Re: Conflicts between developers and policy

1998-04-29 Thread John Lines
meone else from having to go through the same process. John Lines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate funct

1999-09-29 Thread John Lines
a convenient place to put a flag which says 'ask me (the user) before enabling any daemons' John Lines

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

2004-10-05 Thread John Lines
amav via security.d.o, but > > what about libfoo? > You could take the rather horrible step of building a static copy of libfoo into clamav. This would be rather messy, but would allow a single binary to be updated. -- John Lines <http://www.paladin.demon.co.uk/john.lines.html>

Re: ..d-u support sponsorships, was: Problem with ppp keeping link up

2004-10-13 Thread John Lines
stions (or the 'Does this work at all?') generally asked by the people running sid or sarge from the ones asked by people who are running woody - which tend to be more of the nature of 'How do I use some specific feature' -- John Lines <http://www.paladin.demon.co.uk/john.lines.html>

Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread John Lines
information on the hardware, such as graphics cards, and some things related to the user, such as language settings and time zones. These could be written to a floppy and used to supply the information which Debian Installer will need (a bit like a RedHat Kickstart floppy) John Lines

Re: postfix/postfix-tls vs. smtpd bug

2002-01-08 Thread John Lines
but for people who need it the flexibility makes up for it. John Lines p.s. hope to upload an update to smtpd which fixes the install this week.

Re: dhcpcd should probably be in base and on the boot floppies

1998-10-10 Thread John Lines
t the details of IP than that they should answer "Yes" to "Does your network use DHCP ?" John Lines

Re: Intent to package KerberosV

1999-05-09 Thread John Lines
component, and as their open source versions are generally developed by international groups the main effect is to deprive the US developers of the opportunity to participate in the cryptographic components. John Lines p.s. wnpp - please consider this a request to have a kerberised LDA

y2k compliance - release goal for potato ???

1999-05-17 Thread John Lines
) John Lines p.s. Anyone who is running Debian in a corporate environment is probably being nagged by their management about year 2000 issues. (all our Windows NT stuff is Year 2000 compliant - it must be because they keep releasing updates to make it be ;-)

Re: y2k compliance - release goal for potato ???

1999-05-18 Thread John Lines
ittle look at adduser, which was OK, and base-files, which had a subtle documentation problem (the GPL says you should write a license with 19yy as the date, though this is fixed in the LGPL), which is why it is marked OK? Most of the packages need someone who knows their inner workings, to look th

Bug#1052280: ITP: erlang-hex -- Package manager for the Erlang ecosystem

2023-09-19 Thread John Lines
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Lines X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, j...@paladyn.org * Package name: erlang-hex Version : 2.0.5 * URL : https://github.com/hexpm/hex * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Elixir Description

Bug#1063906: ITP: monitoring-plugins-check-smart -- check S.M.A.R.T. storage system monitoring plugin for nagios compatible monitoring systems

2024-02-14 Thread John Lines
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Lines X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: monitoring-plugins-check-smart Version : 6.14.1 Upstream Contact: Claudio Kuenzler * URL : https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/monitoring-plugins

Bug#1064667: ITP: roundcube-plugin-carddav -- carddav plugin for Roundcube Webmail

2024-02-25 Thread John Lines
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Lines X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, j...@paladyn.org * Package name: roundcube-plugin-carddav Version : 5.1.0 Upstream Contact: Michael Stilkerich * URL : https://github.com/mstilkerich/rcmcarddav * License

A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend

2020-11-16 Thread John Lines
I have been thinking about how to offer alternatives to Facebook, WhatsApp, Zoom etc for non-technical people, many of whom are finding the Internet and computers much more central to their lives than they did before the pandemic. Many people are members of small organisations who are moving onlin

Re: A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend

2020-11-18 Thread John Lines
On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 00:15 +, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 7:30 PM John Lines wrote: > > > I have been thinking about how to offer alternatives to Facebook, > > WhatsApp, Zoom etc for non-technical people, many of whom are > > finding the Internet

Re: A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend

2020-11-18 Thread John Lines
On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 22:10 +0530, Joseph Nuthalapati wrote: > FreedomBox has been successfully used in community deployments to > serve > a number of useful applications from a locally hosted server. This is > documented in the WikiBook, FreedomBox for Communities[1]. > > I agree with you that a

Re: A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend

2020-11-18 Thread John Lines
On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 02:07 +, Wookey wrote: > On 2020-11-16 19:20 +0000, John Lines wrote: > > > ... > >I have written > >at > > https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2020/11/07/the-ambridge-garden-club/ > > about > >a such a group,

Re: A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend

2020-11-18 Thread John Lines
On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 19:48 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 11:06 +0000, John Lines wrote: > > > I believe/hope it should be possible to this type of thing another > > way, > > and that a technical sysadmin should not be needed. > > You would s

Re: A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend

2020-11-19 Thread John Lines
On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 16:18 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Hi John, > > Quoting John Lines (2020-11-18 13:35:42) > > On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 02:07 +, Wookey wrote: > > > On 2020-11-16 19:20 +, John Lines wrote: > > > > I have written at > > >

Re: A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend

2020-11-19 Thread John Lines
On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 15:29 +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2020-11-18 11:06:20 + (+), John Lines wrote: > [...] > > I do suggest in > > > > https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2020/11/13/ambridge-garden-club-registering-the-domain/ > > > > that

