Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
works also with individual packages you don't get from an archive source. It cuold also be used to verify the origin of the package. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-31 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi Anthony, On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 08:37:10AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:02:20PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:00:34AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > The whole file --- verifying each entry would take at l

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
use it is stored on a network connected machine, the latter because it is transfered over the net (if it is shared among the security team). Of course, if the security team use their personal key in the latter case, I can trust it. -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debia

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
hich problem it solves and which it doesn't solve. Also it is important to realize that the secret key automatically used by dinstall can not be stored in a highly secure way. Thanks, Marcus [1] As secret as any PGP key should be kept. -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http:

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 12:41:22AM -0500, Chris Frey wrote: > > Quoting from the mailing list archives... :-) > > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:00:34AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > The whole file --- verifying eac

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-04-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
). Also, it might be that the submitter reads the bug archive to correspond with you. I don't know if you were serious or not, but I think the whole discussion got well out of hands. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server M

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 08:52:36PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 04:00:20PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > It seems you feel personally insulted. I am sorry for this, but > > unfortunately it doesn't change the situation that the signed p

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 01:36:56PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 03:38:29PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > I could not trust either. The former, because it is stored on a network > > connected machine, the latter because it is transfered over the ne

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 02:49:40PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > In the signed .debs case, I, as a developer, assert that the package comes > > from me. A user can directly verify this by checking the signature. >

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 03:16:23PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Wrong. If you have signed debs, and you are careful when updating the > > debian-keyring package, there is no risk even if master is compromised. > &

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
hole archive. > I also assert that the > chance of a hacker getting the security key is lower than say 50% of the > keys in our keyring. I would not make such claims. In any way, see above. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Ke

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
dinstall to the user, I don't care. But don't > > tell the users that link 2 asserts that all packages come from Debian > > developers, it doesn't. > > No, it asserts that all packages come from *Debian*. Debian itself states > that they'll only distribute

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 01:01:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 02:57:06PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > As dinstall verifies the keys on the packages (which already exist, btw, > > > > they are just not propagated), it puts

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ain point that I disagree with (aside of the security discussion, which is complicated and by now covered well). A solution for Debian should serve all people, those who use apt, those who use dpkg and downloaded files, those who use other methods (dselect etc). Thanks, Marcus

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 02:30:12PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > This is a seperate problem. I agree that this should not be the case, but it > > has no place in this discussion. If individual developer keys are > >

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
y a passphrase, because the phrase itself had to be stored and readable by dinstall. > Securing the way Debian distributes its software is a *long* way from > making it impossible for an attacker to compromise huge numbers of > Debian boxen. And is of course an orthogonal issue. Thanks, Marcus PS: I would like to meet this Debian person, he must be terrible shizophrene. ;)

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ing 300 further, even useless, binaries wouldn't distract me in any way. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
heading this direction. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-boch

Re: Office Suite for Debian Linux

2000-08-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
be happy to not stand in your way if you want to contribute to our efforts. Thank you, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Broken bootable SPARC CD#1, and why this happened

2000-08-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ngs to work when we >make them available. Uh, it is entirely their fault if they don't test what they ship prior to shipping. Debian is not making guarantees about the usuability of the stuff we distribute. This said, I think you have good ideas how to improve the process. Thanks, Marcus

mkfs in /sbin, mkisofs in /usr/bin (was: Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
> user that they can handle putting /sbin in their path). There is some inconsistency here. ulysses:~# which mkisofs /usr/bin/mkisofs ulysses:~# which mke2fs /sbin/mke2fs And note that one can burn any filesystem on a CD (if you are allowed to access the CD writer). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhu

Re: mkfs in /sbin, mkisofs in /usr/bin (was: Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:15:17PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > There is some inconsistency here. > > > > ulysses:~# which mkisofs > > /usr/bin/mkisofs > > ulysses:~# which mke2fs > > /sbin/mke2fs >

Re: Qt2.2 released under the GPL

2000-09-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 08:08:33PM +0200, happ wrote: > > enough said > > http://www.trolltech.com > > now we can move the ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde potato kde2 contrib > back home The sources have to be recompiled at least with the new Qt. > WE WON ! Everyon

Re: How do I build a package that requires the _source_ of another?

