Bug#904019: ITP: libxcrypt -- Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others

2018-07-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 02:35:59AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: I think you can do something like: [...] # postinst time: use link & rename to replace working version atomically. It's technically possible, but AFAICT a policy violation. Mike Stone

Bug#904019: ITP: libxcrypt -- Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others

2018-07-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 02:18:51AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jul 18, Marco d'Itri wrote: Some day it may replace crypt(3), currently provided by glibc: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Replace_glibc_libcrypt_with_libxcrypt I tried creating a package which would divert libc's libcrypt

Bug#904019: ITP: libxcrypt -- Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others

2018-07-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:47:02AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jul 20, Philipp Kern wrote: I think it's odd to say "here, I'm packaging up a replacement for your library, but I'm not going to coordinate with you" when we are preparing a (somewhat) coherent distribution, so I don't think that

Bug#903815: ITP: pw -- A simple command-line password manager

2018-07-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 03:14:20PM +0200, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: It writes to `/dev/shm` which is not disk. All else that's been said aside, this idea is also dangerously incorrect in a typical configuration: the tmpfs backend will write to swap under memory pressure. (This is also true of the

Bug#754513: RFP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2017-10-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 10:26:06PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:21:10PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:05:30AM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > despite fears of OpenBSD only caring about themselves, I have found that > it is easier to c

Bug#754513: RFP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2017-10-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:05:30AM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: despite fears of OpenBSD only caring about themselves, I have found that it is easier to compile LibreSSL for various platforms (even non-POSIX ones) than OpenSSL. And that APIs might be broken more easily by LibreSSL is ridiculous, as

Bug#754513: RFP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2017-10-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 05:29:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Out of all of these, I think the option that I think has the fewest downsides overall is to convince people to package LibreSSL, but I'm not myself in a position to contribute to that effort. Does anyone have thoughts or other options

Bug#543688: ITP: rainbow -- a Bitfrost isolation shell

2009-08-26 Thread Michael Stone
Thanks, Luke! On 8/26/09, Luke Faraone wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Luke Faraone > > * Package name: rainbow > Version : 0.8.4 > Upstream Author : Michael Stone > * URL : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rainbow > * Lic

Bug#538232: Already packaged as source 'lua-posix'?

2009-08-23 Thread Michael Stone
I believe that this library is already available as liblua5.1-posix1 liblua5.1-posix-dev from source lua-posix. Can you confirm or deny this belief? Regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Bug#266022: ITP: openntpd

2004-10-23 Thread Michael Stone
If this is packaged the description should make clear that the program implements only a subset of the NTP protocol at this time. Mike Stone

Bug#179530: ITP: libapache-mod-throttle -- Bandwidth & Request Throttling

2003-02-02 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:03:19AM +0100, Noel Koethe wrote: * Package name: libapache-mod-throttle How does this differ from the mod_throttle already packaged with apache? Mike Stone

Bug#127974: O: epan -- offline ethernet protocol analyzer

2002-09-17 Thread Michael Stone
I propose that we remove this package. There's no source code, upstream has disappeared, and ethereal is a free package that provides pretty much the same functionality but better (or at least that's my impression). Any comments? kill it. Mike Stone

Bug#150431: ITP: posh -- minimalist command interpreter

2002-06-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 06:21:49AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: >posh is a stripped-down version of pdksh Why? What on earth is there to strip out of pdksh? -- Mike Stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#148218: ITP: ifstat -- tool to report network interfaces bandwith just like vmstat/iostat

2002-05-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 06:19:05PM +0200, Igor Genibel wrote: > ifstat is a tool to report network interfaces bandwith just like > vmstat/iostat do for other system counters. ifstat gathers these > statistics from the kernel internal counters, which is highly operating > system dep

Bug#140332: ITP: pureftpd -- PureFTPd - A fast, standard compliant, production quality FTP server.

2002-03-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:12:16PM +0100, you wrote: > Pure-FTPd is a fast, production-quality, standards-conformant FTP > server based upon Troll-FTPd. Unlike other popular FTP servers, it has > no known security flaws, is trivial to set up and is especially > designed for modern Linux kernels

Bug#92493: O: csh

2001-04-01 Thread Michael Stone
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I originally adopted this package because I didn't want to see it lost. Don't make the same mistake--please pick it up *only* if you plan to put a lot of time into it. There are some fairly major problems with the source as it exists, and the package should probably