Bug#934219: ITP: dmrconfig -- configuration utility for DMR radios

2019-08-08 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Iain R. Learmonth" * Package name: dmrconfig Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Serge Vakulenko * URL : https://github.com/sergev/dmrconfig * License : Apache Programming Lang: C Description : configuration utility

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

2019-08-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 07 Aug 2019 09:28:12 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >On 2019-08-07 at 04:26, Russell Stuart wrote: > >> On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 09:34 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> >>> I am using Debian for two decades now, and I realized that >>> necessity two days ago. >> >> Ditto - except for me it was a few

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Ondřej Surý
> Please stop hating on sysvinit So, just to clarify… so, it’s ok to hate systemd, but it’s not ok to hate sysvinit (spaghetti of shell scripts)? O. -- Ondřej Surý ond...@sury.org > On 7 Aug 2019, at 15:44, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Marc Haber writes ("Re: do packages depend on lexical order

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

2019-08-08 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
Am 08.08.19 um 13:39 schrieb Marc Haber: > On Wed, 07 Aug 2019 09:28:12 -0400, The Wanderer > wrote: >> On 2019-08-07 at 04:26, Russell Stuart wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 09:34 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >>> I am using Debian for two decades now, and I realized that necessity two d

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, 2019-08-08 at 13:47 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > So, just to clarify… so, it’s ok to hate systemd, but it’s > not ok to hate sysvinit (spaghetti of shell scripts)? > One has a spaghetti of shell scripts, the other has a kimchi of log commands and hidden config files. I think "out of sigh

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2019-08-08 13:47, Ondřej Surý wrote: Please stop hating on sysvinit So, just to clarify… so, it’s ok to hate systemd, but it’s not ok to hate sysvinit (spaghetti of shell scripts)? I don't think that's a constructive line of argument. At the same time it's not a race to the bottom in ter

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Ondřej Surý
> On 8 Aug 2019, at 14:08, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 2019-08-08 13:47, Ondřej Surý wrote: >>> Please stop hating on sysvinit >> So, just to clarify… so, it’s ok to hate systemd, but it’s not ok to >> hate sysvinit (spaghetti of shell scripts)? > > I don't think that's a constructive line of ar

Re: Generating new IDs for cloning

2019-08-08 Thread Marvin Renich
* Bernhard Schmidt [190808 07:48]: > Am 08.08.19 um 13:39 schrieb Marc Haber: > > How do I generate a new one? > > I followed > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/402999/it-is-ok-to-change-etc-machine-id > last time which means Hmm. The advice in that link doesn't match what man machine-i

Re: Generating new IDs for cloning

2019-08-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 08:37:16AM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: Does anyone know what applications use this file for what purpose? Is this a systemd-ism? man machine-id

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 02:35:13PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > And there’s the problem. If we keep with sysvinit as a baseline of > features provided by the init, we end up with just every init script > having something like this: [...] it seems several people in this thread have missed the fact

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2019-08-08 14:43, Holger Levsen wrote: On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 02:35:13PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: And there’s the problem. If we keep with sysvinit as a baseline of features provided by the init, we end up with just every init script having something like this: [...] it seems several peo

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 02:48:48PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: [...] > That's also to some degree why I think a solution to this problem is for the > init diversity folks to figure out and we should not block on that. And that > seems fine given the scope they have set for themselves. I agree with

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Philipp Kern - 08.08.19, 14:48:48 CEST: > On 2019-08-08 14:43, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 02:35:13PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > >> And there’s the problem. If we keep with sysvinit as a baseline of > >> features provided by the init, we end up with just every init > >> scrip

Re: Generating new IDs for cloning

2019-08-08 Thread Marvin Renich
* Michael Stone [190808 08:42]: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 08:37:16AM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > > Does anyone know what applications use this file for what purpose? Is > > this a systemd-ism? > > man machine-id The man page says what it is (a unique, random ID for the machine) and how to ini

Re: Generating new IDs for cloning

2019-08-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:41:52AM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: * Michael Stone [190808 08:42]: On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 08:37:16AM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > Does anyone know what applications use this file for what purpose? Is > this a systemd-ism? man machine-id The man page says what i

Re: Generating new IDs for cloning

2019-08-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 11:50:07 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: >On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:41:52AM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: >>* Michael Stone [190808 08:42]: >>> On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 08:37:16AM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: >>> > Does anyone know what applications use this file for what purpose? Is

Re: Generating new IDs for cloning

2019-08-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 06:16:31PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 11:50:07 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:41:52AM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: * Michael Stone [190808 08:42]: On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 08:37:16AM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > Does anyone know

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 02:48:48PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > As a lot of the conflict between sysvinit and systemd was about the > philosophy. I wouldn't say "philosophy". These are different technical designs, and each design has certain capabilities and limitations. It is not possible t

Bug#934245: ITP: libnektar++ -- Nektar++ spectral/hp element framework - libraries

2019-08-08 Thread Chris Cantwell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Cantwell * Package name: libnektar++ Version : 5.0.0 Upstream Author : Chris Cantwell * URL : http://www.nektar.info/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C++ Description : Nektar++ spectral/hp element framewo

