Re: kernel 2.5.73+, fakeroot, debuild - a small problem

2003-06-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
Are you saying that using fakeroot I can actually do this? touch /tmp/breaking.alice.quota chmod 666 /tmp/breaking.alice.quota fakeroot chown alice /tmp/breaking.alice.quota cat < /dev/zero > /tmp/breaking.alice.quota cu andreas -- Hey, da ist ein Ballonautomat auf der Toilett

Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!

2003-06-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> During some of the discussions lately on debian-devel another usage of >> the changelog has risen interest: >> * New upstream release (closes: #123, #124, #125) >> This has also raised some discussions. The t

subarchitectures? (was: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore)

2003-06-25 Thread Andreas Barth
-3.3 with a fixed ABI"? ... this is the right thing to do that. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

[proposal] subarchitectures (was: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore)

2003-06-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030626 08:20]: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:50:54PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > What does oppose us to make subarchitectures quite more easy than now? > > (That would also be useful for the AMD Opteron and the like that could > > use

Re: inews path question

2003-06-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
e) to use any inews program, but this is an extra step to get > working news posting. Would an alternative make sense for inews? Afaik the basic mode of operation and options are compatibel, inews even diverts the inews from cnews. Using alternatives sounds nice. cu andreas

Re: debootstrapping and sysvinit

2003-06-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
> failing the whole installation process. [...] The latest[1] version of sysvinit, an NMU, fixed this, apt-get upgrade inside the chroot worked again yesterday. IMHO this is the right way to fix this, because it broke not only debootstrap but our regular sid-chroots. cu andreas

Re: Counter-Proposal: Architecture Versions and Architecture Features

2003-06-29 Thread Andreas Barth
ool/contrib/q/quake2/quake2_0.2.1-4_i386.deb > (B) pool/contrib/q/quake2/quake2_0.2.1-4_i386.5+mmx.deb > (C) pool/contrib/q/quake2/quake2_0.2.1-4_i386.6+3dnow.deb Do I see it right that the package names are nowhere noted but created by s/// on the fly? I specified the different files on purpose in the Packages-File, as it might be useful in special cases to use different filenames - or to use one file for different subarchs. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: inews path question

2003-06-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 10:26:08AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> Afaik the basic mode of operation and options are compatibel, >> inews even diverts the inews from cnews. Using alternatives sounds >> nice. > and of

Re: inews path question

2003-06-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
n/, though, it has been in this location on Debian system for a long time. cu andreas

Re: Debian job board?

2003-07-02 Thread Andreas Müller
Am Dienstag, 01.07.03 um 19:28 Uhr schrieb Sven Luther: On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:28:01PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: Is there any place where someone could advertise jobs that would be suitable for Debian developers? Rapahel Hertzog spoke about something such some time back, when i looked at it b

Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
ust continue to work as it did if the user does not know about it? If yes, perhaps a comment in the init-script would be helpful. cu andreas

Re: postrm::downgrade?

2003-07-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
u'd need more than that. Apt would need to be changed to handle undoing of package splitting (Conflicts/Replaces), and is not always possible anyway, new packages, might use new file-formats which can be converted from the old-version but not back again. cu andreas

Re: Debian job board?

2003-07-02 Thread Andreas Mueller
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 06:10:49PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:28:01PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > > Is there any place where someone could advertise jobs that would be > > suitable > > for Debian developers? > > We (the folks at mentors.debian.net) are planning a f

Re: Status of Unofficial Sarge Release Issues (Updated for July)

2003-07-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
-dump Or change this > [-- application/octet-stream, Encoding base64, 465 Zeilen, Name: usri.html --] to sane values - for example text/html with encoding 8-Bit. thanks for your work, cu andreas

Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
Julien LEMOINE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 01 July 2003 22:51, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> Julien LEMOINE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I received a bug report on stunnel package from an user [1] that >>> complained about the fact that I didn&#

Re: Bug#199874: ITP: molmol -- Display and analyze structures of biological macromolecules

2003-07-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Please make sure that the copyright holders allow inclusion into Debian and add this statement to the debian/copyright file. Kind regards Andreas.

