Bug#782003: general: "choose password at first login" leads to no access

2015-04-06 Thread Björn
Package: general Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Created new account using the GNOME account manager in "settings". * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or

Bug#782001: general: access granted to /home files of another user

2015-04-06 Thread Björn
Package: general Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Created new user from a non-root account (using root password prompt within non-root account). Started that new user. Tried to read

qemubuilder - are there precompiled kernel-images with ipv6 and ext3 support built-in

2012-03-11 Thread Björn Esser
amd64 arches. Thanks for your help in advance. BR, Björn Esser [1] people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.or

How mature is Pkg-format 3.0 (git), yet?

2012-01-16 Thread Björn Esser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi there! I just wanted to ask how mature Package-format 3.0 (git) became until now. BR, Björn. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Bug#653617: ITP: scummvm-tools -- A collection of various tools for ScummVM

2011-12-29 Thread Björn Esser
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Björn Esser" * Package name: scummvm-tools Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : ScummVM team * URL : http://www.scummvm.org/ * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : A collection of various

Re: Bug#651093: ITP: libyui -- Qt, GTK+ and ncurses UI-Engine

2011-12-06 Thread Björn Esser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 So how shall I name it then? Any suggestions? BR, Björn Esser Am 06.12.2011 09:06, schrieb Russ Allbery: > Miles Bader writes: > >> "libyastui" would seem sort of misleading -- from the >> description, it sounds li

Bug#651093: ITP: libyui -- Qt, GTK+ and ncurses UI-Engine

2011-12-05 Thread Björn Esser
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Björn Esser" * Package name: libyui Version : 2.21.1 Upstream Authors: Stefan Hundhammer Michael Andres Stephan Kulow Arvin Schnell Thomas Goettlicher * URL : http://doc.opensuse.or

The --before option is deprecated. Use override targets instead.

2011-12-02 Thread Björn Esser
e/create those overrides? Thanks to all in advance. BR, Björn Esser -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAk7YoqgACgkQ3u1SIc8s7PXfwQD/fbSFwAayBwrv2/H7

Bug#648040: ITP: jailkit -- chroot jail utilities

2011-11-08 Thread Björn Esser
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Björn Esser" * Package name: jailkit Version : 2.1.4 Upstream Author : Olivier Sessink * URL : http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, Python Description : chroot jail

Bug#647639: ITP: libblocxx -- BloCXX--C++ Framework for Application Development

2011-11-04 Thread Björn Esser
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Björn Esser" * Package name: libblocxx Version : 2.2.0+svn536 Upstream Author : Kevin Harris * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/blocxx/ * License : BSD-3 Programming Lang: C++ Description :

Re: How to find a sponsor?

2011-11-04 Thread Björn Esser
Thanks a lot! 2011/11/4 Josue Abarca : > On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 03:57:00PM +0100, Björn Esser wrote: >> Hello there! >> >> My name is Björn Esser and I'm from near Hannover, Germany. I want to >> contribute to the debian project and so I am looking for a spon

How to find a sponsor?

2011-11-04 Thread Björn Esser
Hello there! My name is Björn Esser and I'm from near Hannover, Germany. I want to contribute to the debian project and so I am looking for a sponsor (preferred with German as native). I hope, I'm in the right place here for asking. Best regards, Björn Esser Hallo zusammen!

Bug#500727: ITP: mandos -- Do unattended reboots with an encrypted root file system

2008-09-30 Thread Björn Påhlsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Björn Påhlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mandos Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Björn Påhlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Teddy Hogeborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.fukt.bsnet.se/man

Re: VLC 0.8.6a - Why hasn't the package been upgraded?

2008-06-17 Thread Björn Johansson
Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, But here is your answer. On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 08:35:36PM +0200, Björn Johansson wrote: Greetings! I have a working install of Debian Etch over here and it's installed on an Powerbook G3 "Lombard" and the version of VLC which is part of Debian

VLC 0.8.6a - Why hasn't the package been upgraded?

2008-06-14 Thread Björn Johansson
? I'm thinking of maybe trying to compile the source on my own, but I don't want to break the current installation of VLC, so, so far I haven't tried it. Björn Johansson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-25 Thread Björn Torkelsson
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 12:18 +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Steve" == Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Steve> On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:20:08PM -0400, Sam Hartman > Steve> wrote: > >> Does the krb524 functionality disappear from the KDC if you > >> turn off krb4? >

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-09 Thread Björn Krombholz
eeding devices in /dev. AFAIR the only device needed on my system was /dev/null. Björn

Re: Still no 3D acceleration in Sarge..

2004-12-09 Thread Björn Johansson
At 10:32 2004-12-09, you wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:24:37AM +0100, Björn Johansson wrote: > At 16:48 2004-12-08, you wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:00:48PM +0100, Björn Johansson wrote: > >> At 15:46 2004-12-08, you wrote: > >> >On Wed, Dec 08, 2

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-13 Thread Björn Stenberg
certainly real cases > in the archive. My script currently only finds one: - jpilot-backup depends on jpilot >= 0.99.4-1 but testing has 0.99.2-2 - jpilot-backup conflicts with jpilot << 0.99.4-1 but testing has 0.99.2-2 If you know of other cases, I'd appreciate a note so I can examine why my script doesn't find them. -- Björn

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-11 Thread Björn Stenberg
cognize a "bad" versioned conflict from a "good". For instance, lvm10 conflicts with lvm2 << 1.95.15-3 while the lvm2 version in testing is 1.95.15-1. Is this simply a case of lvm10 superseding lvm2, and nothing I should warn about? If so, how can I tell? -- Björn

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-09 Thread Björn Stenberg
Steve Langasek wrote: > Ok. BTW, are you taking into account the possibility of a package being > uninstallable due to versioned Conflicts, and Conflicts between packages > which otherwise satisfy a package's dependencies? No, not yet. I will look into it. -- Björn

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-08 Thread Björn Stenberg
ot; link to see the checks done. The page for openoffice.org shows an example of the output: http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=openoffice.org I intend to inhibit printout if one of alternative dependencies match, but currently all broken dependencies are displayed. -- Björn

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-07 Thread Björn Stenberg
a packages handled, such as libz-dev that libxml2 depends on. There is no package or binary with that name listed in Sources. 2) How is meta package versioning handled? The gcc-defaults package, version 1.9, is the only package providing the gcc binary (without -version suffix) of which many packages require version >= 2.95. -- Björn

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-03 Thread Björn Stenberg
ar with the nuances. I already trawl the dependency tree, what information would you like to distill from it? (I.e. define "work-needed packages" and "cluster".) A hypothetical example would be good, to get me on the right track. (I'll be away for the weekend, so I can't respond until sunday.) -- Björn

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-02 Thread Björn Stenberg
estions how to improve this and create other information digests that can help developers find and choose areas to work on. -- Björn

Re: Why doesn't yehia enter testing?

2003-08-04 Thread Björn Stenberg
, libgdbi0, libgql-dev, libgql0, libgql0-driver-mysql endloop: 546+0: a-48:a-50:h-44:i-74:i-48:m-50:m-44:m-43:p-46:s-50:s-49 now: 557+0: a-49:a-51:h-45:i-75:i-49:m-51:m-45:m-44:p-47:s-51:s-50 * alpha: qmailmrtg7 This bug is fixed now. Thanks for reporting it. -- Björn

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

2003-07-03 Thread Björn Stenberg
versions of xmms-sid and xsidplay. This is not allowed, and thus sidplay-base is uninstallable. The solution is to update all of the packages at once, which requires manual intervention. As Colin Watson said, this has already been mentioned to the maintainer so the packages should be going in soon. -- Björn

Re: Why doesn't libsidplay enter testing?

2003-07-03 Thread Björn Stenberg
on alpha. Actually they are most likely uninstallable on many other platforms too, but only the result for alpha is displayed. -- Björn

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Björn Stenberg
users are discouraged from running unstable, and for good reasons. > I do like the sound of this, but saying it has a place and actually making > it happen are very different things. There seems to be a lot of the former, > and little of the latter That tired old argument doesn't bite on me since I have already volunteered to set up a testing-i386 release. :-) -- Björn

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Björn Stenberg
catch up with time. Direction need not come from on high, it more often evolves from long discussions in developer mailing lists. That does not mean it does not exist. -- Björn

Re: Answers to "Why is package X not in testing yet?"

2003-05-15 Thread Björn Stenberg
Joe Buck wrote: > However, the output is redundant in many cases. Fixed now. -- Björn

Re: security in testing

2003-05-14 Thread Björn Stenberg
dates between frozen releases (except for security fixes). The amount of backporting and apt-pinning going on suggests not all Debian end users are content with yearly updates. A testing-like "middle ground" release for end users definitely has a place in the Debian universe. -- Björn

Re: A strawman proposal: "testing-x86" (Was: security in testing)

2003-05-14 Thread Björn Stenberg
the same idea. I'd volunteer to set it up, but I need to become a DD to access the relevant data. Does anyone want to advocate/sponsor me? (And, to avoid the whole "testing is a release tool" debate, we could call it something else. 'trying', perhaps. ;-) ) -- Björn

Re: security in testing

2003-05-14 Thread Björn Stenberg
e, only what has been done. Surely between the appointed leader, techical committee, policy committee, quality assurance team and the release management, there is some sort of shared idea of where Debian is heading? This is, after all, more than just a herd of cats. -- Björn

Re: security in testing

2003-05-14 Thread Björn Stenberg
quot; is only a useful response if anyone in the audience actually knows what said code is supposed to achieve. -- Björn

Re: security in testing

2003-05-14 Thread Björn Stenberg
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2003 15:16:38 +0200, Björn Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > This brings back the question I never got an answer for: Who is > > Debian for? > > Isn't is obvious? Me, of course. Y'all are working to p

Re: security in testing

2003-05-14 Thread Björn Stenberg
to be used, Debian excludes the vast majority of computer users. Is this intentional? Is it desired? -- Björn

