Bug#501331: debsums: debconf really necessary?!

2008-10-19 Thread Francois Marier
On 2008-10-19 at 23:07:46, Sune Vuorela wrote: > In case of 2, the intruder is more than normal stupid if he gets caught by > this. Yes, but as you are probably aware, there are stupid attackers out there :) > " This may be useful for checking system integrity later, though it " > "should not be

Bug#501331: debsums: debconf really necessary?!

2008-10-19 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Monday 06 October 2008 21:19:50 Francois Marier wrote: > Hi Adeodato, > > > I think a debconf prompt to ask whether to enable a cron script > > is an overkill. > > I think that the debconf question is useful since it enables, in my > opinion, a useful feature that a lot of people would otherwise

Bug#501331: debsums: debconf really necessary?!

2008-10-06 Thread Francois Marier
Hi Adeodato, > I think a debconf prompt to ask whether to enable a cron script > is an overkill. I think that the debconf question is useful since it enables, in my opinion, a useful feature that a lot of people would otherwise not bother reading about in the documentation. > If you want debsums

Bug#501331: debsums: debconf really necessary?!

2008-10-06 Thread Adeodato Simó
Package: debsums Version: 2.0.38 Severity: important Hello. I think a debconf prompt to ask whether to enable a cron script is an overkill. If you want debsums to ship a cron script, I think it should, if at all: (a) be weekly (at most), or monthly (b) be daily, but disabled by default from