Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-08 Thread Ben Kallus
Hi everyone! I second calling it "allow-unsafe-names" for the following reasons: 1. Many programs assume that usernames are so inert that they can be used in shell strings without proper escaping. For example, a user named $(touch /tmp/pwn) will create /tmp/pwn upon the first launch of an interac

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-08 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 05:01:10PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > 2024, ഡിസം 5 2:05:19 AM Lucas Kanashiro : > > https://debconf24.debconf.org/talks/74-attracting-and-retaining-new-contributors-insights-from-brazil/ > > > > There was some follow-up discussion in Hacker News after a LWN post about >

New tool to help maintain Standards-Version in control file

2024-12-08 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hi I've added to cme a small script to help maintain Standards-Version field in debian/control file. Fro details, see https://ddumont.wordpress.com/2024/12/07/new-cme-command-to-update-debian-standards-version-field/ The TL;DR version is $ cme run update-standards-version -doc This script up

Bug#1089527: ITP: geoclue-stumbler -- Geoclue GUI for browsing and submitting geolocation data

2024-12-08 Thread Federico Ceratto
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Federico Ceratto X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: geoclue-stumbler Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Contact: Chris Talbot * URL : https://gitlab.com/kop316/geoclue-stumbler * License : GPL-3+ Program