Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Busser
, slow computers suck). I'm sure Herbert Xu knows how to apply it. For those who don't: apt-get source kernel-source-2.4.22 cd kernel-source-2.4.22-2.4.22 bzcat kernel-source-2.4.22+pax.diff.bz2 | patch -p1 Now that can't be too hard, can it? Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamanti

Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Busser
test to see for yourself. So far I have heard a lot of talk and a number of opinions on why PaX is bad. But no proof. I can reasonably proof any of the above. But I have seen no such proof from those who propose exec-shield so far, only opinions and cheap talk. Opinions are like assholes, everyone ha

Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Busser
Hi! > [NB: When reponsding using the web archives, please get the References > and In-Reply-To: correctly. You may also consider setting MFT:] I can't post from the lists.debian.org site. > On Tue, 04 Nov 2003, Peter Busser wrote: > >> PaX would take much mor

Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Busser
ould be my hero if you succeeded in improving on PaX. But in all honesty, exec-shield does not do that I'm afraid. In fact, there is simply no technical reason whatsoever for exec-shield to exist at all. None. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking high-security Linux out o

Re: Exec-Shield vs. PaX

2003-11-05 Thread Peter Busser
. You so far gave the impression of a reasonable and balanced > > person but this is as low as it gets. Shame on you. Do you have the detailed specification of exec-shield somewhere? That would make it easier to evaluate the completeness of the test suite. Feel free to submit tests yourself, I&

Re: Bug#218832: ITP: libnettle -- a low-level cryptographic library

2003-11-07 Thread Peter Palfrader
time I checked we didn't have License fields, so this discussion is pointless. Peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred.| : :' : The universal | `. `' Operating System http://w

Re: status of Progeny projects

2003-11-12 Thread Peter Zoeller
that the directories holding libraries such as /lib can be safely maintained and kept from growing out of hand. Thanks to all open source developers for the work that has and continues to be done. Regards, Peter :-}

Re: [GENERAL] Debian packages of 7.4

2003-11-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
e ago, or were never even in there in the first place. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Trouble Compiling Simple Glade.

2003-11-18 Thread Peter Gatt
Hi, I'm using debian unstable packages at the moment, and am trying to compile my first... simple glade program. Using glade, I simply created a window and then ran "write source code". When I go to the projects directory and run ./autogen.sh I get the following output, and can't get a make file

Bug#222592: ITP: sks -- Synchronizing OpenPGP Key Server

2003-12-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: sks Version : 1.0.5 Upstream Author : "Yaron M. Minsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/sks/ * License : GPL (parts are LGPL, BSD) Description : Synchronizing OpenPGP Key Server SKS is an

Re: [RFC] adding system users: which is the best way??

2003-12-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
ml. -reas Fabbione and I will use debian-sks. We will summarize and file a bug against policy next week or so (being quite busy right now). Feel free to beat us with submitting a problem description and summary :) Peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian

Re: Building a distribution from source?

2003-12-10 Thread Peter Busser
uot;trusted Debian" name any more. ``They''? Who is ``they''? Does ``they'' include Debian developers who actively contribute to Adamantix or not? You don't make any sense here Russell, let me rephrase it again: Peter can not use the "trusted Debian&quo

Re: Bug#223781: [RFA]: usemod-wiki -- Perl-based Wiki clone

2003-12-13 Thread Peter Gervai
gt; > > Package is in good shape, no serious bugs. Very few work is needed > > > > to maintain it as release cycle is quite long. > > > > > > > > The only one todo item is to package version 1.0, which requires > > > > some changes to the wi

Bug#223905: ITP: jamnntpd -- NNTP server that allows newsreaders to access a JAM messagebase

2003-12-13 Thread Peter Karlsson
Package: wnpp Version: 0.5 Severity: wishlist * Package name: jamnntpd Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Johan Billing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.some.org/ * License : DFSG compliant Description : NNTP server that allows newsreaders to access a J

Re: [developers-l] Re: [debian-devel] Re: security enhanced debian branch?

