Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:24:54AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > Somehow, you managed to miss the point entirely in your first line, > *even though* you restated it later. I don't miss the point at all. > You have assumed that it is ok to break the user system and warn > people about it. > It

Re: eicar.com installer in Debian, and pre-upload interface to ftpmaster

2003-07-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 02:56:30PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > OK, so basically you think ftpmaster people should spend review each ITP for > such global rejection reasons, then? You can't expect this to happen in any > remotely timely fashion, at least not with this many ftpmasters and this > man

Re: eicar.com installer in Debian, and pre-upload interface to ftpmaster

2003-07-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 05:22:33PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > Nobody said that ftpmaster must see all problems from ITP. But - every > problem that is seen at ITP time saves volunteer time for more usefull > things. That actually appeared to be exactly what Marc was asking for when he started

non-root syslogd?

2003-07-07 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Has anyone investigated what would be necessary to get a non-root syslogd working under Debian? It seems like this would be a good thing, but obviously there have to be some tricky bits, else it would have happened already. :) It seems like the steps would be: Add a user for syslog to run as. c

Bug#200464: ITP: t38modem -- T.38 Fax over IP

2003-07-08 Thread Mark Purcell
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-08 Severity: wishlist * Package name: t38modem Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Vyacheslav Frolov * URL : http://www.openh323.org * License : MPL Description : T.38 Fax over IP /* * $Id: README,v 1.7

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > >gphone (#161708), orphaned 293 days ago > > Description: X/GTK-based internet telephone. > I'd thought there'd be more people interested in this kind of thing... There's newer, vastly more widely implemented stan

Re: strange BTS behaviour with bug #200180

2003-07-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:50:16PM +0200, Jochen Voss wrote: > I was surprised to see this, because I never got a notification for > this bug via email (despite the fact that I'm the package maintainer). I've had this happen to me a few times in the past. I'd always ascribed it to my personal e-

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:52:20AM +0200, Marc Leeman wrote: > IMHO, the DAM wait is only one part of the problem. A lot of would-be > developers are already pleased to find a mentor/uploader. To my personal > experience, RFS in debian-mentors gives only a limited response and even I can't speak

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 12:31:41PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The "What, Debian 3.1 ships 10 CDs but this common program I need for my > work that was in Debian 3.0 is not included?" would do much harm to the > reputation of Debian. Have you actually looked at the list of buggy packages? I do

Re: FYI: www.infrastructures.org

2003-07-22 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Karl M. Hegbloom said on Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:01:19AM -0700: > http://www.infrastructures.org/papers/bootstrap/bootstrap.html While this is a good paper, and there are lots of interesting ideas contained within it that map well to Debian (I've got 50 or so Debian boxes in a configuration inspir

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:17:37PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: > actually i don't because i have no access to any arch except x86 and > alpha. but that is only true for non-DDs like me and (i presume) you, > DDs have access to all those architectures. Although even with access to machines dependi

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:43:52PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: > Okay, so when somebody is not able to set their EDITOR variable, isn't > it quite safe to assume that they are not the people who are satisfied > with vi as their editor? It could also be that they are people who only ever uses vi

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:47:38PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Because it is fixed in upstream CVS and I have not merged the patch into > > the Debian package, > If it's fixed in the next upstream release I would also set the Upstream > tag. The upstream tag do

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 03:05:12PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:52:19PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > The upstream tag doesn't help with filtering out uninteresting bugs from > > the default bug list. > Add '&exclude=upstream' to

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:02:53PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Yeah, I know, but let's pretend I mean 'fixed-upstream' or some > yet-to-be-added tag. What, you mean like the way the pending tag often seems to get used :) . > > Besides, that doesn't help the default bug list :) . > I'm not *ove

Re: Bug#203639: ITP: cpudyn -- CPU dynamic frequency control

2003-07-31 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:01:44PM +0200, Cédric Delfosse wrote: > I don't understand why a cpufreq patch is needed for kernel. With a > recent ACPI (like in 2.4.22), you can change CPU performance (for a P4, > I don't know for PPC) like this: Well, quite apart from anything else ACPI isn't going

Re: CUPS should be the default print service in Debian/Sarge

2003-08-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:49:59PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Do we actually need a default print service at all? Mail is much more > fundamental, for example, but lots of computers these days don't have a > printer attached at all. We needn't install a print service by default but if someone

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:32:19PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > About the same as finding a sponsor, then, with about the same ease of > > maintenance afterwards (i.e. you still have to run your changes past > > someone, not upload them directly). > E

Re: Usefulness of SSMTP [Was: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?]

