Re: TeTeX bugs

2000-03-16 Thread Christoph Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Denis Barbier writes: > On 15 Mar 2000, Christoph Martin wrote: > > > Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 01:11:03PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > > > Since

/etc/shadow world-readable

2000-03-19 Thread Martin Waitz
n, 2+4 use pam_pwdb and are frequently accessed without rsa-keys but i could not reproduce the problem so far any ideas? -- CU, / Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, Germany Martin Waitz// [Tali on IRCnet] [tali.hom

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000

2000-03-19 Thread Christoph Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- BugScan reporter writes: > Package: tetex-base (debian/main) > Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 42698 tetex-base: The french option of babel is broken > > Package: tetex-bin (debian/main) > Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <[EMAIL PROTEC

new Debian tetex versions - please test

2000-03-19 Thread Christoph Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi there, I have put some new version of tetex-* for potato in ftp.uni-mainz.de/pub/Linux/debian-local for testing. Please test them for the fixed bugs and let me know if there are further issues. from the changelogs: tetex-bin (1.0.6-4) frozen unstable; urg

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-21 Thread Daniel Martin
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > False conclusion #1: now, it seems to crash regardless of if mandb is > running or not. ARGGHH!! However, I have left in that in the message, > in case it gives anybody else some ideas. I seem to remember once upon a time that man would crash and burn if on

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
ange, I simply remove the of the diff from the patches dir. I also use cvs-buildpackage with other packages and it is very good in its field. Version control of the diffs would be a very cool thing. Hmm, maybe I could just manually CVS control the debian/ dir. Ciao, Martin

Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?

2000-03-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
a GNOME package, the needed libs get pulled from the Debian mirror automatically. But then, he could also fetch the GNOME packages from the Debian mirror right away. So a note that GNOME packages are available from the regular Debian mirrors would be sufficient, no? Ciao, Martin PS: Reply-to is set to debian-gtk-gnome

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-28 Thread Daniel Martin
Nils Jeppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > ORBS deserves special mention because of their insane hit count, I don't > > know what that is about but ORBS would block 10% of the mails we get. I > > think it is without question that the majority of tho

Re: apt-get cron job

2000-03-28 Thread Daniel Martin
Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use this line in /etc/crontab on my woody system: > 42 6* * sun root/usr/bin/apt-get update ; /usr/bin/apt-get -q -d -y > -u dist-upgrade ; /usr/bin/apt-get autoclean > I use a similar but much more complicated method to acheive a similar re

"GNU/Linux" vs. "Linux"

2000-03-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Ok folks, why is Debian called "GNU/Linux" instead of simply "Linux"? Is that documented somewhere? On a web-page, faq, other document? Regards, Joey -- The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum Please always Cc to me when

Re: "GNU/Linux" vs. "Linux"

2000-03-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ok folks, why is Debian called "GNU/Linux" instead of simply "Linux"? > > Is that documented somewhere? On a web-page, faq, other document? > > IIRC, D

Re: dwww: cat and file (pipe race condition)

2000-03-30 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler) writes: > It seems, that the problem only occurs with longer (more than 1 chars) > files. Looking for the cause of this problem, I found that the line > "$decompress $file | file -b - | magic2mime" in dwww-convert is responsible. Well, if I do a $

New Mailing-Lists

2000-03-31 Thread Martin Schulze
>From the we-are-everywhere department: Debian proudly presents: F I V E N E W L I S T S C R E A T E D List: debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org This mailing list is designed to help coordinate the maintenance of the teTeX packages and related software in

Bug tracking system and testing distribution Re: Potato now stable

2000-08-15 Thread Christoph Martin
Anthony Towns writes: > > * Working out which bugs are really release-critical and fixing >their severity so we know where we're at is overly time >consuming. We have a problem with the bug tracking system as long as we can't really find out to which versions of a package

Re: Bug tracking system and testing distribution Re: Potato now stable

2000-08-17 Thread Christoph Martin
Joey Hess writes: > Christoph Martin wrote: > > We have a problem with the bug tracking system as long as we can't > > really find out to which versions of a package a bug really > > applies. We only mosttimes have the version of the packages where a > > prob

RTP: xlHtml

2000-08-17 Thread Martin Schulze
It's a converter XLS->HTML, XLS is used by some proprietery software from the Dark Side... http://www.xlhtml.org/xlHtml-0.2.7.2.tar.gz Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop or in front of a mirror. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.