2000-09-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ell. This is really unpleasant. Please, please consider all alternatives. For example, fixing the program so that it doesn't require the other source. > I don't want > to replicate the source dirs becase they take many megabytes. It's still better than any other kludge, IMHO. Thanks,

Re: ITP: Partition Image

2000-09-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
n formats.. It says on the homepage: Partition Image only copy used data of the partition. Then, all free blocks are not written in the image file, in order to be faster, and to make small image files. (the dd command copy all the partition, even unused datas). *sigh* Marcus

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
something. It tells a lot about the people making the distributions at least. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:05:27AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 04:25:43AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 03:28:46AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > > "tar -xIvvf file.tar.bz2" has been in use under linux for over

Re: where is #define __linux__

2001-01-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
se, this depends on the thing you want to implement, but choosing the right check makes the software more portable. To see a full list of compiler defined symbols, use gcc -dM -E - < /dev/null Thanks, Marcus

Using reportbug with Gnus

2003-07-22 Thread Marcus Frings
t is not a bug and I am just too stupid to know how to deal with it please hit my dumb ass and tell me what I am doing wrong. Regards, Marcus -- "Do we take prisoners?" - "No. Kill all they send... And they will stop coming!"

Re: APT- Get Error - Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2003-07-23 Thread Marcus Frings
::Cache-Limit 16777216; Does it fix your problem then? By the way, I believe this bug was fixed in later versions of apt. If you are using woody you might have a look at a fixed backport at <http://www.apt-get.org/>. Regards, Marcus -- "Ich hab BIND Code gelesen. Und es war schrecklich. Ic

Re: Using reportbug with Gnus

2003-07-23 Thread Marcus Frings
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron M. Ucko) wrote: > Marcus Frings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> | Symbol's function definition is void: gnus-agent-possibly-save-gcc > Confirmed; FWIW, I have reportbug 2.20, emacs21 21.3-1, and gnus 5.10.2-3. Almost the same here, except for the

Bug#546370: general: KDE provokes Xorg to take too much CPU and RAM

2009-09-14 Thread Marcus Better
"normal" 4% to several times that (permently), according to the KDE system activity monitor. I don't know if this is due to KDE or something else. This is a Thinkpad T61 laptop, Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB memory. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU

ITP: libjs-extjs -- a cross-browser JavaScript library

2009-10-07 Thread Marcus Better
ribute all your source code to the open source community and you must give them the right to share it with everyone too." Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http:/

Re: Bug#550031: ITP: libjs-extjs -- a cross-browser JavaScript library

2009-10-07 Thread Marcus Better
tached". It seems (to me) that their interpretation is that users who get Ext under the GPL will *not* be able to redistribute it freely, likewise under the GPL. (In fact that would circumvent their whole "dual-licensing" policy.) Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Vers

Re: Bug#550031: ITP: libjs-extjs -- a cross-browser JavaScript library

2009-10-07 Thread Marcus Better
ng from LGPL to GPL [2] * The current GPL-with-conditions license. In particular see the comments by Ext JS founder Jack Slocum [1], who was clearly opposed to redistribution under LGPL (this was before the switch to GPL). See also the Wikipedia talk page [3]. Cheers, Marcus [1] http://mjg59.livejou

Re: defaulting to net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 for squeeze

2009-12-09 Thread Marcus Better
y surprised this breakage was known in advance [2] but no bugs were filed (TTBOMK) before making this change. Hoping it can be fixed quickly. Cheers, Marcus [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560056 [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/10/msg00573.html -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: Bug#420165: ITP: commons-configuration -- Java based library providing a generic configuration interface