2003-12-18 Thread Peter Busser
er started to write a plan for putting Adamantix stuff in Debian. Then we can discuss it and determine what needs to be done by whom. And then start working on it. Groetjes, Peter Busser

Re: RFC: best practice creating database

2004-10-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: > What is consideres best practice when a package uses a SQL database > (mysql, postgresql) and needs to create its own catalog and/or > tables? I say, create the tables when the package starts for the first time. As an analogy, programs using Berkeley-type databases

Bug#275596: nagios-text removes /etc/nagios on purge

2004-10-09 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 09 Oct 2004, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 07:32:19AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > On Sat, 09 Oct 2004, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 05:52:39AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > > Package: na

Re: Common set of debconf templates

2004-10-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marc Haber wrote: > Do we have infrastructure to handle different answers for the same > question? Maybe I'd like to have a different dbadmin password on my > postgresql database than on mysql? This discussion is about having a common set of chunks of text available somewhere for use in the debco

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
martin f krafft wrote: > What do you think of this proposal. Are there any string points > *against* it? I have written scripts that explicitly call xterm because other terminal emulator programs under X (which I had preferred otherwise) couldn't handle certain programs. So in those situations

Re: Automake & dependency tracking

2004-10-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Is there any other reason why we would still need to use automake's > dependency tracking anyway? I don't think so. You may want to use it while working on the package, but it seems like a fine idea to turn it off when finalizing the package.

Re: forwarding bugs to other packages

2004-10-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Perhaps we need a "read this before submitting bugs against my > package" function in reportbugs :) That already exists: /usr/share/bug/. "reportbug galeon" provides a reasonable example run.

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > Here's an idea I just had about apt-proxy/apt-cacher NG. Maybe this > could be interesting, maybe it's just crap. Your call. rapt proxy is an actuall http proxy that caches debian packages. It's written in ruby and since all you have to do to use it

Re: Bug#156257: ITP: libpam-ssh -- SSH key authentication and single sign-on via PAM

2002-08-12 Thread Peter Palfrader
assphrase. yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred.| : :' : The universal | `. `' Operating System http://www.

Re: debian-security-announce-$lang@lists?

2002-08-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
ory is issued in English, a message is automatically sent out to the languages' announce lists, pointing to where the original announcement can be found (either in the list archives, or on the web), awaiting the translation. -- \\// Peter - I do not read or respond to mail with HTML

(fwd) uucp_1.06.1+1.07beta1-patch2-2_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2002-08-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
taller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 03:47:07 +0200 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rejected: no signature found in uucp_1.06.1+1.07beta1-patch2-2_powerpc.changes. Rejected: no valid distribution. Rejected: no source found f

debian-release list dead?

2002-08-17 Thread Peter Palfrader
lease. yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred.| : :' : The universal | `. `' Operating System http://www.palf

Re: Next Debconf

2002-08-17 Thread Peter Makholm
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am planning Debconf 3 to be held in Oslo, from Friday July 18th to > Sunday July 20th. Nice initiative. -- Peter Makholm | I have something to say: It's better to burn in [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Why am I receiving still mails from this list?

2002-08-20 Thread Peter Makholm
ad trouble? I guess it is that line Matt was refering to. -- Peter Makholm |I congratulate you. Happy goldfish bowl to you, to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | me, to everyone, and may each of you fry in hell http://hacking.dk |

Re: orphaning most (of my) packages

2002-08-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
retitle them to RFP (request for package) rather than closing them if you still think they'ld make a worthwhile addition to Debian. yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. *

Re: old ITP's

2002-08-26 Thread Peter Palfrader
; respectively. > #85612 mixmasterfiled: 560, changed 509 The changed date is clearly wrong. I suggest you redo your stats and post an updated list. yours, peter -- PGP signed and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Debian Developer Packages Overview

2002-08-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
ckage is listed in it. yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred.| : :' : The universal | `. `' O

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Debian Developer Packages Overview

2002-08-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred.| : :' : The universal | `. `' Operating System http://www.palfrader.org/ | `-htt

Re: debbugs: assign someone from a group of willing people to fix a bug

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
'ld like to work on and NMU. It's as simple as that. Your suggestions sounds a bit like overengineering to me. Perhaps you can setup an independant mailbot somewhere else? This need not necessarily be directly in the BTS. yours,

Re: Work-needing packages report for Aug 30, 2002

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
rks on satie. yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred.| : :' : The universal | `. `' Operating System http://www.palfrader.org/

Re: Should we customize apps for a common "debian-look"?

