Bug#1051983: ITP: golang-github-katalix-go-l2tp -- L2TP and PPPoE tools built using the go-l2tp package

2023-09-15 Thread Tom Parkin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tom Parkin X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-katalix-go-l2tp Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Contact: Tom Parkin * URL : https://github.com/katalix/go-l2tp * License : BSD Programming

Bug#971602: ITP: trojan-go -- A Trojan proxy written in Go. An unidentifiable mechanism that helps you bypass GFW.

2020-10-02 Thread Tom Yang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tom Yang X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, wyh.aa...@gmail.com * Package name: trojan-go Version : 0.8.2 * URL : https://github.com/p4gefau1t/trojan-go * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Go Description

Re: A little "research" on nvi given the vim-tiny issue

2020-03-31 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:35 AM James McCoy wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 17:29 Tom H wrote: >> >> PPS: Gentoo's vim[minimal] is vim configured using >> "--with-features=tiny" like Debian's vim-tiny. > > Debian's vim-tiny actual uses "--

A little "research" on nvi given the vim-tiny issue

2020-03-18 Thread Tom H
Russ A said [1] that nvi "is orphaned both upstream and in Debian". I wanted to emphasize that fact by pointing out that Gentoo's removing nvi for similar reasons, and trying to install it just now resulted in this "package.mask" message: $ sudo emerge -p nvi # Michał Górny (2020-02-17) # Based o

Re: concerns about Salsa

2018-06-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > Le lundi 04 juin 2018 à 12:54:32+0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : >> >> In practice, I have found that it is much easier to deploy a >> production service directly from its git tree. This makes it much >> easier to make changes. > > I've alw

Reminder: Outreachy mentor application period closes September 17

2017-09-08 Thread Tom Marble
All: We already have some great projects and mentors listed on: https://wiki.debian.org/Outreachy/Round15 But we could use more! Please consider becoming a mentor and add your project ASAP! Thanks, --Tom

Bug#871913: ITP: boot-clj -- Build tooling for Clojure

2017-08-12 Thread Tom Marble
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tom Marble * Package name: boot-clj Version : 2.7.1 Upstream Author : Alan Dipert * URL : https://github.com/boot-clj/boot * License : EPL Programming Lang: Java Description : Build tooling for Clojure Boot is a

Bug#871781: ITP: shimdandy -- Shim wrapping multiple Clojure runtimes into the same JVM

2017-08-11 Thread Tom Marble
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tom Marble * Package name: shimdandy Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Toby Crawley * URL : https://github.com/projectodd/shimdandy * License : EPL Programming Lang: Java Description : Shim wrapping multiple

Re: Naming of network devices - how to improve it in buster

2017-07-14 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2017, Tom H wrote: >> The classic naming scheme for network interfaces applied by the kernel >> is to simply assign names beginning with "eth0", "eth1", ... to all >

Re: Naming of network devices - how to improve it in buster

2017-07-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 6:14 AM, Russell Stuart wrote: > On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 05:20 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> Stateless "/etc". >> >> Systems with multiple NICs where the order in which they're >> recognized by the kernel can vary. > > I aske

Re: Naming of network devices - how to improve it in buster

2017-07-13 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Russell Stuart wrote: > > I still don't understand what use case the current scheme is aimed at. Stateless "/etc". Systems with multiple NICs where the order in which they're recognized by the kernel can vary.

Re: P.S. Re: Debian 9 in a VM with Proxmox 5 system

2017-07-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Roger Lynn wrote: > On 10/07/17 19:40, Marvin Renich wrote: >> >> There is an easy fix to revert the default behavior while still allowing >> knowledgeable sysadmins to get the new behavior. On the other hand, >> those who need to administer systems but are not sys

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-06 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > dnsmasq-base: lxc > * BAD: how often are you on a network without a DNS server? The dnsmasq-base "recommends" is about providing a dhcp server for containers not a dns server. libvirt-daemon-system has the same "recommends" for its VMs.

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-04 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > The initramfs-tools does not depend or recommend mdadm. However, > initramfs-tools is modular and its mdadm support is supplied by the > mdadm package. > > Dracut isn't modular, and its mdadm support is built-in. This is a key

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 03:48:09PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> >>> I didn't say RPM *doesn't* deal with changed files; I said ours >

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-29 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 04:21:17AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> Did Linux development move as quickly as it does now? >> Did users experience more problems or failures when running those >> dist-upgrades? >

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-29 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 07:53:57AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> >>> The "packages drop files in /usr/*, sysadmins override in /etc" way of >

Bug#861482: ITP: fzf -- command-line fuzzy finder

2017-04-29 Thread Tom Fitzhenry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tom Fitzhenry * Package name: fzf Version : 0.16.6 Upstream Author : Junegunn Choi * URL : https://github.com/junegunn/fzf * License : MIT Programming Lang: Golang Description : command-line fuzzy finder I use

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 2:34 AM, Brian May wrote: > On 2017-04-27 16:19, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> >> It seems you've missed the point (which was about 4 years between RHEL >> releases). > > There was almost three years between Woody (July 19th 2002) and Sarge (June > 6th 2005), yet we still al

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Luca Capello wrote: > On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:05:10 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> You can't dist-upgrade RHEL from 6 to 7 and you can't dist-upgrade >> Debian from 6 to 8 in one leap. > > Debian *does* support dist-upgrading betwe

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 07:53 -0400, Tom H wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> The "packages drop files in /usr/*, sysadmins override in /etc" way of >>> doing

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-26 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > All of this is caused by Red Hat having no support for upgrades: > > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/21964 > > # Red Hat does not support in-place upgrades between major versions 4, 5 and > # 6 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (A major vers

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-26 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > The "packages drop files in /usr/*, sysadmins override in /etc" way of > doing things is prevalent in the RPM world; in Debian, however, we > traditionally have packages drop files in /etc, and let the maintainer > change them in place. T

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2017-01-08 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 10:49:23AM -0500, Tom H wrote: >> >> You can use >> >> ip a sh lo (if you have bash-completion installed, "a" will >> complete to "addr" and "sh" wil

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2017-01-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Toni Mueller wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 09:01:51PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:30:26AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >>> Ifconfig has been deprecated; you should probably use "ip a show >>> dev lo" instad of the shorter and m

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 2:32 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > Do you really think that > > wlp3s0: flags=4163 mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.** netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.** > inet6 fe80::** prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20 > ether e4:**:ca txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)

Verlaag uw drinkwaterfactuur

2016-05-19 Thread Tom Peeters
Verlaag uw drinkwaterfactuur Kies voor een SipWell waterkoeler En bied uw klanten en werknemers water van bronkwaliteit Ontdek alle voordelen Waarom kiezen voor SipWell waterkoelers? -Unieke designs voor elk interieur -Geen zorgen om levering en facturatie

Bug#814306: ITP: spin -- a software verification tool

2016-02-09 Thread Tom Lee
available here: https://github.com/thomaslee/spin-debian Initial indications are the packaging will be relatively simple with some minimal patches. Further reading: http://spinroot.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIN_model_checker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promela http://spinroot.com/spin/s

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-17 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 09:53:52 +0100, Tom H wrote: >> >> Lennart didn't even say that he wanted to get rid of "EnvironmentFile=". >> >>> From the same-named thread on systemd-devel@: >> >&g

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-10 Thread Tom H
Sorry. Not meant for list. :( On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Tom H wrote: > Off-list. > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> >> What is the advantage of having a optional-merged-/usr? > > Imagine the opposition if this had been propos

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-10 Thread Tom H
Off-list. On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > What is the advantage of having a optional-merged-/usr? Imagine the opposition if this had been proposed as a non-optional change! (BTW, I'll take this opportunity to thank you for two of your recent proposals, the re-work of

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-10 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:03 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2016-01-04 11:30, Marc Haber wrote: >> >> Please also notice that this is the only option for ExecStart in >> systemd units. Well played, Lennart. > > Similarly skeleton-based init scripts use the full path as well. It helps if > you can st

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Iustin Pop wrote: > On 2016-01-03 12:59:01, Tom H wrote: >> >> I don't like usr-merge because it goes against my historical >> expectation that "/{,s}bin" be separate from their /usr namesakes and >> contain binaries

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Daniel Reurich wrote: > On 03/01/16 22:33, Philip Hands wrote: >> Daniel Reurich writes: >>> Because systemd doesn't work without /usr on the root partition isn't a >>> good reason either. >> >> You are right ... it is a poor reason, because it is pure fantasy.