Re: 469 packages still using dh_undocumented, check if one is yours

2003-07-04 Thread Andreas Barth
ented is not longer used by libapache-mod-dav. (And 1.0.3-6 is also in sarge for a while now.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: 469 packages still using dh_undocumented, check if one is yours

2003-07-04 Thread Andreas Barth
.org/reports/Tlink-to-undocumented-manpage.html So no need for a extra tool. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

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

2003-07-05 Thread Andreas Barth
as said "this > > package will not go into the archive, I will reject it on upload". > There's numerous ITPs where e.g. licensing (seems to be a main issue with > ftpmaster) has been discussed (the last I recall is #199874 dated 2003-07-03). Andreas Tille, who critized th

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

2003-07-05 Thread Andreas Barth
;t be this conflict any more, which would be a good thing. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

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

2003-07-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030705 12:05]: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:08:04AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030705 10:50]: > > > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:51:49PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > > Additionally, I w

Close old RFP/ITPs?

2003-07-05 Thread Andreas Barth
Comments? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Close old RFP/ITPs?

2003-07-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Sam Hocevar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030705 14:50]: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2003, Andreas Barth wrote: > > is it usefull/ok to close old RFP/ITP-entrys? "old" means for me more > > than year since the last mail for ITP, and 2 years for RFP. Of course > > I would write ma

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

2003-07-05 Thread Andreas Barth
from ITP. But - every problem that is seen at ITP time saves volunteer time for more usefull things. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

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

2003-07-06 Thread Andreas Barth
eled at ITP-time, and that's not the case. So the recommendation is right, but it doesn't solve the problem Marc spoke of. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Juridical prosecution

2003-07-07 Thread Andreas Tille
distinguish those people? Kind regards Andreas.

Re: Close old RFP/ITPs?

2003-07-07 Thread Andreas Barth
l before doing the next step (that is sending mail asking for other opinions). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Bug#200332: O: netpbm -- Graphics conversion tools

2003-07-07 Thread Andreas Barth
pbm-* (or already existing) packages). [1] "usable" means: have usable licences and a manpage. This would also mean that bugs to netbm are usually not fixed, and new versions not integrated in debian. As speaking alone doesn't help I have ITAed netpbm. Cheers, Andi -- http://hom

Anyone to "adopt" LingoTeach - a language teaching programm?

2003-07-07 Thread Andreas Barth
re is sound, too. Well, does anyone stand up for this cool application? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Bug#200163: ITP: png2ico -- command-line PNG to ICO converter

2003-07-08 Thread Andreas Barth
hould read the referenced bug reports and discussion on d-d. The title of 200332 is ITA: netpbm -- Graphics conversion tools. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

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

2003-07-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
cessor > I have read nice things about this, I think. There is xsltproc, which has identical long and short description, works reasonably well and seems to have quite upstream autors. [...] > >xanim (#148507), orphaned 407 days ago (non-free) > > Description: Plays multimedia files (animations, pictures, and > > sounds) > > Reverse Depends: tkxanim xanim-modules > Go away, you non-free thing. AOL! cu andreas

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

2003-07-12 Thread Andreas Metzler
gt; Does that person have a sponsor? If so, could > the sponsor contact me? We can probably work something out. Afaict he was not yet ready to upload. cu andreas

Re: default MTA for sarge

2003-07-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
least the same time}. Exim3 is dead, please consider | upgrading, I do not know it anymore and cannot answer detail | questions about it. You are seriously suggesting to ship this already unsupported version as default MTA in 2005? (I do not think we'll see sarge 2003.)

Re: default MTA for sarge

2003-07-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
n fresh installations, upgrades should not be influenced by this. cu andreas -- Hey, da ist ein Ballonautomat auf der Toilette! Unofficial _Debian-packages_ of latest unstable _tin_ http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/tin-snapshot/

Re: default MTA for sarge

2003-07-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
im.conf to preanswer the debconf-questions. > [1] The question where root's mail goes to comes to mind. I think this > question has to be asked. If you don't specify another user when configuring /etc/alises it will be delivered to /var/mail/root cu andreas -- Hey, da i

Re: default MTA for sarge

2003-07-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
mooth then let's have exim4 by default, or at minimum a 'one of' choice >> of things like exim3 exim4 and postfix. > If not, maybe we can keep exim = exim3 for some time, for the sake of > upgrades, but install exim4 by default on new systems? That's the plan. cu andreas

Re: Bug#201125: ITP: par2 -- Parity Archive v2

2003-07-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
?) > intends to package par2. [...] Hello, Is there a good reason why this is called par2 instead of parchive2? Take a look at apt-cache show par cu andreas -- Hey, da ist ein Ballonautomat auf der Toilette! Unofficial _Debian-packages_ of latest unstable _tin_ http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/tin-snapshot/

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
is so old and > timely obsolete that I am on my way to backport 2.55 to woody and > maintain it as soon as I have some time from my new > responsibilities. Why should you redo this work? http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/ cu andreas

