Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-04 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 12:52 -0500, Simon Ruggier wrote: > However, I would expect that most users would not have the patience to > do this via apt preferences, and if there is an easier way, I was not > aware of it. I also did this a few times. I remove the third-party repositories from sources.li

Re: Bug#680226: lib{nss,pam}-ldapd: apt wants to remove them on dist-upgrade in favour of lib{nss,pam}-ldap:i386

2012-07-07 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 10:00 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > I'm not sure what the proper way is to specify that Conflicts and > > Provides should only apply for a same-architecture version of the > > package. If I do this (just trying some things): > > There is simple no way. Thanks for your

Re: Bug#680226: lib{nss,pam}-ldapd: apt wants to remove them on dist-upgrade in favour of lib{nss,pam}-ldap:i386

2012-07-05 Thread Arthur de Jong
found 680226 0.8.5 tags 680226 + help thanks On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 15:42 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > this situation is a bit weird, on an M-A enabled system (debugging > hindered a bit due to #680225), after upgrading libnss-ldapd and > libpam-ldapd to the latest version (or even before doing

Bug#678676: ITP: svn2cl -- Generate GNU-style changelog from svn repository history

2012-06-23 Thread Arthur de Jong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Arthur de Jong X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: svn2cl Version : 0.13 Upstream Author : Arthur de Jong * URL : http://arthurdejong.org/svn2cl/ * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-05-08 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 12:55 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > It seems fedora is moving to nss for openldap I don't think it's completely free from the same kind of issues as GNUTLS. For example, I recently came across this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701587 NSS (Network Securit

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-05-08 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 14:08 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > If we could move to having a central service, rather than having every > process load in a pile of extra libraries, I would probably be in > favour of it. If would make some things, such as NSS queries inside > chroots, much more efficient an

Bug#618473: general: Problems to handle NIS group names

2011-03-17 Thread Arthur de Jong
reassign nfs-common thanks On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 15:10 +0100, Christian Andretzky wrote: > I've really no idea, which package(s) are responsible for this problem. Reassigning to nfs-common because that seems to be the most likely candidate (assuming autofs is used to mount nfs filesystems). > In

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-02-28 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:44 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Personally, I'd rather we didn't have them, as this is supposed to be > controlled by the rcN.d links and if that interface is too hard for > people we should fix that rather than invent multiple ways of disabling > daemons, but the curren

Re: Init dependency between nfs-kernel-server and name server

2010-10-24 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 20:27 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | Besides, I believe $named is a existing and fitting virtual facility > | for this use. > > Indeed, it seems quite appropriate. It would at least simplify things for my nslcd package which provides name lookups (user, group, hosts, etc)

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-23 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 16:48 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > If we decide to reject 'admin', I think we should use sudo. I find the > argument that admin is confusing given the presence of adm fairly > convincing -- It's all too easy to say something like "could you add > fred to the adm group" over t

Re: Debian Package

2010-03-14 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 18:25 +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:52:31PM -0500, Jake wrote: > > I was creating a Debian package and after it install I would like it > > to prompt the user to reboot the computer, is there anyway to do > > this? > > Except in very limited circ

Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"

2009-06-10 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 11:06 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > I am sorry if it's just me who doesn't understand this sentence, but > please clarify the meaning of "...indicating files that have the same > licence and share copyright holders." in the current DEP-5 proposal > for the 'Files' field.

Re: integrating PAM module into nss-ldapd (RFH)

2009-06-01 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 16:05 -0700, Richard A Nelson wrote: > This is great news! I've already converted all my boxes and am > continually exhorting conversion to libnss-ldapd (mostly on IRC, but > also those who report bugs on the libnss-ldap package). > > It seems to me, as the libnss-ldap maintai

integrating PAM module into nss-ldapd (RFH)

2009-05-15 Thread Arthur de Jong
Hello list (I've put a couple of people in Bcc to try to get more feedback), I'm working on integrating a PAM module into nss-ldapd and am looking for input on this. The PAM module was kindly provided by Howard Chu from the OpenLDAP project but I'm still working on the server part. (more info on

Re: What are the benefits of a machine-parseable ‘debian/copyright’ file? (was: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files)

2009-03-23 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 10:03 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > Anyway, thanks for the work on the format. To me it seems to > > probably be a good thing. I hope this mail wasn't too negative. > > I find this a little confusing, since you spent most of your message > saying how you *don't* think it's a g

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 12:11 +, Noah Slater wrote: > Firmly in my mind is the cost/benefit of this extra effort. If we > succeed in integrating debian/copyright checks into lintian, or dpkg > and it's front-ends, it seems reasonable to imagine that this effort > would be a good trade-off. I hav

Re: Bug#419209: lvm2: Hangs during snapshot creation

2009-03-06 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 09:58 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Well, I did also some tests and wasn't able to trigger that bug on my > laptop too. But I also have the lvm direct on the hard disk. On my > server there is a md device underlying. So I suggest the problem is > just with a lvm on top of a md

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-28 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 12:43 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joerg_Schilling > > I notice that Joerg's Wikipedia page is rather bare. > > Instead of spending time covering all the old arguments on this list, > perhaps some people could add links (such as the ones you cit

Re: handling group membership in and outside d-i

2009-02-27 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 13:01 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 08:31 +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > This is of course broken. It breaks granting console users access > > to the netdev or powerdev groups through pam_groups, which is really > > really annoying when you get your u

Re: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer

2009-02-01 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 03:46 +, The Fungi wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 07:56:01PM -0600, Andrew Deason wrote: > > Label names could be generated to minimize collisions. Something like > > ${hostname}-/ instead of /, or maybe something even more specific. > > The namespace here is, unfortun

Re: Why is su preserving the environment?

