Re: mail all bug reporters

2005-06-28 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:46:31PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: An adopted package xxx has a lot of old bugs which are related to very old versions. Now the maintainer changes. Now he wants to send mails to all bug openors if the bug is still actual and can be reproduced. while i think you should

problem with unstable - testing package migration?

2005-06-27 Thread sean finney
hey, about a week ago i uploaded a package with priority=high to unstable to fix a security-related bug. for some reason, that package hasn't yet made it into unstable: http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cacti.html anyone know more about this? i also notice the policy 3.6.2 vs 3.6.1 problem that

Re: problem with unstable - testing package migration?

2005-06-27 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 04:44:40PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Indeed, on next mirror pulse, cacti will be in testing. I didn't really look into this, but I assume the delay is related to the announced[1] ftp-master outage. Several services and scripts have been temporarily disabled

Re: Package distribution, a concept for a modern package distribution

2005-06-26 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:16:42AM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: I've seen some messages about an LDAP implementation around last october but I couldn't find them. I'm quite sure an LDAP solution is much better than the current solution. But before implementing it, it has to be evaluated against

Re: ftp-master, ftp and db .debian.org moving - hosting sought

2005-06-26 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 06:05:25PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: It was sent right after the hosting died. Should he sent The hosting may die somewhere in the future, please offer something just in case we need it? well, i guess i don't know the details of the situation, but i would hope that

Accepted cacti-cactid 0.8.6e-1 (i386 source)

2005-06-26 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 02:08:48 -0400 Source: cacti-cactid Binary: cacti-cactid Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.8.6e-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

Re: ftp-master, ftp and db .debian.org moving - hosting sought

2005-06-25 Thread sean finney
hi, On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:25:12AM +0100, James Troup wrote: I'm sorry to say that Debian's hosting of machines at Above.Net has come to an end. Michael Shields and Steve Osborn have hosted critical sorry to be a stick in the mud about this, but... why wasn't this brought up *before* it

Re: Package distribution, a concept for a modern package distribution

2005-06-25 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 06:14:46PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: The concept is based on an LDAP server (or simiar) as a replacement for the Packages file and on a P2P network for package distribution (see http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=pkgdist.html). IMO it would make a lot sense

Accepted cacti 0.8.6e-1 (all source)

2005-06-20 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:30:05 -0400 Source: cacti Binary: cacti Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.6e-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED

debian security archive/updates b0rken???

2005-06-18 Thread sean finney
please excuse this blatant cross-posting, i wouldn't do it if i didn't think it were critical that i do so... http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200506142140 say it isn't so! to put this in perspective, i'm currently involved with fixing a remotely exploitable vulnerability, which upstream (and

Re: linking to libssl makes non free?

2005-06-15 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:24:44PM -0400, Jiann-Ming Su wrote: But, OpenSSL's FAQ seems to address this: http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2 yes, but debian has taken a slightly more conservative view, because openssl is not considered part of the Operating System but just

Re: Debian Java in Sarge

2005-06-04 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 08:59:30AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I disagree. It should give recommodations on how they should be built, to make it easier for the java developers to maintain the java packages. Consistency reduce the work maintaining packages, and using a common system for

Re: Debian Java in Sarge

2005-06-04 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 07:13:57PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Hard to tell, I haven't spend time looking. But I can give an example of a person unable to discover that I didn't suggest forcing anyone to do anything. I formulated a 'recommend and not require' suggestion in my mail.

Accepted nagios 2:1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1 (i386 source all)

2005-06-02 Thread sean finney
Nagios Maintainer Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: nagios-common - A host/service/network monitoring and management system nagios-mysql - A host/service/network monitoring and management system nagios-pgsql - A host/service/network monitoring

Re: Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports

2005-05-30 Thread sean finney
hi, On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:07:50PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: The BTS does not currently support this. For example, if I upload a fix to unstable, I have to manually reopen it and tag it sarge. or, you could always not close it in your changelog, and update the bug accordingly.

Accepted cacti-cactid 0.8.6d-7 (i386 source)

2005-05-28 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 19:18:34 -0400 Source: cacti-cactid Binary: cacti-cactid Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.8.6d-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

Accepted cacti 0.8.6d-1 (all source)

2005-05-28 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 19:42:30 -0400 Source: cacti Binary: cacti Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.6d-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ITP: sid - Run commands in your /sid chroot

2005-05-27 Thread sean finney
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:46:25PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote: I imagine that's a pretty simple change I should just do myself. Erm, dchroot already does this. likewise, i'm not sure what this sid package would do that dchroot does not. (I've got an amd64 with bind mounted home, an i386

Re: Shell variable

2005-05-27 Thread sean finney
hi, On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 01:19:05AM +0100, Adrian Mastronardi wrote: I need to setup an shell variable: ENFDATA=/usr/share/rnamotif/enfdata/ according to debian policy, programs must not have to rely on the existence of environment variables. what you should probably do is hard-code into

Re: bts ldap interface: future developments ...

2005-05-24 Thread sean finney
hi andreas, On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:14:50PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: For that reason, I consider to drop the old entries from the main file, and stick them to a text file so that searches in the archived bugs take even longer than today, but all others would be really fast. The problem

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-20 Thread sean finney
hey, On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:35:03AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: 3 does not sound so bad to me; it's arguably user error anyway to replace a package-provided directory with a symlink in this manner If you consider this an user error, then what is the officially blessed way of

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-20 Thread sean finney
hey, On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:49:13AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: I see the same three options. Joey has said he is working on a final woody point release for the last weekend in May; you'll probably need to coordinate with him and get something uploaded soon if you want to try for this

RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-18 Thread sean finney
(please excuse the cross-posting, i felt it was necessary to get all affected parties' input) hi, for some time now, christian and i have been trying to build in a workaround for a rather tricky bug in the mysql-server and mysql-server-4.1 packages, and we'd like to field some comments on what

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-18 Thread sean finney
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:00:29PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: 4 drop mysql-dfsg-4.1 from unstable/sarge not exactly an attractive option, but i guess everything is on the table at this point so it's worth bringing up... the reverse dependencies aren't nearly as severe as i had assumed, actually,

Accepted mysql-dfsg 4.0.24-10 (i386 source all)

2005-05-18 Thread sean finney
: Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libmysqlclient12 - mysql database client library libmysqlclient12-dev - mysql database development files mysql-client - mysql database client binaries mysql-common - mysql database common files (e.g

Accepted mysql-dfsg-4.1 4.1.11a-2 (i386 source all)

2005-05-18 Thread sean finney
: high Maintainer: Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libmysqlclient14 - mysql database client library libmysqlclient14-dev - mysql database development files mysql-client-4.1 - mysql database client binaries mysql-common-4.1 - mysql

Accepted cacti 0.8.6c-8 (all source)

2005-05-15 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 17:54:51 -0400 Source: cacti Binary: cacti Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.6c-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted sugarplum 0.9.10-11 (all source)

2005-05-15 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 19:54:18 -0400 Source: sugarplum Binary: sugarplum Architecture: source all Version: 0.9.10-11 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Location of Web Application Data, Policy 11.5.3

2005-05-09 Thread sean finney
hi, On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 12:16:48PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: quoting from Policy 11.5.3: Web Applications should try to avoid storing files in the Web Document Root. Instead they should use the /usr/share/doc/package directory for documents and register the Web Application

way to tell when a package makes it to testing?

2005-05-09 Thread sean finney
hey all, (this is a general, non-release related question) i was talking with another member of my local LUG, and he asked if there was a way to tell when a package was uploaded into the testing distribution. currently, the package qa pages say when a package is uploaded into unstable, and they

Accepted dbconfig-common 1.8.1 (all source)

2005-05-07 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 14:06:17 -0400 Source: dbconfig-common Binary: dbconfig-common Architecture: source all Version: 1.8.1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

Re: apt in experimental (Re: APT 0.6 migration -- second status report)

2005-05-04 Thread sean finney
hi, On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:05:26PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: One way around this would be for all of the maintainers of packages depending on apt to agree to a significant version number increment when moving to apt 0.6; then such versions could remain in experimental without being

Re: apt in experimental (Re: APT 0.6 migration -- second status report)