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 03:53:03PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Jan 01, Ian Jackson wrote: >> With a merged /usr you would be able to serve the whole OS over NFS (and >> even share it among multiple systems without the constant threat o

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-11 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Bjørn Mork writes: >> >> "/usr/lib/sysctl.d/" is systemd specific. Dropping files there won't do >> anything unless you run the systemd-sysctl service. > > Sorry, should have researched this better first. sysctl WILL use > "/usr/lib/sysctl.d

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-11 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Tom H writes: >> >> systemd isn't the first package to allow/promote shipping distro >> settings in "/lib" or "/usr/lib" and overriding them via "/etc"; udev >> and polkit/policykit

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-11 Thread Tom H
if _both_ local changes and distribution changes happened > and ask the use what to do in this case. > > Adopting the systemd way here deprives our users of this advantage, > reducing Debian's operation safety. > > Just imagine Tom Smith having copied /lib/systemd/foo.service to &

Re: Q: why binary-log by systemd-journald is not enabled by default?

2015-05-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Hideki Yamane, 2015-05-10] >> On Sun, 10 May 2015 00:56:43 -0300 >> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >>> >>> And I wish it would keep /var/log/dmesg (and its rotation). That thing is >>> really useful for user support when dealing with

Bug#764252: ITP: librocket -- User interface middleware package based HTML and CSS

2014-10-06 Thread Tom Mason
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tom Mason * Package name: librocket Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : CodePoint Ltd, Shift Technology Ltd, and contributors * URL : http://librocket.com * License : MIT Programming Lang: C++ Description : User

Bug#754504: ITP: libpedantic-clojure -- A Clojure library designed to be used with pomegrante to check for common unexpected cases.

2014-07-11 Thread Tom Marble
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tom Marble * Package name: libpedantic-clojure Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Nelson Morris * URL : https://github.com/xeqi/pedantic * License : EPL-1.0 Programming Lang: Clojure Description : A Clojure

default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:28:56 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 02/20/2014 09:02 PM, Tom H wrote: Thanks for your answer and apologies for the delay in responding but my $dayjob's been keeping me very busy. >> What features does sysvinit+openrc have that sysvinit+sysv-rc+inss

default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:19:30 +0900, hero...@gentoo.org wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen writes: >> >> It's probably better to just contribute your changes to the sysv-rc >> version and so make that one able to manage openrc in addition to the >> others it already knows how to. No point in forking it. > >

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Tom H
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:50:53 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > It's not necessarily the init script author who might want the degrees > of freedom, but the local system administrator. > > The most basic is the idea that whether you can control (via shell > scrpit fragments) whether or not a service

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Tom Perdido
As a matter of personal preference I would like to see something other than gnome as default. I've had much better luck converting users from windows, specifically older and middle aged users, with xfce or lxde. But this conversation really goes back to the init conversation. On which I suggest we

Fwd: ITP: capnproto -- Cap'n Proto: a fast data interchange format & capability-based RPC system.

2013-08-15 Thread Tom Lee
Gmail thwarted my attempts to add the X-Debbugs-CC header, so I'm forwarding this ITP on manually. Relevant bug number is 719782 Cheers, Tom -- Forwarded message -- From: Tom Lee Date: Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 3:02 AM Subject: ITP: capnproto -- Cap'n Proto: a

Re: Fwd: /etc/hosts and resolving of the local host/domainname - 127.0.0.1 vs. 127.0.1.1

2013-08-08 Thread Tom H
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 13:08:28 -0400, Thomas Hood wrote: (I had an exchange of emails with Thomas off-list and he suggested that I reply on-list.) > With the nsswitch configuration > > hosts: files ... dns ... myhostname > > myhostname resolves the system hostname if nothing else does so > first.

Re: Dual licensing for KDE-Oxygen Icons

2013-02-14 Thread Tom Schindl
Hi Sune, Thanks this is how I also always interpreted it as well, one can simply choose. Oxygen was dual licensed from the beginning but the 2 option was removed with http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/oxygen-icons/COPYING?r1=699615&r2=760422 5 years ago. Tom Am 14.02.13 10:15, sch

Dual licensing for KDE-Oxygen Icons

2013-02-14 Thread Tom Schindl
;m trying to do this. You can take a look at my blog http://tomsondev.bestsolution.at/2013/02/13/fed-up-with-famfamfam-icons-for-eclipse-org-lets-get-oxygen-icons/ Thanks for your help Tom -- B e s t S o l u t i o n . a tEDV

