Re: binary patch

2003-11-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:50:03AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > On 2003-11-05 17:37 -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > It has been suggested many times in the past to apply a similar idea to > > the .debs themselves, rather than their contents. > > But isn't rsync supposed to do this? I don't know

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Greg Stark
> > Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > It would be helpful if people wouldn't make sweeping generalizations > > > all the time. "All the time"? ... -- greg

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Greg Stark
Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, no need to Cc: me - or did Gnus not notice the Mail-Followup-To header? Uhm. What Mail-Followup-To header? I didn't receive one on this message, perhaps it's stripped by the mail server? Or perhaps you're mistaken about it being included? I've atta

Re: kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:14, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I'm in two minds whether or not to ask this, but I've been wondering > about the naming scheme for linux packages - kernel-*. Why not > linux-kernel-* or linux-* ? If alternative kernels in debian become > more popular, is there a potential for

Re: kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 20:14, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:13:28AM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote: > > > Before that realization, it seemed like the type of random cruft that > > sometimes gets pulled in on dist-upgrade; a name change would help > > alleviate that initial perc

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:21:11AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:37:24PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > In what situation would the linux-kernel-headers package be needed > > > seperate from libc? > > > > Ths iss

kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:13:28AM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote: > Before that realization, it seemed like the type of random cruft that > sometimes gets pulled in on dist-upgrade; a name change would help > alleviate that initial perception, IMO. Why not libc6-linux-headers? I'm in two minds wh

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 05:23:30PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:20:49PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > It does not need to. Feel free to propose a patch to document this > > more clearly (I don't really want to rename it again...) > > Add something like this to t

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:56:37AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:53:36AM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote: > > > It would be helpful if Debian could even be installed on machines newer > > > than about 2 years old. > > > > It would be he

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Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Matt Zimmerman may or may not have written... > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 05:20:18PM +, Darren Salt wrote: >> I keep some around. I'd prefer better management of this, though: ATM all >> that I can do (with apt-get/aptitude) is remove all older versions or >> purge the cache. > I

Re: binary patch

2003-11-05 Thread Jonathan Oxer
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:50, Martin Pitt wrote: > But isn't rsync supposed to do this? I don't know exactly how > efficiently it detects and compresses binary differences, but it > definitely does it and not too bad. With rsync, you get both the easy > management of complete debs and the bandwidth

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Greg Stark may or may not have written... > Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I demand that Greg Stark may or may not have written... > What does that mean? It's (more or less) from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The bit in question concerns two philosophers who ar

Re: App-specific libraries (was: Re: Bug#218868: ITP: gphpedit -- PHP/HTML/CSS editor with syntax checking)

2003-11-05 Thread Jonathan Oxer
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:29, Matthew Palmer wrote: > If the patches would be of general use, I'd try and get them incorporated > into the Debian package for scintilla, even if upstream won't take them Good point, I'll look at this. > (I'd > try and work out amongst those involved *why* it's not

Re: binary patch

2003-11-05 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! On 2003-11-05 17:37 -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > It has been suggested many times in the past to apply a similar idea to the > .debs themselves, rather than their contents. But isn't rsync supposed to do this? I don't know exactly how efficiently it detects and compresses binary difference

Re: App-specific libraries (was: Re: Bug#218868: ITP: gphpedit -- PHP/HTML/CSS editor with syntax checking)

2003-11-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:54:45AM +1100, Jonathan Oxer wrote: > I hope to upload the initial package soon, but I've been held up with > library issues - gPHPEdit requires a patched version of GtkScintilla2, > and the fixes aren't being incorporated into the main tree for some > reason. So to uploa

[coreutils,hppa] - touch broken on hppa

2003-11-05 Thread Marek Habersack
Hello, It seems that touch(1) is broken on hppa: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/pike7.2-7.2.546$ ls -l build/linux-2.4.20-64-parisc64/precompile.sh -rwxr-xr-x1 grendel Debian 3475 Nov 5 22:47 build/linux-2.4.20-64-parisc64/precompile.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/pike7.2-7.2.546$ touch 01030

App-specific libraries (was: Re: Bug#218868: ITP: gphpedit -- PHP/HTML/CSS editor with syntax checking)

2003-11-05 Thread Jonathan Oxer
Hi Joe, > "Gnome2" should be changed to one of: Good point, changed now locally. I hope to upload the initial package soon, but I've been held up with library issues - gPHPEdit requires a patched version of GtkScintilla2, and the fixes aren't being incorporated into the main tree for some reason

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-05 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:20:49PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > It does not need to. Feel free to propose a patch to document this > more clearly (I don't really want to rename it again...) Add something like this to the description: These headers are not used to compile kernel modules,

