Re: Bug#560238: net.ipv6.bindv6only configuration breaks xdmcp

2009-12-27 Thread Marco d';Itri
# kdm clone 560238 -1 severity -1 critical block 560238 by -1 # gdm severity 562126 critical block 560238 by 562126 thanks On Dec 10, Paul Seelig wrote: > > XDMCP is a protocol, which package is actually broken and how? > It was not possible anymore to connect to a remote system via xdmcp both >

Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM

2009-05-31 Thread Marco d';Itri
On May 31, John Hasler wrote: > Please don't call it DRM. It's just advisory locking. IMHO not enabling > it or omitting it entirely has no legal implications. It clearly has no legal implication (in jurisdictions having such a clause, like the USA) because it is not an *effective* technologica

Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM

2009-05-31 Thread Marco d';Itri
On May 31, Sune Vuorela wrote: > So. you want Okular to by default help you with violating conditions of use > of > the document you downloaded? Correct, this is what I would like it to do (but I use evince instead, which by default does not bother users with this sillyness). Users can still le

Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM

2009-05-30 Thread Marco d';Itri
On May 31, Pino Toscano wrote: > This means the author of the PDF set that users shouldn't (in their will) > copy > the text from their PDF. > You can disable the usage of document permissions by disabling the related > option from the preferences. It's not clear to me why this should not be

Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM

2009-05-30 Thread Marco d';Itri
On May 31, John Goerzen wrote: > So what I want to know is: why are people putting code into Debian > that limits our freedom? Why are people putting such code into KDE? > > And can we please patch it to stop that? Indeed, the program is clearly broken by design and needs to be fixed. -- ciao

Re: udev rules ???_prefixes

2008-07-11 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jul 11, Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this policy/ best practice documented? The note about using symlinks has been removed from README.Debian and now the new prefixes are listed there. But you could as well say "Md said so"... > Should bugs be filed against packages which still

Bug#480972: vulnerable to symlink attacks

2008-05-13 Thread Marco d';Itri
Please find out which part of KDE embeds this code... - Forwarded message from Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Subject: Bug#480972: vulnerable to symlink attacks Reply-To: Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Marco d'Itri <[EM

Bug#436503: Please remove /etc/hotplug/usb/

2007-08-07 Thread Marco d';Itri
Package: kcontrol Severity: normal Please stop suggesting the hotplug package which has been removed from the archive and stop shipping /etc/hotplug/usb/ -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

stupid dependencies on update-inetd

2007-07-28 Thread Marco d';Itri
I don't know exactly how it happened, but a large number of maintainers apparently ignored the discussions on this list and added to their packages a dependency on update-inetd. This is *TOTALLY WRONG* because the /usr/sbin/update-inetd interface is guaranteed to be provided by whatever implements

Bug#398507: Bug#321642: kdebase-kio-plugins: Tries to eject usb-stick

2006-11-14 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Nov 14, Modestas Vainius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somebody should NMU udev for this bug if maintainer does not intend to fix > the > problem anytime soon. The bug will be fixed in a couple of days, I am obviously not MIA so there is no reason to request hostile NMUs. -- ciao, Marco si

Re: Bug#273890: udev doesn't create all nodes necessary for floppy-drives

2004-09-30 Thread Marco d';Itri
reassign 273890 kfloppy retitle 273890 kfloppy should use FDSETPRM instead of /dev/fd?[dhu]* thanks On Sep 29, Roman Kreisel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have found the interface, it's documented in /usr/share/doc/fdutils/Fdutils.html. I also see in the superformat man page that only /dev/fd0 is

Bug#126406: KPPP fixes, derived from #126406

2004-05-14 Thread Marco d';Itri
kppp should probably write a complete peers file with everything needed to call the peer. It should also use the passwordfd pluging instead of messing with {pap,chap}-secrets. -- ciao, | Marco | [6281 prochPlS76pE2]