clamav-data (was: Packages that download/install unsecured files)

2009-09-19 Thread Marc Haber
al developers signing them.) > >Ah, I was not aware of this. You are not the only one. Greetings Marc, maintainer of clamav-data, who wasn't aware as well -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are th

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile (was: Packages that download/install unsecured files)

2009-09-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:52:17 + (UTC), Philipp Kern wrote: >On 2009-09-19, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:56:07 + (UTC), Philipp Kern >> wrote: >>>On 2009-09-18, Tom Feiner wrote: >>>> Looks like this method works well for clamav-d

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-20 Thread Marc Haber
s are going to change BIG TIME when it gets integrated into the main archive, and frankly, as a volatile user, I'd rather see volatile stay separate than seeing some of its previous principles dumped. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !!

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:28:30 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Marc Haber wrote: >> As long as you do not expect me to manually sign every single upload, > >Why not? Because nobody pays me to spend an hour a day to sign packages. We had three full

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-21 Thread Marc Haber
ch has been implemented in close cooperation with their precedessors and which has been working for years? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header M

Bug#549043: ITP: linknx -- KNX automation platform

2009-09-30 Thread Marc Leeman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Leeman * Package name: linknx Version : 0.0.1.26 Upstream Author : jef2...@ouaye.net * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/linknx/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : KNX automation

Bug#549901: ITP: eibd-server -- KNX/EIB server

2009-10-06 Thread Marc Leeman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Leeman * Package name: eibd-server Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Martin Koegler * URL : http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~mkoegler/index.php/eibd * License : GNU General Public License Programming Lang: C

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-02 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:06:40 +0900, Angus wrote: >Or >otherwise, let someone else do it (like me). We actually need people showing traces of social skills, which you don't. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! -

Re: Debian as open project

2009-12-04 Thread Marc Haber
t;of them). Well said. I'll vote accordingly for the next DPL. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom &quo

Re: Should ucf be of priority required?

2009-12-06 Thread Marc Haber
xample, I have been looking for a way to tamper with package a's dpkg-conffiles from package b, which would be very helpful for local sysadmin work (such as rolling out local configuration via a package). Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy co

Re: Etch system frequently hanging - help to diagnose origin needed

2007-01-23 Thread Marc Haber
terminal program inside a terminal emulator if all you need is a terminal. Useable tools are, for example, screen, cu, and ser2net. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadr

Re: update on binary upload restrictions

2007-01-24 Thread Marc Haber
get access to wannabuild? I remember that rejection or "no answer" is the usual reaction to a wannabuild access request even for architectures that are in trouble. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | "

Re: buildd stuff

2007-01-30 Thread Marc Haber
it will interfere with >proper buildd operation. That looks like bad design to me. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-14 Thread Marc Haber
to do pointless exercises in dilgence, such as repackaging exim4 without debhelper, in that case. not. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-14 Thread Marc Haber
become even more longer. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-18 Thread Marc Haber
has varied. Obviously. Your approach sounds like not invented here, mine like code reuse. [1] tcpdump, strace -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | B

Re: VMware Player packages

2007-03-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 06:46:18PM +0100, Hans Kratz wrote: > Sure. I wasn't aware of that package. AFAICS that package handles only > the VMware kernel modules right now. No, it can build vmware-player .debs as well. I'll fix the wrong description in svn.

Re: VMware Player packages

2007-03-08 Thread Marc Haber
and a bug in the BTS, to support VMware Server, we'll need to build a second vmware-any-any-foo-source package from the same sources, which needs somebody with really serious make knowledge. Greetings Marc -- - Marc

Re: Send ITPs to debian-l10n-english?

2007-04-21 Thread Marc Haber
nterested people to PTS-subscribe to the wnpp package. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder |

Re: Send ITPs to debian-l10n-english?

2007-04-21 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 11:09:28AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 07:15:14AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > I wonder whether it would be good to systematically send ITP mail to > > > debian-l10

Re: should an init-script print output, if verbose is set to no in /etc/default/rcS or by /lib/init/vars.sh?

