Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)

2007-02-12 Thread Christian Perrier
> Well, I guess, the only resolution for such case is to ask sash > maintainer to include proper announcement for debconf and to include a No, please. Do not use debconf to diplay notices to users, especially about a given package's behaviour. This is not debconf purpose. Such note, if it is rel

Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)

2007-02-12 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
> The reason why sash does this is different than the reason why people > usually talk about it on the web, but while the sash use makes a > moderate amount of sense at first glance, I'm not sure how often it's > really useful compared to booting single-user or just changing the > shell of the root

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:45:53 +0100, Steffen Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Our society should be aware that people age. And it should find a > way to live with the elderly, not expell them. This is why I > strongly object the technically well-meant following paragraph: If this is i

Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)

2007-02-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually it seems to be not mine, and not sash fault -- it seems to be a > common practice mentioned in multiple howto's around the web such like > http://linuxgazette.net/issue48/tag/16.html It's a really *bad* common practice. Use of the root ac

Re: RFC: use readable $(cmd) syntax instead of unreadable `cmd`

2007-02-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11-Feb-07, 13:40 (CST), Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yup. You get very used to writing in the restricted common subset when >> you have software that has to work on Solaris /bin/sh, but remembering >> what's allowed and what isn't is

Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)

2007-02-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:58:06PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > > No, it's a configuration error on your part. How is NSS supposed to know > > > which is the "right" name for uid 0 when you've overloaded the uid with > > > more > > > than

Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)

2007-02-12 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > No, it's a configuration error on your part. How is NSS supposed to know > > which is the "right" name for uid 0 when you've overloaded the uid with more > > than one username? If you don't ensure a unique mapping, NSS is free to > > pick whiche

Re: how to get dpkg-deb to ignore hidden/backup files + why extra control file?

2007-02-12 Thread Brian May
> "Alan" == Alan Ezust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alan> Question #1: For creating packages, as per the suggestions in Alan> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/#AEN88 Alan> There is this step that requires you to copy the control Alan> file

how to get dpkg-deb to ignore hidden/backup files + why extra control file?

2007-02-12 Thread Alan Ezust
Question #1: For creating packages, as per the suggestions in http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/#AEN88 There is this step that requires you to copy the control file from the debian subdir to debian/DEBIAN directory. Could someone explain to me why is this ste

Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)

2007-02-12 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
> No, it's a configuration error on your part. How is NSS supposed to know > which is the "right" name for uid 0 when you've overloaded the uid with more > than one username? If you don't ensure a unique mapping, NSS is free to > pick whichever mapping suits it at the time. I thought that in ord

Re: Bug#410669: ITP: pfstools -- set of command line programs for editing HDR images

2007-02-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 04:59:05PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson a écrit : > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:59:20PM +0100, Sebastian Harl wrote: > > * Package name: pfstools > > FWIW, there are preliminary packages for pfstools and most associated tools > at > > http://storage.sesse.net/pfs-sourc

Re: New General resolution proposed

2007-02-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:24:07AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:10:36PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:05:26AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote: > > The check, though, only compares the names of the source packages to the > the names of the binary packages,

Re: Contact e-mail address for RC bugs web page

2007-02-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:45:17PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > Does anyone know the contact e-mail address for the RC bugs web page > (http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/)? The address [EMAIL PROTECTED], > listed in that page, does not work. I get: Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a first ap

Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)

2007-02-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 04:22:15PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > I have a box (etch amd64) which had sash installed with created > sashroot account to run sash for the case of emergency. /etc/passwd had > it > ,- > | root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > | sash

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 12 February 2007 16:31, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > While I think it's a good idea to consider whether people voted or did > not vote for the DPL election a data point for MIA-ness, I feel that > the lack of producing a vote should not be taken as inactivity. I agree. And the converse is al

recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)

2007-02-12 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Dear All, Since there is a small chance that there is an issue with libnss part of libc6 I've decided to talk to -dev first (instead of filing libc6 bugreport or sending it to -users). libc6 I have now is 2.3.6.ds1-8, I know that I am 2 revisions behind etch version -need to figure out why debmir

