Bug#331838: glibc depends on debconf without | debconf-2.0 alternate; blocks cdebconf transition

2005-10-04 Thread Joey Hess
Package: glibc This package depends/pre-depends on debconf without allowing the dependency to be satisfied with an alternate of debconf-2.0. That is to say, its dependency should read: debconf | debconf-2.0 Until this is fixed, it is impossible to use this package with cdebconf, and very hard to

Patches for enabling Plash to build its modified glibc

2005-10-04 Thread Mark Seaborn
Hi, I'm working on packaging Plash for Debian. Plash is a restricted execution environment that provides functionality similar to chroot(), but more flexible and lightweight. It works partly by dynamically linking Linux executables with a modified glibc. (This is not used for taking authority a

Bug#330929: how can adduser reliably find out wheter nscd is running?

2005-10-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 03:17:33PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > Are there any useful "real" error messages now? For example, if nscd is > not running, trying to invalidate a non-existing map will not produce an > error message, and if nscd is running, the error message is misleading. I don't know,

Bug#330929: how can adduser reliably find out wheter nscd is running?

2005-10-04 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:41:26PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Adduser has _a lot_ of installations and is mainly used by maintainer > scripts. Thus, _a lot_ of people are bound to see error messages > generated by adduser and are bound to be confused by them. > > > Or you can just add "2>/dev/nul

Bug#330929: how can adduser reliably find out wheter nscd is running?

2005-10-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:38:56PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:18:18PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > I am concerned about nscd suddenly giving an actual error message > > instead of silently returning non-zero, which might confuse the users. > > Well, my personal prefere

Bug#330929: how can adduser reliably find out wheter nscd is running?

2005-10-04 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:18:18PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > I am concerned about nscd suddenly giving an actual error message > instead of silently returning non-zero, which might confuse the users. Well, my personal preference would be not to worry about this until it becomes a real issue (tha

Bug#330929: how can adduser reliably find out wheter nscd is running?

2005-10-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:28:07PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 06:07:26PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > That's how we're going to do it in the future. I would, however, like > > to have the fact documented that it is not an error to run nscd -i if > > no daemon is running. >

Bug#330929: how can adduser reliably find out wheter nscd is running?

2005-10-04 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 06:07:26PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > That's how we're going to do it in the future. I would, however, like > to have the fact documented that it is not an error to run nscd -i if > no daemon is running. What do you mean by "not an error"? nscd -i of course will return a n

Bug#196177: Update to Sarge

2005-10-04 Thread Anthony Tippett
I'm curious as to if this will ever make it into Sarge? -- Anthony Tippett begin:vcard fn:Anthony Tippett n:Tippett;Anthony org:Sports-IT;Engineering email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:CTO tel;fax:425-642-8246 tel;cell:425-443-3152 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.sports-it.com version:2.