Re: According to one update package

2019-11-28 Thread Chris Knadle
particular updates don't come from Debian; I think the one you want is this one from security.debian.org: http://security-cdn.debian.org/debian-security/pool/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.8.10p3-1+deb8u6_amd64.deb -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Knadle
Paul Wise: > On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 1:32 PM Chris Knadle wrote: > >> A logical place to check or the lack of BIOS virtualization features and >> show an >> error message for this would be within the .postinst script for the >> virtualbox >> package in

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-08 Thread Chris Knadle
e in Debian contains neither AFAICT.] Filing a bug on src:virtualbox with severity 'wishlist' or 'normal' for this issue to discuss it with the maintainer of the virtualbox package(s) seems a logical thing to do. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us

Re: PHP Support in Debian

2018-10-19 Thread Chris Knadle
e-ground, which is to add an additional repository to the sources.list file and add an apt Pin-Priority in /etc/apt/preferences.d/ for that repository (of say priority 150) such that any installed packages from the additional repository get updated, but any not-already-installed packages from the addition

Re: Problem sending my key to keyring.debian.org

2018-10-03 Thread Chris Knadle
acutal issue, and now "feels similar" to the error you're receiving. If by chance you've run into the same issue, that would be interesting. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-09-26 Thread Chris Knadle
that was broken, and before this process there wasn't a known path of how to deal with that. Matter of fact that's how I started getting into Debian development in the first place. It is unfortunately not uncommon to find a package [un|under]maintained such that the pacakg

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-09-26 Thread Chris Knadle
ong time. I've reviewed the resulting document sections and it looks great to me. Thanks very much. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: init script, installed but not activated

2015-10-07 Thread Chris Knadle
t, thereby being able to evaluate what code to run in the shell script, but nobody likes doing that. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us

Re: GNU IceCat?

2015-09-13 Thread Chris Knadle
ling to replace package files and their .md5sum after checking a replacement .md5sum file that comes with the overlay package. [This idea comes from exploits on local Debian packages that I've heard about, BTW.] The catch is that there'd need to be some way of triggering a re-installation of the overlay if the package that the overlay is for is reinstalled. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us

Re: Facilitating external repositories

2015-06-06 Thread Chris Knadle
As the debian-keyring package would come from the main archive, that would at least have a trust path to the signing key of the main distribution repository. That's what I can think of at the moment anyway. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5573bf41.8040...@coredump.us

Re: Bug#739997: ITA: mumble -- Low latency VoIP client

2014-02-27 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:12:52 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Am 24.02.2014 20:50, schrieb Chris Knadle: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: normal > > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > > > > > This package hasn't been orphaned, but

ITA: mumble -- Low latency VoIP client

2014-02-25 Thread Chris Knadle
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Bug#739997: ITA: mumble -- Low latency VoIP client

2014-02-24 Thread Chris Knadle
#x27;m familiar with maintaining this package -- I put together the current 1.2.4-0.2 package in sid and jessie. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Bug#727708: Linux Security, Red Hat and Systemd Conspiracy

2014-02-21 Thread Chris Knadle
to fix it [2]. I don't personally think this was because of malice or conspiracy -- it's far more likely to be some kind of technical misunderstanding or a design issue than anything else. [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/303 [2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/484 -- Chr

Re: Packaging of stunnel / MIA for Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz

2014-02-07 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, February 07, 2014 17:09:27 Ian Jackson wrote: > Chris Knadle writes ("Re: Packaging of stunnel / MIA for Luis Rodrigo > Gallardo Cruz"): ... > > > Well, here's the typical scenario: > >- maintainer stops maintaining a package, for whatever rea

Re: Packaging of stunnel / MIA for Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz

2014-02-06 Thread Chris Knadle
Leaving off the MIA team on this reply, mainly because I don't think this is "news" to them per se and I'd rather not "spam" them. On Friday, February 07, 2014 02:54:09 Sebastian Reichel wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 06:56:04PM -0500, Chris Knadle wrote: &

Re: Packaging of stunnel / MIA for Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz

2014-02-06 Thread Chris Knadle
Adding Gregor Herrmann to this because he and I were looking to work on #672198 but we both were swamped with other work. On Friday, February 07, 2014 00:02:16 Sebastian Reichel wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 03:27:51PM -0500, Chris Knadle wrote: > > On Thursday, February 06, 2014

