(For those who are not aware of this issue, please read #92810)
Since the doc-rfc packages have been moved to non-free, I have just cloned
the doc-rfc RC bug (#92810) and assigned it to some other packages which
provide RFCs (for a full list see the the bug report, but more might be
affected). I
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:33:11PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
[Roberto C. Sanchez]
Is there a way to not allow changelog entries to automatically close
bugs assigned to other packages?
This has been suggested before; the standard counterargument is what
about closing an ITP?
There
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:29:05PM +, kevin bailey wrote:
hi,
after installing awstats package on sarge it took a bit of figuring out how
to configure it.
here are my notes which may help someone or mey help the awstats package
maintainer.
It looks like this would make more sense
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:40:09AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:25:03AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
I'd like to congratulate our ftp-master team on their ability to timely
process packages progressing through the NEW queue.
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:08:52AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
But it is not doing a great job with processing a few old uploads. I
consider it a problem that no decision have been taken on the few
really old uploads (xvidcap, rte, mplayer).
One of the
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:54:09PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
Thus the thing to do is to provide HTML.
I disagree, the thing to do is to provide HTML *and* an easy to print
format, that is PS or PDF.
It would be nice to be able to ship, say, HTML and SGML, and then have a
quick and easy way
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 04:43:11PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
Ok, then you choose HTML and PDF. And the next user asks why he cannot get it
in the format provided by docbook2xyz (substitute xyz with any possible
value).
The user always has the *source* package available to do as he
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:03:37PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:04:25AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Pe?a
wrote:
Moreover, I know of *no* -doc packages that provide SGML format so there
is not that much experience (or tools) on how to automatically do what
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 08:58:12AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Policy says to ship HTML, else I wouldn't.
Policy is somewhat out of date with respect to documentation. There's
actually a (draft) DDP policy which covers this already
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:47:14AM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:57:54AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Pe?a
wrote:
And if the administrators choice is to not want any automatically created
formats, he may use a docbook program that displays it from the SGML
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:34:14AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
pe, 2006-02-17 kello 01:10 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
kirjoitti:
Docbook/XML or SGML conversion to HTML is easy. Proper PS / PDF generation
is
not that easy (depends on toolchain and local configuration) and that's
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:32:51PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
And I told you that you're wrong. There is _zero_ reference to
documentation packages, doc-base, install-docs or anything else in the
quote you replied to. It only spoke about _displaying_ the
documentation.
The thread is about
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:55:22PM +0100, Guerkan Senguen wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: freebsd-manpages
Version : 6.0
Upstream Author : The FreeBSD Project
* URL :
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.0-RELEASE/manpages/
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:22:57PM -0800, Sebastien Delafond wrote:
* Package name: lanmap
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : Ryan Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://parseerror.com/lanmap/
* License : GPL
Description : lanmap sits quietly on a
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:11:40PM -0800, Sebastien Delafond wrote:
Should the similarities between PADS and lanmap prevent the latter
from being packaged for Debian ? I understand they both rely on
Of course not!
passive network monitoring to produce info, but I still don't see that
as an
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:03:31AM -0600, Cord Beermann wrote:
If you get spam via our lists, BOUNCE[1] it to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The advantage of posting it here is that it can be used as a measure of how
much spam does posting to a debian mailing attracts, spammers will probably
send some
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 02:13:51AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
* Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:47:41 +0100]:
Is it OK if we, mutt users, use this?
Why not '[EMAIL PROTECTED]enter'? ('b' does (B)ounce
in the default keybindings). THat's what Cord asked
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 07:33:04AM -0600, Cord Beermann wrote:
it's not ok to bounce us spam from years ago, this address is another
feedback-loop to enhace our filters, it's useless to get old[1] spam
there.
Well, I thought it would be useful to
a) have spam mails from the mailing list
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 05:44:51AM -0600, Cord Beermann wrote:
The button is good for pointing out where we should remove something.
Well. I have reported through the button in the past months spam for three
different mailing lists (debian-doc, debian-l10n-spanish, and
debian-devel-spanish) and
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 02:06:45AM +0100, Nicolas François wrote:
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a [EMAIL PROTECTED]
samhain-2.0.10a/init/samhain.start.in
That (upstream) code is not used in the Debian package (the init script used
is samhain-2.0.10a/debian/samhain.init
Regards
Javier
I'm curious as to why was DDTP (Debian Documentation Translation Project)
was chosen for the project in helping translate, exclusively, the
package descriptions in Debian.
