Transition: new PAM config file handling in unstable

2003-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
before we've even put the code through its paces in unstable. Happy Hacking, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp2ZJtPRfxv8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Release update

2004-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
let you know soon when we think this baby is due. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Release Assistant, on behalf of the release team signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Release update: lib transitions, toolchain fixes, buildd backlog

2004-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
not much sense in releasing a second debian-installer release candidate until this decision has been finalized. As always, please address any concerns about the release to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, -- Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Release Team [1

Release update: Qt, arts, arm, yes; freeze date, no

2004-09-22 Thread Steve Langasek
become aware of them, and we'll continue striving to get update emails out to you on a semi-regular basis. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Release Team [1] http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/stalls.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/09

Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
has been signed off on by: Steve Langasek (Release Manager) Colin Watson (Release Manager) Andreas Barth (Release Assistant) Joey Hess (Release Assistant) Frank Lichtenheld (Release Assistant) James Troup (ftpmaster) Ryan Murray (ftpmaster) Anthony Towns (ftpmaster) The following

Release update: editorial changes to the testing propagation scripts

2005-05-03 Thread Steve Langasek
if we can stick to this schedule! Cheers, -- Steve Langasek and Colin Watson Debian Release Managers http://release.debian.org/ [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/05/msg0.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Call for upgrade testing

2005-05-16 Thread Steve Langasek
be happy to put you to work. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Release Team [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/05/msg1.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Release update: freeze progress, closing date for non-RC fixes

2005-05-17 Thread Steve Langasek
, but it's not completely out of the question -- we just need to pick up the pace a bit. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://release.debian.org/ [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/05/msg1.html [2] http://lists.debian.org

Procedure reminders on updating a lib package for a C++ ABI change

2005-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
etch transitions are now hooked together, but if you have other packages that aren't yet part of the tangle, ask before you upload and maybe you'll save yourself some trouble. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg1.html

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: port qualification declarations for etch

2005-10-05 Thread Steve Langasek
you're blocking out two hours on your weekend calendar, or just stopping in, we look forward to seeing you on #debian-tech this weekend! Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world

Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-14 Thread Steve Langasek
following the sarge release, we're ready to move etch into full swing. Look forward to more of these emails from the release team periodically from here on out, chock-full of release-y goodness! -- Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Release Team [0] http

Re: ethique Debian

2002-12-11 Thread Steve Langasek
paquet est offensif, la solution est très simple: ne l'installez pas. Sans le nom, pornview est un lecteur d'image comme tout autre. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgprayA2vcC2L.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: qui a réussi a compiler samba3 pour woody ???

2003-08-13 Thread Steve Langasek
evenutuellement de la sécurité) du systeme... Du coup, a-t-on une chance de voir un jour des paquets samba3 pour woody stable ? j'ai l'impression que non ;-/ Simò Sorce (du Samba Team) a des paquets pour woody à ftp://it.samba.org/pub/samba/bin-pkgs/Debian experimental main. -- Steve Langasek

Re: connexion ssh aux serveurs Debian

2004-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
. On a similar note some of our boxes are currently overloaded and services are generally inelegantly distributed; there's certainly going to be some juggling of them coming up. It's not decided what/when/where/how yet though, more details before it happens. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer

Re: non respect de build-essential

2004-01-16 Thread Steve Langasek
l'archive, ça serait vraiment un bogue. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpN9eoJCrzvR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: non respect de build-essential

2004-01-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:22:06PM +0100, Alexandre Pineau wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:34:42 -0600 Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mais, g++-3.2 ne fait pas partie de build-essential; c'est g++ qui apparait dans la liste, et si on a besoin d'un autre compilateur(?), ça

Re: RFA: le-dico-de-rene-cougnenc -- Le Dico par René Cougnenc

2004-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Clavier français et RC3 de l'installateur (noyau 2.6)

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
contribution à la prochaine edition de Debian ne passera pas inaperçue. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Clavier français et RC3 de l'installateur (noyau 2.6)

2005-04-08 Thread Steve Langasek
entre les deux groupes de machines? P.e., est-ce que les trois premières machines ont des claviers USB, et la quatrième un clavier PS/2? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Passage en UTF-8 par d éfaut

2005-09-04 Thread Steve Langasek
défaut des installations françaises sur une locale UTF-8. Le passage en UTF-8 est un des objectifs d'etch, pour mémoire. À vrai dire, je ne comprends pas pourquoi ça n'a pas été fait pour sarge. Parce que zsh manquait de support pour UTF-8 ;) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever

Re: Encore une question sur les transitions de libs

2006-01-23 Thread Steve Langasek
bibliothèques... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Gestion des licences dans le format .deb

2008-08-16 Thread Steve Langasek
de voir automatiquement la compatibilité (ou pas) de licence entre deux paquets. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
them unconditionally. Package indices that grow without bounds are one way that choices that may be good for a subset of users come with a cost for the rest of our users. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-15 Thread Steve Langasek
in the Free Software community. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ [0] Wwhen an open organization such as Debian

Re: library renaming due to changed libstdc++ configuration

2005-11-15 Thread Steve Langasek
://ftp-master.debian.org/~vorlon/transition-binnmus.txt rather than the wiki, a wiki would be overkill. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-15 Thread Steve Langasek
has such a lax spam policy and that (b) Debian developers cannot choose to make their @debian.org address unuseable other than by the Debian system administrators. ... procmail? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Testing-watch emails

2005-11-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:17:29AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're interested in making this happen I'll be happy to give you any info I can; 2) Any advice on how to test patches to ftp-master code before submitting them? My own

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:15:28PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 23:59 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: I understand that, and the whole proposal. And it will break a lot of things for many of my users, who need to use old versions of the -dev packages at the same

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 01:46:04AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Steve Langasek] python-dev provides an interface that packages can build-depend on which gives them both /usr/bin/python, and a set of development tools from the corresponding version of python. This is not analogous

Re: Packages still shipping schemas in /etc

2005-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
. Why would you need to bounce instead of discarding? If it's not a valid contact address for you, I don't see why you would be so concerned about sending notifications to people trying to use it. That was relevant 5-10 years ago; today it's a waste of resources. -- Steve Langasek

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 01:41:31PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No: there is nothing proper about rejecting mail from a host that you have configured to forward mail for you. Nearly all of this mail flow is invalid in one way or another

Re: Automated testing - design and interfaces

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
being error output that can be used for debugging a test failure. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 2

2005-11-18 Thread Steve Langasek
libxpm4 libxp6 libxt6 libxmu6 libxi6 libsm6 xlibs Given that I can remove xlibs from my system and not take any of these other libs along, this looks like a false positive (probably as a result of the many or'ed deps on xlibs). Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
at this point. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to deal with dependencies/conflics on third party packages

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Spliting packages between pkg and pkg-data

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
/share/pkg should be shipped in package pkg-data. (I misread this the first time, too. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Man page owner

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to deal with dependencies/conflics on third party packages

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 11:50:55PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 10:23:58AM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: I've got a bug report (#336527) my package bootchart-view do not work with j2re1.3. But j2re1.3 is not in Debian. Can I set

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
for versioned -dev packages (e.g. Thomas Viehmann's precedent, Junichi's libpkg-guide), No, actually, there are vocal *proponents* of versioned -dev packages. That's not the same thing as broad consensus. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: status of vore?

2005-11-21 Thread Steve Langasek
(and one is in the works) so that auric isn't doing double-duty as a porter machine and buildd. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Uploading amd64 packages

2005-11-22 Thread Steve Langasek
of just working on getting amd64 into the archive? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Langasek
would have an official message saying so. Why do we have the reputation of being so secure? It's an elaborate hoax we put together in order to see how you would react when you found out it wasn't true. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: ssl/crypto

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Langasek
source package. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: possible freetype transition; improved library handling needed for all C/C++ packages

2005-11-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 01:25:07AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Don't use other *-config tools. While many libraries these days use pkg-config, there are also other libs which ship their own tools for querying library and header include paths

Re: possible freetype transition; improved library handling needed for all C/C++ packages

2005-11-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 03:12:46PM +0100, Daniel Schepler wrote: Le Jeudi 24 Novembre 2005 14:43, Peter Eisentraut a écrit : Steve Langasek wrote: * Use Debian's libtool. I took one affected package (kmldonkey) from your list, relibtoolized it as described, and rebuilt it, which failed

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
is completely unrealistic. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#340428: octave2.9 - lists mailing list as uploader in changelog

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
by the time etch releases. If we can survive this, I don't think that putting a mailing list address in a changelog (wrong though I think it is) would be grounds for delaying the release or removing the package from the release (the definition of RC). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:57:36PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:17:06PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: That's easy: you trust the Packages file to be correct when using apt, and it's not verified at all by per

