Re: Suggestions about i386 support

2024-06-10 Thread The Wanderer
ently comparable, since presumably you wouldn't have to spend money to keep the existing 32-bit machine in service). If Andrey does, I'd be interested to learn it. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the wor

Re: Default font: Transition from DejaVu to Noto

2023-09-12 Thread The Wanderer
ifferences, then I may either return and report that (and apologize for the noise, and probably drop the custom config file for the future), or just remain silent to avoid adding further noise. If I cannot find such a method, then I will probably remain silent - and continue using the custom config

Re: Default font: Transition from DejaVu to Noto

2023-09-10 Thread The Wanderer
efault font (without risking having the changes overwritten on a future package update) that I could find. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable ma

Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal

2023-06-07 Thread The Wanderer
=any-i386 FWIW: though I haven't touched it in quite some while, I recall from all those years ago that the reason zsnes is i386-only is that part of its code is hand-written assembly language for (some variant of) that architecture, and that rewriting it for that not to be the case would be

Re: Is an autogenerated configure shell script non-editable source

2022-12-09 Thread The Wanderer
potentially-relevant questions, in making the analysis - both to do with the possibility of making changes to the file, and both of which are likely to have the same answer: * If upstream were going to change the configure process, what file would they edit? * If you wanted to make changes to the configu

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-02 Thread The Wanderer
ny of us there are, but I know there's at least me (for the testing case), and I'd greatly prefer to be able to run an upgrade and have things Just Work rather than need to make sure I catch whatever notification comes along and make that change at the right time to coordinate with when

Re: feedback for NEW packages: switch to using the BTS?

2022-04-29 Thread The Wanderer
what's the point > of the "eventual removal" above? I'm not following you here... I parsed that not as "removal from the archive" but as "removal from the NEW queue", much as now happens (in some order and via some mechanism, perhaps a manual one) when a

Re: shim-signed

2022-04-26 Thread The Wanderer
else (which isn't signed, and might be malicious). Since the entire purpose of the shim - at least as I understand it - is to chain to load something else, clearly either that understanding is not correct, or they're making an exception for the case of the shim. -- The Wanderer Th

Re: shim-signed

2022-04-26 Thread The Wanderer
anding is not correct, I'd be interested to learn what the actual point of having the shim is. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Re: multiple roles of d/copyright

2022-02-10 Thread The Wanderer
ect to comply with license requirements? I may > have missed it, but I don't see that on your list. Isn't that the above paragraph? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all

Re: Legal advice regarding the NEW queue

2022-02-04 Thread The Wanderer
t; and you may find that you suddenly have quite a few more volunteers. I do, however, concur with these sentiments. Expanding the sphere of those who can to provide reviews (if not necessarily grant approvals) to packages in NEW might well be a good idea. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts h

Re: Legal advice regarding the NEW queue

2022-02-02 Thread The Wanderer
loads a bad change" problem for already-accepted packages, but it would seem to avoid the "nobody ever looked at this" situation. It would also increase the number of automatically-filed bugs by quite a lot, I suspect, which would itself be some degree of downside... -- The W

Re: Do we need to hide packages in NEW queue

2022-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
the pile of the the reasons why copyright law is Why We Can't Have Nice Things. (I concur with your assessment and arguments overall, I just didn't see this one angle being addressed anywhere, and I feel that it's important enough - assuming it applies at all - to make sure it do

Re: merged-/usr transition: debconf or not?

2021-11-18 Thread The Wanderer
he move had not taken place to one where it has. (Zack, if I've gotten any of those wrong, please don't hesitate to correct me; I'll either apologize, or drop right back out of the discussion to go hide in a metaphorical hole, if not both.) Do you dispute any of those three points? I

Re: Future of /usr/bin/which in Debian?

