ke, 2008-05-21 kello 09:09 +0200, Andreas Tille kirjoitti:
> Would you regard this as a useful bug report or not?
I think that would be a rather excellently useful bug report. The only
way to improve it would be to include an actual patch to implement it.
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to, 2008-05-22 kello 04:35 +0200, Michael Meskes kirjoitti:
> Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 20:53:51 schrieb Joey Hess:
> > I'll no longer be maintaining the following packages. I plan to orphan
> > them next week and hope to find new maintainers for them before then.
> > ...
> > acpi
>
> I take this
ke, 2008-06-04 kello 13:38 +0200, Jeremiah C. Foster kirjoitti:
> I think removing log files is a bad practice. A user may need to keep
> those log files (by law for example) and unbeknownst to them, debian
> has removed them when they removed web server X to replace it with
> web server Y.
In th
ti, 2008-06-17 kello 10:41 +0300, Peter Pentchev kirjoitti:
> As to the packaging, though, I wonder. The sed and awk implementations
> of bomstrip have problems with files that do not end in a newline.
> Thus, I would prefer to package either the Perl or the C implementation.
> The C implementatio
su, 2008-06-22 kello 16:07 -0700, Mike Bird kirjoitti:
> It seems to me that it ought to be against policy to use a
> maintainer script to delete files belonging to another
> non-conflicting non-replacing package, but I haven't found
> such a policy.
>
> Does anyone have the answer so I can give i
ke, 2008-06-25 kello 08:47 +0100, Adam D. Barratt kirjoitti:
> Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> [...]
> > The next release of checkbashisms will include a "--posix" flag which
> > will allow the non-POSIX behaviours permitted by policy to be flagged.
> > Currently neither set of "local" checks flags "local
ke, 2008-06-25 kello 09:18 +0100, Adam D. Barratt kirjoitti:
> As "foo=bar" is an argument "more complex than simple variables" and
> the
> example explicitly shows the use of local to declare the variable followed
> by assignment to it, my reading of policy is that "local foo=bar" is not
> perm
ti, 2008-07-01 kello 12:10 +0200, Thibaut Paumard kirjoitti:
> Come on, UTF-8 is good.
UTF-8 also 16 years old. That's enough for people to get driver's
licenses in the US, to have legal sex in many parts of the world, and to
vote in local elections in some parts of the world. Surely it's enough
a
to, 2008-07-03 kello 08:24 +0200, Andreas Tille kirjoitti:
> /me as a completely uneducated apt / aptitude user thinks: Triggers have
> done more harm than good.
I haven't been following trigger adoption very much, so I'm ignorant:
what harm have triggers done?
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to, 2008-07-03 kello 08:39 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich kirjoitti:
> What is the proper way to get the s_p_a_m removed from the bts and to
> reopen the bug? To contact the 'sender' of the spam mail as suggested by
> the bts seems absurd.
For removing the spam, see the link near the bottom of the bug
pe, 2009-07-03 kello 11:39 +0200, Peter Pöschl kirjoitti:
> What about emitting this as TAP, the Test Anything Protocol [1]?
That is a very interesting suggestion. I don't think it looks very good
for human consumption, but I would love to have a plugin to optionally
produce it for situations wher
ti, 2009-07-21 kello 15:19 +0200, martin f krafft kirjoitti:
> Several people also hinted at piuparts, but that's not exactly what
> I wanted, since piuparts is really more of a general quality
> assurance tool, intended mostly to be run by few people over many
> packages, whereas lintian and packa
I propose the following as the new output format of piuparts:
* Standard output will report tests that have been run, and their
results. This output will be similar to the lintian output. This
output should usually be pretty short, and to the point.
* Additionally, a log file will be written,
pe, 2009-07-24 kello 10:44 -0500, Manoj Srivastava kirjoitti:
> On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
>
>
> > * Failed tests may _optionally_ also write dumps of the virtual
> > environment (chroot, eventually maybe kvm images) so things may
> > be deb
su, 2009-07-26 kello 13:36 +0200, Siggy Brentrup kirjoitti:
> My question is: will it ever happen that I may safely leave
> /bin/sh -> dash
> while running an upgrade without fearing a maintainer script
> fails?
Been there. Done that. Had no problems.
Also, Ubuntu, which mainly uses Debian pa
I forgot the X-Debbugs-Cc in my original e-mail, sorry.