Re: Bug#340934: lintian check for unneeded/transitive shlibs dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
, though in the short term doing it per binary package means less confusing noise. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: package name changes in atlas-cpp (was Re: library renaming due to changed libstdc++ configuration)

2005-11-29 Thread Steve Langasek
is being renamed *only* because of the C++ ABI change, being consistent is important because there way be other packages in the wild named libatlas-cpp-0.6-0c2 which *aren't* using the final mt allocator ABI. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Re: package name changes in atlas-cpp (was Re: library renaming due to changed libstdc++ configuration)

2005-11-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 11:38:32AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: Hi Ming, Steve, others, On Tuesday 29 November 2005 11:03, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:09:00AM -0600, Ming Hua wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:28:05AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: * Rename

Re: package name changes in atlas-cpp (was Re: library renaming due to changed libstdc++ configuration)

2005-11-30 Thread Steve Langasek
to be around for a while, though, for my part I think it's worthwhile to get the package name consistent across distros where possible; and in that case, the c2a name should be preferred since that's the name specified in the published transition plan. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek

Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Langasek
, plus a shell texlive package depending on it? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description

Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-03 Thread Steve Langasek
with debian in them with a fairly high degree of confidence that upstream won't collide with them. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:16:38AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 12:28:36AM -0800, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:58:45AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: So my idea is the following : - First, I want to provide the libs

Re: SDL producing bogus dependencies or packages misusing SDL?

2005-12-05 Thread Steve Langasek
, it probably comes from SDL itself; if you have -lartsc hard-coded in the non-auto-generated Makefile (or Makefile.in, Makefile.am...), it's that package's problem. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
if the problem description is pile of maybe-failed packages. Wonderful. Nice to see that you think P-a-s entries are somebody else's problem that should be handled centrally. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I

Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:03:40AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: [snip] So those should get added to P-a-s instead. Well, but that'd be something for the buildd-admin to collect. (Or maintainers of the packages, but that doesn't seem to fashionable nowadays

Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
Just because it's only built for these archs now doesn't mean this has to be true long-term. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-07 Thread Steve Langasek
obvious (and account for the majority of failures, as it should be). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:33:34PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: [snip] -grub2: !hppa !ia64 m68k# bootloader +grub2: !hppa !ia64 !m68k !alpha !mips !mipsel !s390 !sparc # bootloader for i386/powerpc

Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 04:48:24PM -0600, Bill Allombert wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:14:00AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Saying that's the buildd admin's job about tasks that don't *need* to be done by the buildd admin is a pretty effective way of encouraging the problems

Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
c688e5da5ee3aa6a1b2377545d97a4e1 317340 pcsx_1.6df.orig.tar.gz 006f2f71b0dcc24ec2c76821504f03ec 2540 pcsx_1.6df-1.diff.gz wanna-build already filters the Architecture field of sources. No, it does not. It goes to the buildds with every sourceful upload, and fails when sbuild checks the architecture list. -- Steve

Re: buildd administration [was Re: StrongARM tactics]

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
maintenance and buildd administration. What problems are there today with buildd administration, please? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: StrongARM tactics

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:52:51PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:41:51AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron M. Ucko) writes: Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: +pcsx: i386

Re: Sparc build failure analysis (was Re: StrongARM tactics)

2005-12-11 Thread Steve Langasek
-- via porter NMU if necessary. So as you have the list of these packages, as a porter you can proceed with figuring out which of the two categories each falls into, and take the necessary action without worrying about the Failed state, yes? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me

Re: Sparc build failure analysis (was Re: StrongARM tactics)

2005-12-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 02:38:35PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 12:35:26AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 06:53:47AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: FAILED But FAILED is an advisory state anyway; it doesn't directly benefit the port

Re: Packages-arch-specific (was: Sparc build failure analysis)

2005-12-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:52:04AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 06:53:47AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: Again: what can I do with such a list? See the list below. Changes to the P-a-s list should be sent to the contacts listed

Re: question towards freetype transition; improved library handling needed for all C/C++ packages

2005-12-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:17:51AM -0500, Benjamin Mesing wrote: today I've tried to address the issue raised by Steve Langasek regarding inherited dependencies [1]. As I am unexperienced with the whole linking and dependency process I was not able to deduce the consequences

Re: question towards freetype transition; improved library handling needed for all C/C++ packages

2005-12-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:17:51AM -0500, Benjamin Mesing wrote: today I've tried to address the issue raised by Steve Langasek regarding inherited dependencies [1]. As I am unexperienced with the whole linking and dependency process I was not able to deduce the consequences