2021-09-21 Thread The Wanderer
king again, short of exiting and re-launching the shell. (Though I also haven't tried *terribly* hard.) This seems to demonstrate that you can't safely just use 'command -v' wherever you would otherwise use 'which'. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man ada

Re: Package name misspelled in binNMU changelogs

2021-08-25 Thread The Wanderer
this will resolve eventually in any case, as long as there's ever another update to the affected package? In that case, that entirely addresses my concern, and I apologize for the noise. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in tryin

Package name misspelled in binNMU changelogs

2021-08-25 Thread The Wanderer
ifying the set of affected packages isn't something I'm in a position to do without what to me is a noticeable degree of effort. Is there any reasonable way to get this spelling error corrected in the changelogs across all these packages? Or is this too minor to be worth bothering with,

Re: merged /usr considered harmful

2021-07-16 Thread The Wanderer
o chide him for reordering lines in a way which (presumably inadvertently) produced an initially-misleading result, that would be one thing, but I don't think it's appropriate to accuse him of snipping out context when he didn't do so. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts hims

Re: Unique kernel with my own backup of all Debian repositories

2021-06-12 Thread The Wanderer
ring the servers, and they're blocking the downloading IP address as an anti-DoS measure. I had a similar issue at one point for rather different reasons, and if memory serves, I avoided the issue by just adding a (possibly-semi-random) delay period - of only a few seconds - after the download

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-16 Thread The Wanderer
apparently doesn't make clear *where* and *how* to provide that firmware. What I read Ted as suggesting is that there be available an installer image which *has those files / packages already present*, but prompts the user to decide whether or not the installer should make use of them. --

Re: On doing 3000 no-source-change source-only uploads in January 2021

2021-01-04 Thread The Wanderer
new upstream version - has agreed to handle the packaging again, but it's not at all clear whether it'll be ready and make it through NEW again ahead of the release freeze. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt

Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches

2020-09-04 Thread The Wanderer
ralization? I'd suggest either "but all other vendors should do so" or "as all others should do", but other variations are possible and I don't have a strong preference. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable

Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches

2020-08-31 Thread The Wanderer
od it, was something like "the branch which everything else should be considered to be in some sense derived from"; experience seems to show that that sense allows for considerable versatility. IMO we should aim to retain that meaning in whatever name is chosen to replace 'master&#x

Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches

2020-08-30 Thread The Wanderer
> consistent (because there is no character code name for experimental > AFAIK). I thought the same at one point, but in fact, there is: it's called rc-buggy. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases#Codenames http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/rc-buggy/ -- The Wanderer The

Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches

2020-08-30 Thread The Wanderer
quot;master" branch used in upstream git repositories, > which doesn't really have a fixed meaning anyway.) This would be the reason why I would have argued against choosing 'latest' for the name. If a replacement for 'master' is needed, the best candidate I've enc

Re: Proposal: Allowing access to dmesg for users in group adm

2020-08-17 Thread The Wanderer
missions changed to 0750 (-rwxr-x---) > > You mean 0754? I missed this detail of the proposal. Please ignore my previous mail. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progres

Re: Proposal: Allowing access to dmesg for users in group adm

2020-08-17 Thread The Wanderer
xr-x 1 root root 83K Aug 1 13:28 /bin/dmesg Is there some Debian context in which this isn't the case? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on

Re: isc-dhcp-client sends DHCPDISCOVER *before* wpa_supplicant authenticates/associates/connects.