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Mathiasson
their local language and use local keyboard layout, then we indeed want's to have our software in english and us keyboard layout with local as an switchable option, right? -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 77F1 7FF

Re: Should we customize apps for a common "debian-look"?

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Mathiasson
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:26:03PM +0200, Peter Mathiasson wrote: > Because some admins, unlike the rest of us, thinks users want's to have s/want's/wants > software in their local language and use local keyboard layout, then we > indeed want's to have our software in

Re: Work-needing packages report for Aug 30, 2002

2002-08-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
ch I consider ontopic because the packages are orphaned ATM). If you only want to fix certain bugs without becoming their maintainer that is apprechiated too. Just send a patch to the BTS. Perhaps you CC debian-qa and ask for someone to apply, build and upload it.

Re: Packages.bz2, Sources.bz2, Contents-*.bz2, oh my

2002-08-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
oxy (and perhaps other tools too). Please don't. yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred.| : :' : The universal | `. `' Operating System http://www.palfrader.org/ | `-http://www.debian.org/

Re: Improper NMU (Re: NMU for libquota-perl)

2002-09-03 Thread Peter Mathiasson
would have been good, it wouldn't have made the maintainer aware of the problem earlier (unless the NMU was delayed until the maintainer had a time to fix it himself, of course). -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F

Re: Improper NMU (Re: NMU for libquota-perl)

2002-09-03 Thread Peter Mathiasson
ol. For you the NMU seems like a waste of time, but it was not a waste of _your_ time, nor of the current maintainers (except for looking at a diff which changed nothing but the build-depends field from what I can tell, w/o looking at neither the package nor the NMU). -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mat

Re: Improper NMU (Re: NMU for libquota-perl)

2002-09-03 Thread Peter Mathiasson
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 02:19:03PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > NMUer time is better spent on really unmaintained packages. Amen. -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 77F1 7FF5 C2E6 7BF2 F228 pgpydQfe90SCO.

Re: Deleting /var/cache/*

2002-09-04 Thread Peter Palfrader
rectories belowe /var/cache/. yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred.| : :' : The universal | `.

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
er I think > "debforge" has a better ring to it. Please no. yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred.| : :' : Th

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-29 Thread Peter Mathiasson
ut the machine > name. I thought it was about the service name, the machine already got one. Quoting Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The machine itself has a name already (quantz)." -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprin

Re: reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
the same time. yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred.| : :' : The universal | `. `' Operating System http://ww

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-12-01 Thread Peter Karlsson
wedish translation, where Austria should sort *last*). -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments.

Re: Non-DFSG-free package in main

2002-12-03 Thread Peter Mathiasson
houldn't be > > shipping it in sarge if it's non-free.) > > Why not move it to non-free? Or you defining sarge as main only? > We haven't voted to remove non-free yet. I thought non-free wasn't part of Debian. -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, h

Re: Do we need policy changes?

2003-04-20 Thread Peter Makholm
s. > Thank you for your time, and you want to tell me I'm paranoid, don't > bother, it is not worth your time :) Better tell me what I might have > missed in the observing the subject. I doesn't think any of the above counts as paranoia which obvious doesn't mean that

Re: fixed libstdc++5 package

2003-04-30 Thread Peter Makholm
ey can't handle running unstable? -- Peter Makholm | There are 10 kinds of people. Those who count in [EMAIL PROTECTED] |binary and those who don't http://hacking.dk |

Re: Returning from "vacation". (MIA?)