Shouldn't this be renamed to DPTP (Debian Packages Translation Project).
As far as I know the DDTP has nothing to do with:
-
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:00:12PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:29:47PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
I'm curious as to why was DDTP (Debian Documentation Translation Project)
It wasn't, the expansion is Debian
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:55:50PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
Hello,
I think the package descriptions are a very important product of this
project. They're going to be one of the first things people see when
they use Debian, and their quality directly reflects on the quality of
Debian.
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:23:08PM -0500, David B Harris wrote:
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:59:09 +0100
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a good search interface in our package interface UIs (good search !=
search by words).
... as opposed to searching based
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:12:17PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 14:59, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
Not only users, software might use them too. We currently don't have
a good search interface in our package interface UIs (good search != search
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 07:13:48AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote:
Package: airsnort (debian/main)
Maintainer: Noel Koethe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
167901 [ ] [S] Unfullfilable Depends: prevents the package from
working (and Depends: not properly setup)
That bug only applies to woody, I
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:11:49PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 01:14:04PM +0200, Stephane Jourdois wrote:
I just noticed that not all packages in sid do provide md5 checksums
for the files they contains.
What should be done against this ? Shall we file bugreports
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 01:08:00PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 12:16, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
Which, IMHO should be required by now. IMHO it's bad enough that dpkg does
not handle this itself (#155799 and, better, #187019).
And even better than both
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 11:14:41PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
GOTO Masanori wrote:
Well, it's hard to display package name. However
lsof | grep dpkg-new | awk '{print $1, $8}' | sort +0
make a list which describes what binary uses old libraries replaced by
dpkg. To show more
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 01:52:18PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 09:05:58AM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a
wrote:
It doesn't tackle the issue of dpkg _not_ storing filesystem permissions.
This makes it not feasible to easily recover the system after a 'chmod -R
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 06:27:33PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
I agreed to take over this checksecurity package, when the maintain
finds the time to split it out from cron. There was some discussion
about it recently upon debian-devel.
Missed that mail. I remember the discussion on what
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 08:22:29PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
(...)
messages, and it mentioned that it could not find xauth. So I looked
up the package for xauth and that is xbase-clients, and sure enough
that had not been dragged in by the dependancy chain for fwbuilder.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 07:57:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote:
That's more or less what I was hoping - however, checking
/usr/share/doc/fortune-mod doesn't show any references to 'language', or
any obvious references to i18n or l10n, at least on
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 01:55:22PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
Hello.
The size of Debian increases, and the Sections: system has proven unable to
scale to keep pace with it. There has been much consensus around a multiple
tags per package solution, and now, yes, it has become a reality.
(...)
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 09:38:31PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:30:54PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
2) Do you forsee tags being maintained outside of the packages in the
future? For developing the tag system this makes sense, but it seems to
me that maintainers
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 12:38:18PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 03:23:24PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
wrote:
[1] One of the difficult things in the future might be to generate new tags
or associate new packages to tags already available. Automatising (sp
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 06:57:45AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
(...)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-french/2003/debian-l10n-french-200305/msg00121.html
The first post to the mailing list is the result of the only mail in which
i was asking Michael Bramer how to behave in the
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:01:49AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
Yes we are since in the first place we asked nicely to change the layout
back to the original one (as it was before this translation) and then you
(..)
Maintainers or developers do not have a say on how
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:05:29PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:27:45PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
We have a similar expression in (American) English. It's a tempest in
a teapot.
Storm in a teacup for British English.
:-)
Tormenta en un vaso de agua in
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:25:24PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
The translation team. Any other scheme is flawed and tends to problems
(people doing the same work will collide, it has happened in the past with
translations and will happen in the future if the maintainer, and not the
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:11:45AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:27:31PM -0500, Clay Crouch wrote:
Can the QA team use an additional 5-20 hours a week of volunteer help
from an already-registered Developer?
I'm afraid they can't hear you. They have their
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:27:34AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Wed, 14 May 2003 12:07:29 +0200, Martin Quinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Your engagement for the quality of your package is really
great. Only, I think that you are not responsible of the
translation.