Re: Packaging of stunnel / MIA for Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz

2014-02-06 Thread Chris Knadle
ny activity for almost two years. For cases where the maintainer is unresponsive for an extended period, I'd recommend requesting a new version via a 'wishlist' bug, then releasing a new version as a -0.1 NMU. Others (myself included) have done this successfully. As alwa

Re: default MTA

2013-06-14 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, June 14, 2013 02:31:45, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:42:15 -0400, Chris Knadle > > wrote: > >So right now I think that I probably just didn't know that this had been > >fixed, because I haven't been using the "split file" co

Re: default MTA

2013-06-13 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, June 13, 2013 08:16:02, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:25:34 -0400, Chris Knadle > > wrote: > >On Thursday, June 13, 2013 06:41:16, Marc Haber wrote: > >> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:17:11 +0100, Ian Campbell > >> > >> wrote: >

Re: default MTA

2013-06-13 Thread Chris Knadle
trouble with this in mid-2003 on Debian Testing. However the exact timeframe of the fix doesn't matter much -- what matters is that it's fixed. ;-) -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: default MTA

2013-06-12 Thread Chris Knadle
ts() function that cat_parts() uses. On servers I'm still using the abstraction via the "single config" method, but I've repeatedly been tempted to use a straight exim4.conf file. [I probably should.] -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E

Re: default MTA

2013-06-06 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, June 06, 2013 16:30:48, Roger Lynn wrote: > On 06/06/13 14:00, Chris Knadle wrote: > > On Wednesday, June 05, 2013 15:35:14, Marc Haber wrote: > >> On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 19:53:59 -0400, Chris Knadle > >> > >> wrote: > >> >Attempting

Re: default MTA

2013-06-06 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, June 06, 2013 13:18:39, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Chris Knadle [130606 14:53]: > > I'm glad you asked this, because it prompted me to investigate further. > > This was something I was told was commonly done, but it looks now like > > it might be a misnome

Re: default MTA

2013-06-06 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, June 05, 2013 15:35:14, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 19:53:59 -0400, Chris Knadle > > wrote: > >On Sunday, June 02, 2013 17:10:02, Marc Haber wrote: > >> Exim's default in the packages is not to send authentication data over > >> a

Re: question about build a package

2013-06-04 Thread Chris Knadle
On Tuesday, June 04, 2013 13:40:56, Russ Allbery wrote: > Chris Knadle writes: > > On Tuesday, June 04, 2013 06:31:37, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >> That's not necessarily true as a result of it being a 1.0 format > >> package (there were ways to use quilt patches w

Re: question about build a package

2013-06-04 Thread Chris Knadle
On Tuesday, June 04, 2013 06:31:37, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On 04-06-13 04:48, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Unfortunately no: the Postfix source package looks like it's in 1.0 > > format, so there aren't any quilt patches. > > That's not necessarily true as a res

Re: question about build a package

2013-06-03 Thread Chris Knadle
z dpkg-source: info: upstream files that have been modified: postfix-2.10.0/Makefile.in postfix-2.10.0/conf/main.cf postfix-2.10.0/conf/main.cf.tls postfix-2.10.0/conf/master.cf postfix-2.10.0/conf/postfix-files ... [many other files patched] The last set of lines above list the upstream postfix files that got patched. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: question about build a package

2013-06-03 Thread Chris Knadle
by system after apt-get source > > postfix), is already patched with debian patches? or I need compile > > debian patches to that dir? > > > > Thanks and sorry for banal question :-/ > > > > Pol > > Hi Pol, > > probably you should patch

Re: default MTA

2013-06-02 Thread Chris Knadle
On Sunday, June 02, 2013 17:10:02, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 15:06:40 -0400, Chris Knadle > > wrote: > >I can understand why one would want this, but I can also understand why it > >hasn't been done. Without first setting up TLS, this would involve >

Re: default MTA

2013-06-01 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 20:02:42, Russ Allbery wrote: > Chris Knadle writes: > > On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 15:46:15, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> That's exactly the point, and is why I would prefer not to write those > >> notifications into a file that no one