2007-04-22 Thread Marcus Better
Torsten Werner wrote: > I call the binary package > libcommons-configuration-java but not the source package. This is one of the two conventions used by the Java packaging team (and IMHO the best option), cf. commons-logging and commons-daemon packages. The other common option is to name both sour

RFA: tikiwiki -- groupware and content management system

2007-04-24 Thread Marcus Better
due to the unresolved licensing issue. Marcus [1] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/t/tikiwiki/tikiwiki_1.9.7+dfsg-1/changelog [2] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-tikiwiki/ [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377943 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: krb5 transition: upgrading to krb5 1.6.1

2007-04-29 Thread Marcus Better
this at all?) Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building packages twice in a row

2007-05-16 Thread Marcus Better
back in the clean target. It's cumbersome but it works. Sometimes it's easier to convince the tools to put output in some other place and not stomp over the upstream generated files. Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-05-16 Thread Marcus Better
gt; I my dreams you can tag individual commits and the VCS lets you extract > separate patches, Have you looked at stgit? Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-05-16 Thread Marcus Better
Frank Küster wrote: >> "The VCS can handle the changesets. Putting patches under VCS is silly!" > I don't agree. With patches in debian/patches, you can give names to > those files. With a VCS you can also name branches, or changesets (stgit). Marcus -- To U

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

2007-05-16 Thread Marcus Better
am should use the same tools anyway. For external people, such as when sending patches upstream, it is trivial to extract patches. It wouldn't be difficult to hack up a web frontend that presents the patches in a nice way. Don't know if it exist already. Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRI

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

2007-05-16 Thread Marcus Better
in most cases. Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Group maintainance howto and role of uploaders

2007-05-18 Thread Marcus Better
Andreas Tille wrote: > Another question would be whether it would be reasonable if > Uploaders should be included in BTS mail in any case I think so, see #397761. Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Group maintainance howto and role of uploaders

2007-05-18 Thread Marcus Better
hat with messages that are cross-posted etc... (Some people read mailing lists through Gmane or some other method, so they don't even need to receive list mail directly.) Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: pysycache-- Educational game to teach children to move the mouse

2007-06-11 Thread Marcus Better
adults instead. :-) Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#428877: ITP: callweaver -- Community-driven open source PBX software

2007-06-14 Thread Marcus Better
oice over IP telephony, fax, It would be helpful to know how it differs from Asterisk, since Asterisk too supports many of the features you list. Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed new release goal: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-06-24 Thread Marcus Better
packages, please file bug reports. That should really be fixed. Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#494928: ITP: sflphone -- SIP and IAX2 compatible VoIP phone

2008-08-13 Thread Marcus Better
the time in half of the scenarios. (Ekiga, Twinkle, WengoPhone, kphone, linphone...), so adding another one is probably only useful if it is significantly better. Cheers, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#446656: ITP: libjbosscache1-java -- cache frequently accessed Java objects

2007-10-15 Thread Marcus Better
Torsten Werner wrote: > * Package name: libjbosscache1-java Are you aware of #386108 and the rest of the JBoss effort? Regards, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FOP: Objects for Formatting Objects ?

2010-01-27 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: >> >> > Perhaps that is because of technical, not legal, issues? More likely because Donald Knuth does not want the behaviour of TeX to change. Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.

Re: Bug#575953: ITP: gmock -- Google's framework for writing and using C++ mock classes

2010-04-03 Thread Marcus Better
Fredrik Hallenberg wrote: > * Package name: gmock > Description : Google's framework for writing and using C++ mock > classes This is a bad choice of package name, since gmock is also the name of a Groovy-based mocking framework: http://code.google.com/p/gmock/ C

Bug#579121: RFP: guice -- lightweight dependency injection framework for Java

2010-04-25 Thread Marcus Better
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: guice Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Google, Inc. * URL or Web page : http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/ * License : Apache License 2.0 Description : lightweight dependency injection framework for Java Needed as d

