[DNG] Error after upgrade debian wheezy to devuan jessie...

2017-06-15 Thread Thomas Besser
Hi, upgraded two file server last week from debian wheezy to devuan jessie. Nearly everthing worked smooth on upgrading. Something is wrong with 'libc-bin'. On each operation with apt-get I'm getting following error: The following packages will be upgraded: libgcrypt20 1 packages upgraded, 0 n

Re: [DNG] An option should be provided in the installer for avahi and friends

2017-06-15 Thread Joachim Fahrner
Am 2017-06-16 02:10, schrieb taii...@gmx.com: "rpc.statd A daemon that listens for reboot notifications from other hosts, and manages the list of hosts to be notified when the local system reboots" I see no reason as to why this should be turned on or even installed by default rpc.statd is pa

[DNG] curl: (1) Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl

2017-06-15 Thread taii...@gmx.com
When trying to run apt-get update with https I receive this error curl: (1) Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl Any ideas? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Xfce4 task uninstalled on upgrade to ascii

2017-06-15 Thread Tom
On 15 June 2017 at 19:35, KatolaZ wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 01:18:30PM +1000, Tom wrote: > > I've been having issues upgrading a standard Devuan Jessie install to > > Ascii. During upgrade, the task-xfce4-desktop package gets uninstalled > and > > can't be installed afterwards due to depe

[DNG] An option should be provided in the installer for avahi and friends

2017-06-15 Thread taii...@gmx.com
I really dislike all the "helpful" addons like avahi/mdns and rpc.statd that scan and listen on every network you connect to. Windows has a lot more of this type of thing but one of the things MS got right was the application level firewall and the distinciton between public and private networ

Re: [DNG] new dbus packages for ASCII in experimental -- PLEASE HELP TESTING

2017-06-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
Such dependencies are hardly surprising when one considers that Debian has been a GNOME shop since GNOME's beginning. At the time GNOME was an official GNU project, as I recall, and Debian was very close to being a GNU project as well in 1998. GNOME, of course, coming into being due to the then G

Re: [DNG] new dbus packages for ASCII in experimental -- PLEASE HELP TESTING

2017-06-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:39:32 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 01:27:19PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote: > > No chance of getting things like this reduced from "depends" to > > "recommends", I suppose? > > > > I asked the maintainer if he could do that, and he gently explained me > t

Re: [DNG] Xfce4 task uninstalled on upgrade to ascii

2017-06-15 Thread Harald Arnesen
KatolaZ [2017-06-15 11:35]: > the unmet dependency there might not be tasksel (which is a virtual > package) rather a chain of deps which goes down to dbus. Since an > updated version of dbus is now available in ascii's repos, you should > be able to dist-upgrade to ascii (we will come back to tas

Re: [DNG] new dbus packages for ASCII in experimental -- PLEASE HELP TESTING

2017-06-15 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 01:27:19PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote: [cut] > > > Just to make an example, it is still very hard for me to understand > > why a packge like grace (which is a lesstif program to produce X-Y > > plots) should depend on gconf2. The motivation provided by the > > maintainer i

Re: [DNG] new dbus packages for ASCII in experimental -- PLEASE HELP TESTING

2017-06-15 Thread Antony Stone
On Thursday 15 June 2017 12:23:26 KatolaZ wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 12:40:32PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote: > > > How does this work out on a Debian system when you select a different DE, > > then? > > You still get gconf, gnome-keyring, and other goodies installed, even > if you are using x

Re: [DNG] new dbus packages for ASCII in experimental -- PLEASE HELP TESTING

2017-06-15 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 12:40:32PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote: [cut] > > > > In most of the cases those dependencies do not come from upstream, and > > have been instead introduced by Debian packagers, who have made a lot > > of effort to entangle as tightly as possible hundreds of packges with >

Re: [DNG] new dbus packages for ASCII in experimental -- PLEASE HELP TESTING

2017-06-15 Thread Antony Stone
On Thursday 15 June 2017 11:18:29 KatolaZ wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 12:02:02PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > gconf2 is not installed but gconf-service, gconf2-common and libgconf-2-4 > > are. > > > > Are they really needed? Trying to remove any of them causes > > emacs24/emacs25 to

Re: [DNG] new dbus packages for ASCII in experimental -- PLEASE HELP TESTING

2017-06-15 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 12:02:02PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Tue, 2017-06-13 at 11:16 +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > So please, if you are using ascii with any > > Desktop Environment, could you please hel testing those packages and > > report any problem, so that we can move th

Re: [DNG] new dbus packages for ASCII in experimental -- PLEASE HELP TESTING

2017-06-15 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2017-06-13 at 11:16 +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > Hi All, > > So please, if you are using ascii with any > Desktop Environment, could you please hel testing those packages and > report any problem, so that we can move them to the main ascii repo > asap? I've been trying out mate-session, wmaker

Re: [DNG] Xfce4 task uninstalled on upgrade to ascii

2017-06-15 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 01:18:30PM +1000, Tom wrote: > I've been having issues upgrading a standard Devuan Jessie install to > Ascii. During upgrade, the task-xfce4-desktop package gets uninstalled and > can't be installed afterwards due to dependency problems. > > Jessie has tasksel=3.33+devuan1