Re: dhclient-script, hooks, and changing the environment

2008-08-06 Thread Brian May
change environment variables? If it is little used maybe it isn't worth the effort in supporting. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhclient-script, hooks, and changing the environment

2008-08-08 Thread Brian May
Peter Samuelson wrote: [Brian May] How many dhclient scripts actually make use of this "feature" of being able to change environment variables? If it is little used maybe it isn't worth the effort in supporting. That is exactly the question Martin asked as he opened th

Re: dhclient-script, hooks, and changing the environment

2008-08-09 Thread Brian May
333 2007-10-24 00:37 _dhcdbd At a quick glance none of these appear to change any environment variables. They are read-only operations only. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can a package modify slapd.conf in its maintainer script?

2008-08-10 Thread Brian May
told to do it manually. Otherwise the risk exists the modifications might break something. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-13 Thread Brian May
T (File exists) So, ok, this means the process can't continue any more (denial of service attack), and if the process does continue this is a problem, otherwise I can't see how this would bring the entire system down. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: issues with aptitude dist-upgrade from etch to lenny

2008-08-14 Thread Brian May
pgrade". This system had no problems. Normally I just do an "apt-get dist-upgrade". Unfortunately I was in a hurry to get the systems up and running (my time is rather constrained) so didn't investigate in detail required to file a quality bug report. I should still have t

Re: A tool for tracking masked updates to stable packages

2008-08-14 Thread Brian May
shell so I can use the following: [1] 'apt-cache policy ' essentially already does ordering Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-15 Thread Brian May
mlink. In any case, doing something better would be good because it means an attacker can't run a denial-of-service type attack and prevent the script from running. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: issues with aptitude dist-upgrade from etch to lenny

2008-08-18 Thread Brian May
Henning Glawe wrote: you are right... sorry for the sloppy research :S... think it must have been the perl-base<->perl-modules version mismatch. I'll try to reproduce this immediately. Yes, I think this is the issue. I wrote an ugly script to reproduce from a almost pristine etch chroot[1]

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Brian May
might be the reason it was rejected. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: automatic bug filing by test robot

2008-08-28 Thread Brian May
As a maintainer I would like to know when a package fails to build for any reason, even if it is due to factors outside my control. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-28 Thread Brian May
any requirement that says the source code must be editable in a sane manner (e.g. editing a PDF file with a binary hex editor would not be sane) with entirely DFSG compliant tools? Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-03 Thread Brian May
ally endorsed if the manufacturer ensures users can't change it - e.g. firmware for wireless interfaces. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-06 Thread Brian May
: "We want to able to to use your product with Debian out of the box", which swings them towards the "easier" option A (closed firmware distributed on ROM), not option C (open firmware with source). Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Leverage in licensing discussions

2008-11-08 Thread Brian May
, but an excuse by the manufacturers (there seems to be some disagreement here), we still aren't going to get the manufacturers to change their mind by discussing how silly it is here, or by encouraging people to buy hardware with the firmware on ROM. Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Announcement: Debian Pure Blends news

2008-11-10 Thread Brian May
Miriam Ruiz wrote: I'm not exactly sure that I like the new name, to be honest. I saw the name and initially thought it was related to blender. http://www.blender.org/ Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Security slightly compromised. Why is lenny-security altering uw-imap_2007b~dfsg.orig.tar.gz?

2008-12-14 Thread Brian May
best approach would be to rebuild the security update with the correct tar ball. Otherwise, if the changes to the tar ball where deliberate, change the filename as above. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-17 Thread Brian May
n would be to vote for (C) first, and then decide the wording on (A) and (B) depending on the outcome of (C). In which case, even if there is a conflict, the wording can clarify if the second vote overrides or doesn't override the first result. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Bug#435838: ITP: cpm -- Console Password Manager

2007-08-04 Thread Brian May
... yes checking for compress in -lz... yes Error Sorry, this version of CDK can not handle empty lists. You must downgrade to a version older than cdk-4.9.11-20031210 === cut === Hopefully there is a solution to this issue... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

conflicting gssapi libraries

2007-08-09 Thread Brian May
Solution? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: conflicting gssapi libraries

2007-08-11 Thread Brian May
at MIT Kerberos has named their library: /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 Wouldn't this be a better solution then getting rid of the UMich library? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: conflicting gssapi libraries

2007-08-12 Thread Brian May
ou could implement other protocols in GSSAPI too. Having said that, the only GSSAPI libraries in Debian I know of are the two Kerberos libraries. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: conflicting gssapi libraries

2007-08-14 Thread Brian May
e the library that would be OK though. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#445576: ITP: detach -- command to detach a process

2007-10-06 Thread Brian May
rs must be closed before calling setsid. For this reason, normal redirection doesn't work with detach, so explicit support for redirection has been added. detach also contains an option for writing the pid of the detached process to a file. === cut === -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Bug#445576: ITP: detach -- command to detach a process

2007-10-07 Thread Brian May
t instead of adding Colin> yet another program. The website gave me the impression both programs are the same, except for the name. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#445576: ITP: detach -- command to detach a process

2007-10-07 Thread Brian May
unlike qcmu, it deals correctly with passing on a SIGINT sent to it. Needs ssh for operation over the net. detachtty looks closer to screen then detach/nohup/setsid. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gconf strange message

2007-10-26 Thread Brian May
osition 4 Hagit> Does anyone knows why this could be? I would assume that this is "normal" noise because the files normally should be read-only, and the messages are not related to the crashes. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: List of packages which should probably be Architecture: all

2008-01-02 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Raphael" == Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raphael> Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Raphael> dar-static Raphael> Theodore Y. Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Raphael> e2fsck-static Both of these (and maybe

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Brian May
bypassing the libc resolver. I wouldn't use ".local" as that seems to be treated as a special case by zeroconf enabled computers, and various OS seem to have zeroconf enabled by default (like it or not). -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Brian May
ptus-simple-cluster, print-server, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-netbook, edubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, mobile-mid, ubuntu-netbook-remix -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Brian May
is not yet available on all modern computers. Thanks. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:47:54PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian May wrote: > > > 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more > > secure > > then KVM (or Xen) with QEMU. > > I haven't heard

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Brian May
tualisation extensions. Like I said previously, I think dropping Xen support is a mistake because KVM requires QEMU and QEMU seems to have a reputation of being insecure. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: defaulting to net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 for squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Brian May
ely it is just a matter of binding to IPv4 and ignoring the error that occurs when trying to bind to the IPv6 socket (or vice versa if IPv6 is supported but not IPv4)? -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:26:34AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:55:27PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, but they > >

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Brian May
27;t going to be Xen support, or limited Xen support maybe, because upstream were slow to update from 2.6.18. Fortunately Lenny did get Xen support, and for 2.6.26. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Brian May
d be available shortly after Jeremy gets back from > his vacation. What chance does this have of making it in time for Squeeze? -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-25 Thread Brian May
tion and full-virtualization. Mostly used > on servers. Will be abandoned after squeeze." This doesn't help answer your questions (which I am interested in knowing the answers too), however there is also lxc - Linux Containers which may be another solution for some problems. It is no

libgcrypt brain dead?

2010-03-08 Thread Brian May
ack to using openssl, at least with libraries such as openldap that are commonly used in pam and nss modules? Or is there another way? Alternatively, have I got something wrong? -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

uploads to experimental

2010-03-18 Thread Brian May
appears to have gone to unstable instead of experimental. Is this because I used sbuild to build the package against a sid chroot? How do I fix this mess up? Thanks -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: uploads to experimental

2010-03-18 Thread Brian May
tion-$arch or $distribution that exists. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/3c5cf5261003181910w7d4bd396p7b629da95e292...@mail.gmail.com

Re: uploads to experimental

2010-03-18 Thread Brian May
On 19 March 2010 13:24, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > | k...@bowmore:/tmp$ sbuild -c sid-amd64-sbuild -d experimental > gtk2-engines_2.18.5-2.dsc What happens if you omit the -d and only have -c? -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: libgcrypt brain dead?

