Re: update excuses.. how to read them

2000-12-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:04:03AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > if i take for example: > http://ftp-master.debian.org/~ajt/update_excuses.html > adns 1.0-3 (low) > Maintainer: Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > adns is 27 days out of date! > out of date on alpha:

Re: Close list

2000-12-22 Thread Carl B. Constantine
This discussion is being taken off list to avoid yet another flame war (not my intention to start another flamewar). -- Carl B. Constantine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])Phone: 250.953.2650 Open Source Solutions Inc. Fax: 250.953.2659 4252 Commerce Circle, Victoria,

Re: Close list

2000-12-22 Thread Miles Bader
"Carl B. Constantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yo ppl, it's not hard to archive a closed list, most list software supports > archive directly. Sheesh! You make it sound like it's the end of the world > for crying out loud. Give me a break! I was complaining about not being able to post to the

Re: Close list

2000-12-22 Thread Carl B. Constantine
On 12/22/2000 19:44, Miles Bader at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No, lets not. > > Right now I'm subscribed to debian-devel, but often in the past I've > read it occasionally in the archives, and sent mail as I thought > appropriate. I know there are other people who do this. > > The fact is that

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-22 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:04:26PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > base/update I uploaded a NMU for this already. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Close list

2000-12-22 Thread Miles Bader
"Carl B. Constantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm getting tired of getting spam through mail lists I subscribe to > that have an open post policy. Can we please close the debian-devel > and other such lists that "should" be closed. I don't think trademark > domains is doing anything for deb

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Daniel Stone
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 02:21:46AM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote: > > Quoting Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > BTW, I'm on a 28.8, and I get over 1000 emails a day from all the lists I > > > am sub'd to. So I do see a lot of spam, even beyond Debian's lists. If I > > > can ignore it, s

update excuses.. how to read them

2000-12-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, if i take for example: http://ftp-master.debian.org/~ajt/update_excuses.html adns 1.0-3 (low) Maintainer: Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adns is 27 days out of date! out of date on alpha: libadns0, libadns0-dev (from 0.8-2) out of date on i386:

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread John Galt
I was kind of feeling sorry about including you as a CC in the last post--partial oversight, partial personal policy (I never quite know how to deal with tertiary CCs: I generally detest people who adulterate a message they're replying to, but I also think that responsibility for replies stops abo

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread John Galt
You going to send them the bill then? At the bottom off the mailinglist subscription page: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe is the mailinglist policy. Basically, the policy says either pay us $1,000 up front or $1,999 after. Martin (Joey, whatever you prefer...), Remco, Alexander,

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 02:21:46AM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote: > Quoting Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > BTW, I'm on a 28.8, and I get over 1000 emails a day from all the lists I > > am sub'd to. So I do see a lot of spam, even beyond Debian's lists. If I > > can ignore it, so can ever

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Robert van der Meulen
Quoting Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > BTW, I'm on a 28.8, and I get over 1000 emails a day from all the lists I > am sub'd to. So I do see a lot of spam, even beyond Debian's lists. If I > can ignore it, so can everyone else, IMNHO. Ignoring spam has made the internet the spam-ridden place it

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 12:00:26PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > from the secret journal of Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Solution: just deal with the few spam we get so as not to hinder real > > > discussions. > > > > > > Ben > > > > amen. > > OK, if you can do that, I'm absolutely th

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread safemode
Daniel Stone wrote: > > from the secret journal of Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Solution: just deal with the few spam we get so as not to hinder real > > > discussions. > > > > > > Ben > > > > amen. > > OK, if you can do that, I'm absolutely thrilled to do it, PLEASE make > debian-devel

Re: testing to be implemented on ftp-master

2000-12-22 Thread Joey Hess
Adrian Bunk wrote: > BTW: Are there any rules when a developer has to use which urgency or can > he if he wants to simply do all his uploads with the urgency set to > "high"? I read the Packaging Manual and I did only find a very vague > "how important it is to upgrade to this versio