2003-08-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Joe Wreschnig said on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:39:10PM -0500: > > And is a much better choice than expecting every user to locally > > configure smtp settings in the MUA. Lack of direct-SMTP support in mutt > > is a good thing. > > SSMTP is not acceptable for those of us that use SMTP AUTH+TLS, un

Re: Usefulness of SSMTP [Was: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?]

2003-08-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Joe Wreschnig said on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:43:49PM -0500: > Interesting. I'm running unstable, but I can't find instructions on > enabling TLS anywhere (nor does SSMTP seem to link to any TLS > libraries). I see mention of it in the README (specifically, only a > credit for it), but not the manu

Re: Usefulness of SSMTP [Was: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?]

2003-08-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Joe Wreschnig said on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:32:14PM -0500: > On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 18:04, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > I'm not sure why ssmtp has TLS disabled by default; perhaps a bug should be > > filed? It seems like it would provide all of the needed outgoing MTA >

Re: Getting patches into packages, thought and ideas [Was: Re: About NM and Next Release]

2003-08-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:42:36PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Maybe an interface/filter for the bts that gives one a more easy > access to packages with patches pending would be a start. Or a system Try http://bugs.debian.org/tag:patch . -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, li

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:02:20PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Also aren't mails between AM, DAM, Advocate and NM archived somewhere? This is not the case for at least the AM<->NM mails. Also, advocating someone is basically just a virtual tick in a box. -- "You grabbed my hand and we

Re: Zeroconf Debian?

2003-08-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 11:34:05AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Consider printers, for instance. The home user wants to see printers > without configuring them. The large-office admin, on the other hand, might > want the reverse, i.e. to have printers NOT show up when they're NOT > there. ZC c

Re: NMUs applying sleeping wishlist bugs about translation (was something else)

2003-08-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:08:52PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > Well, either you were lucky, or you use good and well configurated mail > tools. But if my language did need a funky encoding, I would not let my work > depend of such conditions. Don't get me wrong. I mean that in such > condition,

Re: NMUs applying sleeping wishlist bugs about translation (was something else)

2003-08-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:22:03PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > With the former (and still widely used) method for translating debconf Is anyone maintaining statistics on how widely used the original Debconf scheme is? -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fev

Sarge+1: ideas for Experimental V1.2 (or is that 0.2?)

2003-08-25 Thread Mark Howard
applying the separate sections idea to the whole of Debian) Does anybody have any additions for thses ideas, or any ideas for other changes to aid sarge+1 development? -- .''`. Mark Howard : :' : `. `' http://www.tildemh.com `- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

0 RC bugs == releasable quality?

2003-08-25 Thread Mark Howard
ight be a useful QA metric. Please keep galeon specific replies to debian-gtk-gnome, generic replies here. -- .''`. Mark Howard : :' : `. `' http://www.tildemh.com `- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Translations sleeping in the BTS

2003-08-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:35:59AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Packages entering sid should be checked for uninstallability (caused by > depends on outdated libs) and a rebuild should probabily triggered in > some sane way (i.e. wait for the arch to get uptodate on the failed > lib and th

Re: Sarge+1: ideas for Experimental V1.2 (or is that 0.2?)

2003-08-26 Thread Mark Howard
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:25:24AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > So speak up Mark, what do you mean with changed? I meant identifying that bug X was fixed in version Y; packages in experimental contain the fix but sid and testing packages do not (yet). I think this feature would be e

Re: Sarge+1: ideas for Experimental V1.2 (or is that 0.2?)

