Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-09 Thread David Schmitt
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 01:42, David Härdeman wrote: > So the revocation could even be stored in cleartext on the usb key, > unless I'm mistaken? Depending on the strength of the crypto/passphrase protecting your key, this could lead at least to a DOS if the revocation is publicised without c

Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, sean finney wrote: you could easily extend the script i wrote to unencrypt/loop-mount a filesystem-in-a-file without too much effort. prod me enough and i might do it myself. Prodding. :) Moreover I'd suggest to send the result of it as patch to the gpg package for inclusion in

Bug#298685: ITP: sip-tester -- a performance testing tool for the SIP protocol

2005-03-09 Thread ARAKI Yasuhiro
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: ARAKI Yasuhiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sip-tester Version : 1.1rc1 Upstream Author : Richard GAYRAUD * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/sipp/ * License : GPL2 or any later Description : a performanc

Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* David Pashley | Ideally I want to keep the disk formatted as vfat so it is usable on | other operating systems and use an ext2 loopback filesystem. Getting the | system to mount that is the hard part. You could partition the usb key and have a small partition for GPG/SSH keys and the rest for

Re: NPTL and static linking

2005-03-09 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Blunt Jackson] > I am familiar with the nss issue, although that's not really relevant > to this question. The nss issue, and the related question in the FAQ > is that when statically linking to libc, there are still dynamic > loads required -- but libc handles this for the application. > (Presum

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.08.0232 +0100]: > Well... It could get back into Debian for sure, but there must be > somebody responsable for it. You can take the package, even not being > a DD, uploading it through a sponsor. You are, besides, the second > person who asked me

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.09.0124 +0100]: > If Martin Krafft don't try to put it back, I may try to find > a sponsor. I am searchinf for a good excuse to be a DD. I'll sponsor you. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list!

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-09 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:44:25AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > 60 PCs with Debian and there exist 4 different configurations? > In case each PC has a nic, it sounds like the fai package suits your > situation. Or cfengine2 (optionally coupled with pkgsync). /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://ww

Descripack, I would prefer another name (Debscripack ? Debscription ?)

2005-03-09 Thread Martin Braure de Calignon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Last summer, the LSM2004 took place in Bordeaux, organized by ABUL. The president of the ABUL, Pierre Jarillon asked me to contact debian about a documentation project. Well, why me ? because I'm using debian a lot :-P Pierre Jarillon and I have

Re: Not every package should enter Debian (was: Re: Who cares about NEW when there are bigger issues? (was Re: Is NEW processing on hold? (was: Question for candidate Towns)))

2005-03-09 Thread Jesus Climent
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:50:05PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > In that light, fully automatic NEW processing will not hurt at all (I agree > > that a delay of a few days is sensible to give us time to react to the > > worst problem cases.) > > Unfortunately reality isn't so simple. In prac

Cron-standard package to replace current tasks in 'cron'

2005-03-09 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
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 th

Re: Cron-standard package to replace current tasks in 'cron'

2005-03-09 Thread David Schmitt
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 15:20, Javier FernÃndez-Sanguino PeÃa wrote: > - Basic system accounting (implement in sysstat) > - Basic logfile reporting (implemented through logcheck) > - Basic security checks (implemented through checksecurity and Tiger) > - Integrity file monitoring (through tr

Re: Cron-standard package to replace current tasks in 'cron'

2005-03-09 Thread sean finney
hi, 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? i'd like to ack that. however, if the non-arch specific stuff (generic cron jobs, init scripts, etc) for cron is still sufficiently comp

Re: Cron-standard package to replace current tasks in 'cron'

2005-03-09 Thread David Schmitt
[Please don't confuse my procmail with Cc's] [http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct] On Wednesday 09 March 2005 16:16, sean finney wrote: > 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 > > respecti

Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-09 Thread Ben Hill
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:34 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > You could partition the usb key and have a small partition for GPG/SSH > keys and the rest for normal data transfers and stuff. I was going to do the same, but picked up a rediculously cheap tiny USB key, and only use it for this purpose.

Re: NPTL and static linking

2005-03-09 Thread Blunt Jackson
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 05:00:52 -0600, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, dlopen, but the problem is version skew. With a dynamic libc6, > libc and the NSS modules will always be compatible. With a static > libc6, NSS functions (gethostbyname, getpwuid, etc.) will only work if > the

Re: Cron-standard package to replace current tasks in 'cron'

2005-03-09 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
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 fr

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-09 Thread Thomas Hood
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:40:15 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I think switchconf is nice because it ties in well with guessnet, > and because it's lean and mean and does exactly what it should, no > more and no less. I agree that switchconf should be kept around so long as there is nothing else in

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-09 Thread Thomas Hood
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:10:12 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > It's not a depency in any way. I play sound just fine with OSS drivers > without the ALSA mess getting in my way anywhere. On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:50:10 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Without alsa-base installed, hotplug and discover

Re: NPTL and static linking

2005-03-09 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I appreciate the clarification. What is desirable, then, is for the > developer to be able to statically link his or her own libraries, and > third party libraries, but to dynamically pick up "system" libraries, > of which I would number libpthread. That would be adequate

Re: NPTL and static linking

2005-03-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 09 mars 2005 Ã 11:23 -0800, Blunt Jackson a Ãcrit : > I appreciate the clarification. What is desirable, then, is for the developer > to be able to statically link his or her own libraries, and third > party libraries, > but to dynamically pick up "system" libraries, of which I would nu