Re: default MTA

2013-06-01 Thread Chris Knadle
nt being from the local machine only. However -- if there are many repeat events of some error that all have to be separately acknowledged, I can easily see how that could be very annoying. > Oh, and a pony. Don't forget the pony. Or an otter, I like otters. Otters are pretty cute looking. They remind me of gophers. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: default MTA

2013-06-01 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, May 31, 2013 07:15:36, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2013 19:51:04 -0400, Chris Knadle > > wrote: > >For Exim, the one thing I would want to change would be to ship a > >configuration that by default created an SSL certificate and enabled > >MAIN_TL

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Knadle
ID and my response is "I don't use Facebook". It's a cultural divide that ends up causing an electronic communications divide. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, May 30, 2013 15:48:14, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 29/05/13 08:18, Chris Knadle wrote: > > On Monday, May 27, 2013 21:02:22, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >> > Now that we are done with systemd for the time being, can we have the > >> > flame

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, May 30, 2013 05:11:06, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Chris Knadle [130529 08:29]: > > - Exim configuration is more human readable than Postifx's, IMHO. > > > > Postfix configuration is concise but terse, and there are typically > > block

Re: default MTA

2013-05-29 Thread Chris Knadle
problem -- this tends to end up with serious data loss. > > That's exactly the point, and is why I would prefer not to write those > notifications into a file that no one ever looks at. (Which is why I > don't find sending them to syslog much more appealing, since the average >

Re: default MTA

2013-05-29 Thread Chris Knadle
at all. # 'queueonly' - only a queue running daemon is started, no SMTP listener. # setting this to 'no' will also disable queueruns from /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim4 QUEUERUNNER='combined' The 'queueonly' option has a daemon that processes the queue for mail s

Re: default MTA

2013-05-28 Thread Chris Knadle
nfig options. - Exim logging is cleaner than Postfix's, IMHO. Postfix seems to "redeliver mail to itself" repeatedly which makes it more difficult to grep the logs for a complete transaction. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A

Re: default MTA

2013-05-28 Thread Chris Knadle
d systems are a special case because local storage is a premium, and the local storage is likely flash which has limited rewrite cycles. Even here my preferred solution here is to increase the local storage enough to run exim4-daemon-light, because that's been reliable for me. -- Chris -- C

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-08 Thread Chris Knadle
for the resolver myself. > I'm not sure if it makes sense to recommend aptitude in its present state. I don't personally feel this way, but I can understand why you do. It can sometimes be tricky to work around package conflicts. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-08 Thread Chris Knadle
the text-user interface of aptitude > launched by typing "aptitude" is interactive interface. Am I right? Yes. aptitude has an interactive interface available, apt-get does not. I think the point of the note in the release-notes is to point users to aptitude for an interactive termin

Re: Bug#688772: [CTTE #688772] Dependency of meta-gnome on network-manager

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 07:39:44, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 27.02.2013 00:50, Chris Knadle wrote: > > When this was brought up in the bug report, the response was > > "network-manager can be installed, then disabled", but how to do that > > wasn't docume

Re: Bug#688772: [CTTE #688772] Dependency of meta-gnome on network-manager

2013-02-27 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 07:39:44, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 27.02.2013 00:50, Chris Knadle wrote: > > When this was brought up in the bug report, the response was > > "network-manager can be installed, then disabled", but how to do that > > wasn't docume

Re: Bug#688772: [CTTE #688772] Dependency of meta-gnome on network-manager

2013-02-26 Thread Chris Knadle
nager or wicd mentioned there, nor mentioned in the Installation Guide [3] for Wheezy. Suggestions? [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688772#464 [2]: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata [3]: http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/install.txt.en -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 12:45:14, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:28:14PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 05:04:55, martin f krafft wrote: > > > also sprach Holger Levsen [2012.10.16.0945 +0200]: > > > > > We

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Knadle
Out of curiosity, how would a user /know/ whether a package has been built via a buildd rather than on a DD's local machine? -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: where is the DNSSEC root key?

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, October 04, 2012 10:44:10 PM Philipp Kern wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 03:10:01PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Last I looked into this [which has admittedly been a while], Bind 9 was > > the > > only DNS server that had actually implemented DNSSEC, and the o

Re: where is the DNSSEC root key?