2003-08-26 Thread Mark Howard
t useful. I don't think I like the idea of automatic propagation from experimental to sid as suggested in some replies - it's easy enough for package maintainers to upload/copy to sid when the time is right. They are the people who can judge this timing the best. -- .''`. Mark

galeon in Debian stable

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Howard
That's why I wanted a decision to include galeon to be made on debian-gtk-gnome rather than taking all the responsibility myself :) (I was also concerned about releasing a developmental version in stable - this is my first Debian release after all) -- .''`. Mark Howard :

Re: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:35:12PM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote: > with is that the C-R system in question ignores the fact that SMTP > headers are trivially (and regulary) forged. I believe this is deliberate, > and that TMDA does not attempt to verify that the recipient of the > challenge tru

Re: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:07:58PM +0300, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You do realise that all parts of SMTP are generally completely > > unauthenticated and can be trivially forged? A system like this has no > > option but to wor

Re: Accepted galeon 1.3.7.20030825-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Howard
ombody would look at it and hopefully work in it. Submitting patches also have the wonderful effect of motivating developers to spend more time on the project. -- .''`. Mark Howard : :' : `. `' http://www.tildemh.com `- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:16:40PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Most MTAs support rejecting unknown destinations at the SMTP level. > They don't generate bounce messages in such cases. > It's a pity if Postfix can't do this. So far, I assumed only qmail > had this weird property. Postfix supp

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

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 08:21:22AM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:35:25PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > - TMDA should carry a warning to the user about possible consequences > > of activating the C-R mechanism, including sending spam, risking > Sorry, but no. I

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

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:24:37AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:41:54PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > That doesn't help all that much - it's also important see why the bug > > has been closed. > Because it is fixed... The trick is wo

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

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 07:37:05PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > to fix the bug. As a submitter, would you feel satisified that you had just > > gotten such a mail? > Probably yes because the mail would start with > This is an automatic notification re

Re: [Fwd: False Representation at Google.com]

2003-09-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:38:48AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > Debian is not in the habit of editing its history (mailing list > archives). Don't start down that slope. Spam is routinely removed from the BTS. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."

Re: why do I need EMail to install some debs?

2003-09-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 08:22:33AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Obviously this option leads into a conflict with some subsequent > packages relying upon a working EMail configuration within the > same installation session. > My suggestion would be to use debconf only. The packages are using deb

Re: "Single point of entry" for translation work?

2003-09-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:17:45AM +0200, Krzysztof Krzyzaniak wrote: > W li?cie z pon, 08-09-2003, godz. 06:41, Matthew Palmer pisze: > > Is there a page somewhere that I can point people to for all translation > > work relating to Debian (DDTS, po-debconf, etc)? Just trying to make the > > deb

Re: Bug#209116: exim daemon does not restart after last two security upgrades

2003-09-08 Thread Mark Baker
Zygo Blaxell wrote: I have exim configured in daemon mode and I use xinetd instead of inetd. The last two security updates left me with no running exim daemon and nothing listening in port 25. The latest one was nice enough to create an /etc/inetd.conf that was empty except for this line: smtp

Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!

2003-09-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 05:05:46PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.09.21.1644 +0200]: > > effects (better hardware support, more features, better > > performance or what have we) are generally seen to be worthwhile. > ...

Re: Rotation of /var/log/mail.log

2003-09-23 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Steve Kemp said on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:45:11PM +0100: > > While /var/log/mail.log is rotated nicely on my (woody) boxes, > > I have no idea which package is responsible for that. > > Any suggestions ? > > /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd > > This script rotates all the files which are output

Re: Rotation of /var/log/mail.log

2003-09-23 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Matt Zimmerman said on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:43:04PM -0400: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:59:02PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > > Please do this instead. I'm not sure why sysklogd does it's own > > rotation[...] > > Because sysklogd doesn't have a

Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer

2003-10-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:13:55PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > There is no point for me working on those bugs if the patches will > just rod in the bts or be thrown out so as not to differ from > upstream. As I said before I won't work on the debian package again > without an assurance by

Re: Looking for a co-maintainer for adduser

2003-10-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:01:52AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Well-written C++ using well tested class libraries tend to do a pretty > good job, security-wise. I often find that well written code does a good job. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."