Bug#581488: general: lower vm.swappiness by default for desktop installations

2010-05-12 Thread Marcus Better
Package: general Severity: wishlist I have been plagued by long delays with an unresponsive laptop, waiting for it to swap in Eclipse for several minutes at a time, several times per day. This is a Thinkpad T61 with 4 GB of RAM, squeeze/sid, X.org, KDE and Eclipse. (4 GB ought to be enough for eve

Re: cryptdisks(-early) initscripts, dependencies and loops

2010-06-04 Thread Marcus Better
in turn. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwItRYACgkQXjXn6TzcAQnjoACbBXIU2d8ZJ/VeXj/5p+M1t8Uy hLIAnRzCMC587mrKfRvmLwwepe6hL6zq =P0c4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: cryptdisks(-early) initscripts, dependencies and loops

2010-06-04 Thread Marcus Better
and must now run lvm. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwI+t0ACgkQXjXn6TzcAQlwZgCgvVmZzEx6+wRUdv3WR4b3nO7X MYEAoKzkmLhF7Hti5g6fOPHWi/9N2ioc =iTKE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.d

Re: all twitter client should support OAuth before they will drop Basic Auth in August

2010-06-29 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sune Vuorela wrote: > plasma-widgets-addons (microblog widget) OAuth support added upstream: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242048 Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Li

Re: Chrony rtc broken?

2003-12-13 Thread Marcus Frings
ED]:~]$ dpkg -l chrony | grep ^ii | ii chrony 1.20-1.mf1 | | [17:37]iridium:/home/marcus# grep rtc /etc/chrony/chrony.conf | rtcfile /var/lib/chrony/chrony.rtc | log tracking measurements statistics rtc | rtconutc | | [17:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ chronyc rtcdata | RTC ref

Re: RFD: Architecture field being retarded? [was: How to specify architectures *not* to be built?]

2002-08-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ing system. However, runtime configuration is not part of the current packaging system, nor did I consider it in my proposal. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [

Re: Are libtool .la files in non-dev library packages bugs?

2002-08-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
t as such, and leave it to the maintainer and upstream developers to fix it if in doubt. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-09-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 08:19:54AM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > little endian hex dump > May be interesting. Should be an option to "od", really. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann

Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?

2001-04-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
still don't understand why the policy (version 3.5.3.0) > doesn't simply say "must" rather then "may". Some packages don't build depend on any beside the build essentials. You certainly need to make provision for them, so a simple s/may/must/ won't work.

Re: Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?

2001-05-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
rs to install packages. Basically, users packages would be mirrored over the root filesystem with shadowfs, and a sub Hurd booted. This way every user can have the filesystem look like he/she wants. Thanks, Marcus PS: Probably move this to debian-hurd if you have further questions. -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: Finishing the FHS transition

2001-05-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
s (bug-hurd@gnu.org) gnumach > GNU Hurd Maintainers (bug-hurd@gnu.org) hurd > GNU Hurd Maintainers (bug-hurd@gnu.org) mig > Marcus Brinkmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) inetutils Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http:

Re: Finishing the FHS transition

2001-05-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
h your package complies. The current version number is 3.5.4.0. > > This information may be used to file bug reports automatically if your > package becomes too much out of date. > > <-- snip --> Ok, please ignore my other mail. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Eg

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

2001-05-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
n easily implement this minimal interface or convert to/from it. The LSB doesn't need the full power of a complex packaging system, and it is unlikely they would get it right without really using it. Marcus

Re: A script to see how much a package is depended upon.

2001-09-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Debian wise. One problem is that all features are enabled and as such become mandatory. Removing loops is easy. Just keep a list of all nodes visited, and don't follow any twice. Thanks, Marcus

Re: xplanet can use ssystem image file!

2001-09-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:25:02PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > (no there aren't any Debian developpers on Mars (yet ?).) One problem is that the maximum retransmission timeout in TCP isn't large enough for a packet to the Mars... ;) Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.

Re: [Q]: GNU inetutils and debian inetutils not in sync??

