Re: Status of fab and of his pkgs [Was: ITA: man-db, groff]

2001-01-09 Thread Greg Stark
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ Moving to -devel. ] > > Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > > It's written everywhere: DON'T RUN MAN AS ROOT! Having no idea where it moved from or what the context was I'll blithely wade in with an opinion: Just because the bug is documented doesn't mean it's n

Re: Status of fab and of his pkgs [Was: ITA: man-db, groff]

2001-01-08 Thread Joey Hess
[ Moving to -devel. ] Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > It's written everywhere: DON'T RUN MAN AS ROOT! Tell that to a system administrator who has just booted a broken system into single-user mode and is trying to remember how to remount the root filesystem rw, so he can go fix the password file, which

ITA: man-db, groff

2001-01-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 03:23:03PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm concerned with some breakage in the man program. Here is an example: Both it and groff are maintained by a person who just doesn't seem to give a damn. Let this serve as notice that I plan to take over these packages by force in one