2020-07-11 Thread The Wanderer
pa_supplicant.conf, and I wouldn't want to have to re-enter them manually into a new system if I could avoid it. Is there a migration procedure, other convenient way to bring those settings across into iwd? (I'm not at the computer involved at the moment, so I can't easily check things to

Re: apt 2.0 release notes

2020-03-10 Thread The Wanderer
g on what package names exist in the available repositories, they are not being affected by the current change. Is that (still) correct? Are there any known plans for changes regarding this inline install/remove syntax in the currently foreseeable future? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man ada

Re: Is there still a point in installing libgcrypt to /lib instead of /usr/lib

2020-02-18 Thread The Wanderer
e root filesystem? (Answers in the forms of pointers to Websites, or even to archives of past discussion where this would be made clear, are entirely acceptable.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Adding security features

2020-02-03 Thread The Wanderer
ving HTTPS be used everywhere and in all cases, even places and cases which would not otherwise see any benefit from using it. That argument does not necessarily generalize to other "higher security by default" discussions, however, and at a glance I don't think I see how it would

Re: Deprecating regex/fnmatch fallback for package arguments, and 1.9.6 highlights

2020-01-15 Thread The Wanderer
hat will the resulting behavior be like, and what syntax will we be able to use to achieve similar "mix and match install and remove in the same command line" results (preferably with similar levels of convenience)? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world

Re: opentmpfiles & opensysusers, and its use in the Debian policy

2020-01-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-01-04 at 05:57, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jan 2020 at 19:52:33 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2020-01-03 at 19:33, Simon McVittie wrote: >> >>> D-Bus activation is a D-Bus feature where instead of starting a >>> D-Bus service (another

Re: opentmpfiles & opensysusers, and its use in the Debian policy

2020-01-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-01-03 at 19:33, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jan 2020 at 18:07:36 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> What I'm concerned about is dbus socket activation, or similar, >> leading to e.g. logind getting activated by logging in at the text >> console. >&

Re: opentmpfiles & opensysusers, and its use in the Debian policy

2020-01-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-01-03 at 17:43, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> If I recall and understand correctly, installing >> systemd-the-package will result in at least some of the daemons >> therein - including both systemd itself, and systemd-logind - being >>

Re: opentmpfiles & opensysusers, and its use in the Debian policy

2020-01-03 Thread The Wanderer
e reasonable to bother supporting. I don't want to just drop the conversation midstream at this point, however.) On 2020-01-03 at 14:36, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> On 2020-01-03 at 13:35, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> Why would that be necessary? &g

Re: opentmpfiles & opensysusers, and its use in the Debian policy

2020-01-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-01-03 at 13:35, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> Unless my understanding of the architecture of >> systemd-the-init-system is entirely incorrect, running these >> .service'es is handled by /bin/systemd. If having these programs >> run a

Re: opentmpfiles & opensysusers, and its use in the Debian policy

2020-01-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-01-03 at 09:13, Ansgar wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> However, as it remains the case that they are shipped in the same >> package as /bin/systemd, and as I gather (mostly from this thread, >> I think) that some of the ways they are expected to be invoked &g

Re: opentmpfiles & opensysusers, and its use in the Debian policy

2020-01-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-01-03 at 07:50, Ansgar wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> On 2020-01-02 at 08:14, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> >>> As I wrote, no need to complain, but act. >>> >>> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/opentmpfiles >> >> For me (with n

Re: opentmpfiles & opensysusers, and its use in the Debian policy

2020-01-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-01-03 at 08:50, Andrej Shadura wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 at 14:02, The Wanderer > wrote: > >> On 2020-01-02 at 09:03, Sam Hartman wrote: >> >>> My understanding is that systemd's implementation of tmpfiles >>> and sysuser

Re: opentmpfiles & opensysusers, and its use in the Debian policy

2020-01-03 Thread The Wanderer
son for me to finally give up on Debian and try alternatives, whether Devuan or Gentoo or something farther afield. In that context, I find the entire premise of "why do we need multiple implementations of this?" to be unfortunate; "need" is, IMO, the wrong standard to use fo

Re: opentmpfiles & opensysusers, and its use in the Debian policy

2020-01-03 Thread The Wanderer
in other distros), so that doesn't fit. Any idea what's going on here? > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/opensysusers This one shows the repository and its contents, however. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in tryi

Re: Q: what's the blocker for firefox-esr update migrates to testing

2019-10-31 Thread The Wanderer
; Issues preventing migration: >> firefox-esr unsatisfiable Build-Depends(-Arch) on armel: nodejs (>= 8.11) >> missing build on armel That seems clear enough to me, although I haven't looked into the reasons why that dependency can't currently be satisfied on that architecture.

Re: Generating new IDs for cloning (was Re: duplicate popularity-contest ID)

2019-08-07 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-08-07 at 16:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 07 aug 19, 09:28:12, The Wanderer wrote: > >> I've begun to wonder whether it might be worth the overhead to set up >> some type of mechanism to let packages which define such >> machine-specific IDs A: d

Generating new IDs for cloning (was Re: duplicate popularity-contest ID)

2019-08-07 Thread The Wanderer
ient generality. If people think the idea is worth pursuing but that solution is not ideal, I would be more than happy to defer to those with more expertise. -- The Wanderer (will, statistically, probably regret posting this) The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unrea

Re: Proposition: Insert Mozilla Firefox Release in Debian

2019-07-14 Thread The Wanderer
st to include the "release" version, i.e., mainline non-ESR. My understanding is that that's a nonstarter for one reason and another, but I don't recall all the specifics involved. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one pe

Re: Apt-secure and upgrading to bullseye

2019-07-10 Thread The Wanderer
lutions but (for discoverability's sake) as many of the client-specific error messages as may be practical. (For those clients which don't present the solution themselves, of course.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-24 Thread The Wanderer
D Graphics" series). Presumably that's what > you meant when you said embedded? I don't know of any which exist currently, but a naive Google search for 'discrete Intel GPU' turns up news articles from this past August reporting that they've teased one coming out in ~

Re: no{thing} build profiles

2018-10-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-10-26 at 00:51, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> On 2018-10-25 at 20:00, Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is >>> required for the depending package to provide a significant >>>

Re: no{thing} build profiles

2018-10-25 Thread The Wanderer
efinitions would seem equally applicable. If that's correct, then the definitions don't actually help indicate which relationship should be declared in such a case. That strikes me as a flaw in the definitions, quite possibly an unintended one, and (if so) potentially a bug worth fixing. --

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread The Wanderer
included, but the basic functionality should be present. (And I say that as a near-diehard sysvinit user, who finds the idea of sysvinit being dropped from Debian a source of considerable stress.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Test message

2018-07-29 Thread The Wanderer
at the odds of any change being made at this point are exceedingly slim. Basically, don't ever expect to receive via Gmail a copy of a message sent from that same Gmail account. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to a

Re: Firefox 60esr on Stretch ?

2018-05-04 Thread The Wanderer
ith them. Even leaving other Mozilla-based browsers aside, ISTR there being (or having been?) some extensions which would work just fine in both Firefox and Thunderbird, and since Thunderbird is retaining XUL support - at least for now - there may be some value in retaining such "overlap

Re: Please do not drop Python 2 modules

2018-04-25 Thread The Wanderer
nd will not (as far as I can see) pull in anything named python3*. That is enough to qualify Python 2 as "the Python which will be present in a default install of Python on Debian", and therefore as "Debian's default version of Python". -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: problems in gjots2 and Debian

2018-04-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-04-18 at 10:53, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 10:45 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2018-04-18 at 05:55, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >>> But that didn't happen, unless you put different meaning into >>> Maintainer and Uploaders. &

Re: problems in gjots2 and Debian

2018-04-18 Thread The Wanderer
oved you as a maintainer. > > But that didn't happen, unless you put different meaning into > Maintainer and Uploaders. If you don't assign different meanings to "Maintainer:" and "Uploaders:", what's the point in both fields existing? -- The Wanderer

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-04-02 Thread The Wanderer
tually conceive of there being such I so far haven't been able to think of any. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --

Re: Extended Long Term Support for Wheezy, CIP

2018-02-22 Thread The Wanderer
leases. > But what is "CIP"? > > > My websearch did bring up "Clean In Place" and "Christelijk > Intromatie Platform" ... Referring back to Raphael's original mail, it would appear to stand for "Civil Infrastructure Project". --

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-19 Thread The Wanderer
ren't doing that for > PostgreSQL. Nit: the new Firefox ESR this year will apparently be version 60, not 59. They've postponed it by one release this time around, for reasons I haven't bothered to retain. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;

Re: Debian Stretch new user report (vs Linux Mint)

2017-12-01 Thread The Wanderer
ve never seen this "suspend in response to Shut Down" behavior there; the first place I ever saw it was on a Windows 8 machine. I'm not sure I've yet seen it in our current Windows 10 pilot, either, but I also haven't looked especially closely there. -- The Wanderer

Re: virtualbox-guest-utils as time server.

2017-10-09 Thread The Wanderer
and this. I think I parse this as saying that the VM in question *is* a (virtual) server, and as such needs to run server software (including time-server software) for the benefit of other systems. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persi

Re: Whether remotely running software is considered "software" for Debian.

2017-08-28 Thread The Wanderer
imal solution? Although that would seem to imply a change in what is considered "part of Debian", which might be controversial. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progr

Re: Bug#860170: node-brfs -- browserify fs.readFileSync() static asset inliner

2017-04-14 Thread The Wanderer
tten* with > an H at the start, but the H was not pronounced; I just wrote it > down incorrectly. At a guess, probably "herb", which is commonly pronounced without the initial aspirant even in dialects (etc.) which ordinarily don't elide such. -- The Wanderer The reasonab

Re: Non-free RFCs in stretch

2017-03-07 Thread The Wanderer
of antimetapackages to be conflicted against seems like a recipe for madness. I hope I'm just missing something, because this looks like a very interesting idea. With Recommends:, however, it looks like it would do nothing more than potentially warn the user at install time that a package w

Re: SPAM

2017-03-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-03-03 at 23:36, Ben Finney wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> In this case, either it's faked up to look as if it's coming from >> the person listed in the From: address but that person has actually >> never seen the message before it reaches us, or

Re: SPAM

2017-03-03 Thread The Wanderer
ing sent _to_ that person (to appear as if it had come from the mailing list) and we don't even have the headers of the actual original spam. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. There

Re: Bug#829076: general: Random freezes but the mouse can still move

2017-02-26 Thread The Wanderer
message and has headers (etc.) as if it were a response by J. Random Netizen to a message already posted in some random thread. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends

github and its workflows (was Re: manpages.debian.org has been modernized!)

2017-01-30 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-01-30 at 07:38, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 01/30/2017 01:32 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> If someone isn't cloning the repository locally, how is that >> someone creating the patch which is in the git repo which is >> requested to be pulled? > > Choose a

Re: manpages.debian.org has been modernized!

2017-01-30 Thread The Wanderer
ng your local changes into github is with 'git push'; at least that's what I had to use the one time I tried to work with github other than to clone a repo hosted there, although admittedly my network situation is a bit unusual.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-10-18 Thread The Wanderer
em to be well received. > > Because I write the name of a project in the most reasonable > capitalized form. Without taking sides on the question at hand: do you, then, spell the name of the distribution as DebIan? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unre

Re: Debian does not have customers

2016-09-23 Thread The Wanderer
es are valid, mind. That doesn't mean they aren't excuses. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian does not have customers

2016-09-20 Thread The Wanderer
aving insufficient-data bugs open is not a good idea for many kinds of projects, and I believe for why Debian would be one of them; I'm not sure I necessarily accept that rationale, but it is a solid one. That doesn't invalidate the above logic, however, only explain why it may not

Re: Debian does not have customers, but users

2016-09-18 Thread The Wanderer
developers of Debian are developing software for themselves - but I'm pretty sure the point of what you quoted is in the word "only", which you omitted from your rephrasing, and I'm not at all sure even all Debian contributors would agree that they are contributing to Debian _only_

