Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Oh, the explanation for current practice is that if the key doesn't change in practice, apps that look at the keys won't cope well with the key changing, and when that becomes important, such as in the event of a compromise, we'll have major

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: No, a key is only as good as (a) how hard it is to break; and (b) how easy it is to trust. Key rotation helps make it harder to break (since the 2004 key won't do you much good now); and also forces us to consider how to make new keys easy to

init scripts and the reload target

2006-01-06 Thread sean finney
heyo, a while back, i noticed that there seems to be some rather inconsistent behaviour wrt doing /etc/init.d/foo reload. typically this results in a HUP or something similar sent to the daemon in question, causing it to reload configuration, but in some cases the init script's actions are

Re: Bug#345977: ITP: polld -- Polling demon

2006-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:29:07AM -0600, Nathan Poznick wrote: Thus spake Roger Leigh: What is the problem this is trying to solve? If the partition table is being changed, the tool that changed it should issue a BLKRRPART ioctl, like fdisk does for example (see linux/fs.h). I have

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:12:50AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: No, a key is only as good as (a) how hard it is to break; and (b) how easy it is to trust. Key rotation helps make it harder to break (since the 2004 key won't do you much good

Re: init scripts and the reload target

2006-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:19:58AM -0500, sean finney wrote: a while back, i noticed that there seems to be some rather inconsistent behaviour wrt doing /etc/init.d/foo reload. typically this results in a HUP or something similar sent to the daemon in question, causing it to reload

Re: apt-get search?

2006-01-06 Thread Kai Geek
hello, what is database searching apt package ? #apt-cache search packet +-+-+-+ BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE +-+-+-+ Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) .-. .-._ : : : : :_; .-' : .--. : `-. .-. .--. ,-.,-. ' .; :' '_.'' .; :: :' .; ; : ,. :

Re: What's the best directory to put a local Debian repository?

2006-01-06 Thread VSJ
Maurits van Rees wrote: I'm wondering what the best place is to put a local Debian package repository. Directories that spring to mind are: - /var/www/debian This eases access via e.g. Apache (though a soft link here to another dir would work fine as well of course) - /srv/debian

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-06 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:11:55AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:03:37PM +, Simon Huggins wrote: Is there any better way I can get snapshots/betas tested by the majority of users? Do people think that this is the sort of thing that should just be uploaded to

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Michael Vogt: Sorry for the delay. I'm preparing a new upload that adds the 2006 archive key to the default keyring. Please try to get a new self-signature without an expiration data first. If they key is compromised, it has to be (manually) revoked anyway. Rotating it once per year

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bernd Eckenfels: IOW using the old key to sign the new key only requires that the old key be good at one point during the new year, whereas continuing to use the old key requires that it be good all year. Yes, but it breaks a long term usage like web of trust. The Debian archive key does

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steve Langasek: For a user with a compromised local network, the only safe solution is to validate the new key via some web of trust. No, the web of trust doesn't solve the problem. I'm pretty sure most DDs don't even know who is authorized to issue a new archive key. A user has no way to

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: BUT, if you do, don't ship /var/run inside the deb. Why? Because: 1. It will go away on reboot and if your service isn't enabled, it won't be re-created. dpkg will still think it should be there, however. And what does that

Re: init scripts and the reload target

2006-01-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, sean finney wrote: fail with a non-zero value (lsb-compliant packages, i believe), sometimes it will exit normally without performing any action (apache 1.x for example), and in other cases it will start the inactive service (apache 2.x, for example). Please file bugs,

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:15:08PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: If the key is compromised, which is the only way the non-expiring key method can be broken, then the expiring key doesn't seem to be offering all that much additional security. Indeed it doesn't. Ideally, if the

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:44:35AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 05 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: BUT, if you do, don't ship /var/run inside the deb. Why? Because: 1. It will go away on reboot and if your service isn't enabled, it won't be

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Steve Langasek] That's fine; I'm just saying that there's not much point in telling people to *not* ship /var/run (or subdirectories thereof) in their package. Hmm, it should be noted that if you do remove /var/run/foo from your package, you need to make sure the postrm deletes the directory

