Re: Bits from the RM

2003-08-28 Thread Colin Watson
no need to > duplicate things. Replies could still be set to the list or something. You could filter out "X-PTS-Keyword: bts-control" ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: glibc 2.3.2 and testing

2003-08-29 Thread Colin Watson
ve just checked, and there are no packages currently in testing that depend on glibc 2.3.2. You must actually be using unstable. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2003-08-29 Thread Colin Watson
ge)? > Can someone familiar with the BTS code tell whether this change is > trivial or not? It's not trivial in the slightest, sorry. The BTS doesn't remotely have this information available to it, and it's not even easy to arrange for it to be available. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: having troubles adding info to 1 and/or 2 an existing bug(s)

2003-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:24:02PM +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > Tried to get this info through a couple of times now, but no joy :( > Posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but no answer :( This has been dealt with now. Sorry for the delay. -- Colin

control@bugs acknowledgements lost for a while

2003-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
haven't missed anything. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2003-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
ther than going through the extra complexity of the upload queue? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2003-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
an package in non-free, to benefit truly of the debian tools. The usual reasons are that they don't allow sufficient redistribution for us to include them in the Debian archive at all, or that they don't allow distribution of modified versions (including Debian packages construct

Re: Bug in cron postinst

2003-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
TED]:/tmp/bar% for i in $L; do echo $i; done > . > ./a b > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bar% bash > bash-2.05b$ L=`find` > bash-2.05b$ for i in $L; do echo $i; done > . > ./a > b No wonder. You aren't quoting correctly! Use 'echo "$i"'. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Error processing gconf2 (2.2.1-2)

2003-09-04 Thread Colin Watson
rted as bugs #208600, #208604, and #208611, with apparent duplicates after it was fixed as #208636 and #208638.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: An help to create an debian/rules

2003-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
volved for programming in debian/rules. I'd suggest downloading some Debian source packages to get a feel for how we tend to work. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SDLcam-0.7.3.tar.gz install problem

2003-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 09:35:12AM -0700, eric lin wrote: > Dear SDLcam programmers or users: > > I download SDLcam-0.7.3.tar.gz form sunsite.unc.edu in my redhat 9, Please ask about this on an SDLcam list or a Red Hat list. debian-* lists aren't appropriate. Regards, --

Re: Pre-Depends according to sarge_rc_policy.txt

2003-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
case of being unpacked but not configured (if we assume that packages are upgraded more often than they're installed, which seems rather likely to me). This is a requirement imposed by policy on pre-depended-on packages. AJ's requirement is fractionally stricter than policy's, but p

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
l get > a syntax error. POSIX requires this not to be the case, because of the argument-counting algorithm that 'test' is supposed to follow. See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/test.html. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:42:06AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 06:59:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:58:03AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > In general, no. If the contents of $var are a test operator, you'll g

Re: installer for non-free packages in contrib

2003-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
another package isn't possible, since dpkg's status area is locked. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installer for non-free packages in contrib

2003-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:08:34PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapot? : > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:35:45AM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > > Would it be acceptable to fill a bug against each installer that do > > > not b

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
st -e' is far more annoying and harder to work around. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installer for non-free packages in contrib

2003-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 06:42:46PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: [Please stop sending me private copies of list mail.] > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapot? : > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:08:34PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
his in any way different from the shorter: > > if [ "$var" ]; then > > fi > > var="-f" Have you tried that? No POSIX shell will have a problem. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bug report #208857 disappeard ?