Re: Learning dpkg/apt

2000-08-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
350s [These are the times of the second invocation, so memory cache/buffers are used] IMHO, it is a must have. Cudos to Craig. Ciao, Martin

Re: Bug tracking system and testing distribution Re: Potato now stable

2000-08-21 Thread Christoph Martin
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Christoph Martin wrote: > > So, what is the policy to do with a package for the "testing" > > distribution, if there is an important bug? Do you remove the package > > unconditionaly or do you try investigate

Re: Free Pine?

2000-08-30 Thread Martin Jenssen
http://www.kvaleberg.com/mana.html Martin pgprFd0jdWcnY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

2000-09-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
iel> if it worked. Check cd #apt or cd #dpkg on the mc command line. Ciao, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

List of packages needing a new maintainer

2000-12-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
ntional mail arrival notification server. O: tcl8.0-ja -- The Tool Command Language (TCL) v8.0 - Run-Time Package O: tk8.0-ja -- The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v8.0 - Run-Time Package. Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> O: manpages-de -- German manpages Robert S. Edmonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dpkg-scanpackage is ignoring newwe?

2000-12-27 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > running dpkg-scanpackage i386 over > Packages > > > > > i get (over is size 0) > > > > > ! Package msn-transport (filename i386/msn-transport_1.0-2_i386.deb) is > > > re

Linux Expo in Praha, Budabest, Warsaw & Moscow (was: Linux Expo Road Show)

2000-12-27 Thread Martin Schulze
I'd like to send out a reminder. Peter Novodvorsky wrote: > Hello! > > I want you to know, that Sky Events will hold four conferences and > exhibition in eastern europe called Linux Expo Road Show. Conferences > will be held in Praha, Budapest, Warsaw and Moscow, and exhibition -- > only in Mosco

Re: List of packages needing a new maintainer

2000-12-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > Below is a listing of packages needing a new maintainer. I know that > > all the information is in the WNPP already, but I thought it would > > be a good idea to post a summary since the WNPP bug

Brian Bassett?

2000-12-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
about a week has passed by. One of my NM applicants just told me that he has unsuccessfully tried to contact Brian as well. I'm posting to debian-devel now to ask if anyone knows what's up with Brian. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xfs segfaults with truetype fonts

2000-12-29 Thread Martin Maciaszek
I want to use xfs from X4 with truetype fonts. I created a fonts.dir file with ttmkfdir and added the path with the fonts to /etc/X11/fs/config. I restarted xfs and X. Everytime I try to use one of the ttfs xfs dumps core. What can I do? Cheers Martin -- fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too

Re: xfs segfaults with truetype fonts

2000-12-29 Thread Martin Maciaszek
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:31:05AM -0800, Marc Martinez wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:14:24AM +0100, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > > I want to use xfs from X4 with truetype fonts. I created a > > fonts.dir file with ttmkfdir and added the path with the fonts to > >

X broken after yesterdays dist-upgrade (sid)

2001-01-02 Thread Martin Maciaszek
.o is unresolved! Symbol DRIGetDrawableStamp from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o is unresolved! Symbol DRIGetDrawableInfo from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modues/drivers/mga_drv.o is unresolved! Can someone explain what happened? Cheers Martin -- If Machiavelli were a hacker, he'd have

lynx 2.8.4dev.16 --with-ssl

2001-01-02 Thread Christoph Martin
Since ssl support (configure --with-ssl) is now integrated in the main lynx source, will lynx-ssl be obsolete? And will lynx has to go to non-US? Or do we still need separate version? Christoph -- Christoph Martin, Uni

Re: X broken after yesterdays dist-upgrade (sid)

2001-01-02 Thread Martin Maciaszek
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:32:00PM +0100, Petr Cech wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:37:05PM +0100 , Martin Maciaszek wrote: > > When booting my workstation today I noticed that xdm won't come > > up. I tried starting X by hand and got the following error > > messag