2007-04-28 Thread Marc Haber
ementation? The LSB init script stuff is a red herring anyway since the Interface is badly designed and utterly incomplete. Init scripts are therefore forced to abuse the provided functions if something "special" is needed. Greetings Marc -- --

LSB init scripts (was: should an init-script print output, if verbose is set to no in /etc/default/rcS or by /lib/init/vars.sh?)

2007-05-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:35:57 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Further, why should individual init scripts that are already going to >>> all the effo

Re: LSB init scripts

2007-05-04 Thread Marc Haber
, with the option of having the whole blurb on the console for debugging just in case that the box does not come up cleanly. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im

Re: svn-buildpackage etc., mergeWithUpstream, and dpatch/quilt/cdbs again

2007-05-20 Thread Marc Haber
/-only trunk and symlink debian into the upstream sources. This is a field full of dragons, though. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, German

Re: Consequences of the removal of Experimental.

2007-06-14 Thread Marc Haber
network >is at best a joke. Just for the record: exim4 4.67-2, uploaded to experimental, was promptly built by the buildd network. btw, please test exim4 4.67-2 ;) Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Bug#429583: ITP: dtc -- PowerPC kernel device tree compiler

2007-06-18 Thread Marc Leeman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Leeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dtc Version : 20070523 Upstream Author : Jon Loeliger * URL : git://www.jdl.com/software/dtc.git * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : PowerPC

Bug#491835: ITP: libnagios-plugin-perl -- A family of perl modules to streamline writing Nagios plugins

2008-07-22 Thread Marc Haber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libnagios-plugin-perl Version : 0.27 Upstream Author : Ton Voon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Nagios-Plugin/ * License : This lib

Bug#491836: ITP: libmath-calc-units-perl -- Human-readable unit-aware calculator

2008-07-22 Thread Marc Haber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmath-calc-units-perl Version : 1.06 Upstream Author : Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-Calc-Units/ * License : GPL

Re: Standard way to disable services

2008-07-29 Thread Marc Haber
s, but that's going to be incompatible with a future dependency-based init process. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

Re: tagging 231711, tagging 232113, tagging 236498, tagging 241414, tagging 250782, tagging 254248

2008-08-06 Thread Marc Haber
tives apply. Don't treat your users or translators this way. Please. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."

Re: tagging 231711, tagging 232113, tagging 236498, tagging 241414, tagging 250782, tagging 254248

2008-08-06 Thread Marc Haber
ommenting on is over three >years old! Yes, I found my self falling over a three year old bug which has been (mis)handled in an unacceptable way. The issue still exists, which makes things even worse. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, ple

Bug#498715: ITP: libterm-vt102-perl -- emulation of a VT102 terminal

2008-09-12 Thread Marc Haber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libterm-vt102-perl Version : 0.82 Upstream Author : Andrew Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~ajwood/Term-VT102-0.82/VT102.pm * License

Re: [RFC] How should rsyslog handle .0 logfiles from sysklogd

2008-09-21 Thread Marc Haber
estamps of syslog.0 and rotate it to syslog.1 iff its timestamps are in between syslog and the former syslog.1. If they are not, throw a warning and leave. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-20 Thread Marc Haber
t hardware, and >dropping blobs from the source. I don't think it's a very challenging >task, but I'm happy to do so. Will that be ok? You're not seriously thinking that a release without E100 support does make any sense and is any good for Debian, right? Greetings Marc

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-12 Thread Marc Bertram
Thank you for this great service! I found a bug in the search results. If you go to another page of the search results (e.g. 2), you go back on the page "browsing screenshots". I think there is a wrong link to the next pages. I do not know the bug is already known?! Regards Marc

Re: RFC: adding pre-depends to libpam-modules for lenny

2008-12-31 Thread Marc Haber
thin an X session, so I'd regard a lock-out due to an X screensaver kicking in an admin error. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

Re: stupid dependencies on update-inetd

2007-07-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:31:10 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >Probably not, but in this case common sense would have been enough since >update-inetd does not depend on anything else. Common sense? Is that the thing one cannot commonly expect? Gre

Re: Non-security updates between stable releases?