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-26 Thread Tom Heady
, but if help is needed, I volunteer to co-maintain such a package. The files and instructions are there, if you want to create a .deb for it, hack away! Feel free to let me know if any of my setup instructions are unclear. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#594907: ITP: kspsig -- Key Signing Party signature verification tool

2010-08-30 Thread Tom Marble
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tom Marble * Package name: kspsig Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Tom Marble * URL : http://github.com/tmarble/kspsig * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: Python Description : Key Signing Party signature

Re: Attracting new volunteers to Debian using stackoverflow.com

2009-12-22 Thread Tom Feiner
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:09 AM, George Danchev wrote: > There is no better ad than the Debian swirl itself. > > P.S. this discussion is probably best suited for -project. > Thanks for the response, you're right, I'll post this in -project, we can discuss it there. To

Re: Attracting new volunteers to Debian using stackoverflow.com

2009-12-22 Thread Tom Feiner
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Harry Rickards wrote: > 2009/12/20 Tom Feiner : >> Hi, >> >> stackoverflow.com, which is a website featuring questions and answers on >> a wide range of topics in computer programming, has just offered [1] >> free advertising fo

Attracting new volunteers to Debian using stackoverflow.com

2009-12-20 Thread Tom Feiner
developers, so asking for new volunteers in stackoverflow.com will raise awareness of debian needing new maintainers. What do you think? Should we offer a Debian related ad? Thanks, Tom Feiner [1] http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/free-vote-based-advertising-for-open-source-projects/ [2] http

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-04 Thread Tom Feiner
Hi, > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: >> Hi Tom, >> >> On Montag, 2. November 2009, Tom Feiner wrote: >>> Is /var/cache really such a bad option? I mean, the entire web content >>> is re-generated from templates & graphs are re-g

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Tom Feiner
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Tom Feiner writes: > >> Is /var/cache really such a bad option? I mean, the entire web content >> is re-generated from templates & graphs are re-generated from the rrd >> databases every 5 minutes. So ev

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-11-02 Thread Tom Feiner
rs might not know a good answer such a question and will probably just stick with the defaults, so suggesting /var/www/munin will just keep the current non FHS complaint status quo. Regards, Tom Feiner signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Packages that download/install unsecured files

2009-09-18 Thread Tom Feiner
Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2009-09-18, Tom Feiner wrote: >> Looks like this method works well for clamav-data and other similar packages >> which needs to update databases frequently on stable/oldstable. > > clamav-data is scheduled for deletion as soon as volatile moves

Re: Packages that download/install unsecured files

2009-09-18 Thread Tom Feiner
amav-data and other similar packages which needs to update databases frequently on stable/oldstable. Regards, Tom Feiner signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Packages that download/install unsecured files

2009-09-17 Thread Tom Feiner
especially if the user puts this script in cron under the root user. (There are probably many more ways to attack, but this is the most obvious way). I hope this clarifies why I think we should find a better solution to this issue. Regards, Tom Feiner signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#534429: ITP: haskell-utf8-string -- Haskell Library for operating on UTF8 strings

2009-06-24 Thread Tom Rauchenwald
8 lists and back, and for reading and > writing > UTF8 without truncation. > Hi, this is the same as libghc6-utf8-string-dev isn't it? -tom -- Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it. -- Erik Naggum -- To

Bug#530666: ITP: imagevis3d -- desktop volume rendering application for large data

2009-05-26 Thread Tom Fogal
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tom Fogal * Package name: imagevis3d Version : 1.0rc1 Upstream Author : ImageVis3D developers * URL : http://www.imagevis3d.org/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C++ Description : desktop volume rendering

Re: US mirror troubles

2007-09-05 Thread Tom Moore
I get the same thing as well. Lots of my machines hang on pulling package lists sometimes, and they hang for sure on package updates. Tom On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:41:51PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Hi, > > 35.9.37.225, in http.us.debian.org, and ftp.us.debian.org,

Is bug #399214 release critical? (Upgrade from version not in debian currently)

2006-12-18 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
. -- Tom Cato Amundsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.solfege.org/ GNU Solfege - free ear traininghttp://www.gnu.org/software/solfege/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-27 Thread Tom Rauchenwald
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:48:51 -0800 Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well parroted. Since I can see you don't understand the difference > > between main and contrib, I will point you to it. Please see 2.2.1 and > > 2.2.2 in policy.