The
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 02:18:04AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Maintainers or developers do not have a say on how translations are
done except for gettext sintax errors. If you do not like how a
translation team works, but you do not understand the language,
tough luck.
If this
On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 11:39:02PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
On Wed, 14 May 2003 01:54:34 +0200, Nicolas Boullis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're probably right, those useless l10n teams are annoying.
(..)
Unfortunately, there does not seem to be any possibility to prevent
translation work from
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 06:55:37PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
On Sun, 18 May 2003 17:10:29 +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, there does not seem to be any possibility to prevent
translation work from being done on my packages.
Unfortunately
Hi there,
Since I'm overloaded with work (in and out of Debian) I'm considering
orphaning a number of packages related to astronomy, they are:
- openuniverse
- starplot
- spacechart
- yale
and
- gliese
The first three are GUIs to view astronomical date whileas the last
two include astronomic
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:52:02AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 04:23:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
The BTS now has lfs (large file support) and ipv6 tags.
http://bugs.debian.org/tag:lfs and http://bugs.debian.org/tag:ipv6 will
search for matching bugs.
Since
Sorry for the late answer.. you will see in a minute why I took some more
time to answer on this.
1.- Copyright issues, these impact on quite a number of
astronomical-related packages.
I made the decision of breaking the star catalogs into packages
into non-free but others have not
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:21:14PM -0300, Andre Luis Lopes wrote:
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:05:42PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
wrote:
I thinks that the long-asked by i18n maintainers 'translation' tag should
probably be added too. It helps boths translators and maintainers
Policy section 2.3.3 states:
The description should be written so that it gives the system
administrator enough information to decide whether to install the
package.
However I've found a number of packages which use a long description which
is more or less the _same_ as the short
(Please don't CC: me, I'm in the list)
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:00:47PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña]
(For those who are not aware of this issue, please read #92810)
There seem to be someone believing that standard documents should be
treated
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:45:41PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote:
Why not indeed traft a DFDG spec that includes licenses such as the GFDL
and IETF's and W3C's licenses, as someone suggested, and add a separate
'Documentation' section?
Because that has been already drafted. Not only I
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:30:56PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:47:32PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
Andrew Suffield wrote:
people to
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ddp-policy/ch-common.en.html.
This claims the GNU FDL is acceptable, so it's worse than
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 02:07:14PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
b) people at debian-legal do not keep people at debian-doc up-to-date to
latest consensus wrt to documentation licensing (yes, until somebody who is
at -doc says please RTFM and somebody at -legal says TFM is worthless)
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:07:44PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote:
Enrico Zini (2003-07-22 14:56:08 +0200) :
My talks archive is at:
http://people.debian.org/~enrico/talks/
I would like to suggest to anybody interested that we conform to this
sort of naming scheme. There are lots of
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:50:52PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Package: tasksel, general
Version: 1.25
Severity: normal
If you pick the Spanish language task in tasksel, you will get mozilla
and openoffice installed, which is often not the desired effect. This is
That not only happens with the
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 05:51:35PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
cat EOF /etc/X11/Xsession.d/60local_userenvironment
if [ -r /etc/profile ] ;then
. /etc/profile
fi
if [ -r $HOME/.profile ] ; then
. $HOME/.profile
fi
EOF
This'll work for all display-managers that use
They could probably conflict and recommend to get the right version of
mozilla, and then mozilla would have to deal with registering languages
installed before it.
Will try, thanks for the tip.
For example: if you selected task 'Spanish' and 'Desktop' you get both
kde's and gnome locales
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:11:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
The task information comes from Task: lines in the Packages file. To
whit:
You are right, I forgot about that.
Package: foo-locale-es
Task: desktop spanish, office spanish
And then tasksel and aptitude and anything else that
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:32:39PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
I'd like to start organizing the debconf for the year 2005 in Vienna,
Austria. Why that early announce? So we have time enough to find
(...)
Even if you are stepping in our idea of making it in Madrid, Vienna is
cool...
Regards
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:42:30AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
I'm not saying we must do it at all. I'm saying that security is the
responsibility of the security team, and not debian-devel. Having not
heard from the security team what they think, and this apparent
reluctance to
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:30:43AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
PS: I should create a big x-terminal-emulator survey/shootout.