Re: Important Note On Source-Only Uploads

2001-01-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
I don't know any other mailer like it. Last time I tried pine mode in mutt, it didn't come near the real thing. As long as there is no other mailer like it, I don't want to force a change on these users. Ciao, Martin

Re: Important Note On Source-Only Uploads

2001-01-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Michael Piefel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 5.01.01 um 10:10:53 schrieb Martin Bialasinski: >> * Anthony Towns wrote: >> > Actually it's weird. Pine seems to be surviving for some reason. I >> > don't know why. :-/ >> [...] >> Pine is

Upcoming Events in Germany

2001-01-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi there, I have received a whole bunch of notifications for conferences and exhibitions in Germany next year. I would love Debian to be present at each of them, with both, a booth and a talk. This should not be too difficult since there are about 70 Developers in Germany with half as much new a

[devfs users]: evaluate a patch please

2001-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
he report. Could you tell me, if it is formally OK and if it fixes the problem for you, if you can reproduce the bug? Thanks, Martin

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
s bugreport is a deja-vu of your behaviour on #80544. You are more than annoying, and I am sick of it. If you want your glory peer review, subscribe to debian-bugs-dist and read every mail the BTS sends. I am sure your excelent bug analysis skills are greatly appreciated. But leave debian-devel out of this. Martin

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-07 Thread Martin Keegan
Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joey Hess wrote: > > I think /etc/mtab is on its way out. A 2.4.x kernel with devfs has a > > /proc/mounts that actually has a proper line for the root filesystem. > > Linking the two files would probably actually work on such a system > > with

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
he next stable. So anyone using just stable will be bitten by it. This has nothing to do with unstable. Ciao, Martin

Re: Configure error for lm-sensors (2.5.4-2)

2001-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, [Some errors] if it is a bug, use "reportbug" or "bug" to submit it to the bug-tracking system. If you can find out the cause, provide a patch. Thanks. Ciao, Martin

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
day before your mail. Everything is recorded in the BTS. > I have developed a great liking for bug reports somehow. Then you just need to develope some skill for a) analysing bugs and writing useful reports and b) not going crazy when developers ask further question if they don't have a cristal ball handy. Martin

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
you can not assume any particular flag for bzip2 compression anyway, why should GNU tar change its bzip2 option to the one used by the solaris tar? Ciao, Martin

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
ssible. I don't see anyone getting an advantage from this change. Ciao, Martin

[mc]: Help reproducing a bug

2001-01-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
updates in Debian unstable. [ this doesn't happen everytime a command fails ] I never had such a thing, nor did I hear about this prior to this report. Does someone else have this problem? Thanks for your help, Martin PS: Günter, maybe you could recompile the package with -ggdb so w

Re: Kernel Sends 7E ?

2001-01-09 Thread Daniel Martin
"Derrick (Thrawn01)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the devices running embedded Initiate a communication with the Linux > server. Our Daemon on the Linux box responds with > > a single packet containing the Transaction information. directly after that > packet the Linux box sends a packet contain

Re: ITP ilisp

2001-01-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010102 14:07]: > ILISP is a emacs interface to various lisp-like systems, including > CMUCL and guile (which are already packaged for Debian). Please close #68227 when you upload the package. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-10 Thread Daniel Martin
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, if someone would like to configure the MTA that runs bugs.debian.org to > send CC's of all bug mail to another address, ... You mean something other than signing up for debian-bugs-dist and parsing the resulting traffic? I realize that debian-bu

Re: Unofficial projects related with Debian.

2003-05-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Enrico Zini wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:55:33PM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > > > http://www.debian.org/devel/, "Projects" section: > > > > * Debian Web Pages > [...] > > * Alioth: Debian GForge > > Certainly seems that they're listed. > > The Debian Usability Research seems to

Re: debian-exim mailing list?

2003-05-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 11:03:36PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > but on the other hand, there's alioth.debian.org which allows for easier > > creation and maintenance of per-package mailing lists. > > we should generally decide to migrate (all) mailinglists, or only create

Re: debian-exim mailing list?