Re: New General resolution proposed

2007-02-12 Thread Don Armstrong
[Please respond back to -vote where this belongs, not here.] On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Joe Buck wrote: > Right now, those who run auto-builders are trusted, but the GR > proposes to trust all developers. Right? It doesn't really change anything because nothing stops you as a developer from uploading b

Re: Upgrade Experiences (27 Sarges -> Etch, and counting)

2007-02-12 Thread Luis Matos
Seg, 2007-02-12 às 20:35 +0100, Adrian von Bidder escreveu: > On Monday 05 February 2007 17.23:28 Maarten Verwijs wrote: > > I took the plunge and upgraded about half of the Lab here to Etch. > > This is about 27 machines to date, catering almost the same amount of > > users. > > Hi, > > Manually

Re: New General resolution proposed

2007-02-12 Thread Joe Buck
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:10:36PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:05:26AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:15:13PM -0600, Debian Project Secretary wrote: > > > This is a notification of a general resolution proposed on the > > > debian-vote m

Re: Upgrade Experiences (27 Sarges -> Etch, and counting)

2007-02-12 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 05 February 2007 17.23:28 Maarten Verwijs wrote: > I took the plunge and upgraded about half of the Lab here to Etch. > This is about 27 machines to date, catering almost the same amount of > users. Hi, Manually? I'd just like to point out that for 27 machines, setting up a fai server

Re: New General resolution proposed

2007-02-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:05:26AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:15:13PM -0600, Debian Project Secretary wrote: > > This is a notification of a general resolution proposed on the > > debian-vote mailing list. On the 8th of February, in a message with > > Message-ID

Bug#410702: ITP: xmoto-edit -- Editor for xmoto, a 2D motocross platform game

2007-02-12 Thread Samuel Mimram
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Mimram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xmoto-edit Version : 0.2.4 Upstream Author : Rasmus Neckelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nicolas Adenis-Lamarre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://xmoto.tuxfamily.or

Re: New General resolution proposed

2007-02-12 Thread Joe Buck
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:15:13PM -0600, Debian Project Secretary wrote: > This is a notification of a general resolution proposed on the > debian-vote mailing list. On the 8th of February, in a message with > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> propos

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Re: Bug#410658: ITP: libvc -- a vCard (the Electronic Business Card) library

2007-02-12 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Montag 12 Februar 2007 13:39 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere: > Description : vCard (the Electronic Business Card) library > > vCard is an Electronic Business Card format, as specified by the versit > Consortium, useful for storing personal data. libvc handles scanning a > vCard file, parsing

Re: RFC: use readable $(cmd) syntax instead of unreadable `cmd`

2007-02-12 Thread Steve Greenland
On 11-Feb-07, 13:40 (CST), Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Then you have a lot more problems than `` vs $(). Debian's (and pretty > > much everybody elses) /bin/sh is POSIX, and allows any valid POSIX > > construct. Solaris's /bin/sh is anc

ITP: libauthen-simple-ldap-perl -- Simple LDAP authentication

2007-02-12 Thread Xavier Oswald
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libauthen-simple-ldap-perl Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Christian Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~chansen/Authen-Simple-LDAP-0.2/ * License :

ITP: libauthen-simple-net-perl -- Simple NET authentication

2007-02-12 Thread Xavier Oswald
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libauthen-simple-net-perl Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Christian Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~chansen/Authen-Simple-NET-0.2/ * License : GP

Re: Bug#410669: ITP: pfstools -- set of command line programs for editing HDR images

2007-02-12 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:59:20PM +0100, Sebastian Harl wrote: > * Package name: pfstools FWIW, there are preliminary packages for pfstools and most associated tools at http://storage.sesse.net/pfs-sources.tar.gz There are some bugs in them, but if you haven't packaged them by yourself al

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:04:24AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: >> > a DD not interested in Debian "politics" has no need to be a DD. If >> > it's just a matter of technical work then sponsorship would be >> > enough. >> Do I understand you right, that, according to you

Bug#410669: ITP: pfstools -- set of command line programs for editing HDR images

2007-02-12 Thread Sebastian Harl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Harl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pfstools Upstream Author : Grzegorz Krawczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rafal Mantiuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/resources/pfstools/ * License

