Re: More about GFDL

2005-04-23 Thread Brian May
as Maciej> well? It might be better to ask this question on debian-legal. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Key Signing in Vancouver, BC

2005-04-26 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 04:53:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey! Shaun Jackman generously offered to meet in New Westminister over > lunch to exchange gpg signatures > > Meeting other debian/linux/open source folks would be totally awesome! If you're willing to cross the border, you co

Bug#306694: ITP: qt-x11-opensource -- Qt 4 cross-platform C++ application framework

2005-04-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: qt-x11-opensource Version : 4.0 beta 2 Upstream Author : Trolltech AS * URL or Web page : http://www.trolltech.com * License : Dual GPL/QPL Description : Qt 4 cross-platform C++ application framework Qt is a cross-plat

Re: Bug#306694: ITP: qt-x11-opensource -- Qt 4 cross-platform C++ application framework

2005-04-27 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:10:44PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Brian Nelson] > > * Package name: qt-x11-opensource > > Version : 4.0 beta 2 > > Upstream Author : Trolltech AS > > Is there some reason for the "-opensource" in t

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-05-01 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 09:56:42AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:04:35PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > A Replaces without a Conflicts is I think always wrong. > > No, absolutely not. See policy, section 7.5, for details -- especially > section 7.5.1. Policy i

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-10 Thread Brian May
#x27;t want to use an initramfs to initialize it. Or if you want /usr to be shared between computers but don't want to share all of /. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adduser: what is the difference between --disabled-password and--disabled-login

2005-05-14 Thread Brian May
0:53 snoopy sshd[15846]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for jan from localhost [3] "Account deactivated" option in "LDAP Account Manager". I haven't worked out how this is stored in LDAP yet. No messages displayed to the user. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adduser: what is the difference between --disabled-password and--disabled-login

2005-05-15 Thread Brian May
have any downside. Perhaps the only exception I can think of is if the account is locked due to "too many login attempts" as opposed to "password expired" or "account has expired" or some other predictable reason. Then, yes, that would be a problem. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Against which package should this go?

2005-05-15 Thread Brian May
have the time or patience to learn that awful-programming-language-that-requires-lots-of-nested-brackets... errr... I mean LISP... right now. ;-) However, this won't work anyway for people stuck using lesser MUAs (e.g. mutt), fake MUAs (e.g. evolution), or worse (e.g. anything written b

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-18 Thread Brian May
s kept accurate via some other means. You could argue based on this, /lib isn't designed to be shared, so you still need to split it into /usr/lib and /lib. Alternatively you could argue only /lib/modules isn't sharable, I guess. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUB

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-18 Thread Brian May
what the point would be. Peter> You would put up with all *that* for a 6-megabyte savings Peter> on your root filesystem? It would be more then 6 megabyte savings on the root file-system if /usr was moved to /. That was the original point I responded to. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PRO

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-19 Thread Brian May
rect solution to fix the file system? Disclaimer: I don't care too much either way. It is perhaps worth noting that a package I maintain does use /usr/lib/$packagename/* for inetd servers, and this reduces file conflicts with other packages. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

kernel security bug #307900

2005-06-04 Thread Brian May
? Does this mean people who want secure pre-compiled kernels have to resort to unstable until the issue is fixed? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel security bug #307900

2005-06-05 Thread Brian May
rnel-source version 2.6.8-16"? Again, I think it would be much quicker, easier, and less prone to errors if the DSAs where mentioned in the relevant kernel-image-change too. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD image problem

2005-06-07 Thread Brian Teeman
> Is there any way that the source can be remastered so that it fits on 2 dvd. Seems kind of daft that it stretches to three dvd for the sake of 212mb. If it can be squeezed onto two dvd then we will be able to press the dvd as a double sided dvd. As it is right now there has to be a third dvd.

Re: Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD image problem

2005-06-07 Thread Brian Teeman
ied with. Therefore surely there is no need for succh an offer as all the source for i386 is supplied. Debian really needs to learn that if it is ever to achieve a real distribution status then it needs to work with CD Vendors and not against them. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD image problem

2005-06-08 Thread Brian Teeman
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:21:15PM +0100, Brian Teeman wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Josh Lauricha wrote: > > > > > On Tue 06/07/05 18:17, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > Dropping a source package might get

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-11 Thread Brian May
and had mounted additional filesystems - the only solution I could come up with was to stop the daemon in the chroot before unmounting the file-system). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-11 Thread Brian May
o very complicated networks. The difficulty with supporting firewalls is that people will expect "if I install package X, then it should automatically adjust the firewall to allow it to work". I really do *not* want to go down this path. The firewall is up to the administrator to decide on, not the package maintainers. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Upgrading to Debian sarge

2005-06-11 Thread Brian May
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-20_powerpc.deb 69301110f8865edd7f2f93d79ad6a715 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-20_powerpc.deb Then again, this package looks old, so maybe the entire mirror is old, and no longer usable. My point though that aptitude should tell you what went wrong

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-11 Thread Brian May
t; there for only 1 symbol on 2.4; didn't check 2.6), and so on Joey> might just make it work. klibc? Not yet in Debian, is there any reason for this? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Keysigning without physically meeting ... thoughts?

2005-06-11 Thread Brian May
ed, using what I believe to be the standard process[1][2][3][4][...]: 1. I claim to be "Brian May". I have a passport that proves that I am in fact "Brian May". I have a drivers license that proves that I am "Brian May". The photos are identical to what I look l

Re: Upgrading to Debian sarge

2005-06-12 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache show libc6 | grep MD5sum MD5sum: Brian> ab0895ee6d8d2cf3b6906eb5228e5c25 Brian> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# md5sum Brian> /var/cache/apt/archiv

shared libraries, bug 313094

2005-06-14 Thread Brian May
hs behind. I don't think the bug reporter used hurd though. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail clients and threading... (was: Re: And now for something completely different... etch!)

2005-06-14 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:06:07PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2005 19.14, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote: > [...] > > Hmmm. Is it just my kmail, or does your mailer produce strange (or no?) > In-Reply-To headers? It's not just you. > All your posts I saw (and none o

Re: Bug#313094: shared libraries, bug 313094

2005-06-18 Thread Brian May
it with Steve> a grain of salt for now. :) Sounds like a much needed feature, IMHO. Good like for getting your changes integrated into debhelper. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Keysigning without physically meeting ... thoughts?

2005-06-18 Thread Brian May
ity hole in master.debian.org that hasn't been discovered/fixed yet), this wouldn't help. Even if you looked up Debian web pages for [EMAIL PROTECTED], you still wouldn't verify that this isn't really my address, as real name is only out by one character. Typo? (Good think

Re: TODO for etch ?

2005-06-20 Thread Brian May
P server... e.g. network tunnels and DNS servers both might need to be started first before the NTP server can be contacted. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: raidtools2 -> mdadm change: woes and problems

2005-06-22 Thread Brian May
ed assembling the RAID with the --update=super-minor option (as well as all the other options), but it didn't seem to help. In the end, I gave up and changed /etc/fstab to the new system. I no longer have access this machine, the other machine doesn't seem to have the problem anymore. How

Re: Bug#315298: ITP: yaird -- Yet Another mkInitRD

2005-06-22 Thread Brian May
in Debian be able to use klibc in Debian for all the user tools (I believe there is already an ITP for klibc). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dummy packages and "Replaces:" field

2005-06-23 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:02:44PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:38:34PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > On 6/23/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > OK. How would I make use of this. I was going to adopt iceme and > > > icepref, but then I

Re: GCC version change / C++ ABI change

2005-07-05 Thread Brian May
an application that uses this library in the one source, by the above criteria I could rebuild the library but not the application, which seems pointless. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debian-uk] Sun have (probably) patented apt-get

2005-07-06 Thread Brian May
ivist Network, said: "The fact that somebody, just by claiming to own a word, can intimidate large companies and powerful law firms shows the damage, to an extent, is already done." In the movie realm, Stoller says that he wrote to Sony in March, objecting to Columbia Pictures' plan t

Re: [Debian-uk] Sun have (probably) patented apt-get

2005-07-06 Thread Brian May
counts as prior-art if you published it in some public forum (not sure of the exact criteria). If it was a private thing, then it doesn't count. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-09 Thread Brian May
quently went very slowly until it was unusable. It took me two reboots of the computer before I finally realized the DOS attack was from *my* own script! It took me another reboot to fix the problem properly. Sometimes it pays to use the full pathname to the executable... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-09 Thread Brian May
x27;t give you access to your newly created package. 4. Make dupload obsolete, and replace with dput. Make dput the default in debrelease. I think dput would have prevented me uploading my unsigned package. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-10 Thread Brian May
don't think it will work from X-Windows when the system is too bogged down to switch to a text console though... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-10 Thread Brian May
time, regardless of regular interruptions, that I am incompetent? You must be perfect! Which means the fact I could not have any definitions of [1] or [2] in your message must be my fault. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compromise of gluck.debian.org, lock down of other debian.org machines

2006-07-29 Thread Brian May
ding disabled. debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: Entering interactive session. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new host key?: Re: compromise of gluck.debian.org, lock down of other debian.org machines

2006-07-30 Thread Brian May
ving old entries from ~/.ssh/known_hosts, I can Osamu> update host key and login. Yes, I got that. Osamu> PS: It would have been nicer if old hosk identification was Osamu> backuped and used in new system. They may have been concerned that the old host identification had been

Re: new host key?: Re: compromise of gluck.debian.org, lock down of other debian.org machines

2006-07-30 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> (note: I am using ssh-krb5 - not that should matter - it Brian> authenticated OK). Brian> This is weird. Maybe I will need to experiment more. I just tried the standard ssh in sa

renaming network interfaces in udev

2006-07-30 Thread Brian May
ed): udevd_event: rename_net_if: error changing net interface name eth1_temp to eth0: timeout which seems really confusing, IMHO. Thanks for any advice. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new host key?: Re: compromise of gluck.debian.org, lock down of other debian.org machines

2006-07-30 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> (note: I am using ssh-krb5 - not that should matter - it Brian> authenticated OK). Brian> This is weird. Maybe I will need to experiment more. Brian> I just tried the standa

Re: Building in chroots hides bugs?

2006-08-01 Thread Brian May
the build - I probably wouldn't notice that there is a minor (perhaps obsolete) feature enabled with no corresponding build-depends. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-03 Thread Brian May
7; in systems like CVS or SVN and we refer to them as 'checkouts'. (bzr also supports "lightweight checkouts", which are like local checkouts, and aren't branches at all.)" Can anyone confirm/deny? My central dislike of bzr is bugs like: http://bugs.debian

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-04 Thread Brian May
:)). No, this was a conversion from baz. Might be the same bug though, hopefully. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

udev vs ldap at startup

2006-08-05 Thread Brian May
ng weird (and perhaps ancient history) on my computer? What should be creating the above users/groups? Could udevd be changed to make debugging these issues easier, e.g. maybe some sort of verbose mode? Should I file any bug reports, if so what packages? Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-05 Thread Brian May
the conversion logic if it Robert> fails to operate for you. Already done so - the Debian bug report I quoted. Curiously though, the problems continue even after the archive appears to be converted successfully - if I do a diff operation, it reports all files as deleted, but if I try to rev

Re: dak now supports ~ in version numbers

2006-08-10 Thread Brian May
(<< 0.9~) Can I assume that the first one will accept version 0.9~rc1, but the second one wont? Or I have that wrong? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: piuparts unprocessed failed logs page

2006-08-10 Thread Brian May
all heimdal-kdc without the realm, and if the realm cannot be guessed by looking up the hostname domain, and if it cannot be found by debconf question, it makes no sense to continue. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: udev vs ldap at startup

2006-08-10 Thread Brian May
l Control OID: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.319 Control Value: 30050201000400 The second query is trying to find out all the groups root is in (is it possible to skip this???). I don't understand the first one. root is defined in /etc/passwd. getent passwd with the LDAP server down lists all local users (includi

Re: Use of generic init script names

2006-08-11 Thread Brian May
the same conffile or configuration file, even if the packages conflict (consider the purge operation - the maintainer scripts - will delete the file even if another packing is using it). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-11 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 12:01 +1000, Brian May wrote: >> Curiously though, the problems continue even after the archive >> appears to be converted successfully - if I do

Re: WTF ? (Fwd: Your message to Yaird-devel awaits moderator approval)

2006-08-14 Thread Brian May
at the bug report gets forgotten - and even then - it is very unclear what to do when the message isn't accepted (or rejected). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WTF ? (Fwd: Your message to Yaird-devel awaits moderator approval)

2006-08-16 Thread Brian May
d: Post by non-member to a members-only list Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel this posting, please visit the following URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/confirm/pkg-med

Re: Trouble building heimdal using

2006-08-16 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Rüdiger" == Rüdiger Ranft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rüdiger>cdbs = 0.4.32 My first guess would be to try back porting cdbs first. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

heimdal & KCM

2006-08-20 Thread Brian May
;t investigated yet how to make KCM be used by default (I think standard upstream might require setting an environment variable). I am also not aware if KCM breaks compatibility with the MIT Kerberos libraries or not. Any suggestions? This is something I would like to get right first go ;-). Th

Re: heimdal & KCM

2006-08-21 Thread Brian May
(finding documentation on KCM is non-trivial - a Google search gives me everything from a male singer through to copper mines, but nothing relating to Kerberos). If it uses its own Kerberos functions for reading the tickets, then that would seem very weird. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-26 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 12:01 +1000, Brian May wrote: >> Curiously though, the problems continue even after the archive >> appears to be converted successfully - if I do a

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-27 Thread Brian May
the revert operation again with 0.9-2. Memory >> usage was still high (205meg at one point), but bounded - much >> better. The operation successfully completed this time. Adeodato> Sounds acceptable to close ##380412, then? Yes, sounds good to me. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-27 Thread Brian May
X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++---==== ii bzrtools 0.9.0-1 Collection of tools for bzr -- Br

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-27 Thread Brian May
y cause for Adeodato> those .pyc files to be there, since bzrtools did not. No - I don't recall running bzr as root, nor have I had any reason to do so. This doesn't mean I didn't do it accidently, but I don't think so. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

BTS wars

2006-09-04 Thread Brian May
removed it yet again, but need to wait for the BTS to process my message to confirm. However, I am starting to get sick of doing this to the same bug report :-(. What gives? Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: BTS wars

2006-09-09 Thread Brian May
Please tell me if I am mistaken... Maybe adding the Nepali translation to localization-config really did fix this bug ;-). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BTS wars

2006-09-10 Thread Brian May
eks later. My thoughts too. Anyway, thanks for re-opening the bug report. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

stale lock files

2006-09-13 Thread Brian May
-( ). Is there any guidelines for checking for stale lock files in a sane manner that doesn't involve the user? Yes, I realize having a home directory on NFS or AFS or SMB might be complications, but most users of these applications don't use these protocols either. Thanks. -- Brian M

Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)

2006-10-04 Thread Brian May
you a list of these packages. It is most useful when finding libraries, but it can be used on packages in all sections. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)

2006-10-04 Thread Brian May
ame file, and then trying to work out why the file is corrupt, that I run out of time to file meaningful bug reports. apt-get on the other hand will tell the user immediately of any problems. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request for virtual package ircd

2006-10-13 Thread Brian May
llation may fail. Also, the server to grab the port first on reboot is largely undefined. Debian really needs infrastructure to manage TCP and UDP ports. Perhaps a bit like update-alternatives, but for ports, not files. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: arches and etch

2006-10-24 Thread Brian Morris
although i have installed debian on 5 machines in the last two years and multiple times for testing on a couple of them, i don't think i have been counted on popcon and most likely never will be. the reasons, multiply: 3 of the five have never gone outside of local network, and in fact only rec

Linux 2.6.18 & etch

2006-10-26 Thread Brian May
Hello, Is there any chance 2.6.18 will make it into etch to solve bugs like #391448 and #389803? Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

testRe: An Urgent Plea For Help

2006-11-02 Thread brian . burns1
test

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-02 Thread Brian May
no, that doesn't grant an RC bug for these reasons. A potentially confusing bug. As to if this bug gets fixed in Etch or not, I really don't care. I have already solve the problem on my systems... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Downgrading the priority of nfs-utils

2006-11-07 Thread Brian May
ly, no. I would be more surprised if it did work. NFS has a reputation of being insecure. I am not aware of any organisations, big/small, that use NFS any more except on restricted sets of computers. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Downgrading the priority of nfs-utils

2006-11-07 Thread Brian May
ba isn't? Isn't this inconstant? Anyway, just some thoughts - personally, for the rare case I need NFS, I am happy to install it myself. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-09 Thread Brian May
is it because you have replaced the package with another one?). This is, IMHO, a limitation of not having configuration files managed by dpkg. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

BTS Question

2006-11-12 Thread Brian May
t was marked as "fixed" in version "1:2.3.3-2" instead of "amavisd-new/1:2.3.3-2". Alternatively, it might be because it is marked as found and fixed for the same version (it was not a bug). What BTS commands should I use to rectify this situation? -- Brian May &

Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-23 Thread Brian May
ebian.org/debian-user/2010/02/msg00295.html Sure about these URLs? Or do we have to wait several years before the messages will get posted? ;-) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt hangs for ever

2006-11-26 Thread Brian May
Hello, Is this a bug in apt? pbuilder update --override-config --configfile /tmp/pbuilder-local.SvMNy19452 W: /home/brian/.pbuilderrc does not exist Upgrading for distribution etch Building the build Environment -> extracting base tarball [/var/cache/pbuilder/base-etch.tgz] -> creating

Re: apt hangs for ever

2006-11-28 Thread Brian May
x27;t help. The only solution I found when I checked last was to run apt-get via strace... I also have plenty of diskspace. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#401779: Subject: ITP: tangerine -- publish music over the local network using DAAP

2006-12-05 Thread Brian Thomason
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: tangerine Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : James Willcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.snorp.net/log/tangerine * License : GPL Description : publish music over the local network using DAAP Tange

Re: Removing sodipodi

2006-12-06 Thread Brian May
ntually I guessed that inkscape was a newer version of sodipodi, and not a competing program. If sodipodi is not removed, at the very least please consider changing the description the package to highlight the fact sodipodi is now obsolete. Unfortunately, as it stands the neither package mentions eac

update-inetd

2006-12-07 Thread Brian May
grades and then re-enables it again after the upgrade is finished (hmmm seems broken just thinking about it). Anyway, in this case, the service is not re-enabled again because the default for this service is not to enable it. Comments? Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UN

Re: BTS: Why no "invalid" or "notabug" tag?

2006-12-11 Thread Brian May
ned? Or what if the blocking bug is fixed in, say the experimental version, but not the unstable version? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: update-inetd

2006-12-11 Thread Brian May
ing the upgrade the daemon may refer to files that are being upgraded (e.g. shared libraries), and as such break badly. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: update-inetd

2006-12-11 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OBAndreas> I don't think one needs to touch inetd.conf at all (or Andreas> any other service descr

Re: ssh-krb5 Conflicts/Replaces behaving oddly with conffiles

2006-12-12 Thread Brian May
ck latest ssh-krb5 (old conffiles not deleted) 2. unpack openssh-server (conflicts is now satisfied) - detect conflicting conffile - replaces ineffective because ssh-krb5 has already been upgraded and no longer satisfies version criteria. - display error. Disclaimer: not an expert. -- B

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-01-05 Thread Brian May
nts. Use recommends instead of depends? Split plugins into separate packages? Just some random thoughts. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-01-05 Thread Brian May
;= 2.3.5-1), libmysqlclient15off Mike> (>= 5.0.24-2) | libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libpq4 (>= 8.1.4) | Mike> libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.3.8) Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Recommends: ${mysql:Depends}, ${postgres:Depends}, ${sqlite:Depends} -- Brian May <[EMAIL

update-inetd

2007-01-10 Thread Brian May
? * is solving this worthy of etch? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-17 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Jonas" == Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> With the understanding that we're now not talking about Sven Luther but >> a hypothetical highly abusive person, I wish to ask Brian the following >> question: do yo

Bug#358480: RM: krb4 -- obsolete

2006-03-22 Thread Brian May
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Mikael asked me to remove krb4 from Debian because he no longer has time: Mikael> I'm not maintaining it and I think that all kerberos4 Mikael> support should be removed from debian because it's Mikael> unsecure and the kerberos4kth packages sh

Re: Bug#359340: ITP: opencity -- a 3D city simulator game

2006-03-28 Thread Brian May
nload a free SimCity 4 like, forget OpenCity. err... Could the extended description possibly say more along the lines of what the packages does do as opposed to what it doesn't do? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Closing a bug vs. tagging wontfix

2006-04-24 Thread Brian May
design (wontfix) as opposed to being a false bug report (notabug). Notes: [1] For example I have had a bug report telling me a program should change the environment of the calling process. #345443. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-04-30 Thread Brian Eaton
done the work already, I'd be interested in looking at some logs to figure it out. Regards, Brian

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-01 Thread Brian Eaton
On 4/30/06, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/rsync-and-debian.html >> >> Has anyone ever done some log file analysis to figure out how much >> bandwidth

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-01 Thread Brian Eaton
On 5/1/06, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Brian Eaton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060501 15:51]: > The only time delta packages will be a win is for upgrades where the > client has the original package cached. If one does it right, it might be enough if the original package i

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-01 Thread Brian Eaton
On 5/1/06, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Brian Eaton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060501 16:42]: > On 5/1/06, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >If one does it right, it might be enough if the original package is > >*installed*. And that h

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-01 Thread Brian Eaton
ication. Whatever code is working with the patch package needs to be extra careful, since the patch package is untrusted input. If the patches are unsigned, the code that uses those packages will need extra scrutiny. Regards, Brian

Re: id gives conflicting results

2006-05-19 Thread Brian May
expect to see duplicate groups from the "id username" version too. Juha> Can this be related to the not-able-to-access-cdrom problem Juha> and is this a bug? No idea here. "id" seems to indicate you are in the cdrom group... Try bypassing the AFS login stuff (if possible) and see if it changes anything. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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