2003-05-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Metzler wrote: > It would be nice if there were documented mechanisms to move a list > /painlessly/ from alioth to lists and vice versa, i.e. keeping the > subscriber list and redirections for the old list addresses. Please send me a patch to the List HOWTO I once wrote. You'll need month

Cross-compiler for sparc64

2003-05-29 Thread Martin Pitt
"egcs" is history for a long time now... Thanks and have a nice day! Martin -- Martin Pitt home: www.piware.de eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpuf0CsTyGMF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian-IN

2003-05-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Now that GNOME (via pango) and KDE (via the upcoming Qt 3.2.0) have viable > support, I wonder if there is any interest in a sub-project for increasing > the support for Indian languages within Debian? Good news come from India about this: http://slashdot.org/articles/03

Re: Cross-compiler for sparc64

2003-05-29 Thread Martin Pitt
bit compiler available from > http://www.phunnypharm.org/~bcollins/sparc/ as an interim solution. Thanks again for the link! Martin -- Martin Pitt home: www.piware.de eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new bug tags

2003-06-02 Thread Martin Schulze
Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 03:33:29PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > > I don't; it's silly. At best you'll get an architecture tag for the > > arch that the buildd maintainer reported the bug on, but that's it. > > An inaccurate architecture tag is worse than useless, it's mislead

Re: Celebrating Debian's 10th birthday?

2003-06-02 Thread Martin Schulze
Alexander Neumann wrote: > While digging around in the calendar-files at infodrom.org I suddenly > realized that Debian will have it's 10th birthday at August, 16th > (according to the calendar.infodrom.debian file at > http://www.infodrom.org/projects/calendar/) > > Are there any parties planned

Re: no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

2003-06-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 08:29:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > He wants to know when a particular package was last updated, without > > having to download it and examine the gzip time stamp and/or changelog. > > It is unfortunate, that there is no easy access to the change

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > IMO it's a good moment to drop all the following i386-specific packages > > which are libc5 related: > > > > [SNIP] > > > > > and others, partially. > > > > This could impact potentially very old (commercial

Re: no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

2003-06-24 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: > Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 08:29:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > He wants to know when a particular package was last updated, without > > > having to download it and examine the gzip time stamp and/or changelog. >

Re: Upstream requires forked Date::Manip

2003-06-30 Thread Martin Quinson
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 03:50:29PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > The upstream maintainer of XMLTV, which I package for Debian, has > temporarily forked the Perl Date::Manip module. He says: > >Over the past six months or so I've accumulated various bug fixes to >the Date::Manip module

Bug#199390: ITP: quilt -- Scripts for working with series of patches

2003-06-30 Thread Martin Quinson
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-30 Severity: wishlist * Package name: quilt Version : 0.24 Upstream Author : Andreas Gruenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Martin Quinson <[

Re: Upstream requires forked Date::Manip

2003-06-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Graham Wilson wrote: > i dont know anything about perl, but might it be possible to add the > forked module to the xmltv package, in some way that doesnt conflict > with the libdate-manip-perl that exists in debian? Should be possible if you use a different directory (one with a higher priority)

Re: db.debian.org

2003-07-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Koch wrote: > Is db.debian.org gone into nirvana ? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> host db.debian.org > db.debian.org has address 209.249.97.234 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> ping -c 4 db.debian.org > PING db.debian.org (209.249.97.234) 56(84) bytes of data. > > --- db.debian.org ping statistics --- >

Re: db.debian.org

2003-07-01 Thread Martin Wuertele
ing lists still sluggish, but will return to normal soonish | LT keysigning: http://www.palfrader.org/ksp-lt2k3.html | try APT secure: http://monk.debian.net/apt-secure/ yours Martin -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - NO HTML MAILS PLEASE

Re: Debian job board?