2010-03-20 Thread Brian May
archive that do link against openssl. Not to mention applications that use both PAM and openssl - there are GPLed PAM modules in our archive too. I hope I haven't started a witch hunt... -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

lxc in squeeze

2010-03-21 Thread Brian May
disabled Cgroup cpuset: enabled --- Misc --- Veth pair device: enabled Macvlan: enabled Vlan: enabled File capabilities: enabled -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-16 Thread Brian May
es, if the requirement is to be able to create files in certain directories with group permissions (I think that is what this is about, but only skimming), can't you do something with default ACLs that do the same thing on given directories without the extra complexity to the groups? Or have

Re: APT do not work with Squid as a proxy because of pipelining default

2010-05-18 Thread Brian May
ng about brokenness of HTTP pipelining here... Did I miss something? -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktincd4paqge1xzpwxwn3ilenm1fzanva4qyg5...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-14 Thread Brian May
tions work without change. Although all these arguments have been hashed out before, no point to repeat them. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://list

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-16 Thread Brian May
e be mangling the IPv4 address into a IPv6 address. Where as you seem to be saying a server can create a socket that will work with any protocol and is in no way specific to IPv4 or IPv6. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Bug#589722: ITP: django-ajax-selects -- Library for editing fields with autocomplete.

2010-07-20 Thread Brian May
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian May * Package name: django-ajax-selects Version : 1.1.4 Upstream Author : Chris Sattinger * URL : http://code.google.com/p/django-ajax-selects/ * License : Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses Programming

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-22 Thread Brian May
ay not really be broken. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikxz9gtm2pn_lgorphfd-ggapvp3busioccj...@mail.gmail.com

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-22 Thread Brian May
m address is valid... To be fair, it does print it out, but sometimes I get it wrong all the same. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.deb

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-25 Thread Brian May
last point (above) may seem cosmetic, however this is a discussion on getting more Debian users, and may be an important reason people avoid Debian. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-26 Thread Brian May
On 26 July 2010 21:49, Ian Jackson wrote: > Brian May writes ("Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: > The number  of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling"): >> I would really like to see a HTML/HTTP browser based interface for the >> BTS. I w

Re: 38

2010-08-28 Thread Brian May
we don't just do it. br...@andean:~$ i="cat's meow.tar.gz" br...@andean:~$ echo "`basename "$i" .tar.gz`" cat's meow (yes, the nested quotes don't seem to matter) -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.de

Re: bind runs apt-cache during shutdown????

2010-10-23 Thread Brian May
to be used anywhere. So I am not sure why this is needed. On the other hand, so what if it calls apt-cache policy - does that matter? Maybe apt-cache policy is broken on Mike's system? -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: openresolv vs. resolvconf

2010-11-30 Thread Brian May
> solving this undermaintenance problem. Do we really need two solutions for what appears to be the same problem? Seems like it might be better to merge them or remove one. Especially if one is under-maintained. This is one case I don't see any advantage having two independent implementations.

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread Brian May
getting the user to file the report upstream and having the Debian maintainer act as the relay for all messages. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:

security updates introducing breakage

2011-01-19 Thread Brian May
stable. So users are forced to install the non-security updated version to work around this. Thanks. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://list

Re: Frage zu eine DEB Paket

2011-03-09 Thread Brian May
most of the hard work has already been done. > Note that for openbve, a "Request for Package" has already been filed: >        <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522854> > so at least one other person was interested in getting a package at some > time.

Re: Bug#618935: ITP: keepass2 -- password manager

2011-03-21 Thread Brian May
d=harry:cpm, but that looks seriously old, e.g. it refers to Sarge and Woody. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktim

Re: Users, groups, rights and apache please advice

2003-10-08 Thread Brian May
w-data read-only access to the files, but anyone in the group can write to the files. That way, if anybody compromises apache, the most an attacker could do is read any web file, but not write to them. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Users, groups, rights and apache please advice

2003-10-09 Thread Brian May
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:01:31PM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > IIRC maximum number is limited to 32 groups for a single user. Just in > case you are going to add more :) What happens if you exceed this limit? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: language-chooser: Language order shouldn't be alphabetical

2003-10-11 Thread Brian May
-Debbugs-CC:" BTS header. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Source only uploads?

