4

Re: Insufficient RAM on build-machines (was Bug#726009: yade: FTBFS on i386 (and others))

2013-10-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
Extension' do you not understand? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings No political challenge can be met by shopping. - George Monbiot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - a decision is needed, patches exist

2013-10-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
of the different syntaxes. Don't invite bikeshedding. If the dpkg maintainers refuse to make a decision then you should go to the technical committee. Hopefully that will not be necessary. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction. signature.asc

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
need to be prepared for, and so far I haven't seen any official information. This might also be relevant here: http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/733595-all-about-the-linux-kernel-cgroups-redesign This change is still under discussion. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
then, and I don't know whether the vzctl package is ready to work with mainline kernels. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
then if you do not trust containers then the best choice is to use openvz with Parallel's 2.6.32 kernel. Right, and wheezy userland should generally work with that kernel. (It's not something that I've tested, though.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone

Re: OpenVZ (was: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 22:16 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 10/24/2013 06:46 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 11:59 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:11:30AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:09:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 15:41 -0700, Mark Symonds wrote: No, no, no… drop GNOME. Useless anyway. 1. Don't top-post. 2. Assume good faith. 3. This list is for discussion of Debian development, not for random opinions. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame

Re: Proposal: switch init system to systemd or upstart

2013-10-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
hope to see a more detailed report in LWN within the next few days. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Editing code like this is akin to sticking plasters on the bleeding stump of a severed limb. - me, 29 June 1999 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
. This gives them the freedom to drop packages that aren't worth porting, work around Linux-isms as necessary, improve integration with their own kernel, and release on their own schedule - rather than trying to make all the crap in Debian build. (Remember, 90% of everything is crap.) Ben. -- Ben

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
optionally run in a new network namespace. Ben. If you use lxc-start instead of systemd-nspawn, does your Fedora image work? Last I knew, the answer was no. -- Ben Hutchings If God had intended Man to program, we'd have been born with serial I/O ports. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
nothing about the rest of the program that it's a part of, nor that they will continue to distribute the Contribution. Since the contributor, retaining copyright, can give that license to anyone anyway, this condition doesn't appear to have any meaningful effect. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-11-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
by this issue. They are affected by that or a very similar issue, as demonstrated by Jo Shields recently: http://apebox.org/wordpress/rants/545/ Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Usenet is essentially a HUGE group of people passing notes in class. - Rachel Kadel, `A Quick Guide to Newsgroup

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-11-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 15:12 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 01:57:39PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 09:22 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Some precision about the MIPS machines: On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:04:56PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote

Re: dpkg with new Essential (Was: pidof changing from sysvinit-devel to procps)

2013-12-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
to answer from experience. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] procps with pidof is released

2013-12-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Why would you put any of the rest of these in an essential package, given that you already have a binary package split between the Essential: yes procps-base and the Essential: no procps? [...] Discussed here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/185723/focus=185725 -- Ben

Re: procps with pidof is released

2013-12-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
majority of Debian systems will continue to have it installed and it will just result in a stream of RC bugs because of undeclared dependencies. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less. signature.asc

Re: procps with pidof is released

2013-12-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 11:54 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 07:07:54PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 16:06 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:22:27 -0800, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 09:02:21AM

Re: Last call for pv-grub-menu.

2013-12-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
host could detect and run a Xen-aware GRUB in domU automatically (with pv-grub as a fallback). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
TLS library with sane default behaviour. OpenSSL or GnuTLS seem to have failed us on both grounds, and I hope interested developers will cooperate with the Fedora developers in making NSS usable by more applications. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about

Re: Bug#732878: Add MariaDB as an alternative dependency

2013-12-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
that MySQL should not be the default MySQL. Similarly, wodim is not cdrecord LibreOffice is not OpenOffice.org Iceweasel is not Firefox etc. so clearly we should never have implemented an automatic transition from one to the other... Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think