Re: wnpp bug reports

2000-12-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 06:03:28PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yes, put -devel in Cc: or (X-Debbugs-Cc:) fields. > When I have done this, the report shows up on -devel the same as > I submitted it - the Bug Number doesn't appear. If you CC it it

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Daniel Stone
> from the secret journal of Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Solution: just deal with the few spam we get so as not to hinder real > > discussions. > > > > Ben > > amen. OK, if you can do that, I'm absolutely thrilled to do it, PLEASE make debian-devel spam-free. But the problem is that you

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of esoR ocsirF ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > A possability might be to have a signature key. This is not > significantly different than the extra header idea but it would allow > *any* MUA to work with it. Could be something like a GPG fingerprint or > whatever. Just a thought.

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Marc Haber wrote: > > Hi, > > I am maintainer for run and console-log, and waiting for NM to > complete. Unfortunately, run has a nasty bug that causes console-log > to hang which in turn may prevent a clean shutdown. Upstream doesn't > maintain run any more (and I shouldn't have packaged it in t

Re: Close list

2000-12-22 Thread David N. Welton
"Carl B. Constantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm getting tired of getting spam through mail lists I subscribe to > that have an open post policy. Can we please close the debian-devel > and other such lists that "should" be closed. I don't think > trademark domains is doing anything for debi

Re: Close list

2000-12-22 Thread Joey Hess
Carl B. Constantine wrote: > I'm getting tired of getting spam through mail lists I subscribe to that > have an open post policy. Can we please close the debian-devel and other > such lists that "should" be closed. I don't think trademark domains is doing > anything for debian development. This is

Close list

2000-12-22 Thread Carl B. Constantine
I'm getting tired of getting spam through mail lists I subscribe to that have an open post policy. Can we please close the debian-devel and other such lists that "should" be closed. I don't think trademark domains is doing anything for debian development. -- Carl B. Constantine ([EMAI

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2000-12-22 Thread trademark
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Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Britton
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > from the secret journal of Britton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Pardon my paranoia, but even if it was worth making all the changes they > > are talking about (which are pretty extensive), I'd want to see anything > > coming from the NSA audited carefully

Re: wnpp bug reports

2000-12-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:58:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > Is there any way to submit an ITP bug on WNPP, so that the bug > > number appears in the copy to -devel? > > Yes, put -devel in Cc: or (X-Debbugs-Cc:) fields. When I have done

Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-22 Thread KORN Andras
Package: general Version: 20001222 Severity: important Hi, I feel that there exists a general confusion among some Debian developers as to what user ids such as 'nobody' should be used for. I suggest that the policy be updated with relevant advice. As I see it, 'nobody' s

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:39:45AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:43:03AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > > Hmm, the debian lists get quite a lot of spam lately. Is there anything > > > that can be done about this? > > > > Pardon my French, but this is a fucking stupid

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of Britton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Pardon my paranoia, but even if it was worth making all the changes they > are talking about (which are pretty extensive), I'd want to see anything > coming from the NSA audited carefully before being included. > > Britton Kerin you're

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Britton
Pardon my paranoia, but even if it was worth making all the changes they are talking about (which are pretty extensive), I'd want to see anything coming from the NSA audited carefully before being included. Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, J

the experimental mutt package

2000-12-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
Some days ago I uploaded mutt 1.3.12 to experimental. Please test it, because if people will not complain I'm going to upload it to woody. README.Debian says: ~~ ~ NOTES ABOUT THE EXPERIMENTAL PACKAGE ~ ~ There is no supp

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of Buddha Buck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >unless we have a policy against security, it should be fine. :) it's all > >gpl. i posted that before i hit the download page. > >Security-enhanced Linux is not an attempt to correct any flaws that may > >currently exist in Linux. In

Re: libapache-asp-perl - perl Apache::ASP - Active Server Pages for Apache with mod_perl.