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I would like to find a new maintainer for the enemies-of-carlotta
package. It is a mailing list manager, of which I am upstream. I will
gladly fix any bugs that exist upstream, but I do not wish to maintain
the
2009/9/15 Marco d'Itri :
> On Sep 14, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
>
>> LB> You could file this a a wishlist bug report against the iptables
>> LB> package, and see if the maintainer wish to add this file (or a larger
>> LB> /etc/sysctl.d/iptables.conf with some sane defaults).
> What makes you beli
2009/9/15 Marco d'Itri :
> On Sep 15, Lars Bahner wrote:
>
>> Prey tell, what is wrong with maintainers of for example iptables,
>> providing a conffile
>> with samples (which may even be commented out) which they can
>> reference to in their documentation, whe
On ma, 2007-01-15 at 09:34 +0100, Gürkan Sengün wrote:
> Since the day that dpkg officially supports lzma compressed packages, Gürkan
> runs
> a mirror of binary packages (i386, sid, main) which can be used easily. The
> general save of downloading is about 30 %. The scripts how it is done and
> t
On ma, 2007-01-15 at 14:31 +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:39:18PM +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > Does LZMA have any drawbacks?
>
> It is far less deployed as bzip2, so manually unpacking .deb packages on
> some random GNU/Linux or Unix rescue system
On ma, 2007-01-22 at 19:51 +1100, Brian May wrote:
> 2. Is it possible to get find to autodetect the file system, and use
> -noleaf only as required? Maybe get it to look for "." and ".." and if
> it can't find them, automatically use -noleaf. Embedding filesystem
> specific changes like this into
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On la, 2007-02-03 at 12:37 +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> > > Not being able to change the cause to the better doesn't mean to
> > > introduce a mess to control the result. And I really hope that Debian
> > > never considers installing+enabling selinux by default.
> >
> > IIRC, debian/etch alread
On ma, 2007-02-05 at 20:46 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Then your name, and your email address, belongs in the From field.
I agree with this. (And this AOL is the main point of this message. The
titbit below is just filler.)
> Meanwhile, the message header is about the message *as an email
> messag
On pe, 2007-02-09 at 20:11 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> I'm askinf if it is ok to to reopen such bugs based of better QA
> aspects.
It's a matter of style and taste. Unless you can quote verifiable
statistics that using backticks instead of $() is causing problems (that
is, bug numbers), let it be.
On ma, 2007-02-26 at 23:09 +0100, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:28:28 +0100 Miguel Gea Milvaques wrote:
>
> > Command line scanning sofware for AES2501B usb fingerprint reader.
> > The ouput are gray pnm files with quite good quality.
>
> Please mention Authentec (the vendor) and
On ma, 2007-03-12 at 09:45 +0100, Krzysztof Burghardt wrote:
> Hello Developers,
>
> How can I close bug #387858 which is a duplicate of already closed
> #406404?
>
> bluetooth-alsa package contains software for both SCO and A2DP profiles,
> and thus new package btsco is no longer need.
If it's
On ma, 2007-03-12 at 20:29 +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> Does 'allowed' just mean 'it's impolite to close other peoples' bugs'
> or 'the BTS will stop you'?
It means "it's impolite...". The BTS software doesn't care.
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On to, 2007-03-15 at 15:06 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I (continue to) object to the notion of web-based submission of bugs to
> Debian. Do you really think that someone who can't maneuver reportbug is
> capable of submitting a useful bug report?
A GUI version of reportbug would be nice, thoug
On pe, 2007-03-16 at 13:03 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:23:09PM +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > A GUI version of reportbug would be nice, though. Having to open a terminal
> > and deal with clumsy line based user interfaces is not a hindrance, but
> &
On to, 2007-03-22 at 10:43 -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
> Is 'forced to relay through a gateway' an instance of 'thoroughly
> misconfigured'? Or is it just a corner case not worth bothering for?
>
> (I'm not _quite_ trolling. I'd like to know if I ought to spend the
> effort to change
On pe, 2007-03-23 at 10:32 +0100, BALLABIO GERARDO wrote:
> Debian Project Secretary wrote:
> > At the end of voting, with 313 Ballots resulting in 260 votes from 257
> developers, "General Resolution: Altering package upload rules" has
> carried the day.
