Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 15 May 2003 09:52:06 -0400, Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Um, when we all agreed to be Debian Developers, we agreed to the > following from the social contract: > * Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software > We will be guided by the needs of our users and the >

Re: Do not touch l10n files

2003-05-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 15 May 2003 11:08:32 +0200, Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 07:17:50PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino > Peña wrote: [...] >> >As a package developer I hold veto powers over anything >> > shipped in my package, since it is my signature that goes wit

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 16 May 2003 10:40:10 +1000, Anthony Towns said: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:06:47AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: >> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:19:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >> > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:59:49PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: >> >> Do you honestly think would be a

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 16 May 2003 01:37:14 +0200, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:22:28PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> has no official support from Debian security team qualifies as not >> for public consumption in my eyes, but fo course there are braver >> souls than

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:28:48PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:40:10AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:06:47AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > There's that "we" again. Why not unstable, too? > > I'd have no problem with that. > You don'

Bug#193499: ITP: python-sqlobject -- An object-relational mapper for Python

2003-05-15 Thread Keisuke URAGO
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-05-16 Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-sqlobject Version : 0.3-1 Upstream Author : Ian Bickin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sqlobject.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL Description : An object-relation

Re: Questions regarding utf-8

2003-05-15 Thread era eriksson
On Fri, 09 May 2003 02:31:43 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Bob Hilliard wrote: > > 1. How can I determine what character encoding is used in a > > document without manually scanning the entire file? First off, for the examples you mentioned (foldoc and the jargon file) the iso-8859-

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 03:57:58PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:14:53AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > >I'm sorry, I am on a public terminal, and can't quite remember where I > >read it - But testing should always be close to a releasable state. > That assumption is both fa

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:40:10AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:06:47AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > There's that "we" again. Why not unstable, too? > > I'd have no problem with that. You don't seem to have any problem suggesting that other people do more work.

Re: "Bug marked as done" messages to-be-MIMEified?

2003-05-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Assuming the mail client pays attention, of course. > > I guess using MIME structures like that more would make more people complain > to devlopers of MUAs that don't handle this properly... > > I don't know many MUAs, but perh

Re: ITP: latex209 -- macro files of LaTeX 2.09 25-mar-1992 version

2003-05-15 Thread TSUCHIYA Masatoshi
>> On Thu, 15 May 2003 10:08:37 -0800 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fielder George Dowding) said as follows: >I use LaTeX2e and friends (almost daily). I know that LaTeX-2.09 is obsolete, however I need it to process ancient TeX sources without modification. >Perhaps I could lend a hand here if you woul

Bug#193495: ITP: libtest-manifest-perl -- Perl modules for interacting with a test manifest file

2003-05-15 Thread Ardo van Rangelrooij
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-05-15 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libtest-manifest-perl Version : 0.91 Upstream Author : Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/ * License : GPL, Artistic Description : Per

Re: Do not touch l10n files (was Re: DDTP issue)

2003-05-15 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Tue, 13 May 2003 06:57:45 +0200 (CEST), Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > Now Apache maintainers are telling us that they chose another layout > > and we are bound to it. > > Yes because the official maintainer is responsable for the description of > a package. Including

应聘俄语兼职翻译

2003-05-15 Thread ii3388 ii3388
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Re: conflicts-based solution (was Re: security in testing)

2003-05-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:40:25AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > An upload to testing-proposed-updates is not the same as an upload to > testing-security, AFAIK (different upload queue, different machinery). > But it was my understanding that both were in working order, they just > aren't used --

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:06:47AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:19:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:59:49PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > >> Do you honestly think would be a good idea to use testing-security this way > >> on a continual b

Re: Questions regarding utf-8

2003-05-15 Thread John Darrington
I have a neural net program ( http://www.nongnu.org/libann/doc/libann_6.html#SEC26 ) which does something similar: Given a text file, it will attempt to guess the natural language in which it was written. I'm sure it would be fairly simple to modify it to guess the charset. If you point me to a

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:22:28PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > has no official support from Debian security team qualifies as not > for public consumption in my eyes, but fo course there are braver > souls than I out there. So you are saying we should tell people to live with the disease,

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 07:07:16AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: But we don't advertize this, so it is natural that people make the mistake and use testing instead of unstable. People say this all the time. Then other people go around telling everyone to run testing. I'm not sure how to fix misplaced a