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-13 Thread Steve Langasek
documentation of maintainer policies that indicates that one must clear an RC bug as soon as possible, for unreleased packages, to push them into testing before the maintainer thinks they are ready. Rather, it seems much more likely that we would want to push such packages *out* of unstable. -- Steve

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
to specify a policy for mounting any particular filesystem on /run, but merely mount /run early iff it's present in /etc/fstab and leave the implementation details to the local admin.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 03:57:35AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The principle is the same: /lib is used only for the minimal system required for booting, and everything else should go in /usr/lib. /run should be used only for junk that needs

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:50:33AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 03:57:35AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Under Linux, can't all of this be done with mount --move anyway? I'm not convinced that we actually need a /run any more

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
or not it's in the release notes. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:13:01AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 19, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some reason we should be unable to provide a smooth upgrade path for users of sarge? Having your network devices scramble themselves on reboot is a Big Deal, whether

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:26:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: (We also shouldn't need to specify a policy for mounting any particular filesystem on /run, but merely mount /run early iff it's present in /etc/fstab and leave the implementation details

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:13:35PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Steve Langasek] Given the reality of /lib, is there any need for a separate /usr/lib? The principle is the same: /lib is used only for the minimal system required for booting, and everything else should go in /usr/lib

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:23:00PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: Are there really any init scripts that need to write out data prior to checkroot.sh (the point at which /run would be writeable by default on the rootfs)? Well, it would be nice if fsck logs could be stored

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Steve Langasek
, including the call for a more proactive QA team. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc

Re: kernel-package hooks transition

2005-12-25 Thread Steve Langasek
in the environment which prevents debconf-using children from successfully restarting the frontend. STOP should only be used when you need to force-kill the frontend because of other processes that will otherwise leave dangling file descriptors open to it after your scripts exit. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Your Confirmation Required

2005-12-27 Thread Steve Langasek
have abuse headers to track, or (probably easier) just blacklist the domain... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

bug tracking for non-RC architectures

2005-12-27 Thread Steve Langasek
NMUs are encouraged -- you don't need an RC bug as an excuse to fix a package for your architecture! Wouldn't it be great to have zero bugs on that page two months from now? :) Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: stable aliases for CD drives

2005-12-28 Thread Steve Langasek
. Comments and other ideas are welcome. What will provide this for systems upgraded from sarge? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: stable aliases for CD drives

2005-12-30 Thread Steve Langasek
manually install some additional software is not. Given the sort of solution that needs to be implemented here to address the second, I don't see any reason why the first should be acceptable either. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2006-01-02 Thread Steve Langasek
other than swap vi alternative priorities and swap important-optional priorities? Why swap the vi alternative priorities? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-02 Thread Steve Langasek
step 2) happen. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2006-01-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:58:49AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: On 03-Jan-06, 00:46 (CST), Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:47:05AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: If you agree with the change, do Stefano and I need to do anything other than swap vi

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Steve Langasek
that the majority of the work involved falls into the automatable category. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Steve Langasek
. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian for desktop - gnome in usnstable/experimantal more stable than in testing ?

2006-01-04 Thread Steve Langasek
that same period. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-04 Thread Steve Langasek
packages already support ephemeral /var/run. BUT, if you do, don't ship /var/run inside the deb. Why? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
regarding how to cope with a key compromise revocation, though. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:43:13PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AIUI, Ubuntu isn't rotating their archive keys -- something else that their centralized model more readily affords them. I'm a little confused about why we do rotate the keys. I'm

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:07:58AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:43:57PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: initscripts co-maintainer hat on Do it. We are *heavly* considering support for ephemeral

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
compromised both merkel and your network (pushing matching, invalid keys to you via merkel and a MITM of http://ftp-master.debian.org), and trusting that the propagation from ftp-master to merkel is secure. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:44:35AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 05 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: BUT, if you do, don't ship /var/run inside the deb. Why? Because: 1. It will go away on reboot and if your service isn't enabled, it won't be re-created

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:04:49PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Steve Langasek: I would encourage you to log into merkel and verify, directly and securely, the key at /org/ftp.debian.org/web/ziyi_key_2006.asc; sign it; and upload your signature to the public keyservers as well, if you

Re: Advices, comments? Bug#345651: passwd package should be essential?

2006-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
is to check for the executable and defer configuration to the postinst if it's not yet unpacked. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

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