Re: coreutils with acl support

2003-07-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
; support for file acls. (I.e., mv & cp -p will preserve acls, and ls -l > will indicate whether a file has an acl.) Doing this would promote > libacl1 and libattr1 to base and required status. [...] These packages are _very_ small, go for it. cu andreas

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Andreas Barth
here. But what I would like more is if we get out sarge soon. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Andreas Barth
y the maintainer. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
ster? Afaict this is not what Adrian was proposing, he was proposing to ask e.g. the D-I people when *they* thought they would be finished and to use max(estimated dates of finishing of relase goals) as planned date for the freeze. cu andreas -- Hey, da ist ein Ballonautomat auf der Toilette! Unofficial _Debian-packages_ of latest unstable _tin_ http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/tin-snapshot/

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Jesus Climent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030723 18:50]: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 04:45:54PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > That applies to data-files (or very similar things) like spamassasin. > > There should be in the README.Debian given a location for the backport > &

Re: May packages rm -rf subdirectories of /etc/ ?

2003-07-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
etc/foo" 1>&2 rm /etc/foo fi And not only one of these, but one for every version of /etc/foo you ever shipped (you want to provide smooth upgrades from 1.2.3, 4.5.6 _and_ 4.5.7. dpkg OTOH does know the md5sum of the last (un)installed version and does not need a hard-coded lists in postinst. cu andreas

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
nsible-editor is just for programs for which "it is very hard to adapt a program to make use of the EDITOR or PAGER variables" cu andreas

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

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
/ was always sacred." cu andreas -- Hey, da ist ein Ballonautomat auf der Toilette! Unofficial _Debian-packages_ of latest unstable _tin_ http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/tin-snapshot/

Re: [custom] Some issues for custom debian distributions

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
etc/profile fi if [ -r $HOME/.profile ] ; then . $HOME/.profile fi EOF This'll work for all display-managers that use the (Debian-)standard /etc/X11/Xsession.d/. Introducing an ~/.environment which would be evaluated by pam_env would really be nice. cu andreas

Re: [custom] Some issues for custom debian distributions

2003-07-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
rently pam_env does read /etc/environment but it does not read ~/.environment. cu andreas

Re: lvm2 maintainer needed

2003-07-28 Thread Andreas Barth
to debian-qa first according to reference, and this maintainer is not MIA. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Umfrage Internet Portal fuer behinderte Menschen

2003-07-29 Thread Andreas Riechmann
-riechmann.de/index.php?act=poll Ich bedanke mich für Ihre Mithilfe und verbleibe mit freundlichen Grüssen Andreas Riechmann P.S. Ihre E-Mail Adresse wurde mit einem Suchagenten aus einer Homepage bzw. Newsgroup einmalig für diese Mail gespidert. Ich versichere Ihnen, dass weitere Mails ohne ihre

Re: DebConf in Vancouver (Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria)

2003-07-30 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Joe Drew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030730 16:22]: > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 22:09, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:22:00PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > > > Next Debconf is scheduled to be held in Vancouver, Canada. > > > > That would be excellent. Who is organizing it? > > Me

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-31 Thread Andreas Barth
n now. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Why doesn't yehia enter testing?

2003-08-01 Thread Andreas Rottmann
I wonder why yehia isn't entering testing. According to [0] it makes qmailmrtg7 uninstallable, but qmailmrtg7 is totally unrelated to yehia, AFAICS. Regards, Andy [0] http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=yehia&expand=1 -- Andreas Rottmann | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2003-08-02 Thread Andreas Barth
d so I switched to LPRng. (Perhaps the HOWTO for the text interface was just too bad, I don't know. Printer is a HP Laserjet 4L, and CUPS is that of woody. LPRng did go to working instantly.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-08-03 Thread Andreas Barth
machines in the train bistro could get enough juice. :-/ This is still valid, e.g. on Munich - Zürich, as the German goverment declines to electrify this line (and also declines to let the Swiss do it). But we're now heavily off-topic. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-b

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-08-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
y (4-5 times a year) _really_ has them. cu andreas

Re: libraries being removed from the archive

2003-08-04 Thread Andreas Rottmann
d will fix depending packages. A little unstable breakage isn't that bad IMO, as long as there aren't a lot of packages depending on the lib. For libraries that bump soname often (i.e. most C++ libraries, at least), your method will put more strain on the ftpmasters (not that I'm one

Re: [Debconf] Re: The slides for my talk

2003-08-05 Thread Andreas Tille
stly the same mistakes). ;-) I guess this works for Italian people, too. > I picked up on it, I think, because I'd been hanging around Enrico a > fair amount and could tell he had a good sense of humor. Definitely! Kind regards Andreas, who just placed a symlink to my talks dire