2007-07-29 Thread Marc Haber
reality. If you >hear someone make that complaint, kindly keep him (or her) from >sticking his (or her) foot too far down the throat and point them to >unstable. Unstable is an unreleased development version and not supposed to be in use on end users' systems. Greetings Marc --

Re: Non-security updates between stable releases?

2007-07-29 Thread Marc Haber
cause of obscure failures on doorstep architectures. If this becomes the norm, then our broad architecture support becomes one of Debian's main _dis_advantages. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questi

Re: Non-security updates between stable releases?

2007-07-29 Thread Marc Haber
of our installations. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by N

Re: Cleanup before install (Re: Purging of unneeded ...)

2007-07-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:09:10 + (UTC), Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >- adduser is 48k of "unreadable perl mess" As former maintainer of adduser, I take offense here. Adduser has improved a lot in readability in the last three yea

Re: Bug#434206: ITP: moe -- powerful text editor for ISO-8859 andASCII character encodings

2007-08-01 Thread Marc Haber
last sentence rules it out for me. I insist in being able to write comments in my native language. Including a new non-UTF8-capable editor in the archive in 2007 is the wrong signal, IMO. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please

Re: New PAM in experimental needs testing

2007-08-06 Thread Marc Haber
g to new pam and then check whether login and ssh server still works? i canont do this before tomorrow night, and can only do very basic testing. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: adduser/deluser on postinst

2007-08-11 Thread Marc Haber
>packages) see: > >http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch9.en.html#s-bpp-lower-privs Why does this HOWTO suggest replicating code that is already in adduser (or should be there) in gazillion of maintainer scripts, which surely introduces a maintenance ni

suid-perl going away?

2007-08-23 Thread Marc Haber
ct running perl scripts suid to be safe on Linux. Why is perl-suid going away, and how am I supposed to replace its functionality? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im

Re: suid-perl going away?

2007-08-23 Thread Marc Haber
g tool quite disturbing. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by

Bug#441448: ITP: ario -- A complete GTK2 client for MPD

2007-09-09 Thread Marc Pavot
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Pavot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ario Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Marc Pavot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ario-player.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Descrip

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-22 Thread Marc Haber
070920 | wc -l |77 |$ grep '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' /var/log/exim4/mainlog-20070920 | wc -l |44 |$ grep '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' /var/log/exim4/mainlog-20070920 | wc -l |81 |$ The number of messages _with_ mh+ prefix includes legitimate mail; the messages to addresses wit

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-24 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:02:01 +0200, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 11150 March 1977, Marc Haber wrote: >>>Same goes for those idiots with >>>"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" addresses. >> Using a plus sign in the mail address is a _very_ _very_ effecti

Re: Firefox bugs mass-closed.

2007-10-01 Thread Marc Haber
ame, which I - as a user - consider quite annoying and disrespectful, but I - as a maintainer - can understand, on the other hand. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Heade

LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-08 Thread Marc Haber
function as start_daemon is not able to pass arbitrary options to s-s-d, and there is no option to invoke --background --make-pidfile. How am I supposed to properly lsb-ize ser2net's init script? Is it ok to directly call s-s-d from the init script or do I need othe

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:00:03 +1100, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:36:24PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> How am I supposed to properly lsb-ize ser2net's init script? Is it ok >> to directly call s-s-d from the init script or do I

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 08:49:22 +0100, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:36:24PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> How am I supposed to properly lsb-ize ser2net's init script? Is it ok >> to directly call s-s-d from the init script or do I

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:00:42 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[Marc Haber] >> I do not plan to do so for obvious reasons. > >It is not obvious for me. Can you explain why it should be obvious >that you do not plan to patch the daemon to write its ow

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-11 Thread Marc Haber
and its --make-pidfile. > >--make-pidfile, --exec, and friends, are all ugly workarounds for buggy >daemons that can't write a pidfile. And I think that it is less broken to use them than to patch third-party software. Greetings Marc -- --

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-11 Thread Marc Haber
start_daemon is not part of the standard? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlu

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:47:49 +, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: >> How many seconds until the "please make pidfile location configurable" >> wishlist bug? > >Which is another, what, 5-10 lines of code

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-14 Thread Marc Haber
ve me from the keyring. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature |

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:57:56 + (UTC), Robert Edmonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyway, here's a (compile-tested only) patch: Which I have submitted upstream (Debian #451472). Thanks! Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please

Re: LSB-ize daemon without pidfile handling

2007-11-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:53:47 +0100, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:57:56 + (UTC), Robert Edmonds ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Anyway, here's a (compile-tested only) patch: > >Which I have submitted upstream (Debian #45147

Re: old homepage pseudo-field (future mass-bug filing?)