Re: binary patch

2003-11-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:52:53PM +, Anthraxz __ wrote: > When doing a package upgrade, I wondy if it should be possible to > implement a mecanism for patching binaries instead of replacing the new > one ? This could be usefull for use on a slow network connection. This would require calcula

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > non-executable pages on anything else but i386 is a triviality, as the > > hardware and the kernel supports it. There's virtually nothing that PaX or > > exec-shield has to add to enable them - they are there. You are right that the other architect

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 05:20:18PM +, Darren Salt wrote: > I keep some around. I'd prefer better management of this, though: ATM all > that I can do (with apt-get/aptitude) is remove all older versions or > purge the cache. I use a dead simple cron.daily script which prunes packages with an a

binary patch

2003-11-05 Thread Anthraxz __
When doing a package upgrade, I wondy if it should be possible to implement a mecanism for patching binaries instead of replacing the new one ? This could be usefull for use on a slow network connection. There exist somes tools for FreeBSD http://www.daemonology.net _

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Greg Stark
Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If apt kept even a single old revision in its cache then rolling back could > > be as simple as > > apt-get install -t previous libc6 > > That would be good. (Similarly for aptitude, of course.) > > One question occurs, however: should this also (tr

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Greg Stark
Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I demand that Greg Stark may or may not have written... What does that mean? -- greg

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Peter Busser wrote: > It is in fact a simulation of a multithreaded application. [...] The test incorrectly assumes that thread stacks are executable. I suspect we both agree that it's desirable to have thread stacks non-executable as well. > I objected to adding tests that

Re: Changes in t1lib.

2003-11-05 Thread Artur R. Czechowski
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:35:55PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > If you're renaming them anyway, why not follow Policy 8.1 and > s/t1lib/libt1-/ (yielding libt1-1, etc.)? Yes, I thought about it. But there is no strict rule in Policy, just recommendation. There are many other packages which do not

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > glibc creates executable thread stacks by default. [...] > > > > to the contrary, glibc does this: > > [snip] > > $ rpm -q glibc > > glibc-2.3.2-101 > > that's what RedHat's glibc does. [...] yes. The changes are in mainline glibc, everyone

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Greg Stark may or may not have written... [snip - package rollback?] > all it would take to make the tools handle this would be to somehow make > apt aware of more revisions of packages. They're all in the pool after all. > Short of making some king of humongous mega-Packages file wi

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Peter Busser wrote: > And after all, if exec-shield is being included in the Debian default kernel > source, then you are talking about the pride of a 1000 developers that are at > stake here. That is not something you should take lightly if you ask me. :-) You mean the single

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread Peter Busser
Hi! > > this intentionally calls mprotect(PROT_EXEC) for the highest possible > > address one can think of. This call has no useful purpose at all. In other > > words, this is a specific, underhand cheat to trigger 'Vulnerable' > > messages for all items when running paxtest on exec-shield kernels

Re: scarriest changelog entry ever?

2003-11-05 Thread christophe barbe
Shame on me. I did it two days ago with equivs and kept it on my HD but for some reason not in my brain. My only consolation is that I did it because of its FTBFS state. Christophe On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 01:49:49PM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > > amiga-fdisk (0.04-7) unstable; urgency=low >

Re: Changes in t1lib.

2003-11-05 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
"Artur R. Czechowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I changed the naming scheme. All binary packages contain version in its > name, i.e.: t1lib-dev is now named t1lib1-dev. Of course old packages are If you're renaming them anyway, why not follow Policy 8.1 and s/t1lib/libt1-/ (yielding libt1-1,

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread pageexec
> >first of all, it's multithreaded. [...] > > paxtest does not link to libpthread, nor does it create threads, at all. > How can you claim it's multithreaded? i did not. if you quote my post like this: >let me get back to the topic of java as i promised above. java >is a nice animal

scarriest changelog entry ever?

2003-11-05 Thread Christophe Barbe
amiga-fdisk (0.04-7) unstable; urgency=low * First version -- My Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 3 Nov 2003 20:06:59 -0500

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Re: Bug#219277: ITP: gnusound -- Powerful sound editor

2003-11-05 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:21:12PM +0100, Marc Dequ??nes wrote: > GNUsound is a sound editor for Linux. It supports multiple tracks, > multichannel output, and 8, 16, or 24/32 bit samples. It can read > a number of audio formats through libaudiofile, and saves them as > WAV. GNUsound supports a lar

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i downloaded the new 0.9.5 paxtest package and amongst other changes it > > has the following oneliner change: [...] > > + do_mprotect((unsigned long)argv & ~4095U, 4096, > > PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC); >first of all, it's multi

