Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-18 Thread Marc Haber
e the Linux port for the sake >of toy ports? Because Debian prides itself in being Universal regarding ports and architectures. It is a real pity that we still have members who didn't understand this. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy co

Re: RFC: terminate init script when service is ready

2012-08-18 Thread Marc Haber
routes after ifup returned control for us. To my knowledge, there is no way to detedmine whether there is still DAD running for one IPv6 address or not. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are

Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them

2012-07-01 Thread Marc Haber
where bugs can be handled centrally. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax

Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them

2012-07-01 Thread Marc Haber
the extra getent passwd check and you should be fine. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature |

Re: locking system users on package removal

2012-06-30 Thread Marc Haber
that is wrong since it means rebuilding packages to fix bugs in that code. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom "

Re: Bug#679398: ITP: python-pyweblib -- yet another web programming framework for Python.

2012-06-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 04:07:43PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 12-06-28 at 02:31pm, Marc Haber wrote: > > * Package name: python-pyweblib > > Already packaged - but wrongly named: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-weblib.html Idiot me. Didn't look corre

Bug#679406: ITP: web2ldap -- Full-featured web-based LDAPv3 client

2012-06-28 Thread Marc Haber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber * Package name: web2ldap Version : 1.1.23 Upstream Author : Michael Ströder * URL : http://web2ldap.de/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Python Description : Full-featured web-based LDAPv3 client

Bug#679405: ITP: python-fcgi -- Simple FastCGI module for Python

2012-06-28 Thread Marc Haber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber * Package name: python-fcgi Version : 19980130 Upstream Author : Robin Dunn et al * URL : http://alldunn.com/python/fcgi.py * License : python-fcgi (see below) Programming Lang: python Description

Bug#679399: ITP: python-pyasn1-modules -- Collection of protocols modules written in ASN.1 language

2012-06-28 Thread Marc Haber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber * Package name: python-pyasn1-modules Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Ilya Etingof * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyasn1-modules * License : BSD-3-Clause Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#679398: ITP: python-pyweblib -- yet another web programming framework for Python.

2012-06-28 Thread Marc Haber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber * Package name: python-pyweblib Version : 1.3.9 Upstream Author : Michael Ströder * URL : http://www.stroeder.com/pylib/PyWebLib/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Python Description : yet another

Re: this bug .. bugs me

2012-06-06 Thread Marc Haber
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Re: amd64 as default architecture

2012-05-20 Thread Marc Haber
han a month before the first target freeze date are a bad idea and should be done right after a release so that the change get maximum exposure before it is considered for a stable release? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:02:16 +0100, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >On Mar 16, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:26:35 +0100, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >> >The problem is the lack of code for the toy ports, >> It would really be nice if y

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-16 Thread Marc Haber
sage you write. 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 Natu

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:48:47 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: >If I want „cool” Linux things, then I don’t use a distribution >which is proud to be a cross-platform distribution. Amen. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:59:02 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >Le lundi 05 mars 2012 à 12:11 +0100, Marc Haber a écrit : >> The migration to udev didn't cause double work for daemon maintainers. > >Excuse me? > >Having to support both udev and HAL just for the sake of Hu

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:57:45 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >Le mercredi 07 mars 2012 à 07:43 +0100, Marc Haber a écrit : >> The differences between systemd and openssh are that core OpenSSH does >> not work on "our" main architecture, and that there is an active &

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-06 Thread Marc Haber
ian upstream for Portable OpenSSH. If there were something like "portable systemd", I guess that the voices against systemd would be a lot quieter here. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Question

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-03-05 Thread Marc Haber
!! 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 UNSUB

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 10:14:04 +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: >On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 09:12:32AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> There is a different between "I don't care about portability" and "I >> won't accept any patches that are only useful on non-Linux platfo

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-03-04 Thread Marc Haber
a different between "I don't care about portability" and "I won't accept any patches that are only useful on non-Linux platforms". The former could be remedied by submitting documented and maintained patches, which saves the world from early forks that ae bound to d

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-03-04 Thread Marc Haber
tart at time) Did any of the distributions named above commit themselves to care about "exotic" platforms and/or non-Linux kernels? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mai