2003-05-14 Thread Peter Makholm
many messages). > Pleased to meet you > > *plonk* Nice entrance. Let me predict the future. Within a month you have kill-filled anyone in the project who matters more than just maintaining a few packages. And most of us has has given up on you. -- Peter Makholm |According

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-24 Thread Peter Palfrader
versions into the archive. yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred.| : :' :By professionals, | `. `&

Re: Where does iswedish come from?

2001-04-24 Thread Peter Makholm
Mikael Hedin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone knows where the 1.3 source comes from? The content is totally I think it originates from some ftp-server in .uk which had a lot of different ispell dictionaries. > different from the iswedish-1.x at sslug. Any advice on what to do? Get the lat

Re: analysis of package dependencies

2001-04-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
phan can list packages from all section not just libraries (use -a). Additionaly you can declare packages that deborphan should never show (use editkeep). yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes

2001-05-03 Thread Peter Bartosch
m, mosfet doesn't make sense to me - IIRC they only work like switches I think you should use "Shotkey-diods" the largest one i know could pass 200 ampere - and they've less than ~0.4V voltage drop :wq - until next mail B-), l8r Peter -- :~~ [EMAIL PR

Re: [users] Re: Where's lame

2001-05-07 Thread Peter Makholm
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > package tree. i would like to adopt the lame mp3 encoder as a debian > package and was wondering if there are any objections? is there > already a maintainer? can this packet be debianized? Please read http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package Make

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-10 Thread Peter Makholm
Wolfgang Sourdeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since ISO-8859-15 is basicall ISO-8859-1+euro+some other characters. > Why is the "@euro" needed ? A few often used chars has changed. So it is important to know which cahrset is used. For example 1/2 and the french oe-ligature seems to be on the sa

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-26 Thread Peter Palfrader
mho even more evil than cp. yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred.| : :' :By professionals, | `. `' for professionals http://www.palfrader.org/ | `-http://www.debian.org/

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-26 Thread Peter Palfrader
f 20+ Gig filesystems took ages. yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred.| : :' :By professionals, | `. `' for professionals http://www.palfrader.org/ | `-http://www.debian.org/

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-26 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 26, Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Are there any problems I missed with cimply copying the files? > Yes: people do not want to restart bind at every configuration changes. good point. > >Mount

Bug#113653: ITP: links-lua-ssl -- a fork of links supporting lua language, resulting a programmable browser with hooks

2001-09-26 Thread Peter Gervai
Package: wnpp Version: 0.96; reported 2001-09-27 Severity: wishlist * Package name: links-lua-ssl Version : 0.96p11 Upstream Author : links-lua team * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/links/ * License : GPL Description : a fork of links supporting lua

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread Peter Makholm
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's not true. If it is possible to create game levels for it that are > free, than it is considered free. It's not like you can't get anything > but id's game data. Are you sure? I have sarien, a interpreter for old Sierra games, in contrib because I

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread Peter Makholm
David B Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's no reason why the engine itself can't be included in Debian, as > far as I'm concerned. It doesn't absolutely *have* to have game data, to But thats is an argument for putting all the stuff in contrib into Debian main. -- Når folk spørger mig

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread Peter Makholm
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Regarding packaging the Quake sources for educational benefit; If the Quake sources could go into main without any free data then why can't any other package in contrib go into main because the code could potentially be educational. (Sarien for exanple

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread Peter Makholm
David B Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But with Quake2, you can be pretty damned sure that there will be at > least dozens of people coming up with fully Free stuff that can be used > as quake2-data. When that day comes, then we could move quake2 to main. -- Når folk spørger mig, om jeg e

Re: Quake2/GPL: At least source should go into main

2001-12-22 Thread Peter Makholm
Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At least the Source _is_ useful for novice programmers that are > interested in 3d game programming. How does Quake differ from any other projects in contrib in this way? Contrib consists of free things where the source is available and therefore can

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread Peter Makholm
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But I wouldn't dream of trying to do such a thing without a game engine to > test it on. How else to you test what you built? Why would you ever build > a game without an engine to run it on? How is preventing you from installing quake from contrib or in

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-23 Thread Peter Makholm
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In fact, I would consider it acceptable in general to move everything in > contrib to main as long as it each package was forced to be priority All my messages in this thread have the premise that we want to keep a distinction between contrib and mai

Re: What config file for a .pm perl module ?

