Re: Lack of a GR proposal explicitly condemning dunc-tank

2006-10-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:25:46 -0600, Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'm tempted to propose expulsion for a whole bunch of people, except > that would involve dealing with Manoj, who I loathe. Wow. > So, in summary: > ___ > / _|_ _ ___

Re: Lack of a GR proposal explicitly condemning dunc-tank

2006-10-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:50:27 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Matthew Wilcox writes: >>> I'm so thoroughly disgusted by you and the actions of people like >>> you that I've stopped working on Debian. nice job, wanker. >> That is the sol

Work-needing packages report for Oct 13, 2006

2006-10-12 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 327 (new: 18) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 104 (new: 3) Total number of packages reques

Re: Request for virtual package ircd

2006-10-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > m-t-a's must conflict because they are required by policy to provide a > sendmail program at a fixed filesystem location. I was about to say the same thing earlier, but then realized that we *could* deal with that via alternatives. And there's actuall

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:12:54 +0100, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Mr Yan writes ("Re: Making SELinux standard for etch"): >> Ian Jackson wrote: >> > if (selinux_enabled > 0) >> > if(setfscreatecon(NULL) < 0) >> > perror("Error restoring default security context:"); >>

Re: delay of the full etch freeze

2006-10-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:22:43PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >> [Charles Plessy] >> > The rationale is that the 8th is "old freeze deadline minus 10 >> > days", so it was not completely unreasonnable to take this day as >> > the deadline for h

Re: support of aoe devices and aoetools package

2006-10-12 Thread Warren Turkal
On Thursday 12 October 2006 17:50, David Martínez Moreno wrote: > El miércoles, 11 de octubre de 2006 17:44, Warren Turkal escribió: > > First of all, the implementation aoetools include to enable mounting the > > aoe devices at boot time is severely lacking. This support was > > implemented in res

Alas for lilypond in etch

2006-10-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
It seems that it is extremely unlikely that lilypond 2.8 will be in etch. We are still waiting on guile-1.8; the first upload took about three weeks to get through the NEW queue and was then bounced by ftpmaster because it contained a license problem. It is now back in the NEW queue, but it is n

Re: delay of the full etch freeze

2006-10-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:22:43PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > >> [Charles Plessy] >> > The rationale is that the 8th is "old freeze deadline minus 10 >> > days", so it was not completely unreasonnable to take this day as >> > the deadline for h

Re: Request for virtual package ircd

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:54:15AM +0200, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 06:34:41PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > It's also possible to run multiple FTP servers, each listening on a > > different port, but all the packaged ftp daemons "Conflicts: > > ftp-server". > That is bad, I

Re: delay of the full etch freeze

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:22:43PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Charles Plessy] > > The rationale is that the 8th is "old freeze deadline minus 10 > > days", so it was not completely unreasonnable to take this day as > > the deadline for having new packages in Etch. > I find this complete

Re: Orphaning most of my packages

2006-10-12 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Steve Greenland wrote: > Bug#392672: O: positron - synchronization manager for the Neuros Audio > Computer Python. Probably dead after v1.1. Pierre Habouzit has NMU'd a > version 1.1 upgrade and support for new python policy, see bug # 380895. I can confirm that Positron is dead. Not only is it dea

Re: Lack of a GR proposal explicitly condemning dunc-tank

2006-10-12 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:34:01PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > I wrote: > > Normally I wouldn't publish private email but I think in this case the > > abusive nature warrants it. It really doesn't. Wanker. > It has been suggested that it would be better to include the context, > to avoid any pot

Re: Starting services in runlevels 0 and 6

2006-10-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Jurij Smakov wrote: > It was pointed out to me, that even the scripts starting with S are > called with argument 'stop' for runlevels 0 and 6 by /etc/init.d/rc. > However, the reason why it is implemented that way is still not clear. Braindamage inherited from SysV. -- "

Re: Starting services in runlevels 0 and 6

2006-10-12 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:34:19PM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote: > Greetings, > > I've accidentally noticed that there are a few services which are > *started* when entering runlevels 0 and 6 (halt and reboot, > respectively). For example, on my mostly up-to-date sid system I have: > > /etc/rc0.d/

Bug#392643: 'IFUP cannot open the file /etc/network/interfaces'

2006-10-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
reassign 392643 ifupdown thanks The message indicate that this might be a problem with the ifupdown package. Can you provide information about the version of ifupdown you have installed (dpkg -l ifupdown). Also, can you provide information about /etc/network? Please run these commands and atta