2007-12-04 Thread Marc Haber
package description of my packages until at least post-lenny, while adding the new Homepage (which I consider a misnomer) field during new uploads. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

2007-12-27 Thread Marc Haber
se", are lured in by qmail fanboys and then fail in configuring qmail. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom &

Re: Proposed consensus: reporting lintian overrides

2008-01-07 Thread Marc Haber
bout a configuration file and/or an environment variable to set a local default? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Be

Re: Speed up the boot by loading the kernel disk cache

2008-01-17 Thread Marc Haber
he kernel >disk cache is populated as the very first thing done at boot with the >files used during boot. To test it, install readahead, boot once with >'profile' as a kernel option to tune it to your boot, and then boot >normally. Will this speed up waking up from hibernation

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Marc Haber
arding support of current kernels for years. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugsch

Bug#565675: ITP: pthsem -- pth replacement with semaphore support

2010-01-17 Thread Marc Leeman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Leeman * Package name: pthsem Version : 2.0.7 Upstream Author : Martin Koegler * URL : http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~mkoegler/index.php * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : pth replacement

Re: [gmail] Re: Bug#565675: ITP: pthsem -- pth replacement with semaphore support

2010-01-20 Thread Marc Leeman
cision. Can we conclude that pthsem is a valid branch, worth a seperate package? An alternative for Martin is probably to include/hide pthsem in bcusdk; but that would not be as clean IMHO (ffmpeg anyone?) -- greetz, marc Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives. crichton 2.6.26 #1 PREEMPT Tue Jul 29

Re: [gmail] Re: Bug#565675: ITP: pthsem -- pth replacement with semaphore support

2010-01-21 Thread Marc Leeman
keep the list updated about the progress. -- greetz, marc Kleeneness is next to Godelness. crichton 2.6.26 #1 PREEMPT Tue Jul 29 21:17:59 CDT 2008 GNU/Linux signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Misc developer news (#21)

2010-02-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:08:16PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > * More than 1000 source packages[4] are already using the new source > formats "3.0 (quilt)" and "3.0 (native)". Have you updated your own > packages already?

Re: Misc developer news (#21)

2010-02-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:51:11 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:08:16PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> > * More than 1000 source packages[4] are already using the new source >> > formats &qu

Re: Suggestions to fix #433462 (add free space info to reportbug)

2010-03-16 Thread Marc Haber
lease think that names of NFS Servers, LVM data etc might be considered private by the local admin Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germ

Re: Processed: ipv6 release goal

2010-03-24 Thread Marc Haber
d to German language support. Greetings Marc, who has preferred language DE as well and cringes whenever a Debian page comes up and would really love to see those in English -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Q

German Debian (was: Processed: ipv6 release goal)

2010-03-24 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:23:31 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Marc Haber > wrote: >> Most web pages are much better translated to German than Debian's are. >> Unfortunately, Debian is broken beyond repair in regard to German >> language supp

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-26 Thread Marc Haber
ed a tech ctte decision to step back from that idea at this point of our release process? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

Re: Best practices for development workstations

2010-04-02 Thread Marc Haber
o customers to work -- so they have to work reliably for me. I started running sid on my personal workstations in 2003, and have never seen a situation where I wasn't able to work due to a sid breakage. I know that I was lucky. Greetings Marc -- --

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-09 Thread Marc Haber
CentOS or Windows instead since they won't understand what's going on. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-07 Thread Marc Haber
for squeeze+1, why do we need to do a critical migration twice? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " |

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 7 May 2010 19:27:54 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 06:15:24PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Fri, 7 May 2010 09:26:18 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli >> wrote: >> >The init.d world has changed quite a bit in recent years and might >>