Packages up for adoption: ap-utils, igal, tcpflow

2003-05-15 Thread Robert McQueen
Just a brief note to draw people's attention to the following RFAs I filed a few days ago: #193116 ap-utils -- Access Point SNMP Utils for Linux #193117 igal -- online image gallery generator #193118 tcpflow -- TCP flow recorder Please see the bugs for more information about the status of each

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 06:53:51PM +0200, mcINEK wrote: > W li?cie z czw, 15-05-2003, godz. 17:06, Wouter Verhelst pisze: > > It is, IMHO. > > IMHO not, because doesn't provide things I mentioned before. > > > Who says it doesn't? > > Like above. You can just add field types, if required. It w

Re: Bug#192416: ITP: rsh-redone -- Reimplementation of remote shell tools.

2003-05-15 Thread Mario Lang
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 01:24:58PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: >> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 01:56:18PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> >> > > Rsh-redone is a reimplementation of the remote shell clients and >> > > servers. It is written from the ground

Re: ABI change in libsensors1 (from lm-sensors)

2003-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:32:02PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 01:45:30PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > >> (a) Repackaging lm-sensors 2.6.5, which would just have libsensors1 > >> 1:2.6.5-1, which in turn would Conflict: w

Re: Answers to "Why is package X not in testing yet?"

2003-05-15 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:51:15AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:37:45AM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote: > > Updating fam makes 177 packages uninstallable on alpha: amor, ark, > > bibletime, dcoppython, eyesapplet, fifteenapplet, galeon-nautilus, ... > I can't figure out why this

Re: Kernel 2.5.69 problem

2003-05-15 Thread Victor Torrico
Installed module-init-tools and this took care of the situation. Thanks to the many who suggested this course of action. Victor

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: > Why ? is the migration from testing-proposed-update to testing follow > the same rule as the unstable to testing migration, nothing is lost. Well, it if's exactly the same rule, then t-p-u would be the same as unstable, thus we wouldn't need it in the first place. :-/ -

Re: "Bug marked as done" messages to-be-MIMEified?

2003-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:06:21PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Steve Langasek writes: > > I dunno, I've always found use of Outlook to be a fairly good predictor > > of bug-reporting cluelessness (use of reportbug being another :). > > What's your objection to reportbug? None whatsoever -- I use

Re: fwctl and ipchains-perl - any takers?

2003-05-15 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:57:27PM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > No one seems to have responded, or? yes, i will file a bug report to remove the package from unstable/testing. esecially since no upstream response was received. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [E

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:42:26AM -0700, Keegan Quinn wrote: > On Thursday 15 May 2003 08:31 am, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > Hi, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > In that case, I invite any maintainer with a security fix for their > > > package in 'testing' to upload it to testing for > > > testing-prop

Re: Font uglifacation after apt-get upgrade

2003-05-15 Thread Federico Sevilla III
On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 11:31:56AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > just back from vacation I did a "apt-get upgrade" to testing where the > following packages were update (amongst others but these might be > guilty) I just did a dist-upgrade to Sid on my box here at home, which means I have the same

Re: Do not touch l10n files

2003-05-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:40:57PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:25:56PM +0100, Thom May wrote: > > * Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > > It has already been told more than once: in French, an itemized list is > > > preferred over a comma separated list when i

Re: Kernel 2.5.69 problem

2003-05-15 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:08:02PM -0400, Victor Torrico wrote: > I compiled and ran the debian kernel-source-2.5.69 package. It boots OK, > however, none of he modutil functions work. I keep getting the following > error message: "QM_MODULES: Function not implemented" whenever I try things >

Re: Answers to "Why is package X not in testing yet?"

2003-05-15 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Thursday 15 May 2003 09:51 am, Joe Buck wrote: > Joe Buck wrote: > > > However, the output is redundant in many cases. > > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:37:45AM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote: > > Fixed now. > > Terrific! I'm impressed at your bug-fixing speed; there's a quick "fixed > now" to almost

Re: Kernel 2.5.69 problem

2003-05-15 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Victor posts : >> keep getting the following error message: "QM_MODULES: Function not >> implemented" whenever I try things such as insmod, lsmod, or >> depmod. Please do an `apt-get install module-init-tools' and then try booting into the new 2.5.69 kernel. Best... -- ragOO, VU2RGU :

Re: Kernel 2.5.69 problem

2003-05-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:08:02PM -0400, Victor Torrico wrote: > I compiled and ran the debian kernel-source-2.5.69 package. It boots OK, > however, none of he modutil functions work. I keep getting the following > error message: "QM_MODULES: Function not implemented" whenever I try things

Re: "Bug marked as done" messages to-be-MIMEified?