Re: Some suggestion

2011-12-03 Thread Marc Haber
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: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-12-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:21:34 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >Philipp Kern writes: >> On 2011-12-02, Marc Haber wrote: >>> I also support this and think it is a really good idea. But please >>> keep x.y.z-1 around and easily accessible when x.y.z is released. >

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-12-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 18:58:55 + (UTC), Philipp Kern wrote: >On 2011-12-02, Marc Haber wrote: >> I also support this and think it is a really good idea. But please >> keep x.y.z-1 around and easily accessible when x.y.z is released. > >You can jigdo any old CD image. H

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-12-02 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:34:03 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Marc Haber wrote: >>On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:26:33 +, Ben Hutchings >> wrote: >>>I can't imagine why you would expect this to work. >> >>I wouldn't. The site was just surprised by the

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:15:13 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> The solution would be to offer additional install media with >> additional support. The mere chance of introducing a regression is a >> risk which I think should not be taken by Debian. &

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:48:24 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 05:59:59PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:43:32 +, "Adam D. Barratt" >> wrote: >> >but >> >the kernel team have been very good in the past about f

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-18 Thread Marc Haber
arts of the distribution? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch b

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:26:33 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 09:08:17PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:00:26 +0100, Adam Borowski >> wrote: >> >For example: you download the current point release, burn it to a CD >> &g

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-17 Thread Marc Haber
o go back. Greetings Marc [1] Why the heck do we allow changes like this in stable point releases? -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wis

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-02 Thread Marc Haber
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 "Righ

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-18 Thread Marc Haber
the header sender to fit the account that has authenticated. This is a contradition to the Unix way of doing things, and our default MTA, exim, does not handle this situation particularly well. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-18 Thread Marc Haber
gt;something stupid like a RAID 5 root. Or something intelligent like having the system boot from a removable medium (which can be removed after booting). Please keep the possibility to do this. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Ha

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-21 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:50:47 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: >If you mean doing that at unpack time, Yes, that's what I mean. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadre

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-19 Thread Marc Haber
sy 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 UN

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-08-04 Thread Marc Haber
ngs 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: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-25 Thread Marc Haber
're not making any friends that way. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ N

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-23 Thread Marc Haber
m. 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

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-23 Thread Marc Haber
er way to do 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 | Lt. Worf, TNG &

Re: Minimal init [was: A few observations about systemd]

2011-07-22 Thread Marc Haber
r for a new init system is as unrealistic as demanding from upstreams to stay around snooping for new IP addresses that came online after the daemon was started to cater for IPv6. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! -

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-21 Thread Marc Haber
emd? Please don't get me wrong: I like the ideas behind systemd, but I need some more input to decide whether it's actually as flexible as an init script. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questi

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-21 Thread Marc Haber
y 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

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-20 Thread Marc Haber
ngs 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&q

Re: relationships with GNU as an upstream - call for feedback

2011-07-10 Thread Marc Haber
r been as omnipresent as today, probably because we need it for our network cards to work. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Begin

Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them

2011-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
with a rather worn and dusty adduser hat on -- ----- 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

Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them

2011-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
. What should the --local option do? If you want adduser to grow this option, please file a bug. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

Re: How to solve race condition between IPv6 ifup and start of services?

2011-05-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 22 May 2011 13:41:22 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> On Sat, 21 May 2011 15:42:51 -0700, Steve Langasek >> wrote: >>>With an event-based init system such as upstart, you could also set up the >>>service not to start until the specif

Re: How to solve race condition between IPv6 ifup and start of services?

2011-05-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 22 May 2011 11:45:53 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> On Sun, 22 May 2011 00:29:35 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow >> wrote: >>>(c) Modify ifupdown to notice when additional IP addresses come up (or >>>go away) and run the ifup.d (if

Re: How to solve race condition between IPv6 ifup and start of services?

2011-05-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 22 May 2011 02:11:00 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >Marc Haber writes ("How to solve race condition between IPv6 ifup and start of >services?"): >> Is there a widely accepted method to do things any easier? It is >> clearly not acceptable to have to manua

Re: How to solve race condition between IPv6 ifup and start of services?

2011-05-22 Thread Marc Haber
!! 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 727398

Re: How to solve race condition between IPv6 ifup and start of services?

2011-05-22 Thread Marc Haber
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&q

Re: How to solve race condition between IPv6 ifup and start of services?

2011-05-21 Thread Marc Haber
option suggests that the network manager option mentioned there is what one would need for ifupdown, and I don't have the slightest idea how one could guess whether the networks is "done" now. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !!

Re: How to solve race condition between IPv6 ifup and start of services?

2011-05-21 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 21 May 2011 14:31:45 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 15:01 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> with the increasing deployment of IPv6 I begin to see an issue >> icreasingly often: When an interface is configured for IPv6, it takes >> a few seconds be

How to solve race condition between IPv6 ifup and start of services?

2011-05-21 Thread Marc Haber
rver to restart service, neither do I like the idea of changing runlevels five minutes after reboot to kick IPv6 services to life. Any more ideas? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: wheel group

2011-05-06 Thread Marc Haber
ian GNU/Linux is so permissive by default? I guess that it was once decided to protect root with a password. Also, there is a nosu group that can be used to prohibit the use of su. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Marc Haber
since it was taken over by the officials. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus

Re: System users: removing them

2011-04-25 Thread Marc Haber
he cause why I don't understand why an addsysuser tool were useful. If adduser --system needs any additional code in a maintainer script, I'd consider that a bug in adduser which should be filed and addressed. Greetings Marc -- -- !! N

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-02-28 Thread Marc Haber
gs simpler in that regard though. Since it broke file-rc, it made selecting the daemons to run _significantly_ harder. But that was unfortunately not on the agenda, nobody cared. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:47:42 +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Marc Haber > wrote: >>>On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 01:44:26PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: >>>> Perhaps it might be reasonable to try to find a way for accounts like >>>&

Re: Bug#613986: ITP: run -- tool for sampling time and memory usage

2011-02-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:30:58 +0100, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: >* Package name: run Too generic. Please find a different name. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailad

Re: [Adduser-devel] Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-19 Thread Marc Haber
to take this up with the tech ctte if Olaf disagrees >strongly enough. I haven't been active on adduser for quite some time, but it seems like I'm still in the team, so I'd like to add my +1 here. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies,

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-19 Thread Marc Haber
y >> permissions to be changed. > >This is easily accomplished using ACLs. Please, don't force this on a default install. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-19 Thread Marc Haber
urtesy 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 UNSUBS

Re: The future of m-a and dkms

2011-02-19 Thread Marc Haber
d a single package that contains binaries for multiple >kernel versions. So I'll have to build packages for each migration type that I want to do and replace the modules _before_ the actual kernel update, exchanging the modules for the currently running kernel in this process? This makes

Re: The future of m-a and dkms

2011-02-14 Thread Marc Haber
!! 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

Re: The future of m-a and dkms

2011-02-14 Thread Marc Haber
in my build chroot)? 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: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-16 Thread Marc Haber
--- !! 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: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-16 Thread Marc Haber
e-removed #!/bin/bash echo "purge removed packages" dpkg --purge $(dpkg --list | grep '^rc' | awk '{print $2}') foo RESULT="done" # end of file Good to hear that I won't be having _this_ problem. Greetings Marc -- -

Re: Alioth is unreachable

2011-01-15 Thread Marc Haber
e and don't disturb all the >subscribers of -devel. I wouldn't have counted on the mailing list being operational regarding the machine running the list being out of disk space. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-15 Thread Marc Haber
ut in your queries. >The rest of the bugs (780 open-non forwarded (and 300 forwarded)) is >pure upstream issues. They're still issues present in current Debian. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | "

Re: devel files and libraries in /lib

2011-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
ns including me are not comfortable with having a multi-gigabyte /. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wi

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-12 Thread Marc Haber
s 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: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-08 Thread Marc Haber
the fact that some tools handle the long user name suboptimally. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom "

Re: Bug#601966: ITP: nagios-plugin-check-multi -- run nagios checks as a group

2010-11-02 Thread Marc Haber
ave an internal package of this available and obviously forgot to ITP it. Do you want to base your work on my preparations, or is your project far enough that my work won't be of any help for you? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !

Re: Bug#602049: ITP: wicd-client-kde -- qt-kde client for wicd

2010-11-02 Thread Marc Haber
orious.org/wicd-client-kde >* License : GPL-3 > Programming Lang: C++ > Description : qt-kde client for wicd Has there been any development in wicd in the last months that suggests that packaging new wicd stuff is worth it? Greetings Marc -- -- !!

Bug#599065: ITP: libfile-flock-perl -- file locking with flock

2010-10-04 Thread Marc Haber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber * Package name: libfile-flock-perl Version : 2008.01 Upstream Author : David Muir Sharnoff * URL : * License : File::Flock may be used/modified/distibuted on the same terms as perl itself

Bug#599066: ITP: libgeography-countries-perl -- 2-letter, 3-letter, and numerical codes for countries.

2010-10-04 Thread Marc Haber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber * Package name: libgeography-countries-perl Version : 2009041301 Upstream Author : Abigail * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Geography-Countries/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: Summary of CUT discussions

2010-09-30 Thread Marc Haber
though. That could be confusing.) notyetstable Grüße Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/

Re: Buildd & binary-indep

2010-09-28 Thread Marc Haber
pbuilder support building as non-root nowadays? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugsch

machine-readable debian/copyright and arbitrary comments

2010-09-28 Thread Marc Haber
information nowadays? 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: A new Priority level, ‘backports’ ? (R e: unstable/testing/[ pending/frozen/]stabl e)

2010-09-23 Thread Marc Haber
nd and use it) and of killing of packages on grounds that "nobody sane would use them", such as clamav-data, which force-died in the course of volatile moving under the ftp team's reign. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! -

Re: For those who care about their packages in Debian

2010-08-25 Thread Marc Haber
eferences file's Package field. >moving packages from >experimental to unstable later is easy Is it possible without rebuilding? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Maila

Re: why are there /bin and /usr/bin...

2010-08-16 Thread Marc Haber
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: Bug#592877: ITP: apt2 -- Advanced Package Tool 2

2010-08-13 Thread Marc Haber
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: More advanced home directory creation in Debian?

2010-08-13 Thread Marc Haber
run-parts your own .d directory. 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 Nat

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-26 Thread Marc Haber
. This will decrease the quality of bugs even more since the bug reports are not going to contain even the minimum of information collected by reportbug. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | "

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:13:29 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, Teemu Likonen wrote: >> * 2010-07-25 12:54 (+0200), Marc Haber wrote: >> >> > stable = release >> > testing = current >> > unstable = development >> >> I like

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-25 Thread Marc Haber
27;t click. 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&qu

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-25 Thread Marc Haber
!! 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 UNSUB

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-25 Thread Marc Haber
xy which is configured centrally into the windows boxes, so that users might not readily know that there is one. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header M

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-25 Thread Marc Haber
ll not help in the case where there is a non-transparent http proxy in use since reportbug would have to ask for the proxy data. And it will probably fail if that proxy demands user authentication. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! -

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-25 Thread Marc Haber
ns. Some of these reasons are even valid. 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: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-25 Thread Marc Haber
SoHo NAT router, but not through a corporate firewall. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-25 Thread Marc Haber
bug reports. A Windows user who has just converted over to Debian will not remotely think about googling for "reporting bugs in debian" because she's not accustomed to their software vendor listening without being paid to listen. Greetings Marc -- ---

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-25 Thread Marc Haber
t (kind of copied from FreeBSD). 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 Nat

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-25 Thread Marc Haber
ktops) don't remotely resemble what such a screenshot would show. Please use reasonable line lengths and do not top post. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im H

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:08:28 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >For isntance the bug sytem could be made simplier for joe >simpler user, What's so hard about typing reportbug? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! -

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-25 Thread Marc Haber
questions and not a single buck of revenue via this medium. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://w

Re: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:29:10 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >Though I think any manual published on debian.org recommending aptitude for >upgrades is a bug that should be fixed. Why? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc

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