2005-05-04 Thread sean finney
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:08:42PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Which can't be done (savely) if the key is compromised or expires before the update (like it does every year). If the key is compromised, we lose, no matter what we do. I recommend that we create keys which will not expire

Re: apt in experimental (Re: APT 0.6 migration -- second status report)

2005-05-04 Thread sean finney
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:33:37PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: If you have some code which implements this, I will take a look, but this sort of thing is very awkward to do with gpg, and I don't think that there is much justification for this level of complexity. The existing scheme is

Re: Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-05-03 Thread sean finney
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:22:04AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: BTW: The interaction between the two MySQL server packages in unstable/sarge at purge time is *ahem* interesting. They are really time bombs ready to explode in a few days or years. It seems RC bugs are required

Re: PHP/WebApp policy/mailing list

2005-05-01 Thread sean finney
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 01:33:08PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Eh, because you believe a new lists.d.o list could take a bit of delay, an alioth list is better? Sorry, but I don't agree with the reasoning -- lists.debian.org is for general discussion lists, while alioth is more for

Re: PHP/WebApp policy/mailing list

2005-05-01 Thread sean finney
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:34:17PM +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: I agree. That cannot hurt to have a working area. I also vote for a SVN account. i didn't think you could do svn on alioth. can you? so, that said, i'm going to go ahead and apply for an alioth project for the packaging related

Re: PHP/WebApp policy/mailing list

2005-04-30 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 05:32:35PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: There's been a bit of discussion[0] recently on the debian-security list with regards to how include()ed files should be handled. and this for the most part is a good practice. if the file does not need to be directly accessed by

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-04-30 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 08:30:38PM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote: The according bug is #306608. having read through the bug report, it seems to me the appropriate thing to have done all along was add a Conflicts statement, which really does no harm and does resolve the issue. HOWEVER, that said,

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-04-30 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 04:36:29PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Wrong. The other package has a broken replaces header, without the required conflicts header it needs to have. yeah, looks like i was. that said, the rest of my response (this should be forwarded to the tech

Accepted dbconfig-common 1.8 (all source)

2005-04-27 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:42:01 -0400 Source: dbconfig-common Binary: dbconfig-common Architecture: source all Version: 1.8 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

Accepted sugarplum 0.9.10-10 (all source)

2005-04-26 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:30:44 -0400 Source: sugarplum Binary: sugarplum Architecture: source all Version: 0.9.10-10 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted cacti-cactid 0.8.6d-6 (i386 source)

2005-04-26 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:31:31 -0400 Source: cacti-cactid Binary: cacti-cactid Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.8.6d-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

Accepted dbconfig-common 1.7 (all source)

2005-04-24 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:03:33 -0400 Source: dbconfig-common Binary: dbconfig-common Architecture: source all Version: 1.7 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

Accepted cacti 0.8.6c-7 (all source)

2005-04-24 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:03:27 -0400 Source: cacti Binary: cacti Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.6c-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted nagios 2:1.3-cvs.20050402-2 (sparc source all)

2005-04-18 Thread sean finney
Maintainer Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: nagios-common - A host/service/network monitoring and management system nagios-mysql - A host/service/network monitoring and management system nagios-pgsql - A host/service/network monitoring and management

Accepted dbconfig-common 1.6 (all source)

2005-04-17 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 23:23:18 -0400 Source: dbconfig-common Binary: dbconfig-common Architecture: source all Version: 1.6 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-14 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 11:47:26PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: Therefore, all GPL'd programs will have to go to non-free. there's nothing that prevents us from re-distributing modified copies of the GPL, we just can't do so and claim that they are the GPL. even if you did want to nitpick that

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-12 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:59:08PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: Is there any real-life use for this program? No. then please don't put it in debian. you can debianize it and host it on your web page (or send it to esr) which will still serve its novelty purpose without adding yet another

p.d.o status?