Re: Help offered 2 - opinion wanted about debian.org

2006-10-12 Thread Luis Hidalgo
Hi, I personally dislike the colors of this particular website and I like cooler colors. The problem is that, I think this way and many may think alike (or not) but IMHO a color scheme is just too subjective to  ask a person's opinion.-- Luis"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." - E

Starting services in runlevels 0 and 6

2006-10-12 Thread Jurij Smakov
Greetings, I've accidentally noticed that there are a few services which are *started* when entering runlevels 0 and 6 (halt and reboot, respectively). For example, on my mostly up-to-date sid system I have: /etc/rc0.d/S30urandom /etc/rc0.d/S35networking /etc/rc0.d/S36ifupdown /etc/rc0.d/S37sen

Re: Request for virtual package ircd

2006-10-12 Thread Joe Smith
"Jeremy Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:14:19AM +0200, Mario Iseli wrote: Ok, this is a good argument. I think the oppinion is more or less clear: Some people think it would be a nice idea, BUT it can be also a problem because so

Bug#392647: ITP: arpalert -- Used for monitoring arp changes in ethernet networks

2006-10-12 Thread Jan Wagner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: arpalert Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Thierry Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.arpalert.org * License : GPL 2 or later Description : Used for monito

Re: delay of the full etch freeze

2006-10-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 12 October 2006 22:22, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > So I would recommend against moving the freeze deadline to allow > packages in NEW to enter. I would guess for the most part package is NEW are not totally new packages, but rather packages with a new upstream release that causes (

Setting Laguage

2006-10-12 Thread Rodrigo Tavares
Hello, How I can to resolve it ? debian-sarge:~/# debconf-getlang lang master po debconf-getlang: This utility is deprecated; you should switch to using the po-debconf package. master: file or dictory not gound at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 87. Best regards, Faria

Re: support of aoe devices and aoetools package

2006-10-12 Thread David Martínez Moreno
El miércoles, 11 de octubre de 2006 17:44, Warren Turkal escribió: > Debian Developers, > > I hope this is the right forum to express this idea. > > I have not received any feedback from the maintainer of the aoetools > package, so I wanted to voice my concerns over that package in front of a > wid

Re: Lack of a GR proposal explicitly condemning dunc-tank

2006-10-12 Thread Ian Jackson
I wrote: > Normally I wouldn't publish private email but I think in this case the > abusive nature warrants it. It has been suggested that it would be better to include the context, to avoid any potential or perceived unfairness, given that the context was a debian-private posting by me. So here

Re: Help offered

2006-10-12 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 12:00:00AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > HXC wrote: > > > I would like to help with the debian.org website. I have a bachelor > > degree in communication management. Is there help needed and if so where > > do I start / who do I contact? > > A starting point could be to

Re: Help offered

2006-10-12 Thread Daniel Leidert
HXC wrote: > I would like to help with the debian.org website. I have a bachelor > degree in communication management. Is there help needed and if so where > do I start / who do I contact? A starting point could be to send bug-reports against the www.debian.org (or similar: bugs.debian.org, li

Re: delay of the full etch freeze

2006-10-12 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Charles Plessy] > The rationale is that the 8th is "old freeze deadline minus 10 > days", so it was not completely unreasonnable to take this day as > the deadline for having new packages in Etch. I find this completely unreasonable. If someone waited that late in the release process before upl

Processed: Re: 'IFUP cannot open the file /etc/network/interfaces'

2006-10-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 392643 ifupdown Bug#392643: 'IFUP cannot open the file /etc/network/interfaces' Bug reassigned from package `general' to `ifupdown'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system admi

Re: Orphaning most of my packages

2006-10-12 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi, > Bug#392665: O: nvi - 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi I'll take nvi if no one objects. Regards, Jan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Request for virtual package ircd

2006-10-12 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:14:19AM +0200, Mario Iseli wrote: > Ok, this is a good argument. > I think the oppinion is more or less clear: > > Some people think it would be a nice idea, BUT it can be also a problem > because some people want more than one Ircd on a system. > > I only wanted to ask

Re: Help offered 2 - opinion wanted about debian.org

2006-10-12 Thread HXC
HXC wrote: I would like to help with the debian.org website. I have a bachelor degree in communication management. Is there help needed and if so where do I start / who do I contact? Grtz. HXC I also wondered what the community finds about the colours and layout used for the website Does

