Re: Fedora Source-git SIG report #1 (June 2021)

2021-06-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
packages. Of course, it does have its own expectations about the structure of the Git repository, but those are mostly limited to "give me a branch to play in, I'll take care of the rest". G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://p

Re: F34 Change proposal: Debug Info Standardization (from DWZ to -fdebug-types-section) (System-Wide Change proposal)

2020-09-24 Thread Peter Pentchev
ause I implemented > it. :) > > I do not know whether Debian has started using dwz by default because > I haven't dug into how the -dbgsym package generation works in detail. Most of the packages that use recent versions of debhelper (the tool that automates many steps of th

Re: booting successfully with read-only file system

2020-07-03 Thread Peter Pentchev
about making it read-only on purpose using a > kernel commandline option, so really we're just pretending it was > unexpected for testing purposes, but you get what I mean I hope. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://

Re: A few questions about a package update / policy questions / GCC 9 error

2020-06-10 Thread Peter Pentchev
the last available byte in that case and not the > N-1 available byte, so you set N-1 to 0, not N-2. > > N-1 is the Nth byte when you start counting from 0 and N is the size of > the array. ...or use snprintf() and check! its! return! value! (sorry, I've had to ex

Re: Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal: Drop mod_php

2020-06-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
t up a PHP site") that is rooted in the times when php-fpm *did not exist* - so it's much more of "this was the only possible way to set up a PHP site back then" than "this is the best way to set up a PHP site now". Yep, migration needs work. Acknowledged. The same could be

Re: [HEADS UP] Fedora 33 Python 3.9 rebuilds have started in a side tag

2020-05-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
Are you asking why python3.8 and python3.9 are separate packages? If so, I think that previous messages to this list mentioned that many people need to have more than one Python interpreter installed. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:htt

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Drop Optical Media Release Criterion

2019-12-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
the software, or figure out a way to get people to develop a replacement, or keep using the unmaintained software on equally unmaintained older versions of operating systems that it will run on. Sorry for the bluntness, but, well... G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@{ringlet.net,debian.org,FreeBSD.

Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Drop Optical Media Release Criterion

2019-12-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
Python 2 > packages from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, so it's not going to be there either. > > And you know what? This was all made possible by Fedora's work over > the last several releases to port lots of software to Python 3, > aggressively migrate to Python 3 by default, and now finally

Debian and Python 2 [Was: Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Drop Optical Media Release Criterion]

2019-12-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
for all intents and purposes, practically a release goal now. Sorry for contributing to the more-and-more-off-topic rant, but I just felt the need to point this out, since I've seen it mentioned a couple of times recently. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@{ringlet.net,debian.org,FreeBSD.o

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-10-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
so be a foo 3.0 module installed (since the user requested the default way back when, still in release N)? Of course, it is completely possible that this case is indeed handled in the proposal and I am the one at fault for not parsing it properly. Anyway, thanks to you all for your work on

Re: Minimization Objective report

2019-10-01 Thread Peter Pentchev
teen years ago which happen to use `grep -P` > suddenly and mysteriously doing the wrong thing. Eh, seeing as the grep(1) manual page itself still declares the option as experimental, I think people using it *should* be aware of the possibility of slight changes in behavior. G'luck, PEter -- P

Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal (late): No i686 Repositories

2019-09-11 Thread Peter Pentchev
ime: the mailing list is not a requirement. People checked the mailing list *after* the bugs were not fixed. Fixing the bugs is the requirement. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@{ringlet.net,debian.org,FreeBSD.org} p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprin

Re: How to predict Python 3 SOABI naming scheme?!?

2019-05-20 Thread Peter Pentchev
FIX=.cpython-37m-armv7hl-linux-gnu I... honestly don't understand how this can happen. I don't understand why python3 -c 'sysconfig.get_config_var()' would output anything... G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@{ringlet.net,debian.org,FreeBSD.org} p...@storpool.com PGP key:

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Build non-RELRO ELF binaries with .plt.got isolation

2018-06-19 Thread Peter Pentchev
low exploits that overwrite the GOT and thus cause the attacker's code to be executed later? If so, then I apologize again, since it seems that this may be sufficient to prevent that type of attack indeed. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@{ringlet.net,debian.org,FreeBSD.org} p...@storpool.com P