Re: /sbin/halt always changes its access rights

2005-01-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
d root root 02755 /sbin/halt > > Note that making random programs like "halt" setuid root might > be a serious security hole. > I find ctrl-alt-del quite nice in these cases, changing a bit /etc/inittab and using acpi/apm to powerdown. Any decent login manager allo

Re: LVM packages up for adoption

2005-01-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
We are all awating for new-alioth in place. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cannot login in xdm anymore (upgrade potato -> potato)

2000-03-10 Thread Richard P. Groenewegen
Hi, I'm already running potato for some time now, without trouble, but on my latest dselect adventure things went wrong, notably with xdm (this is version 3.3.6-5). [1] Suddenly xdm wouldn't startup anymore. Reason: parse-xf86config was gone. I had to fetch it from somewhere else in order f

Re: ATI Linux Driver Packages

2003-06-02 Thread Matthew P. McGuire
lly swell to actually play Tuxracer for a change. ;-) Thanks -- Matthew P. McGuire 1024D/E21C0E88 CB82 7859 26B2 95E3 1328 5198 D57A D072 E21C 0E88 When choice matters, choose Debian.

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

2003-06-18 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
zlib1 ldso libg++27-altdev libregex0-altdev svgalib1-altdev xlib6-altdev xpm4.7 xaw3d netscape-base-4-libc5 svgalib1 svgalib-dummy1 termcap-compat and others, partially. This could impact potentially very old (commercial mostly) binaries, Comments, ideas, complaints? -- Francesco P. Lovergine

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

2003-06-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 08:55:02AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:17:43PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > zlib1 > > The ocaml bindings to zlib still build depend on zlib1g-dev. > Which is the newer alternative to this package? > E

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

2003-06-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
(another dead product) will have problems. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

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

2003-06-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
X-Spot: Who uses non-free software empoisons you, too. Say him to stop. ^^^ That's constantly in my header... so I'm ready to fight :-P On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:29:01PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > On Thu

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

2003-06-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ciannot a geek. Anyway, her M.A. thesis was in WP 5.1. So when the Mmmm, bad example. See http://www.lomuto.it/HomeMicheleLomutoE.htm That is a non-geek musician who uses Emacs and Latex only :-P because he is seriuously concerned about his data. > Please remember this is 2003 and not 1983. Pe

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

2003-06-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:59:46AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > IMO it's a good moment to drop all the following i386-specific packages > > which are libc5 related: > > I agree, with the proviso that we make sure anyone who really need

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

2003-06-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:43:23PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > > You, and rest of the minority who use libc5 program, can dual-boot > an older distribution of Debian (say potato) where the programs still > work. Yes, it can be a hassle, but it works. > Also woody...

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

2003-06-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:33:28PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > On Thursday, Jun 19, 2003, at 06:57 US/Eastern, Francesco P. Lovergine > wrote: > > >And surely Debian DOES NOT support > >non-free (in DFSG sense) software, > > No, but we do support our us

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

2003-06-23 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
nefits of having them in a modern distro as sarge, whenever it will be available. In these days, zlib's maintainer already dropped libc5 support. I have a grave bug in libc5 linker which is currently unable to manage properly also a silly program. Those kinds of problems will (probably) become quite constant in the future, 'cause of aging of those libs. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Debootstrap, Sid, and console-tools-libs

2003-07-02 Thread Matthew P. McGuire
console-tools-libs. Any work around would be appreciated. Thanks, -- Matthew P. McGuire 1024D/E21C0E88 CB82 7859 26B2 95E3 1328 5198 D57A D072 E21C 0E88 When choice matters, choose Debian.

Re: Debootstrap, Sid, and console-tools-libs

2003-07-03 Thread Matthew P. McGuire
sarge with apt, and finally upgrade to sid with apt as well. This is the long way to do it, but it works fine. I hope this helps others out there. Thanks again, -- Matthew P. McGuire 1024D/E21C0E88 CB82 7859 26B2 95E3 1328 5198 D57A D072 E21C 0E88 When choice matters, choose Debian.

Re: Bug#200355: ITP: csound -- incredibly powerful and versatile software synthesis program

2003-07-08 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
e... http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/pub/dream/Copyrights -- Francesco P. Lovergine

Re: Bug#200355: ITP: csound -- incredibly powerful and versatile software synthesis program

2003-07-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 04:58:50PM +0200, Andrea Glorioso wrote: > >>>>> "fpl" == Francesco P Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > fpl> I wonder if that classic package can stay in our archives > fpl> (also non-free). Did you check

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

2003-08-05 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:00:03PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > There are enough SMTP/POP3 MUAs which do not need any MTA infrastructure on > the local host, whatsoever. Mutt can fetch by pop-3, but I think it has no > smtp support build in, or? I just (actually few hours ago) find patch which

Bug#204494: ITP: jot -- print out increasing, decreasing, random, or redundant

2003-08-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-07 Severity: wishlist * Package name: jot Version : 9.0 Upstream Author : John Kunze, Office of Comp. Affairs, UCB * URL : http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/system/rhlinux/athena-9.0/free/SRPMS/athena-jot-9.0-3.src.rpm *

Re: stack protection

2003-08-22 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:39:53AM +0200, Xavier Roche wrote: > Note that some options are sometimes incompatible with some packages: > restrictions on kmem ('Deny writing to /dev/kmem, /dev/mem, and > /dev/port') prevent lm_sensors from working properly with my server. But "cat /dev/zero > /dev/m

Re: stack protection

2003-08-23 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 03:13:25PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 07:02, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:39:53AM +0200, Xavier Roche wrote: > > > Note that some options are sometimes incompatible with some packages: > > > restrict

Re: stack protection

2003-08-23 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:19:38AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 19:36, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > > > Allowing the system administrator to write to /dev/mem as part of > > > debugging the kernel is a feature. > > > > UID 0 must have rights t

Re: stack protection

2003-08-24 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:40:28PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: [...] > > I agree, but writing secure (not perfectly secure) software may be > > nearly possible. > > I don't like to start flame war, but must mention djbdns and qmail. > > Yes, however they have less functionality than the alternativ

Re: stack protection

2003-08-25 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 04:14:12PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 07:48, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > > > Also I don't expect DJB to write replacements for dhcpd, dhclient, ftpd, > > > cron, > > > > Maybe someone else should do that, I hope at l

Re: stack protection

2003-08-25 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:56:38AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > I'm personally only really familiar with ISC's dhcpd3-server, but have > you even read the code written by Ted Lemon? Just randomly slandering > programmers when you are not intimately familiar with their code isn't > something that s

Re: looking for nco maintainer Brain Mays

2003-08-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
We are going into mainstream towards sarge releasing, so you couldn't have sufficient time for usual release-test cycle of a new upstream release. -- Francesco P. Lovergine

killing virus e-mails with file types

2003-09-25 Thread Craig P. Steffen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As Martin Pitt mentioned here, you can filter on the file types of attachments to e-mails to eliminate the "Microsoft Upgrade" e-mail attachments. I do it in an even simpler way (keep in mind I don't really have bandwidth limitations). I have my

killing virus e-mails with file types

2003-09-25 Thread Craig P. Steffen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As Martin Pitt mentioned here, you can filter on the file types of attachments to e-mails to eliminate the "Microsoft Upgrade" e-mail attachments. I do it in an even simpler way (keep in mind I don't really have bandwidth limitations). I have my

Re: GCC version change / C++ ABI change

2005-07-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
pilation of ancient code. When I asked for revoming due to an old grave bug, people answered almost the same: it's yet useful. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
nts looks not so good. For instance I used happily this resource: XTerm*Font: -monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--15-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-15 and the visual quality of that font is now less good. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
sed policy is already followed in case of ABI changes. And any sane program would not compile when ever a library change its _API_ in a way not back-compatible. If not, well that's an upstream issue, not a debian one :) -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: debconf5 - videos of the talks and BOFs available

2005-07-18 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Will the slides be available in a central repository too? Having both videos and slides would be nice for who missed the event, like me :'( -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: about voting for bugs

2005-07-20 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
able to discriminate what's a spurious bug and what's not. That could be useful to create a priority list for QA team jobs, but I wonder if it's better than the proposed popcon approach. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
have the same role of lintian/linda by this point of view. Filling BTS reports could be not so appropriate. Disclosure: I do not know piuparts at all :) -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#319334: ITP: ng-spice -- Mixed-level/mixed-signal electronic circuit simulator

2005-07-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ed all but distribution/copy it could be fine for non-free AFAIK. But that one poses too many limitations. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#323689: ITP: op-panel -- switchboard type application for the Asterisk PBX.

