On 15/01/2024 18:00, Russ Allbery wrote:
> When you have the case of an application that optionally wants to do foo,
> a shared library that acts as a client, and a daemon that does foo, there
> are three options:
>
> 1. Always install the shared library and daemon even though it's an
>
On 21/05/2023 07:00, James Addison wrote:
> On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 22:58, Ansgar wrote:
>> One of the problems with popcon is that it draws too much attention to
>> old releases which isn't really interesting when talking about future
>> developments. If one looks at arch usage per release (as
On 15/05/2023 19:00, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Sun, 14 May 2023 at 23:37:34 +0200, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> People build things on Debian that are not Debian packages. People
>> compile binaries on Debian, and expect them to work on any system that
>> has sufficiently new libraries.
>
> *raises
On 18/12/2021 15:00, Michael Biebl wrote:
I'm not a user of logwatch, so I don't know, if logwatch nowadays can
handle RFC 5424 timestamps, but even if so, I think the benefits
outweigh the potential breakage. And it's easy enough for users to
create a drop-in config snippet with
On 29/08/2021 15:20, Simon McVittie wrote:
The major difference is fallback behaviour. If a client (web browser or
email client or similar) receives a file with a text/* type for which it
has no special handler, in the absence of other context it is expected
to treat it like text/plain, and show
On 05/10/19 22:20, Samuel Henrique wrote:
On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 14:51, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
Note that email already has a "tree-like" structure, since forever. You
just don't see it if you (ironically) use web application email clients
like gmail that decided to not show it. Most
On 09/09/19 14:40, Bjørn Mork wrote:
Ondřej Surý writes:
Otherwise it doesn’t make any sense to remove external links to logos
and JavaScript from the documentation and then send everything to one
single US-based provider.
Exactly. I'd be worried if anything in Debian came preconfigured with
On 13/07/17 12:40, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 05:17:57AM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Roger Lynn <ro...@rilynn.me.uk> wrote:
> > > SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}=="1c:1b:0d:9a:34:98", NAME=&quo
On 10/07/17 19:40, Marvin Renich wrote:
> There is an easy fix to revert the default behavior while still allowing
> knowledgeable sysadmins to get the new behavior. On the other hand,
> those who need to administer systems but are not sysadmins by trade (and
> thus will have to do
On 28/02/17 01:00, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 16:09 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Right, ntpdate for some reason doesn't set the flag to do this.
>
> There is a very good reason, which is that without continuous
> adjustment the system clock cannot be assumed more stable than
On 29/11/14 13:30, Vincent Bernat wrote:
❦ 29 novembre 2014 12:41 GMT, Alastair McKinstry
alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie :
One concern I'd have is the lack of flexibility to produce a cut-down
system. The option of a dedicated init=/custom-program, but lack of
an ntpd, for example, because
On 11/09/14 14:50, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
I think it's not realistic to expect upstreams to support online updates
for every application. Once you have plugins or external data, it's hard
to keep working properly after an upgrade.
Surely the solution to this is to restart the affected
On 07/08/14 23:10, Jordi Mallach wrote:
Popularity: One of the metrics discussed by the tasksel change proponents
mentioned popcon numbers. 8 months after the desktop change, Xfce does not
seem
to have made a dent on install numbers. The Debian GNOME team doesnât feel
popconâs data is
On 13/05/14 20:30, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
In data martedì 13 maggio 2014 19:42:32, David Goodenough ha scritto:
service foo action works across Linux distributions, with or without
systemd, and does the right thing.
The big shame with service is that tab completion does not work properly.
On 14/04/14 14:30, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2014-04-14 14:14:14 +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote:
No, there is no optimisation in that case, so there is no warning. It only
warns when it uses the knowledge that (signed) integer overflow isn't
possible to optimise away some redundant code.
On 04/04/14 00:50, Stephen Allen wrote:
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 08:18:41AM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
I think Xfce is much better *default* desktop environment (DE) than Gnome.
As KDE fan I do not like Gnome. Those who forget to choose DE in installer
(just like I did more than once) and
On 31/10/13 09:30, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Op 30-10-13 23:09, Steve McIntyre schreef:
So... In that situation, would you care about having more than just a
netinst available for initial booting? Beyond that, people can get on
the network to a mirror, or to other machines hosting the DVD images.
On 24/10/13 03:00, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:21:25AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
2013/10/24 Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org:
Well, that's one more reason the init system and the dbus services should
be
separated out in the packaging.
Some of the services consume
On 03/07/13 14:30, Ian Jackson wrote:
Ian Jackson writes (Re: boot ordering and resolvconf):
4. Therefore in most installations there should be a local
proxy or cache. It should use DHCP-provided, PPP-provided or
similar, as a forwarder. The local DNS provider address
On 06/06/13 21:10, Adam Borowski wrote:
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:58:00AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Be aware that x32 has sizeof(time_t) sizeof(long), so you should expect
SUBSTANTIAL porting of packages to be required. Particularly since that
arrangement is explicitly unsupported by the
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
chris.kna...@coredump.us wrote:
Attempting to use an FQDN is also troublesome, because Exim tries to use
DNS to look up the FQDN, and falls back to
On 31/05/13 07:50, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
A utility to scan syslog and convey important information to the user
would be much more useful than configuring all mailers in Debian to read
root's local mail by default. I know how to redirect root's mail
elsewhere, thank you for not making
On 30/05/13 16:30, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
2013/5/30 Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it:
The /etc/ /lib/ /usr/lib/ split with files overriding each other,
invented because RPM systems do not prompt the user on package upgrades
and Red Hat does not support upgrading to the next major release.
Well,
On 19/09/12 13:50, anarcat wrote:
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
[x] E: Host lists on their own server in someones basement
See that's exactly what I'm talking about - *I* can do this, I can host
lists in my basement (or my freedombox, call it what you like), as
I am an experienced sysadmin and
On 05/09/12 18:10, W. Anderson wrote:
It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any
other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect,
give great public support to AMD in regard Linux, when the company has
for many years been decidedly
On 19/08/12 03:20, Charles Plessy wrote:
- PHP scripts can be executed by Apache httpd through libapache2-mod-php5 or
php5-cgi. Debian recommends libapache2-mod-php5, but there are still
thousands of installations wich report the use of php5-cgi according to the
Popularity Contest
On 08/08/12 12:30, Thomas Goirand wrote:
On 08/08/2012 06:21 PM, David Given wrote:
ifconfig (before this discussion I'd never even *heard* of ip)
This kind of remark make be say that probably, it'd be
nice to have ifconfig display a warning as this one:
ifconfig is deprecated, please
[sorry for the lengthy quoting below]
On 12/07/12 10:10, Gergely Nagy wrote:
Noel David Torres Taño env...@rolamasao.org writes:
Not so minimal if you want your gnome set to be up to date, including new
applications being installed.
It is very minimal. 5 minutes of work. Been there, done
On 02/05/12 02:00, brian m. carlson wrote:
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 07:47:08PM +0100, Roger Lynn wrote:
I have enabled accept_8bitmime in every exim I've installed for the last
10 years and no one has reported any problems. I think the risk of
encountering a truly 7 bit MTA in this decade
On 01/05/12 15:10, Chris Knadle wrote:
I think the reason Exim does not do this protocol conversion is that from the
point of view of an MTA author, the point of an MTA is to transmit the body
of
the message without any modification to it once received, and body
modification would be
On 15/10/11 22:00, Josh Triplett wrote:
Steve Langasek wrote:
Needing to send mail through specific per-user smarthosts is the exception,
not the rule. Most machines have a designated forwarding smarthost based on
who their ISP is, not based on which email address someone wants to use.
On 16/08/11 00:10, Carsten Hey wrote:
bzip2 has a better compression on average for some filetypes, xz[1] has
a better compression on average for others:
gzip bzip2 xz bzip2+xz[3]
text files[2] 94312922 73496587 77783076 73496587
other files
On 19/05/10 22:20, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
btw: What happened to the idea of movin umask completely away from
/etc/profile?
I mean regardless of the discussion about UPGs and which value is the
best default for umask, I found it to be a good idea to drop it there.
This is a good
On 18/05/10 11:00, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
Not to speak about, that UPG is anyway a questionable abuse of the
user/group concept.
Neither to speak about the fact, that in the 17 years debian exists
now,... no majority missed that feature (apparently).
Debian has been using UPG for
On 18/05/10 03:10, Robert Collins wrote:
Given that pipelining is broken by design, that the HTTP WG has
increased the number of concurrent connections that are recommended,
and removed the upper limit - no. I don't think that disabling
pipelining hurts anyone - just use a couple more
On 04/03/10 20:00, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes:
Letting alone policy issues: what do you propose, *concretely* to
improve the situation?
A man page containing a *brief* (one or two lines) description of what
the program does and pointers to further
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 07:00:25PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:47:56PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
As a practical matter, downgrading these dependencies will cause
aptitude and other package managers to believe that the documentation
is unnecessary and
On Tue, 31 May 2005 21:37:28 -0700, Stephen Birch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Darren Salt([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 21:49:
For those who've missed the first three broadcasts today, there's one more
at
01:05 GMT; also see URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/1478157.stm.
Why on
Martin Schulze wrote:
FWIW: This would mean to remove all of Mozilla and friends, since they
don't receive any security support upstream, and neither the maintainer
or the security team are in a position to backport all fixes and correcte
all stuff in the older versions. (upstream does only
Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The current aptitude, by contrast, seems both powerful and elegant: it
rarely gets in my way, deals well with problem situations, and offers
powerful features should I want them (aptitude of years past could also
be kinda cranky though).
The last time I
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