The canonical way of making a local modification to a package.

2017-06-18 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
Hi Debian User! I write to you, because it's that time again. You know, we've gotten a brand new release, and I have to spend yet a day or two in frustration over why python isn't enabled in the inn2 package. This time, however, I want to ask beforehand, what the proper way of doing such a

Determine which file is affected by a harddrive failure

2015-04-07 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
I'm in the rather unlucky circumstances of trying to rebuild a md array, where the good drive is starting to report UNC errors, like this: Apr 7 11:11:18 rollo kernel: [15659.604216] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled sense c ode Apr 7 11:11:18 rollo kernel: [15659.604243] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result:

Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-22 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:43:01 +1100 Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/11/14 22:14, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 21:46:19 +1100 Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: It lost. Developers are not being forced to do what

Re: Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD

2014-10-22 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:40:49 +0200 Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: I really don't get why Debian receives so much hate in this discussion. Upstream software depending on systemd is not Debian's choice. Because of the abysmal lack of communication of the reasons behind the

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-16 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:01:44 -0700 Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: What I read of your post wasn't dissent. It was character assassination. Please let me know how to point out that an idiotic behaviour is disruptive to the whole process, without actually telling the person in question,

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-16 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:38:59 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2014 07:55:40 Anders Wegge Keller wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:01:44 -0700 Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: What I read of your post wasn't dissent. It was character assassination

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-16 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:59:24 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: My golly, you are an arrogant self-opinionated individual. As well as misinformed and mistaken. Thank you for those kind words. However, I think you are undermining your attempt at establishing your moral superiority,

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-15 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:07:25 +1100 Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: Given that your only contribution to the list is outright and offensive hypocrisy why should you not be rightfully dismissed as an abusive and offensive poster who contributes nothing to the subject.

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:43:48 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: There's -offtopic (see my .sig), but apparently the anti-systemd crowd wants an audience :( Stop your condescending tone, and make your self useful by reading a book about change mangament. I don't know who you

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:33:55 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: This to one of our best and most measured contributors. It's enough to make one weep. He could have been the pope. His attitude is part of the problem, not the solution. If you have read the book about change

debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the SysV-replacement that should not be named. Most, if not all of the arguments for, as well as against seem to be of a philosophical, rather than stringent technichnical nature. As such, they are probably not suited for this list. So my question