Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] systemd/logind integration of desktop environments

2014-09-06 Thread Joey Hess
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On ven., 2014-09-05 at 16:46 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: As part of the process described on this wiki page -- https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Requalification/Jessie We're requesting some information from each desktop team, as well as the systemd maintainers

systemd/logind integration of desktop environments

2014-09-05 Thread Joey Hess
As part of the process described on this wiki page -- https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Requalification/Jessie We're requesting some information from each desktop team, as well as the systemd maintainers: Is systemd (and logind etc) well integrated into the version of $desktop currently

RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-17 Thread Joey Hess
A long time ago, tasksel installed task packages, which were regular metapackages. This was dropped because the task packages had to Depend on many packages, which made the installed system brittle, and made testing propigation a problem. Now that Recommends are installed by default, I'm

Re: Bug#485655: debian-installer: The KDE images should use sudo too and configure KDE accordingly.

2008-06-15 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: I've tested this and it appears to work, although the first time I somehow managed to crash the dcop server. I've tried both administrator mode in Control Center and the kuser user setup application. My proposal would be to: 1) add the kdesudo to the Key packages in

Re: Processed: Let's reassign to unclutter

2008-02-10 Thread Joey Hess
Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote: This could be a good explanation to low severity to the bug and/or possibly close it. I can do it for you if you want, in this case, please, let me know. I think the bug should be closed.. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Processed: Let's reassign to unclutter

2008-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
This is pretty much an unclutter faq. If you run unclutter with -grab, it well, grabs the mouse pointer. This can conflict with other programs, such as screen savers or window managers that also grab the mouse pointer. If that's a problem, then don't use the -grab option. Calling this a security

patch for generating kde cds

2006-11-29 Thread Joey Hess
The attached patch to farbror's build machinery (already applied) should make it generate single binary-only kde CDs along with the other weekly CDs. These kde CDs contain only the kde-desktop task (although the CD contents still need some tweaking), and automatically select that task. Note that

debian zeroconf group?

2006-02-24 Thread Joey Hess
[Ccing maintainers of mdns stuff, please followup to debian-devel] With avahi in unstable we seem to have a fairly capable set of zeroconf/mdns tools in Debian now, albeit with some holes. There are for example some things like mod_dnssd that are not packaged yet and some interesting patches that

Bug#294832: FWD: insecure temporary file creation in kdelibs 3.3.2

2005-02-11 Thread Joey Hess
Package: kdelibs-data Version: 4:3.3.2-1 Tags: security Severity: grave We're vulnerable. - Forwarded message from Davide Madrisan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Davide Madrisan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:16:38 +0100 To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Subject: insecure temporary

Bug#294271: IDN support allows domain name spoofing

2005-02-08 Thread Joey Hess
Package: konqueror Severity: normal Tags: security konqueror and other browsers which support IDN are vulnerable to domain spoofing via homograph characters in domain names. Please see http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html for details, and note that this is

Bug#285128: CAN-2004-1165: FTP command injection bug

2004-12-10 Thread Joey Hess
Package: konqueror Version: 3.3.1 Tags: security Severity: serious CAN-2004-1165 is about a security hole in konqueror that allows arbitrary ftp commands to be inserted in a URL via URL-encoded newlines. Details about this hole are here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraqm=110245752232681w=2

Bug#285126: CAN-2004-1171: plain text password exposure

2004-12-10 Thread Joey Hess
Adeodato Simó wrote: I've prepared kdelibs and kdebase uploads for this. I'm now looking for somebody to upload them for me. Are you one of the normal KDE maintainers? (Sorry, I'm not up-to-date on KDE maintenance.) If so, I can do the sponsoring. -- see shy jo signature.asc

Bug#261150: default-x-display-manager asked at inflated priority

2004-07-23 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xdm,gdm,kdm Severity: normal xdm, gdm, and kde all ask the shared/default-x-display-manager at high priority. Debconf policy is that high priority is for items that don't have a reasonable default. I think that as long as any of xdm, gdm, or kdm is the default, that qualifies as a

Re: revising the first cd contents...

2004-06-26 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Cheney wrote: kde-core is enough to get KDE running, it includes arts/kdelibs/kdebase, but it doesn't include any of the other official KDE packages. It does include basic apps like kate, konqueror and konsole. The kde package installs the full official KDE release, but doesn't include

Re: revising the first cd contents...

2004-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
. The target should be to have really the packages we and our users want on the first cd, for example, Joey Hess wanted the desktop task to be available, but this task depends on both x-window-system-core, kde and gnome. Testing on a newly base installed bachine, tells me that installing

Re: revising the first cd contents...

2004-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: The gnome metapackage is for an overblown desktop with all options. The official GNOME release is in the gnome-desktop-environment package. To get numbers, maybe you should look at sid as there are some changes with GNOME 2.6. Ok, I'll make tasksel only require

Re: why kde and gnome's menu situation sucks

2002-10-24 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Stone wrote: Not necessarily. When I use KDE, I largely want to use KDE apps. I personally think GNOME/KDE should offer their own menus, with a submenu in each category for Non-{GNOME,KDE} Applications. I don't see a problem with this, i.e. how our KDE3 packages do it. Well I cannot

why kde and gnome's menu situation sucks

2002-10-21 Thread Joey Hess
Debian should follow the lead of every other major distro and offer the exact same menu layout throughout. -- http://debianplanet.net/node.php?id=831 I cannot help but shudder when I read that comment in this negative Debian review. We *led* the way: we wrote menu, we put

Re: packages tasksel expects to find in woody, that arn't there

2002-02-26 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Stone wrote: KDE is maintained, and works fine. kdelibs is sitting in incoming and AIUI needs an override to go in (even though it's not NEW). Most of its dependency problems are there; a kdebase package has also been prepared for upload to fix the other dependancy problem.

packages tasksel expects to find in woody, that arn't there

2002-02-25 Thread Joey Hess
Tasksel expects to find a bunch of packages in woody that arn't there. This is not often a big deal; the missing packages will be silently skipped. That can sorta suck if it is one of the core packages in the task though. Of particular note is the missing KDE metapackage, which means that new

Re: Alien/RPM keeps trying to kill KDE. Help?

2002-02-08 Thread Joey Hess
Phil Edwards wrote: Every time I try to get rid of useless (to me) packages like 'korganizer' and 'kpackage' and 'knewsticker' the Depends line triggers, and dselect tries to remove my entire desktop environment. :-| No it doesn't. The kde metapackage depends on korganizer. korganizer does