Bug#329631: ITP: binutils-msp430 -- Binutils files for the Texas Instruments MSP430 family of microprocessors

2005-09-22 Thread Tom Parker
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tom Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: binutils-msp430 Version : 2.16 Upstream Author : FSF (well, I'm fairly sure they're the main copyright holders) * URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/bin

Bug#284978: general: libgmp segfaults on generating 48402688-bit random number

2004-12-11 Thread Tom Womack
e the first mpz_urandomb() call, it still segfaults in the same place. Tom

Re: Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-09 Thread Tom
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:06:48PM +0100, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: > freedesktop entry features > debian menu file features > > Therefore you can do a lossless transition from .desktop to menu, but not > the other way around. It makes sense to use the .desktop standard. I know what you mea

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

2003-12-09 Thread Tom
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:12:13AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > . Could you please try > to keep debian-devel posts to well-thought-out [1] technical content, Sure. I'd also ask everyone to keep their anti-American, anti-Bush SIGs and random comments out of both lists. I have acted like a jack

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

2003-12-09 Thread Tom
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:45:58PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > As for acting like a Jackass, the Johnny Knoxville and his colleagues are > very > talented entertainers who work hard. I wouldn't compare them to you in any > way. Oh, I dunno. I got *your* attention. But chill the hell out

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security

2003-12-06 Thread Tom
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 11:13:05AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > And then again I question your judgement. What, pray, is this > good thing that is going to go away? "Hey hey I saved the world today Everybody*s happy now The bad things gone away And everybody*s happy now The good thing*

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security

2003-12-06 Thread Tom
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 01:51:23AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Drop the imperatives, and we shall get along a lot better. > Better still, roll up your sleeves and make it happen, and > you'll earn my respect, and my support. How about "fuck up again and watch your good thing go awa

Re: The term "Custom Debian Distribution" (Was Re: [custom] The term "flavor" and encouraging work on Debian)

2003-12-05 Thread Tom
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:36:20AM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Then that discussion needs to be resolved so that a solution can be made > that is in Debian main. It's useful to try to clarify the terms so people can speak the same language, but as soon as you categorize anything somebody's go

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security

2003-12-05 Thread Tom
Let me start by saying I basically understand your last point: it's not worth it because it won't work. On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 04:01:42AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > who follow secire processes. Blowing 40k collectively is unlikely to > buy us much security. Like I said, it may be that i

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

2003-12-04 Thread Tom
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:13:49PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Not really; he just has to set things up ahead of time. This is like > claiming the attacker has to be present in order to sniff your password from > a telnet session (he doesn't; he just has to have been around at any time > bef

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

2003-12-04 Thread Tom
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 02:23:54PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:19:22PM -0800, Tom wrote: > You must be joking. If the developer's system is compromised, and he logs > into another system after that time, that system can be easily compromised > al

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security

2003-12-04 Thread Tom
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:43:21AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Snippy, aren't we? Usually it is better to have basic logic > straight before you try for a mistaken sense of haughtiness. My logic is correct; apparently my understanding of the goals of the Debian project is not. I al

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security

2003-12-03 Thread Tom
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:14:29PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Let me reiterate. You want to set up something with the Debian Project's > machines so that I have to pay for the privilege of contributing? > > Thanks, but no thanks. Volunteers don't work that way. > No sweat, that's totally

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security

2003-12-03 Thread Tom
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:24:07AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Heh. Your grasp of the practicality of the situation is > slipping. Not only do these guys donate a fairly expensive chunk of > billable hours and expertise, they must pay to be able to volunteer? Sure, if you care about

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security

2003-12-03 Thread Tom
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:26:15AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Guess what the median age of a Debian developer is. Don't know, don't care. > Volunteer organization have dues? Yes, I don't know what planet you're from, but on this planet the Rotarians, Kiwanas, Civitans, Knights

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security

2003-12-03 Thread Tom
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:28:30AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Sender: Tom Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yeah, somebody else pointed that out. It's bullshit that mutt was doing that to me. My /etc/email-addresses: # This is /etc/email-addresses. It is part of the exim package

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security

2003-12-03 Thread Tom Badran
gives the jist of why smart cards are _much_ better than magnetic strips for instance. Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\| Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID pgpwrVEhZvy8M.pgp Description: signature

Re: Install Images

2003-12-03 Thread Tom Badran
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 18:12, Andreas Metzler wrote: > http://freedesktop.org/~daniel/d-i/ > cu andreas You star ;) Thanks Tom -- ^__^ | Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\| Department of Computing |

