On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 06:44:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The example *is* wrong - the example given is never safe to run, because
> > the only way to verify beforehand that /tmp/zenity is not a symlink to
> > something more important is by firs
[Neil Williams]
> $ pilot-qof -x data.xml --invoice-city -t 2006-11-08 | dfxml-invoice - \
> | zenity --text-info --title="2006-11-08" -
>
> 2. Unnecessarily complicated for documentation (the need for '\' is,
> IMHO, an indication that the command is too long).
Not to disagree with your real t
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The example *is* wrong - the example given is never safe to run, because
> the only way to verify beforehand that /tmp/zenity is not a symlink to
> something more important is by first explicitly *creating* your file
> funder /tmp (non-destructively), t
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> Yes, a race condition could happen and yes, there could be all sorts of
> complicated ways of handling temp files and passing back the name of the
> file but examples have to be simple and clear, not obfuscated by
> problems unrelated to the nature of the
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 13:30 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 08:28:32PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> > =head1
> > A more complex example using 'zenity' - a Gnome dialog generator.
>
> > $ pilot-qof -x data.xml --invoice-city -t 2006-11-08 | dfxml-invoice -
> > > /tmp/zenity
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 08:28:32PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> > For example if a script uses in its work a temp file which is created
> > in /tmp directory, then every user can create symlink with the same
> > name in this directory in order to destroy or rewrite some system
> > or user
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:05:30PM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Severity: grave
> This message about the error concerns a few packages at once. I've
> tested all the packages (for Lenny) on my Debian mirror. All scripts
> of packages (marked as executable) we
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 22:05 +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
> Package: datafreedom-perl
> Severity: grave
No, that is just plain wrong, sorry.
> Hi, maintainer!
(and I do so hate unnecessary exclamation marks)
> This message about the error concerns a few packages at once. I've
> tested al
also sprach Daniel Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.08.23.2000 +0100]:
> I used hooks, which mangled the environment in such a way that the
> default route was not set but instead a host route to my openvpn
> server via the announced default gateway. Including a simple detection
> if I'm home or not
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:05:49AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>
> > As I mentioned in my blog[1], I kindof like the suggestion that Bdale
> > came up with during Debconf that we write a hardware compatibility test
> > of sorts that hardware vendors could run on their own har
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 09:13:42AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Russ Allbery]
> > It's not *impossible*... someone could be running the scripts from the
> > package without having the package installed. I don't know why they'd do
> > that, though, or whether that's a more plausible explana
Hi Andreas,
As response to your post from some while ago:
Andreas Schuldei wrote:
* It would be good to collect Debian related News centrally (wiki)
and depending on its content and impact spread them locally or globally.
For collection(plus commenting, tagging, and saving of snapshots!
Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Just upgraded an old etch box to lenny via aptitude, ran into the
>> following minor problem:
>>
>> (Reading database ... 22081 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Preparing to replace mo
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 14:39:08 +0100, Daniel Watkins wrote:
> Description : open source microblogging client for GNOME
>
Please remove 'open source' from the short description, that's not
adding any information.
Cheers,
Julien
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On Sun, Aug 24, 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> But current dependency definition does not provide this path...
> libpoppler3 should "Suggests: poppler-data". (I vaguely think we can not
> do "Recommends:" here due to policy.)
Wont help much I'm afraid; people wont have a clue that they should be
chec
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:58:07AM -0700, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> From the user's perspective, we probably want some
> kind of documentation, since nothing pulls in poppler-data; users
> expect working evince but they will be broken on upgrade until they
> install poppler-data.
But current de
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