Re: #24510: procmail: procmail creates mailboxes with mode 660

1998-07-14 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 06:01:31PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Herbert Xu wrote: Package: procmail Version: 3.10.7-6 It seems that procmail is creating mailboxes with mode 660 (the MTA is sendmail) and this is quite insecure as security holes in MUA's could

Re: #24510: procmail: procmail creates mailboxes with mode 660

1998-07-14 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 03:32:51PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: I believe this is done so that the mail agents, running as setgid mail are able to append mail messages to your mailbox. They generally don't run as root. At least in my inetd.conf: smtpstream tcp nowait mail

Re: Choosing release goals for slink

1998-07-14 Thread Martin Mitchell
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (btw severity important-ish means severity normal to the BTS - see #24255) Duh; I'm well aware of that, I used it for that reason. Please stop being so damn condescending and also stop telling me what to do; I'll do what I want, not what you want.

Compressing *.db files in /usr/doc

1998-07-14 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi. I have received a suggestion for debstd, namely, to not compress any *.db files found in /usr/doc/package by default. I'm in doubt about this change. Is not compressing *.db files in /usr/doc/package reasonable as default behaviour? Would debhelper

Re: Chosing release goals for slink

1998-07-14 Thread James Troup
Roman Hodek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just uploading the stuff might result in major desaster... A hypothectical example: dpkg uses C++, Except dpkg is written in C, only dselect uses C++. (If that was the ``hypothetical'' part of your example, excuse my pedantry.) -- James ~Yawn And Walk

Re: Choosing release goals for slink

1998-07-14 Thread James Troup
Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it seems that 3 maintainers are not enough and you'll leave Brian to do everything. Stop lieing; I said nothing of the sort. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

RE: Choosing release goals for slink

1998-07-14 Thread Ronald van Loon
On Tuesday, July 14, 1998 1:44 PM, James Troup [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it seems that 3 maintainers are not enough and you'll leave Brian to do everything. Stop lieing; I said nothing of the sort. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~

Re: Chosing release goals for slink

1998-07-14 Thread Roman Hodek
I was assuming all of the Debian dev packages would be installed on these build hosts. These are myriads, too :-), and the source dependencies of package aren't so uniform... For example, some packages need specific versions (happened with gimp/lingtk-dev), depend on emacs being present,