>
> Please forgive me if this is a stupid
On pe, 2007-03-23 at 21:05 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On pe, 2007-03-23 at 10:32 +0100, BALLABIO GERARDO wrote:
> > > Debian Project Secretary wrote:
> > > > At the end of voting, with 313 Ballots resulting
On ke, 2007-03-28 at 14:57 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> just want to give my vote and concentrate on the rankings I want to give
> and not learn about tools to submit my vote.
>From memory (my shell history isn't long enough), here's what I did:
1. Copy ballot to text file (vote.txt).
2. Edit it
Package: wnpp
Owner: Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: gtkcanvas-muxitex-slur-k
Version : 4.1
Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : N/A
* License : CDDL
Programming Lang: C#, with Markov C
This ITP was (obviously) an attempt at an April's Fool joke. Some time
ago I played a bit with Markov Chains, which are a method for taking an
input text, and generating output that uses words from the input, but is
gibberish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_Chain). I got the idea
that it would
On ma, 2007-04-02 at 19:26 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> Given how easy it is to canonicalise the timestamp data, the fact that
> it's data loss and the questionable utility of the information why is it
> worth it?
Maintaining status quo is easy. Making programs that compare timestamps
understand tim
On ti, 2007-04-03 at 16:28 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> To install a cross-building toolchain, apt/aptitude needs to be told
> about the Emdebian [2] toolchain repository [3]. Currently, that is done
> by the emsetup program in emdebian-tools but I'm wondering if it is
> better done in postinst. T
On to, 2007-04-12 at 10:12 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:12:00PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > This would reduce our archive size by some 20% if all packages moved to
> > bzip2.
>
> Why not lzma? It reduces size even more and doesn't suffer from the "all our
> code bel
On to, 2007-04-12 at 12:16 +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> * 2007-04-12 12:09, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > As long as we don't use that to collect sensitive information, it would be
> > ok IMO. (Of course, a preseed question could avoid it completely too)
>
> I think Google Earth for Linux does
On su, 2007-04-15 at 19:33 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Are there any objections to us changing this setting in the default
> /etc/login.defs file?
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 2007-04-12 21:08 /usr/bin/X11 -> .
Anything found via /usr/bin/X11 will be found
On ti, 2007-05-01 at 14:29 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 May 2007 14:02, Bart Martens wrote:
> > I have updated the list to hide packages with identical upstream
> > version numbers but with different epochs. This might hide some real
> > positives but most likely hides more false positi
On to, 2007-05-03 at 13:39 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> My ideal output format would just list "subsystem OK"
While we're daydreaming, I'd like an empty screen with a timer counting
down how long (in seconds) I have until I can actually use the machine.
Unless there's a problem, of course, in whic
On ma, 2007-05-14 at 10:51 +0200, ar wrote:
> Still get no subscribing confirmation mail.
>
> Please see my bugreport on that problem:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=420261
>
> The bug is still open for me.
That bug is from April. Did you try again after Frans announced it as
On ke, 2007-05-16 at 23:17 +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> That's trivial to check. Just feed it to recode and specify UTF-8
> Hexadecimal input:
You might also be interested in isutf8 from moreutils.
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On ke, 2007-05-16 at 16:26 -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> We should expect that given the same source, headers, and libraries, we
> would get the same bytes out of a build every time. Any deviation from this
> would indicate something different, or erratic. If it doesn't cause
> problems, fine,
On ma, 2007-05-21 at 20:08 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> The description for -curiosa does not suggest it to be appropiate for
> the kind of off-topic discussions going on on -user.
Your conclusion is correct, and I'd like to suggest a corollary: there's
no Debian mailing list where advocating v
On ti, 2007-05-22 at 13:30 +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> 1. The GPLv3: the latest draft did not raise major objections from
> -legal and despite its concerns with the strategies developed in some
> sections, Debian does consider it DFSG-free. Debian will however not
> push for its adoption, ma
On ma, 2007-05-28 at 00:25 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> piuparts:
> Looks at first 'deb' line from /etc/apt/sources.list
> -> Can't handle /etc/apt/sources.list.d
> -> Assumes that the top entry is the best
I didn't want to have piuparts use all sources.list en
On su, 2007-05-27 at 18:05 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> That would be very handy! The default could then be the
> closest/quickest primary mirror. It would be important (from my
> perspective) that this default is required to be a primary mirror -
> maybe offer the user only the list of primaries
On su, 2007-05-27 at 20:06 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> Unless your own mirror supports all Debian architectures, you will
> still need a primary for emdebian-tools. Do you test build your own
> Debian packages against your own mirror? Is that wise?