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-05 Thread Ryan Underwood
Hi, On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:05:20AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > >> So your "substantive reason" is: "The name of the new package is > >> poorly chosen."? - I don't think so, it describes the contents rather > >> well, doesn't it? > > > Well, the package contains the header files approp

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread pageexec
[metanote: as you can see, we're entering the meta-discussion part and i can very well understand that it's of little if any interest to most you (that includes me btw), so i'll try not to post more here except maybe to discuss technical issues] > > 1. 'It seems that exec-shield does 99% of what P

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-05 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:37:24PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In what situation would the linux-kernel-headers package be needed > > seperate from libc? > > Ths issue is not whether it is needed separately from libc-dev, the > issue is that it c

Re: Bug#219139: ITP: cdcat -- a graphical (QT based) catalog program

2003-11-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Jorge Bernal (Koke) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps not "drives", unless the program will actually mount and > > unmount media if given a device name rather than a directory? > OK, it does not mount anything but it's mainly oriented to index >

Re: exec-shield (maybe ITP kernel-patch-exec-shield)

2003-11-05 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 21:29, cobaco wrote: > > The exec-shield patch applies with the Debian patches and with LSM. I am > > prepared to maintain it. Unless someone volunteers to maintain PaX > > support for Debian kernels then the best available option for Debian > > users will be exec-shield. > > h

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2003-11-05 Thread Magosányi Árpád
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Re: Bug#219302: ITP: worlded -- World editor for Ark roleplaying kernel

2003-11-05 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 14:44, Marc DequÃnes wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Ya know, sometimes Quality and not Quantity is better ;-) Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist? signature.asc Description: This is a digit

Bug#219302: ITP: worlded -- World editor for Ark roleplaying kernel

2003-11-05 Thread Marc DequÃnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: worlded Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Nekeme prod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://arkhart.nekeme.net/ * License : GPL Description : World editor for Ark

Bug#219301: ITP: arkhart-data -- Data for the Ark roleplaying kernel

2003-11-05 Thread Marc DequÃnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: arkhart-data Version : 0.1.4 Upstream Author : Nekeme prod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://arkhart.nekeme.net/ * License : GPL Description : Data for the Ark

Bug#219300: ITP: arkrpg -- Ark roleplaying kernel

2003-11-05 Thread Marc DequÃnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: arkrpg Version : 0.1.4 Upstream Author : Nekeme prod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://arkhart.nekeme.net/ * License : GPL Description : Ark roleplaying kernel

Bug#219291: ITP: slune -- 3D racing and car-crashing game

2003-11-05 Thread Marc DequÃnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: slune Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Jiba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://oomadness.tuxfamily.org/ * License : GPL Description : 3D racing and car-crashing

Re: Sarge Jigdo files incompatible with Debian mirror

2003-11-05 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:17:59PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I wanted to try Sarge installer for a new box and thus I used jigdo with > > > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/jigdo-area/i386/sarge-i386-1.jigdo > > Unfortunately one package seems to be removed from the mirrors (s

Bug#219292: ITP: genetic -- Artificial Intelligence and genetic algos in Python

2003-11-05 Thread Marc DequÃnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: genetic Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Jiba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://oomadness.tuxfamily.org/ * License : GPL Description : Artificial Intelligence

Bug#219293: ITP: songwrite -- a tablatures editor and player

2003-11-05 Thread Marc DequÃnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: songwrite Version : 0.12 Upstream Author : Jiba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://oomadness.tuxfamily.org/ * License : GPL Description : a tablatures editor an

Bug#219282: ITP: soya -- high level 3D engine for Python

2003-11-05 Thread Marc DequÃnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: soya Version : 0.5.1 Upstream Author : Jiba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://oomadness.tuxfamily.org/ * License : GPL Description : high level 3D engine for P

Bug#219276: ITP: ircopm-ptlink -- Open Proxy Monitor for PTlink IRCd

2003-11-05 Thread Marc DequÃnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: ircopm-ptlink Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : PTlink Coders team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://www.ptlink.net/ * License : GPL Description : Open Proxy M

Bug#219281: ITP: pyopenal -- port for Python of the OpenAL library

2003-11-05 Thread Marc DequÃnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: pyopenal Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Jiba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://oomadness.tuxfamily.org/ * License : GPL Description : port for Python of the

Bug#219278: ITP: editobj -- Python object editor

2003-11-05 Thread Marc DequÃnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: editobj Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Jiba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://oomadness.tuxfamily.org/ * License : GPL Description : Python object editor

Bug#219277: ITP: gnusound -- Powerful sound editor

2003-11-05 Thread Marc DequÃnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: gnusound Version : 0.6.1 Upstream Author : Pascal Haakmat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://gnusound.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : Powerful so