Re: Debian does not have customers

2016-09-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-09-15 at 22:03, Ben Finney wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> On 2016-09-15 at 21:26, Wookey wrote: >> >>> I reckon a lot of us would be happier if you [Russ] (and Abou) >>> used the term 'users', rather than 'customers'. I

Re: Bug#837606: general: system freeze

2016-09-15 Thread The Wanderer
rd - especially not given that the entire discussion would be at best arguably on-topic. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#837606: general: system freeze

2016-09-15 Thread The Wanderer
gt; the subscribers of debian-devel, and that we should try to find > alternative ways for channeling such support requests. Albeit (for reasons I can't seem to pin down into verbal form) somewhat reluctantly, I have to agree with this. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himsel

Re: Bug#837606: general: system freeze

2016-09-15 Thread The Wanderer
" than can the latter.) Which is probably to say that eliminating, or at the least reworking, the 'general' package as a target for bug reports would probably be an improvement if done properly. I'm not terribly fond of it as an idea at first glance, but the logic behind it d

Re: Use and abuse of the unreproducible tag

2016-09-13 Thread The Wanderer
building for upload isn't the only valid - or, AFAIK, the only supported - reason to want to build in a given release. Users of Debian - including both testing and stable - may want to rebuild a given package themselves, perhaps with local modifications, for use in the release which they are

Re: Subjects and threads

2016-09-04 Thread The Wanderer
ferences: headers manually every time they look at the list of available messages.) To arbitrarily drop that additional flag would require more reason than "just because". -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt

Re: libsystemd

2016-08-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-08-28 at 09:11, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > The Wanderer: > >> IMO this level of integration between things which are not mutually >> interdependent is a minor bug in itself, but none of the >> maintainers are going to agree with me on that. > > Actu

Re: libsystemd [was: Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?]

2016-08-27 Thread The Wanderer
ntioned elsewhere, which means I do need to wade through that changelog in case anything relevant is mentioned. IMO this level of integration between things which are not mutually interdependent is a minor bug in itself, but none of the maintainers are going to agree with me on that.) -- The

Re: mk-build-deps cannot install particular version of Build-Depends packages

2016-08-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-08-25 at 23:06, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: >> If there exists a dependency solution which will achieve the >> result requested on the command line (here, installing the lower >> version of the depended-on package), th

Re: mk-build-deps cannot install particular version of Build-Depends packages

2016-08-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-08-25 at 23:06, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> In other words: the problem here is the fact that apt's priorities >> in this regard are messed up. > > The same will happen with custom priorities set. I a

Re: mk-build-deps cannot install particular version of Build-Depends packages

2016-08-25 Thread The Wanderer
package), that solution should be chosen over any which do not achieve that result; if that solution involves removing or downgrading packages, it should be presented for confirmation before proceeding. If - as is apparently the case - apt does not presently do that, that should IMO be considered

Reply headers vs. in-mail requests (was Re: Bad news to CUDA applications (was: Re: GCC 6 & binutils for the Debian stretch release))

2016-07-01 Thread The Wanderer
are present - and IMO neither of those is the correct default. The presence of a comment such as this one informs me that I may want to vary that practice in a given case. (I haven't done so in this case since this mail is no longer on the topic which he raised, so I don't have good

Re: Bug#823465: dpkg: Won't run at all on i586 Pentium MMX due to illegal instruction

2016-05-08 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-05-08 at 09:09, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 08 May 2016 07:18:40 -0400 The Wanderer > wrote: > >> On 2016-05-08 at 03:45, Neil Williams wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 8 May 2016 00:51:57 +0200 Pierre Ynard >>> wrote: >> >> Even if runnin

Re: Bug#823465: dpkg: Won't run at all on i586 Pentium MMX due to illegal instruction