2012-10-04 Thread Chris Knadle
ve. [I can see how it does from an administration perspective.] [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-alternatives.html -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debia

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-20 Thread Chris Knadle
On Monday, August 20, 2012 03:29:05, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 07:59:00PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > >Related note: I likewise repeatedly have confusion over how to deal with > >testing Network Status from within shell scripts for doing operations that >

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-19 Thread Chris Knadle
y reaction, because they are both my choice. (There's an interesting 10-minute video [2] discussing some of these issues which I think is worth watching.) Finally, I want to make it clear that none of the above is meant as criticism of any kind -- it's meant purely as an attempt to he

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-19 Thread Chris Knadle
to think of it, the right thing for me to do is to open up a Wishlist bug for this -- so I'll be doing that today.] [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/wouter/ipcfg.git [2] http://penta.debconf.org/dc12_schedule/events/953.en.html -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-08-11 Thread Chris Knadle
On Saturday, August 11, 2012 18:02:04, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 03:38:25PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > >> systemd may seem better in /most/ cases because it does have some nice > >> features, but I don't think it's better in *all*

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-08-11 Thread Chris Knadle
d up switching back to file-rc. > Let's welcome OpenRC and see how it goes... This doesn't mean that > we are choosing *now* what will be the *default* init system. Just > that we are open to a new alternative. If and when there are Debian packages available for OpenRC I&#

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-17 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:54:15, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:41:37AM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > I'm confused concerning the above; the point of a VCS in this context is > > to track changes to the source package, and the patches are themselves >

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-17 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:52:02, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Chris Knadle writes: > > On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 06:38:49, Adam Borowski wrote: > >> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:10:28AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > >> > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 03:17:17PM +0900, Norbert

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-17 Thread Chris Knadle
n/patches, and if Git has been told to ignore debian/patches then it cannot bring those files back. Patching the source can be an effort especially concerning documenting why the patches were done and the source of the patches, so these seem like they'd be important to track rather than something to ignore. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Version for a returning package

2012-05-13 Thread Chris Knadle
On Sunday, May 13, 2012 13:41:13, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 12-05-13 at 10:51am, Chris Knadle wrote: > > On Sunday, May 13, 2012 06:28:03, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > On 12-05-13 at 11:49am, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > Mike Hommey, le Sun 13 May 2012 11:16:13

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Chris Knadle
ouple of these things although I'm no longer using them -- Debian was an extremely tight fit even when these things were new. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Version for a returning package

2012-05-13 Thread Chris Knadle
ackages installed. > > That said, it is not _forbidden_ to track version numbers of Ubuntu, > debian-multimedia.org and obsolete Debian distro releases. Just to let you know: debian-multimedia.org has just switched domain names to deb-multimedia.org I think this was done to comply with De

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable

2012-05-06 Thread Chris Knadle
multiple complaints. FWIW there's a [debian-private] mailing list: debian-private: Private discussions among developers and this list is not archived. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable

2012-05-06 Thread Chris Knadle
on web-based forums, and > while it is considerably harder to implement it on a mailing list (and > probably impossible to make it entirely correct at that), something > reasonably similar that works in most cases shouldn't be terribly hard > to implement. People abusing the shortc

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-03 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, May 03, 2012 17:28:29, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 05:13:09PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Drat. I forgot about APRS. APRS has become fairly popular among hams, so > > much so that it now comes built-in to several radios, and even HTs >

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-03 Thread Chris Knadle
by hams to track themselves and/or their cars and loved ones as they drive around. The rigs used in cars likely aren't running a Linux OS, but the base station nodes that receive and report the APRS traffic probably are, and as Debian has been friendly to hams it's one of the

Re: Removing the MTA from the default install

2012-05-02 Thread Chris Knadle
LUKS encryption, and I recently had to hard-power-off the box.] I was successful in getting DMA to send mail using SMTP AUTH over TLS to port 587. [The only snag was that I had to reconfigure Mutt to set "envelope_from=yes", otherwise the sending email address was invalid, but this

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-01 Thread Chris Knadle
On Tuesday, May 01, 2012 11:55:20, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 12:48:10AM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: ... > > The quoted 2010 survey [2] showed Exim was the most popular MTA (which I > > found surprising), deployment of Exim growing just slightly faster than &

