Re: Bug#1011666: need help with groff 1.23.0 (1.23.0~rc3-1 package prepared)

2023-02-27 Thread Alejandro Colomar
In the Linux man pages I write the scripts or commands run to produce a scripted or semi-scripted patch, or when some important information needed to write a patch was gotten from some script. See for example: commit a1eaacb1a569cd492b09c04982cd40b4b733ba3c Author: Alejandro Colomar

Re: Bug#1011666: need help with groff 1.23.0 (1.23.0~rc3-1 package prepared)

2023-03-04 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Colin, On 3/3/23 19:12, Colin Watson wrote: > This isn't really analogous to your situation, though. git-dpm is more > like a workflow tool (such as stgit) than it is like a program you use > to generate one-off scripted patches. I don't think it would be > appropriate or reasonable to try to

Re: Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-05 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Marc wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 08:41:06PM +0100, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > Marc Haber, on 2024-12-03: > > > I'll probably deprecate --allow-bad-names in favor of something that > > > doesn't use the word "bad" (suggestions appreciated). Otoh, adduser in > > > the Red Hat World uses --badnam

Re: Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-05 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Marc, > Homograph attacks would be best mitigated in software reading > /etc/passwd, alerting in their output or logs that the user name they > just printed was composed of strange alphabets. Software that reads /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow is quite sensitive, and should therefore be as simple a