Re: when to chown a file

1999-07-30 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 04:35:54PM +0200, Jozef Hitzinger wrote: There are two daemons, running as nobody.nogroup, and they need to access the state file (/var/state/ups/*). Could you tell me where how to chown Are you sure you want to use nobody.nogroup? If multiple packages use the same UID

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-30 Thread Brian May
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 01:58:15AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Buddha It seems that there is a missing step -- verification that I Buddha know John Smith's private key. Without that, you are How can you know someone's private key? (A nit: In any case, you don't sign a private

RE: should I have my pgp key signed by a local maintainer?

1999-07-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
When I submitted my application I attached a scanned license and passport as requested, because I didn't know any local debian maintainers (still don't). [ snip ] Should I find someone(s) to sign my key? If so, do we have a geographical list of maintainers/developers, or do you know of

Depends generated by maintainer scripts

1999-07-30 Thread Gopal Narayanan
I am packaging an install wrapper package for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] client. I have a question about dependencies caused by maintainer scripts. The client binary is to be downloaded as a tarball from the official [EMAIL PROTECTED] webpage. At the official webpage, they have optimized binaries for

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Brian == Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian You need to be sure that you are signing the *correct* public Brian key, and not just any public key that happened to be created Brian with John Smith's id (which is publicly known). When I sign a key, I have am standing in front

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-30 Thread Brian May
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 01:29:35AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: This is quite confused. The fingerprint is of the public key (or else how do you check it? No one should be giving anyone a look at the private key at all). Thats exactly what I meant. I think you are missing

Marking bug as fixed ?

1999-07-30 Thread Etienne Bernard
I have fixed some bugs in the gftp and gnotes packages, and I would like to tell this to the BTS. I am not the official developer of these packages (although I am willing to take them over), and I am not an official developer either. What should I do to mark the bugs as fixed. Send a command

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-30 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 01:29:35AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Brian You need to be sure that you are signing the *correct* public Brian key, and not just any public key that happened to be created Brian with John Smith's id (which is publicly known). When I sign a key, I have

Re: Marking bug as fixed ?

1999-07-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:53:23AM +0200, Etienne Bernard wrote: I have fixed some bugs in the gftp and gnotes packages, and I would like to tell this to the BTS. I am not the official developer of these packages (although I am willing to take them over), and I am not an official developer

Re: Marking bug as fixed ?

1999-07-30 Thread Etienne Bernard
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999, Josip Rodin wrote: Are the fixed packages in the archive? If not, you must not mark them fixed. They are available on http://www.via.ecp.fr/~eb/debian/ and I am waiting for an official developer to upload them (I don't remember his name, and his mail is on my machine,

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Brian == Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian So we agree. You wouldn't sign the key without checking the Brian fingerprint first. The idea being, if the fingerprint matches, Brian then John Smith must have the matching private key (and not Brian somebody else). Yes, though

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, [cross posted to debian-user, since this has gone beyond the charter of the -mentor list] ;-) Joseph == Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian == Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian So we agree. You wouldn't sign the key without checking the Brian fingerprint

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-30 Thread Jor-el
Scenery is here, wish you were beautiful. On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 01:29:35AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Brian You need to be sure that you are signing the *correct* public Brian key, and not just any public key that happened to be created

Re: Marking bug as fixed ?

1999-07-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Etienne == Etienne Bernard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Etienne On Fri, Jul 30, 1999, Josip Rodin wrote: Are the fixed packages in the archive? If not, you must not mark them fixed. Etienne They are available on http://www.via.ecp.fr/~eb/debian/ and Etienne I am waiting for an

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-30 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 08:32:23AM -0500, Jor-el wrote: Scenery is here, wish you were beautiful. wish you were a little less (not much though) paranoid.. =p Actually, there could be a possible reason for this if the rejection criteria applied by the new-maintainers group is applied

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-30 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:41:37AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: /* * keeping -mentors for this message only, replies are likely to get even * more off-charter for that group, so don't reply there. Note I'm not * subscribed to -user, however... */ Yes, though now that you point it

RE: DEVELOPING FOR DEBIAN

1999-07-30 Thread Christian Surchi
On 28-Jul-99 Steven V. Russo wrote: I wonder if anyone can tell me why no one has responded to me from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I submitted my application months ago, and sent two follow up applications. I believe I followed their procedure as closely as possible... How can I get a response from

how best to maintain a patch

1999-07-30 Thread David Coe
I'm looking for advice/experience if you can help: We have a patch to ispell, submitted to one of the open bugs, which upstream maintainer has decided isn't important enough to incorporate into the upstream versions -- but is (apparently) needed for non-i386 (Alpha, at least) compatibility in

RE: how best to maintain a patch

1999-07-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I would talk more with the upstream. Does the patch break ispell? Is it not possible to incorporate it? Simply it is not significant makes no sense. Work with them, see how you can get it in. Otherwise, have the non Intel people start complaining to this person. If it is not a Debian

Re: how best to maintain a patch

1999-07-30 Thread tony mancill
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, David Coe wrote: So I think I'll create a source patch file and add a rule to debian/rules to apply it for each build. The alternative, of course, would be to just apply the patch once to the working source tree, and let the .deb system handle it. I think I like

Re: how best to maintain a patch

1999-07-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 08:18:14PM +, David Coe wrote: We have a patch to ispell, submitted to one of the open bugs, which upstream maintainer has decided isn't important enough to incorporate into the upstream versions -- but is (apparently) needed for non-i386 (Alpha, at least)