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steve Langasek: I would encourage you to log into merkel and verify, directly and securely, the key at /org/ftp.debian.org/web/ziyi_key_2006.asc; sign it; and upload your signature to the public keyservers as well, if you are satisfied that this is the key that is being used on

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:04:49PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Steve Langasek: I would encourage you to log into merkel and verify, directly and securely, the key at /org/ftp.debian.org/web/ziyi_key_2006.asc; sign it; and upload your signature to the public keyservers as well, if you

Re:

2006-01-06 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Mary Helen schrieb: Please remove me from Call Wave. I now have a cable connection and no longer require the service. You have reached the Debian project, which is in no way in the business of selling Internet services. I presume you reached us because you searched for the words

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: Oh, the explanation for current practice is that if the key doesn't change in practice, apps that look at the keys won't cope well with the key changing, and when that becomes important, such as in the event of a compromise, we'll have major difficulties in coping. In

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-06 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:59:45AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:40:45PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:25:17 +0100, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unstable means dependencies can be broken, not that packages themselves can always broken.

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: Yes, that's also reasonable, although the downside is a lack of good distribution channel for such a signed statement -- key signatures you can throw at any keyserver and they'll stick. :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a proper channel for such announcements

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 08:21:14AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: BTW, has anyone thought about what will happen when we have a stable release that has the 200n key in it and 200n+1 rolls around[1]? On January 1 (or whenever a new key is issued) do a security update for stable on the package that has

Bug#346216: ITP: ussp-push -- OBEX PUSH file transfer program

2006-01-06 Thread Simon Richter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: ussp-push Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Davide Libenzi davidel@xmailserver.org * URL : http://www.xmailserver.org/ussp-push.html *

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2006-01-06 Thread Steve Greenland
On 05-Jan-06, 14:20 (CST), paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I have the wrong end of the stick. I was thinking that if you wanted another possible behaviour: say that optional packages don't overide important ones unless explicitly set that way, then you could set that policy globally.

Re: Bug#345977: ITP: polld -- Polling demon

2006-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:24 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:29:07AM -0600, Nathan Poznick wrote: Thus spake Roger Leigh: What is the problem this is trying to solve? If the partition table is being changed, the tool that changed it should issue a BLKRRPART

Clogs on packages going into etch cleared!

2006-01-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Amazing! ghc6 is now the top blocker for packages entering testing, and it's only keeping 15 packages out of testing! Hooray! Now to fix those ~= 400 RC bugs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
Maurits van Rees wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 08:21:14AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: BTW, has anyone thought about what will happen when we have a stable release that has the 200n key in it and 200n+1 rolls around[1]? On January 1 (or whenever a new key is issued) do a security update for

Re: apt-get search?

2006-01-06 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Kai Geek wrote: hello, what is database searching apt package ? #apt-cache search packet Judging by the output of strace apt-cache search packet, one or more of the following: /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin /var/lib/apt/lists/* /var/lib/dpkg/status regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2006-01-06 Thread paddy
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 07:43:07AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: On 05-Jan-06, 14:20 (CST), paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I have the wrong end of the stick. I was thinking that if you wanted another possible behaviour: say that optional packages don't overide important ones

Is mesa actually maintained?

2006-01-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Hello! This is one of 5 RC bugs, apparently with no maintainer response. Apparently the list which is listed as the maintainer is rejecting messages (336752), which probably contributes to the problem. Hence the Cc: to debian-devel. This bug is trivial to fix, and because it prevents mesa

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
[ Please CC me: I have problems keeping up with debian-devel's traffic ] On 05/01/06 at 17:29 +0100, Nicolas François wrote: Is there a command that can display the list of packages I'm using with a version on experimental higher than the current version on unstable? You can use

[344032] bugfix for: bbdb: File error: Cannot open load file, bbdb-autoloads

2006-01-06 Thread Erich Waelde
Hi all, 1. The installation of bbdb fails due to a bug in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/Makefile The single quotes make the ending backslashes show up in the lisp code passed to emacs. 2. The real problem is, that the install continues after throwing an error. fix for 1.