2005-08-17 Thread Alejandro Rios P.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: op-panel Upstream Author : Nicolás Gudiño <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.asternic.org/ * License : GPL Description : switchboard type application for the Asteri

Re: arch, svn, cvs (was: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security)

2005-08-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
with CVS, > arch sucks badly. I tend to agree with most of the things that Florian > Weimer lists on http://www.enyo.de/fw/software/arch/design-issues.html > Comparing svn and arch is like comparing apples and tomatos. They have completely different purposes (i.e. centralized vs di

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-08-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:50:40PM +0200, Marc Chantreux wrote: > that are not bugs so i wonder if package maintainers where pleased if i > reportbug those lines as wishlist. > Why not? a patch is a patch. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: FTPmasters (again)

2005-08-31 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
tion for their regular job. Well done. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Spam on the BTS

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ry? Once it becomes multi-threaded CPU usage > could become an issue, especially if we upgrade to spamassassin 3. What's wrong with using native perl threads and mutexes ? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
instead of thread mutexes (which is the proper answer to syncronization issues in a thread-safe architecture)? "It's more easy" is not a decent answer, of course. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:34:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > >> I intended to write the opposite: file locks are a per-process > >> resource in NPTL, so NPTL probably has the problems, and LinuxThreads > >> doesn't. >

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:42:54PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:34:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > > > >> I intended to write the opposite: file locks are a per-process > > >> res

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-05 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:34:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > >> I intended to write the opposite: file locks are a per-process > >> resource in NPTL, so NPTL probably has the problems, and LinuxThreads > >> doesn't. >

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:35:50AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > >> SQLite databases (and Subversion repositories) are intended to be > >> opened concurrently by multiple processes. > > > To be more clear: programs which use ordina

Re: Bug#326648: libsqlite3-0: database handles can't be shared among threads any more

2005-09-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:33:32PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Francesco P. Lovergine: > > >> I've looked at the SQLite code and it does this. At the same time, it > >> has to implement recursive locks (which can be entered multiple times > >> by the sa

xshogi: menu question and arm build problem

2005-09-11 Thread Craig P. Steffen
I'm interested in becoming a Debian developer. I'd like to work on gnushogi as an initial package, and I have set an ITA on it. Gnushogi doesn't have any bugs filed against it, but I have the following questions: Gnushogi generates the binary package xshogi, a simulation of Shogi, a Japanese gam

Re: Removing non-free documentation from main

2005-09-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ept comments in the source code). > I don't think so, there is a lots of software which does not use a separate license for doc, man pages and so on. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Patch² : Maintaining a patch for a debian package

2005-09-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
atching already implemented? Maybe apt-fu could > be used for that task, but it's apparently discontinued. > apt-src ? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
does not require preregistering users, monitoring to remove spam, maintaining a black list of terms ? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PHP License for PEAR packages

2005-10-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
d be BSD-like but claims to be from Berkeley instead. AFAIK they should adapt a PHP-like license or any better. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get wants to remove hotplug?

2005-10-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
d. > The driver for USB mice is usbhid. > It is (was?) not loaded anyway, keeping off my usb logitech mouse. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-21 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 04:41:48PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > It seems like the 'sensible' thing to do might be to provide both. > Typically I would think the standard 'ping' would be, well, pretty > standard, and would work across multiple kernels/OSes/etc. We could > also have an 'lping' or s

Re: Calculating deps size - splitting a package

2005-11-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
; dependancies (with their installed-sizes) that adding the plugin in > question to a binary package would pull in. I am interested on the total > effect to an end-user, for each plugin. Mmm, if plugins used dlopen() ldd would not help in that respect. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UN

Re: dput works but dupload does not -- illegal PORT command

2005-11-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ackage).dsc: Illegal PORT command. > at /usr/bin/dupload line 508 > > Yet dput works fine. > > Any suggestions what's wrong? Has anyone else been having htis problem? > -- Did you try passive ftp? It works here. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-01-28 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
enerally good to work with, at least from what i have observed. > What about first hand experiences with them in heavy-load production environments? Stability, etc. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

2008-02-17 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:20:48PM +0700, namnd wrote: > * The configuration file is in XML so netupdown can handle sophisticated > configuration. Editing the XML the configuration by hand or by software > will be easy and comfortable. Editing XML by hand "easy and comfortable"?!? In which wo

Re: Bug#466669: ITP: squirrelmail-gpg -- GnuPG plugin for SquirrelMail

2008-02-20 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:32:01AM +0100, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Jan Hauke Rahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: squirrelmail-gpg > Version : 2.1 > Upstream Author : Brian G. Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
lem, not a choice of contributors. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BitTorrent and ISP interference

2008-03-20 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:03:47AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/20/08 10:46, brian m. carlson wrote: > > I think it's a good idea. I'm not a DD, but I don't appreciate getting > > dupe messages from the list. procmail is not set up to handle them, and > > I read the vast majority of the list

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

2008-03-23 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 04:55:52PM +, Lesley Binks wrote: > In *nix based systems rm has always meant rm - deleting files does just that. > The KDE Desktop provides the option to keep this functionality or have > temporary trash can on the desktop. However, you don't get the option > of a tras

Re: GnuPG: Maintainer inactive?