2003-05-15 Thread John Hasler
Steve Langasek writes: > I dunno, I've always found use of Outlook to be a fairly good predictor > of bug-reporting cluelessness (use of reportbug being another :). What's your objection to reportbug? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Kernel 2.5.69 problem

2003-05-15 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:08:02PM -0400, Victor Torrico wrote: > > I compiled and ran the debian kernel-source-2.5.69 package. It boots OK, > however, none of he modutil functions work. I keep getting the following > error message: "QM_MODULES: Function not implemented" wheneve

Re: Kernel 2.5.69 problem

2003-05-15 Thread Pierre Machard
Hi, On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:08:02PM -0400, Victor Torrico wrote: > > I compiled and ran the debian kernel-source-2.5.69 package. It boots OK, > however, none of he modutil functions work. I keep getting the following > error message: "QM_MODULES: Function not implemented" whenever I try t

key signing

2003-05-15 Thread Deedra Waters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm in the process of applying to become a debian developer, and am having a great deal of trouble getting my gpg key signed. I've checked the keysigning coordination page, registered my request for keysigning, and finally sent mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Thursday 15 May 2003 08:31 am, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > In that case, I invite any maintainer with a security fix for their > > package in 'testing' to upload it to testing for > > testing-proposed-updates. Problem solved. Are you the one who will be > > responsi

Re: Kernel 2.5.69 problem

2003-05-15 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Thu, May 15, 2003, Victor Torrico wrote: > I compiled and ran the debian kernel-source-2.5.69 package. It boots OK, > however, none of he modutil functions work. I keep getting the following > error message: "QM_MODULES: Function not implemented" whenever I try things > such as insmod, ls

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 05:48:15PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:09:08AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:24:14AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > There is currently no consensus whether translated man pages should > > > be shipped along with ori

Re: conflicts-based solution (was Re: security in testing)

2003-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 05:19:17PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:26:35PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > >> No, it's sitting there, waiting for someone to use it. After a year's > >> neglect it might need some metaphorical oil on its hinges

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-15 Thread mcINEK
W liście z czw, 15-05-2003, godz. 17:06, Wouter Verhelst pisze: > It is, IMHO. IMHO not, because doesn't provide things I mentioned before. > Who says it doesn't? Like above. > No, but lots of applications use it. Yes, that's true. Nevertheless, it shouldn't be a brake in improving it. Regar

Re: Answers to "Why is package X not in testing yet?"

2003-05-15 Thread Joe Buck
Joe Buck wrote: > > However, the output is redundant in many cases. On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:37:45AM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote: > Fixed now. Terrific! I'm impressed at your bug-fixing speed; there's a quick "fixed now" to almost every issue. This script is a huge contribution. I have one

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: > If none of the people who are in a > position to approve packages for inclusion in testing or > testing-security are willing to commit resources to doing so ... or if the process is (or can be) sufficiently automated that the general case doesn't need any human interve

Re: "Bug marked as done" messages to-be-MIMEified?

2003-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:47:34AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > "Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Q: is content-disposition handled properly, especially for > > messag/rfc822 type attachments? (Or if not, are message attachments > > displayed inline by defaul

Kernel 2.5.69 problem

2003-05-15 Thread Victor Torrico
I compiled and ran the debian kernel-source-2.5.69 package. It boots OK, however, none of he modutil functions work. I keep getting the following error message: "QM_MODULES: Function not implemented" whenever I try things such as insmod, lsmod, or depmod. I suspect the source for this was o

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 04:16:39PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther wrote: > > You again forget that debian is not x86 only, or do you expect Matthias > > to have access to machines of all the supported arches ? > > > Right. > > Besides, I don't want to do this on my own, I wa

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:08:03AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 05:37:51PM -0700, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > > > Sure, every now and then a badly-broken package makes it in for a > > day or two. This seems to be far less harmful than the massive > > headache that treating 't

Re: "Bug marked as done" messages to-be-MIMEified?

