Re: Mouse configuration during installation needs improvement

Quoting Ben Finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > > > Given most people don't use the console ever > > Where is your data for this assertion? Probably too wide generalization by Lennart. My own assertion was that people who use the console *on an enough re

funny outputs of ssh-vulnkey

Hi all, on my unstable machine, I checked ssh keys again today and saw some funny outputs. $ dpkg -l openssh-client Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,

Re: How to handle Debian patches

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:57:03PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > You can imagine harvesting alioth.d.o and extracting all debian/control > > stored in whatever $VCS you find there, but you can't be sure if this is > > the currently used $VCS, if there are other versions of the package > > vers

Re: Mouse configuration during installation needs improvement

On jeu, 2008-05-29 at 08:16 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > This argument would also see the removal of 'login', since that's not > needed by your putative majority of people who don't log in over > text-only interfaces. Do you _really_ think gpm is as important as login? -- Yves-Alexis signature.as

Re: Large data packages in the archive

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 03:54:25PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > FYI, the most recent CVS snapshots of GDB can read zlib-compressed > > debug info. If someone gets around to an objcopy patch to create it, > > then we can change debhelper to use it... > > > >

ITH/ITA fvwm-crystal

Hi! #468644 is a proposed orphan on fvwm-crystal pending since late February. fvwm-crystal seems unmaintained since several months (even more than one year). I am using it daily on several hosts. I therefore itend to hijack it in a few days if nobody opposes. Thanks. -- I AM NOT D

Lap ADSL va DTCD chi 100k tang them may Dien thoai!

Khuyến mãi lớn chưa từng có từ Viettel: SẴN SÀNG TĂNG TỐC Lắp đặt cả Internet ADSL và Điện thoại cố định chỉ 100.000đ Tặng thêm máy điện thoại bàn trị giá 150.000đ Áp dụng trong 4 ngày (từ 28/5 - 31/5/08) tại TP.HCM Chúng tôi sẽ cử nhân viên đến tận nhà tư vấn và làm thủ tục hợp đồng, vui lòng

Re: How to handle Debian patches

Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 02:26:29PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> I think it's about time to file mass bugs on whatever packages are left >> that use version control and lack the fields. > ... > > You can imagine harvesting alioth.d.o and extracting all debian/control > s

Bug#483490: ITP: switchsh -- bind-mount bash as /bin/sh

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: goal-dash -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: switchsh Version : 0~20070801 Upstream Author : Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL

Re: Mouse configuration during installation needs improvement

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > Given most people don't use the console ever Where is your data for this assertion? > installing a service that is only for console use by default is > simply wrong. The less services need to be enabled by default the > better. This argument would

Re: Large data packages in the archive

Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joerg Jaspert skrev: >> - Packages in main need to be installable and not cause their (indirect) >>reverse build-depends to FTBFS in the absence of data.debian.org. >>If the data is necessary for the package to work and there is a small >>datas

Re: Availability of debian changelogs

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 03:53:48PM +0100, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2008, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > > It's not convenient to download 20M only for viewing a changelog - > > i want look at changelog to decide, should i upgrade this package or > > no. > > In general you will be able

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 18:06 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Uh, it's the same problem. Surely the generalization is obvious? > It's not quite the same problem because aclocal.m4 is regenerated in the > clean rule itself because changing it causes ./confi

security embargos (was: Re: ssl security desaster)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, I did not answer to the list: Am Mi den 28. Mai 2008 um 1:13 schrieb Colin Watson: > > It is never ever a good idea to make security issues secret or > > protracting it. > > > > And in this special case it was easy to fix the problem very fas

Bug#483373: ITP: libmoosex-strictconstructor-perl -- Makes Moose object constructors blow up on unknown attributes

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmoosex-strictconstructor-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-StrictConstructor/ * License

Re: Debian's eboard package

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 04:07:55PM +0200, Patrik Fimml wrote: > As I frequently use eboard and have done some "hobby" packages before, I'd > like to take care of the package. What exactly is the procedure to follow in > this case? I See you have already file for a ITA for this package, so you are

Re: Large data packages in the archive

Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11397 March 1977, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >>> No, we have to distribute the source. DFSG#2, many licenses require it. >>> Relying on some external system to keep the source for us is also a >>> no-go. >> What about the hack to have the source bu

Re: Mouse configuration during installation needs improvement

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 06:49:17AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Not to mention the various remarks that have been made, I would like > to enhance that ppl who use the Linux console on a regular basis > (which is usually what motivates activating a mouse on it) are > perfectly able to know that

Re: Debian's eboard package

Le mercredi 28 mai 2008 à 14:34 +0200, Patrik Fimml a écrit : > > Is xboard a suitable replacement? > > Not really. xboard provides some very basic functionality, but is not really > user-friendly. You can play games on FICS, the Free Internet Chess Server, > however you only have the console and

Bug#483364: ITP: libmoose-policy-perl -- Allows specification of Moose meta-policy

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmoose-policy-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Stevan Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose-Policy/ * License : GPL, Artistic Progr

Re: Debian's eboard package

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:44:03PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 04:07:55PM +0200, Patrik Fimml wrote: > > the latest eboard package in unstable is version 1.0.3-1. It is rather > > unusable, because it keeps crashing frequently (#452686). Meanwhile, > > upstream > > has

Re: Alioth slowness - web pages not loading, top showing 10.00+

This one time, at band camp, said: > Hello, > > While doing some research on git and alioth, certain web pages take > very long to load and some time out. For example, I am having > trouble reaching the debian-perl team's web site - > http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/ > > When I log

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 11:45 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: Ignore the CC for #482716 - the CC should be for #471263 [patch-systems]: please no patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff for generated files -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/

Re: Processed: tagging 480716

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 11:39 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 14:18:07 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > If it is just that 'quiet' supports what it does because that is all it > > has needed to support so far, I'm fine with that. It just means I cannot > > prevent those messa

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 18:06 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 08:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Lots of other packages do this -- one of mine off the top of my head is > >> xml-security-c. > > > Nope. No mention of aclocal.m4 in

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:06:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > With these gtk-doc files, it's not so much that the tmpl/*.sgml files > > are generated but that a tool essential to the build modifies them in a > > way that cannot be patched because the

Re: Processed: tagging 480716

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 14:18:07 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > If it is just that 'quiet' supports what it does because that is all it > has needed to support so far, I'm fine with that. It just means I cannot > prevent those messages coming to -devel. I still need to process the > bugs. > The on

Thanks for the response on DSA-1571 OpenSSL vulnerability (was: ssl security desaster)

"Martin Langhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think everyone involved did a wonderful job, especially given > > the appalling constraints they were under. > > A wonderful job indeed. *Thanks* from this corner of the

Alioth slowness - web pages not loading, top showing 10.00+

Hello, While doing some research on git and alioth, certain web pages take very long to load and some time out. For example, I am having trouble reaching the debian-perl team's web site - http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/ When I log into alioth via ssh and do a quick top, I see that t

Re: Debian Menu transition status

Quoting Bill Allombert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 1) About 60% of menu files had been updated to the new menu sections. > There are still 672 packages to update. > >

Re: Mouse configuration during installation needs improvement

Quoting Stephen Powell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > This will allow the use of the mouse both in a virtual > console and in X. Not only that, but "hot swapping" Not to mention the various remarks that have been made, I would like to enhance that ppl who use the Linux console on a regular basis (which

Bug#483297: ITP: fossology -- Free and Open Source Software analysis framework

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matt Taggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: fossology Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Author : The FOSSology Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://fossology.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL) Programming Lang: (C, PHP) De