Greg Stark writes:
We've got be be a little more careful with the Replaces header. I just
installed the libc6 version of comerr, and dpkg helpfully deinstalled
e2fsprogs.
I can see a security problem with this. Lets jump ahead several months
when we have deity working. A user
Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can see a security problem with this.
Absolutely: pre/post inst/rm scripts run as root, this is the security
problem to dwarf all other security problems.
Our defense is a wide audience. The more people we have looking at the
system, the better
On 30 Nov 1997, Greg Stark wrote:
I know i should install a new e2fsprogs, obviously. I was just suggesting we
should find some way to avoid the default action being to deinstall packages
that aren't really being completely replaced. I'm not sure what better to do
though.
In this
Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The testers are starting to think about how to organized the 2.0
testing effort. One idea that the testers seemed to like is to create a
checklist for checking each package.
[details snipped]
Excellent! If this comes off, I think it will probably
Congratulations on a good decision, Bruce. :)
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Oops, I left an SMTP command at the end of that message. Did you see it?
Bruce
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: This list can be added to by anyone. What I'd like to ask for now is any
: comments on this.
A checklist like this is a good idea, particularly if it eventually provides
the list of things that initially need to be part of a regression suite for
the
On 1 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Yes.
Will
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At 04:27 AM 1/12/97 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oops, I left an SMTP command at the end of that message. Did you see it?
Yes, we did :-)
I hate these me too messages. I wonder how many people will reply with
yes, we did now grin. You shouldn't have said anything, Bruce :-)
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FAKEROOT: after stat, failing?: known=0, stat=d:i=(2051:196739),
mode=0100664, nlink=1,
I've seen this too (on an x86 hamm system) but I forget if I filed it.
Running fakeroot alien on a .tar.gz file triggered it; the .tar.gz
file happenned to have pathnames longer than dpkg can handle
Send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with a package: and version: line
in the body, just like the website says (somewhere.)
seems to be at fault. My /usr/include/X11 was empty, so the cp failed
Any idea how it *got* that way? Were you upgrading (from what) or
installing fresh? [you can look at
I don't understand why the debian developers are undertaking to
maintain debianified version of Perl modules when the CPAN module and
its mechanisms are so much more native to Perl, are well-supported by
the Perl community, etc? Besides, Perl already has it's own automated
upgrade system (CPAN),
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
I am working on the following packages:
Orphaned packages:
macutils
mcvert
opie
New packages:
hfs-fs (Macintosh HFS kernel module)
zile (Emacs clone)
For the time
Yann Dirson wrote:
Greg Stark writes:
We've got be be a little more careful with the Replaces header.
I just installed the libc6 version of comerr, and dpkg helpfully
deinstalled e2fsprogs.
That's perfectly normal if you previously had e2fsprogs = 1.10-6,
which does contain
Hi,
Adam == Adam P Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Adam I don't understand why the debian developers are undertaking to
Adam maintain debianified version of Perl modules when the CPAN
Adam module and its mechanisms are so much more native to Perl, are
Adam well-supported by the Perl community,
Adam I don't understand why the debian developers are undertaking to
Adam maintain debianified version of Perl modules when the CPAN
Adam module and its mechanisms are so much more native to Perl, are
Adam well-supported by the Perl community, etc?
[Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
How
On 30 Nov 1997 02:13:23 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
bruce Good healthy sex is fine. The stuff I objected to had nothing
bruce to do with sex, it concerned acts only a mentaly ill person
bruce would carry out.
Ummm... careful with those generalisations. I've gone through some
incarnation of
On no-time-field?, 30 Nov 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:
Sorry. Quake or Doom are silly and stupid; they certainly aren't fun.
Normally it's silly to assume your own experience is everyone else's.
In a case like this, when it is blatantly obvious that a very large
number of people find both games
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Yep I was tempted to answer with just
:wq
quit
EXIT
^]
^C
eat flaming death
:)
Mike.
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Hi,
as my email is still not added to debian-private (I don't want to bug
anyone) and it's election time I would like to ask some kind soul to
send me the archives of the last two months of debian-private (need
some background material for voting :-)
If possible please in the next couple of days
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I remove packages using cpan? Can I downgrade to a
lower version?
Adam P. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure but I don't think so. Probably, if you can think of some
cases why you need this functionality, you could ask the
Hi!
Just a little note on the chosen new logo:
It says Debian / GNU Linux. Isn't the project called Debian GNU/Linux?
Just wondering... Otherwise, the logo is very nice.
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Okay, I goofed up somewhat with sed by releasing a package which
pre-depended on eletric fence. Sorry about that.