Bug#318272: ITP: asterisk-sounds -- Additionals sound files for the Asterisk PBX

2005-07-14 Thread Mark Purcell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: asterisk-sounds Version : 1.0.9 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.asterisk.org/html/downloads/asterisk-sounds-1.0.9.tar.gz * License

Re: Bug#318272: ITP: asterisk-sounds -- Additionals sound files for the Asterisk PBX

2005-07-14 Thread Mark Purcell
, Yes I discovered this as I completed the package and tried to installed. No I believe these are spoken by Allison, with the exception of the monkey sounds. :-) I'll include a comment in the description. Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Bug#318336: ITP: asterisk-sounds-moh -- Asterisk PBX Music On Hold (MOH)

2005-07-14 Thread Mark Purcell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: asterisk-sounds-moh Version : 20050715 Upstream Author : Enjoy Elena Kuschnerova and Lev Guelbard * URL : http://www.signate.com/moh.php * License : Public

Bug#318605: ITP: asterisk-prompt-it -- Italian voice prompts for the Asterisk PBX

2005-07-16 Thread Mark Purcell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: asterisk-prompt-it Version : 20041110 Upstream Author : Marco Menardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : ftp://213.156.62.146/pub/linux/asterisk/sounds/it/it_mm_sounds_200

Bug#318983: ITP: libccscript3 -- GNU Common C++ framework for embedded scripting (update to package version 3)

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Purcell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libccscript3 Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : David Sugar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/ccscript/ * License : GPL Description

Bug#318987: ITP: libccaudio2 -- GNU ccAudio2 - a C++ class framework for processing audio files

2005-07-18 Thread Mark Purcell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libccaudio2 Version : 0.7.6 Upstream Author : David Sugar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/ccaudio * License : GPL Description :

Re: about voting for bugs

2005-07-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 12:44:14PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > if you ask me any bug is worth fixing, also if only a single user complained > about the problem. So why spending effort in "rating" bugs? Some of the relevant Bugzilla developers have articulated a couple of reasons for their voti

Bug#319201: ITP: kiax -- IAX client application

2005-07-20 Thread Mark Purcell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kiax Version : 0.8.4 Upstream Author : (c) 2004 - 2005, Emil Stoyanov and the Kiax Team * URL : http://kiax.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Description : IAX

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:41:10PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Is this acceptable to everyone? Suggestions on how to do this better? Hi Lars, by all means, proceed! Who say FLOSS lacks 'innovation'! Debian devs seem to comeup with good ideas all the time! Also, have you determined if any pattern

Re: The BTS and bug subscriptions

2005-07-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:13:04PM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: > It's trivial to add uids to a GPG key, and headers aren't actually > signed anyway, so you could replay signed messages to the server. A global, confirmed "by default subscribe me to all my bugs" might do the trick, though. -- "You

Xorg packages

2005-07-26 Thread Mark Sutton
It seems most of the 6.8.2.dfsg.1-4 packages, while listed in Packages are not in the pool. Well not on mirrors.kernel.org anyway. Is there a better/more up to date mirror? Thanks, mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: "at" package unmaintained??

2005-07-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:56:26PM +0200, Mathis Dirksen-Thedens wrote: > Hi, > Ryan Murray did not answer my email which I sent some months ago, so I propose > someone helps him with his work and takes over the "at" package. Most of the > bugs are very old, and usernames longer than 8 chars are ST

Re: ignoring upstream's version number?

2005-07-31 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 07:13:43PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > What happens if a package maintainer ignores upstream's > version number (either on purpose, or by accident, e.g. > a typo)? Is this allowed? It depends on the situation - for example, nis ignores the upstream version number complet

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-08-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:19:46PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:51:53PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > >>> I'm not sure if any additional AMs are necessary -- there is a > >>> sufficient quantity of them

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-08-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:31:36PM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: > On 02/08/05, Stepan Golosunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:24:30PM +0200, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: > > > Nothing. It was just a question, as Nikita sounds to be a female name, > > > but as I'm not sure abo

Re: fresh blood gets congested: long way to become DD

2005-08-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:42:17PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have been in the whole NM process for more than 13 months now. I > > spent around 6 months with my AM, around another 6 to be a

