Re: Essentiality of Bash

n way to solve things. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature

Re: Essentiality of Bash

On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:31:32 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >Le samedi 26 juin 2010 à 22:30 +0200, Marc Haber a écrit : >> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:20:46 +0200, Josselin Mouette >> wrote: >> >Furthermore, I’d be interested to know how to fix such a “shortcoming” >> &

Re: Essentiality of Bash

velopers adding explicitly >dependencies creates some other (mostly minor) issues and seems very >unlikely to substantively change that situation. Agreed as well. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | "

Re: Essentiality of Bash

lar dependency, and the one making the problems. When you look at the circular dependencies, for example within the exim4 or the aide packages, you see that the dependencies defined in there aren't _that_ strict. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, p

Re: Essentiality of Bash

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:45:15 +0200, "Bernhard R. Link" wrote: >* Marc Haber [100626 14:07]: >> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:27:31 -0700, Steve Langasek >> >The footnote to Policy 3.5, where this is written out? >> >> Ah, so this is the same as the no-circular

Re: Essentiality of Bash

On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:27:31 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:20:33PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:58:58 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow >> wrote: >> >I think for that goal it would be good for lintian to add an exception >&

Re: Essentiality of Bash

ime soon. I have never understood that rule in the first place. Why am I not allowed to depend on an essential package, it's just clearer documentation, and doesn't hurt. What am I missing? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, plea

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

I fully agree. The grub situation is as with KDE: Old version abandoned, new version not finished. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germa

Re: Anounce of a secure repo for debian

Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir&quo

Re: Anounce of a secure repo for debian

u're saying. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt

Re: Anounce of a secure repo for debian

n your pathnames. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt

Re: same UIDs across multiple systems

er is the debian tool which has all the intelligence that makes using Debian so joyful. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

Re: same UIDs across multiple systems

avoid collisions in the >short allowed range. That's what I've been doing even during the time when I was lead maintainer of adduser. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

On Sun, 30 May 2010 15:02:41 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: >This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: >> I am not a very good friend of just counting. I would try to somehow >> hash the user name into the UID since this will - at least on systems >> with only a handful o

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

ferent systems. I would love adduser to do that, but I can live without that. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom &q

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

of /usr/X11R6 at being around the 20% mark (including binNMUs >> and all). So while they're uncommon, they're not unheard of. > >There is also the /usr/doc => /usr/share/doc transition. This took four releases, iirc. Greetings Marc -- --

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

hardware. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG &quo

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

care to make our config as similiar as possible to upstreams (we even follow changes in the _comments_ of their example config), but to no avail. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

On Sun, 23 May 2010 16:26:48 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 02:08:59PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> This also means that the grub2 maintainers (both Debian and Upstream) >> need to work on the regressions that exist in regard to moving from >> lil

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

exist in regard to moving from lilo or grub "legacy" to grub2. There are too many bug reports in the BTS which are completely unaddressed. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

it script? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt.

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

, which is the place where I'd look. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

On Sun, 9 May 2010 14:58:51 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 01:24:49PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> > CONCURRENCY=makefile >> Where is this documented? > >According to <4be43663.6000...@free.fr> and #576788, it is not. >But I'm s

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

On Sat, 8 May 2010 11:51:22 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 11:37:10AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> So it is the classical desktop vs. server situation. For my Debian >> servers, that get booted at most once a month, I don't give a damn >> abo

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

ueeze system, make sure dependency based boot >sequencing is enabled, and add this line to /etc/default/rcS: > > CONCURRENCY=makefile Where is this documented? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

On Fri, 7 May 2010 19:27:54 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 06:15:24PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Fri, 7 May 2010 09:26:18 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli >> wrote: >> >The init.d world has changed quite a bit in recent years and might >>

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

for squeeze+1, why do we need to do a critical migration twice? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " |

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

CentOS or Windows instead since they won't understand what's going on. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom

Re: Best practices for development workstations

!! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

ed a tech ctte decision to step back from that idea at this point of our release process? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

German Debian (was: Processed: ipv6 release goal)

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:23:31 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Marc Haber > wrote: >> Most web pages are much better translated to German than Debian's are. >> Unfortunately, Debian is broken beyond repair in regard to German >> language supp

Re: Processed: ipv6 release goal

d to German language support. Greetings Marc, who has preferred language DE as well and cringes whenever a Debian page comes up and would really love to see those in English -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Q

Re: Suggestions to fix #433462 (add free space info to reportbug)

lease think that names of NFS Servers, LVM data etc might be considered private by the local admin Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germ

Re: Misc developer news (#21)

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:51:11 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:08:16PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> > * More than 1000 source packages[4] are already using the new source >> > formats &qu