Maybe this will help you out:
http://lwn.net/Articles/88161/
/me notices that GNUStep's terminal is not listed there...
Regards
Javier
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 06:13:36AM +0200, nicklas (smurfd) wrote:
Hey Debian-devels!
I have had a package idea, for a long time now. The idea, was a
package, containing a Flush-all firewall script. Adding this script to
be ran at bootup. Just for the simplicity. I tend to keep forgetting to
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 07:26:10PM -0400, sean finney wrote:
applications. i'd greatly appreciate input, especially from the current
maintainers of database-using or database-server applications. the draft
is available at:
http://people.debian.org/seanius/policy/dbapp-policy.html
[That
- further amendments to the best practices document based on developer
feedback.
still accepting input!
You probably want to change this:
- leave data after purge? - only ask during purge.
- back up database before upgrade? - only ask during upgrades. user should
be notified where to
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:51:45AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
For people who care about getting sarge out, it's not useful to put out
a report listing 726 bugs, only 150 of which matter, in a form that
makes it rather difficult to cleanly extract only the 150 that matter.
How about putting out a
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:36:16AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 06:48:31AM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
There are package that never enter testing and nobody notice because
everyone use unstable (sometimes because of buggy dependencies).
This isn't true:
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:41:42PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
Could the script that generates the RC bug list be modified to show two
additional numbers for each bug: first, how old it is (in days), and
second, how old (in days) is the last message posted to the bug?
This will
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 02:03:31AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
Trivial analysis:
()
The release managers have been putting some effort into (a)(1) over the
past year, and there's four of them now instead of just one. How much effort
has the project been putting into the other factors?
I
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:56:46AM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote:
In fact, I dug into the problem, and found that the initscript
(/etc/cron.daily/sysklogd) had a 'reload-or-restart' argument, which is
used by the cronjob and does not always work (in my case, on several
machines, never) nor do
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 03:50:31PM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote:
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 13:28 +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
I haven't yet contacted Joey, however, since I'm still considering this
option and how to do it best. One option, for example, is to do a NMU
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:02:56AM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
This is true, see http://bugs.debian.org/270695 for a log of what
happened. The reason is that the (previous) maintainer doesn't have the
time to maintain this package.
The real reason is that xephem provides non-free
(...)
response 3: _is_ it the job of debian developers to dictate the minimum
acceptable security level?
yes, it is. But we have to weight in the needs of our users. We want, after
all, our operating system to be used in a large set of environments and
some of those might break when
Well, there seems to be a lot of DD asking others to test experimental
packages out there, so I just might as well do the same. I recently tried
to do some QA with some base packages that have an outstanding list of open
bugs (some of which are quite easy to fix, others which are not that easy
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 07:28:39AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
Can you indeed give us here the list of mozilla-firefox-locale-xx
packages your package currently generates?
For the moment:
(..)
There is no es_ES. I believe there were mozilla-firefox-locale-es-es
packages at some
[ Rob Bradford, you're in CC: since I don't know if you read d-d and just
in case you miss this :-) ]
I've been reviewing for the Release Notes the packages in sid that are
provided for upgrade purposes only (since we did in the past for woody's
[1]). The goal is to provide a list in the
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:11:06AM +0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:33:49PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
A technique that I've used in packages with this issue is to install the
rc*.d symlinks by default, but also have the init script check a file in
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 10:03:18AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
Hi,
I am asking for discussion about bug #290623. The bug basically says
that it is a bad idea to generate system accounts with primary group
nogroup, which I feel is a valid report.
(...)
If it's a system user, I would say that
Hi everyone,
I've recently uploaded (to experimental only) new Snort 2.3.0 packages
(based on the release made by the Snort team last January 25th). One of the
main reasons I've uploaded this to experimental (and not sid) is that I've
introduced /etc/default/snort and made
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:24:55PM -0500, Ed Shornock wrote:
Does this include snort-pgsql? I don't see for experimental (unless
the mirrors haven't all been updated yet). I do see snort and
snort-mysql though...
Snort-pgsql was uploaded too, it's listed in packages.debian.org so your
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:23:19PM +0430, Robert Koeneke wrote:
Moria is a game I wrote some 20 years ago. Hard to believe anyone would
still be playing it.