ITP: libauthen-simple-dbm-perl -- Simple DBM authentication

2007-02-12 Thread Xavier Oswald
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libauthen-simple-dbm-perl Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Christian Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~chansen/Authen-Simple-DBM-0.2/ * License : GP

ITP: libauthen-simple-dbi-perl -- Simple DBI authentication

2007-02-12 Thread Xavier Oswald
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libauthen-simple-dbi-perl Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Christian Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~chansen/Authen-Simple-DBI-0.2/ * License : GP

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:59:53PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On dim, 2007-02-11 at 15:35 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > an active DD should > > > not be afraid of passing something we ask of every new developer? > > > > On

ITP: libauthen-simple-cdbi-perl -- Simple CDBI authentication

2007-02-12 Thread Xavier Oswald
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libauthen-simple-cdbi-perl Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Christian Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CH/CHANSEN/Authen-Simple-CDBI-0.2.

Contact e-mail address for RC bugs web page

2007-02-12 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Does anyone know the contact e-mail address for the RC bugs web page (http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/)? The address [EMAIL PROTECTED], listed in that page, does not work. I get: === This message was created automati

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I'm sorry, but I don't know how do you relate with my analysis. Do you > usually vote for the DPL elections or GRs? If not then yes, I feel you > don't need a key (but see below). Of course this do not imply you should > ask for the removal: there's a deficiency in our b

Bug#410657: ITP: mutt-vc-query -- vCard query utility for mutt

2007-02-12 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mutt-vc-query Version : 002 Upstream Author : Andrew Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rolo.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#410658: ITP: libvc -- a vCard (the Electronic Business Card) library

2007-02-12 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libvc Version : 003 Upstream Author : Andrew Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : vCard

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-12 Thread Steffen Moeller
On Monday 12 February 2007 13:35:21 you wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Steffen Moeller wrote: > > While at the moment that I have just passed Tasks&Skills II, I consider > > this to be possible but rather unlikely szenario. However, I presume that > > in about 20-30 years from now when I got older t

Bug#410659: ITP: rolo -- text-based (vCard) contact management software

2007-02-12 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: rolo Version : 011 Upstream Author : Andrew Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rolo.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : tex

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Steffen Moeller wrote: > While at the moment that I have just passed Tasks&Skills II, I consider this > to be possible but rather unlikely szenario. However, I presume that in about > 20-30 years from now when I got older this may well be true. What do we have > then - quant

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:04:24AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > a DD not interested in Debian "politics" has no need to be a DD. If > > it's just a matter of technical work then sponsorship would be > > enough. > Do I understand you right, that, according to your opinion, people like > me shoul

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-12 Thread Steffen Joeris
Hi mate > > As far as I can see right now there are plenty of people listed > > there with no packages and they can be the targets for the first > > run. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/org/qa.debian.org/mia$ ./mia-todo needs-wat > 0 maintainers in possible need of needs-wat Try it again please, the mia db

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > a DD not interested in > Debian "politics" has no need to be a DD. If it's just a matter of > technical work then sponsorship would be enough. Do I understand you right, that, according to your opinion, people like me should ask the DAM to remove their key? I'm not say

Re: Key expiry breaks most D-I Etch RC1 images

2007-02-12 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 04:04:30PM -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > Also, when forced to use the LILO boot loader because of a RAID > +LVM /boot, LILO takes *forever* to actually load the initramfs from the > physical media. Parade of dots followed by "BIOS data check successful" > occurs while wa

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-12 Thread Steffen Moeller
On Monday 12 February 2007 01:58:19 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > A probable reason is that the NM process is getting tougher and/or that > > some developpers didn't even pass an NM process... While at the moment that I have just passed Tasks&Skil

Re: UDP code

2007-02-12 Thread J HU
Ok, thanks to all, I know that UDP is a protocol and what I was looking for is for the code of that funtions like "recvfrom", "sendto",... and well I thing that with the source of the glibc and with the linux-source I could find something although I think that it's not going to be easy to foll

Re: Handling of /usr/share/locale for package name changes

2007-02-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:59:47PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 11 février 2007 à 12:50 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > Well, the translations really should not be part of the ABI of the library; > > libraries shouldn't be engaging in direct interaction with the user, so the > >