Re: DebToo: Debian, Gentoo-style

2003-08-28 Thread Brian May
mirrors could save by only mirroring the source code, and not binaries for 10+ platforms... Of course there are downsides either way, but there is no dispute that the size of the Debian archive is huge, and mirrors are struggling to keep up as a result. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-29 Thread Brian May
get the source code, this is required by the DFSG ;-). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-29 Thread Brian May
the receiver, it could not be used to verify every sender to the MTAs involved. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

configure web proxy via DHCP server

2003-08-29 Thread Brian May
Is this possible? It would be really "cool"(tm) if I didn't have to reconfigure every program on my laptop to use a different proxy server every time I plug it into a different network. Just venting my irritation for the day... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Accepted kaffe 1:1.1.1-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-30 Thread Brian May
I think it gives the general idea. Such a program could also make it easier to do common BTS tasks, eg. merge duplicate bug reports, etc. If we could make it easier and quicker to write correct changelogs, I think they are more likely to occur. (Assuming such a tool doesn't already exist...) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: configure web proxy via DHCP server

2003-08-30 Thread Brian May
location > (although some browsers might not use it). No, setting http_proxy wont work unless youo log out and back in again, or at least close all your terminal sessions. It won't work for programs like Mozilla. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: configure web proxy via DHCP server

2003-08-30 Thread Brian May
ieve the reference to the PAC file on the client. Then what? I think that there are two cases: 1. browsers that don't support PAC files, eg. lynx, links, and w3m probably don't (correct me if I am wrong). 2. browsers that do support PAC files, but need to be configured to use it for

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-30 Thread Brian May
server between the client and the real server, but that would not work for encrypted SMTP communications. ...and Yes, now that I have enabled SSL on my postfix, at least some spammers do use encrypted SMTP sessions. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Fwd: Processing of ferret_3.0-2_i386.changes

2003-09-01 Thread Brian White
ious files from my home machine. Thanks! -- Brian Original Message Subject: Processing of ferret_3.0-2_i386.changes Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 09:30:44 -0400 From: Archive Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG signature check failed on ferret_3.

Re: vrms and contrib installers (was: Re: "non-free" software included in contrib)

2003-09-02 Thread Brian May
or that they don't > allow distribution of modified versions (including Debian packages > constructed from them). An installer package could create a Debian package "on the fly"... I don't think this would break any licenses. It would also allow vrms to detect it as non-free software. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

can't update pbuilder to unstable

2003-09-06 Thread Brian May
ffile prompt Errors were encountered while processing: libpam-runtime E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -> Aborting with an error -> unmounting proc filesystem -> unmounting dev/pts filesystem -> cleaning the build env -- Brian May >

Re: Howto tell dpkg to not trying to reinstall?

2003-09-06 Thread Brian May
hen: reportbug kernel-image ;-) > I cannot remove the package because that will remove > my kernel also, and it is fine! I am not sure why you would want to remove the package without removing the kernel? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [cjwatson@debian.org: Re: Fwd: Processing of ferret_3.0-2_i386.changes]

2003-09-22 Thread Brian White
> * Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-20 07:37]: > > Neither SCP nor anonymous-FTP methods work and I want to get that > > fixed. > > > > SSH works. SCP doesn't. > > Well, it works for everyone else. So it would be good if you'd find &g

Re: [cjwatson@debian.org: Re: Fwd: Processing offerret_3.0-2_i386.changes]

2003-09-25 Thread Brian White
ebian keyserver. Is there something more I need to do? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- That which we persist in doing becomes easier. It'

Re: Virus emails

2003-09-25 Thread Brian May
am problems! (PS: Make sure you pull *all* the required plugs, just in case your computer has multiple redundant connections...) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [cjwatson@debian.org: Re: Fwd: Processing of ferret_3.0-2_i386.changes]

2003-09-26 Thread Brian White
for an attacker to gain access to our network. I have a "wishlist" bug filed for this. I've avoided changing to OpenSSH at home because I'm unsure how to convert the keys from the SSH2 format to the Ope

Re: Bug#212525: Package contains non-free GNU FDL material

2003-09-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:40:07PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> I did. I feel my packages are not buggy, lacking a position >> statement by the project. > > So, what we ship in main shall not be a function of whether the works in > it are D

Re: [cjwatson@debian.org: Re: Fwd: Processing of ferret_3.0-2_i386.changes]

2003-09-27 Thread Brian White
> Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > I've avoided changing to OpenSSH at home because I'm unsure how to > > convert the keys from the SSH2 format to the OpenSSH format. > [...] > > Afaict ssh-keygen from OpenSSH can do that: > -i

Re: Annoyances of aptitude

2003-10-03 Thread Brian May
happy with the system as is), and resolving these can be rather complicated and tends to put me off. (sorry I don't have any specific examples right now). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: A new way to specify versionned dependencies may be needed

2003-10-03 Thread Brian May
of the package might work fine. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Package verification and "/usr/bin/install" tool replacements

2003-10-04 Thread Brian May
layer would appear to be the wrong layer for this task IMHO. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: New glibc with NPTL in experimental

2003-10-04 Thread Brian May
l tested. Do not build and > upload packages against them. Some intelligence, please :) I gather NPTL is (yet-another) threading library in 2.6.0? Do programs need to be modified / recompiled in anyway? What are the benifits of one over the other? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#214248: info in unstable cannot find documentation

2003-10-05 Thread Brian May
to read it with info's "-f" option. This makes the info documentation > of "heimdal-doc" unusable. Hello, Are there any info experts how are able to help me with this bug? It seems to work fine on stable. Thanks in advance. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: interacting with the press

2005-07-13 Thread Brian May
a task that they may not want to do? Perhaps a more positive tone would help? However, I read the article and didn't see anything negative in it. So I don't see any need for Martin to delegate the press contact task. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: pbuilder status update

2005-07-14 Thread Brian May
0-dev linux-kernel-headers make patch perl perl-modules gnupg libbz2-1.0 libldap2 libreadline5 libusb-0.1-4 makedev libgnutls11 libsasl2 debconf libtasn1-2 libopencdk8 liblzo1 libgpg-error0 libgcrypt11 debconf-english $additional" At the time aptitude wasn't recompiled, so no doubt thi

Re: no time for all debian tasks was: interacting with the press

2005-07-14 Thread Brian May
, etc}" ...as the first version doesn't blame XYZ in anyway. Surely you don't need to provide details what happened? (note: none of this is specific to anybody mentioned in this thread) Notes: [1] Who me? Watch to much Stargate? Never! -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: aspell dictionary packages fail to build

2005-07-17 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:34:05PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > Howdy, > > The aspell dictionary packages build-depend on aspell-bin (>> 0.60). > aspell-bin is now a virtual package provided by aspell, but virtual > packages cannot be versioned, so these build-dependency cannot be > satisfied. > >

Re: BTS version tracking

2005-07-19 Thread Brian May
but it appears you have considered many different situations. Now my top wishlist is support for this new system in apt-listbugs . -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aspell upgrade woes

2005-07-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So aspell changed the library name to libaspell15c2, which breaks all > the existing packages that use libaspell. > > Was this really an ABI change in libaspell? If not, there was no > reason to make the change as I understand it. Were high-sev

Re: aspell upgrade woes

2005-07-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> So aspell changed the library name to libaspell15c2, which breaks all >>> the existing pac

Re: BTS version tracking

2005-07-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > The 'reopen' command takes an optional submitter argument, so it was > difficult to get a version in here unambiguously. Instead, we've > introduced a new 'found' command, which says "I've found the bug in this > version of the package". You can use

Re: aspell upgrade woes

2005-07-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:39:23PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: >> It's a C++ library and the ABI changed due to being compiled with GCC >> 4.0. > >> [Actually, although it's written in C++, AFAIK it only export

Re: aspell upgrade woes

2005-07-20 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 09:52:13AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > However, that fix is not in the stable package of aspell. In stable, > > aspell-bin just depends on libaspell15 (>= 0.60), so a partial upgrade > > o

Re: aspell upgrade woes

2005-07-21 Thread Brian Nelson
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:52:51PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: >> Reintroducing the libaspell15 could cause problems with > /usr/bin/aspell, >> since it actually goes outside the C API of libaspell and uses C++ >> link

Re: Reopening bug closed due to SPAM

2005-07-22 Thread Brian May
d (such as mail headers or SMTP session), and it doesn't protect against replay attacks (unless you add some other mechanism, e.g. include the date and time in the protected part of the message). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: aspell upgrade woes

2005-07-22 Thread Brian Nelson
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: >> OK, very well then, I'll undo the GCC 4 transition for libaspell15. > > Isn't there still a binary-compatibility issue here? I thought that > in an application, there must onl

Re: Who needs libcurl3?

2005-07-27 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Domenico" == Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Domenico> unfortunately heimdal bug #316980 makes curl FTBS :( patches to fix this welcome ;-) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SUMMARY: Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-29 Thread Brian May
licated example, see the Heimdal libraries... This may be important if you require a static version for any reason or your platform doesn't support interdependencies between shared libraries. I think there is at least one OS without good support for shared libraries - what was its name again?

Re: OT: Bruce Perens spamming -devel?

2005-08-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Anders Breindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 02:16, Steve > Langasek wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 06:32:44PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: >> > Unsolicited Commercial Email. Please pay the standard $2000 fee for >> > advertisments on Debian mailing lists. >> Y'know,

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-04 Thread Brian May
their Package files, will they? There may be good reasons to install Linux even if you use The Hurd. For example, consider emulators such as qemu (no I didn't check if this one runs under The Hurd). So omitting these packages from the Package index files on *BSD or The Hurd (if/when this

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 05:28:48PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:20:23AM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > Qingning Huo suggested using diversions to make /usr/bin/git a little > > selector script that lets the admin & user choose between git-the-shell > > and

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-24 Thread Brian May
include every server where multiple implementations exist. Is this really a good idea? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-30 Thread Brian May
ate links) and starting it. When a service is deactivated, the reverse happens. Or perhaps a running some configurable script for each activation/deactivation might be better, that way a package could request deactivation mean "remove listen config option on this port". Might be useful for p

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-31 Thread Brian May
ou don't like this, you would be able to change the config manually. Adding support for multiple IP addresses is an interesting idea, but I am not convinced it is a requirement (especially if it adds significantly to the complexity; I suspect it might). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Bug#326173: RFH: php-pspell

2005-09-02 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 07:32:57AM +, OndÅ?ej SurÜ wrote: > there was three request to enable *spell extensions in php4/5 packages. > Currently nobody from PHP maintainers team wants to add more burden on > his shoulders, hence I request help from our fellow debian developers > to package pspe

KDE non-installable sarge/stable powerpc

2005-09-04 Thread Brian May
n't available in sarge. Is this a known problem? I think this might be because of a broken security update, so I have CCed the security team too. Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wnpp situation

2005-09-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 12:47:33AM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: >> Hi, >> If you go through the list of wnpp bugs you will see alot of >> open bugs which are very very old. >> Especially the RFPs. What about closing an RFP bug >> automatically after the t

Re: curl situation is intolerable

2005-09-13 Thread Brian May
t would be possible to have both packages implement the same ABI and become drop in replacements for each other. Oh, BTW, gnutls isn't a complete 100% solution either, IIRC packages exist that require openssl because the license is GPL incompatible. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wnpp situation

2005-09-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > * Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050913 02:46]: > [ long RFPs ] >> Or don't even open RFP bugs in the first place because they're >> thoroughly useless? > > Do you have a proposal for a

Bug#329795: ITP: zpkg -- a tool to build software distributions based on the Python distutils package.

2005-09-23 Thread Brian Sutherland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: zpkg Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Fred Drake * URL : http://www.zope.org/Members/fdrake/zpkgtools/ * License : ZPL Description : a tool to build software distributions based on the Python distutils pa

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Brian Kimball
r. Why aren't metapackages using Recommends instead of Depends? It seems like that would solve this, at least for us aptitude users. brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#334241: ITP: python-mechanize -- stateful programmatic web browsing

2005-10-16 Thread Brian Sutherland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-mechanize Version : 0.0.9a Upstream Author : Jhon J. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/ * License : BSD Description : stateful programmatic web browsing A lib

Bug#334269: ITP: python-pullparser -- simple "pull API" for HTML parsing

2005-10-16 Thread Brian Sutherland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-pullparser Version : 0.0.6 Upstream Author : Jhon J. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/pullparser/ * License : BSD Description : simple "pull API" for HTML parsing Many

Bug#334279: ITP: cando -- student competency tracker

2005-10-16 Thread Brian Sutherland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: cando Version : 2005.2.2 Upstream Authors: CanDo Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.schooltool.org/products/cando * License : BSD Description : student competency tracker CanDo is an SchoolTo

Re: Bug#334279: ITP: cando -- student competency tracker

2005-10-17 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:33:50AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Brian Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.10.16.2047 +0200]: > > Extra ITP information: > > I am packaging this for unstable so that more people can use this, > > but do not think it

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

2005-10-19 Thread Brian May
ey> include a "Version:" pseudo-header[2]. What is the preferred way of closing bugs that are not bugs (e.g. mistake by the submitter)? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Bug#334632] Your message to Pkg-openssl-devel awaits moderator approval

2005-10-21 Thread Brian May
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-openssl-devel/91facf25272f4a5492f6675f4d7e0611dd80f72e --- End Message --- -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-22 Thread Brian May
ecure - I think the only reason it was requested was because of AFS requirements - does that reason still apply? Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a few tips on proper use of version tracking in the Debian BTS

2005-10-22 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> What is the preferred way of closing bugs that are not bugs Brian> (e.g. mistake by the submitter)? -- Brian May Brian> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Has the "reassign" comma

confused MTA - body != headers

2005-10-23 Thread Brian May
4.50) id 1ETcoa-00032V-E1 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:10:57 +0200 Received: by p9.dpk.berlin.fido (FIDOGATE 4.4.10) id AA10674; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:02:19 +0200 Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:29:36 +0200 From: Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Drop KRB4 support fr

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-23 Thread Brian May
cting with kerberos4kth, due to conflicts between shared libraries used. Does this matter? Is it time to think about removing kerberos4kth from the archive anyway? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-23 Thread Brian May
xed them all. The relevant patch file in debian/patches/012_sharedlibs, regenerate the autoconf patch with debian/scripts/autotools. Requires automake 1.8. There is also the issue of the versioned symbols patch not applying cleanly. Any help appreciated, Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-24 Thread Brian May
ow you damn well Ben> better be." --Orson Scott Card, _Ender's Game_ According to upstream there is some sort of support for krb4 in Heimdal 0.7.1, at least enough to make AFS happy. I haven't yet got my package to compile yet so I don't know if this will be sufficient for

Re: Bug#335790: O: sysv-rc-conf -- SysV init runlevel configuration tool for the terminal

2005-10-25 Thread Brian Nelson
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Orphaning this package now - the maintainer has no time to work on it > and agreed to the orphaning. If you want it: Fix the bugs, change > maintainer, upload a new version. Note that the previous maintainer was also upstream for the package... -- Cap

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Brian May
expectedly receiving mail for a system user that isn't even used (consider $HOME/Maildir), or any number of other unwanted things. However, this has to be done carefully, or you end up doing the wrong thing. e.g. deluser -r $USER, in the past, has been pure evil if the home directory has been changed to "/"! -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: A thought about killing two bird with one stone

2005-10-26 Thread Brian May
efore the network is configured - but it hasn't bothered me enough to investigate why yet.) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL

2005-10-28 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> There have been increasing calls for me to drop krb4 Brian> support in Heimdal (first in bug #315059 and now by Brian> upstream in bug #334632 - it would also solve #236851). It

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-29 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marc> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:54:18 +1000, Brian May Marc> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If the code "just" calls adduser, this would seem to be a bug, >&g

Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?

2005-10-31 Thread Brian Nelson
Benjamin Mesing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > >> assume that an update to a package brings in a changed conffile, and >> because the local admin had changed the conffile, he is asked, and he >> refuses to accept the changed version. > This brings up an issue that is bothering me as a use

Re: todos: command not found

2005-11-03 Thread Brian May
"); $package = stdout(execute("apt-file","search",$file)); } This infinite recursion will take several minutes (maximum) to execute, I think (assuming the if test succeeds). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: per-user temp directories by default?

2005-11-05 Thread Brian May
les to indicate where "/tmp" is. Not only that, but some programs don't even give a clear understandable error if the directory doesn't exist. So if you miss one, beware, you might get unpredictable errors. Can't we just pick one standard name for the environment variable and stick to it? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-proxy

2005-11-06 Thread Brian May
ch means I can't rebuild my package for sarge in order to see if it fixes a bug I encountered while testing another piece of Debian software. ARgghh! Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: device nodes with udev?

2005-11-09 Thread Brian May
aving difficulties without requiring the remote user run screen in multiuser mode. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-10 Thread Brian Nelson
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10469 March 1977, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >>> Rejected: source only uploads are not supported. >> I can't see the rationale for rejecting source uploads, and they used to >> be accepted in the past. > > Because people then fuck up their packages eve

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-11 Thread Brian May
n after recompiling. * Find out what is required to keep AFS support working (assuming I don't already have it). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: device nodes with udev?

2005-11-11 Thread Brian May
-). I don't think it should be too hard, I suspect the package needs to be changed to use the wtmp API in libc6 (assuming my memory is correct and such an API exists). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-11 Thread Brian May
all ? AFAIK apt-listbugs only displays open bugs, if the bug is closed then it won't get displayed. Ideally apt-listbugs needs to be updated to support the new versioning system in the BTS. This could also solve the issue that the mirror you use might be out-of-date and still have a buggy pack

Re: debconf best practices: how to ask for a password?

2008-01-29 Thread Brian May
his way you can see if there is a password or not, and you get visual feedback when entering a password that it is being received too (another issue I have had in the past; not sure why it confused me so much now). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

2008-02-17 Thread Brian May
tar.gz http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-072.ogg http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-072.spx -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposing a new source control header to link to upstream BTSs

2008-03-17 Thread Brian May
d, however I suspect this header is not the solution. Brian May. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

heimdal and testing

2008-04-27 Thread Brian May
imapd> is broken due to #411240 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411240> (shouldn't this be RC?) and a dependency on libkvm-dev <http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=libkvm-dev> which is no longer in Debian. Is there anything I can do about this

Re: heimdal and testing

2008-04-28 Thread Brian May
5-24-heimdal could still enter testing without updating all users of the library at the same time. Maybe this has changed. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question about the libpam-ldap debian package.

2008-05-07 Thread Brian May
ind of tedious to do this manually. Is it possible to automate this without losing my sanity in the process? Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[DSA 1571-1] Heimdal

2008-05-14 Thread Brian May
Apparently, Heimdal in Debian also is affected. I am not aware of any solution other then to manually regenerate all keys. Brian May --- Begin Message --- I strongly advise all readers of this list that use Debian or might have users in your realm (or any realms for which cross-realm key

Re: Mailing lsit code of conduct, again

2008-05-18 Thread Brian May
Debian/etch doesn't even have a reply to list function (although it did the right thing for this email when I did "reply-all"; strange; maybe I am wrong and it really does support MFT at least when replying? Still I can't see how to set it automatically for outgoing emails)

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-22 Thread Brian May
Osamu Aoki wrote: Shorter summary of vote data goes as: cvs 5% subversion9% git-core 3% mercurial 0.6% darcs 0.3% bzr 0.3% Does monotone not get a mention? or was monotone missed? Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

heimdal 1.2

2008-06-05 Thread Brian May
Hello, After messing around with autoconf/automake/libtool stuff for ages, I eventually got to the point where Heimdal 1.2 started compiling. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/brian/tmp/debian/mine/heimdal/heimdal-1.2/lib/sl' Making all in wind make[3]: Entering directory `/home/bria

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-09 Thread Brian May
No responses? No one cares enough to comment? Lets see if a change in subject helps. Do the files created from the RFCs also have the same restrictive license as the RFCs themselves? Brian May wrote: Hello, After messing around with autoconf/automake/libtool stuff for ages, I eventually

libnss-ldap/libpam-ldap security issue

2008-06-09 Thread Brian May
would appear to be a bad thing. Is there anyway to configure the ldap libraries not to read from $HOME/.ldaprc? Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libnss-ldap/libpam-ldap security issue

2008-06-10 Thread Brian May
used and > will break people's scripts if it goes away. > On my computers I would rather break this functionality, which I hardly ever use anyway (and on the one time I did use it caused random programs to segfault when I forgot about it several years later). Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-12 Thread Brian May
]: Leaving directory `/home/brian/tmp/debian/mine/heimdal/heimdal-1.2.dfsg.1/lib/sl' Making all in wind make[3]: Entering directory `/home/brian/tmp/debian/mine/heimdal/heimdal-1.2.dfsg.1/lib/wind' make[3]: *** No rule to make target `rfc3454.txt', needed by `bidi_table.c'. S

Re: Correct way to rename a binary package

2008-06-14 Thread Brian May
I was under the impression the "conflicts" was considered bad (it makes upgrading from an old version of cl-hunchentoot to hunchentoot harder), and it was generally better to leave the conflicts out and rely on the replaces header alone. Or... maybe this is a slightly different

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-15 Thread Brian May
asters missed the point that it is an existing package already in main and should not get moved to non-free. Unfortunately this was an issue because one of the sonames for one of the shared libraries was also incremented, resulting in the package being marked as new. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread Brian May
Frans Pop wrote: AFAIK grub (at least the default "legacy" version) also still has problems with / on XFS. That's the one other case where D-I automatically falls back to lilo. I think you mean /boot on XFS. Having / as XFS seems to work fine for me... Brian May -- To UNS

Re: esound

2008-06-20 Thread Brian May
ossibly be a suggests) In Ubunty Hardy the first depends doesn't appear to exist. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libnss-ldap/libpam-ldap security issue

2008-06-21 Thread Brian May
o file bug report. My main concern wasn't the crash though, it was the fact that I could override the certificates used for checking the remote LDAP server used for checking sudo passwords in the untrusted user's home directory. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-22 Thread Brian May
that, having one entire package for one key file seems like overkill to me; is there not any other way of securely distributing the key? Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-22 Thread Brian May
-technical people. Would it be possible to simplify this? or wget -O - http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add - Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-07-01 Thread Brian May
s who want the old stuff or the users who want the new stuff? Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-10-27 Thread Brian May
it would be good if there was a tool I could use to automatically compare the output of lintian with the list documented here so I can find out what problems I might have without making a useless upload. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

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