Re: A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend

2020-11-23 Thread John Lines
> > Seems our defined problem is quite similar, if not identical. > > Would be great if we could find overlap also in our work towards > solutions. > Collaboration and working together as much as we can seems central to successful FLOSS projects > > Makes me happy that you want to give it a t

Re: A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend

2020-11-23 Thread John Lines
On Fri, 2020-11-20 at 14:37 +, Federico Ceratto wrote: > As Joseph pointed out, the use-case for the Small Organisation Server > is practically > the same as FreedomBox, either installed from image or with "apt > install freedombox". > I think the key differences are: 1) Funding - This is imp

Re: A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend

2020-11-23 Thread John Lines
On Fri, 2020-11-20 at 17:28 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > You may all also find it useful to look at debian-edu which has some > similar > ideas. If you do want to put together something new, it's possible > that a > melting together of ideas from Freedombox / Debian-Edu and other > proje

Re: A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend

2020-11-23 Thread John Lines
> > > You may all also find it useful to look at debian-edu which has > > some > > similar ideas. If you do want to put together something new, it's > > possible that a melting together of ideas from Freedombox / Debian- > > Edu > > and other projects will give you a better starting point. > >

Re: A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend

2020-11-23 Thread John Lines
> > > I find the name "Small Organisation" a bit misleading. In my > > experience, often even > > massive companies and universities need small, easily deployed > > services that are > > maintained independently from the core infrastructure. > > Sometimes it is to serve remote offices with limit

Sample Small Organisation Server now has email

2020-12-02 Thread John Lines
My demonstrator Small Organisation Server now has working email, set up, as described, in overview at https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2020/12/02/ambridge-garden-club-email/ Pretty much all the components came from software packaged in Debian, and I think, even though the current setup went

Re: A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend

2020-12-02 Thread John Lines
On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 02:07 +, Wookey wrote: > On 2020-11-16 19:20 +0000, John Lines wrote: > > > I think this is a worthy technical goal. Given the decade it has > taken for Fredombox to get this far I suspect the pandemic will be > over before we get something worki

Re: Sample Small Organisation Server now has email

2020-12-02 Thread John Lines
> > Where is the code? Much of the code, which is essentially a set of configuration options is on my test system at present, but I am cleaning it up and migrating it to https://salsa.debian.org/jlines/smallorganisationserver On salsa at present is the start of a framework, > > At the link

Re: Sample Small Organisation Server now has email

2020-12-12 Thread John Lines
On Wed, 2020-12-02 at 21:02 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting John Lines (2020-12-02 19:47:02) > > > Where is the code? > > > > Much of the code, which is essentially a set of configuration > > options > > is on my test system at present, but I am clea

Bug#977495: ITP: smallorganisationserver -- server for a small organisation, internet hosted and web accessed and managed

2020-12-15 Thread John Lines
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Lines X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, j...@paladyn.org * Package name: smallorganisationserver Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : John Lines * URL : https://wiki.debian.org/SmallOrganisationServer * License

put-dns - Abstraction of external DNS record creation

2021-01-02 Thread John Lines
While working towards the creation of a Small Organisation Server, based around federated and open protocols I needed a way to create DNS records on an external DNS server. I could not find an existing general way to do this, so I created a command put-dns, which is just a shell script which is pa

Re: put-dns - Abstraction of external DNS record creation

2021-01-03 Thread John Lines
On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 08:11 +0200, Steve Kemp wrote: > It's an interesting idea, but I suspect in order to be useful it will > need to handle a wider number of sites. > > There are several projects out there which attempt to abstract DNS > entries across systems, allowing you to mirror zones, etc.

Re: put-dns - Abstraction of external DNS record creation

2021-01-06 Thread John Lines
> > Seems there's a standard protocol https://www.domainconnect.org/ > > Their reference code is in Python as well, like octopress, in case > that's relevant. > > >  - Jonas > I have written https://gitlab.com/JohnLines/put-dns/-/wikis/Similar-or-Related-Projects  to describe where I think th

Bug#980065: ITP: put-dns -- tool to simply creation of individual DNS records on external providers

2021-01-13 Thread John Lines
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Lines X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, j...@paladyn.org * Package name: put-dns Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : John Lines * URL : https://gitlab.com/JohnLines/put-dns * License : LGPL Programming

Re: Fixed release dates are hurting quality

2021-03-10 Thread John Lines
> > > But ok, maybe my thinking is too much influenced from the SLES > release process > at SUSE which ships with a rather limited set of packages which are > guaranteed > to work and are officially supported. > > Adrian > The problem I found using SLES and Redhat, which both had excellent su

Bug#1030542: ITP: erlang-hex -- Package manager for the Erlang ecosystem

2023-02-04 Thread John Lines
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Lines X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: erlang-hex Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Eric Meadows-Jonsson i URL : https://hex.pm/ * License : Apache Software License 2.0 Programming Lang

Bug#846317: ITP: zoph -- Web based digital image presentation and management system

2016-11-30 Thread John Lines
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Lines * Package name: zoph Version : 0.9.4 * URL : http://www.zoph.org/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: PHP Description : Web based digital image presentation and management system Zoph (*Z*oph *O

Bug#1092862: ITP: gnudip -- GNU Dyamic IP protocol server and client

2025-01-12 Thread John Lines
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Lines X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: gnudip Version : 2.3.5 Upstream Contact: none * URL : https://gnudip2.sourceforge.net/gnudip-www/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl