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

in /, with a compatibility symlink pointing /usr at / to provide for scripts and other programs assuming things to be in /usr, but no one dares to do it, because the Onion impulse is so strong. Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

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

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:00:23 -0700 Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 06:30:04PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: By the early 1990s this was long since unneeded but people continued to do it anyway, and in fact started to think it was done for technical reasons

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

starting over again today, with a brand new flavor of Unix, I'd dump /usr entirely, leaving perhaps a compat symlink the way we left compat symlinks around for things like /usr/spool and other ghosts in the old days. Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bits from keyring-maint

are not being misused. Several attacks against Windows recently have involved stolen keys (note, stolen, not cracked) and I doubt Debian's average key is better defended. Attackers look for weak points in systems -- defenders must do the same. Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com

Re: Bits from keyring-maint

signature. Why is it harder to replace a key than to become a DD? Or rather, why the requirements for the first key any weaker than those for DD key replacement? Or rather, what is the specific threat that the policy is designed to address? Does it succeed? Perry -- Perry E. Metzger

Is anything in BTS tracking fixes to CVE-2016-5696

I've tried searching BTS for references to CVE-2016-5696 (the recent Linux TCP injection vulnerability) and I've come up empty. Is there currently a bug in the system that is tracking fixes for it? Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com

Re: Is anything in BTS tracking fixes to CVE-2016-5696

On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:52:14 +0200 Martin Bagge / brother <brot...@bsnet.se> wrote: > On 2016-08-23 17:14, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > I've tried searching BTS for references to CVE-2016-5696 (the > > recent Linux TCP injection vulnerability) and I've come up empty. > &g

How to adopt a dead package?

it back into Debian, what would I need to do? I haven't been a package maintainer before. I presume there's a document somewhere I can read with detailed instructions? Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com

Re: How to adopt a dead package?

nstructions? > Generic instructions: https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers > Reintroducing packages: > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#reintroducing-pkgs Thank you! Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com