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Marc Haber
ueeze system, make sure dependency based boot >sequencing is enabled, and add this line to /etc/default/rcS: > > CONCURRENCY=makefile Where is this documented? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 8 May 2010 11:51:22 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 11:37:10AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> So it is the classical desktop vs. server situation. For my Debian >> servers, that get booted at most once a month, I don't give a damn >> abo

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Marc Haber
>is overdue. What is so bad about init scripts? Where am I supposed to put my init script magic[1] in an upstart scenario? Greetings Marc [1] a lot of my packages generate the configuration for the daemon immediately before it is started -- -- !!

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 9 May 2010 14:58:51 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 01:24:49PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> > CONCURRENCY=makefile >> Where is this documented? > >According to <4be43663.6000...@free.fr> and #576788, it is not. >But I'm s

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-10 Thread Marc Haber
; FWIW, it appears to be documented in README.Debian in the insserv package. > >Thanks for the pointer. I've just submitted a patch for #576788 that >adds a pointer to that file from /etc/init.d/README. I would expect this in the defaults/rcS file as well

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-17 Thread Marc Haber
it script? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt.

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-23 Thread Marc Haber
exist in regard to moving from lilo or grub "legacy" to grub2. There are too many bug reports in the BTS which are completely unaddressed. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 23 May 2010 16:26:48 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 02:08:59PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> This also means that the grub2 maintainers (both Debian and Upstream) >> need to work on the regressions that exist in regard to moving from >> lil

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-29 Thread Marc Haber
care to make our config as similiar as possible to upstreams (we even follow changes in the _comments_ of their example config), but to no avail. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-29 Thread Marc Haber
estore to a disk with the exactly same geometry. I would change the restore process to manually reinstall the boot loader after the backup software finished with its restore job anyway, or you might be surprised with an unbootable restored system if you had to restore to different

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-29 Thread Marc Haber
of /usr/X11R6 at being around the 20% mark (including binNMUs >> and all). So while they're uncommon, they're not unheard of. > >There is also the /usr/doc => /usr/share/doc transition. This took four releases, iirc. Greetings Marc -- --

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

2010-05-29 Thread Marc Haber
ferent systems. I would love adduser to do that, but I can live without that. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom &q

Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

2010-05-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 30 May 2010 15:02:41 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: >This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: >> I am not a very good friend of just counting. I would try to somehow >> hash the user name into the UID since this will - at least on systems >> with only a handful o

Re: same UIDs across multiple systems

2010-05-31 Thread Marc Haber
avoid collisions in the >short allowed range. That's what I've been doing even during the time when I was lead maintainer of adduser. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the

Re: same UIDs across multiple systems

2010-05-31 Thread Marc Haber
er is the debian tool which has all the intelligence that makes using Debian so joyful. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

Re: Anounce of a secure repo for debian

2010-05-31 Thread Marc Haber
n your pathnames. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt

Re: Anounce of a secure repo for debian

2010-05-31 Thread Marc Haber
u're saying. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt

Re: Anounce of a secure repo for debian

2010-05-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 31 May 2010 12:49:28 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: >Well, this method was grown since ages when reprepro was not available >and I hadn't the time to migrate a working method to a /nice/ working >method. You should have taken that time before going public.

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-31 Thread Marc Haber
I fully agree. The grub situation is as with KDE: Old version abandoned, new version not finished. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germa

Re: Essentiality of Bash

2010-06-25 Thread Marc Haber
ime soon. I have never understood that rule in the first place. Why am I not allowed to depend on an essential package, it's just clearer documentation, and doesn't hurt. What am I missing? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, plea

Re: Essentiality of Bash

2010-06-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:27:31 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:20:33PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:58:58 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow >> wrote: >> >I think for that goal it would be good for lintian to add an exception >&

Re: Essentiality of Bash

2010-06-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:45:15 +0200, "Bernhard R. Link" wrote: >* Marc Haber [100626 14:07]: >> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:27:31 -0700, Steve Langasek >> >The footnote to Policy 3.5, where this is written out? >> >> Ah, so this is the same as the no-circular

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