Would the Core Infrastructure Initiative be willing to sponsor a cryptographer to review it? Getting this right would make it a lot easier to have faith in encrypted backups. Right now, you have to trust that each…
Have the design decisions been reviewed by a cryptographer yet? According to the presentation on youtube, it had not.
It's not really the same thing though. Packages in testing get migrated 2-10 days unless there's a serious bug report and then they get delayed indefinitely. Not all bug reports are going to affect me. I've run testing…
This isn't as easy as it sounds. Pledge works in OpenBSD because OpenBSD is simple and all of the necessary code lives in one tree. Pledge is supported in the vast majority of OpenBSD base programs but very few ports.…
- HEADLINE: Bring back the standard (console) Live CD - DESCRIPTION: Jessie had a standard Live CD. While the HTML still refers to this flavor, it is not found on any mirror that I checked for Stretch. I have to use the…
Do you mean right now after a release or you recommend unstable in general?
HEADLINE: Better package discovery DESCRIPTION: There are a ton of packages in Debian. I sometimes browse through all of the packages looking for some gem that I didn't know about before. It's a time intensive process…
HEADLINE: Latest elixir in Debian DESCRIPTION: Debian unstable still has elixir 1.3.3. It looks like the "official" path forward is to add Erlang Solutions as another apt repository and install packages from there.…
HEADLINE: More fine grained meta packages as community recommendations. DESCRIPTION: There are a few Debian meta packages but they are really broad. Example: it would be great if there were a few developer leaning…
HEADLINE: First class ZFS install support on Live CD. DESCRIPTION: The license conflict between the open source ZFS and open source Linux kernel mean ZFS needs to be in contrib. Unlike a lot of other packages in…
HEADLINE: Day(s) old sid as a rolling distro DESCRIPTION: I think I represent a number of users. We want to use unstable as a rolling distribution, but we don't want to run into every edge case. Testing doesn't update…
Would the Core Infrastructure Initiative be willing to sponsor a cryptographer to review it? Getting this right would make it a lot easier to have faith in encrypted backups. Right now, you have to trust that each…
Have the design decisions been reviewed by a cryptographer yet? According to the presentation on youtube, it had not.
It's not really the same thing though. Packages in testing get migrated 2-10 days unless there's a serious bug report and then they get delayed indefinitely. Not all bug reports are going to affect me. I've run testing…
This isn't as easy as it sounds. Pledge works in OpenBSD because OpenBSD is simple and all of the necessary code lives in one tree. Pledge is supported in the vast majority of OpenBSD base programs but very few ports.…
- HEADLINE: Bring back the standard (console) Live CD - DESCRIPTION: Jessie had a standard Live CD. While the HTML still refers to this flavor, it is not found on any mirror that I checked for Stretch. I have to use the…
Do you mean right now after a release or you recommend unstable in general?
HEADLINE: Better package discovery DESCRIPTION: There are a ton of packages in Debian. I sometimes browse through all of the packages looking for some gem that I didn't know about before. It's a time intensive process…
HEADLINE: Latest elixir in Debian DESCRIPTION: Debian unstable still has elixir 1.3.3. It looks like the "official" path forward is to add Erlang Solutions as another apt repository and install packages from there.…
HEADLINE: More fine grained meta packages as community recommendations. DESCRIPTION: There are a few Debian meta packages but they are really broad. Example: it would be great if there were a few developer leaning…
HEADLINE: First class ZFS install support on Live CD. DESCRIPTION: The license conflict between the open source ZFS and open source Linux kernel mean ZFS needs to be in contrib. Unlike a lot of other packages in…
HEADLINE: Day(s) old sid as a rolling distro DESCRIPTION: I think I represent a number of users. We want to use unstable as a rolling distribution, but we don't want to run into every edge case. Testing doesn't update…