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-30 Thread Björn Stenberg
ow their version to > fall behind on the bleeding-edge kernel, the resulting split might be > permanent. :-/ The big difference is that one kernel version is not allowed to stop the progress in all others. If a non-ix86 kernel falls behind, only that kernel suffers. In Debian, all ports suffer if one port breaks. -- Björn

Re: pilot-link in Sid and Sarge: Much bigger question

2003-04-29 Thread Björn Stenberg
e only testing in sid, not in sarge. -- Björn

Re: pilot-link in Sid and Sarge: Much bigger question

2003-04-28 Thread Björn Stenberg
. Most new versions are fixes, either of bugs or features. Changes that break source level compatibility are rather rare. -- Björn

Re: pilot-link in Sid and Sarge: Much bigger question

2003-04-28 Thread Björn Stenberg
requent uploads would not be as much of a problem if each new upload were not immediately used for testing other packages. See whack-a-mole above. Distributed development is fast. That's one of the many benefits of Free Software. Any system designed to harness this flow of creativity must take the volatility into account and take advantage of it, not treat it as a problem. -- Björn

Re: pilot-link in Sid and Sarge: Much bigger question

2003-04-27 Thread Björn Stenberg
k I'll bother. Heck, I've got what I want, why should I care about the rest of the world? Right? The social contract says "We will be guided by the needs of our users". I guess it all comes down to the definition of "our users". -- Björn

Re: pilot-link in Sid and Sarge: Much bigger question

2003-04-26 Thread Björn Stenberg
ch is the software in those releases is two years old. Before brushing this aside as an uninformed rant, stop for a moment and consider which release you'd recommend your computer-savvy-but-no-programmer friends to use when they want to run linux at work. Then tell me there is no problem. -- Björn

Re: Some questions about dependencies

2003-04-25 Thread Björn Stenberg
Rene Engelhard wrote: > > 4) What is the best way to find out why cfitsio depends on gcc-3.3? > looking in the Packages files? > (do in on auric directly or d/l them and do it at home) Where can I download these files? ("Packages" is a tricky word to search for...) Thanks. -- Björn

Re: Some questions about dependencies

2003-04-25 Thread Björn Stenberg
manage to wrap my head around this. Thanks. -- Björn

Some questions about dependencies

2003-04-24 Thread Björn Stenberg
y go into testing soon. If not, why?) Thanks. -- Björn

Re: curl, testing and gcc-3.2 (?) (was Re: Debian curl package depends on gcc-3.2?)

2003-04-22 Thread Björn Stenberg
version gets stuck in unstable, which is not uncommon). I found only little in the debian developer manuals detailing how version dependencies should, and should not, be used. Did I miss a section about this, or is there a general consensus about the issue? -- Björn

Re: curl, testing and gcc-3.2 (?) (was Re: Debian curl package depends on gcc-3.2?)

2003-04-16 Thread Björn Stenberg
I would expect a ton of list archive links to have been dumped on me by now. I have no qualms about squeezing blood from stone, but it doesn't exactly speed the discussion nor minimize my annoying questions. -- Björn

Re: curl, testing and gcc-3.2 (?) (was Re: Debian curl package depends on gcc-3.2?)

2003-04-16 Thread Björn Stenberg
ing if they were rebuilt? -- Björn

Re: curl, testing and gcc-3.2 (?) (was Re: Debian curl package depends on gcc-3.2?)

2003-04-15 Thread Björn Stenberg
Jim Penny wrote: > Björn Stenberg wrote: > > Isn't this a problem? Especially for packages depending on libraries with > > long release cycles, such as libgcc1 and libc6. > > Not often. Most slow release libraries are strongly backwards > compatible. That was m

Re: curl, testing and gcc-3.2 (?) (was Re: Debian curl package depends on gcc-3.2?)

2003-04-15 Thread Björn Stenberg
e sufficient, > so it plays safe. Isn't this a problem? Especially for packages depending on libraries with long release cycles, such as libgcc1 and libc6. Note: I don't have a suggestion for a better method right now, I'm just trying to understand the implications of the current system. -- Björn

Re: curl, testing and gcc-3.2 (?) (was Re: Debian curl package depends on gcc-3.2?)

2003-04-14 Thread Björn Stenberg
m build log for arm contains the following line: checking whether to use libgcc... no -- Björn

Re: Why is only the latest unstable package considered for testing?

2003-04-14 Thread Björn Stenberg
never considered. I did search the archives, but failed to find a post addressing this issue. -- Björn

Why is only the latest unstable package considered for testing?

2003-04-13 Thread Björn Stenberg
hat I'm not advocating relaxing the inclusion criteria for testing. I am just asking why they are not applied equally to all versions. [0] http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/testing -- Björn

KDE for Debian

2002-08-16 Thread Björn
Hi! I want to know where I can get KDE packages for my Debian system. I'm currently running Debian2.2r5. This is quite important since I really lack a good mail client, I miss Kmail! :( Kind regards Björn Johansson