2009-01-24 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 11:07 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The question is whether we can consider safe to pass authentication > tokens as environment variables. Either we do, and we fix applications > that pass environment where they shouldn’t. Either we don’t, and we have > to find another way

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-30 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:41 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:06:41AM +0100, Arthur de Jong wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 12:02 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > I don't know whether these are also a problem in practice - but if so, > > >

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-30 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 12:02 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > I don't know whether these are also a problem in practice - but if so, > using sprintf(buf + strlen(buf) [...]) is definitely wrong. I don't know if any of my code uses such a construct but why is that wrong as long as [...] doesn't contai

Re: Bug#475626: nss-ldapd init script sequence number

2008-04-30 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:38 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > This is exactly the kind of problems the dependency based boot > sequencing is supposed to solve. [...] I have added: Should-Start: slapd to fix the problem that nslcd should be started after slapd. However to solve the problem th

nss-ldapd init script sequence number

2008-04-28 Thread Arthur de Jong
Hi, I maintain nss-ldapd, a replacement for nss_ldap which uses a local daemon (nslcd) to proxy name lookup requests (passwd/group/hosts/etc) to an LDAP server. I have received a bug report (#475626) that I would welcome some input on. The problem is that a lot of daemons are started at sequenc

Re: dh_installinit

2007-11-12 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 12:34 -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 11-Nov-07, 14:25 (CST), Arthur de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This seems to be quite common code (from one of my packages (cvsd), > > don't know what the original source for this code was): > &g

Re: dh_installinit

2007-11-11 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 11:04 +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: > When these mechanisms will be ready, a deamon will be unable to close > all its file descriptors (unless it closes the whole range of fd > (0--2^16 ?) or unless an application can get a list of its open fds). This seems to be quite commo

Re: NMUs for Python Policy -- please hold them a little

2006-06-23 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:43 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Yes: > http://www.ouaza.com/wordpress/2006/06/23/the-python-transition-can-continue/ > > I wonder if I should make a second announce on -devel-announce just to > make it clear to everybody. At the lease I would appreciate (as a python ap

Re: GFDL question

2006-03-25 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 14:06 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ok, there are no invariant sections, but there is (a short) front and > > back cover text. > > > > How do we proceed with these documents? > > The resolution which passed excludes do

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-18 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote: Come on, please stop arguing with random, unsuited comparisons, and use common sense : what's the purpose of ndiswrapper without non-free drivers to use it on? We've always put things of the like in cont

Re: Bug#326429: ITP: webcheck -- website link and structure checker

2005-09-09 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 00:47 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Arthur de Jong] > > I'm not sure if I need some statement on the copyrights on the > > generated html files. The css file that is just copied has a BSD > > license. > > Generally, output from a

Bug#326429: ITP: webcheck -- website link and structure checker

2005-09-06 Thread Arthur de Jong
(resent to debian-devel because evolution did not add X-Debbugs-CC header) Subject: ITP: webcheck -- website link and structure checker Package: wnpp Owner: Arthur de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: webcheck Version : 1.9.3 Upstream Author : Art

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-14 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 19:30 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While this argument was indeed tempting, I think we also need > > to look at how free the resulting package is: Can a derivbative take > > any package in main, modify it, and further redistri

Re: Debian RC System/Init Scripts

2003-09-27 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I'm curious if there has ever been any attempt to Policyize scripts > located in init.d. Specifically requiring inclusion of such lines as > DESC="description" or NAME="name". I ask because I am doing a little bit > of work on the rc startup script.

Re: PAM messages on chrooted console

2003-05-31 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > After restarting init my tty6 works, however I keep getting PAM messages > on my console such as: > PAM_unix[19031]: (login) session opened for user minghua by minghua(uid=0) > I noticed such messages go to /var/log/auth.log in my stardard > install

Re: /run/, resolvconf and read-only root

2003-04-30 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I don't know what it will take to convince you, but I would like you to > answer these questions: I also have a problem with adding another toplevel directory and I suspect there are some more. I haven't read the complete thread (I also have other

Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-20 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Arthur de Jong wrote: > > Ok, could you review my cvsd package for me for correct debconf usage > > and tell me what you do and don't like? > > Thanks for taking advantage of that offer. (So far you're the only on

Re: When bind9 reinstalls, no db.root

2002-08-22 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Arthur de Jong wrote: > > For example... > > Logcheck has a number of files under /etc/logcheck/ignore.d... that are > marked as configuration files. Removing a configuration files means that > more information

Re: When bind9 reinstalls, no db.root

2002-08-22 Thread Arthur de Jong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Marc Singer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 09:42:53PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > > Sounds like you want dpkg --force-confmiss. > > > > > > I wouldn't expect that since the documentation states: > > > > > > confmiss: Always