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

2019-08-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 11:15:22 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: >I think this is a good idea, but will require work and coordination to >accomplish. A wiki.debian.org page with your ideas and (perhaps on a >separate page) a place to list things that need updating after the >physical copying is complete w

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Alf Gaida
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 19:10:42 +0200 Simon Richter wrote: > For servers, the benefit is rather limited. There is no local user who i don't agree - systemd just work™ in the most cases. Without changing a bit. > The "desktop" and "server" use cases are so vastly different that it > doesn't make sense

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 8 août 2019 19:10 +02, Simon Richter : > For servers, the benefit is rather limited. There is no local user who > makes system-wide policy decisions, and hardware is not changing > dynamically either. The actual services provided are either implemented as > daemons (i.e. not microservices), or

Re: Generating new IDs for cloning

2019-08-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Stone writes: > So to find out what applications use the file you'd have to look for > references to the various APIs (such as > sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific or dbus-uuidgen) which themselves use > /etc/machine-id I believe the point of the question was to see if anyone had already

Re: Bug#929752: Changing quote signs in GPL allowed? [Was: Bug#929752: installation-guide: left quotes in gpl.xml are not correctly rendered in pdf ]

2019-08-08 Thread Holger Wansing
Control: tags -1 + pending lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 08:30:56PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > I was about to commit these changes, however it came to my mind if such > > changes to the GPL are allowed? > > > > At least the English variant

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Ondřej Surý writes: > So, just to clarify… so, it’s ok to hate systemd, but it’s not ok to > hate sysvinit (spaghetti of shell scripts)? Personally, I'd be happy if people would just stop hating on any free software in general. Even buggy free software is someone's effort, released into the wo

Re: Generating new IDs for cloning

2019-08-08 Thread Marvin Renich
* Michael Stone [190808 12:34]: > I guess I need you to say what's confusing. It's an ID that doesn't change. > You can look up gethostid to get a little more background. If you need an ID First, let me say that I am not trying to be intentionally obtuse. I am really interested to know what prog

Bug#934253: ITP: xdg-utils-cxx -- Implementation of the Free Desktop Standards in C++.

2019-08-08 Thread Scarlett Moore
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scarlett Moore * Package name: xdg-utils-cxx Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Alexis López Zubieta * URL : https://github.com/azubieta/xdg-utils-cxx * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C++ Description : Implement

RE:Generating new IDs for cloning

2019-08-08 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
did you tried this https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=machine-id&literal=1&perpkg=1

[OT] /etc/machine-id "must not be exposed in untrusted environments"

2019-08-08 Thread Marvin Renich
This is related to the thread Generating new IDs for cloning, but is probably OT for this list. I guess this is really a question for systemd maintainers? Should I file a bug? The man page for machine-id says: This ID uniquely identifies the host. It should be considered "confidential", and

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Ondřej Surý
I pretty much agree with everything you just said. O. -- Ondřej Surý > On 8 Aug 2019, at 20:34, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Ondřej Surý writes: > >> So, just to clarify… so, it’s ok to hate systemd, but it’s not ok to >> hate sysvinit (spaghetti of shell scripts)? > > Personally, I'd be happy

Re: Bits from the Release Team: ride like the wind, Bullseye!

2019-08-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 07-08-2019 16:57, Ian Jackson wrote: > Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer writes ("Re: Bits from the Release Team: > ride like the wind, Bullseye!"): >> No, what I have been perceiving (and pretty please note that this is my >> personal "feeling") is that maintainers, specially library ma

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 08:15:29PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > inetd performance is very low because it needs to spawn one instance for > each connection. systemd socket activation has absolutely 0 overhead > except on the first connection (where systemd needs to start the > service). If

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon Richter writes: > In the same way, we could have had automatic restart of services through > sysvinit easily: an include mechanism that allows additional inittab > lines to be pulled from /etc/inittab.d/* would be trivial to > implement. That it hasn't been done is not because no one has th

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 01:08:41PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Simon Richter writes: In the same way, we could have had automatic restart of services through sysvinit easily: an include mechanism that allows additional inittab lines to be pulled from /etc/inittab.d/* would be trivial to impleme

Bypassing the 2/3/4GB virtual memory space on 32-bit ports

2019-08-08 Thread Aurelien Jarno
[ debian-arm is Cced: as armel and armhf might be impacted in the future] [ debian-devel is Cced: as i386 might be impacted in the future] [ debian-release is Cced: as the release has to agree with the solution] Hi all, 32-bit processes are able to address at maximum 4GB of memory (2^32), a

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit, systemd… and let go of the hating anyway (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Russ Allbery - 08.08.19, 20:33:58 CEST: > Ondřej Surý writes: > > So, just to clarify… so, it’s ok to hate systemd, but it’s not ok > > to > > hate sysvinit (spaghetti of shell scripts)? > > Personally, I'd be happy if people would just stop hating on any free > software in general. Even buggy

Re: [OT] /etc/machine-id "must not be exposed in untrusted environments"