2001-09-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
s GPL'ed (just like sysklogd is GPL'ed, although it is forked from the BSD code), but that is not the motivation. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL

Re: [Q]: GNU inetutils and debian inetutils not in sync??

2001-09-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
snapshot, but work was interrupted. He might pick it up later. Note that currently it is only used on the Hurd (a port [of the packaging stuff] to Debian GNU/Linux is upcoming, and the main reason for the delay). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [

Re: Flamewars & Why pedantic spelling is good.

2001-12-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
he dominant spelling, esp in technical documentation. Debian can decide to apply this spelling in all content it produces.[2] Why you try to argue it on the level of correctness rather than policy I don't understand. Maybe because you know that the majority is happy with using zone file every

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
n't need to be a complete playable game) would go a long way to bring your argument forward. But without any sign of such data, or people who actually say "we are working on it" rather than "somebody else might work on it", it's pretty pointless to include quake2 in D

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
o promote free > stuff. Screw trying to promote people to create free datafiles for a > free game engine. Let's promote when we have something to promote. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: why does xlibs-pic exist?

2001-12-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ky, > etc. etc. Robinsonitis seems to be a contagious disease... Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:31:43PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: > >>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marcus> Let's promote when we have something to promote. > > Does this count as something to promote? >

Re: [Evms-devel] EVMS: shared libraries with unversioned sonames

2002-01-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
k (on GNU/Hurd, and other systems). I have never understood why some people want to use ldconfig -n in package builds. ldconfig is a tool that enhances the systems run time loader on GNU/Linux, not the compilers linker. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.d

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
see what people are complaining about. But I thought that this difference is worth noting and might explain some of the heat here. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EM

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

2002-04-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
use this was the fastest way to achieve the goal of an entirely free operating system. This goal has by now been achieved. You will not find RMS using vmware for pure convenience. Thanks, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2002-04-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:09:58AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:43:22AM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 03:13:57PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > > > > In such cases I sometimes decide to run the non-free tool

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

2002-04-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 06:33:34PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:43:22AM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > If there are only proprietary programs that do a specific job, and it > > is desired to have a free program for this job, then we are forced

Re: Recommending non-free software

2002-04-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
to be used on a free software system at all, other people will pick it up and fork development. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: Recommending non-free software

2002-04-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 05:07:03PM +0200, Stefan Schwandter wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Simply because gtk+ support is newer and still not finished. > > Then the solution is to improve it. > I am still hoping that gtk support will improve, but at the moment, i

Re: RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ions. Well, at least it is packaged and easy to setup (IMO). Thanks, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
It's available at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/turtle I didn't make a file release since I moved from SourceForge to Savannah, so you have to take it from CVS, but the packaging scripts are there and it should build cleanly. > Is it hurd-i386 only ? No, it is perl only :) Thanks, Marcus

Bug#514757: ITP: ivy -- dependency manager

2009-02-10 Thread Marcus Better
Package: wnpp Owner: Marcus Better Severity: wishlist * Package name: ivy Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Xavier Hanin Maarten Coene, Nicolas Lalevee, Gilles Scokart * URL or Web page : http://ant.apache.org * License : Apache License v2.0 Description : agile

Bug#516488: RFH: kernel-patch-exec-shield -- protection against stack smashing and other attacks

2009-02-21 Thread Marcus Better
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This kernel patch provides exec-shield, a security feature for the Linux kernel on i386 (it is not relevant for x86_64). The patch is present in Fedora kernels, which is also the upstream maintainer. Since I hardly use i386 machines anymore, I need help with any of

Re: Bug#519003: ITP: xca -- x509 Certification Authority management tool based on QT4

2009-03-09 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tino Keitel wrote: > * Package name: xca > Description : x509 Certification Authority management tool based on > QT4 Is there anything significant that distinguishes this from TinyCA? Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP

Re: Bug#519118: ITP: libcommons-java-java -- common java library used to support other developments