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but it breaks a long term usage like web of trust. The Debian archive key does not take part in the web of trust. Anybody who has passed the OpenPGP NM checks should not sign that key. Thats right, I was not refering to the usage as archive key,

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2006-01-06 Thread Steve Greenland
On 06-Jan-06, 08:28 (CST), paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 07:43:07AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: Then the whole update-alternatives priority system is made pointless. s/pointless/better/ How? If you provide the ability to determine alternative selection based on

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2006-01-06 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 12/30/05, Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/22/05, Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/16/05, Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/16/05, Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:03:47PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2006-01-06 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 1/6/06, Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 05:03:39PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: On 12/30/05, Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/22/05, Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/16/05, Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Joey Hess wrote: BTW, has anyone thought about what will happen when we have a stable release that has the 200n key in it and 200n+1 rolls around[1]? Will stable even be installable anymore? How will the updated key be pushed out to stable quickly enough? Will we have to rebuild CDs and

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2006-01-06 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 05:03:39PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: On 12/30/05, Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/22/05, Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/16/05, Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/16/05, Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Is mesa actually maintained?

2006-01-06 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:26:33AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Hello! This is one of 5 RC bugs, apparently with no maintainer response. Apparently the list which is listed as the maintainer is rejecting messages (336752), which probably contributes to the problem. Hence the Cc: to

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2006-01-06 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Fri, January 6, 2006 17:03, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Hi Bernd, Could you please respond to this issue? Hello Olaf, Could you please stop this? You've been asking about this for many times now and appearently with no result, so it should occur to you that this stragegy does not work. If

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2006-01-06 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 1/6/06, Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, January 6, 2006 17:03, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Hi Bernd, Could you please respond to this issue? Hello Olaf, Could you please stop this? You've been asking about this for many times I'd prefer to, but that doesn't look like a

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2006-01-06 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Fri, January 6, 2006 18:25, Olaf van der Spek wrote: If you look at Bernd's packages overview (http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=ecki) you can see that many of Which column shows that? It isn't one specific column, but from the overview and with some clicking around I can make the

Rising Stars Equity Report

2006-01-06 Thread Jean Hatcher
Sto ck Al ert for Friday JAn 6th iPackets International, Inc. Global Developer and Provider of a Wide Range of Wireless and Communications Solutions for Selected Enterprises Including Mine-Safety (Source: News 1/3/06) OTC: IPKL Price: .36 Huge PR For Friday is Underway on IPKL..Radar it Rite

Advices, comments? Bug#345651: passwd package should be essential?

2006-01-06 Thread Christian Perrier
I tend to agree with Kurt opinions below and thus, I'm tempted to make passwd Essential: yes. The opinions in the shadow package maintenance team slightly vary. However, given that this is an important decision, I think it is a good idea to get the advice of fellow developers. So, please

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-06 Thread Thomas Hood
Would it be useful if the initscript that clears /var/run also created a directory hierarchy under /var/run? (There are different ways of implementing thus, but we can talk about details if this feature is deemed worthwhile.) -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2006-01-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-12-27 16:25:10, schrieb Bernd Eckenfels: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: apt-get update apt-get --download-only upgrade It would make more sense to send out the DIFFs to the packages.gz, so you dont actually need to download the packages file every five minutes. But if

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2006-01-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-12-27 16:04:42, schrieb Florian Weimer: * Michelle Konzack: Because we do not get 34 MBit and we have not a netload of 100% 24/7 the price per GByte is around 50 US$/GByte. This means you still have plenty capacity you've already paid for, supporting Steinar's claim that

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2006-01-06 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I think you can tell pretty clearly that Bernd has no objection at all to NMU's. yes, but please not for wishlist bugs. Again: there are bugs open for net-tools where help is requested, I would love to have patches for those. Generally I am not aware

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2006-01-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you need to pay 450.000 DHs (42.000 ¤) for an E3 of 34 MBit which give you maximum 20-24 MBit because the Infrastructure is to bad in Morocco then it IS expensive. No. Based on what you've said, the price is the same regardless of whether you

Re: Advices, comments? Bug#345651: passwd package should be essential?