Re: Misc developer news (#21)

Why should I? Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

arding support of current kernels for years. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugsch

Re: Should ucf be of priority required?

xample, I have been looking for a way to tamper with package a's dpkg-conffiles from package b, which would be very helpful for local sysadmin work (such as rolling out local configuration via a package). Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy co

Re: Debian as open project

t;of them). Well said. I'll vote accordingly for the next DPL. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom &quo

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:06:40 +0900, Angus wrote: >Or >otherwise, let someone else do it (like me). We actually need people showing traces of social skills, which you don't. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! -

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

ch has been implemented in close cooperation with their precedessors and which has been working for years? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header M

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:28:30 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Marc Haber wrote: >> As long as you do not expect me to manually sign every single upload, > >Why not? Because nobody pays me to spend an hour a day to sign packages. We had three full

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

s are going to change BIG TIME when it gets integrated into the main archive, and frankly, as a volatile user, I'd rather see volatile stay separate than seeing some of its previous principles dumped. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !!

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile (was: Packages that download/install unsecured files)

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:52:17 + (UTC), Philipp Kern wrote: >On 2009-09-19, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:56:07 + (UTC), Philipp Kern >> wrote: >>>On 2009-09-18, Tom Feiner wrote: >>>> Looks like this method works well for clamav-d

clamav-data (was: Packages that download/install unsecured files)

al developers signing them.) > >Ah, I was not aware of this. You are not the only one. Greetings Marc, maintainer of clamav-data, who wasn't aware as well -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are th

opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile (was: Packages that download/install unsecured files)

ed changes. Does the project want me to stop providing clamav-data starting tomorrow? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning

Re: udev and /usr

On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:23:11 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 22:30:37 +0200, Florian Lohoff >wrote: >>I have ~600 Machines in the field - all with /usr on a seperate fs - If Debian >>is going to make seperate /usr a no-go its about 30 Euros worth >&g

Re: udev and /usr

!! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 --

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

sadvantages have you decided to accept for having Debian stable synced to Ubuntu LTS? Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | l

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

t depend on bash. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir"

Re: Source-Depends? Autoreconf?

use by others. Applause. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf,

Re: Considering the removal of ntpdate

ed Isn't rdate what we tried to get rid of with ntpdate ten years ago? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Request for Comments: Standardize enabling/disabling of system services

the local admin to place the scripts in /etc. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlu

Re: Request for Comments: Standardize enabling/disabling of system services

etings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir"

Re: RFC: adding pre-depends to libpam-modules for lenny

thin an X session, so I'd regard a lock-out due to an X screensaver kicking in an admin error. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

-- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir

Re: [RFC] How should rsyslog handle .0 logfiles from sysklogd

estamps of syslog.0 and rotate it to syslog.1 iff its timestamps are in between syslog and the former syslog.1. If they are not, throw a warning and leave. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are

Bug#498715: ITP: libterm-vt102-perl -- emulation of a VT102 terminal

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libterm-vt102-perl Version : 0.82 Upstream Author : Andrew Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~ajwood/Term-VT102-0.82/VT102.pm * License

Re: tagging 231711, tagging 232113, tagging 236498, tagging 241414, tagging 250782, tagging 254248

ommenting on is over three >years old! Yes, I found my self falling over a three year old bug which has been (mis)handled in an unacceptable way. The issue still exists, which makes things even worse. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, ple

Re: tagging 231711, tagging 232113, tagging 236498, tagging 241414, tagging 250782, tagging 254248

tives apply. Don't treat your users or translators this way. Please. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."

Re: Standard way to disable services

s, but that's going to be incompatible with a future dependency-based init process. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

Bug#491836: ITP: libmath-calc-units-perl -- Human-readable unit-aware calculator

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmath-calc-units-perl Version : 1.06 Upstream Author : Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-Calc-Units/ * License : GPL

Bug#491835: ITP: libnagios-plugin-perl -- A family of perl modules to streamline writing Nagios plugins

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libnagios-plugin-perl Version : 0.27 Upstream Author : Ton Voon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Nagios-Plugin/ * License : This lib

Re: Bug#426877: dpkg: Option "--oknodo" should be the default behaviour for "start-stop-daemon" (LSB specs)

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:13:27 +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 05 Jul 2008, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 10:58:35AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> > THanks, I could come up with a transition plan myself if needed. But >> &

Re: Bug#426877: dpkg: Option "--oknodo" should be the default behaviour for "start-stop-daemon" (LSB specs)

ous pain for backporters. I'm opposed. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

upport Linux, our systems boot just fine with all flavours of Windows, go take a hike. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose th