Re: Bug#732878: Add MariaDB as an alternative dependency

2013-12-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
from those three desktop programs you mentioned. Yes, but perhaps it should not be. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
that identical binaries can be built from source, but as you well know not all of the required cross-compilers are packaged in Debian. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 08:11 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: The firmware-linux-free maintainer has verified that identical binaries can be built from source, but as you well know not all of the required cross-compilers are packaged in Debian

Re: Fwd: Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

2013-12-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
.x kernel, *the same* happens as I described here for debian 7. [...] You are also using a new version of the nvidia driver with this kernel... Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production: A fail-safe circuit will destroy others

Re: Pulseaudio

2013-12-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 17:13 -0600, Kathleen Spence wrote: Hello, Just wondering if there was any chance that pulseaudio could be removed from trunk (any debain dist) and just go back to basic known working good alsa? Don't feed the troll! Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Klipstein's 4th Law

Re: Fwd: Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

2013-12-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-12-29 at 01:57 -0100, René Kuligowski wrote: On 28.12.2013 23:46, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 19:52 -0100, René Kuligowski wrote: Hi Adrian, Thanks for your quick answer,… but (sounds like a pouting little boy, I know): Sorry, but I cannot file

Re: CUPS is now linked against OpenSSL (was: Re: GnuTLS in Debian)

2014-01-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
think this is an absurd interpretation. It is certainly not being applied to linux-tools, where we have perf linked against libpython linked against OpenSSL. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. signature.asc Description

Bug#735927: general: X *always* crashes when 5 youtube video opened

2014-01-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
that part of the Intel graphics stack (could be userland or kernel) used ENOSPC to indicate that some GPU resource was exhausted. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: SSDs have extra unused space???

2014-01-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: libunwind and ia64

2014-01-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
of source packages. What this means in practice is that libunwind8 cannot transition to testing at least until ia64 is officially removed as a release architecture. For now, make sure you build with libunwind7-dev. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If the facts do not conform to your theory, they must be disposed

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
do hope that is not a usual solution, as it leaves libfile-rename-perl auto-removable after the following release. (Note that this isn't a problem for transitional packages, because APT does not mark dependencies of packages in section 'oldlibs' as auto-installed.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings

Re: systemd's journal

2014-02-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
is in) from /proc any more. Well, there is a proposal to add that to SCM_CREDENTIALS or another auxiliary message that can be received through the socket. Ben. Disclaimer: this is from observation of systemd-204 on current Debian. -- Ben Hutchings Any sufficiently advanced bug

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
/ to resolve this issue for every ALSA-only application. Yes, this really should be present by default. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings You can't have everything. Where would you put it? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
that binary package Or alternately: - move just this config file into a new binary package, depending on libasound2-plugins - make pulseaudio recommend that binary package Ben. -- Ben Hutchings You can't have everything. Where would you put it? signature.asc Description

Re: Conflicting package names

2014-03-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
you can consider the name to be free. I don't know whether the QA page will reset if you upload an entirely new source package under the same name. If not, you may wish to choose a different *source* package name. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Everything should be made as simple as possible

Re: systemd patent fees - who pays?

2014-03-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
is going to pay the patent and license fees for each Debian installation which uses SystemD? When is Oracle going to kill OEL? Because if there is an OEL 7, and it's still a clone of RHEL, Oracle will have to licence those patents to everyone without fee. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do

Re: default messaging/VoIP client for Debian 8/Jessie

2014-03-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
to choose. [...] And this sort of attitude is why Skype has won. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
with a comprehensive error message. That would be better, though not much better. You'll need either local access or a remote serial console either to use the shell or to select a fallback entry at the GRUB menu. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The generation of random numbers is too important to be left

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
installation image in general. [...] * There were concerns about accessibility support, particularly for the blind[2]. [...] Which is unfortunately quite bad in most free graphical desktop environments. Is it actually a strength of Xfce? I didn't think it was. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
. That ship sailed long ago. :-/ Some BMCs (like recent iDRAC) run Linux which means there may be some opportunity for an outside project to modify and improve their security. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 09:23 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:22 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: That ship sailed long ago. :-/ Some BMCs (like recent iDRAC) run Linux which means there may be some opportunity for an outside project to modify and improve their security. Do

Re: Arm64 port live on debian-ports

2014-04-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
to add arm64 to src:linux with a configuration that will run on at least a typical QEMU ARM64 emulation. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Arm64 port live on debian-ports

2014-04-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 16:28 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 16:13 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 16:30 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 02:27:01AM +0100, Wookey wrote: You may or may not have noticed that 'arm64' is coming. This a 64

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
source package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#605090: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
will be a later version. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#605090: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 17:34 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:45:10PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 22:41 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: [...] The options I see are: - Provide a source package based on src:linux that includes only the grsec

Re: ld.so for multiarch and multilib installed at same time

2014-04-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
should ask the glibc maintainers debian-gl...@lists.debian.org how this works for x86 and how it could translate to mips. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: ld.so for multiarch and multilib installed at same time

2014-04-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 16:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 16:39 +0800, Yunqiang Su wrote: [...] On mips64el system: libc6-mips32 make /lib/ld.so.1 link to /lib/ld-2.18.so (yes, quite strange, mips system asks for use /lib as o32 multilib path) libc6

Re: A question about patches for upstream

2014-05-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
of the Developer's Reference. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Module from /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf not loaded after systemd upgrade

2014-05-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
other module configuration file? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - Bill Gates signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
? And the idea that vendors could claim images made with their products (very likely with no explicit action to use the profile) to be derivative works is appalling. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case. signature.asc

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
and will miss the next release. The effect on end users is not immediate (package is still in stable and unstable) but there is breakage that other maintainers need to fix. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case

Re: Guile language support in make

2014-05-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
is *so* far down the bottom of the stack that adding a dependency on another language could cause significant problems. Why separate source packages and not multi-stage bootstrap where make-guile is excluded from stage1? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
and reassign if the bug is still present in emacs24. Alternately, ask whether it is still present and then reassign/close depending on the response (or lack of response within a time limit). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap. signature.asc Description

Re: Nftables in jessie?

2014-05-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
bugs happened in the Debian kernel package, and the kernel currently in Jessie comes without nf_tables enabled [0]. [...] Well it's fixed in unstable and will be fixed in jessie RSN. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]

2014-05-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
') when it is not clearly RC and there is no expectation that it will ever be worked on. I agree that a non-maintainer should not take that decision, though. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking

Re: Where / what is the repo for netkit-telnetd source packages?

2014-06-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
to be no repository for this package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: people.debian.org will move from ravel to paradis and become HTTPS only

2014-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
. -- Ben Hutchings Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
dubious. Less so than blundering on without entropy. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 13:17 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes: On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 12:47 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: It would be nice to have a reliable kernel interface for getting randomness rather than relying on proper chroot configuration

Re: Transition plan for changing the default init system

2014-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
-architecture. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home. - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, `Good Omens' signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 13:11 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Ben Hutchings wrote: Since Linux 2.6.29, you get 128 random bits at each execve(), which you can access like this: getauxval() is only in (e)glibc, not in dietlibc or klibc, though. True, and it was only added in glibc 2.16. So

Re: linux-image-3.14-2-armmp description out of date

2014-07-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
by this package, and the description should be updated to reflect that. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: systemd now appears to be only possible init system in testing

2014-07-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
mode as well). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: linux-image-3.14-2-armmp description out of date

2014-07-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 09:31 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 20:50 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 20:18 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: In the above package the description reads:- The Linux kernel 3.14 and modules for use on ARMv7 multiplatform

Re: linux-image-3.14-2-armmp description out of date

2014-07-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 13:51 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2014 13:05:11 Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 09:31 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: [...] * As David observed upthread the list is bound to get out of date. * The link between Supported

Re: packages using non-standard ports

2014-08-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
for this? (Annoyingly 514/tcp is assigned to a completely different protocol.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [CTTE #717076] Default libjpeg implementation in Debian

2014-08-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
with regard to security. [...] Still, it was affected by CVE-2013-6629. [...] 11. License. IJG JPEG is under a plain permissive licence. [...] Both versions have something like an advertising clause (although it is widely ignored). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If more than one person is responsible