2006-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 06:38:47PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: I tend to agree with Kurt opinions below and thus, I'm tempted to make passwd Essential: yes. The opinions in the shadow package maintenance team slightly vary. However, given that this is an important decision, I think it is

Request for Replacement Packager for Ampache

2006-01-06 Thread Karl Vollmer
Hello All, I apologize if this is the incorrect list to use for this purpose, however a few months back I posted an ITP as I thought I would actually have time to package up Ampache (http://www.ampache.org) However that hasn't happened. Before I orphan it I was wondering if there is anyone who

Re: Advices, comments? Bug#345651: passwd package should be essential?

2006-01-06 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2006-01-06 kello 18:38 +0100, Christian Perrier kirjoitti: From: Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are several things in the package that one might want to run from one of the maintainer scripts from debconf, like useradd, groupadd, userdel, ... Is there a problem with packages that

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2006-01-06 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 1/6/06, Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I think you can tell pretty clearly that Bernd has no objection at all to NMU's. yes, but please not for wishlist bugs. Again: there are bugs open for net-tools where help is requested, I would

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:12:50AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: No, a key is only as good as (a) how hard it is to break; and (b) how easy it is to trust. Key rotation helps make it harder to

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:21:32AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Maurits van Rees wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 08:21:14AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: BTW, has anyone thought about what will happen when we have a stable release that has the 200n key in it and 200n+1 rolls around[1]? On

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Thomas Hood] Would it be useful if the initscript that clears /var/run also created a directory hierarchy under /var/run? I cannot fathom how telling someone else to do a particular 'mkdir -p' and 'chown' could possibly be simpler than putting the 'mkdir -p' and 'chown' into your init script.

Need for launchpad

2006-01-06 Thread Frans Jessop
Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if all DD's worked through it on their projects? Wouldn't that keep things more organized and efficient? Or perhaps Debian could build its own version of launchpad which is better. Again, I think it would do a good job keeping

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:19:42PM -0500, Frans Jessop wrote: Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if all DD's worked through it on their projects? Wouldn't that keep things more organized and efficient? Or perhaps Debian could build its own version of

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
Frans Jessop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if all DD's worked through it on their projects? Wouldn't that keep things more organized and efficient? Or perhaps Debian could build its own version of launchpad which is better.

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-06 Thread Eric Dorland
* Frans Jessop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if all DD's worked through it on their projects? Wouldn't that keep things more organized and efficient? Or perhaps Debian could build its own version of launchpad which is better.

Re: [no subject]

2006-01-06 Thread Gillings, Marcus
Hello, My name is Marcus Gillings. Therewas an email sent from me on your website. Can you please delete it and the contents in it, please. Thank you,

gconf transition

2006-01-06 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Hi, I just upgraded Sid and rebooted, after that, logging into Gnome told me if I wanted to migrate to a Single file that will give me better performance, so of course I said yes. It logged me off and everytime that I need to log back in, it kicks me out. I don't have any special scripts, I just

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-06 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:19:42PM -0500, Frans Jessop wrote: Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if all DD's worked through it on their projects? Wouldn't that keep things more organized and efficient? Or perhaps Debian could build its own version of

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 08:23:13PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:19:42PM -0500, Frans Jessop wrote: Ubuntu's launchpad is amazing. Do you think it would be helpful if all DD's worked through it on their projects? Wouldn't that keep things more organized and

How the kernel firmware loader works

2006-01-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
Gated from my blog. (#104) How the kernel firmware loader works fEnIo[0] learnt an important lesson about the kernel firmware loader: it (usually) does not work as expected for non-modular drivers. The reason is that the request_firmware()[1] interface is synchronous. Since it's usually called

Re: gconf transition

2006-01-06 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Alejandro Bonilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2: error while loading shared libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or dir gconf-sanity-check-2 did not pass, logging back out Fun! :-/ Which package gets the bug

Re: Aptitude question

2006-01-06 Thread Jiří Paleček
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:50:14 +0100, Linas Zvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jiri Palecek wrote: How does aptitude decide which one to choose? Shouldn't it prefer to do something that won't break other packages? Or should it ask the user for help? As for your problem, you must provide way

