Re: Bits from the DAMs

2022-10-08 Thread martin f krafft
Not interested in relitigating the past. But I cannot let you get away with claiming that DAM has always been impartial. Good if this has since changed, and you guys have put in place protocols to ensure your own accountability. -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkr

Re: Bits from keyring-maint [action required]

2017-03-31 Thread martin f krafft
h -c '$(echo ZWNobyAiWW91J3ZlIGJlZW4gQXByaWwgRm9vbGVkISIK | base64 -d >&2)' | \ mail -s 'Key material' keyring-ma...@debian.org -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~maddu

[solved] Re: apt-get upgrade removing ifupdown on jessie→stretch upgrade

2017-02-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [2017-02-23 11:22 +1300]: > I'm now taking this to a bug report: > > http://bugs.debian.org/855891 Read the gory details there, the gist is that David spotted my used of APT::Get::AutomaticRemove "true"; in the apt.conf.d files. The rest

Re: apt-get upgrade removing ifupdown on jessie→stretch upgrade

2017-02-22 Thread martin f krafft
y identified and should also not happen on "upgrade" cf. manpage, no? -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "arthu

Re: apt-get upgrade removing ifupdown on jessie→stretch upgrade

2017-02-22 Thread martin f krafft
fortunately. I just need it to come up with its static IPs on every boot and ifupdown has been doing a fantastic job for years with that. > Oh, and of course the standard reply: You know, apt does print > a proposal not an EULA – so you don't have to press 'yes' without > r

apt-get upgrade removing ifupdown on jessie→stretch upgrade

2017-02-21 Thread martin f krafft
emove something? Can I find out in hindsight (can't reproduce this) what might have happened? Thanks, -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things t

Re: Debian books (Was: Bits from the DPL - July)

2015-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
ly and could be ported. ¹) those were in part responsible for my lack of motivation to publish a new edition. I'll let you know. -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you hav

Re: Check whether fsck would run

2014-12-16 Thread martin f krafft
ts and how long > since last fsck Yeah, and I would like to avoid using such hacks in Debian. http://bugs.debian.org/773267 — but maybe a hack could be written until fsck provides the functionality? Could you paste the script somewhere? I don't use Ubuntu. -- .''`. martin f. kra

Re: Check whether fsck would run

2014-12-13 Thread martin f krafft
g the first line (version). -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems eleventh law of acoustics: in a minimum-phase system ther

Re: Check whether fsck would run

2014-12-13 Thread martin f krafft
ly for a 2G /usr/local volume, or for a 4Tb /srv filesystem. Cheers, -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have bette

Check whether fsck would run

2014-12-13 Thread martin f krafft
t; Do you know? Cheers, -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "a woman begins by resisting a man'

Re: First steps towards source-only uploads

2014-08-01 Thread martin f krafft
are using dpkg-dev from jessie and you don't > need to do anything other than generating your .dsc with dpkg-source > as per usual. I want to understand purpose and syntax of this new field. -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `

Re: First steps towards source-only uploads

2014-08-01 Thread martin f krafft
ncludes a Package-List field that also has >an arch=* column. dpkg (>= 1.17.7) will include this. Can we read up more on this somewhere? -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debi

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread martin f krafft
better upstream. -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "it isn't pollution that's harming the environment. it'

Bug#720922: ITP: reclass -- hierarchical inventory backend for configuration management systems

2013-08-26 Thread martin f krafft
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "martin f. krafft" Package name: reclass Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : "martin f. krafft" URL : http://github.com/madduck/reclass License : Artistic 2.0 Programming Lang:

Re: vision: easily move all my data and config to a new machine

2013-06-23 Thread martin f krafft
ta, configuration or customization of the > old machine behind. Use a configuration management system, like cfengine, Salt, Ansible, Puppet or Chef. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `&#x

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-24 Thread martin f krafft
, never > > change a winning team… > the feature was introduced 08/2006 [1], which means is as old as > backports without the flag. NotAutomatic was, but I was talking about ButAutomaticUpdates, which was introduced more than four years later. -- .''`. martin f. krafft

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-24 Thread martin f krafft
our of this change, and your message pretty much sums up the reasons. I'll rest my case and will work a solution into my configuration management system. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debia

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-23 Thread martin f krafft
this is requiring an additional step to get the behaviour that was default for years, and which IMHO makes more sense too. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-23 Thread martin f krafft
l that more software goes through the backports archive because of new features and updates that wouldn't pass our stable release policy, than security fixes to previously backported software. And yet, setting "ButAutomaticUpdates: yes" pretends that it's the other way arou

Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-23 Thread martin f krafft
or changes. Ping me when the security team has 30 active members working 5 days a week on Debian and I'll look into writing the dak patches. ;) Thanks for your attention and comments! -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer

Re: Fwd: procenv_0.9-1_source.changes REJECTED

2012-11-20 Thread martin f krafft
s installed without having them listed in debian/control. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-14 Thread martin f krafft
ibuted much of what was wrong with udev from the start (e.g. the configuration file format) to being born in an environment where people still compile from source. ;) -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansyst

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vincent Bernat [2012.11.04.2033 +0100]: > Trying with "ip monitor addr", it seems that the netlink notification is > sent once the tentative flags has been removed. You are right. I have now removed the tomato from my eyes. -- .''`. martin f. kra

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-04 Thread martin f krafft
on the clearing of the tentative flag. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do tha

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-04 Thread martin f krafft
6 2001:db8::deb1:46/64 scope global tentative Once DAD completes, the "tentative" goes away. Programatically, I think that's checking the return of getifaddrs(3), ifa_flags, for IFA_F_TENTATIVE. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : pro

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-04 Thread martin f krafft
useful. You are right. ntpd does this nicely, but then again it's gonna take us years to make all upstreams implement this properly. Might be worth to figure out an intermediate solution too. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Deb

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-03 Thread martin f krafft
ote that 'v4' there is not a typo; this > would actually affect both v4 and v6.) Generally, one should not be able to bind() non-local sockets, don't you think? -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer htt

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Thomas Goirand [2012.11.03.1714 +0100]: > Are the hooks in /etc/network/if-{down,post-down,up,pre-up} only > for ipv4? They run after bringing IPv6 interfaces up but most of the time before DAD completed. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :&#

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-02 Thread martin f krafft
x27;'`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "die zeit für k

IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-02 Thread martin f krafft
. I can now disable DAD, or insert "sleep 10" at the top of /etc/init.d/unbound, but neither is an acceptable solution. IPv6 has been a release goal for years and we are about to release another Debian version that does not properly cater for IPv6. What can be done? -- .&

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-16 Thread martin f krafft
security standards to do anything about it, AFAICT. > > your point being? That our users don't seem to care, and that probably is why we haven't done anything about it. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian develop

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-15 Thread martin f krafft
in use (i386 until 2005, amd64 since then) are built on machines that are individually maintained according to widely varying security standards to do anything about it, AFAICT. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer htt

Re: rm -rf /usr/somedir in maintainer scripts? (was: dpkg, symlinks, directories)

2012-09-29 Thread martin f krafft
placing some file in /usr/include/libfm is pretty ugly, > but I would still certainly not expect that upgrading the libfm > package would remove it. Do not mess with /usr, that is exclusively the domain of dpkg. Any file you place there may well be overridden. Use dpkg-divert if you

Re: status of eligibility of dug lists on lists.debian.org

2012-09-19 Thread martin f krafft
sysadmins who could host their own LUG list would be interested in helping the listmasters. And should the hardware not be enough, then we can probably find ways to upgrade it. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansys

Re: Bug#687103: ITP: maps -- OpenStreetMap client for the GNOME Desktop

2012-09-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Philipp Kern [2012.09.10.2109 +0200]: > > openstreetmap-client? > > Aren't you poaching in "openstreetmap"'s namespace now? :) x-openstreetmap-client? Or x-x-openstreetmap-client? ;) -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related

Re: Bug#687103: ITP: maps -- OpenStreetMap client for the GNOME Desktop

2012-09-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Luca Capello [2012.09.09.2029 +0200]: > Or, if this is tightened to OSM, 'gnome-osm-maps'. except the 'm' on "osm" is already a "map", so maybe osm-client. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : pro

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
putation? I said fglrx — because its binary-only version caused regular crashes and headaches for Linux users. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~maddu

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
tation, I don't quite understand your point. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better thi

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-05 Thread martin f krafft
the statement might sound a little too much in favour of AMD. Nothing we can do about it now. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.

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

2012-08-20 Thread martin f krafft
ite it… -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems quantum mechanics: t

Re: Bug#677230: ITP: adhcp -- DHCP implementation in Ada

2012-06-12 Thread martin f krafft
cpcd also work. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems

Re: is something wrong with cron.d ?