Mass bug filing: non-free Truetype fonts

2005-03-09 Thread Peter De Wachter
After stumbling upon the non-free Adventure font in python-gd, I systematically checked all other Truetype fonts included in Debian (except for packages that contain only fonts, I expect their maintainers have already made sure they're free). The result is this list of about twenty packages. I pla

Re: The Right Way to turn a native package in a non native package with a NMU

2005-03-09 Thread Lucas Wall
On 03/09/2005 03:35 AM, Christian Perrier wrote: The .dsc file contains: .../... Files: fb6549efbab887efea88a8fcc4b4319f 451517 gnome-find_1.0.2.orig.tar.gz 7ea07e4e9226648422fb7a83d066ffe8 3400 gnome-find_1.0.2-1.1.diff.gz And the .changes: .../... Files: 733af0b63b2a63ac5ec3df7e46a9633a 659 ut

Re: NPTL and static linking

2005-03-09 Thread Blunt Jackson
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:57:00 + (UTC), Jason Lunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I just figured out a way to do this for the ssh binary. Maybe this would > work for you? > > Here's what I did: > > $ apt-get source ssh > $ cd openssh-3.8.1p1 > $ debian/rules build I a

Re: NPTL and static linking

2005-03-09 Thread Blunt Jackson
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:35:56 +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mercredi 09 mars 2005 à 11:23 -0800, Blunt Jackson a écrit : > > I appreciate the clarification. What is desirable, then, is for the > > developer > > to be able to statically link his or her own libraries, and th

Re: The Right Way to turn a native package in a non native package with a NMU

2005-03-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:03:41PM -0300, Lucas Wall wrote: > On 03/09/2005 03:35 AM, Christian Perrier wrote: > > >The .dsc file contains: > >.../... > >Files: > > fb6549efbab887efea88a8fcc4b4319f 451517 gnome-find_1.0.2.orig.tar.gz > > 7ea07e4e9226648422fb7a83d066ffe8 3400 gnome-find_1.0.2-1.1.d

Re: Bug#298354: ITP: gtk2-engines-clearlooks -- An attractive gtk engine with a focus on usability.

2005-03-09 Thread Marco Alfonso
El mar, 08-03-2005 a las 16:50 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt escribió: > David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 17:21 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > >> Marco Alfonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> * Package name: gtk2-engines-clearlooks > >>> Versi

Re: mipsel binutils/gcc/glibc shared library breakage

2005-03-09 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: > Dear Debian developers, > > I gather there are some people out there with MIPS little-endian > machines (from mipsel drop discussion) and Debian on it. Do huge shared > libraries (containing >4 symbols) work for you? I am currently > investigating an issue I have

Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

2005-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:11:02PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:54:34PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:12:03AM -0800, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Sven Luther wrote: > > > >>It's hard to take this sort of discussion as anything but an attack on

Re: grass and Packages-arch-specific

2005-03-09 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op za, 05-03-2005 te 14:26 +0100, schreef Thiemo Seufer: > > Steve Halasz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've sent a few emails over the last month to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] requesting that grass be removed from > > > packages-arch-specific. But my ple

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-09 Thread Thomas Hood
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:40:40 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Actually, the proposed solution that raised some approval was to split > out the ALSA modules, just like the pcmcia modules. I raised this idea on #debian-kernel and it was shot down.[0] [0]http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 09 mars 2005 Ã 20:33 +0100, Thomas Hood a Ãcrit : > In theory I guess there should be an oss package that was the homologue of > the alsa-base package. It would include files that would blacklist ALSA > modules, just as alsa-base blacklists OSS modules. These packages would > Conflict

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 10 mars 2005 Ã 00:12 +0100, Thomas Hood a Ãcrit : > On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:40:40 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Actually, the proposed solution that raised some approval was to split > > out the ALSA modules, just like the pcmcia modules. > > > I raised this idea on #debian-kernel an

Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-09 Thread David Härdeman
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:46:46AM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: I've been meaning for some time to get a USB key to manage private keys (such as gpg, ssh, etc), but it's not until recently that I tried to sit down and sketch on how to implement it (filesystem layout, functionality, which parts

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:12:37AM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:40:40 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Actually, the proposed solution that raised some approval was to split > > out the ALSA modules, just like the pcmcia modules. > I raised this idea on #debian-kernel and i

Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

2005-03-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:20:36AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:11:02PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:54:34PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Here is the relevant section of the .changes file for the package in > > question: > > Date: Wed, 1

Re: Cron-standard package to replace current tasks in 'cron'

2005-03-09 Thread sean finney
hi, On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:36:24PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > They are already are, please review the (simple) package. For some of the > packages that provide them (like systat) the tasks are pulled in from the > depends:, for other packages there might be users that mig

Re: The Right Way to turn a native package in a non native package with a NMU

2005-03-09 Thread Christian Perrier
> So use -sa. I forgot to ACK this : the suggestion was of course correct. Thanks for the "tip" (which indeed could have been a RTFM.:-)) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:40:40 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Actually, the proposed solution that raised some approval was to split >> out the ALSA modules, just like the pcmcia modules. > > > I raised this idea on #debian-kernel and it was shot down.[0]