2008-04-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:49:50PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > There are rumours about that, yes. Maybe a package hijack could be > attempted by someone who's lucky enough to have his|her key in the > keyring. > ... and still have it after that upload :-P -- Fr

Re: GnuPG: Maintainer inactive?

2008-04-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 09:33:32PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 16/04/08 at 17:08 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:49:50PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > There are rumours about that, yes. Maybe a package hijack could be > >

Re: Compie ProFtpD on etch

2008-04-23 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
until it will be available a proftpd-dev package to build independently other DSO modules (in 1.3.2). -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian tcl/tk policy: where to put shared libs?

2008-05-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
in for a debian-tcl mailing list, so I'm sending > this to debian-devel as well as the two names listed in the Tcl/Tk > policy package and the pkg-tcltk-devel list. If this is not the right > place, please advise and do feel free to forward this email to the > right place. This is the right place. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: funny outputs of ssh-vulnkey

2008-05-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
to read such files, so those 'funny' outputs are perfectly justified. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
that grub is more flexible and generally useful but I would retain lilo as an optional package at least. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: password -- little ruby random password generator

2008-07-04 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
d generator which generates a random > > password which is strong, safe and secure. > > pwgen already exists. > And gpw for pronaunceable passwords. If it did not add anything new I would avoid to add a new password generator just because it is written in Ruby instead of plain

Re: question about iptables and bug #538608

2009-07-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
. > > Cheers, At least in one case, I change the series file on-fly at building time to create different flavors of the same lib with a different patchset. I roughly suspect this is not compatible with the 3.0 format, but it is also difficult to be auto-detected... -- Francesco P. Loverg

Possibly hijacking netcdf

2009-09-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
never :) - Forwarded message from "Francesco P. Lovergine" - Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:33:51 +0200 From: "Francesco P. Lovergine" To: Warren Turkal Cc: fran...@debian.org Subject: Netcdf status User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Warren are you still motivated in maintaini

Re: Possibly hijacking netcdf

2009-09-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
gt; another interested party, so please feel free to take it over. > > Warren Turkal > Linux Enthusiast and Libre Software Advocate > Thanks for all the paste work Warren, I'm going ahead with adoption. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ.

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
rades for instance, and it would also allow maintainers to mark proper transitional/dummy packages. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-27 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
stalled packages belonging to a given section. > I see no uses for such a selective removing. But that could be a pro for the control field. > Debtags is clearly meant to solve this problem, but for transitional > packages I'd like to have a solution which is both sound and > co

Re: Bug#548720: ITP: libkml -- The C++ library for supporting OGC KML 2.2 standard

2009-09-28 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:36:58AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > It would be nice to mention what KML is. KML is standard for vector geo-data representation, also used in common applications like Google Maps and Earth. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-deve

Re: Bug#550542: ITP: jhdf -- Java HDF5 Object Package

2009-10-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
ing/essays/bsd.html. Maybe you can give > it a try? > > Have a nice day, > Note that in hdf5tools (from the same source, HDF Group) the advertising clause is not mandatory. It could be something that would require an update on their side. Did you try to contact HDF group? -- Francesco P.

Re: Bug#551123: ITP: echinus -- lightweight tiling window manager

2009-10-16 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
admittedly > more debatable than I originally thought if this package deserves a spot. > > Daniel > Most tiling WM are customizable by changing one configuration file. On that regardi, dwm is quite unique. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists

kfreebsd problem

2009-10-29 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#556131: ITP: opensips -- very fast and configurable SIP server

2009-11-13 Thread Alejandro Rios P.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Alejandro Rios P." * Package name: opensips Version : 1.6.0 Upstream Author : OpenSIPS Project * URL : http://www.opensips.org * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : very fast and config

Re: RFC: convenience copy of cddlib

2009-11-30 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
. > 3) Use versioned symbols for the internal library to avoid conflicts with the external one. http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/coldfire/gcc-doc/docs/ld_25.html -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#559134: ITP: shc -- a generic shell script compiler

2009-12-02 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 15:58, Karl Goetz wrote: > On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:58:17 +0100 > "Dario Minnucci \(midget\)" wrote: > > * Package name: shc > > > shc's main purpose is to protect your shell scripts from > > modification or inspection. You can use it if you wish to > > distribute your

