Re: A few changes

1999-09-27 Thread Chris Rutter
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Matthew Vernon wrote: > This is all very well, except for those of us who email from work, and > have their PGP key at home... Well, depending on how paranoid you may be, there are a few solutions: * Keep a copy of at least your `secring.pgp' on a floppy disk, and use

Re: A few changes

1999-09-25 Thread Alexander Koch
On Fri, 24 September 1999 09:12:31 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > This is all very well, except for those of us who email from work, and > have their PGP key at home... Best point of all. At work even on a "private" box my co-workers also have root on it. I don't dare having my private key there.

Re: A few changes

1999-09-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
Samuel Tardieu writes: > On 23/09, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > | I see no point in checking signatures if you don't also reject unsigned > | messages. > > For me, a message with no signature is a message with a bad signature :) This is all very well, except for those of us who email from work,

Re: A few changes

1999-09-23 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 23/09, Marco d'Itri wrote: | I see no point in checking signatures if you don't also reject unsigned | messages. For me, a message with no signature is a message with a bad signature :) pgpRhxmqgVtup.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A few changes

1999-09-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 21, Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, IMO, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] should. I see no point in checking signatures if you don't also reject unsigned messages. -- ciao, Marco

Re: A few changes

1999-09-23 Thread Peter Samuelson
> It would be nice to have a mail server command `resurrect', or > similar, that would bring a dead bug back to life (if it were found > not to be dead, or whatever; several reasons were listed above). You mean "reopen". Existing feature. Presumably "reopen" now also works for bugs closed longer

Re: A few changes

1999-09-21 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 21/09, Darren Benham wrote: | The BTS should check pgp signatures? Well, IMO, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] should. pgpOO3jJIuj3l.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A few changes

1999-09-21 Thread Darren Benham
The BTS should check pgp signatures? On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 10:49:44PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Joseph Carter wrote: > > Essentially, it does exactly what people like me have been complaining it > > didn't do: IGNORE the MIME/PGP/whatever crap and just read the message. > > T

Re: A few changes

1999-09-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Joseph Carter wrote: > Essentially, it does exactly what people like me have been complaining it > didn't do: IGNORE the MIME/PGP/whatever crap and just read the message. That would be bad. At the very least it should complain loudly if the message does not verify. Wichert. -- =

Re: A few changes

1999-09-20 Thread Bjoern Brill
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Darren Benham wrote: > Bugs are no longer deleted!!! We don't have a way for you to access them > directly but there's an "official" location in the database where they're > being archived. We're trying to decide how to serve them up... by > requesting a bug number, obviousl

Re: A few changes

1999-09-20 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 07:18:54PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > > > Does anything special happen if the a message is signed? > > Other than it gets processed? Nope... > > Oh, do you mean that it will work with [EMAIL PROTECTED] If so then I > understand what you are saying, if not then I don't.

Re: A few changes

1999-09-19 Thread Chris Rutter
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Michael Stone wrote: > Definately by package. I can think of several circumstances where this > is useful: when a bug is closed in unstable but someone using stable > wants an explanation for a problem; when a bug is inadvertantly > reintroduced; when a maintainer closes a bug

Re: A few changes

1999-09-19 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 07:18:54PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > Darren Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > All @bugs.debian.org will accept PGP/GPG clearsigned and most forms of > > > > mime > > > > formated email. Most? Let me put it this way, I havn't found one that > > > > it > > > > b

Re: A few changes

1999-09-19 Thread Edward Betts
Darren Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All @bugs.debian.org will accept PGP/GPG clearsigned and most forms of > > > mime > > > formated email. Most? Let me put it this way, I havn't found one that it > > > barfs on but I'm sure there's some evil MUA that will prove it's not > > > perfect

Re: A few changes

1999-09-19 Thread Darren Benham
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 02:27:20PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > With an alias so that X-Debian-CC still works? Not guarenteed... It's not in the "upstream" package so I'd have to remeber to put it in every time I upgrade.. > > Some of the perl scripts have been made -w clean. > > and `use strict;

Re: A few changes

1999-09-19 Thread Edward Betts
Darren Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the new software, the X-Debian-CC was changed to X-Debbugs-CC (more > general) and it appears to be working. With an alias so that X-Debian-CC still works? > Some of the perl scripts have been made -w clean. and `use strict;' clean? > Bugs are no lo

Re: A few changes

1999-09-19 Thread Herbert Xu
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Definately by package. I can think of several circumstances where this > is useful: when a bug is closed in unstable but someone using stable On a side note, it would be nice to be able to see the bugs filed against all binary packages of a source packa

Re: A few changes

1999-09-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Bugs are no longer deleted!!! We don't have a way for you to access them > directly but there's an "official" location in the database where they're > being archived. We're trying to decide how to serve them up... by > requesting a bug number, obviousl

Re: A few changes

1999-09-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 04:09:17PM -0700, Darren Benham wrote: > Bugs are no longer deleted!!! We don't have a way for you to access them > directly but there's an "official" location in the database where they're > being archived. We're trying to decide how to serve them up... by > requesting a

Re: A few changes

1999-09-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 04:09:17PM -0700, Darren Benham wrote: > In the new software, the X-Debian-CC was changed to X-Debbugs-CC (more > general) and it appears to be working. Oh yeah, indeed :) > Some of the perl scripts have been made -w clean. Ueber-Cool. > Bugs are no longer deleted!!! W

A few changes

1999-09-18 Thread Darren Benham
I thought some of you might be interested in a few changes that have been made to the BTS software... In the new software, the X-Debian-CC was changed to X-Debbugs-CC (more general) and it appears to be working. Some of the perl scripts have been made -w clean. A column was added to http