2003-07-02 Thread Martin Schulze
Will Newton wrote: > > Is there any place where someone could advertise jobs that would be suitable > for Debian developers? That's what jobs.debian.net was meant for. It doesn't seem to exist anymore, though. Regards, Joey -- Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. --

Bug#199692: ITP: rfc-tool -- Tool to search in the RFCs and display them

2003-07-02 Thread Martin Quinson
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-02 Severity: wishlist * Package name: rfc-tool Version : 3.2 Upstream Author : Derrick Daugherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.dewn.com/rfc/ * License : Unclear, probably free Description : Tool

Re: Bug#199642: xpilot: French translation of the debconf templates

2003-07-03 Thread Martin Quinson
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 06:12:02PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Now I'm left at a loss as to what to do with the file. I want the > half-finished work to remain in the package so that someone picking up the > package and customizing it (or in future, adopting it, should I decide to > ever give

Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages

2003-07-04 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:16:07PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:19:59PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > You have some free software, and it comes with a manual. You modify > > the software in a manner which suits you... bu

Re: logging for package installs

2003-07-04 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:38:46PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Maybe this is a good time to present this idea I've been kicking around, > but never really got anywhere with, for as long as I've been working on > debconf. My idea is to add an abstraction layer for package install-related > logging in

Juridical prosecution

2003-07-05 Thread Martin Sobek
You place your page on address www.sobek-sobek.com unlawfully! Remove it immediately or you risk juridical prosecution. > Sobek-Sobek.com q analytic service q [EMAIL PROTECTED] q +420605921227 > q Bryksova 27, 19800 Prague 9, CZ > > <>

Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages

2003-07-10 Thread Martin Quinson
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:40:36PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:53:56AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > > Except for the title, the DFSG is very content-agnostic. It can be > > applied equally well to software, fiction, nonfiction, images, what have > > you. > > I thi

the RFC mess: tentative summary

2003-07-13 Thread Martin Quinson
Ok, people. Even if I'm not native speaker, I'll now try to sum up the flamewar we just had about the RFC licencing. Don't get me wrong here. In fact I personnaly have no fixed opinion about this. I just want to be able to fix the tons of RC bugs involved by this issue, close them, get other bugs d

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

2003-07-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-22 10:53]: > Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader (2003-07-22 09:07:27 +0100) : > > At the same time I observe that this thread has generated much hot > > air, but I didn't see any proposal of who could act as DPL. > &g

proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-22 Thread Martin Pool
ink if the daemon is started through su it will be OK. -- Martin

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-23 Thread Martin Pitt
e will do a mere dist-upgrade anyway, and b-f are thoroughly tested. But this certainly is another issue... Just my $0.02, Martin -- Martin Pitt home: www.piware.de eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Es gibt zwei Regeln für Erfolg im Leben: 1. Erzähle den Leuten nie alles, was Du weißt.

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-24 Thread Martin Pool
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:26:58 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Christoph Hellwig > > | On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 02:09:28PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > | > There is already a PAM modules, libpam-tmpdir which automatically sets > | > this up on login by creating a per-user dir

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-24 Thread Martin Pool
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:14:09 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Martin Pool wrote: >> At the least I would like to see Debian prompt for this at installation >> much as it does for shadow passwords. Ideally it would be on by >> default. > > I'm all for this idea. Thanks

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Martin Pitt
sers who have already installed Debian (where it is a matter of a mere apt-get dist-upgrade ) and may not appeal to potential new users. Whereas the latter alternative (waiting for a mature D-I) would not be of any help to _both_ groups. IMHO we should try _not_ to deceive as many users as poss

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Martin Pitt
int. This is really a genuine question, no flaming intended. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt home: www.piware.de eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-24 Thread Martin Pool
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:58:33 -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > Does the PAM module *create* /tmp/ if it's not there? Actually it is /tmp/users/ at the moment, and yes, it creates both levels securely. -- Martin

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-24 Thread Martin Pool
ill exist on almost all other Unix systems or on systems that reset TMPDIR. -- Martin

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-27 Thread Martin Pool
urn to my original point: it's good if there is additional protection beyond hoping that every program is correct. -- Martin

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-27 Thread Martin Pool
ms deal with the issues of world-writable directories was a horrible idea. Why make programs and users be careful when all they really want is some private scratch space? -- Martin

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-27 Thread Martin Pool
the issue of making sure /tmp/user is the real one is exactly what I hope to avoid by moving away from 1777 /tmp. > Oddly, it doesn't seem to set the environment variables properly when > using "su", though it seems to be creating the correct directories. But > neither does pam_env.so (anyone know why?). Does su mop the environment? -- Martin