2005-04-07 Thread sean finney
hi, would anyone care to comment on the status and expected downtime remaining for gluck? i know it was taken down for emergency hardware maintainance, and appreciate that it might take a while. howeer, if it is going to be a considerable while longer, someone might want to point debian.org to

Re: gluck available again / filesystem shaked

2005-04-07 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:32:29PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: The files under /home/__Corrupt-R-US belonging to me all appear to be junk, fwiw -- or at best, files from old d-i dailies that it's not worth trying to put back in place. :) But maybe somebody else recognizes some of them as

Re: Bug#303366: ITP: vimcdoc -- Chinese Translation of Vim Online Help Documents

2005-04-06 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:39:17AM +1200, Carlos Z.F. Liu wrote: The upstream author occasionally told me that he want to switch to GFDL, another non-free license. :) Is there any DFSG free document license? ... OK, I knew GPL and BSDL is, but not everyone think docuemntation is equal to

Accepted sugarplum 0.9.10-9 (all source)

2005-04-06 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 09:57:07 -0400 Source: sugarplum Binary: sugarplum Architecture: source all Version: 0.9.10-9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted nagios 2:1.3-cvs.20050402-1 (i386 source all)

2005-04-06 Thread sean finney
Maintainer Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: nagios-common - A host/service/network monitoring and management system nagios-mysql - A host/service/network monitoring and management system nagios-pgsql - A host/service/network monitoring and management

Re: Why do we still have this on the distribution?

2005-04-05 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:56:25PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: The fact that Adam Conrad just made an upload yesterday to fix bugs in the package seems to indicate that he at least feels that it is useful. [Or at least, I *hope* that's why an upload was made instead of requesting removal.]

crediting debconf translators, revisited

2005-04-01 Thread sean finney
hi all, some time back, i remember somebody asking what the proper way was to credit translators who provided debconf template translations. the consensus seemed to be that mentioning them in the changelog was sufficient. not being satisfied with that, however, i wrote up a small script to

Accepted mysql-dfsg-4.1 4.1.10a-5 (i386 source all)

2005-03-30 Thread sean finney
: high Maintainer: Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libmysqlclient14 - mysql database client library libmysqlclient14-dev - mysql database development files mysql-client-4.1 - mysql database client binaries mysql-common-4.1 - mysql

Accepted mysql-dfsg 4.0.24-5 (i386 source all)

2005-03-30 Thread sean finney
: Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libmysqlclient12 - mysql database client library libmysqlclient12-dev - mysql database development files mysql-client - mysql database client binaries mysql-common - mysql database common files (e.g

Accepted mysql-dfsg-4.1 4.1.10a-6 (i386 source all)

2005-03-30 Thread sean finney
: high Maintainer: Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libmysqlclient14 - mysql database client library libmysqlclient14-dev - mysql database development files mysql-client-4.1 - mysql database client binaries mysql-common-4.1 - mysql

Accepted dbconfig-common 1.5.1 (all source)

2005-03-30 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:50:59 -0500 Source: dbconfig-common Binary: dbconfig-common Architecture: source all Version: 1.5.1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

Accepted mysql-dfsg-4.1 4.1.10a-4 (i386 source all)

2005-03-29 Thread sean finney
: low Maintainer: Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libmysqlclient14 - mysql database client library libmysqlclient14-dev - mysql database development files mysql-client-4.1 - mysql database client binaries mysql-common-4.1 - mysql

Accepted cacti-cactid 0.8.6d-5 (i386 source)

2005-03-29 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:39:33 -0500 Source: cacti-cactid Binary: cacti-cactid Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.8.6d-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

Accepted mysql-dfsg 4.0.24-4 (i386 source all)

2005-03-29 Thread sean finney
: Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libmysqlclient12 - mysql database client library libmysqlclient12-dev - mysql database development files mysql-client - mysql database client binaries mysql-common - mysql database common files (e.g. /etc

Accepted cacti 0.8.6c-6 (all source)

2005-03-29 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:00:28 -0500 Source: cacti Binary: cacti Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.6c-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to detect which user is connected to $DISPLAY

2005-03-27 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:08:48PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: My Problem is, HOW to find the $USER who is connected to a $DISPLAY. i have a small shell function that does this in a project i'm working on. this isn't the least hackish way of doing it, but here goes: get_desktop_owner () {