Good software (and concepts) never dies. If you google for Moria variant
you will actually see that not only people are still playing
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 08:48:20AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've recently uploaded (to experimental only) new Snort 2.3.0 packages
(based on the release made by the Snort team last January 25th). One of the
main reasons I've uploaded this to experimental
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:43:41PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
Hi,
in order to test whether packages that build-depend on tetex can still
be built with the upcoming version 3.0, I would like to automatically
build as many of these packages. I know where I can read about setting
up a buildd,
I'm considering asking ftp maintainers to remove from the archive the
following software/documentation I maintain. Actually, I haven't done any
maintenance tasks in most of these for months, in many cases upstream is
dead and the userbase is really low (or inexistant).
Feel free to speak up if
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 07:52:23AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
IMO, this actually _proves_ the case that ftpmaster is one of the
biggest problems that Debian has at the moment, now that the DAM
problem has been solved elegantly and efficiently.
Wrong, the BIGGEST problem is that we have so many
(Note: In order for this thread to prove useful I'm going to adhere to aj's
ObBug: rule [0]. This will also probably limit my answers somewhat and
prevent me from answering every post]
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:05:32PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
What's the purpose of NEW then? Why are
Hi there,
A while back I did a little bit of hacking and put together a package
with standard cron tasks. These tasks includes:
- backup stuff the cron package currently backups
- some other simple backups (the 'backup-simple' program and
manpage are included)
- common cron-related packages
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:00:49PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote:
Why {c,sh}ouldn't they be implemented as cron.daily scripts in the respective
packages?
They are already are, please review the (simple) package. For some of the
packages that provide them (like systat) the tasks are pulled in
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:42:54PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:31:30PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
I'd propose to use a less discriminating name for the scc archive.
What about ports.debian.org (which coincidentally already exists and
http-wise points to
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:19:03PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
Hi.
(...)
So, how to make the init scripts localized?
What do you think?
/etc/default/language? I believe this has been discussed previously, see
for example [1] and debian-boot [2].
From briefly looking at redhat's
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:59:30AM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote:
From Netcraft newsletter and web site:
Debian Linux distribution 10 years old today
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/16/debian_linux_distribution_10_years_old_today.html
I'm not so sure about the value of their
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 03:57:45PM +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote:
Hi,
I'm about to close 95153, 133049, 158040, 16, 170580, 173331, 176223,
(...)
I object.
Instead I provide signed backported packages on p.d.o which I will keep
'semi up to date'. Still a lot of people use the outdated
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:19:55AM +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote:
Quoting Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
(...)
It's annoying now, to see what bugs really are bugs, and what are bugs
You mean are bugs related to the latest version instead of really are
bugs.
filed against
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 10:02:02PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
I can think off-hand of at least one other security related tool that
needs frequent updating of a ruleset: nessus. It is an active probing
tool that scans a network for vulnerable systems. If it doesn't have a
current set
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 07:32:10PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
Snort depends on a set of rules to detect potentially malicious traffic.
Obviously this set of rules needs to be updates on a regular basis in
order to keep up with new security issues. The problem is that the
version of
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 12:46:27PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
Considering the disaster that the openssh update to potato was, and the
bugs it caused, I'm not sure that that's a good example to bring up if
you're *advocating* upgrading a package to a new upstream version ...
Well, I was
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:24:11AM +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote:
Really, the way to fix this package X needs data Y to be up-to-date is to:
a) separate data from the package (Nessus plugins are available in the
'nessus-plugins' package and can be updated separately, for example)
snort has
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:08:51AM -0400, christophe barbe wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:23:56PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
Yes, gdesklets-data is a debian native package (ie: there is no upstream
tarball corresponding to this archive).
Thanks for the explaination.
-n version
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:29:31AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
[Short version: see the patch below.]
(after a few days w/o answers from Snort's maintainer)
Sander, any comments wrt to this patch? Please at least say wether you are
going to forward this to Snort maintainers
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:01:54PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Fabio Rafael da Rosa]
I upgraded sid two days ago, and starting X via gdm does not set the
environment variable I've set in /etc/environment. Anyone has the
same problem ..?
It is probably a PAM configuration problem.
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