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-27 Thread Martin Pool
te the 20-line patch to make libpam-tmpdir use multi-level directories. But as you say I don't think it would be a big deal for most (if any) systems. -- Martin

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Perrier wrote: > > > But close to it would be a good idea also. Dunno whether LinuxTag > > > happens on a week-end or during the week, but it would be ideal to > > > have Debconf one week after LinuxTag (so that people attending LT > > > could come at DebCamp in the between). > > > > Lin

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Yes, that's what I thought about initially, too. Joey? When does > LT 2k5 happen to be? ,) If I only knew... Pester me when you need to know the date. It's not yet decided but several dates are under discussion already. Regards, Joey -- In the beginning was

Re: libraries being removed from the archive

2003-08-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Richard Braakman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:08:04AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > > Hence the need for policy to dictate to the maintainer not to allow the > > > package to be removed before all other packages have transitioned. It > > > usually doesn't take much more work as long as the

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Artur R. Czechowski wrote: > I've found your bugreport: > http://bugs.debian.org/202869 > > I see no issue to not depending mutt on mail-transfer-agent. > > Mutt as is, is a software for reading, writing and sending emails. > And to provide a full functionality it needs a kind of transfer-agent.

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-07 Thread Martin Sjögren
developers and carefully prod elmo about it, too. That's how it worked for me, and that's how it's worked for others. /Martin -- Martin Sjögren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +46 (0)31 7490880 Cell: +46 (0)739 169191 GPG key: http://www.strakt.com/~martin/gpg.html pgp

Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

2003-08-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-20 10:31]: > > Martin Quinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just wondered if it would be possible for non-developper > > > contributors to Debian to get their GPG key in the Debian keyserver. > >

Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

2003-08-20 Thread Martin Quinson
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 06:46:34PM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-20 10:31]: > > > Martin Quinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I just wondered if it would be possible for non-developper > > >

Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

2003-08-20 Thread Martin Quinson
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:40:02AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Martin Quinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > $ LC_ALL=C gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-keys E145F334 > > gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. > > gpg: Total number processed: 0 > > > > Th

Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

2003-08-20 Thread Martin Quinson
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:03:32AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:23:47AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 06:46:34PM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > * Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-20 10:31]:

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-08-20 Thread Martin Quinson
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:08:28AM +0200, cobaco wrote: > On 2003-08-20 10:13, Chris Cheney wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:49:03AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:49, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > I'm all for aggressive goals, let's aim for sometime in De

Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

2003-08-20 Thread Martin Quinson
[answer to a private mail on the list with the permission of Christian] On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:53:49PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > On [19/08/03 18:05], Martin Quinson wrote: > > point is that currently, DD is very very strict about who can upload to the > > source and th

Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

2003-08-20 Thread Martin Quinson
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 05:03:17PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Martin Quinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:40:02AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > keyring.debian.org has only DDs in it. I think people were suggesting > > >

Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

2003-08-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Quinson wrote: > I just wondered if it would be possible for non-developper contributors to > Debian to get their GPG key in the Debian keyserver. No. The contents Debian keyserver reflect the list of registered Debian developers who also have an account on about all Debian ma

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

2003-08-24 Thread Martin Quinson
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:28:55PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Quoting Stephen Frost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > > I, for sure, cannot hijack any package for which nothing has been done > > > > for translation related bugs. I would quickly en

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

2003-08-24 Thread Martin Quinson
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:38:33PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Martin Quinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:28:55PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > Dude, translators already more than this. When I translate a package, I > > register to its

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

2003-08-25 Thread Martin Quinson
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 09:30:19PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Martin Quinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:38:33PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > This hasn't got anything to do with NMU's. > > > > With NMU in g

Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing

2003-08-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Sander Smeenk wrote: > I'm about to close 95153, 133049, 158040, 16, 170580, 173331, 176223, > 135603, 161659, 165107, 165135, 165351, 171190, 172529, 173663, 174506, > 174508, 174509, 192401, 193544, 101725, 122689, 159575, 165126, 182280, > and 189780 with a nice message telling that the bug

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

2003-08-25 Thread Martin Quinson
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:19:57PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > 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?

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