Re: How to detect which user is connected to $DISPLAY

2005-03-27 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 10:14:03PM +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote: As I understand it, the program that puts these entries into the whois database is called sessreg. Have a look at it; it should be part of the X startup/shutdown script, at least for xdm. or, if you want to take it a level of

Accepted cacti 0.8.6c-5 (all source)

2005-03-21 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:12:21 -0500 Source: cacti Binary: cacti Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.6c-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:24:04PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: Because it's a 64-bit version of an already supported architecture. Having ppc and ppc64 would be fine, as would having powerpc and powerpc64. Having powerpc and ppc64 is inconsistent. and deviating from an already

Re: [RFC] OpenLDAP automatic upgrade

2005-03-15 Thread sean finney
hey, On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:02:23PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: As far as I can see your are mostly targetting packages /using/ a database? Good work so far looking at your text. The few database using packages I tried to install did not work as good as I'd have expected... this is

Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-15 Thread sean finney
hi matthias, On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:02:34AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: - when gnupg releases an official version 2, james uploads a new gnupg that replaces the previous source package (or would it have to have the same name?), and generates all binary packages. That has been

Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-15 Thread sean finney
hi, On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:39:44AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: also, what about the library issue? Which library issue? AFAIK the packages co-exist nicely. istr trying to build gpg-agent from the upstream source but the configure script would fail because i didn't have the

Re: Bug#299724: ITP: groach -- pests such as roaches hide under your windows (xroach clone)

2005-03-15 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:18:43PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: groach is a clone of the classic xroach program, but with multiple themes, more modern code, and a free license. why would anyone want to use this program? it's so... full... of... bugs... (/me goes and hides under an xterm)

Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-14 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:30:54AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: o gpg-agent support in the same manner as ssh-agent would be neat. I understand that this requires gnupg 2.0 though. While gpg-agent is built from the gnupg 2.0 sources (a development snapshot of which is currently

Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-14 Thread sean finney
hi, On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:19:46PM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote: Your fingers lie on a bloody wound. ;-) There was ITP #187548 for newpg, but was closed last summer. aha. Please reopen it and make a package for newpg to make KMail-Users happy. If you have not enough time, would you

Re: [RFC] OpenLDAP automatic upgrade

2005-03-14 Thread sean finney
hi torsten, much of what you're trying to do touches a similar vein to a project i'm currently working on[1]. while unfortunately i haven't built in any support for ldap (only mysql/pgsql), the topics, concepts, and practices are directly relevant to your situation and i'd recommend reading

Re: Debian LDAP schema for Debian Packages

2005-03-10 Thread sean finney
hi, On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:15:32PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if there is a debian ldap schema to store debian packages. Better yet, are we going to have one ever? while i am not the maintainer of the debian oid arch, i wrote an unofficial debian package schema some time

Re: Cron-standard package to replace current tasks in 'cron'

2005-03-09 Thread sean finney
hi, On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:00:49PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: Why {c,sh}ouldn't they be implemented as cron.daily scripts in the respective packages? i'd like to ack that. however, if the non-arch specific stuff (generic cron jobs, init scripts, etc) for cron is still sufficiently

Re: Cron-standard package to replace current tasks in 'cron'

2005-03-09 Thread sean finney
hi, On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:36:24PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: They are already are, please review the (simple) package. For some of the packages that provide them (like systat) the tasks are pulled in from the depends:, for other packages there might be users that might

Re: announcing first release of common database infrastructure package

2005-03-08 Thread sean finney
hi christian, On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 05:58:43PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: You might want to post a call for translations for the common templates in the package, as I understand this package includes a set of common templates. yeah, this project aims at making life easier for three

Re: announcing first release of common database infrastructure package

2005-03-08 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:51:48PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Comments about the templates: wow... thanks for all these. i'll work on incorporating these suggestions in with the next version, before i make a request for translations. sean -- signature.asc Description:

Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-08 Thread sean finney
hello, On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:38:22AM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: o when the usb key is inserted, the user is prompted for a password to the encrypted loopback file which is then mounted, the ssh keys within are fed to ssh agent, and the file is unmounted again. you could easily

Accepted nagios 2:1.3-cvs.20050116-4 (sparc source all)