2009-03-10 Thread Marcus Better
ackage names usually refer to Apache Commons. I think it could be confusing to use the same naming convention for other packages unrelated to Apache. How about "onemind-commons-foo" for the source package and "libonemind-commons-foo-java" for the binary? Cheers, Marcus -

Re: Bug#522914: ITP: agda -- a dependently typed functional programming language and proof assistant

2009-04-17 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Iain Lane wrote: > Swedish logician Per Martin-Lf. That's Per Martin-Löf. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknoiiwACgkQXjXn6TzcAQkTtwCaAl4DbHwHVUHwqcXC

Re: Bug#528061: ITP: obexd -- OBEX client and server

2009-05-13 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hendrik Sattler wrote: > And upcoming kdebluetooth4 uses solid BTW, is anyone working on that? (The RFP is #491580.) Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - h

biber (from TeXLive 2011) crashes on Debian testing/unstable

2012-04-28 Thread Marcus Frings
local installations of TeXLive 2011 (both Debian and TeXLive are updated daily). Since a few days biber (which is part of TeXLive and replaces the old bibtex) crashes on all machines with a segmentation fault: [12:25][marcus@black-ice:~]$ biber -version Segmentation fault Apr 28 12:25:52 black-ice k

Re: biber (from TeXLive 2011) crashes on Debian testing/unstable

2012-04-28 Thread Marcus Frings
* Marcus Frings wrote: > I'm running Debian unstable (32 bit) on various machines with local > installations of TeXLive 2011 (both Debian and TeXLive are updated > daily). Since a few days biber (which is part of TeXLive and replaces > the old bibtex) crashes on all machines wi

Re: biber (from TeXLive 2011) crashes on Debian testing/unstable

2012-04-28 Thread Marcus Frings
27;ll forward your answer to the author of biber and hope that it can be fixed soon. Best regards, Marcus -- "As the water flows over the bridge, As we walk on the floodland, As we walk on the water, we forget." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#658718: ITP: phpvirtualbox-4.0 -- An open source, AJAX implementation of the VirtualBox user interface written in PHP.

2012-02-05 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marcus Osdoba I have started work on packaging phpvirtalbox (V4.0) and intend to upload it through a sponsor. The package is (not only) useful in server environments and I use it on my own on a headless server. Version 4.0 is not api compatible with 4.1

Bug#658720: ITP: phpvirtualbox-4.1 -- An open source, AJAX implementation of the VirtualBox user interface written in PHP.

2012-02-05 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marcus Osdoba I have started work on packaging phpvirtualbox (V4.1) and intend to upload it through a sponsor. The package is (not only) useful in server environments and I use it on my own on a headless server. Version 4.1 is not api compatible with 4.0

Re: Bug#658718: ITP: phpvirtualbox-4.0 -- An open source, AJAX implementation of the VirtualBox user interface written in PHP.

2012-02-05 Thread Marcus Osdoba
able to track every CVE issue concerning php5. I've uploaded the packages on mentors already, please let me know, if I could save my breath for sending a RFS-mail. Thanks and kind regards, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-15 Thread Marcus Rohrmoser
Dear Nikolaus, I have to disagree. > I'm not sure if that's really as serious as you make it sound. Let me > ask you this: > > 1. Were you surprised by this? Yes. > I was certainly not, this is about what I >would have guessed. Why? > If a program does what I expect it to do, I'm not >

Documentation/License freeness (what RMS says about it) [rms@santafe.edu: Re: GPL itself non-free]

1998-06-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
benefit of the free software community. It is a catalog of the minimum rights we need to improve software even without the authors agreement. We have no real benefit of dfsg-free licenses. Comments? Marcus - Forwarded message from Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Return-path: &

Re: Intent to pakage COAS

1998-06-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 02:50:56AM +0100, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > Hi, > I have finally managed to compile this so I am going to package it for debian > unless someone speaks up. Thank you for doing this, Luis! Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."

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