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-12 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:12:54PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Indeed, if you're willing to take my word as a computer security > expert[1] for it, I can say with confidence that selinux is not the > right approach to fixing the security problems with our systems. > It probably does more harm than

Orphaning most of my packages

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Greenland
The time is long since past to admit that I will *never* again have the time to provide proper maintenance to my packages. Given the brief delay in the freeze, hopefully someone can pick these up and get new versions in with proper maintainers. I don't have time to provide sponsorship either; I w

Re: Request for virtual package ircd

2006-10-12 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 12:10:51AM +0200, Mario Iseli wrote: > Hello, > > as described in > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt > I announce here my idea of the virtual package ircd. When I count > correctly are at the moment 7 different IRC-daemons in Debian

Help offered

2006-10-12 Thread HXC
I would like to help with the debian.org website. I have a bachelor degree in communication management. Is there help needed and if so where do I start / who do I contact? Grtz. HXC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Mr Yan writes ("Re: Making SELinux standard for etch"): > Ian Jackson wrote: > > if (selinux_enabled > 0) > > if(setfscreatecon(NULL) < 0) > > perror("Error restoring default security context:"); > > > > Error checking ? We don't need no steenking error checking, this is > > SEC

Processed: Re: Bug#392643: 'IFUP cannot open the file /etc/network/interfaces'

2006-10-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 392643 general Bug#392643: 'IFUP cannot open the file /etc/network/interfaces' Warning: Unknown package 'on' Warning: Unknown package 'startup' Bug reassigned from package `' to `general'. > -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me if y

Re: Lack of a GR proposal explicitly condemning dunc-tank

2006-10-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 12 October 2006 18:50, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Normally I wouldn't publish private email but I think in this case > > the abusive nature warrants it. > > Two wrongs didn't really make a right here, IMO, and I'm not talking > about publication of

Re: Lack of a GR proposal explicitly condemning dunc-tank

2006-10-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matthew Wilcox writes: >> I'm so thoroughly disgusted by you and the actions of people like you >> that I've stopped working on Debian. nice job, wanker. > That is the sole content of Matthew Wilcox's message to me, apart from > some quoted text from deb

Re: Lack of a GR proposal explicitly condemning dunc-tank

2006-10-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 12 October 2006 12:34, Ian Jackson wrote: > Matthew Wilcox writes ("Re: Lack of a GR proposal explicitly condemning dunc-tank"): > > I'm so thoroughly disgusted by you and the actions of people like you > > that I've stopped working on Debian. nice job, wanker. > > That is the sole co

Re: Lack of a GR proposal explicitly condemning dunc-tank

2006-10-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Matthew Wilcox writes ("Re: Lack of a GR proposal explicitly condemning dunc-tank"): > I'm so thoroughly disgusted by you and the actions of people like you > that I've stopped working on Debian. nice job, wanker. That is the sole content of Matthew Wilcox's message to me, apart from some quoted

Another option to reconfigure to avoid rejection on Alioth mailing lists.

2006-10-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, In addition to "generic_nonmember_action" and "require_explicit_destination" (in "Privacy options... / Sender filters" and "Privacy options... / Recipient filters" respectively), I realised today that there is another filter wich is on by default and can subject mails to moderation on th

Re: Bug#392122: ITP: php-suhosin -- Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations.

2006-10-12 Thread Jan Wagner
On Thursday 12 October 2006 14:52, Luca Capello wrote: > There's already ITP #392119 [1] (cc:ing its submitter), I guess the > two should be merged. Since Alexander was quite faster, I'm closing this ITP. With kind regards, Jan. -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GIT d-- s+: a- C+++

Re: Bug#392122: ITP: php-suhosin -- Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations.

2006-10-12 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:57:38 +0200, Jan Wagner wrote: > * Package name: php-suhosin > Version : 0.9.6 There's already ITP #392119 [1] (cc:ing its submitter), I guess the two should be merged. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cg

Re: delay of the full etch freeze

2006-10-12 Thread Hubert Chan
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:38:21 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Le Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 06:58:55PM +0200, Andreas Barth a écrit : >> >> For these reasons, we are delaying the full archive freeze for a few >> days. We haven't chosen a date yet, but you can still expect it to >> happen in October or

Re: Request for virtual package ircd

2006-10-12 Thread Mario Iseli
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:55:57AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Those packages should not depend on ircd anyway, because the service and > the ircd can run on different systems. Ok, this is a good argument. I think the oppinion is more or less clear: Some people think it would be a nice idea, B