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
edHat by just pressing enter but you'll get stuck on the third day without manual and learning to help yourself, Debian will just bite you earlier. cu andreas -- Hey, da ist ein Ballonautomat auf der Toilette! Unofficial _Debian-packages_ of latest unstable _tin_ http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/tin-snapshot/

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

2003-08-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
There are usage szenarios which do not require an mail-transfer-agent (reading mbox-archives of mailing-lists) but mutt without MTA is seriously crippled. cu andreas [1] I won't list Gnus but would be really surprised if it _needed_ /usr/sbin/sendmail ;-) -- Hey, da ist ein Bal

Re: Bug#202869: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-05 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
n explicit dependency in the policy. sure, this bug report is bigger than mutt, it will affect many other mail readers and apps everywhere as well. closing the bug or marking it as whishlist would be wrong. debian claims not to hide problem. here is one. please accept it and handle it. Regards, Andreas

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
the hassle of another sponsored package", or, what's worse a "package was ok some time ago, but as Debian doesn't want me I stopped fixing it". Sad. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
losed; however, up to six weeks are acceptable once in a while, e.g. because of holidays.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Rottmann
realise that they > work only in the shell. > > Neither tab-completion or globbing is available when I'm editing a file > and have to write those path names. There are lots of other cases where > you must type a pathname in full. > > scp (on the remote side) is one that'

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
lems and the group is growing. The danger is already there and > > should not be ignored. > Why is this a danger? This is one of the freedoms provided by free > software, which we work hard to promote. Because it would be a waste of work, time and energy. Cheers, Andi -- http://ho

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

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
ad to desaster and not a clean option. Andreas

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

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
ut a backup functionality. To be able to provide the main >> functionality, an MTA is required, hence a dependency. > What if the MTA is on a different host? Can't mutt speak SMTP? No. A fact that has been noted in this thread several times already. cu andreas

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
he necessity of having the freedom of choice of course. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030806 16:20]: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:33:38PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030806 14:50]: > > > Why is this a danger? This is one of the freedoms provided by free > > > software, wh

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
[policy of d-d-a] Yes, I can see the problem. However, it would have helped me much if this policy would have been clearly stated at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/ (should I open a bug, or can it be fixed without?). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
features compared to all other programms. However, as long as anyone volunteers to keep the package in a good state, and it doesn't put burden on debian, it's ok to keep it.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Usefulness of SSMTP

2003-08-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
his packages. (Iirc he is on vacation right now). cu andreas -- Hey, da ist ein Ballonautomat auf der Toilette! Unofficial _Debian-packages_ of latest unstable _tin_ http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/tin-snapshot/

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

2003-08-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
version in woody is straightforward GPL and would not be able to link against OpenSSL. cu andreas -- Hey, da ist ein Ballonautomat auf der Toilette! Unofficial _Debian-packages_ of latest unstable _tin_ http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/tin-snapshot/

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-07 Thread Andreas Barth
i -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: /usr/bin/pager

2003-08-07 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is /usr/bin/pager a Debianism, or is it common to other > distributions and/or unices? > Don't really know, but it's alternatives-managed, so likely to be a Debianism. Andy -- Andreas Rottmann | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to locate package uploader?

2003-08-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
BTS, [...] > Failing that, people with accounts on auric can get the .changes > file from queue/done and use 'gpg --verify' to check the signature. [...] You can also fetch it from the package's "Latest News" section on packages.qa.d.o cu andreas

Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

2003-08-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
figure their email specifically on people like me[*]. [...] Most of us won't need to change the configuration of their MUA/gpg, having a MUA that tries to verify sigs automatically and a gnupg that automatically fetches GPG-keys from the nearest keyserver is a pretty standard, vanilla setup. cu andreas

Re: Debian Weekly News - August 19th, 2003

2003-08-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Dagfinn Ilmari MannsÃ¥ker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> consensus >>n : agreement of the majority in sentiment or belief >>[syn: {general agreement}] >> unanimity >>n : everyone being of one mind >> A world of differen

Re: GR: Disambiguation of Section 4.1.5 of the constitution

2003-08-22 Thread Andreas Barth
clause, which needs + according to 5.1 a 3:1 majority. Advantage: This makes the list in 5.2 the authoritative list, which makes it easier later to see which documents are in fact foundation Documents. (Or to speak in computer slang: normalization of data.) Cheers, Andi -- http://ho