2019-08-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-08-08 15:20 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > This is related to the thread Generating new IDs for cloning, but is > probably OT for this list. I guess this is really a question for > systemd maintainers? Should I file a bug? No. > The man page for machine-id says: > > This ID uniquely i

Re: Bypassing the 2/3/4GB virtual memory space on 32-bit ports

2019-08-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2019-08-08 at 22:38 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: [...] > 1) Build a 64-bit compiler targeting the 32-bit corresponding >architecture and install it in the 32-bit chroot with the other >64-bit dependencies. This is still a kind of cross-compiler, but the >rest of the build is unc

Bug#934266: ITP: whawty-auth -- simple file based authentication suite

2019-08-08 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Braud-Santoni -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: whawty-auth Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : whawty contributors (see AUTHORS file) * URL : https://github.com/whawty/auth/blob/master/AUTHORS

Re: [OT] /etc/machine-id "must not be exposed in untrusted environments"

2019-08-08 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/08/08 23:12, Sven Joachim wrote: >> The man page for machine-id says: >> >> This ID uniquely identifies the host. It should be considered >> "confidential", and must not be exposed in untrusted environments, in >> particular on the network. >> >> Why is the file mode 0666? > 0644, not

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

2019-08-08 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 08 Aug 2019 at 13:39:54 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Generating a new machine-id doesn't seem as easy as generating a new > ssh key: Removing /etc/machine-id doesn't do it as > systemd-machine-id-setup seems to pull the machine-id from dbus. For historical reasons (dbus originated the concep

Re: Bypassing the 2/3/4GB virtual memory space on 32-bit ports

2019-08-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 8/8/19 10:38 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Any comments, ideas, or help here? I'm by no means a GHC nor Haskell expert, but I think it should be generally feasible to add native code generation support in GHC for all architectures which are supported by LLVM. According to a bug report I saw

Re: Generating new IDs for cloning

2019-08-08 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 08 Aug 2019 at 08:37:16 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > Does anyone know what applications use this file for what purpose? Is > this a systemd-ism? It originated as /var/lib/dbus/machine-id in D-Bus, and systemd picked it up and generalized it into something non-D-Bus-specific. It isn't rea

Re: Bypassing the 2/3/4GB virtual memory space on 32-bit ports

2019-08-08 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2019-08-08 22:23, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2019-08-08 at 22:38 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > [...] > > 1) Build a 64-bit compiler targeting the 32-bit corresponding > >architecture and install it in the 32-bit chroot with the other > >64-bit dependencies. This is still a kind of c

Re: Bypassing the 2/3/4GB virtual memory space on 32-bit ports

2019-08-08 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2019-08-08 23:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > On 8/8/19 10:38 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Any comments, ideas, or help here? > I'm by no means a GHC nor Haskell expert, but I think it should be generally > feasible to add native code generation support in GHC for all architectu

Re: [OT] /etc/machine-id "must not be exposed in untrusted environments"

2019-08-08 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 08 Aug 2019 at 15:20:28 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > The man page for machine-id says: > > This ID uniquely identifies the host. It should be considered > "confidential", and must not be exposed in untrusted environments, in > particular on the network. > > Why is the file mode 066

Re: duplicate popularity-contest ID

2019-08-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 02:01:16PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Bill" == Bill Allombert writes: > > Bill> This is potentially an excellent idea! > > Bill> Does not /etc/machine-id suffer of exactly the same issue as > Bill> /etc/popularity-contest.conf ? > > A lot more procedu

Re: [OT] /etc/machine-id "must not be exposed in untrusted environments"

2019-08-08 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, 2019-08-08 at 15:20 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > This is related to the thread Generating new IDs for cloning, but is > probably OT for this list. I guess this is really a question for > systemd maintainers? Should I file a bug? > > The man page for machine-id says: > > This ID uniqu

Re: [OT] /etc/machine-id "must not be exposed in untrusted environments"

2019-08-08 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:12:37PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2019-08-08 15:20 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > > The man page for machine-id says: > > > > This ID uniquely identifies the host. It should be considered > > "confidential", and must not be exposed in untrusted environments, in >

Work-needing packages report for Aug 9, 2019

2019-08-08 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 1421 (new: 13) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 156 (new: 6) Total number of packages reque

Re: Bypassing the 2/3/4GB virtual memory space on 32-bit ports

2019-08-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2019-08-09 at 00:28 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On 2019-08-08 22:23, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > > 1a. Require 32-bit build environments to be multiarch with the > > related 64-bit architecture also enabled. > > Indeed, but that looks like the first step. From there do you think >

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 8 août 2019 21:47 +02, Simon Richter : >> inetd performance is very low because it needs to spawn one instance for >> each connection. systemd socket activation has absolutely 0 overhead >> except on the first connection (where systemd needs to start the >> service). > > If you specify "wait"

Re: Bits from the Release Team: ride like the wind, Bullseye!

2019-08-08 Thread Pirate Praveen
On 2019, ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 9 1:16:23 AM IST, Paul Gevers wrote: >I can already trigger all the autopkgtests in unstable for packages >that >are in experimental, so if you interested in this, please contact me. >This would enable library maintainers to at least have an overview of >what would happen. I c