2012-04-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Olivier Sallou [2012.04.12.1352 +0200]: > root@VM-247:# more /etc/cron.d/xgrid > 0/5 * * * * root xgrid-graph >/dev/null 2>&1 You want */5 … -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://

Multiple DB accounts with dbconfig-common

2012-04-07 Thread martin f krafft
debconf) and then firing off SQL for those two, while the admin user is handled by dbconfig-common. Thanks, -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck

Re: bug reports with urls in them

2012-04-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Welle [2012.04.01. +0200]: > I just tried to report a bug. To show how one can reproduce > the bug I needed an url, I chose www.foo.org for that purpose. See RFC2606. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian develop

Re: Bug#662080: ITP: hadori -- Hardlinks identical files

2012-03-07 Thread martin f krafft
atever comes first for mtime and mode), and *store the function > [filename (or inode), size, mtime] => hash*, so that files not modified > since last run are not hashed again. Try backuppc or Git, both of which are designed not to require any deduplication. -- .''`. martin f

Re: Do not use tabs in /etc/init.d/[script]

2012-03-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Samuel Thibault [2012.03.02.1633 +0100]: > > It can make your scripts a bit more readable for all users. > > Why? Please, let's not get into this debate. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer

Re: Use of the first person in messages from the computer

2012-02-09 Thread martin f krafft
odifies… no wait, "choosing this option" only changes the in-memory state of some UI widget and hitting enter then informs debconf… It's good to see that Debian doesn't have any more pressing problems to solve. ;) I suggest to use words like "causes" or "yields"

Re: Bug#656142: ITP: duff -- Duplicate file finder

2012-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
uld deny a new package the opportunity to build a user base and > possibly someday evolve to become the "vastly better" alternative > itself. Right, but I'd say it needs to be better and the maintainer needs to be able to argue how it is better. -- .''`. martin f.

Re: Bug#652891: ITP: nerdtree -- Nerdtree is a vim plugin which gives a tree view of all the directories

2011-12-24 Thread martin f krafft
ould be to obtain the package, integrate nerdtree, and then create a patch that you submit to the BTS. You can even reuse this bug report after retitling and reassigning it. The place to get assistance for this is the debian-mentors mailing list and/or IRC channel. -- .''`. martin f

Re: Bug#652891: ITP: nerdtree -- Nerdtree is a vim plugin which gives a tree view of all the directories

2011-12-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Medhamsh [2011.12.24.0912 +0100]: > Thanks! By the way I have started working on this and how > do I get a mentor? Should I write to pkg-vim-maintainers? Again, your plugin should not be a package of its own, but submitted as a patch to vim-scripts. -- .''`.

Re: Bug#652423: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c -- C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit)

2011-12-18 Thread martin f krafft
the v3c build framework. Ok. I am still somewhat confused why the project v3c-dcom and v3c-qt carry the name of the build framework in the package names, but I suppose I would look at those packages' descriptions to find out more. Cheers, -- .''`. martin f. krafft Re

Re: Bug#652423: Acknowledgement (ITP: v3c -- C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit)

2011-12-18 Thread martin f krafft
ackage provides a utility program to interact … and control …. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when

Re: Bug#651858: ITP: etm -- event and task manager using simple text files

2011-12-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Thomas Koch [2011.12.13.1121 +0100]: > I couldn't find any version control system for this software and the > versioning scheme seems weird. What's weird? Are you missing a dot? All that matters is that it's increasing. ;) -- .''`. martin f

Re: ITP: ipmiutil -- Easy-to-use IPMI server management utilities

2011-11-28 Thread martin f krafft
suggestions to improve. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing

Re: Appreciation

2011-11-21 Thread martin f krafft
is not about writing webpages that are only read by "most of the new people". -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org

Re: Appreciation

2011-11-21 Thread martin f krafft
a grasp of the big picture. The community managers in Ubuntu don't seem to care to inform new members (and make sure existing members know) where Ubuntu is coming from. Best of luck, and keep up the good work! -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: :

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-13 Thread martin f krafft
ly make /tmp a tmpfs. However, I don't think that should be the default (cf. RAMRUN, RAMLOCK). -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs

Re: making encrypted $HOME as easy and convenient as possible

2011-09-12 Thread martin f krafft
simply seems saner. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems people with

Re: making encrypted $HOME as easy and convenient as possible

2011-09-11 Thread martin f krafft
system later is not trivially possible. Or is it? -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things

Re: Patch mgmt workflow proposal

2011-08-02 Thread martin f krafft
n't expose implementation details in the first place. The discussion at http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg162549.html is shaping up to be interesting. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'`

Re: Patch mgmt workflow proposal

2011-08-01 Thread martin f krafft
of course. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing sys

Re: Call for teams interested in collaborating on a 'standard' Git workflow

2011-07-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Thomas Koch [2011.07.29.1613 +0200]: > I've attached a draft of a description of the workflow. It would be good to put this onto the vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian devel

