Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-26 Thread Elie Rosenblum
il servers, greylisting greatly _decreases_ load. -- Elie Rosenblum http://www.cosanostra.net Admin / Mercenary / System Programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Improper NMU (Re: NMU for libquota-perl)

2002-09-02 Thread Elie Rosenblum
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:41:48AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:20:22AM -0400, Elie Rosenblum ?crivait: > > Would you agree that performing an NMU without a BTS entry is wrong? > > Nope. > > The strict minimum is : > - create a patch for th

Re: Improper NMU (Re: NMU for libquota-perl)

2002-09-01 Thread Elie Rosenblum
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 02:25:30AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:19:17PM -0400, Elie Rosenblum wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 02:16:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Technically it wasn't. The upload is still in the DELAYED queue, which

Re: Improper NMU (Re: NMU for libquota-perl)

2002-09-01 Thread Elie Rosenblum
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 02:16:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:06:20PM -0400, Elie Rosenblum wrote: > > The NMU was made before I was in any way contacted. > > Technically it wasn't. The upload is still in the DELAYED queue, which > is r

Re: Improper NMU (Re: NMU for libquota-perl)

2002-09-01 Thread Elie Rosenblum
intainer and having my responsibilities coopted. There is no urgency that requires an NMU if it's not important enough to file a bug. -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, http://www.cosanostra.net And with strange aeons even death may die. Admin / Mercenary / System Programmer - _The Necronomicon_

Re: Improper NMU (Re: NMU for libquota-perl)

2002-09-01 Thread Elie Rosenblum
allable. Mmm. Yes, I see this, now that I'm updating my build machine so I can rebuild all my perl packages. Well, in any case, the rest of my argument stands without this. -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, http://www.cosanostra.net And with strang

Improper NMU (Re: NMU for libquota-perl)

2002-09-01 Thread Elie Rosenblum
patches (or the fact that no patch is required other than rebuilding with an updated system). Please delete your uploads. You are violating policy. For debian-devel: The NMU here was made to rebuild for perl 5.8; no other changes would have been necessary. What is the concensus on this? I&#

Re: Bug#126856: kernel-package: kernel-image should deal with flavours just like modules packages

2002-01-06 Thread Elie Rosenblum
d-to-version instead. Try: make-kpkg --append-to-version -whatever clean make-kpkg --append-to-version -whatever kernel-image modules-image Without the clean you will have serious problems. I've used this instead of flavours and it seems to work properly. -- Elie Rosenblum Tha

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-14 Thread Elie Rosenblum
nts to the postinst and using 'dpkg > --compare-versions'. > > One of the reasons for debconf was to allow for non-interactive > installs, but we seem to be going in the wrong direction sometimes. This is kind of what I was thinking about; thanks. -- Elie Rosenblum

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-13 Thread Elie Rosenblum
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:53:49AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 10:51:04PM -0400, Elie Rosenblum wrote: > > Would turning /usr/lib/procmail-lib into a symlink to the appropriate > > location be acceptable? I would really rather avoid breaking every

Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-12 Thread Elie Rosenblum
I could add a notice of this during package upgrade; I am worried about the users in general. -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, http://www.cosanostra.net And with strange aeons even death may die. Admin / Mercenary / System Programmer - _The Necronomicon_

Re: how about a real unstable?

2000-03-28 Thread Elie Rosenblum
mental distribution is much more appropriate for unstable upstream software. -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, http://www.cosanostra.net And with strange aeons even death may die. Admin / Mercenary / System Programmer - _The Necronomicon_

Re: sendmail M4 to run DNS based spam filters per RCPT

2000-03-17 Thread Elie Rosenblum
rbitrary DNS blacklists, and it has this feature: CONFIG: FEATURE(`delay_checks') delays check_mail and check_relay after check_rcpt and allows for exceptions from the checks. It does not, however, let you only move dnsbl's to post-rcpt, and it does not let you co

Re: moving mutt to standard priority

1999-10-05 Thread Elie Rosenblum
lled clients. If we can't get it verified, we should probably push people at mutt... -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, http://www.cosanostra.net And with strange aeons even death may die. Admin / Mercenary / System Programmer - _The Necronomicon_

Re: Use https://db.debian.org/ [was Re: Add your location ...]

1999-09-23 Thread Elie Rosenblum
ssword from master does not work to login for authenticated database access? -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, http://www.cosanostra.net And with strange aeons even death may die. Admin / Mercenary / System Programmer - _The Necronomicon_

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg IN IDL! :)

1999-05-20 Thread Elie Rosenblum
ipe in) is that it is desirable for dpkg to 1) have a small footprint and 2) have few depencies. I see the second as more important, because fewer dependencies mean fewer chances to screw something up that will break dpkg (as we've seen with C++ libraries breaking apt, etc). -- Elie Rosenblum

Re: ssl browsers

1998-06-13 Thread Elie Rosenblum
'. > > Yeah, but I need to support netscape mail under Lose95... Last I checked the windows version of ssh also supported port forwarding (or at least, I seem to remember a configuration tab for it). -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange a

Re: Intent to package (several)

1998-06-11 Thread Elie Rosenblum
d at the module myself. -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. Developer / Mercenary / System Administrator - _The Necromicon_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: egcs and libc6-dev

1998-04-08 Thread Elie Rosenblum
Why should libc6-dev depend on gcc, exactly? Would it not make more sense for it to Conflict: with gcc < 2.7.2.3-1, and let the compilers duke it out for themselves? -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. Develo

Re: file descriptors??

1998-01-06 Thread Elie Rosenblum
0 Jan 6 13:40 inode-max -r--r--r-- 1 root root0 Jan 6 13:40 inode-nr deliverator:[/proc/sys/kernel]-#cat file-max inode-max 1024 4096 deliverator:[/proc/sys/kernel]-#echo 2048>file-max; echo 8192>inode-max deliverator:[/proc/sys/kernel]-#cat file-max inode-max

Re: Immutable files

1997-12-24 Thread Elie Rosenblum
ent, if you require the dpkg system to maintain them. If you want to use immutable/append-only, go for it; some of us like to be able to upgrade our installations 5 or 6 times before we have to reboot. -- Elie Rosenblum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That is not dead which can eternal lie, <

Re: New package: makeports

1997-12-19 Thread Elie Rosenblum
And thus spake Turbo Fredriksson, on Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 08:10:19AM +0100: > On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Elie Rosenblum wrote: > > When you enter the directory for a package you can run make > > with several options, to build .deb's, just build binaries, or just get > > the la

New package: makeports

1997-12-19 Thread Elie Rosenblum
BSD's. When you enter the directory for a package you can run make with several options, to build .deb's, just build binaries, or just get the latest version of the source packages. Anyway, just wanted to hear some comments before I decide whether it's worthwhile to code. -- Elie Ro

Adopting arpd

1997-12-16 Thread Elie Rosenblum
yet) with fixed init.d/postinst scripts sitting in my home directory on master; as this is my first official package, any comments on it before I upload it for committing to unstable would be appreciated. (I brought it up to libc6, as well) -- Elie Rosenblum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That is not d