Re: I need to know how to create and use Driver Update Disks

2005-08-01 Thread Kevin Mark
inter on where I can get > instructions > on creating and using driver update disks? > > Or are they simply a collection of .deb files for device drivers? > > Thank you > > Mark Allyn Hi Mark, In the windows words, 'Devices' need 'Device drivers' (maybe dll

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

2005-08-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 06:46:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Since so many packages need to be fixed, I may resort to additional > private mails (or d-d-a mail) before I begin filing bug reports. The A mail to d-d-a would probably be a good idea in any case - I can't be the only person who's neve

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for August 19, 2005

2005-08-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 12:04:34PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I suggest using a bigger mailbox for your d-d-a subscription if one > mail a week is considering «flooding». Even when said mail is 4500 > lines long. One of the things with d-d-a is that it's not a list where you want to have pe

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway? (Was: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal)

2005-08-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:29:51PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Wouter Verhelst] > >b) the three beforementioned teams could already refuse to > >support a port anyhow, simply by not doing the work. > This is not really a valid argument. If a team in debian refuses to > accept de

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:24:48PM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > > well, if the package is bogus from the language usage, than that's not > > the porters problem (but how often did that hit exactly one arch?). If > I have seen multiple examples of builds failing because the testsuite or

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:42:18AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > one day (as the buildds do) is certainly acceptable. OTOH, lagging > behind for several weeks (which is not unreasonable for folks without > a phat pipe) is certainly not, especially if you are in a period of > massive transitions. Du

Re: Version tracking in the BTS

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:22:32PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 29 August 2005 20:12, martin f krafft wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=openvpn&archive=no&version=&dist=stable > What is "Unclassified" all about? No tags that it chooses to use for classifi

Re: Version tracking in the BTS

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:50:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > What do others think of the new, extended subdivision of bugs? In general more control of the sorting would be nicer. Right now there's an awful lot of categories which I'm finding makes bug listings a lot more cluttered without adding

Re: packages still setting /usr/doc link

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 05:55:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > The following is a list by maintainer of the 497 packages that still > contain code in their postinst to create links in /usr/doc/. That's been > a bug since 2002, and most of these packages have probably not been > updated since then, si

Re: Bug#323227: new list: debian-planet to distribute planet.debian.org postings; archive to enable searching

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:08:58PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > Package: lists.debian.org > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > I'd like to have a debian-planet list that would receive blog postings > from planet.debian.org. > Hi Chris, I'd second that. I was just trying to find a post on planet ab

Re: Do we still need libc5?

2005-09-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:52:34AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:33:13AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > Debian unstable & testing still carry around libc5, and some associated > > packages like altgcc, libdb1, ld.so and a few others. > Hmm, i386 only? Yes, the

Re: dpkg -L dpkg-query -L do not find all the files from a package

2005-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 03:46:34AM +, The Fungi wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:18:01PM -0400, Angelina Carlton wrote: > [...] > > I was told on #debian-devel that, yes it is in-precise, so I am just > > wondering why would it *not* list all the files? What defines if a file > > is included

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:02:41PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > FWIW, this bug has only been reported once (and reassigned to portmap) > see #261484 so its seems Debian users don't get beaten by this too often. There's at least two people who have reported this against nis too.

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:44:49PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Well, my idea is to fix only the rpc servers which cause trouble (ie. > started early). and if this is only ypbind it needs to be modified to use a > fixed port and register itself with pmap_set. Most of the NIS services (includin

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 05:27:14PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > dependencies won't help for this problem. The only real option is to > change libc/portmap/all RPC services to consult a blacklist of ports > shipped in libc/portmap. Given that none of the upstream libc maintainers who I've seen

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 09:50:52PM +, W. Borgert wrote: > In the past, there were important blog entries by Martin Joey > Schulze on security, by Branden Robinson on Debian trademark > issues, and some interesting thoughts on the upload process by > Martin F. Krafft to name just a few. I'm pr

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:17:53PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > IIRC leafnode complains about "localhost.localdomain" refusing to suck > news unless you manually specify a domainname in its configuration file. > Maybe you remember that trouble? > Still, I've ever considered that an issue wi

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:02:55PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Or am I getting confused and d-i uses localhost.localdomain as the default > hostname, and say, if I had told it that my machine is named "twerk", domain > "foo.bar" I would get a > 127.0.0.1 twerk.foo.bar twerk localh