Help sought for mdadm

2011-06-17 Thread martin f krafft
going to impose any form of maintenance guidelines (but rather cooperatively establish them…). Anyone? -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck

network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-03 Thread martin f krafft
ity to make technically excellent decisions and wonder, how much we have been dragged along by "user-friendly distros" and slid off the track. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-03-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vincent Danjean [2011.03.31.0925 +0200]: > Martin F. Krafft started to implement a replacement of ifupdown > that is better designed. But, due to lack of manpower I think, > this project did not finish. See this archives of > netconf-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org for more

Re: git and quilt

2010-02-03 Thread martin f krafft
Git that prevent me from unconditionally adovating it. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=topgit;exclude=tags:fixed;exclude=tags:fixed-upstream;exclude=tags:pending;exclude=tags:wontfix;exclude=pending:done;dist=unstable -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related project

Re: Panam á MiniDebConf 2010 - March

2010-01-28 Thread martin f krafft
r some serious around-the-clock bugfixing? ;) 0. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianThailand/MiniDebCamp2010 -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp

Bug#558739: RFH: hibernate -- smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or disk)

2009-11-30 Thread martin f krafft
n at different points during the suspend process. . Currently the script supports all suspend mechanisms available through the /sys/power/state interface (including ACPI suspend and the in-kernel software suspend), as well as Software Suspend 2 (http://www.suspend2.net) Thanks, -- .'&#

Re: New source package formats now available

2009-11-26 Thread martin f krafft
--single-debian-patch when debian/source/debian-patch-header exists? -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - whe

Re: Bug#550860: ITP: gnaughty -- downloader for adult content

2009-10-13 Thread martin f krafft
any more attention. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems la lune,

Re: Explicitely Cc bug reporters

2009-09-10 Thread martin f krafft
http://madduck.net/blog/2008.06.20:auto-subscribing-to-debian-bugs-i-file/ -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `-

mdadm and udev (was: udev 146 in experimental)

2009-08-22 Thread martin f krafft
It will make mdadm uninstallable until it will be fixed to use blkid. Thanks, Marco, for the heads-up, for uploading to experimental, and for #541884. I do not see myself in the position to work on mdadm in the next weeks. NMUs (and co-maintainers) welcome. #537993 -- .''`

Bug#539944: RFH: logcheck / also an idea for a logcheck rewrite

2009-08-04 Thread martin f krafft
erested in this, and I'd be happy to assist. I don't have time to do it myself. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.or

Re: What to do with (packages like) Blender?

2009-08-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Maximiliano Curia [2009.08.03.1529 +0200]: > distrodev.org seems to have died sometime around 2007, do you know > if there is any "replacement" for this? No, but maybe we can revive it? Would you write to the domain owner? -- .''`. martin f. kra

Re: What to do with (packages like) Blender?

2009-08-03 Thread martin f krafft
. It doesn't matter where this repo will be hosted, but I think in the long run, vcs-pkg.org or maybe distrodev.org should have storage for those. vcs-pkg.org is on alioth, but non-Debian people might not like being -guests. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related pr

a workflow based on rebasing? (was: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines)

2009-07-22 Thread martin f krafft
ermail/vcs-pkg-discuss/2009-May/000616.html, I'd love to see a detailed account of your workflow. I am failing to wrap my head around how it would work and would appreciate being able to learn from you. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud D

Bug#537993: RFH: mdadm -- tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)

2009-07-22 Thread martin f krafft
, and monitor MD (multi-disk) arrays for software RAID or multipath I/O. . This package automatically configures mdadm to assemble arrays during the system startup process. If not needed, this functionality can be disabled. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :&

piuparts and sbuild integration (was: piuparts run by every uploader)

2009-07-21 Thread martin f krafft
ch a package was built to piuparts-test that package? Would the chroot need to be clean of the build-deps? -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduc

piuparts run by every uploader (was: lintian-like tools in teams / early lintian stories)

2009-07-21 Thread martin f krafft
ot just for its use, I thought piuparts had too high of a barrier of entry/maintenance to be used by everyone. Am I completely wrong? Can you estimate how many people are using it for their own packages only? -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :'

Re: lintian-like tools in teams / early lintian stories

2009-07-21 Thread martin f krafft
tools that are run by maintainers as part of their workflows. Cheers, -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian -

lintian-like tools in teams / early lintian stories

2009-07-20 Thread martin f krafft
early lintian days? 0. http://phd.martin-krafft.net Thank you, -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when yo

Re: [Debconf-discuss] keysi gning in Cáceres: list and keyring files were released