Bug#219279: ITP: py2play -- A peer-to-peer network game engine in Python

2003-11-05 Thread Marc DequÃnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: py2play Version : 0.1.5 Upstream Author : Jiba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://oomadness.tuxfamily.org/ * License : GPL Description : A peer-to-peer network

Sarge Jigdo files incompatible with Debian mirror

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I wanted to try Sarge installer for a new box and thus I used jigdo with http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/jigdo-area/i386/sarge-i386-1.jigdo Unfortunately one package seems to be removed from the mirrors (see the log below and search for serial-modules-2.4.22-1-386-di_0.9_i38

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Mattia Dongili | and btw, (I'm still in the NM queue) how do I remove the ITP bug? do I | just need to close it? yes, just close it. (To get rid of it, I can't answer for whether the module is included in XF4.3 or not.) -- Tollef Fog Heen

Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:39:46PM +0100, Peter Busser said > > On Tue, 04 Nov 2003, Peter Busser wrote: > > > In fact, anyone can do it Russell, I'm pretty sure even you can do > > > it: > > Why not volunteer to make the .deb, get a sponsor and get it uploaded > > then? > > Good idea! Already did

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-05 Thread Herbert Xu
Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In what situation would the linux-kernel-headers package be needed > seperate from libc? Ths issue is not whether it is needed separately from libc-dev, the issue is that it comes from a different upstream source and thus is best handled in a separa

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:28:51AM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:49:39AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > [...] > > [...] > > Please, guys, don't have your discussion here. I don't think we really > care about the difference

Bug#219251: ITP: ircservices-ptlink -- IRC Services for PTlink IRCd

2003-11-05 Thread Marc DequÃnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: ircservices-ptlink Version : 2.23.6 Upstream Author : PTlink Coders team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://www.ptlink.net/ * License : GPL Description : IRC Se

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-05 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:47:41PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (local.debian-devel) you wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > > * Package name: synaptic-touchpad > > Version : 0.12.0 > > Upstream Author : Peter Österlund <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:23:14PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I don't know whether this package needs to match the kernel version or >> > not, but if not I think the name is poorly chosen. >> So yo

Re: stable executable names

2003-11-05 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:05:44PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:47:29PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > | Now, what's finally got to me one too many times: > | * I run firebird then can't run mozilla. > | * I run mozilla then can't run firebird. > > I've also notic

Re: What's the deal with NMUs? [was Re: Are you still there?]

2003-11-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:42:14PM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:17:12PM -0500, Alex Pennace wrote: > > A well meaning NMU to unstable can be helpful in the interim. > > Naturally, submit a bug to describe the NMU; a diff is useful. If I > > notice any problems I'll work with the u

Re: Bug#219139: ITP: cdcat -- a graphical (QT based) catalog program

2003-11-05 Thread Koke
On 05 Nov 2003 03:05:37 +0100 Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scripsit Jorge Bernal (Koke) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > CDCat is a graphical, multiplatform media catalog program which scans the > > directories/drives you specify and makes a list of the filesystem > > (including > >

Re: stable executable names

2003-11-05 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:47:29PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: | Now, what's finally got to me one too many times: | * I run firebird then can't run mozilla. | * I run mozilla then can't run firebird. I've also noticed this. A quick look at the BTS shows that someone has already filed a bug on

stable executable names

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
If this should go to -user, please holler - I'll happily subscribe if I can get this discussed somewhere. I use the following commands: mozilla-firebird => run Mozilla Firebird browser mozilla -edit => run Mozilla (trad. only?) editor mozilla => run Mozilla (traditional) browser (though rarely)

Re: Bug#219139: ITP: cdcat -- a graphical (QT based) catalog program

2003-11-05 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 November 2003 22:10, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:20:26PM +0100, Jorge Bernal (Koke) wrote: > > The cdcat is a graphical (QT based) multiplatform (Linux/Windows) > > catalog program which scan your directoryes/driv

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:23:14PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know whether this package needs to match the kernel version or > > not, but if not I think the name is poorly chosen. > > So your "substantive reason" is: "The name of the n

Re: exec-shield (maybe ITP kernel-patch-exec-shield)

2003-11-05 Thread cobaco
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2003-11-03 17:20, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 23:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Maybe we should solve the debate about grsec and standard kernels by > > > adding exec-shield to the standard Debian kernel source? > > > > Go ahead an

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:28:51AM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: | Please, guys, don't have your discussion here. I don't think we really | care about the differences between PaX and exec-shield. Debian is not, | and, to the best of my knowledge, will not, choose one for its kernels, | so there is n

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:49:39AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [...] > [...] Please, guys, don't have your discussion here. I don't think we really care about the differences between PaX and exec-shield. Debian is not, and, to the best of my knowledg