I don't use emdebian in any way, so any require
On ti, 2007-06-05 at 10:37 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> We also have some funny 3D games with huge data packages. So
> were is the borderline for this. Does it make sense to install
> a data repository that is not mirrored?
I suggest that it makes sense to a) package the data as .debs, for
eas
Little useful or helpful has been said in this thread for a while now.
Please don't continue the discussion, at least on debian-devel.
(Sorry to be so blunt.)
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On to, 2007-06-21 at 14:40 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> I am trying to figure out why texmacs has not entered into testing. I
> visited http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=texmacs but there I
> was not able to find any useful information. All it says is
>
> * trying to upda
On to, 2007-06-21 at 17:01 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> 1) How can I request for a new build on ia64? or will it happen
> automatically?
This is outside my area of expertese, but I would assume that the
buildds don't automatically re-try a failed build. Instead, they'll wait
for the packa
ti, 2008-07-08 kello 14:51 +0900, Charles Plessy kirjoitti:
> How about "builds assembly by mapping short reads to reference
> sequences"?
Speaking as an outsider to both biology and interior decoration, as far
as I can determine that short description could apply equally well to
genetics and IKEA
la, 2008-07-12 kello 18:09 +0200, martin f krafft kirjoitti:
> So lenny will be Debian 5.0. Many people have questioned this
> choice, given how we onconsistently went ...-2.0-2.1-2.2-3.0-3.1-4.0
> in the last decade, but it's the RM's choice and not to be debated.
>
> What is to be debated is how
ma, 2008-07-21 kello 09:26 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli kirjoitti:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 01:43:13PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > You can close Launchpad bugs in Ubuntu packages from Debian. The "LP:
> > ##"
> > syntax lets bugs get autoclosed when your package is synced to Debian, or
> >
su, 2008-08-10 kello 19:34 +0200, Fabio Tranchitella kirjoitti:
> Considering that slapd.conf is not (anymore) a conffile, in my opinion this
> behaviour is not forbidden from the Debian policy and thus the bug report
> could be closed without any change to the phamm-ldap package.
>
> Of course, h
pe, 2008-08-15 kello 09:59 +0200, Ingo Juergensmann kirjoitti:
> True. I would rather like to see the m68k porters to spend their time on
> real porting issues than on establishing the infrastructure that is needed
> because of the immanent drop.
It seems to me that _if_ the proposed change happe
pe, 2008-08-29 kello 18:30 +0300, root kirjoitti:
> Please investigate if files included in lsb-base conform to DFSG. A lincense
> change to GPL would be better suited for Debian.
In what way do you think the lsb-base license does not conform to the
DFSG?
> Policy / 2.1. The Debian Free Software
pe, 2008-08-29 kello 11:20 -0500, William Pitcock kirjoitti:
> This is DFSG-free, and meets both requirements.
Since I agree with William, I'm closing the bug. If Jari disagrees,
he'll let us know.
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pe, 2008-08-29 kello 19:51 +0200, Frank Küster kirjoitti:
> Any ideas how I can start debugging this?
My first suspicion would be about the hardware. You could run memtest86+
for at least 12 hours or until the first error.
Another idea: you could test the system with another version of Debian,
or
pe, 2008-08-29 kello 20:42 +0200, Michael Schutte kirjoitti:
> sendmail(8) (citadel-mta has neither of them; I’m going to open a
> serious bug after receiving some replies to this mail).
I don't think a missing manual page is a serious bug.
> Which section of the manual do you think sendmail belo
la, 2008-08-30 kello 12:21 +0200, Frank Küster kirjoitti:
> Can I download an iso image of a boot CD with memtest86+ somewhere?
Do the Debian installer disks have that? I know that the Ubuntu ones do.
(If the Debian ones don't, that would be a good wishlist bug to file, I
think.)
The Ubuntu live
su, 2008-09-07 kello 19:29 +0100, Ian Jackson kirjoitti:
> I would say that _at the time when these projects were first shipped_
> in this state, it _was_ a clear violation (both of our principles and
> of the GPL) to do so.
As far as I understand, when most of those projects first shipped, the C
ti, 2008-09-09 kello 12:50 +1000, Mark Purcell kirjoitti:
> We provide a patch target, which we felt meets the requirement of policy 2.8.
