Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-13 Thread Brian May
appear that NEW is blocked for some reason. However, no changes in my upload are critical (at least none that I am aware of), and there are no known security bugs, so I am not complaining. Just curious. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Processed: block 322762 with 355341

2006-03-09 Thread Brian May
m it is listed: --- cut --- Blocking bugs added: 355341 Request was from Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Full text and rfc822 format available. --- cut --- 2. is it possible to list all bugs that are not blocked? 3. does blocking imply any action will automatically be taken

Re: Processed: block 322762 with 355341

2006-03-06 Thread Brian May
341 What does the "block" command do? I have never seen it documented anywhere, including at http://bugs.debian.org/>. Did I miss something? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-03-01 Thread Brian May
drivers optional? If ndiswrapper moved to contrib would this package have to move to? I am not providing an opinion here, but I didn't notice these issues being discussed earlier. back to your regular program... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: something strange with rsh/ssh + bash/tcsh is happening. Please advise

2006-01-01 Thread Brian May
y, the shell isn't required, no splitting of the parameters is required, and this makes the script more secure. Unfortunately, it seems the same methods have yet to come to rsh/ssh, etc. Hmmm. I think sudo supports it though: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo 'id; echo hi' sudo: id; echo hi: comma

Re: something strange with rsh/ssh + bash/tcsh is happening. Please advise

2005-12-29 Thread Brian May
able this implicit shell, either with ssh or rsh? I really don't like it. I would rather each parameter be passed straight to the remote executable via exec without being parsed by sh first. Then, if I want to use the shell, I can say so. I don't like this business of the command line b

Re: Heimdal autotools dramas

2005-11-26 Thread Brian May
ail on the heimdal-discuss list... I sent the message to heimdal-bugs. Maybe heimdal-discuss would be more appropriate? Unfortunately, my laptop computer is throwing one of its "I will not power on unless you remove my power source and batteries for several days" tantrum, so I can't dou

Re: Heimdal autotools dramas

2005-11-25 Thread Brian May
glob$U.lo and glob$U.o. I asked upstream Heimdal and got no response. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. PS. Source code is Heimdal in Debian experimental. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-25 Thread Brian May
es on to trace SPAM (which have no cryptographic signature). I also believe that the threat of somebody being tricked into installing a Trojan package is a very real possibility, and we should do everything we can do to aid our users prevent this from happening. Notes: [1] Assuming you have a car,

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Marc" == Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marc> Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I've never seen dpkg-sig mentioned before, only debsigs, >>> so I'm not familiar with

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread Brian May
ges never uploaded to Debian, maybe not). * others I am too lazy to think of. Matthew> I've never seen dpkg-sig mentioned before, only debsigs, Matthew> so I'm not familiar with the tool itself, but the concept Matthew> is one that needs a lot more exposure. I would

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-22 Thread Brian May
pass SMTP level SPAM controls, but taken to the extreme, you would have to also do this to every server that forwards you email (perhaps even every mailing list server?). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-16 Thread Brian May
krb524 working with Heimdal. I had to insert enable-524 = true in /var/lib/heimdal-kdc/kdc.conf (the man page for kdc lead me to believe this was the default). and add: [login] enable-524 = true in /etc/krb5.conf -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-13 Thread Brian May
ing duplicate symbols or using a version that is incompatible. * Upload Heimdal. * Rebuild above packages. * If packages don't rebuild then it may be because it requires krb4 support => drop krb4 support (cyrus-sasl?), or entire package (arla?). * Drop kerberos4kth. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-13 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russ> Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * Find out what is required to keep AFS support working >> (assuming I don't already have it). Russ> Well, what so

Re: apt-proxy

2005-11-13 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eric> I wrote approx for exactly this purpose. It's now in Eric> testing. Is a back port available for sarge? If not, how feasible would it be to create on? Does it depend on anything n

Re: apt-proxy

2005-11-13 Thread Brian May
tunately, as I seem to be running behind with my own packages, I don't think I can spare time to help with other packages at this point in time. I am glad to hear though that it is still being worked on. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-11 Thread Brian May
all ? AFAIK apt-listbugs only displays open bugs, if the bug is closed then it won't get displayed. Ideally apt-listbugs needs to be updated to support the new versioning system in the BTS. This could also solve the issue that the mirror you use might be out-of-date and still have a buggy pack

Re: device nodes with udev?