2003-10-19 Thread Brian May
can emerge with out being obvious, for instance if a package detects an extra library is installed on the maintainers machine and automatically uses it without the maintainer being aware of what is happening (this happened with early versions of Heimdal and libhesiod0 in fact). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Source only uploads?

2003-10-20 Thread Brian May
o on platform Y, so it doesn't get tested on other platforms. 2. The package may be broken in that it is inconsistant, but still work fine, or work fine for most features. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Brian May
ob. - Maybe even asked around find out potential problems that could occur and what to do if if this happened at new job. There are probably other things he could have done, thats all I can think of right now. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-04 Thread Brian May
testing | mips, mipsel libc6 |2.3.2-7 | unstable | mips libc6 |2.3.2-9 | testing | arm, hppa, i386, m68k, powerpc, s390, sparc libc6 | 2.3.2.ds1-8 | unstable | arm, m68k libc6 | 2.3.2.ds1-9 | unstable | hppa, i386, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-07 Thread Brian May
t by its proper name (if we refer to Linux, that is). apt-get source kernel-source-2.4.22 ??? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Brian May
ly on > you, no matter what the other person has done. Perhaps English is not his native language, and he didn't realize how harsh his wording was? Anyway, on the given topic, are "reverse-suggests" possible? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Uninstallable packages testing/sarge

2003-11-13 Thread Brian May
arked as broken in aptitude when selecting kde) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Installing kernel-image-2.4.22

2003-11-16 Thread Brian May
; a fully correct lilo.conf by itself? Besides the text is wrong instead > of "initrd=initrd.img" it should be "initrd=/initrd.img". ...because you might be using grub and not lilo? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-16 Thread Brian May
; > We want screenshots! I have tried debian-installer, and found it to be great! I just have three feature requests, if they aren't already supported: 1. Linux 2.6.0? 2. Grub instead of Lilo? 3. Software raid support? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

bug #213450

2003-11-16 Thread Brian May
NMU, but still no response. I went to do the NMU, but instead get a unrelated (and unreported) FTBS error. (SCSI_DISK_MAJOR undeclared in misc/util.c:116). What are my options now? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: XML files referencing DTDs via HTTP

2003-12-01 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:51:31AM -0800, Tom wrote: > That's true. It can be any string. The fact that it just happens to > look like an HTTP url and DTD is actually at that URL is not part of the > standard, AFAIK. Errr, we are not getting confused?? An example is: http://www.oasis-open.or

Re: autoconf AC_SYS_LARGEFILE

2003-12-01 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:46:11AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:53:48AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > You can find copies of the source code at > > http://www.microcomaustralia.com.au/debian/experimental>. > > the sources are broken, run autor

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-12-02 Thread Brian May
d be caused by a non-release critical bug in another package. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-12-02 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:46:02PM +, Mark Howard wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 06:56:13PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > A release critical bug in one package could be caused by a non-release > > critical bug in another package. > > How? > If the bug is caused by a pr

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

2003-12-03 Thread Brian May
> > pre-release kernels. > > Yes but also the debian servers would not have been vulnerable if they had > used 2.4.23. At least not at that point in time. Just because Debian doesn't have a time machine... There is simply no excuse! ;-) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Anonymous upload queue

2003-12-05 Thread Brian May
so I can't test this... Hmmm... Wonder if this is a local problem with my Internet connection or a problem with the remote system... Probably a local problem. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Anonymous upload queue

2003-12-05 Thread Brian May
: server said: Permission denied. What are my options now? PS. Please CC me as per the Mail-Followups-To header, as I can't read debian-devel mail until I get login access to gluck again. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Initrd rocks! (was Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages)

2003-12-08 Thread Brian May
y scanning all harddisks on all busses to find RAID devices. So yes, maybe initrd/initramfs is the way of the future (I have read proposals that would make loading modules in an initramfs compulsory for all systems), but I think there are still a few issues that need to be resolved first. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Initrd rocks! (was Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages)

