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Package name: lv2file
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* License : GPL 3
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Description : A command-line program to apply L
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Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> Simon McVittie wrote:
> >... so in practice, staff is root-equivalent, but in principle it's
> >not meant to be. (Yay.)
>
> It depends on the definition of "equivalent".
>
> Anyway "staff" is a protection against user (aka admin)* errors*,
> not against *malicious* a
* Russ Allbery [2010-10-21 02:37 -0700]:
> I like sudoroot, personally, but I think sudo is probably okay.
A group named sudo or sudoroot is somehow linked to sudo as tool used to
gain administrative privileges. No one knows if in future an other tool
will be the de facto standard to gain privile
Michael Banck wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:10:45AM +0200, Ond?ej Surý wrote:
>> we currently lack hands for testing and bug squashing in php5. I have just
>> uploaded php5 5.3.3-2 to unstable and as soon as it get built it would be
>> great if we had more hands to go through all the bugs in
]] Petter Reinholdtsen
| [Goswin von Brederlow]
| > That way nfs-kernel-server is started after the name resolvers but
| > none of them is required. Does that look right?
|
| Nope. Virtual facilities (like $named and $local_fs) provided by
| several scripts should not be listed in the Provides
On 20.10.10 13:28, Simon McVittie wrote:
Quoting from base-passwd again:
Allows users to add local modifications to the system (/usr/local, /home)
without needing root privileges. Compare with group 'adm', which is more
related to monitoring/security.
Note that the ability
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:49:00 +0200, Christian PERRIER
wrote:
> Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org):
>
...
> Maybe sudo is not that bad, after all..:-)
If we decide to reject 'admin', I think we should use sudo. I find the
argument that admin is confusing given the presence of adm fairly
con
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alessio Treglia
* Package name: mididings
Version : 20100602
Upstream Author : Dominic Sacre
* URL : http://das.nasophon.de/mididings/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: Python
Description : MIDI router and proces
Your message dated Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:23:30 +0200
with message-id <201010211223.30735.hol...@layer-acht.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#600891: general: Qt-based browsers crash when loading
some web sites
has caused the Debian Bug report #600891,
regarding general: Qt-based browsers crash when load
* Russell Coker [101020 11:22]:
> > This would hurt systems where umask is 002 (or 007) by default (the root
> > group is the primary group of the root user with nobody else in it)
>
> find / -gid 0 -perm /20 \! -type l
I guess find / -gid 0 -perm /20 \! -type l \! -perm /2
reduces the number of
Christian PERRIER writes:
> Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org):
>> Any already-existing group is going to have the problem that some sites
>> will already be using it for something else. We put all sysadmins in
> Isn't that the same for any kind of clever group name we'll find?
> Unless we
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:10:45AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> we currently lack hands for testing and bug squashing in php5. I have just
> uploaded php5 5.3.3-2 to unstable and as soon as it get built it would be
> great if we had more hands to go through all the bugs in the src=php5 and
> te
Hi,
we currently lack hands for testing and bug squashing in php5. I have just
uploaded php5 5.3.3-2 to unstable and as soon as it get built it would be
great if we had more hands to go through all the bugs in the src=php5 and
test if they are still present in 5.3.3 version. And if they are not, t
* André Berger (2010-10-20):
Dear all,
allow me to reply to myself to close this topic.
A Diff/Index seems not to be beneficial for a small repository like
mine, I'll stick with apt-ftparchive.
Thanks for your attention and your time!
-André
--
L'art d'ennuyer est de tout dire. [Voltaire]
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:38:41AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> So, I'm wondering if we shouldn't pick a more neutral name without a previous
> history in Debian.
> One suggestion is to use group "admin". Ubuntu has been using that group for
> exactly the purpose what we are going for and I t
Christian PERRIER writes:
> And for ${deity}'s sake, people […] should stop talking about
> 'bikeshedding' [which has the condescending] implication: the
> discussion is useless.
>
> This discussion is not.
>
> We will have to live with whatever group name we choose now for
> *years*, so better c
On 2010-10-20, Bill Allombert wrote:
> What is omitted is the rationale for doing so at this stage. Removing an
> release architecture with an active porter group is not something that
> should be done on the ground of some administrative evaluation table.
You surely read the IRC meeting logs? A
Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org):
> > How about the "root" group?
>
> Any already-existing group is going to have the problem that some sites
> will already be using it for something else. We put all sysadmins in
Isn't that the same for any kind of clever group name we'll find?
Unless we
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Francois Marier
* Package name: letterize
Version : 1.3
Upstream Author : Eric S. Raymond
* URL : http://www.catb.org/~esr/letterize/
* License : BSD
Programming Lang: C
Description : phone digits to letter-mnemo
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