(There is no section 2.8 in the policy manual. The relevant section is
4.14,
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-readmesource)
> debian-de
On ke, 2007-08-08 at 14:12 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Without that structure, and a strict policy of being *only* an index
> to existing documents, I don't see how this project would avoid
> creating yet-another-document to read, compounding the problem you
> initially described.
I think it makes
pe, 2007-08-17 kello 10:07 +0200, Romain Francoise kirjoitti:
> It seems to me that the time spent to generate it on the buildds is
> probably insignificant compared to the total time needed to build
> the package... And since generating it can be done with a trivial
> shell command, it's not a co
pe, 2007-08-17 kello 10:58 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli kirjoitti:
> I fail to see any of those. I think that most of the packages without
> the md5sums just happen to have been packaged before dh_md5sums was
> available,
There's also a number of packages packaged without using debhelper.
(Mine is, u
pe, 2007-08-17 kello 17:05 -0500, Peter Samuelson kirjoitti:
> I'd opt for dpkg generating the checksums upon _extracting_ the .deb
> file. We already claim that the md5sums file isn't supposed to be any
> kind of security thing. Why bother to ship it? It is redundant
> information which can eas
pe, 2007-08-17 kello 10:12 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti:
> Some packages (aspell and ispell packages in particular) ship files that
> they then modify in maintainer scripts and intentionally exclude them from
> the md5sums file for that reason. lintian has special code to deal with
> this case.
la, 2007-08-18 kello 10:16 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli kirjoitti:
> One of the reason is that no one yet showed code implementing this in
> dpkg and we don't know a timeframe for this, while we know how to get it
> working right now with dh_md5sums. The other reasons is that once we
> have the suppor
su, 2007-08-19 kello 18:27 +0200, Christoph Berg kirjoitti:
> Please someone push forward the XB-Homepage: idea.
Does someone have a handy summary of where things stand with moving
homepage urls out from Description and into their own header?
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su, 2007-08-19 kello 10:50 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti:
> Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > su, 2007-08-19 kello 18:27 +0200, Christoph Berg kirjoitti:
>
> >> Please someone push forward the XB-Homepage: idea.
>
> > Does someone have a hand
ma, 2007-08-20 kello 09:53 +1000, Paul Wise kirjoitti:
> I suggest that the homepage does not belong inside the package at all
> (because it can change separately to the package) and would be better
> off being maintained on packages.debian.org and merged into the
> Packages files similar to how de
ma, 2007-08-27 kello 13:57 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti:
> Why is the Opera browser not included in Debian?
>
> "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
> Albert Einstein
It is not free software. I had a quick peek at the license in the .deb
available from Opera's
ke, 2007-08-29 kello 18:00 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson kirjoitti:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:58:17AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately
> > /dev/rmt0 for *YEARS*, not just on Linux but on just about every platform,
> > if -f is not gi
su, 2007-09-02 kello 12:47 -0700, Steve Langasek kirjoitti:
> Does anyone else have a reasoned argument why Debian should have a weaker
> password length check than upstream (4 chars instead of 6)? If not, this
> will be changed in the next upload of pam.
What's the justification of not using a m
ma, 2007-09-03 kello 09:30 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen kirjoitti:
> I've been told that the schools using Debian Edu in lower grades pick
> very simple and short passwords for the kids, and this will become
> harder if the minimum lenght is increased. Thought it was best to
> bring that up publicly
ma, 2007-09-03 kello 16:04 +0200, Michael Banck kirjoitti:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 12:57:38AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > The bug is that although the mpich-bin package uses
> > update-alternatives --install on postinst for all these files, it uses
> > update-alternatives --remove only on /
ma, 2007-09-03 kello 08:33 -0600, Wesley J. Landaker kirjoitti:
> Especially when the most common response I've seen to a system saying
> that a
> password is not long enough is to start adding easily guessable extension
> strings to the password the user already picked, NOT to sit back down and
ti, 2007-09-04 kello 10:17 +0900, Miles Bader kirjoitti:
> If the system is excessively anal about what passwords it will let you
> use, people will just start writing them down...
That is arguably better than having passwords which can be guessed by
doing brute-force attackes over ssh.
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ma, 2007-09-03 kello 23:40 -0400, John Kelly kirjoitti:
> On Sep 3, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> >That is arguably better than having passwords which can be guessed by
> >doing brute-force attackes over ssh.