Install Images

2003-12-03 Thread Tom Badran
Is there anywhere i can download debian-installer beta images (im getting a new laptop tommorow), prefereably with support for reiserfs filesystems? Gluck still isnt working and i cant seem to find mirrors anywhere. Thanks Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security [Was: Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call]

2003-12-03 Thread Tom
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:06:07AM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > > So you've aided telemarketers and worked for Microsoft? Is your last > name Darkness, middle name Prince of? Satan fell because he wanted to know. So do I. I'm a contrarian. I believe the opposite of whatever I'm confronted wit

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security [Was: Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call]

2003-12-03 Thread Tom
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:45:49AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Share the crack. In my experience kids in college and right out tend to freak out over the thought of having to spend a few dollars of disposable income, because they don't have any :-) Hey, laugh if you want, most organizatio

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security [Was: Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call]

2003-12-03 Thread Tom
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:20:57AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > How about including your full name somewhere in your posts too then? > I find it a bit off-putting to discuss security with someone who's > obscuring their identity. Ha Ha Ha what a joke. I don't want to be googled for all etern

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

2003-12-03 Thread Tom
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:10:28PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Are you going to pay for all those smartcards plus their readers? > Including any smartcards for possible future DD's? > > If not, I suggest we forget about this, as it won't be feasible. I don't think the USB models cost that

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

2003-12-03 Thread Tom
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:06:33PM +0100, Artur R. Czechowski wrote: > > What is a "RSA token"? > Device used in some internet banks. You have a device, which has only > chipset, digital pad with on/off switch and display, all embedded in small > case. Authentication is made using C/R algorithm: yo

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security [Was: Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call]

2003-12-03 Thread Tom
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:16:39AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > If something could have prevented something that actually happened, I > say go for it. Oh, one last thing: each DD should pay for the device him/her self and should be required to fly to meet wherever they can pick them up. Wh

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security [Was: Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call]

2003-12-03 Thread Tom
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:03:16AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > [NB: I wanted to take this OT discussion off [EMAIL PROTECTED] and into > private > mail, but your e-mail address was munged in some sort of anti-spam > measure, and not trivially un-mungeable. Please consider providing > information

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security [Was: Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call]

2003-12-03 Thread Tom
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:20:59AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 02 Dec 2003, Tom wrote: > > Yes but the attacker did not "steal" the DD's computer. He rooted it > > remotely. > > So the machine is rooted remotely, the DD logs into a debian box even

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security [Was: Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call]

2003-12-03 Thread Tom
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:34:05PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 02 Dec 2003, Tom wrote: > > I think the DD's should seriously think about requiring smartcards. > > It would have prevented the proxmiate cause of our recent troubles. > > Smartcards are not a m

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

2003-12-02 Thread Tom
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:54:24AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:17:19AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > The only way to have avoided this kernel vulnerability from day-0 of > discovery/fix release would have been to be constantly upgrading to > pre-release kernels. >

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

2003-12-02 Thread Tom
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:46:45PM +, Geoff Richards wrote: > > South of where? USA. North Carolina. Not South Carolina. Remember that. Redhat is in North Carolina. I always wonder if those mascara-wearing Cure-listening long-haired Linux skater punks ever get into trouble out in thos

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

2003-12-02 Thread Tom
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:51:50PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:06:44PM +0800, Isaac To wrote: > >> rather far from changing anything in the kernel memory. Andreas is > >> definitely right

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

2003-12-02 Thread Tom
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:06:44PM +0800, Isaac To wrote: > rather far from changing anything in the kernel memory. Andreas is > definitely right that the hole doesn't look like that it is that dangerous. It messed up your life for a couple weeks. Jesus, it's not the end of the world, but that's

Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion

2003-12-02 Thread Tom
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:20:43PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > There is no security as strong as many people reading the source over > and over. You can't hack their brains to skip over the backdoor code > and you can only obfuscate a backdoor so much. Allright, allright, I'll cry uncle.

Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion

2003-12-02 Thread Tom
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:17:58PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What precautions are taken that the DD actually signed it with the DD's > > private key? > > Set aside the possibility that the DD herself is actually th

Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion

2003-12-02 Thread Tom
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:07:53AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031202 02:55]: > > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > What can we do with deb signatures? > > > > > > For our current problem, the integrity of the debian archive being > > > questioned, the procedure

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