2003-12-09 Thread Brian May
ut when I asked the initrd maintainer I was given a good reason why it was not used (sorry; I can't remember what this was now; it might simply be that the mdadm code is unreliable, inefficient, or buggy). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-12-13 Thread Brian May
ted packages. Any better ideas? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-12-13 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:58:53AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Otherwise, there is no way to filter out this bug report in BTS > listings. Not to mention the problem that if -1 is closed, XX needs to be manually too, but the "owner" of XX is not informed that -1 has be

Re: Services I'd like from auric

2003-12-14 Thread Brian May
n my mind > today is the ability to check the NEW queue. Is it still possible to run madison to check what versions of a specific packages are available? I am gussing this isn't possible, but I found it very useful. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: spam checking and CPU time

2004-10-07 Thread Brian May
00, pR: 180.54 I also used bogofilter, but crm114 was suppose to be better. I might go back to bogofilter sometime... My computer CPU is AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: spam checking and CPU time

2004-10-07 Thread Brian May
ng postfix to bounce valid emails. Jesus> Indeed the latest version of CRM114 managed to eat my CPU, Jesus> but i downgraded to the previous one and everything went Jesus> back to more than fine. What version did you downgrade to? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-08 Thread Brian May
ely including a Thomas> new upstream release is not good enough. The tradeoff here, is that the maintainer/whoever in doing the back-porting might make mistakes, causing unnoticed breakage, or not port all security fixes (especially if code was rewritten upstream). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

forwarding bugs to other packages

2004-10-18 Thread Brian May
. I could mark the bug as forwarded upstream to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", where n is the real bug report, but it isn't really upstream... Also a method of automatically finding out when bug n is closed, so I can close my bug report would be nice, too. Is anything like this possibl

Re: forwarding bugs to other packages

2004-10-18 Thread Brian May
ht miss the second title (unless I knew A was linked against libb). When bug report 2 is closed, the maintainer of A may want to double check to make sure that the bug really is fixed in A (maybe bug 2 wasn't the real cause after all), before 1 gets closed. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: forwarding bugs to other packages

2004-10-18 Thread Brian May
eported against, ...) are the same. Martin> Just for the record, tags are an exception. They are Martin> merged when you merge bugs. What happens to the tags if the two reports are split apart again? Are their original values restored, or do they keep their new values? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: forwarding bugs to other packages

2004-10-18 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Bernd" == Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bernd> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 05:54:44PM +1000, Brian May wrote: >> I could just close the bug against my package, but this means other >> people will encounter the same proble

Re: forwarding bugs to other packages

2004-10-18 Thread Brian May
py of the package when bugs in other packages are fixed. It also will only work if you use reportbug. If you are just browsing the BTS via HTTP to find a solution to your problem, you may not find anything. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: forwarding bugs to other packages

2004-10-18 Thread Brian May
Adrian> Reading the rest of the thread, I conclude that adding an Adrian> explanation to the bug and tagging it wontfix is probably Adrian> the best solution. You could be right here. You won't get informed if the bug is closed though, and the wontfix status may imply you don't want to fix the bug. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-20 Thread Brian May
in> repository. You mean via HTTP? This would be possible to add, I think. I guess it hasn't been considered a priority. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: forwarding bugs to other packages

2004-10-20 Thread Brian May
e related, but not the same. >>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> If you like, you can reassign both bugs to "foo,bar" and Colin> merge them. Only if the two bugs are exactly the same. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: forwarding bugs to other packages

2004-10-20 Thread Brian May
. Other solutions/workarounds may also be possible. Closing y means x is probably fixed but needs testing. If more thought was put into this, I am sure we could come up with something better. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread Brian May
ange. I have never had any problems with debootstrap and apt-proxy myself (unless it was because the server was down or something at the time). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread Brian May
d no doubt if I kept my testing systems up to date with testing, this would vanish in several days time. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: discover and hotplug must be able to co-exists

2004-10-22 Thread Brian May
modules at boot time Petter> are welcome. :) Edit /etc/discover.conf and delete the appropriate lines (discover 2.0.4-5). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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