Detect if root login is disabled?

2011-12-07 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Hello I am looking at Bug#516854 and wondering: Is there a robust way for a *user* to detect if root login is disabled? Would like to perform such a check from an instance of aptitude running as a user account. I am aware of the following method which detects the `passwd -l' style lock,

Re: Detect if root login is disabled?

2011-12-07 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Igor Pashev pashev.i...@gmail.com wrote: su? su doesn't distinguish between a locked password and an incorrectly entered one. Would like to know the locked status before trying su so that the program can either fall back to sudo or give an error message more informative than just incorrect

dpkg, aptitude and use of state files (was: Re: Important information regarding upcoming dpkg 1.16.2 upload)

2012-03-18 Thread Daniel Hartwig
TL;DR: aptitude does keep dpkg/status and apt/extended_states up-to-date with the *current* state of a package, just like other software. Please do not grok pkgstates to determine if something is installed, etc. On 18 March 2012 23:16, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell johnandsa...@cox.net

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

2012-09-09 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 10 September 2012 06:07, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: If anybody wants to see something land into this release, it would be nice to mention it now instead of after the end of the merge window. Is there potential to see pkgsel use apt-get instead of aptitude (following the same

Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-18 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 19 October 2012 09:19, Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net wrote: 1) Programs (I usually mean apt or aptitude here don't give exit statuses != 0 in all cases when something critical has happened. The apt-utils are mostly ok at aborting with non-zero for critical errors. Aptitude

Re: New virtual packages: lv2-plugin and lv2-host

2012-11-21 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 21 November 2012 22:51, Alessio Treglia ales...@debian.org wrote: Actually I receive lots of mails from users asking me questions like How could I find an exhaustive list of LV2 toys currently provided by Debian?, Does the X sequencer support LV2 plugins?. So, I think we'd do a good

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2013-02-23 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Hello Just some quick notes related to this, without jumping in to the discussion (yet?). On 24 February 2013 01:28, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel Burrows dburrows at debian.org writes: Note: I'm not subscribed to the list, and pulling this old thread through Gmane;

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2013-02-23 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 24 February 2013 08:56, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: Right, and that's why I proposed manipulating Apt and Dpkg such that they can understand and behave within a system with multiple installed versions managed in various places. Thanks for clarifying so promptly. -- To

Re: needing sponsor for blt: am I at that stage?

2013-03-01 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 2 March 2013 00:12, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Its me again. Once again, I'm throwing myself on your mercy because although I like programming and packaging, I am having a horrible time finding my way through your web pages to adopt a package and keep it up to date.

Re: Feedback on Debian 7.0

2013-06-01 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 2 June 2013 03:10, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: It would probably be a good idea for the installer to add commented-out sources.list lines for the main archive, even if the installation is done off-line. (Assuming that it doesn't, but Nikolas's experience seems to indicate that it

Accepted aptitude 0.6.5-1 (source i386 all)

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Hartwig
-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Aptitude Development Team aptitude-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Description: aptitude - terminal-based package manager (terminal interface only) aptitude-dbg - Debug symbols for the aptitude package

Accepted distcc 3.1-4.2 (source amd64)

2012-03-12 Thread Daniel Hartwig
-By: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Description: distcc - Simple distributed compiler client and server distcc-pump - pump mode for distcc a distributed compiler client and server distccmon-gnome - GTK+ monitor for distcc a distributed client and server Closes: 580308 638258 Changes: distcc

Accepted aptitude 0.6.6-1 (source all amd64)

2012-03-27 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Aptitude Development Team aptitude-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Description: aptitude - terminal-based package manager (terminal interface only) aptitude-dbg - Debug symbols for the aptitude package manager

Accepted aptitude 0.6.7-1 (source all amd64)

2012-05-04 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Aptitude Development Team aptitude-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Description: aptitude - terminal-based package manager aptitude-dbg - Debug symbols for the aptitude package manager aptitude-doc-cs - Czech

Accepted aptitude 0.6.9-1~exp1 (source i386 all)

2012-07-09 Thread Daniel Hartwig
all Version: 0.6.9-1~exp1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Aptitude Development Team aptitude-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Description: aptitude - terminal-based package manager aptitude-common - architecture indepedent files

Accepted aptitude 0.6.9.1-1 (source all amd64)

2012-07-21 Thread Daniel Hartwig
amd64 all Version: 0.6.9.1-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Aptitude Development Team aptitude-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Description: aptitude - terminal-based package manager aptitude-common - architecture indepedent files

Accepted aptitude 0.6.8.1-1 (source i386 all)

2012-08-28 Thread Daniel Hartwig
all Version: 0.6.8.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Aptitude Development Team aptitude-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Description: aptitude - terminal-based package manager aptitude-common - architecture indepedent files

Accepted aptitude 0.6.8.2-1 (source i386 all)

2012-11-06 Thread Daniel Hartwig
all Version: 0.6.8.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Aptitude Development Team aptitude-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Description: aptitude - terminal-based package manager aptitude-common - architecture indepedent files

Accepted guile-1.6 1.6.8-10.3 (source all amd64)

2012-11-11 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Urgency: low Maintainer: Rob Browning r...@defaultvalue.org Changed-By: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Description: guile-1.6 - The GNU extension language and Scheme interpreter guile-1.6-dev - Development files for Guile 1.6 guile-1.6-doc - Reference and tutorial documentation for Guile 1.6

Accepted aptitude 0.6.8.1-2 (source amd64 all)

2012-09-25 Thread Daniel Hartwig
amd64 all Version: 0.6.8.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Aptitude Development Team aptitude-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Description: aptitude - terminal-based package manager aptitude-common - architecture indepedent files

Accepted aptitude 0.6.8-1 (source i386 all)

2012-06-09 Thread Daniel Hartwig
all Version: 0.6.8-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Aptitude Development Team aptitude-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Description: aptitude - terminal-based package manager aptitude-common - architecture indepedent files

Accepted distcc 3.1-5 (source i386)

2012-05-29 Thread Daniel Hartwig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 05 May 2012 17:24:18 +0800 Source: distcc Binary: distcc distccmon-gnome distcc-pump Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.1-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Changed-By: Daniel

Accepted distcc 3.2~rc1-2 (source amd64)

2013-05-31 Thread Daniel Hartwig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 20:36:36 +0800 Source: distcc Binary: distcc distccmon-gnome distcc-pump Architecture: source amd64 Version: 3.2~rc1-2 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Changed

Accepted distcc 3.1-6 (source amd64)

2013-05-09 Thread Daniel Hartwig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 05 May 2013 16:42:12 +0800 Source: distcc Binary: distcc distccmon-gnome distcc-pump Architecture: source amd64 Version: 3.1-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Changed-By: Daniel

Accepted distcc 3.2~rc1-1 (source amd64)

2013-05-12 Thread Daniel Hartwig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 22:08:20 +0800 Source: distcc Binary: distcc distccmon-gnome distcc-pump Architecture: source amd64 Version: 3.2~rc1-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Changed

Accepted aptitude 0.6.11-1 (source amd64 all)

2014-06-09 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 0.6.11-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Aptitude Development Team aptitude-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com Description: aptitude - terminal-based package manager aptitude-common - architecture