Re: Fwd: Bug#344758: init.d script should create /var/run/dirmngr

2006-01-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Steve Langasek wrote: That's fine; I'm just saying that there's not much point in telling people to *not* ship /var/run (or subdirectories thereof) in their package. Well, there is the slight point that if you ship /var/run/foo in your package, you (a) probably use /var/run/foo just assuming

Bug#346324: ITP: libfile-flat-perl -- Implements a flat filesystem in perl

2006-01-06 Thread Jonas Genannt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Genannt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libfile-flat-perl Version : 0.95 Upstream Author : Adam Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/ * License : GPL Description : Implements a

Bug#346336: ITP: cereal -- a simulator for the Intel 8051 microcontroller

2006-01-06 Thread Timo Schneider
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Timo Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: cereal Version : 0.9.35 Upstream Author : Miloslav Trmac [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/cereal/ * License : GPL Description : a

Re: Aptitude question

2006-01-06 Thread James Vega
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:51:55AM +0100, Jiří Paleček wrote: On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:50:14 +0100, Linas Zvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jiri Palecek wrote: How does aptitude decide which one to choose? Shouldn't it prefer to do something that won't break other packages? Or should it ask

ITP vexim2

2006-01-06 Thread Daniel Knabl
hi my name is Daniel Knabl, i am from Austria, so please excuse my poor English ;) first of all i have to say thank you for your great work. there is a nice little application called vexim [1], it is used for managing a virtual mailing system based on exim4 and mysql, and it is fully compatible

Re: Bug#345977: ITP: polld -- Polling demon

2006-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 08:15:14AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:24 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:29:07AM -0600, Nathan Poznick wrote: Thus spake Roger Leigh: What is the problem this is trying to solve? If the partition table is

Accepted texinfo 4.8-3 (source i386)

2006-01-06 Thread Norbert Preining
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:46:46 +0100 Source: texinfo Binary: texinfo info Architecture: source i386 Version: 4.8-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Norbert Preining [EMAIL

Accepted imagemagick 6:6.2.4.5-0.4 (source i386)

2006-01-06 Thread Adam Conrad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 19:06:47 +1100 Source: imagemagick Binary: perlmagick libmagick9 libmagick9-dev imagemagick libmagick++9-dev libmagick++9c2a Architecture: source i386 Version: 6:6.2.4.5-0.4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low

Accepted xpdf 3.01-4 (source i386 all)

2006-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:55:24 +1100 Source: xpdf Binary: xpdf-utils xpdf xpdf-reader xpdf-common Architecture: source i386 all Version: 3.01-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By:

Accepted clamav-data 20060105.225100.1231 (source all)

2006-01-06 Thread Marc Haber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:47:18 + Source: clamav-data Binary: clamav-data Architecture: source all Version: 20060105.225100.1231 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Marc Haber [EMAIL

Accepted dbconfig-common 1.8.11 (source all)

2006-01-06 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:46:06 +0100 Source: dbconfig-common Binary: dbconfig-common Architecture: source all Version: 1.8.11 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL

Accepted cacti 0.8.6h-1 (source all)

2006-01-06 Thread sean finney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:24:29 +0100 Source: cacti Binary: cacti Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.6h-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted smtpguard 1.1.3-1 (source i386)

2006-01-06 Thread Takuo KITAME
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:35:00 +0900 Source: smtpguard Binary: postfix-smtpguard libsmtpguard-dev libsmtpguard1 smtpguard Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.1.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Takuo KITAME [EMAIL

Accepted freej 0.8.1-1 (source i386)

2006-01-06 Thread Guido Trotter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:54:11 + Source: freej Binary: freej Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.8.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Guido Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Guido Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted python-support 0.1.1 (source all)

2006-01-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:25:20 +0100 Source: python-support Binary: python-support Architecture: source all Version: 0.1.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Josselin Mouette

Accepted libapache-authcookie-perl 3.08-2 (source all)