Re: Bug#559134: ITP: shc -- a generic shell script compiler

2009-12-02 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 08:48, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, Dec 02 2009, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 15:58, Karl Goetz wrote: > >> On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:58:17 +0100 > >> "Dario Minnucci \(midget\)" wrote: > >> > * Pa

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-03 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
of a single maintainer: this should be mandatory. Blocking maintainers should also be gently changed when they are not able to step down themselves for what ever reason. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

racoon and bug 372665

2007-03-04 Thread Milan P. Stanic
I'd like to discuss problem with regards to bug #372665. Why the racoon should be started in the rcS when even ssh is not? Yesterday I installed racoon but not configured it and on the next reboot it blocked start-up process. I had to manually remove /etc/rcS.d/S40racoon to boot machine. I didn't

Re: racoon and bug 372665

2007-03-05 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:36:34PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: > >>>>> Milan P Stanic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'd like to discuss problem with regards to bug #372665. > > Why the racoon should be started in the rcS when even ssh is not? &g

Re: racoon and bug 372665

2007-03-06 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:02:35AM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: > >>>>> "Milan" == Milan P Stanic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some daemons _need_ to be started from /etc/rcS.d (udev for > example). Another good example is portmap for nfs. If you&#

Re: racoon and bug 372665

2007-03-07 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:17:00AM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: > >>>>> "Milan" == Milan P Stanic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't think so (except maybe udev, but servers can happily work without > > udev). What is the reason to sta

Re: Bug#413987: ITP: openjpeg -- JPEG 2000 image compression codec library

2007-03-08 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
packaging this as a dependancy of secondlife-client > Just I wonder if/how it's better than Jasper for jpeg2k. Any hints about that? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: racoon and bug 372665

2007-03-26 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 05:05:53PM +, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Milan P. Stanic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > README says that in the /etc/rcS.d/ should go scripts which are > > executed once during boot. In debian policy manual rcS.d is > > mentioned only once in se

Re: Poll: Anybody using debpool?

2007-03-30 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
out debpool and debarchiver, involving > Joel, Ola and several users/code writers. If you are interested, I can > send you the discussion. > Pointers? Debpool is a nice tiny tool, but lacks some major useful features and has a few annoying bugs. It could be improved. It's a pity it stale

Re: MySql broken on older 486 and other cpuid less CPUs. Does this qualify as RC?

2007-04-06 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
well, but it seems > only honest to admit that as a project, we don't care about 486 enough to > even get 486-specific problems marked as RC in time to do anything about > them for a release. > That could be fixed in R1, isn't it? I see no major problems on those regard

Re: Not-so-mass bug filing for the patented IDEA algorithm

2007-04-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
, no program in Debian actually uses this code, it's just > inherited from upstream libraries. > > Are there any objections? > Just check that they _CONTAIN_ implementation, not just are able to link some external library which implements IDEA. Just for precision and unu

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
or you quick help! > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422717 As you can see, it does not help: proftpd-ldap is (was starting from next upload, thanks God) an all-type fake package with a ${source:Version} dependency in place. That strict dep was probably supefluous in the

Re: checklib

2007-05-25 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:22:12PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > We're still waitinf for the lufthansa machines to set it up :/ > That remembers me that having some bits about that would be nice. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Bug#422137: ITP: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 -- l33t h4x0r numb3r

2007-05-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
to > this ITP... > > Fr'wants to laugh too'ank > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-28 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
amp;dist=unstable&include=patch > That's simply due to missing regular contributors. Also a few people are still reported as 'main contributor' even if their contribution level reached ground zero years ago. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: python, then C++, or C++ from the start?

2007-05-31 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
on proficiency to mockup a new application in Python first? > I would choose plain C instead of C++ to avoid possible ABI breakages during main upgrades. But for that, there are more tiny languages available to be embedded into a C/C++ framework, but probably I'm biased and old-fashioned ;-) -

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-08 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
job) > > This sounds juicy, assuming it matches what I've in mind; where can I > find more info on this new feature? > It looks also very dangerous :) -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GSASL Maintainer Missing in Action?

2007-06-21 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:20:53PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know the whereabouts of Yvan? May I consider him missing in > action? > It's a good think to CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] in those cases for tracking. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: RFC: declaritive diversions

2007-07-03 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
diversions, because I found broken diversions quite often on my development sid boxes. I have not an idea about that, but some sort of dpkg logging would be nice for instance... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for new FTP assistants

2007-07-10 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
subjects to filter spamming activities? Something already adopted for the RT system indeed. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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