2002-01-02 Thread Peter Makholm
Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The upstream code requires the administrator to introduce the user > data (username, password, port, database, etc.) in the same Password.pm file, > which looks horrible to me. Ok, we've seen some solutions but the real problem remains: The perl m

Re: BitKeeper

2002-01-03 Thread Peter Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > Bitkeeper is (as you note) not free. Not only the usage restrictions > are a problem, but also the requirement that changes you make may be > distributed by BitOwner "under any license". Thats not non-free in any way. The Freedom DFSG describes

Re: BitKeeper

2002-01-03 Thread Peter Makholm
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please elaborate. There is nothing in the DFSG saying the a licens can't require you to give the original autor all rights to you changes. So that single part of the license I refered to does not makes it even more or even less non-free. -- Når folk

Re: BitKeeper

2002-01-03 Thread Peter Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > OK, perhaps the relicensing rule is not non-free; I'm less sure of > that. But the outright prohibition of certain modifications certainly > kills it. I only talked about the relicensing issues. I'm sorry it wasn't clear by my quoting (I can see

Relicensing rules (was: Re: BitKeeper)

2002-01-04 Thread Peter Makholm
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:13:13PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: >> OK, perhaps the relicensing rule is not non-free; I'm less sure of >> that. > > I don't think it's obvious from a casual reading of the DFSG that such a > requirement is non-free

Re: 1 package(s) to rebuild on i386/stable

2002-01-07 Thread Peter Makholm
Dominik Kubla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IMHO that should be updated to nfs-utils-1.0 from upstream, if it > only were for the psychological impact of the 1.x version number. 'psychological impact' isn't a valid argument for putting new versions of software in stable. -- Når folk spørger mig

Re: SUGGESTION: Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-10 Thread Peter Mathiasson
://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities > > > > But it exists here: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags > > "help" is a tag, not a severity level. > > Well now I'm confused. I can now see help but in the severity section. > So it is a

Re: [kde] and, for my next trick ...

2002-01-12 Thread Peter Makholm
Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh, there *appears* to be one? You mean the one I sent this message to, > and the one that I'm subscribed to? Right! Thanks for the information! I > sent it to -devel because not all KDE users are subscribed to -devel. And since when has users generally

Re: potential runtime problem on arm, powerpc and s390 due to incorrect assumption on char signedness

2002-01-13 Thread Peter Mathiasson
original post said: "and the EOF is ignored. The correction is to make the type of variable c int." I guess that's why it says "in OTHER contexts". -- Peter Mathiasson | GPG Fingerprint: E-Mail: peter(at)mathiasson(dot)nu | A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 W

Re: potential runtime problem on arm, powerpc and s390 due to incorrect assumption on char signedness

2002-01-14 Thread Peter Cordes
k down the individual bugs. Char might be unsigned for a reason, like that it's faster to use unsigned char on that arch, so the best solution is still to say signed char where you mean it, use int with getchar, etc. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.c

Re: Description to man pages

2002-04-04 Thread Peter Mathiasson
t-cache` apt: /usr/bin/apt-get apt: /usr/bin/apt-cache -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 77F1 7FF5 C2E6 7BF2 F228 pgpoSivUMfSFb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-06 Thread Peter Cordes
7;t needed because not many packages are updated in a day, and downloading a few extra package descriptions is no problem.) I think this all works :) The only hard part is finding the right offset in a gzipped file given that you know how much of the begging of two uncompressed files match. --

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-09 Thread Peter Mathiasson
ws XP, FreeBSD, etc on any of them. Is it at all possible? Useable? -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 77F1 7FF5 C2E6 7BF2 F228 pgpyCBIaqXJdT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-09 Thread Peter Mathiasson
(plex86 development is a bit stalled at the moment). IMHO it's > very usable, bochs is more stable but slower. For all supported > systems read the documentation of the packages. plex86 is Debian specific isn't it? Because, if it's not, I'm sure plex86 got some mailing list

Re: m68k autobuilder disk full!

