Re: loosing dependencies: Depends: on logrotate

2008-01-23 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:19:20PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > 0: And actually, it's not clear to me why syslog-ng doens't depend on > logrotate. I've ran plenty of machines logging directly to .../$HOST/$/$MM/$DD/$SERVICE -- no rotation there. -- :(){ :|:&};: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-04 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Peter Busser wrote: Summary: i can see no significant differences between the paxtest output - all the differences seem to be bogus, see the details below. Fact is: There is a difference in paxtest output between PaX and exec-shield. And it is not a difference in exec-shield's advantage. Peter, no

Re: Bug#194705: ITP: yavipin -- daemon for creating secure tunnels

2003-05-26 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 08:49:06PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > * Package name: yavipin How does it differ from OpenVPN? -- :(){ :|:&};:

Re: reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-29 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:16:20PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > Do we have a library in Debian that provides reliable stream based > communication over UDP? > > I want to be able to deal with asymetric links and end-points that change IP > address so TCP won't work. Why would TCP have

Re: Security notification script

2002-08-29 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:31:34PM +0100, Rob Bradford wrote: > I have written a python script that allows you to compares locally > installed packages with those on security.debian.org. Furthermore it > provides a description of the problem/DSA name if the package is > mentioned in the DSA RDF. >

Re: /dev/plex86 permissions

2002-01-09 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Currently /dev/plex86 defaults to mode 666 on devfs. Is this really desired? > > Perhaps we should have a plex86 group and make the device node default to > mode 660 and group plex86? Note to people who are unfamiliar with devfs.. Ac

Re: Bug#126750: klogd should optionally be started from init(8)

2001-12-29 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Florian Weimer wrote: > > The package installation scripts should offer to run klogd from > > inittab, since klogd regularly dies in OOM situations and is not > > restarted if the current mechanism is used. IMHO the right solution is to slowly

Re: Orphaning all packages -- adopting syslog-summary

2001-09-16 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: syslog-summary > Description: Summarize the contents of a syslog log file. > This program summarizes the contents of a log file written by syslog, > by displaying each unique (except for the time) line once, and also > the number of times su

Re: isync vs mailsync

2001-09-07 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - delete message on client => gets transfered again on next download. > > Not if you can set up your mail client properly. If using mutt, set > > maildir_trash. > I typed in "rm Maildir/cur/*" and all messages were copied over again > from scratch. Noth

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-27 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Anthony Towns writes: > + mpg123 uploaded 125 days ago, out of date by 115 days! > mpg123-alsa is uninstallable (needs alsa-base 0.4, which is no > longer available?) mpg123 won't work with the newer ALSA, and there seems to be no real mpg123 activity. I'll drop ALSA

Re: egcs/gcc?

2001-01-06 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 06:08:44PM +, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 19:03:45 +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > > - x25tap > > > - kerneli crypto patches > > > - ReiserFS > > In that case ReiserFS is a really bad example, it

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-30 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 11:47:44PM +, Mark Seaborn wrote: > They are unrelated if they do not need to communicate (as an > example). If they do not need to communicate, they may as well run on > different machines, in which case they can use different versions of > libc. But I want to be abl

RFP: secret-agent -- ssh-agent-like system for GnuPG etc

2000-12-29 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:43:59PM +, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > http://www.vibe.at/tools/secret-agent/ > > GPL > > Secret Agent stores your secrets in a secure manner. > > Its main use at the moment is with GnuPG (an e-mail encryption/signation > sol

Re: test -d /usr/man && mail submit@bugs

2000-12-28 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:08:08PM +, Chad Miller wrote: > I noticed that the FHS2.1 doesn't have /usr/man -- only /usr/share/man. > On this box, there are... > > $ find /usr/man -exec dpkg -S {} \; |cut -d: -f1 |grep -v , |sort |uniq [...] > mpg123 Not. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dpkg -l

Re: RFP: WayV -- gesture based user interface

2000-09-11 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:12:35PM +, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > 2. Initially some programs that work by extending the functionality of > > the mouse to allow gestures to represent actions, i.e. draw a C and > > xcalc starts, draw an N and Netscape starts, etc. > I maintain a package called libs

RFP: Test::Cmd (libtest-cmd-perl) -- automated testing framework

2000-09-10 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist The Perl module is in CPAN. --8<-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ perl -MCPAN -e shell; ... cpan> i Test::Cmd ... DESCRIPTION Portable test infrastructure for commands CPAN_USERID KNIGHT (Steven Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) CPAN_VERSION 1.01 CPAN_F

RFP: LXR -- Linux Cross-Reference, web-based C source cross referencer

2000-09-10 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist http://lxr.linux.no/ (seems to be currently down - see google cache at http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:lxr.linux.no/+lxr&hl=en) --8<-- Motivation The Linux Cross-Reference project is the testbed application of a general hypertext cross-referencing tool. (Or

RFP: WayV -- gesture based user interface

2000-09-10 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist http://wayv.sourceforge.net/ --8<-- 1. Experiment with human computer interaction, especially gesture based computing. 2. Initially some programs that work by extending the functionality of the mouse to allow gestures to represent actions, i.e. draw a C and xcalc

RFP: xxdiff -- graphical diff & merge

2000-09-10 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist http://xxdiff.sourceforge.net/ --8<-- What is xxdiff? xxdiff is a file comparator and merge tool. It is an open-source replacement for Rudy Wortel's xdiff which comes with SGI machines (which was itself inspired by SGI's gdiff). The aim for version 1.0 of xxdiff

RFP: iGal -- online Image GALlery generator

2000-09-10 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist iGal: online Image GALlery generator http://www.stanford.edu/~epop/igal/ --8<-- [ What is iGal? ] iGal is a Perl-based program that can generate and publish an entire online picture show (HTML slides, thumbnails and index page included) with just one co