2006-01-06 Thread Stephen Quinney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:33:00 + Source: libapache-authcookie-perl Binary: libapache-authcookie-perl Architecture: source all Version: 3.08-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Stephen Quinney [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted binfmtc 0.10-1 (source i386)

2006-01-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:08:34 +0900 Source: binfmtc Binary: binfmtc Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.10-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted gazpacho 0.6.3-1 (source all)

2006-01-06 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:10:44 -0200 Source: gazpacho Binary: gazpacho Architecture: source all Version: 0.6.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Gustavo Noronha Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Gustavo Noronha Silva

Accepted openjade1.3 1.3.2-9 (source i386)

2006-01-06 Thread Neil Roeth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 20:50:54 -0500 Source: openjade1.3 Binary: openjade1.3 Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.3.2-9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Neil Roeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Neil Roeth [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted sql-ledger 2.6.4-1 (source all)

2006-01-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 23:12:35 + Source: sql-ledger Binary: sql-ledger Architecture: source all Version: 2.6.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL

Accepted grub2 1.92-2 (source i386)

2006-01-06 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:48:08 -0200 Source: grub2 Binary: grub2 Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.92-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted libhtml-template-expr-perl 0.05-1 (source all)

2006-01-06 Thread Isaac Clerencia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:06:59 +0100 Source: libhtml-template-expr-perl Binary: libhtml-template-expr-perl Architecture: source all Version: 0.05-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Isaac Clerencia [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted apache 1.3.34-2 (source i386 all)

2006-01-06 Thread Adam Conrad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:00:40 +1100 Source: apache Binary: apache-dev apache-common apache-doc apache apache-dbg apache-perl apache-ssl libapache-mod-perl Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.3.34-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency:

Accepted dspam 3.6.2-2 (source i386 all)

2006-01-06 Thread Debian DSPAM Maintainers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 01:26:33 +0100 Source: dspam Binary: libdspam7-dev libdspam7-drv-pgsql dspam libdspam7-drv-mysql dspam-webfrontend dspam-doc libdspam7-drv-db4 libdspam7 libdspam7-drv-hash libdspam7-drv-sqlite3 Architecture: source

Accepted whizzytex 1.2.3-4 (source all)

2006-01-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:41:37 +0900 Source: whizzytex Binary: whizzytex Architecture: source all Version: 1.2.3-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL

Accepted maxdb-7.6.00 7.6.00.16-1 (ia64 source)

2006-01-06 Thread Martin Kittel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:00:03 +0100 Source: maxdb-7.6.00 Binary: libsqldbc76 python2.3-maxdb libsqlod76 python-maxdb libsqldbc76-dev python2.4-maxdb-loader python2.3-maxdb-loader maxdb-dbanalyzer maxdb-server-7.6.00 maxdb-dbmcli

Accepted arts 1.5.0-3 (source i386 all)

2006-01-06 Thread Adeodato Simó
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:01:35 +0100 Source: arts Binary: libarts1c2a libarts1-dev arts-dbg libartsc0-dev libartsc0 arts Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.5.0-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE

Accepted rescue 1.0 (source all)

2006-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:30:21 + Source: rescue Binary: rescue-mode rescue-check Architecture: source all Version: 1.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team debian-boot@lists.debian.org Changed-By:

Accepted floatbg 1.0-22 (source i386)

2006-01-06 Thread Dave Holland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:11:54 + Source: floatbg Binary: floatbg Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.0-22 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dave Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Dave Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted phpmyadmin 4:2.7.0-pl2-1 (source all)

2006-01-06 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:34:36 +0100 Source: phpmyadmin Binary: phpmyadmin Architecture: source all Version: 4:2.7.0-pl2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Piotr Roszatycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Piotr Roszatycki

Accepted pdns 2.9.19-3 (source i386 all)

2006-01-06 Thread Debian PowerDNS Maintainers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 23:18:17 +0100 Source: pdns Binary: pdns-server pdns-backend-ldap pdns-backend-pipe pdns-backend-geo pdns-backend-mysql pdns-recursor pdns pdns-backend-pgsql pdns-backend-sqlite pdns-doc Architecture: source i386

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