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-01 Thread Chris Knadle
On Tuesday, May 01, 2012 04:53:03, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 12:48:10AM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > I think it would be useful to describe what issue(s) there are concerning > > 8BITMIME and why this is important. I've found some information [1] > >

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-04-30 Thread Chris Knadle
ending local outbound mail to a server via port 587 over TLS with authentication, to retry sending at increasing time intervals, using a "queue runner" but without a daemon listening, and to notify the sender on a permanent failure. Thusfar I've only been able to find all of that in a

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-04-28 Thread Chris Knadle
lly is received in some other part of the country, all over radio), etc. Due to low data rates, packet radio isn't as popular today as it was in the 1990's, when telephone modems that were typically in use were also slow. [The early 90's is when I was doing packet radio.] [1] htt

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-27 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, April 27, 2012 03:54:51, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 05:18:35AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > This is getting OT and a better question for debian-user, so this will > > be my last post regarding this issue. > > > > On 27.04.201

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, April 26, 2012 23:18:35, Michael Biebl wrote: > This is getting OT and a better question for debian-user, so this will > be my last post regarding this issue. Agreed. Same. > On 27.04.2012 04:34, Chris Knadle wrote: > > AFAICT I really want the 'quiet' lin

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, April 26, 2012 20:39:56, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 27.04.2012 02:29, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Specifically I'm looking to see the daemon startup console *text* > > messages, but without verbose kernel bootup noise that is gotten if the > > 'quie

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, April 26, 2012 16:45:08, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Chris Knadle > > > The default of passing 'quiet' to the kernel is also apparently picked > > up by systemd, which then suppresses the daemon startup messages. If > > 'quiet' is rem

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Chris Knadle
isy. The 'systemd.sysv_console=true' turns on on startup messages when the 'quiet' option is used, however the startup messages don't seem to be the same as when 'quiet' is turned off, even when also passing 'systemd.log_color=true'. I'll inves

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Chris Knadle
migrate at [4]. [1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRC [3] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/openrc.git [4] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/openrc/ -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: what to do is maintainer is lacking? (was: wine-unstable in Debian)

2012-04-23 Thread Chris Knadle
s Reference, because I believe this view of NMUs is fairly different than the current written language it contains. For starters I'm going to email this suggestion to the Developer's Reference Team. Thanks very much. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00486.html -- C

Re: what to do is maintainer is lacking?

2012-04-18 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 04:04:49 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Chris Knadle writes: > > I think the above is reasonable and fits the Debian "do-acracy" > > methodology. > > > > At the same time, I also understand that this is a tough call to make. > >

Re: what to do is maintainer is lacking?

2012-04-18 Thread Chris Knadle
vy-handed". Perhaps in these cases, adding an additional maintainer that is currently working on the package(s) and notifiying the current maintainer(s) that this has been done seems reasonable. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: what to do is maintainer is lacking? (was: wine-unstable in Debian)

2012-04-18 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:42:33, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:28:33AM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > The way section 5.11 is written, it implies NMUs are for bug fixes only. > > It literally states "Fixing cosmetic issues or changing the packaging

Re: what to do is maintainer is lacking? (was: wine-unstable in Debian)

2012-04-18 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 10:21:45, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:00:43AM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Debian has NMUs (Non-Maintainer Uploads) -- however this is mainly meant > > for uploading critical bug fixes without having to resort to hijacking

Re: what to do is maintainer is lacking? (was: wine-unstable in Debian)

2012-04-18 Thread Chris Knadle
what can one do? I think the current answer unentiontially ends up being some version of "get used to dissappointment"... so I'm asking the question in the hope of figuring out a better answer. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: wine-unstable in Debian

2012-04-17 Thread Chris Knadle
and likely to be longer. I believe that timeframe makes the assumption that the work is correct, i.e. meets the QA/multiarch/backportability requirements. My personal conclusion to all this is simply "something's gotta give". -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: wine-unstable in Debian

2012-04-15 Thread Chris Knadle
itional 1.1.x packages are stuck waiting because they do not have access to the pkg-wine git repo. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-11 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 05:14:34, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 04/11/2012 06:12 AM, Chris Knadle wrote: > > - if the init script left behind was part of a Debian package, deleting > > the init script means removing part of the configuration from the Debian > > pacakge