2003-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:47:34AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > "Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > (Yes, I've stopped caring about users of a certain other widespread MUA, as > > you've probably guessed anyway when you notice me using PGP/MIME to sign > > messa

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-15 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:09:08AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:24:14AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > There is currently no consensus whether translated man pages should > > be shipped along with original man pages or within manpages-xx packages. > > Unfortunately this

Re: Michael-John Turner MIA? (was: Debian MIA check)

2003-05-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-05-15 16:44]: > It's about bugs in mrtg that caused me to look for him. > It may be necessary to hijack his packages if he is in fact MIA. mj: 2003-03-21: Contact 2003-03-22: NMU by schepler: wmmatrix 2003-03-23: willfix I didn't check yet whe

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Matthias Urlichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > You again forget that debian is not x86 only, or do you expect Matthias > > to have access to machines of all the supported arches ? > > > Right. Wrong, as I pointed out in my other message. > Besides, I don't want to do this

Re: conflicts-based solution (was Re: security in testing)

2003-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 04:22:30AM -0700, David Nusinow wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:03:06PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:09:48AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:13:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 07:12

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:52:26AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > * Matthias Urlichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > > > >> (a) Before I do something like that, I'd need to be accepted as DD. > > > > > > > > False state

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > In that case, I invite any maintainer with a security fix for their package > in 'testing' to upload it to testing for testing-proposed-updates. Problem > solved. Are you the one who will be responsible for reviewing the > packages? testing, in the absence of a freez

Re: A strawman proposal: "testing-x86"

2003-05-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: > [...] and gave the impression that testing was more > stable/secure/preferable/whatever to unstable [...] That was my first impression too. > I don't say that what you say is wrong, just that people are not aware > of it, because we did tell them differently back then.

Re: conflicts-based solution (was Re: security in testing)

2003-05-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:26:35PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >> No, it's sitting there, waiting for someone to use it. After a year's >> neglect it might need some metaphorical oil on its hinges and some >> dusting, but it really is there. I'm not just saying this for >>

Re: Bug#193399: ITP: latex209 -- macro files of LaTeX 2.09 25-mar-1992 version

2003-05-15 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 06:15:07PM +0900, TSUCHIYA Masatoshi wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: latex209 > Version : 25.mar.1992 > Upstream Author : Leslie Lamport > * URL or Web page : > ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/obsolete/macros/latex209/distribs

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 04:53:32PM +0200, mcINEK wrote: > W li?cie z czw, 15-05-2003, godz. 16:38, Wouter Verhelst pisze: > > What's that supposed to mean? Doing that does have its advantages, too > > (such as "you don't have to re-integrate everything with the new > > system"). > > > > Granted,

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:08:03AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > package to re-install. If you're not a developer, you don't have > access to archives, so your choice is to either go back to the stable > or testing version of the package, or try to find a mirror that still With the pool system t

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:08:03AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 05:37:51PM -0700, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > > > Sure, every now and then a badly-broken package makes it in for a > > day or two. This seems to be far less harmful than the massive > > headache that treating 't

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:08:03AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 05:37:51PM -0700, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > > > Sure, every now and then a badly-broken package makes it in for a > > day or two. This seems to be far less harmful than the massive > > headache that treating 't

Re: partimage on powerpc

2003-05-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sergio Rua wrote: >> # partimage >> >> Error: volume hedaer size != 512 (520) >> This version has been compiled with an uncompatible version of >> gcc. > I'll check. Sergio: Which source package from where, please? -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAI

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:19:08AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > >If unstable has a fix for the bug, then it is a waste of time to work on > > >testing because users can just upgrade. If unstable does not have a fix > > >for the bug, then it is still a waste of time because unstable needs to >

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-15 Thread mcINEK
W liście z czw, 15-05-2003, godz. 16:38, Wouter Verhelst pisze: > What's that supposed to mean? Doing that does have its advantages, too > (such as "you don't have to re-integrate everything with the new > system"). > > Granted, pushing that to extremes will end you up with an unworkable > system

Re: "Bug marked as done" messages to-be-MIMEified?