Re: Patents, gimp-nonfree and LAME

2003-08-22 Thread Andreas Barth
di - netpbm maintainer - -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: stack protection

2003-08-22 Thread Andreas Barth
oc/something. According to http://www.kroah.com/linux/talks/ols_2003_udev_talk/ http://archive.linuxsymposium.org/ols2003/Proceedings/All-Reprints/Reprint-Kroah-Hartman-OLS2003.pdf this is very small. But - I'm not even near a kernel expert. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-b

Re: ftp.gnu.org cracked

2003-08-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
libidn_0.1.14.orig.tar.gz OK. tar: tar_1.13.25.orig.tar.gz OK. vcdimager: vcdimager_0.7.14.orig.tar.gz OK. cu andreas

Re: stack protection

2003-08-23 Thread Andreas Barth
bugs. So it's always strictly necessary to make programms "fail safe", so that failing does as less harm as possible. A error in a dhcp server should just make dhcp fail, and have no negative impact on security. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

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

2003-08-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
lay in us recognizing the package missing a proper maintainer and orphaning or removing it. I do not think that argument holds, an unmaintained package will show other signs of negligance, and the qa people checking for unmaintained packages know how to differ between NMU and maintainer uplo

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

2003-08-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Andreas Metzler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Parse error. I cannot see a connection between answer and question. > Life's a beach. There's all of one line in the developer's reference > which talks about you

Re: stack protection

2003-08-25 Thread Andreas Barth
le ... to note > just some. They are not 100% secure, but they are more secure than > software written by ISC. ftp is deprecated. (I do usually recommend WebDAV as non-anon-ftp-replacement and http as anon-replacement.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Software Patents in Europe

2003-08-26 Thread Andreas Barth
ted this 1st September at the European Parliament, we have to protest > IMHO. SPAM doesn't get better if done for a "good thing". (That doesn't stop me of writing letters to Members of European Parliament e.g., but your mail is absolutly misdirected at d-d.) Cheers, Andi

Re: Software Patents in Europe

2003-08-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Glenn McGrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030826 15:05]: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:58:10 +0200 > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SPAM doesn't get better if done for a "good thing". > > > > (That doesn't stop me of writing letters to Memb

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

2003-08-26 Thread Andreas Barth
s reports of glibc-bugs to other packages. No, glibc (and the other core parts) must be the most conservative part of the system. (And, I don't believe that a proposal with so many changes to the pool and mirror system has a real chance to be implemented.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.ar

Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing

2003-08-26 Thread Andreas Barth
is to sources.list? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Accepted galeon 1.3.7.20030825-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
time to investigate in this task. I think a Galeon 1.2.11 in Sarge would be a must have. Kind regards Andreas.

Re: Accepted galeon 1.3.7.20030825-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Kind regards Andreas.

Re: Accepted galeon 1.3.7.20030825-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
port to ask for a configuration feature for those hot keys but I had no time to check whether it is just implemented and I was simply not able to find it. Kind regards Andreas. BTW: Font rendering with GTK+2.0 is so much better that switching back to Galeon 1.2.x would be hard, but the fe

Re: Accepted galeon 1.3.7.20030825-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:31:10AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > > Mark Howard wrote: > > > > galeon - GNOME web browser for advanced users > > >

Re: galeon in Debian stable

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
thought as an alternative if we would have no Galeon at all. Thanks for your fine work on this very important piece of software Andreas.

Re: Accepted galeon 1.3.7.20030825-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
s missing features compared to Galeon 1.2 but as a would be nice to have feature if hot keys would be configurable and if you would have tried to parse my mail again I was not voting against 1.3.x Galeon but against having no Galeon at all. Kind regards Andreas.

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

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mark Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030826 21:35]: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:46:33PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > the system. (And, I don't believe that a proposal with so many changes > > to the pool and mirror system has a real chance to be implemented.) > Why d

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

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Barth
g "min-version=" and "fixed-version=" as extensions to > potato/woody/sarge/sid and have those 4 autochanged as versions move > around. > > yep. would be nice. finer grained than just the tags. Even better would be to make the version-tags meta-tags. Cheers, Andi

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

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Barth
* Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030826 21:50]: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030826 15:20]: > > > Only those contained in the sections enabled on the users system. If > > > you hav

Re: Accepted galeon 1.3.7.20030825-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Michael Piefel wrote: To answer you other questions after checking on a machine with Galeon 1.3 installed: > Am 27.08.03 um 09:38:47 schrieb Andreas Tille: > >- the brush clearing the URL field > ^L not working for you? ^L just marks the URL and thus remov

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