Re: Status of the shadow package

2004-06-05 Thread kcr
in a > day or two, I'll ask him in person to read this. > > --Sam Christian: please NMU away. I will look into options for making the repository more available to you (and I should take a second look at alioth.) kcr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Status of the shadow package

2004-06-04 Thread kcr
ord to make it to debconf4. Really, I think the right approach is to "throw away" the shadow codebase and replace it with something that isn't such a tangles mess of #ifdefs. Thorsten Kukuk at/with/and/? Suse seems to have made a good start at fixing the infrastructure for this stuff; see http://www.thkukuk.de/pam/ kcr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: default group issue

2004-03-30 Thread kcr
ng, this just puts the > confusion earlier in the install and setup process. > > This needs a better list of initial groups, that it doesn't ask the user > about, (maybe it mentions them), and the obvious, documented way of > adding > new users needs a flag for "consol

Re: Shadow package NMU in preparation for l10n issues

2004-03-03 Thread kcr
cularly grumpy at the moment, but I think myself and Sam Hartman acting as picky gatekeepers to the cvs repository this lives in has more positive results than not. You may have just noticed that if you submit a patch that doesn't leave me shaking my head for some picky, pedantic reason I

Re: Bug#233894: Default groups for first user [was: Shadow package NMU in preparation for l10n issues]

2004-03-03 Thread kcr
itial" users to groups to be bugs until reeducated by the technical committee or some other solution is found. kcr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

2001-05-12 Thread kcr
ure for baseline see above. > wenglish I think it is only usefull with dict No, it has nothing to do with dict. I believe this is the package that provides /usr/share/dict/words, which has been around on UNIX systems [as /usr/dict/words] since before many developers we