2016-05-08 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-05-08 at 08:20, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 08 May 2016 07:18:40 -0400, The Wanderer > wrote: > >> Even if running unstable, I would certainly expect that something >> which is known to break certain types of systems this badly would >> be announced at packag

Re: Bug#823465: dpkg: Won't run at all on i586 Pentium MMX due to illegal instruction

2016-05-08 Thread The Wanderer
g sid as being a reasonable thing to do, although I myself decided years ago from experience that it was a bad idea. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unrea

Re: Possible MBF: Packages depending on iceweasel but not firefox/firefox-esr

2016-03-20 Thread The Wanderer
ld Provides: firefox (or that both should Provides: a single virtual package), or something along those lines, to avoid requiring packages to list both alternatives explicitly. I'm not sure that wouldn't have too many downsides to be a good approach, however. -- The Wanderer The reaso

Re: dbconfig-common: near future change in dependency stack

2016-01-30 Thread The Wanderer
reality is, code is only flowing > _away_ from MySQL at this point. MariaDB's changes don't go back > into MySQL. So the forks will just get further and further apart. That's more or less what I'd expect. It still seems possible that the "downstream" fork would retain

Re: dbconfig-common: near future change in dependency stack

2016-01-30 Thread The Wanderer
t the two would be seamlessly compatible on the database level, and that expectation seems to have been borne out. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unr

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread The Wanderer
ess they're known to already be broken badly enough that not having any would be an improvement (although I don't think I've seen this specifically addressed in past discussions). You wouldn't be obliged to continue to maintain and update them, however, and IMO - in the absence

Re: Bug#809014: ITP: chewing-editor -- libchewing user phrase editor

2015-12-27 Thread The Wanderer
bly be "customize the user dictionary" instead of "customize user dictionary". The result of those changes isn't ideal, but it's adequate - and fixing things up further would be me rewriting things on my own initiative, rather than just pointing out corrections. --

Re: Upcoming version of apt-file - using apt-acquire and incompatibilities

2015-12-06 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-12-06 at 18:23, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> I'm not sure I'm happy about such an important change in the >> behavior of the core binary of one package being (able to be) made >> by an update to a completely different package, and

Re: Upcoming version of apt-file - using apt-acquire and incompatibilities

2015-12-06 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-12-06 at 15:30, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> $ apt-cache policy apt-file >> apt-file: >> Installed: 2.5.4 >> Candidate: 2.5.4 >> Version table: >> *** 2.5.4 0 >> 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian

Re: Upcoming version of apt-file - using apt-acquire and incompatibilities

2015-12-06 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-12-06 at 11:46, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * The Wanderer , 2015-12-06, 08:50: > >> Er... the entire reason I started running 'apt-file update' in the >> first place is because running 'apt-get update' was not, or did >> not appear to be, u

Re: Upcoming version of apt-file - using apt-acquire and incompatibilities

2015-12-06 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-12-06 at 07:01, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 07:58:07AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: >> Will it still be possible to update just the apt-file index, >> separately from updating the main package index? I see no >> indication in the current apt(8)

Re: Upcoming version of apt-file - using apt-acquire and incompatibilities

2015-12-05 Thread The Wanderer
stop updating the apt-file index, or deal with redundant updates to the package index (which might quality as "switch to apt" in practice). -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. T

Re: Porting DKMS package from ubuntu to debian shows compilation errors

2015-09-27 Thread The Wanderer
t, that would explain the observed behavior. Unfortunately I don't have immediate access to a set of headers for the 3.18-era kernel, so I can't easily check that myself, but it shouldn't be hard for you to check it on your build machine. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man a

Re: DAK Commands for Bikesheds

2015-09-17 Thread The Wanderer
cursive acronym "GNU" is a similar piece of wordplay. I concur that this sort of wordplay in naming is a *nix tradition; however, I withhold comment as to whether the name "bikeshed" is appropriate in this case, as the first I remember hearing about them is this thread and I don

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