2005-03-08 Thread Sean Finney
Maintainer Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Sean Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: nagios-common - A host/service/network monitoring and management system nagios-mysql - A host/service/network monitoring and management system nagios-pgsql - A host/service/network monitoring and management

Accepted dbconfig-common 0.8 (all source)

2005-03-08 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 20:43:42 -0500 Source: dbconfig-common Binary: dbconfig-common Architecture: source all Version: 0.8 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

Accepted dbconfig-common 1.4 (all source)

2005-03-08 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:27:49 -0500 Source: dbconfig-common Binary: dbconfig-common Architecture: source all Version: 1.4 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

Accepted dbconfig-common 0.9 (all source)

2005-03-08 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 01:25:58 -0800 Source: dbconfig-common Binary: dbconfig-common Architecture: source all Version: 0.9 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

Re: announcing first release of common database infrastructure package

2005-03-07 Thread sean finney
hi martin, On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:23:51PM +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: sounds really good. How do your scripts relate to the db management scripts provided by wwwconfig-common, maintained by Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED]? my code is a superset of what's done in wwwconfig-common.

Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-07 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:46:46AM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: o In order to minimize the exposure of the key, it might be wise to mount the drive, load the keys (ssh,gpg) into the memory of the appropriate agents and then unmount the drive. On the other hand, does this actually provide

Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-07 Thread sean finney
hi, On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:52:31PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: i have a usb/hotplug/ssh-add script that loads an ssh key off of a usb stick, and removes it when the usb stick is removed. if you're interested i can send you a copy off-list. Any reason not to post it on-list? I was

Accepted cacti 0.8.6c-4 (all source)

2005-03-06 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 12:21:01 -0500 Source: cacti Binary: cacti Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.6c-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted cacti-cactid 0.8.6d-4 (i386 source)

2005-03-06 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:56:10 -0500 Source: cacti-cactid Binary: cacti-cactid Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.8.6d-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

announcing first release of common database infrastructure package

2005-03-04 Thread sean finney
hey folks, you might remember some time ago i started a thread[1] or two[2] about developing a consistant policy/feel for how database (more specifically rdbms) application packages should work. well, since then i've spent a lot of time working on both a 'best practices' document as well as a

Re: announcing first release of common database infrastructure package

2005-03-04 Thread sean finney
to reply to my own post... i was under the impression that because dbconfig-common was previously in experimental that i wouldn't have problems related to the stalled NEW queue, but i was wrong. so you can get them here: deb http://people.debian.org/~seanius/policy/examples/ ./ deb-src

Accepted cacti 0.8.6c-3 (all source)

2005-03-04 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 23:24:17 -0500 Source: cacti Binary: cacti Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.6c-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted cacti 0.8.6c-2 (all source)

2005-03-03 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:21:01 -0500 Source: cacti Binary: cacti Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.6c-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted cacti-cactid 0.8.6d-2 (i386 source)

2005-03-03 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:06:14 -0500 Source: cacti-cactid Binary: cacti-cactid Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.8.6d-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

Accepted cacti-cactid 0.8.6d-3 (i386 source)

2005-03-03 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:02:12 -0500 Source: cacti-cactid Binary: cacti-cactid Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.8.6d-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

Re: splitting a source package into 2 source packages

2005-03-02 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:04:03PM +0200, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: istr the same thing, and was thinking that this might be the case. since i don't suppose the ftp-master __ are going to come out of hiding just to answer this question, i guess i'll upload, find out, and

Accepted cacti-cactid 0.8.6d-1 (i386 source)

2005-03-02 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:15:48 -0500 Source: cacti-cactid Binary: cacti-cactid Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.8.6d-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

please test new version of cacti in experimental

2005-03-01 Thread sean finney
hi there, i've packaged the next upstream version of cacti, which i'll be keeping in experimental until i work out this whole single source - multiple source for the 2 binary packages formerly produced by cacti. in the meantime, i would be very interested to hear how the upgrade path from the

Accepted cacti 0.8.6c-1 (all source)

2005-03-01 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:26:57 -0500 Source: cacti Binary: cacti Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.6c-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED

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