But please: STOP reporting bugreports on this! I've fixed it and the
new package has already been installed on the FTP site.
Thanks,
Wichert.
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I am planning to become a developer in the near future. To do
so, I will require my PGP key to be signed by at least one developer,
but I am unsure of the procedure to do this.
Is it necessary to physically meet the signqing developer? If
so, I would like to hear from developers who
In the debian distribution, I miss a collection of xpilot utilities, apart
from the game itself. Therefore I have the ambition to create a debian
package, collecting several such programs into a complementary
xpilot-extra package.
My main concern is, should I create one package for each utility
It is always best to install the xearth package
to find Debian developers close to you. Of hand, some
developers do live in Florida: I live in Palm Beach, there is one
in Miami, and a redneck in Hee Haw junction who spends the night
outside 7-11, buying lottery tickets while
Brandon Mitchell wrote:
I can see a security problem with this. Lets jump ahead several months
when we have deity working. A user points deity to several sites, some
providing a bunch of debs that they have created but don't want to be part
of the main distribution. Now they upload a new
Andy Mortimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OTOH, if you make this too simplistic, then I fear you're going to miss most
of the problems: I'm sure the majority of developers do test their packages at
least a little bit before releasing them. I certainly do. But one of the
things Debian has been bad
Petri Wessman wrote:
Sigh, someday I'll probably understand the American mentality when it
comes to sex (and equating it with violence on the ooo, bad stuff
scale).
When you do, let me know (and I live there - thought I'm not one) :)
Stephen
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On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
I'd also be interested in some kind of verification, so I can accept all
packages put together by some maintainer, and the maintainers on the
debian keyring, but no one else.
I had exactly the same idea in the previous KDE/virtual package
[You ([EMAIL PROTECTED])]
About two months ago, I upgraded a CPAN bundle on a production server.
Two interesting things happened:
(1) perl itself got upgraded, and
(2) wais got upgraded.
Huh??? Perl itself? I don't think this is possible.
[...]
Also, there are CPAN modules whose installation
Quoting Mark W. Eichin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
seems to be at fault. My /usr/include/X11 was empty, so the cp failed
Any idea how it *got* that way? Were you upgrading (from what) or
installing fresh? [you can look at /var/lib/dpkg/status.yesterday.*
for hints, if you don't remember...]
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
About two months ago, I upgraded a CPAN bundle on a production server.
Two interesting things happened:
(1) perl itself got upgraded, and
(2) wais got upgraded.
Adam P. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Huh??? Perl itself? I don't think this is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 30.11.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 02:07:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
..
There are some valid arguments why showing violence is bad.
No there ain't. There are some valid arguments why people who
can't control their violent
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
The default keyring would probably be the developers keyring. The
sysadmin could then add new keys of persons/organziations which he/she
trusts to that keyring.
Comments?
Err... yes.
Am I the only one seeing a bit of a problem here? (Or am I
does anyone know where i can contact Orn E. Hansen.
he was the developer of dialdcost, which i would like
to take over. his email-adress [EMAIL PROTECTED]
unfortunately bounces.
thanks,
jjm
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I use Debian 1.3.1 and was wondering, which package in the msdos-i386
directory is X11. Also, how do I get access to my floppy drive in the
text-shell? Please respond. Thank you.
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Why do we need to take out the offensive part of the package when
we already have an example of how to package offensive material. The
fortune and fortune-mod package asks during installation if the offensive
material should be removed.
Why can't we just follow the policy set
Anyone know what's up with David Engle's email address?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Damerell) wrote on 01.12.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On no-time-field?, 30 Nov 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:
Sorry. Quake or Doom are silly and stupid; they certainly aren't fun.
Normally it's silly to assume your own experience is everyone else's.
In a case like this,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) wrote on 01.12.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[You ([EMAIL PROTECTED])]
About two months ago, I upgraded a CPAN bundle on a production server.
Two interesting things happened:
(1) perl itself got upgraded, and
(2) wais got upgraded.
Huh??? Perl itself? I
Christian Schwarz wrote:
I suggest that we add a new control field to our packages called
Origin: (or similar). This could either be set to SPI or
Debian, for example. Then, all Debian packages should be signed
with some PGP key (either only one key for the whole system or by
the
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
Am I the only one seeing a bit of a problem here? (Or am I missing
something I should know?) That is, PGP is non-US. To be able to put PGP
in the main distribution, the master FTP site has to be moved off the US.
I don't have a problem with
Hi folks!
I'm really happy that we finally have a logo for Debian GNU/Linux!
I've just updated the Debian logo pages at
http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/
The pages include all new submittions that I've received since the last
logo page, the old logo pages and
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