Bug#799214: License review: tarsnap

2025-02-04 Thread Colin Percival
usly not Free in the Debian sense but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be in the non-free repo. As Graham noted upthread, we do host our own .deb package repo -- but we only have x86 packages, so it would make me very happy to see tarsnap be included in Debian and built for other

Bug#869557: apt: please make the output of apt-ftparchive reproducible

2017-07-29 Thread Colin Percival
hat we want under exactly the right conditions, in a way which isn't possible with a high level tool which does everything. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

Bug#632585: bsdiff: make it a little less memory hungry

2011-07-04 Thread Colin Percival
; if that has any meaning for debian. On 07/04/11 01:38, Jari Aalto wrote: > forwarded 632585 Colin Percival (upstream) > thanks > > 2011-07-03 22:04 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior : > | Package: bsdiff > | Version: 4.3-10 > | Severity: wishlist > | Tags: patch > | >

Bug#409664: bsdiff: is extremely slow on some files, sometimes hangs

2009-12-02 Thread Colin Percival
ately I haven't had the {time, money} to make the necessary adjustments. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lis

Bug#374525: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#374525: Bug#366546: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

2006-07-06 Thread Colin Percival
Tomasz K?oczko wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote: >> I moved FreeBSD's nologin to /usr/sbin two years ago, because >> 1. nologin needs to be statically linked to avoid linker environment >> security issues, > > Key word in this case is "avoidi

Bug#374525: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#374525: Bug#366546: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

2006-07-05 Thread Colin Percival
#x27;s no reason for it to be on the root filesystem -- in single user mode, users who aren't supposed to be allowed to login will never get to the point of running a shell (nologin or otherwise). In short, under the BSD hierarchy rules, nologin should be in /usr/sbin; any systems behaving otherwise ar

Bug#322147: [Fwd: Copyright violation in utils/bsdiff 4.2-1]

2005-08-09 Thread Colin Percival
Daniel Baumann wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: >>I don't think I need to explain the problem any further... > > Nevertheless, maybe you can give me a hint why you obviously don't want > the text to be part of bsdiff? I don't like having my work copied without my