2005-11-11 Thread Brian May
-). I don't think it should be too hard, I suspect the package needs to be changed to use the wtmp API in libc6 (assuming my memory is correct and such an API exists). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Brian May
n after recompiling. * Find out what is required to keep AFS support working (assuming I don't already have it). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: device nodes with udev?

2005-11-09 Thread Brian May
aving difficulties without requiring the remote user run screen in multiuser mode. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-proxy

2005-11-06 Thread Brian May
ch means I can't rebuild my package for sarge in order to see if it fixes a bug I encountered while testing another piece of Debian software. ARgghh! Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: per-user temp directories by default?

2005-11-05 Thread Brian May
les to indicate where "/tmp" is. Not only that, but some programs don't even give a clear understandable error if the directory doesn't exist. So if you miss one, beware, you might get unpredictable errors. Can't we just pick one standard name for the environment variable and stick to it? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: todos: command not found

2005-11-03 Thread Brian May
"); $package = stdout(execute("apt-file","search",$file)); } This infinite recursion will take several minutes (maximum) to execute, I think (assuming the if test succeeds). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-29 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marc> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:54:18 +1000, Brian May Marc> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If the code "just" calls adduser, this would seem to be a bug, >&g

Re: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-28 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> There have been increasing calls for me to drop krb4 Brian> support in Heimdal (first in bug #315059 and now by Brian> upstream in bug #334632 - it would also solve #236851). It

Re: A thought about killing two bird with one stone

2005-10-26 Thread Brian May
efore the network is configured - but it hasn't bothered me enough to investigate why yet.) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Brian May
expectedly receiving mail for a system user that isn't even used (consider $HOME/Maildir), or any number of other unwanted things. However, this has to be done carefully, or you end up doing the wrong thing. e.g. deluser -r $USER, in the past, has been pure evil if the home directory has been changed to "/"! -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-24 Thread Brian May
ow you damn well Ben> better be." --Orson Scott Card, _Ender's Game_ According to upstream there is some sort of support for krb4 in Heimdal 0.7.1, at least enough to make AFS happy. I haven't yet got my package to compile yet so I don't know if this will be sufficient for

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-23 Thread Brian May
xed them all. The relevant patch file in debian/patches/012_sharedlibs, regenerate the autoconf patch with debian/scripts/autotools. Requires automake 1.8. There is also the issue of the versioned symbols patch not applying cleanly. Any help appreciated, Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-23 Thread Brian May
cting with kerberos4kth, due to conflicts between shared libraries used. Does this matter? Is it time to think about removing kerberos4kth from the archive anyway? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

confused MTA - body != headers

2005-10-23 Thread Brian May
4.50) id 1ETcoa-00032V-E1 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:10:57 +0200 Received: by p9.dpk.berlin.fido (FIDOGATE 4.4.10) id AA10674; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:02:19 +0200 Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:29:36 +0200 From: Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Drop KRB4 support fr

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

2005-10-22 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> What is the preferred way of closing bugs that are not bugs Brian> (e.g. mistake by the submitter)? -- Brian May Brian> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Has the "reassign" comma

Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-22 Thread Brian May
ecure - I think the only reason it was requested was because of AFS requirements - does that reason still apply? Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Bug#334632] Your message to Pkg-openssl-devel awaits moderator approval

2005-10-21 Thread Brian May
notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel this posting, please visit the following URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/confirm/pkg-openssl-devel/91facf25272f4a5492f6675f4d7e0611dd80f72e --- End Message --- -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

2005-10-19 Thread Brian May
ey> include a "Version:" pseudo-header[2]. What is the preferred way of closing bugs that are not bugs (e.g. mistake by the submitter)? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: curl situation is intolerable

2005-09-13 Thread Brian May
t would be possible to have both packages implement the same ABI and become drop in replacements for each other. Oh, BTW, gnutls isn't a complete 100% solution either, IIRC packages exist that require openssl because the license is GPL incompatible. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

KDE non-installable sarge/stable powerpc

2005-09-04 Thread Brian May
n't available in sarge. Is this a known problem? I think this might be because of a broken security update, so I have CCed the security team too. Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-31 Thread Brian May
ou don't like this, you would be able to change the config manually. Adding support for multiple IP addresses is an interesting idea, but I am not convinced it is a requirement (especially if it adds significantly to the complexity; I suspect it might). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-30 Thread Brian May
ate links) and starting it. When a service is deactivated, the reverse happens. Or perhaps a running some configurable script for each activation/deactivation might be better, that way a package could request deactivation mean "remove listen config option on this port". Might be useful for p

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-24 Thread Brian May
include every server where multiple implementations exist. Is this really a good idea? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-04 Thread Brian May
their Package files, will they? There may be good reasons to install Linux even if you use The Hurd. For example, consider emulators such as qemu (no I didn't check if this one runs under The Hurd). So omitting these packages from the Package index files on *BSD or The Hurd (if/when this

Re: SUMMARY: Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-29 Thread Brian May
licated example, see the Heimdal libraries... This may be important if you require a static version for any reason or your platform doesn't support interdependencies between shared libraries. I think there is at least one OS without good support for shared libraries - what was its name again?

Re: Who needs libcurl3?

2005-07-27 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Domenico" == Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Domenico> unfortunately heimdal bug #316980 makes curl FTBS :( patches to fix this welcome ;-) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reopening bug closed due to SPAM

2005-07-22 Thread Brian May
d (such as mail headers or SMTP session), and it doesn't protect against replay attacks (unless you add some other mechanism, e.g. include the date and time in the protected part of the message). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: BTS version tracking

2005-07-19 Thread Brian May
but it appears you have considered many different situations. Now my top wishlist is support for this new system in apt-listbugs . -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no time for all debian tasks was: interacting with the press

2005-07-14 Thread Brian May
, etc}" ...as the first version doesn't blame XYZ in anyway. Surely you don't need to provide details what happened? (note: none of this is specific to anybody mentioned in this thread) Notes: [1] Who me? Watch to much Stargate? Never! -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: pbuilder status update

2005-07-14 Thread Brian May
0-dev linux-kernel-headers make patch perl perl-modules gnupg libbz2-1.0 libldap2 libreadline5 libusb-0.1-4 makedev libgnutls11 libsasl2 debconf libtasn1-2 libopencdk8 liblzo1 libgpg-error0 libgcrypt11 debconf-english $additional" At the time aptitude wasn't recompiled, so no doubt thi

Re: interacting with the press

2005-07-13 Thread Brian May
a task that they may not want to do? Perhaps a more positive tone would help? However, I read the article and didn't see anything negative in it. So I don't see any need for Martin to delegate the press contact task. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-10 Thread Brian May
time, regardless of regular interruptions, that I am incompetent? You must be perfect! Which means the fact I could not have any definitions of [1] or [2] in your message must be my fault. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-10 Thread Brian May
don't think it will work from X-Windows when the system is too bogged down to switch to a text console though... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-09 Thread Brian May
x27;t give you access to your newly created package. 4. Make dupload obsolete, and replace with dput. Make dput the default in debrelease. I think dput would have prevented me uploading my unsigned package. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-09 Thread Brian May
quently went very slowly until it was unusable. It took me two reboots of the computer before I finally realized the DOS attack was from *my* own script! It took me another reboot to fix the problem properly. Sometimes it pays to use the full pathname to the executable... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Debian-uk] Sun have (probably) patented apt-get

2005-07-06 Thread Brian May
counts as prior-art if you published it in some public forum (not sure of the exact criteria). If it was a private thing, then it doesn't count. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debian-uk] Sun have (probably) patented apt-get

2005-07-06 Thread Brian May
ivist Network, said: "The fact that somebody, just by claiming to own a word, can intimidate large companies and powerful law firms shows the damage, to an extent, is already done." In the movie realm, Stoller says that he wrote to Sony in March, objecting to Columbia Pictures' plan t

Re: GCC version change / C++ ABI change

2005-07-05 Thread Brian May
an application that uses this library in the one source, by the above criteria I could rebuild the library but not the application, which seems pointless. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#315298: ITP: yaird -- Yet Another mkInitRD

2005-06-22 Thread Brian May
in Debian be able to use klibc in Debian for all the user tools (I believe there is already an ITP for klibc). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: raidtools2 -> mdadm change: woes and problems

2005-06-22 Thread Brian May
ed assembling the RAID with the --update=super-minor option (as well as all the other options), but it didn't seem to help. In the end, I gave up and changed /etc/fstab to the new system. I no longer have access this machine, the other machine doesn't seem to have the problem anymore. How

Re: TODO for etch ?

2005-06-20 Thread Brian May
P server... e.g. network tunnels and DNS servers both might need to be started first before the NTP server can be contacted. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Keysigning without physically meeting ... thoughts?

2005-06-18 Thread Brian May
Brian Mays doesn't seem to be watching this thread...) My point though is that I could have taken my dodgy key into a keysigning session, and people adhering to many standard keysigning would not notice anything wrong, even if I couldn't intercept the mail. This would mean: * If I was a n

Re: Bug#313094: shared libraries, bug 313094

2005-06-18 Thread Brian May
it with Steve> a grain of salt for now. :) Sounds like a much needed feature, IMHO. Good like for getting your changes integrated into debhelper. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

shared libraries, bug 313094

2005-06-14 Thread Brian May
hs behind. I don't think the bug reporter used hurd though. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrading to Debian sarge

2005-06-12 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache show libc6 | grep MD5sum MD5sum: Brian> ab0895ee6d8d2cf3b6906eb5228e5c25 Brian> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# md5sum Brian> /var/cache/apt/archiv

Re: Keysigning without physically meeting ... thoughts?

2005-06-11 Thread Brian May
ed, using what I believe to be the standard process[1][2][3][4][...]: 1. I claim to be "Brian May". I have a passport that proves that I am in fact "Brian May". I have a drivers license that proves that I am "Brian May". The photos are identical to what I look l

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-11 Thread Brian May
t; there for only 1 symbol on 2.4; didn't check 2.6), and so on Joey> might just make it work. klibc? Not yet in Debian, is there any reason for this? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Upgrading to Debian sarge

2005-06-11 Thread Brian May
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-20_powerpc.deb 69301110f8865edd7f2f93d79ad6a715 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-20_powerpc.deb Then again, this package looks old, so maybe the entire mirror is old, and no longer usable. My point though that aptitude should tell you what went wrong

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-11 Thread Brian May
o very complicated networks. The difficulty with supporting firewalls is that people will expect "if I install package X, then it should automatically adjust the firewall to allow it to work". I really do *not* want to go down this path. The firewall is up to the administrator to decide on, not the package maintainers. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-11 Thread Brian May
and had mounted additional filesystems - the only solution I could come up with was to stop the daemon in the chroot before unmounting the file-system). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel security bug #307900

2005-06-05 Thread Brian May
rnel-source version 2.6.8-16"? Again, I think it would be much quicker, easier, and less prone to errors if the DSAs where mentioned in the relevant kernel-image-change too. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel security bug #307900

2005-06-04 Thread Brian May
? Does this mean people who want secure pre-compiled kernels have to resort to unstable until the issue is fixed? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-19 Thread Brian May
rect solution to fix the file system? Disclaimer: I don't care too much either way. It is perhaps worth noting that a package I maintain does use /usr/lib/$packagename/* for inetd servers, and this reduces file conflicts with other packages. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-18 Thread Brian May
what the point would be. Peter> You would put up with all *that* for a 6-megabyte savings Peter> on your root filesystem? It would be more then 6 megabyte savings on the root file-system if /usr was moved to /. That was the original point I responded to. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PRO

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-18 Thread Brian May
s kept accurate via some other means. You could argue based on this, /lib isn't designed to be shared, so you still need to split it into /usr/lib and /lib. Alternatively you could argue only /lib/modules isn't sharable, I guess. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUB

Re: Against which package should this go?

2005-05-15 Thread Brian May
have the time or patience to learn that awful-programming-language-that-requires-lots-of-nested-brackets... errr... I mean LISP... right now. ;-) However, this won't work anyway for people stuck using lesser MUAs (e.g. mutt), fake MUAs (e.g. evolution), or worse (e.g. anything written b

Re: adduser: what is the difference between --disabled-password and--disabled-login

2005-05-15 Thread Brian May
have any downside. Perhaps the only exception I can think of is if the account is locked due to "too many login attempts" as opposed to "password expired" or "account has expired" or some other predictable reason. Then, yes, that would be a problem. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adduser: what is the difference between --disabled-password and--disabled-login

2005-05-14 Thread Brian May
0:53 snoopy sshd[15846]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for jan from localhost [3] "Account deactivated" option in "LDAP Account Manager". I haven't worked out how this is stored in LDAP yet. No messages displayed to the user. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-10 Thread Brian May
#x27;t want to use an initramfs to initialize it. Or if you want /usr to be shared between computers but don't want to share all of /. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More about GFDL

2005-04-23 Thread Brian May
as Maciej> well? It might be better to ask this question on debian-legal. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#304570: ITP: codeblocks -- Code::Blocks is a free C/C++ IDE built

2005-04-14 Thread Brian May
free software based there. Just look at the ITPs here. Unfortunately the website doesn't seem to be working right now. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gluck available again / filesystem shaked

2005-04-07 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Joerg" == Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joerg> You know, our userdir-ldap manages ssh keys. You dont need Joerg> to put them manually in .ssh dirs. How do you set the ssh key in LDAP? I can't see any settings in db.d

Re: Idea: about package installation under chroot.