Re: How to build only linux-image-2.6.18-6-686

On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 11:31:14 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: >On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 11:51:04AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> Shouldn't that be easier to do, and - most of all - documented? > >Playing with source packages isn't normal. >The package is

Re: How to build only linux-image-2.6.18-6-686

On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 14:53:03 +0200, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Saturday 07 June 2008 11:51, Marc Haber wrote: >> Shouldn't that be easier to do, > >Send patches?! ;) Since I pay more attention to my personal and mental health, I tend to minimize my co

Re: How to build only linux-image-2.6.18-6-686

ldn't that be easier to do, and - most of all - documented? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " |

Re: Package maintenance in $HOME os an NFS share? (best practices survey)

ow can I make bar do baz", yes. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Package maintenance in $HOME os an NFS share? (best practices survey)

ttle detail just as I want it to do, can it be tweaked" with "use tool B, it's superior anyway" totally unconstructive and also a little offensive? Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Qu

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

years until they solve themselves. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ No

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

aintainer correctly _before_ looking into the PTS? I bet that multiarch gets included into Ubuntu about two weeks after we released lenny without multiarch. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:41:26 +0200, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >To avoid the extra DNS lookups, the Exim packages have a Debconf >option to configure exim for "minimal DNS usage", which hardcodes the >hostname into Exim's configuration at package configura

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:58:24 +, The Fungi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:41:54AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >[...] >> Where can I obtain the FQDN of the system instead? >[...] > >You can't, necessarily. So it needs to be in /etc/hos

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:32:32 +0200, "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080412 10:30]: >> >I don't think that is only limited to additional lookups. I think I've >> >also seen a message not being sent

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

DNS traffic, so > >#include So please make postfix the default MTA for lenny and have exim removed. It obviously sucks as badly as its maintainer. I'm _s_ sick of that. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:09:27 +0200, "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080411 16:41]: >> To avoid the extra DNS lookups, the Exim packages have a Debconf >> option to configure exim for "minimal DNS usage&quo

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:50:17 +0200, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 04:41:26PM +0200, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Exim has the habit of trying to find out about its host names and IP >> addresses when it starts up. This has,

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:13:36 +0600, "Alexander E. Patrakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Marc Haber wrote: >> This being said, I consider the entire 127.0.1.1 business a horrible >> hack which is one of the most ugly things I have ever seen. Do we have >>

exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

r to the IPv4 version of the issue "fix exim"? Any hints will be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginni

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

-- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834

Re: Please test ELinks from experimental

in libraries from unstable, resulting in a system that is even harder to maintain and to debug. Additionally, users tend to make unuseable bug reports. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

but that's a very bad hack. We need a documented way to do those things. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of W

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

you're just too incompetent for that. >> >> Insulting contributors really isn't helpful Josselin. > >Indeed, but jidanni is not a contributor. He contributes a lot of Bug Reports which is important input. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy co

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

he did more to improve >Debian than some maintainers only adding package after package to the >distribution. I couldn't say that any better. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: Openssl in experimental: please test.

. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG &qu

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

klogd. sysklogd in itself is not bad, but the package has been nearly fully unmaintained for years. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany

Re: Speed up the boot by loading the kernel disk cache

as well? Greetings Marc, cursed with a notebook that doesn't cleanly wake up from suspend-to-ram -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Begi

Re: Proposed consensus: reporting lintian overrides

bout a configuration file and/or an environment variable to set a local default? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Be

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

se", are lured in by qmail fanboys and then fail in configuring qmail. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom &

Re: old homepage pseudo-field (future mass-bug filing?)

package description of my packages until at least post-lenny, while adding the new Homepage (which I consider a misnomer) field during new uploads. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:53:47 +0100, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:57:56 + (UTC), Robert Edmonds ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Anyway, here's a (compile-tested only) patch: > >Which I have submitted upstream (Debian #45147

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:57:56 + (UTC), Robert Edmonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyway, here's a (compile-tested only) patch: Which I have submitted upstream (Debian #451472). Thanks! Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

ve me from the keyring. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature |

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:47:49 +, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: >> How many seconds until the "please make pidfile location configurable" >> wishlist bug? > >Which is another, what, 5-10 lines of code

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

start_daemon is not part of the standard? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlu

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

and its --make-pidfile. > >--make-pidfile, --exec, and friends, are all ugly workarounds for buggy >daemons that can't write a pidfile. And I think that it is less broken to use them than to patch third-party software. Greetings Marc -- --

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:00:42 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[Marc Haber] >> I do not plan to do so for obvious reasons. > >It is not obvious for me. Can you explain why it should be obvious >that you do not plan to patch the daemon to write its ow

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