ITP: freeswan

2000-03-24 Thread Tommi Virtanen
I intend to package FreeS/WAN, the Linux IPSec framework, available at www.freeswan.org. I can hopefully provide kernel-patch packages for 2.0, 2.2 and 2.3 (2.4) kernels. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],havoc,gaeshido}.fi,{debian,wanderer}.org,stonesoft.com} unix, linux, debia

Need help with OpenSSH & X authorization

2000-03-18 Thread Tommi Virtanen
severity 59862 normal thanks To the Release Manager: This is an RC bug I cannot reproduce, it seems rare and probably relates to differences in local configuration or something like that. I'm not very enthusiastic about getting this fixed for potato (and Branden se

ITP: greg

1999-09-21 Thread Tommi Virtanen
I'm packaging greg, http://www.gnu.org/software/greg/ (naturally GPL) --8<-- The Greg testing framework Greg is a framework for testing other programs and libraries. Its purpose is to provide a single front end for all tests and to be a small, simple framework for wr

Intent to package: ezbounce

1999-05-11 Thread Tommi Virtanen
I will package ezbounce (http://druglord.freelsd.org/ezbounce/) - an irc proxy that lets you detach from your session and reattach later. It's GPL. ETA today. -- Havoc Consulting | unix, linux, perl, mail, www, internet, security consulting +358 50 5486010 | soft

Re: Intent to package: olex

1999-01-28 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:33:30PM -0200, Lalo Martins wrote: > While doing my necessary daily check of Slashdot and Freshmeat, > I noticed two programs I will most likely use - one is irssi, a > GTK IRC client that runs in the panel, but I can't package it > now because none of my GTK-1.1 stuff is

Re: Intent to package: daemontools (and cdb)

1999-01-19 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 07:06:21PM +, Edward Betts wrote: > > > According to the README in the CDB archive, the CDB C source is public > > > domain, so if you strip out the docs, etc. you could put it in main. > > Yes. But as that doesn't cover even the manpages, > > or pedantically eve

Re: Intent to package: daemontools (and cdb)

1999-01-18 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 10:45:34AM +0200, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > > Also, Exim uses a GPL'ed CDB. From spec.txt.gz: > > . Support for the cdb (Constant DataBase) lookup method is > > provided by code contributed by Nigel Metheringham of Planet Online > > Ltd.

Re: Intent to package: daemontools (and cdb)

1999-01-18 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:34:43PM +1300, Carey Evans wrote: > According to the README in the CDB archive, the CDB C source is public > domain, so if you strip out the docs, etc. you could put it in main. Yes. But as that doesn't cover even the manpages, or pedantically even the Ma

Re: dhcpcd should probably be in base and on the boot floppies

1998-10-11 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 10:32:22AM +0100, John Lines wrote: > > I believe this is adequate need to get dhcpcd moved into base, > > and onto the boot floppies. > Also in a corporate environment many people are running DHCP servers to > provide network information to Windows 95 systems. It would be g

Re: LyX: just about the only word processor in debian

1998-06-21 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 04:32:04PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My package database lists LyX in the "obsolete" category - IMO > this is a shame. If it has disappeared from debian, I believe something > *needs* to come up soon to replace it. There's LyX and KLyX, a KDE version o

URGENT: Uploaded ssh 1.2.25-0.1 (source i386) to non-us

1998-06-13 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Maintainer: Tommi Virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: ssh- a secure replacement for rlogin, rsh, and rcp ssh-askpass - under X, asks user for a pasphrase for ssh-add Changes: ssh (1.2.25-0.1) frozen unstable; urgency=high . * The upstream version now uses binaries ending

Re: ssl browsers

1998-06-12 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 03:37:11PM +0100, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > I wanted to know what ssl-enabled browsers we have in debian now. Also > does anybody know if ftps:// is a valid URL for ssl-enabled ftp? fortify (in non-US) can patch Netscapes to support reasonable crypto.

Opinions: Fortify to include files for Solaris etc.

1998-06-07 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Hi. Please see bug #21271, and give me your opinion in private Email - I'll summarize if necessary. Fortify is a program that binary-patches Netscape to support strong cryptography. It can patch Linux/i386 Netscapes, but also Solaris Netscapes and many other

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 08:05:00PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > 5. Open Development. > I am proposing development visible to all, but not a free-for-all. > A core group of limited size to maintain the base system and oversee > the rest probably _is_ necessary. I am not planning to

Re: installation report of hamm 26.4.

1998-04-30 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 09:22:20PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > g) cvs is in default ! no ! most people don't use it, and it contains a > server, that has to be configured. this is work, and for people who > don't know cvs its very confuseing. The casual user has no need

Re: Re^2: Debian 2.0 release requirements (8bits)

1998-01-10 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 08:11:10PM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > Aren't you questioning my right to do that? :) > > AY> While this can be of importance to some users, it can be quite > > AY> annoying to others. > > ??? Please remember, a lot of languages need 8 bit clean programs. Non 8 > > bit

Re: Self Referencing depends

1998-01-07 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 11:49:46AM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages > > > that had/have a self referencing depends, ie: > > > > > I just want to be sure that this IS a packaging bug and not something done > > > deliberat

Re: ytalk up for adoption

1998-01-04 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 10:34:09PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > I've been maintaining 'ytalk'. I don't actually use it any more, and it's > the only X-based thing I maintain except xtrkcad, which is a binary-only > package that I don't have to futz with much. Therefore, I'd like to stop > mainta

Can I take wml and eperl?

1997-12-21 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Current situation: Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> maintains wml and eperl. Last mentions of him in changelogs is Oct/Sep.. There are new versions out, both packages suffer a bug, etc. If no-one protests I'll make new version