2002-04-11 Thread peter karlsson
Peter S Galbraith: > One of my packages disappeared from testing recently (not sure why) Well, it was listed in the removal list that was posted on March 3rd: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/debian-devel-announce-200203/msg2.html -- \\// peter - h

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-16 Thread Peter Mathiasson
atter of HOURS (well, that didn't work for me, dunno why)." -- Peter Mathiasson, peter at mathiasson dot nu, http://www.mathiasson.nu GPG Fingerprint: A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 77F1 7FF5 C2E6 7BF2 F228 pgp3nT5ZfeSil.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Packages still in Potato

2002-04-17 Thread Peter Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: > IMO each package should at least once per release upload a status > report. Also there was ample time for the transition of each package to Disagreed. We should make package uploads just to make uploads. If a package works, has no new upstream versions and

Re: Packages still in Potato

2002-04-17 Thread Peter Makholm
David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And what makes you think there has been no new upstream versions for all > those packages? Nothing. I commented on you general opinion. -- Emacs er det eneste moderne styresystem der ikke er multitrådet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Data packages.

2009-02-08 Thread Peter Palfrader
x27;s proposal, he first raised it at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg00970.html last year. Cheers, -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `'

Re: Refactoring the Debtags web interface

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
hatsoever there's probably not a big chance of us (as in DSA) hopping onto the openid hype any time soon. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/

Re: Refactoring the Debtags web interface

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
| .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `-http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Re: Refactoring the Debtags web interface

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
7;re willing to spend in order to get security. For debtags I completely agree. But I was arguing against openid because people were asking for ud-ldap/db.debian.org be turned into an openid provider to be used for everything webish on debian.org, including db.d.o. -- | .&#x

Re: handling group membership in and outside d-i

2009-02-25 Thread Peter Palfrader
anting console users access to the netdev or powerdev groups through pam_groups, which is really really annoying when you get your users from say ldap. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The univer

Bug#517906: O: uucp - unix to unix copy

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Palfrader
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I'm orphaning uucp, the unix to unix copy program. I haven't had a UUCP setup it in a few years now, and I therefore haven't had any chance to ensure stuff is continuing to work. Apparently something in lenny broke in.uucpd (see #517726). I should have noticed

Re: Up for adoption: Xiph.org and OpenEXR packages

2009-03-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
g-multimedia would like/could take care of them? Or anybody else > wants to adopt the pkg-xiph project? (I'm CC'ing Peter Samuelson, who > expressed interest at some point.) I am interested in these, but I will have to look at these packages today or tomorrow, to see if I think I c

Re: Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-13 Thread Peter Samuelson
hardly be less secure than screen. Well, if by "in /tmp" you mean "in /var/run/screen". -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Peter Palfrader
not of sufficient help and no amount of proof by authority or handwaving will change this. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System

Re: Bug#520876: general: new FTP app needs packaging ... http://bareftp.org

2009-03-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
BareFTP. It would be nice to have it > packaged into Debian unstable. > > This application is available at: > http://bareftp.org/ -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www

re: What happens to snapshot.debian.net?

2009-03-24 Thread peter green
I am trying to get ridge on the problem with lvm2. Therefore I have to get some old packages from snapshot.debian.net. Unfortunately it seems to be broken for some time now. While the syntax you use doesn't seem to work anymore and /archive appears empty it seems you can still browse directly t

Re: dpkg and hardlinks

2009-03-24 Thread Peter Samuelson
ate Wikipedia article to link to, it would have been a lot faster to just try it. # ln /bin/ls /bin/ls2 # aptitude reinstall coreutils # ls -l /bin/ls /bin/ls2 -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debi

packages' config scripts creating files, chroots and buildds.

2009-03-25 Thread Peter Palfrader
xine-dev libxml2-dev -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `-http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
presume dak will just ignore that binary, yes? -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
I think is probably the most sensible solution I have seen so far. > And yes, uploading a new source that builds a deb with the same > version as the last source will cause DAK to reject the upload. That's a problem, then. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ --

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