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-10 Thread Chris Knadle
t of 'yes' is dangerous. - the current administrator at the keyboard may not be the one that wrote or installed the custom-installed init script, so the upgrade may need to be completed before the question of whether the init script can be deleted has a satisfactory answer, but an a

[OT] NM vs. wicd (was: Re: On init in Debian)

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Knadle
7;ve been using wicd for over two years and never had this problem, but I'm also running a custom-built kernel (and have been for a long time). Any idea why wicd would prevent your laptop from suspending? The best first guess I have is perhaps a bug with the wireless card driver or fi

Re: mosh ITP not done, just package name taken over

2012-03-25 Thread Chris Knadle
turns into a situation where a prospective new packager then needs to figure out how to re-assign the ITP to someone else, (because hijacking an ITP is just rude) before working through debian-mentors to get a sponsored upload. This isn't simply theoretical, as a package I've been slowly

Re: test "/etc/init.d/MyPackage start" before shipping, please

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Knadle
g and building our package - > AT> or to put it with your words "after it left the factory". The proposed test would not have caught this problem, because the library is built separately from apache2, and apache2 had not been updated AFAIK. The bottom line is that even though it sounds

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, March 23, 2012 19:23:11, Michael Banck wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 06:59:52PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > On Friday, March 23, 2012 18:26:37, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > On 23.03.2012 20:07, Chris Knadle wrote: > > > > Right now the situation may be

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, March 23, 2012 19:06:48, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 23.03.2012 23:59, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Lennart Pottering during his talk said that daemons needed to be patched > > to fully work with systemd, but didn't say specifically what they needed > > to be patched

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, March 23, 2012 18:26:37, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 23.03.2012 20:07, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Right now the situation may be somewhat reversed, because in the general > > case, daemons need to be patched to work correctly with systemd. > > This is simply not true.

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Knadle
[It's been a year since the video, so perhaps some or many of them have been updated.] But to answer your concern, someone said it best during one of the talks during DebConf10: "Debian is software, and software can be changed." i.e there's no reason to fear, regardle

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Chris Knadle
e at LinuxConf in Australia last March, which I found informative. This is linked to from [2], where there is also a link to a PDF of the slides. [1] https://blip.tv/linuxconfau/beyond-init-systemd-4715015 [2] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna.

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Chris Knadle
y bugs in the future are caused by systemd/upstart! The above case where I'm wondering about how systemd would handle it, because it sounds like systemd might see that gdm/X failed to start and would try to start it again repeatedly to no avail. [I have not yet tried systemd to test for th

Re: thoughts on blocking and downgrade attacks agains secure APT

2012-03-19 Thread Chris Knadle
t least) two attack vector may be left (which is > basically the same as when blocking whole repositories): If you look at 'man 5 apt_preferences' you'll see that apt gives default preference to installing the most up-to-date version. Downgrading a package requires root access, a

Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful

2012-03-18 Thread Chris Knadle
On Sunday, March 18, 2012 17:13:55, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 12-03-18 at 04:48pm, Chris Knadle wrote: > > On Sunday, March 18, 2012 13:23:13, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > On 03/18/2012 09:50 PM, Chris Knadle wrote: > > > > Some public discussion with the re

Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful

2012-03-18 Thread Chris Knadle
On Sunday, March 18, 2012 13:23:13, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 03/18/2012 09:50 PM, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Some public discussion with the repository maintainer about this might be > > warranted. Such would be worhwhile even if the outcome is not what is > > desired, becaus

Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful

2012-03-18 Thread Chris Knadle
On Sunday, March 18, 2012 04:51:10, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Chris Knadle writes: > >> On Saturday, March 17, 2012 21:53:18, Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> Hence the Debian patent policy. > >>> > &

Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful

2012-03-17 Thread Chris Knadle
e legal framework > that it has available while making public statements when that legal > framework interferes with project goals. The above explains the whole reason d-m.o exists. However perhaps it also might explain the tenuous relationship d.o has with d-m.o because d.o may need to

Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful, Was: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

2012-03-16 Thread Chris Knadle
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Chris Knadle wrote: > >> On Monday, March 05, 2012 10:42:50, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > >> ... > >> > >>> Friendly discussion with the maintain

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