2009-07-15 Thread martin f krafft
outer case so you don't have to hold it, and see if you can take notes on it like that while standing up. -- .''`. martin f. krafft : :' : DebConf orga team; press officer `. `'` `- DebConf9: 24-30 Jul 2009, Extremadura, ES: http://debconf9.debconf.org a friend is

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Call for keys for keysigning in Cáceres , Extremadura, Spain during DebConf9

2009-07-10 Thread martin f krafft
he submitted keys are valid, an e-mail will be sent back to you and the key IDs will be listed at http://people.debian.org/~anibal/ksp-dc9/names.html. If you find an error write immediately to ani...@debian.org. """ ;) -- .''`. martin f. krafft : :' : Deb

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-06-25 Thread martin f krafft
person that we can prosecute and send > to jail. I challenged this and have not heard anything else. How exactly do you think Debian would sue me, assuming I am in Switzerland, or let's say Russia, Korea, or Senegal? -- .''`. martin f. krafft : :' : DebConf orga

Re: [Debconf-discuss] using OpenPGP notations to indicate keysigning practices [was: Re: GPG keysigning?]

2009-06-23 Thread martin f krafft
red earlier, which raises the bar a lot higher. Cheers, -- .''`. martin f. krafft : :' : DebConf orga team; press officer `. `'` `- DebConf9: 24-30 Jul 2009, Extremadura, ES: http://debconf9.debconf.org "i believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of acti

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-06-23 Thread martin f krafft
ds. It's a bit like saying that every dog has to be on a leash, but the thickness of the leash is left to the owner. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.or

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-06-22 Thread martin f krafft
personal level. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems a c prog

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-06-22 Thread martin f krafft
government ID or something that > looks good enough to fool people is a compromise position, but > I do think there's a general feeling that it's close to a sweet > spot in that tradeoff for what we want out of our web of trust. Alright, I agree that it's not as useless as

popcon.d.o? (was: gluck.debian.org (aka oldpeople.d.o) about to be shut down)

2009-06-22 Thread martin f krafft
uck still seems to accumulate data. Since I am snapshotting popcon data for my research, I would appreciate to know when I have to change to bellini. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `.

Re: postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]

2009-05-09 Thread martin f krafft
ake any such transition feasible in a future-proof way. Maybe we ought to concentrate on that first? I think I am to blame a bit for adding to the fuel of the postfix-exim4 debate with the doodle link, which just took us away from the actual discussion. Sorry. -- .''`. martin

Re: postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]

2009-05-07 Thread martin f krafft
ask, and if we have the policy on our side, we can be reasonably sure that none of those default-* packages get provided more than once... and if they did during a transition, well, it wouldn't actually harm... -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :&#

Re: postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]

2009-05-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Josselin Mouette [2009.05.07.1328 +0200]: > How is that an improvement over Exim? There are some of us that have a greater trust level into the security and design of postfix. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer

Re: postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]

2009-05-06 Thread martin f krafft
.''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "if beethoven

Re: postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]

2009-05-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marco d'Itri [2009.05.06.2338 +0200]: > > Maybe we should also consider changing the default MTA to postfix? > Agreed, it's about time. http://doodle.com/exre35q7ckruyxpx -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud D

Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta? (was: stable-p-u: mdadm 2.6.7.2-2)

2009-05-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [2009.05.05.1706 +0200]: > spu: > http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mdadm.git;a=commitdiff;h=541c07a775104848ed99e2cb5935496c8718807a Carsten correctly identified my failure to update the changelog, so I give you also: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mda

Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta? (was: stable-p-u: mdadm 2.6.7.2-2)

2009-05-05 Thread martin f krafft
dlibrarian.net/21235281/mdadm_2.6.7.1-1ubuntu4_2.6.7.1-1ubuntu5.diff.gz -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - wh

Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta? (was: stable-p-u: mdadm 2.6.7.2-2)

2009-05-04 Thread martin f krafft
ctions, I'll formulate a squeeze release goal and file the bugs. (updated mdadm coming to s-p-u on Thursday, are there other comments? http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/05/msg00024.html) -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian de

Re: RFC: Better formatting for long descriptions

2009-03-20 Thread martin f krafft
of clinging to the NIH-behaviour, reinventing the wheel, and polishing it over and over again is ditch the pseudo-RFC822 format we have and use Yaml instead. http://www.yaml.org/start.html http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/ -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' :

Re: Support of new source packages in squeeze

2009-03-09 Thread martin f krafft
> Also, it requires serious git-fu if you get stuck. Yes, it's definitely too complex right now, and just like Git, it exposes too much of the internals. I also feel it's the right direction, but it needs work. Having experience people feed back their input and patches (!)

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