2003-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
; http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=208857 > ~~~ ~~~ > s/pkg/bug/g; Or just use the short URL (http://bugs.debian.org/208857) if you can't remember the full forms. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-09-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:18:44PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Adam Heath wrote: > > > Guido Guenther wrote: > > > > Just of out curiosity, is this in any way different from the shorter: > > > > if [ "$var" ]; then > >

Re: installer for non-free packages in contrib

2003-09-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:17:13AM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapot? : > > I asked you a question which could be answered quite simply by producing > > one of those ways. Go on. It's my honest belief that it can't be done > >

Re: installer for non-free packages in contrib

2003-09-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:24:07AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > * installs that package in such a way that it's registered in dpkg's > > database > > do the install in the background when the dpkg DB area is un

Re: installer for non-free packages in contrib

2003-09-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:37:04AM -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:13:59AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:35:45AM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > > Would it be acceptable to fill a bug against each installer that do > > >

Re: [debian-i18n] i18n of man-db improved; please test

2003-09-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:46:28PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 21, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > >> Another bug I noticed is that in the ru_RU.UTF-8 locale, man won't > >> find the man pages under ru_RU.KOI8

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

2003-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
nnel 0 > Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer Protocol 1 works ('sftp -1'). I haven't looked into what's broken with protocol 2 sftp on ftp-master. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2003-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
oned this (and the reasons why) some time back. Care to reiterate? I can't remember, I'm afraid. However, as the OpenSSH co-maintainer I didn't know that there were still any reasons to use ssh2 over OpenSSH. (Before anyone mentions the chroot patch, that was never in a version of ssh2 in the archive.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [debian-i18n] i18n of man-db improved; please test

2003-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 08:53:22PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Some kind of file, a table like : > /usr/share/po-debconf/encodings > > would be useful, perhaps. That seems like a good idea, thanks. I'll think about it for 2.4.3. -- Colin Watson

Re: libstdc++2.8 wherefor art thou?

2003-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:58:51AM -0400, Gregory Stark wrote: > What happened to libstdc++2.8 ? I have local files installed that > depend on this library. Is there a solution? You could always pull it from an old release - I doubt it's changed. -- C

Re: Looking for a co-maintainer for adduser

2003-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
s a python module. it is > pretty stable, i already use it in production system. > > http://www.nongnu.org/prua/ That would mean we'd have to add python to the base system. Perhaps a bit much in size terms? The base system has already grown by 15MB or so between woody and sarge,

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
esting to unblock other stuff, which is due to be reverted.) > so I don't object against it loudly. Good; in general you probably shouldn't interpret removals from testing as policy decisions at this point, although of course if there's something broken in a package being removed

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
a-gnome2 and that'll be it. By contrast, KDE is still KDE 2 in testing, which in good conscience I don't think we can release with. I'm hoping this can change soon, and my impression is that the situation is beginning to improve. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-03 Thread Colin Watson
hort of digging through the dependency tree > (or running simulations). What he said. Top stalls are useful but they often really only point you at areas of work. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /usr/doc symlinks

2003-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
ble appears to use /usr/share/doc as it's supposed to. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for a co-maintainer for adduser

2003-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
've got only shell, C, and C++ left; I don't think that's going to improve security in practice. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BTS version tracking

2005-07-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 08:35:45AM -0600, Rob Sims wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 12:06:29PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > A number of changes have been made to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] to > > support this. Firstly, the 'close' and 'reassign' commands now t

Re: BTS version tracking

2005-07-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 10:28:06PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050718 17:21]: > > The BTS records that bug #NN was fixed in 1.1-sarge1 and 1.3, and > > let's say the bug was found in version 1.1. Since it has the changelogs > &g

Re: BTS version tracking

2005-07-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:34:23PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > 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 > > in

Re: Reopening bug closed due to SPAM

2005-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:31:48AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > If spam e-mail is going to start closing our Bugs in the BTS then we Start? It used to happen a lot; it's much less common nowadays. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reopening bug closed due to SPAM

2005-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
ble this may happen in the future, but I don't want to do it immediately; such changes are better made gradually so that people don't have to get used to too many new things at once. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Reopening bug closed due to SPAM

2005-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
gs. Archiving is deliberately irreversible except by [EMAIL PROTECTED], so it should not be so easy to cause immediate archiving. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The BTS and bug subscriptions

2005-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:55:19AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Not subscribing the initial submitter would be insane and subscribing > him is already the current way. Not in the sense that's being discussed here, it isn't. Cheers,

