Re: How to adopt a dead package?

2019-07-14 Thread Perry E. Metzger
gt; > instructions? > Generic instructions: https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers > Reintroducing packages: > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#reintroducing-pkgs Thank you! Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com

How to adopt a dead package?

2019-07-14 Thread Perry E. Metzger
back into Debian, what would I need to do? I haven't been a package maintainer before. I presume there's a document somewhere I can read with detailed instructions? Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com

Re: Is anything in BTS tracking fixes to CVE-2016-5696

2016-08-23 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:52:14 +0200 Martin Bagge / brother wrote: > On 2016-08-23 17:14, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > I've tried searching BTS for references to CVE-2016-5696 (the > > recent Linux TCP injection vulnerability) and I've come up empty. > > Is there cur

Is anything in BTS tracking fixes to CVE-2016-5696

2016-08-23 Thread Perry E. Metzger
I've tried searching BTS for references to CVE-2016-5696 (the recent Linux TCP injection vulnerability) and I've come up empty. Is there currently a bug in the system that is tracking fixes for it? Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com

Re: Bits from keyring-maint

2010-09-15 Thread Perry E. Metzger
he NM and DM processes require only one signature. Why is it > > harder to replace a key than to become a DD? > > Or rather, why the requirements for the first key any weaker than > those for DD key replacement? Or rather, what is the specific threat that the policy is designed to

Re: Bits from keyring-maint

2010-09-15 Thread Perry E. Metzger
y will find inconvenient, I would suggest worrying more about the process that assures that what is being signed is in fact safe, and that keys are not being misused. Several attacks against Windows recently have involved stolen keys (note, stolen, not cracked) and I doubt Debian's average key i

Re: why are there /bin and /usr/bin...

2010-08-16 Thread Perry E. Metzger
where things go, etc.) even though /usr is long since obsolete, while dealing with people's emotional reaction to the "necessity" of /usr wastes lots of time and causes ill feeling. Still, /usr has been obsolete for decades, and if I were starting over again today, with a brand

Re: why are there /bin and /usr/bin...

2010-08-15 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:00:23 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 06:30:04PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > By the early 1990s this was long since unneeded but people > > continued to do it anyway, and in fact started to think it was > > done for technica

Re: why are there /bin and /usr/bin...

2010-08-15 Thread Perry E. Metzger
st modern Unix systems would be fine if all files in /usr were in /, with a compatibility symlink pointing /usr at / to provide for scripts and other programs assuming things to be in /usr, but no one dares to do it, because the "Onion" impulse is so strong. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger