Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 19 octobre 2010 à 00:38 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit : > 1/ The sudo group in previous Debian releases had a different meaning: Members > of groups sudo could run sudo without needing a password. Did it exist in previous releases? I don’t recall seeing it in sudoers. > 2/ Using the name

Re: Debian bugs #700000 and #1000000 contest

2010-10-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:38:18AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > I definitely agree that this wasn't a high importance annoucement, but > more something related to the project's life...and fun. This is indeed > not even developers' oriented, so another announce channel would have > been more ap

Re: Create package for XUL-based app

2010-10-18 Thread David Rios
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 00:31 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Montag, den 18.10.2010, 17:26 -0500 schrieb David Rios: > > Hi. > > > > I want to package a XUL-based application which isn't in Debian > > Repository yet. I've read many tutorials, including "Debian New > > Maintainters' Guide" but I c

Re: Debian bugs #700000 and #1000000 contest

2010-10-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Jon Dowland writes: > I intended to come up with a recommendation which would support my > working practices[1] to the release team. > [1] which, back of the envelope, top-of-my-head, would be something > like: a minimum gap between freeze announcement and commencement, When writing up this doc

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-18 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Michael: On Tuesday 19 October 2010 00:38:41 Michael Biebl wrote: > Hi, [...] > The idea is, to have a distinct group. Members of that group have > administrative privileges using sudo and PolicKit. [...] > While I think the idea of using a distinct group for users with > administrative pr

[RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi, as some of you might know, the debian installer allows to install a system with a disabled root account, i.e. there is no root password set for root. In lenny, iirc, this was done via d-i pre-seeding, in squeeze it is as simple as leaving the root password prompt empty. The lenny installer th

Re: Create package for XUL-based app

2010-10-18 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Montag, den 18.10.2010, 17:26 -0500 schrieb David Rios: > Hi. > > I want to package a XUL-based application which isn't in Debian > Repository yet. I've read many tutorials, including "Debian New > Maintainters' Guide" but I can't find how to package this kind of apps. > You don't have to compi

Re: Debian bugs #700000 and #1000000 contest

2010-10-18 Thread Jon Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/10/10 10:15, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > If you, or anybody else, think I can help in any > other way to move past this once and for all, please please please let > me know. I intended to come up with a recommendation which would support my work

Create package for XUL-based app

2010-10-18 Thread David Rios
Hi. I want to package a XUL-based application which isn't in Debian Repository yet. I've read many tutorials, including "Debian New Maintainters' Guide" but I can't find how to package this kind of apps. You don't have to compile it (it's an script-based app) so it doesn't have a "Makefile" file.

Re: Upcoming Bug Squashing Parties to help the squeeze release

2010-10-18 Thread Sheridan Hutchinson
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Bug#600622: ITP: qmidinet -- MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast

2010-10-18 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: qmidinet Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Rui Nuno Capela * URL : http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/

Re: Debian bugs #700000 and #1000000 contest

2010-10-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Piotr Ożarowski (pi...@debian.org): > I already only scan -private and -devel mailing lists once a week or so > (due to spam), I was expecting important information on -devel-announce > so I stopped doing what I was doing (see below), opened announce > mailbox and was annoyed by the fact t

Re: Debian bugs #700000 and #1000000 contest

2010-10-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:29:31AM +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > I already only scan -private and -devel mailing lists once a week or so > (due to spam), I was expecting important information on -devel-announce > so I stopped doing what I was doing (see below), opened announce > mailbox and was a

Re: Debian bugs #700000 and #1000000 contest

2010-10-18 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Christian PERRIER, 2010-10-18] > Quoting Piotr Ożarowski (pi...@debian.org): > > Subject: Debian bugs #70 and #100 contest > > To: debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org > > > > seriously? Isn't debian-priv...@l.d.o for all the off-topic mails? > > > Who told this is off-topic? I alrea