2005-03-24 Thread Brian May
l packages in the filesystem structure of a Jorge> remotely-booted machine. If a package directly uses /etc/init.d/ in its scripts, file a bug report. It should use invoke-rc.d instead. man invoke-rc.d It should work for chroots, and does work for pbuilder. -- Brian May <[EMAIL

Re: [OT] maildir

2005-02-28 Thread Brian May
o far exclusively uses mbox files. Sure, these are implementation issues that could be solved, but currently mbox wins. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-02-27 Thread Brian May
essage). So what appears to be to separate messages contained in mbox format in mutt can be interpreted as only one message by formail (see bug #295604 for example). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-27 Thread Brian May
lean target Christoph> anyway, so it doesn't hurt to move instead of copying Christoph> it. A benefit of moving files, rather then copying, is that you get to see at a glance what files your package left behind and missed in debian/tmp (e.g. if upstream adds new files to the packages b

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-17 Thread Brian May
g users. I consider that a bug. If something like this is different, then not only should Debian supplied documentation reflect the change, but a list of differences should appear in README.Debian. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-14 Thread Brian May
However, based on Robert's response it would appear that patent issues have been considered for zsync and considered OK. I would speculate this is because information is pre-calculated at the server and stored in *.zsync files. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-13 Thread Brian May
ile). Its a bit more Goswin> complex algorithm but works even better than rsyncable Goswin> files and rsync. zsync looks suspiciously like it might have similar patent issues which killed the rproxy project. Then again I am no expert; Please tell me I am wrong... -- Brian May <[EMAIL

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-13 Thread Brian May
Cut twice, measure once. Ron> Google it! Loose it! Notes: [1] I was debating putting a smiley face here, but then remembered some recent court cases... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-13 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: One question: Brian> I asked about this a while ago on debian-devel and was told Brian> (IIRC) that a major rewrite was happening in order to make Brian> Povray DFSG compliant. Bri

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-10 Thread Brian May
You obviously need to run "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" on your car more often. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-10 Thread Brian May
bout this a while ago on debian-devel and was told (IIRC) that a major rewrite was happening in order to make Povray DFSG compliant. Is this still the case? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removing problemes with deluser

2005-02-07 Thread Brian May
e it will check the home directory for obvious directories that it shouldn't delete. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-02-03 Thread Brian May
art, whether digital images, digital video, writing, etc. I really think we need to draw the line somewhere. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#292572: ITP: praat -- program for speech analysis and synthesis

2005-01-31 Thread Brian May
nly part that means anything is "you can redistribute". No rights to modify, implies non-DFSG. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#292666: ITP: autoreply -- A safe, rate-limited auto-responder

2005-01-31 Thread Brian May
Chris> * URL : http://www.nemeton.com.au/sw/autoreply/ Chris> * License : BSD Chris> Description : A safe, rate-limited autoresponder Chris> Autoreply is a simple autoresponder useful for replying to Chris> email upon receipt. May I suggest that

Re: Bug#292813: ITP: construo -- 2D construction toy using wireframe objects and physical forces

2005-01-29 Thread Brian May
removes all these potential nasty flame wars about the pros/cons of various licenses. I wanted to verify the license, but the upstream web page of http://www.example.org/> didn't work for me. I suspect contacting the upstream author at "Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" would

rebooting, non-root raid, udev

2005-01-26 Thread Brian May
#x27;t observed anything like this behaviour with devfs, so I suspect this is udev specific. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reboot in postinst

2005-01-23 Thread Brian May
better to test rebooting first at low-demand times. Or if you plan on being off-site for an extended period of time. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NPTL support in 2.4 kernel series?

2005-01-23 Thread Brian May
he running kernel version is the right one doesn't mean the system administrator isn't going to diagnose some serious problem with the new version that requires a downgrade (hopefully this isn't too frequent). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: initrd, lvm, and devfs

2005-01-17 Thread Brian May
ot;out-of-the-box" with 2.6.11 and LVM unless you compile your own kernel (one that doesn't require an initrd image), or fix this initrd image. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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