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:41:13PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:38:03PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > It's complaining because upstream wishes to strongly encourage users to > > configure things so that they have a globally unique hostname par

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

2005-10-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:34:21PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:32:35PM +0200, "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:10:22PM -0600, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: > > > I work at a government laboratory where computer g

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

2005-10-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:41:09PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:00 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > The main things that this thread shows me, is that it is *not* immediately > > clear to people not too familiar with Debian that the removal of the 'gnome' > > pack

Bug#195948: URL for workaround list

2005-10-20 Thread Mark Nipper
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #195948 Owner: Mark Nipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just in case someone gets to the end here like I did and is wondering where the workaround list is, the URL is: --- http://workaround.org/pipermail/dspam-debian/ Hopefully that is okay to give out. Wasn

Re: SPF or the like for *some* *subdomains* of .debian.org ?

2005-10-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 12:16:35PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > You know, here SPF could help us. There is no reason at all for people to > complain that they cannot send email from bugs.debian.org, db.debian.org and > some other special *subdomains* of debian.org. This does not im

Re: Bug#335173: ITP: dspam -- Highly accurate and fast statistical spam filter

2005-10-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 03:32:57PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Saturday 22 October 2005 12:08, Rudolf Weeber wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Rudolf Weeber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * Package name: dspam > > Version : x.y.z > > Upstream Author : Dee

Re: SPF or the like for *some* *subdomains* of .debian.org ?

2005-10-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 03:33:21PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sunday 23 October 2005 03:10, Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...and hope that nobody wants forward e-mail from those domains using a > > virtual table or equivalent to somewhere doing SPF checks.

Re: eidviewer menu entry

2005-11-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 11:44:50AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi, > > > The next upload (which is in NEW already) adds libeid and the eidviewer; > the former allows a programmer to read out identity information and > pictures from the card; the latter provides a GUI to interactively view >

Re: FREE LINUX CDS-DVDS?

2008-02-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Ernesto Mora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > I'm very interested in using the Debian Linux operating system but it's very > difficult to me download the iso image cause my internet access is very > limited by now, and the local connections are too s

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

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:09:46PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > I will then merge mainline into my branch, do any conflict resolution > necessary, and give it a quick test to make sure nothing seems to have > been broken in the meantime. Then merging my branch back into > mainline is, as you say,

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:55:56PM +, Hector Oron wrote: > 2008/2/25, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > What? You don't have a set of Toy Story Action Figures yet? > > As i see on news today, sudafrica has an openning to hunt elephants > again because they have so much, but some

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:42:17AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 27/02/08 at 00:42 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > Google are running their Summer of Code programme again this year[1], > > and if we want to take part again we need to apply between March 3rd > > and March 12

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

2008-02-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:51:41PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Does this not also suffer from the problem that branches made from my > > triggers branch become unuseable or difficult to merge ? > git merge --squash is more or less equivalent to appl

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

2008-02-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 05:11:17PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > But Guillem wants to review and understand the code. In this process, > he will rearrange the changes in smaller logical chunks. Ah, the impression that has been created on the lists is more that the patches were being NACKed and

Re: dpkg with triggers support (again)

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:12:41PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * John Goerzen: > >> Some of the official, published GIT trees are constantly rebased. > >> Apparently, the rule is not set in stone. > > Which ones? > The pu and (less often) the next branches in the main GIT repository. Right,

Re: package upload rejected - no email

2008-03-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 04:26:56PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > Question: how do I get the newer, correct version of the > .orig.tar.gz into the archives (replacing the earlier version > uploaded previously that does not match upstream's)? You need to give it a new version number - it is not poss

Re: SELinux overhead

2008-03-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 07:48:40PM +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Is there available data about the overhead of enforcing various SELinux > policies? > > Quantitatively, > Pierre Is this in comparison to 'having SELinux support' which is what I understand was the case for Etch. -k -- | .''`. ==

Re: file path length in .deb package.

2008-04-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 08:43:47PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Could you *please* give me the bug number, If you can't find a relevant bug you should report a new one (anyone can do so). See: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting for instructions on how to do this manually or ther

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