Re: The BTS and bug subscriptions

2005-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
nn@ and nn-submitter@, though, bugreport.cgi will spot the two messages with duplicate Message-IDs and only show you the first one.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BTS version tracking

2005-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 01:45:03PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:34:23PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > What if the maintainer uploads a version, say 1.3-2 (which is still the > > most recent version), which supposedly fixes bug 1234567. However, I >

Re: building own package

2005-08-03 Thread Colin Watson
nst. The eventual right answer, I think, is for dpkg to support triggers so that packages that ship man pages can cause mandb to be invoked at the end of the dpkg run - and this is on the dpkg development wishlist - but in the meantime just let the daily cron job take care of it. Cheers, -- Col

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-07 Thread Colin Watson
installdebconf doesn't know to include > the dependency in ${misc:Depends} and you have to do it manually. Yes, although including a .config maintainer script would work too. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: experimental bugs preventing testing transition?

2005-08-09 Thread Colin Watson
y-only-backport I > made), and the package trying to enter testing is 2.0.2-31. > > Is this a bug in Björns script, or in the new versioned BTS, or in > katie's code? Testing and BTS version tracking haven't been updated to play properly together yet. -- Colin Watson

Re: experimental bugs preventing testing transition?

2005-08-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 06:49:12PM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: > On 10/08/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Testing and BTS version tracking haven't been updated to play properly > > together yet. > > If i'm not mistaken, you could tag the bug et

Re: Source code for unpacking Debian archives

2005-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
nd you can just use the .tar.gz. If a .dsc is provided you can use `dpkg-source -x'. -- Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
to the lists? That's exactly how it's configured for initial bug submissions, but people don't typically include a pseudo-header in follow-up mails to existing bugs so it isn't really practical to configure it that way for all bug mail. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: use of {} shell wildcards in debian/rules

2005-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
es, this is a bug; if you want to use bashisms in debian/rules, you have to set 'SHELL = /bin/bash'. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#328434: ITP: grepmap -- Parse module map files produced by depmod

2005-09-15 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: grepmap Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/grepmap/ * License

Re: can we do uploads of arch: amd64 yet?

2005-09-23 Thread Colin Watson
~$ No, not yet. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Colin Watson
ader, whatever) has been looking for sponsorship for his upload for a while ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bogus lintian warning

2005-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
emoved. In this case, I completely agree that the warning is bogus; it might be less so if it were modified to check that the CVS directories are in the .diff.gz rather than just somewhere in the unpacked source. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- T

Re: bogus lintian warning

2005-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
id, or upstream is. Sure you can. Lintian could (relatively) easily check whether the problem is in the .orig.tar.gz before application of the Debian diff, and suppress the message in that case. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Debian Installer build problem

2005-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
#x27;ll fix this. * Build the SVN trunk of debian-installer (or the version in unstable) against the unstable archive. You *cannot* build the sarge version of debian-installer against the unstable archive; it sounds as if that's what you're trying to do. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

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

2005-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
DELAYED queue $cfg{'tfheen-delayed'} = { fqdn => "gluck.debian.org", login => $ENV{DEBUSER} || getlogin() || $ENV{USER} || $ENV{LOGNAME}, incoming => "~tfheen$delayed", dinstall_runs => 1, method => "scpb", }; The

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-26 Thread Colin Watson
n figure out which patch system is in use and ..."). It embarrasses me that our instructions to new Debian developers, not to mention third parties who are keen to use their upstream experience to help Debian, have to include this sort of cruft. If patch systems must stay around, I would be

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 04:07:27PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 02:33:40PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Yes. Merge is liable to be trickier since there are a couple of > > different possible sets of semantics, but that's much more likely to

Re: manpage : documenting /etc/default/foobar

2008-01-26 Thread Colin Watson
oth foobar(1) and foobar(5) quite happily. man(1) has various documented ways to get at manual pages that aren't the first one it finds. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ${shlibs:Depends} results libfamin0 or libfam0?

2008-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
f your binary links against libgamin-1, the package will end up with a dependency on libgamin0. > But upstream author is not recommended to use libfam0 with this package, > does anyone know what do to with this situation? If you want to force libgamin0, link against libgamin-1 explicit

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-31 Thread Colin Watson
an option, so that if you knew you were fetching a trusted signed package from the Debian archive then you could supply the option, and otherwise (say you were examining a package provided by a sponsored developer whom you didn't know very well) then you could o

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-01-31 Thread Colin Watson
tream tarball then you can use its (often excellent) merge functionality to merge in changes. I always work this way and find it much more convenient. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Standardisation of the name of the patching targets included in debian/rules.

2008-02-04 Thread Colin Watson
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250202 (The discussion is long, but has recent activity.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits of the gnome 1.x removal effort

2008-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 03:43:38PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Colin Watson: telegnome > > If there is a package you love in that list, it'd be _really_ great to > send patches to migrate them to gnome2/gtk2 libraries[0]. With the consent of the

Re: Bug#467249: FW by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Bug#467249: man-db: over sensitive on the spell of locale

2008-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
the special-case recognition, I would instead completely > skip special-casing and just treat all characters equally. Including, but > not limited to, u013F and u0461. Are you working with Brian M. Carlson on this? He has been working on a solution acceptable to groff upstream, which is, fra

Re: FW by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Bug#467249: man-db: over sensitive on the spell of locale

2008-02-29 Thread Colin Watson
F-8'. The only workaround to this would be to rewrite glibc > and locales, and it does not seem useful to me. This is not a glibc bug. This is not a locales bug. This is a man-db bug. I am both the Debian maintainer and the upstream maintainer and

Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)

2008-02-29 Thread Colin Watson
absurd, is to allow everyone to be kept sane when looking > the log in 5 years forward. I have never once run into this problem with other revision control systems in which branching and merging are common. Somehow it just never seems to be a real issue. I contend t

Re: Bug#467249: FW by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Bug#467249: man-db: over sensitive on the spell of locale

2008-03-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:10:32PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:30:55PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:21:41PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > >man-db really does have some special-casing here. Trust me. It was > >necessa

Re: Bug#467249: man-db/groff and locales

2008-03-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:32:29AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:10:32PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:30:55PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > >man-db really does have some special-casing here. Trust me. It was > >

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-03-01 Thread Colin Watson
ential security issues > as arguments. The overall situation is sufficiently bad that this can > be used to prove *anything*. I think the difference between the occasional vulnerability in GNU tar and a system that is designed to operate by executing arbitrary marginally-tr

Re: UE/UR macros in manpages

2008-03-10 Thread Colin Watson
implemented, so that the warnings don't show up > anymore. Please leave lintian untouched in this regard; I don't expect that it would take very long to backport the change in question. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-12 Thread Colin Watson
'll dust off and upload. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moving from console-tools to kbd [was: Bug#476097: kbd: Incorrect LSB init header]

2008-04-14 Thread Colin Watson
out i18n, I think. I've been hoping to have time to work on this.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

2008-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
se-passwd maintainer, do you have anything against creating > such a group? I think it was my suggestion to Martin in the first place, so no, I don't have any objection. :-) I haven't been following the thread, though - has there been general consensus on this? -- Colin W

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

2008-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
anyway. If they want to deliberately start a program with reduced protection and then type their password into it, then that's their (foolish) choice. The point of this is so that processes started in good faith can't have their memory inspected so easily later on. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

2008-05-03 Thread Colin Watson
c group, and even if we eventually decide that we do want to turn it into one then that's not a problem. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is master unsuitable to receive mail from lists.debian.org?

2008-05-04 Thread Colin Watson
bly remove your subscription. It would be nice if the mail indicated what that threshold is, so that we know whether this is an immediate cause for concern. The FAQ merely says "it depends" (with some details, but not enough to do an accurate check), so perhaps the pr

Re: Is master unsuitable to receive mail from lists.debian.org?