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
that change is specific to libav or was also made in FFmpeg. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
CD (rather than 2+ CDs or downloads) then Xfce would probably be the right default DE for that single CD. I do not support making it the default in general, though. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings. signature.asc Description

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
branch is the one called 'trunk' (not 'master', as we're still using svn :-(). I doubt these are the only examples. If there's any question about whether master targets unstable or experimental, that's a good reason to be explicit and not use 'master' at all. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
LLVMpipe is being used, so it is reasonably responsive. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: raising an issue about static linking policy

2014-08-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
affected. The Built-Using field should record that. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: linux-image-3.14-2-armmp description out of date

2014-08-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 21:29 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 17:07 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 13:51 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2014 13:05:11 Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 09:31 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote

Re: x32: a success story, and thanks to you all!

2014-09-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed. - Carolyn Scheppner signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
in jessie is failing this principle. The selection of default init system should be done via the Essential packages *only*. In that case, perhaps the alternate init systems should Recommend systemd-shim? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment

Re: x32: a success story, and thanks to you all!

2014-09-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 17:29 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 04:43:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: No, they should add amd64 as a foreign architecture. Should we do this by default for x32 in d-i? (Yes, I know d-i doesn't support x32 in other ways yet, but we might

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
package manager) might consider it preferable to install sysvinit-core and systemd-shim. Has this been tested? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed. - Carolyn Scheppner signature.asc

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 16:01 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 11:48:04PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 13:52 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: No, that's not the true package relationship. There's no reason that you should

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-09-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
for packaging. [...] How does git-debcherry cope with the overlapping changes when generating debian/patches? What can you do if it fails to linearise the changes (as, apparently, it may sometimes do)? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
... Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 17:44 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: On Wednesday, 10 de September de 2014 03:12:16 Ben Hutchings escribió: On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 21:24 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: On Tuesday, 9 de September de 2014 21:18:55 Tollef Fog Heen escribió: ]] Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
priority telling them what is about to happen and offering a bailout, is guaranteed to lose us reputation and users. [...] I do agree that at least some kind of high-priority notice is needed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
(kernel/time/timeconst.bc). Ben. And yes, bc is also the primary interactive calculator, for things beyond what $((…)) can do. We've got python in priority:standard. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description

Re: [Testing] Mounting /usr in the initramfs

2014-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
that the commands in klibc-utils were missing some of the necessary options to support this. An initramfs built without busybox would not boot. These options have been implemented and initramfs-tools version 0.118 has a versioned dependency to ensure they're supported. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice

Re: RT kernel for jessie?

2014-10-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
-rt. I don't believe we can support a forward-port of the PREEMPT_RT patches by ourselves. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Tests running as (real) root?

2014-10-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
years? *ahem* CVE-2013-6462 Ben. Maybe there is a trend to replace by something else because it is not fashionable (new) enough. -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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

2014-10-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
with an initramfs, a separate /usr partition should continue to work indefinitely. But if you do not, you will probably have to combine the partitions at some point in the future. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description

Re: Accepted tasksel 3.29 (source all) into unstable

2014-10-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
GNOME fully working on all our architectures again, and particularly MIPS laptop and desktop systems. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Accepted tasksel 3.29 (source all) into unstable

2014-10-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Time for a new kernel?

2014-11-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
Don't feed the troll. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: systemd - suggestions for the next version

2014-11-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
contains a decryption key for the partitions is mounted and the decrypt-key for /usr (and maybe other partitions) is read and decrypted the needed partitions. [...] I don't know whether this works. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat

Re: customization of the kernel command line

2014-11-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#769187: general: Entries in system log for failed services refer to FreeDesktop.ORG for support

2014-11-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
software but I agree that for packaged software systemd error logging should clearly refer to both Debian and upstream sources for support. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed. - Carolyn

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
, though. I don't even know how initramfs-tools will continue working after that point. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
. -- Ben Hutchings Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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