2003-05-15 Thread David Z Maze
"Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Q: is content-disposition handled properly, especially for > messag/rfc822 type attachments? (Or if not, are message attachments > displayed inline by default?) Gnus: yes (since 5.8.0, the first MIME-aware version) > (Y

Michael-John Turner MIA? (was: Debian MIA check)

2003-05-15 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 13 May 2003, James Troup wrote: > Of the 191 pings were sent out: > o 34 people's ping bounced[1]. > o 28 people replied asking to be retired. > o 29 people replied with various different responses. > o 10 people replied who were active. > o 90 people didn't reply within the 2 month de

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 04:05:28PM +0200, mcINEK wrote: > > Please point me to where I said we should leave things as they are. > You didn't say that, but you want use *minimal* solution, which aren't > always good. > > PS1. Windows are done this way. MS created took w2k and sticked > more,more an

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: > You again forget that debian is not x86 only, or do you expect Matthias > to have access to machines of all the supported arches ? > Right. Besides, I don't want to do this on my own, I want to do this as part of Debian. I don't yet know enough about the setup of testing

Re: DebConf 3 for New Maintainers

2003-05-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On 14 May 2003, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > I would recommend this. When I was in Bordeaux in 2000 without my own > > Laptop > > it was much less fun. :-( The educational effect decreases drastically! > Well, that sould definatly interesting. I just hope I manage to get a > laptop 'till then. O

Proposal of removing MOSIX stuff

2003-05-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Hi all Currently we have both OpenMosix and Mosix in our main archive. See http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/ and http://www.mosix.com/ for background information. Both software provide the same features for clustering (but IMHO OpenMosix is more actively developed and has more prospectives, e.g.

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 05:37:51PM -0700, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > Sure, every now and then a badly-broken package makes it in for a > day or two. This seems to be far less harmful than the massive > headache that treating 'testing' as a usable release seems to be > causing. Something that would

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-15 Thread mcINEK
W liście z czw, 15-05-2003, godz. 15:42, Wouter Verhelst pisze: > Yes it does. Create a ~/.mailcap with the application of your choice for > a given MIME-type at the top. > > My suggestion of a front-end was to create some application that would > help $USER to manage ~/.mailcap. I think it's go

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 05:53:50PM -0400, Don Armstrong wrote: > Manoj's answer, while witty, is closer to the mark than you may > realize. > > Debian will always be for whoever the people contributing to Debian > are willing/want it to be for. No more, no less. Um, when we all agreed to be Debia

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:19:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:59:49PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Do you honestly think would be a good idea to use testing-security this way > > on a continual basis? > > Yes, I do. I think we should release DSA's for security

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:35:33PM +0200, mcINEK wrote: > W li?cie z czw, 15-05-2003, godz. 15:23, Wouter Verhelst pisze: > > I fail to see why it would be bad. It's not perfect, but that's far from > > the same thing. Moreover, I think your ideas would make things worse, > > rather than better. >

Re: Do not touch l10n files

2003-05-15 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:25:56PM +0100, Thom May wrote: > * Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:04:14PM +0100, Thom May wrote: > > > I'm also quite upset to see off hand insults - I've never claimed to "know > > > what a foreign language should look like", wha

Re: "Bug marked as done" messages to-be-MIMEified?

2003-05-15 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:27:07PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > >> so maybe it was actually only filed in my brain (which has no web > >> interface) ... > > > We need a bug system for developer's brains. > > Agreed... > > $ mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s "Misplacement of apostrophes" > Package: do

Re: Do not touch l10n files

2003-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 07:32:55AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote: > The situation is very different from the situation maintainer face with > upstream code because in fact apt should be able to install l10n packages > related to a given program package when it installs the program package. > S

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-15 Thread mcINEK
W liście z czw, 15-05-2003, godz. 15:23, Wouter Verhelst pisze: > I fail to see why it would be bad. It's not perfect, but that's far from > the same thing. Moreover, I think your ideas would make things worse, > rather than better. It's not perfect. Importand bugs are for me: * doesn't allow to

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, May 15, 2003, someone calling themselves "LapTop006" wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:59:49PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman arranged a set of > bits into the following: > > There are no mirrors of security.debian.org, and have not been for as long > > as I have been aware. See the security te

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:52:26AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Matthias Urlichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > >> (a) Before I do something like that, I'd need to be accepted as DD. > > > > > > False statement. > > > > So non-DDs can get accounts on Debian ma

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 02:46:34PM +0200, mcINEK wrote: > W li?cie z czw, 15-05-2003, godz. 14:30, Wouter Verhelst pisze: > > Uh. You can create such a tree in-memory, no? Parsing the file is not > > *that* hard. > > Of course, I can. But I don't understand why don't improve BAD > mechanism. I f