>
> I stop brute force attacks by sending auth log messages to a FIFO w
to, 2007-09-20 kello 07:05 +0200, Christian Perrier kirjoitti:
> Of course, a mass bug-filing could also later happen but that would
> probably be a *huge* bug filing which should be avoided now. Entering
> a transition period where all communication media towards develpers
> are used to suggest sw
pe, 2007-09-21 kello 16:44 +0200, Adeodato Simó kirjoitti:
> * Christian Perrier [Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:02:56 +0200]:
>
> > Again, please comment,
>
> Personally, I think the change that should really go first is lintian/linda
> (emitting a warning for packages that put the homepage in the descript
ti, 2007-09-25 kello 12:19 +1000, Ben Finney kirjoitti:
> Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > How do you determine that being able to [parse email addresses in
> > package metadata] is more important than concerns over disseminating
> > other people's email addresses without their permiss
ti, 2007-09-25 kello 17:07 +1000, Ben Finney kirjoitti:
> Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If they distribute their work without an e-mail address attached,
> > should the Debian packager go dig one up?
> >
> > If they distribute their w
ti, 2007-09-25 kello 11:55 +0200, Simon Richter kirjoitti:
> Hi,
>
> Sebastian Dröge schrieb:
>
> > does somebody know about a solution to check whether one runs in a
> > buildd chroot or not? I need this to prevent hal from starting in buildd
> > chroots (via invoke-rc.d from postinst) as it bre
ti, 2007-09-25 kello 08:18 -0500, John Goerzen kirjoitti:
> I don't really think that chroot is the appropriate tool for this.
> Why not
> something more strongly isolated, such as vserver, OpenVZ, or even Xen or
> UML for this?
If the chroot has a policy-rc.d that says not to start daemons, any
ke, 2007-09-26 kello 13:49 -0700, Tyler MacDonald kirjoitti:
> Yep... but I still find it a bit annoying that I have to override
> binaries
> like start-stop-daemon or invoke-rc.d when building a chroot. I wish there
> was a way to just set a flag that means "dpkg, don't start/stop any
> services
ot render
contact information incorrect. If I write my e-mail address as follows,
it's still correct: "My full name is Lars Ivar Wirzenius, and you can
send me e-mail by taking my initials and putting them in front of the at
sign and iki.fi after it."
Mind you, I don't like ob
ti, 2007-10-09 kello 18:33 +0200, Kurt Roeckx kirjoitti:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:44:47PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> > How to help listmasters against spam
> >
> >
> >* If you notice a spam in the list archives, press the 'Report As
> > Spa
to
> be changed to sqlite3_free (you'll see in a backtrace).
This was the critical hint. Thanks again!
Fixed upstream with Liferea release 1.4.5b.
Patch against 1.4.5 is attached.
Best Regards,
Lars
Index: src/db.c
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pe, 2007-10-19 kello 18:29 +0200, Adrian von Bidder kirjoitti:
> Seriously: I think exactly this kind of "not really much new stuff going
> on, but here's what we're continuing to do" kind of information should be
> more visible, because it, too, is valuable information to somebody who is
> no
ti, 2007-10-23 kello 12:35 +0100, Matthew Vernon kirjoitti:
> The Authorized Version of the Bible isn't covered by Copyright in
> the
> conventional sense. The Queen's Printer (currently Cambridge
> University Press) has an exclusive commercial right to print the AV
> (and the BCP, but that's
ti, 2007-10-23 kello 09:44 -0500, Steve Greenland kirjoitti:
> But the license on the package itself doesn't make that restriction.
If I have understood things correctly, in England (and the rest of the
UK?) the copyright is owned by the crown and therefore it is the crown
that sets the license. I
On ke, 2007-12-05 at 21:11 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> IIRC we cannot assume that debian/rules is a makefile and pass them as
> macros directly, so we have to pass them as environment variables.
Debian Policy, 4.9, "Main building script: debian/rules":
This file must be an executable m
Bah, sorry about the previous mail, sent it before it was finished.
On pe, 2007-12-07 at 15:28 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Friday 7 December 2007 11:52, Enrico Zini wrote:
> > If we want to implement a feature such that we can see what packages are
> > localised for a given language, that s
On pe, 2007-12-07 at 15:28 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Friday 7 December 2007 11:52, Enrico Zini wrote:
> > If we want to implement a feature such that we can see what packages are
> > localised for a given language, that should be done differently, most
> > likely by building a database sca
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