2008-05-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:57:10PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Yes, I've been seeing the same thing. It's usually just an irritation, > > but I guess some day I'll hit a threshold and get unsubscribed from a > > bunch of lists. > >

Re: openssh-blacklist for !Debian

2008-05-16 Thread Colin Watson
e also sent an earlier version of it upstream, but this is all very recent so don't expect it to be in any releases yet!) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssl security desaster

2008-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
ate to "Unknown (blacklist file not installed)" and added more detailed documentation in the manual page. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssl security desaster (was: Re: SSH keys: DSA vs RSA)

2008-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 01:45:25AM +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Am Di den 27. Mai 2008 um 1:09 schrieb Colin Watson: > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 09:15:57AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > > > The rollout of information and updates was appalling - even adding in > > > t

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2009-07-22 Thread Colin Watson
tem(); over the last few years I taught it how to handle pipelined command execution itself, which fixed a wide variety of interesting bugs. As a result, though, pipes in $PAGER and other things that man-db interprets stopped being supported.) For the meantime, I've simply documented the cons

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
ranslation problem in some ways, with the added wrinkle that really, we only want to migrate custom entries. Anything that's basically a modified version of one of the system-provided entries would be *much* better catered for by making the appropriate adjustments to /etc/default/grub and letting t

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
al design issues with something outside the installer using os-prober. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
y the desktop > environments would not be able to intercept it. Excellent idea, thanks; I'm looking into doing this now. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#538022: PAGER as a pipeline

2009-12-21 Thread Colin Watson
g is that not even sensible-pager implements $PAGER as a pipeline, and thus it seems to me that we systemically don't support this facility. If we want to support that, we're talking about changes to more than just man-db; I expect there are packages other than sensible-

Re: Dpkg triggers and user experience, aka "How do I disable those triggers" side effect.

2008-07-12 Thread Colin Watson
x27;ve included some figures for man-db, as an example below (*3). (Thanks > to Colin Watson who maintain that other feature Joe User will never > notice). I understand that this was just an example and that most of the problem here seems to be in the wording, but, for what it's worth,

Re: Dpkg triggers and user experience, aka "How do I disable those triggers" side effect.

2008-07-12 Thread Colin Watson
uestion about when it should be uploaded. Michael: ? :-) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: Removal of user/groups

2008-07-12 Thread Colin Watson
r; when deluser is called on a system user, remove the calling package from the list, and only delete the user if the list becomes empty. The difficulty, of course, is how to get there from here ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Dpkg triggers and user experience, aka "How do I disable those triggers" side effect.

2008-07-12 Thread Colin Watson
7;s worth listening to people who *are* educated before saying things like "triggers have done more harm than good". Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#503367: plink: file conflict with putty-tools

2008-10-25 Thread Colin Watson
iables and such, I'd much rather that debian-med's program change its name since they seem to be willing to do so. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2007-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
The manpages-es maintainer's e-mail bounces. Does anyone know how to contact Rubén Porras Campo? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Forwarded message from Mail Delivery Service <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassi

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-09-10 Thread Colin Watson
at I mention at the end of my transition plan, but it's part of the process of getting there from here. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [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 Colin Watson
gram in a new session $ dpkg -S bin/setsid util-linux: /usr/bin/setsid If that's inadequate, let's enhance it instead of adding yet another program. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dh_install vs. dh_movefiles

2007-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
in the wrong > packages, whereas lintian can detect if the same file is in more than one > package. (And one must of course make sure that dh_movefiles operates on the > packages in the correct order if using deliberately overlapping lists.) I must admit I find this sort of use of dh_movefiles t

UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
ption would be for dh_installman to DWIM and guess the encoding in the same way man does. :-) The transition to UTF-8 would happen much faster if maintainers didn't have to specify the encoding by hand. If you'd like to take this approach I can add code to man-db as necessary to help o

Re: UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 10:00:21AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 11 octobre 2007 à 12:22 +0100, Colin Watson a écrit : > > My original plan was that UTF-8 manual pages should be installed in > > /usr/share/man/.UTF-8/ (unless your language is Chinese or > > Por

Re: UTF-8 manual pages

2007-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
page in the requested encoding, without doing .so elimination or any other kind of preprocessing. Does that sound about right? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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