2000-12-22 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Piotr" == Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Piotr> ITO: libapache-asp-perl Piotr> ITO: libapache-filter-perl Piotr> ITO: libapache-ssi-perl Piotr> ITO: libcgi-pm-perl Piotr> ITO: libdbd-csv-perl Piotr> ITO: libhtml-clean-perl Piotr> ITO: libhtml-simplep

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Buddha Buck
At 04:38 PM 12-22-2000 -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: from the secret journal of Brent Fulgham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > No doubt most of you have seen the NSA's secure linux posting > on Slashdot this morning. > > Looking at: > http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/docs.html > > there appears to be several utilities

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >No doubt most of you have seen the NSA's secure linux posting >on Slashdot this morning. > >Looking at: >http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/docs.html > >there appears to be several utilities that have been updated >to provide enhanc

Re: wnpp bug reports

2000-12-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:58:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Is there any way to submit an ITP bug on WNPP, so that the bug > number appears in the copy to -devel? Yes, put -devel in Cc: or (X-Debbugs-Cc:) fields. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Daniel Stone wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:06:53AM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote: > > > Quoting Bas Zoetekouw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > Now you can boost the reliability of ordinary Windows 3.x, 95 and 98 > > > > > to > > > > > nearly the level of Windows NT or 2000, Microsoft

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of Brent Fulgham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > No doubt most of you have seen the NSA's secure linux posting > on Slashdot this morning. > > Looking at: > http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/docs.html > > there appears to be several utilities that have been updated > to provide enhanced s

[ADMIN] Unsubscription problems

2000-12-22 Thread Anand Kumria
Hi there, A number of people have reported problems with unsubscribing from various lists, principally debian-user and debian-devel. We, the listmaster team, believe we have fixed the underlying problem and you should merrily be able to [un]subscribe as needed. Please inform us if you aren't but

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I'd be glad to help. How should we proceed? Should we send patches to > the appropiate maintainers or directly upload the NMUs? Honestly, they > had enough time to tranist to /usr/share/doc. > send patch, wait some period of time (maybe a week?) then warn of NMU, then NMU.

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:04:26PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > It has been more than 1 year since the technical committee decided how > the /usr/share/doc transition would be accomplished[1], and in that time > most packages have implementede the transition. The decision stated that > "Thus, potato+1

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-22 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Joey Hess wrote: > There are a total of 645 packages that have not been converted[2]. There > are 16 weeks between December 31st and Aj's projected freeze date for woody. > If 40 people could do one package a week, we would be done. Or 20 people > doing two a week, or just 6 people doing one a day.

RE: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > There are a total of 645 packages that have not been converted[2]. There > are 16 weeks between December 31st and Aj's projected freeze date for woody. > If 40 people could do one package a week, we would be done. Or 20 people > doing two a week, or just 6 people doing one a day. In other word

please fix the smartlist setup on lists.debian.org

2000-12-22 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Donald J Bindner wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:44:54PM -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote: > > The cruddy, slow, GUI based email program I use at work seems to imply your > > reply to address is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> but your email came from > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or maybe its the other way around.

NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Brent Fulgham
No doubt most of you have seen the NSA's secure linux posting on Slashdot this morning. Looking at: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/docs.html there appears to be several utilities that have been updated to provide enhanced security. Should we be merging these patches into Debian, assuming they appear

finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-22 Thread Joey Hess
It has been more than 1 year since the technical committee decided how the /usr/share/doc transition would be accomplished[1], and in that time most packages have implementede the transition. The decision stated that "Thus, potato+1 (woody) ships with a full /usr/share/doc, and a /usr/doc full of s

RE: linkchecker lintian warnings

2000-12-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Dec-2000 Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > Hi, > > if you test my linkchecker .deb package: > I just noticed that lintian gives the following warnings on my 1.2.12 > package of LinkChecker: > W: linkchecker: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link > W: linkchecker: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link >

looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-22 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, I am maintainer for run and console-log, and waiting for NM to complete. Unfortunately, run has a nasty bug that causes console-log to hang which in turn may prevent a clean shutdown. Upstream doesn't maintain run any more (and I shouldn't have packaged it in the first place), and isn't intere

Re: ITP: charities.cron

2000-12-22 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > http://freshmeat.net/projects/charities.cron/ > > I'll look at it and make a package, unless someone really objects... Fix the tmp security hole while you are at it, will you? Thanks, -- Marcelo