Re: DebConf 3 for New Maintainers

2003-05-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeu 15/05/2003 à 14:49, Tollef Fog Heen a écrit : > The area is covered with WLANs already, but we'll have a few switches > for people who don't have wireless. Side question: will there be a few machines for people who can't bring a laptop ? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ :

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:09:08AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I think it is proper to include translated man pages with original man > pages, and to use apt-localepurge (now) or dpkg exclusions (when they're > implemented) if people are worried about space. My gut feeling is that I believe this

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 05:37:51PM -0700, Keegan Quinn wrote: > Hmm. Funny how myself and every admin I know have only very minor issues > with > running unstable. What, pray tell, makes it such an 'obvious' non-option for > end users? Well-timed unstable snapshots are often more 'stable' th

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Matthias Urlichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, Stephen Frost wrote: > > >> (a) Before I do something like that, I'd need to be accepted as DD. > > > > False statement. > > So non-DDs can get accounts on Debian machines to setup something like > this (install FTP directories, setup autobuild

Re: possible problem for debian was [NTP considered basic] misc@openbsd.org

2003-05-15 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Thu, May 15, 2003, Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger wrote: > I just catched this conversation on the misc OpenBSD mailinglist. > Does this in any way afflict debian? This subject has already been discussed forever on debian-legal. The general consensus is that "without fee" does not mean "you may redis

Re: conflicts-based solution (was Re: security in testing)

2003-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:26:35PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:13:59AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:03:06PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:09:48AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:13:1

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-15 Thread mcINEK
W liście z czw, 15-05-2003, godz. 14:30, Wouter Verhelst pisze: > Uh. You can create such a tree in-memory, no? Parsing the file is not > *that* hard. Of course, I can. But I don't understand why don't improve BAD mechanism. If sth is bad and doesn't pass our requests we should change it. Is upda

Re: DebConf 3 for New Maintainers

2003-05-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Colin Watson | (I'm not involved with the organization, though. Tollef, do you know | if there'll be wireless base stations around or, will we be doing | ad-hoc mode?) The area is covered with WLANs already, but we'll have a few switches for people who don't have wireless. -- Tollef Fog Heen

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 02:13:32PM +0200, mcINEK wrote: > > > It won't work, because the aren't any 'standards'. I don't have idea how > > > make x/non-x choice from mailcap. I REALLY think alternatives could be > > > good. > > > > It's done in there, all over the place! There's a 'test' option, w

Re: Do not touch l10n files

2003-05-15 Thread Thom May
* Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:04:14PM +0100, Thom May wrote: > > I'm also quite upset to see off hand insults - I've never claimed to "know > > what a foreign language should look like", what we've asked is for a > > rational explanation as to why when we

Re: Do not touch l10n files

2003-05-15 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:04:14PM +0100, Thom May wrote: > Ok, I've been trying to stay out of this as much as possible, since I think > Denis' original post: > > > So I would like to ask developers not to edit l10n files (templates, > > > PO files, etc) themselves; if you believe that somethi

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-15 Thread mcINEK
W liście z czw, 15-05-2003, godz. 13:49, Wouter Verhelst pisze: > Alternatives and mailcap are two different worlds. Please keep them > separated. OK, so leave alternatives. > > It won't work, because the aren't any 'standards'. I don't have idea how > > make x/non-x choice from mailcap. I REALL

Re: conflicts-based solution (was Re: security in testing)

2003-05-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:13:59AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:03:06PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:09:48AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:13:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 07:12:1

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:35:22PM +0200, mcINEK wrote: > W li?cie z czw, 15-05-2003, godz. 13:30, Wouter Verhelst pisze: > > I really think it would be a bad idea to go the alternatives road here. > > But why? Could you give me any reasons? I've said why yes, so you tell > why not ;] Alternativ

Re: mailcap next step

2003-05-15 Thread Michał Politowski
On Thu, 15 May 2003 12:11:03 +0200, mcINEK wrote: [...] > We see a conflict. It doesn't matter how many browser user installed, > always will be run galeon (it's above so it's first - am I right?). > > The best solution, I think, is that galeon (mozilla, etc) shouldn't > provide a /etc/mailcap rec

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