Re: Meaning of the different “format” fields and files.

2010-05-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, May 28, 2010 at 08:25:25AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: > > * In Debian changes files, Format is currently 1.8; I suppose that it > >defines the meaning and syntax of the other fields. Is there a place > > were the > >history of thi

Re: RFH: bashisms in configure script

2010-05-28 Thread Raphael Geissert
Stefan Fritsch wrote: > On Tuesday 25 May 2010, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> 1. If your name is on the list at [2] please check at [3] the .dsc >> file that corresponds to the source packages you co-/maintain, >> review and fix. The .dsc files contain checkbashisms' output. > > Do you want to sta

Bug#583621: ITP: dasm -- macro assembler for 8-bit microprocessors

2010-05-28 Thread Stephen Kitt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stephen Kitt Owner: Stephen Kitt * Package name: dasm Version : 2.20.11 Upstream Author : Peter H. Froehlich * URL : http://dasm-dillon.sf.net * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C Description : macro assembler

Re: Bug#529974: RFP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol

2010-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/2010 09:20 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: On Fr, Mai 28, 2010 at 16:00:27 (CEST), Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/28/2010 01:25 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: I'm going to package rtmpdump next week. On Fr, Mai 22, 2009 at 16:33:44 (CEST), Sam Morris wrote: * Package name: rtmpdump * URL

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-28 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Stephen Powell] > It *does* recognize lilo and has special logic to patch lilo after > the restore so that the machine will boot. So can this software be fooled into thinking it is dealing with lilo? Would it be sufficient to rename /boot/extlinux/extlinux.sys to /boot/maps or something? -- Pet

Re: Improving in-place upgrades of Ada packages from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-05-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
2010/5/28 Stephen Leake : > Ludovic Brenta writes: > >> Stephen Leake wrote: >>> Ludovic Brenta writes: The reason for all this is that when a package libX2-dev Conflicts: >> with and Replaces: a package libX1-dev, aptitude does not remove libX1-dev and install libX2-dev; instead,

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 28 mai 2010 à 10:45 -0400, Stephen Powell a écrit : > Unfortunately, logical backups of a Linux machine using the extlinux > boot loader do not work with our backup/restore software. The master boot > record and partition boot sector are restored correctly, but > /boot/extlinux/extlinu

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 25 May 2010 13:12:27 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> No software is entirely without cost ... >> volunteers work on whatever they like ... >> your specific requirements may differ from their goals ... >> volunteers are rarely concerned with "market sh

Re: Bug#529974: RFP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol

2010-05-28 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Fr, Mai 28, 2010 at 16:00:27 (CEST), Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/28/2010 01:25 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> I'm going to package rtmpdump next week. >> >> On Fr, Mai 22, 2009 at 16:33:44 (CEST), Sam Morris wrote: >> >>> * Package name: rtmpdump >>> * URL : [hidden obsolete url]

Re: Bug#529974: RFP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol

2010-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/2010 01:25 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: retitle 529974 ITP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol owner 529974 ! stop I'm going to package rtmpdump next week. On Fr, Mai 22, 2009 at 16:33:44 (CEST), Sam Morris wrote: * Package name: rtmpdump * URL

Re: Improving in-place upgrades of Ada packages from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-05-28 Thread Jacob Sparre Andersen
Stephen Leake wrote: Currently, a package is upgraded only if its name does not change. Good point. Is the hack then to introduce a new "lib-dev" package which is empty but depends on "lib-dev"? Lots of empty packages, just to get the upgrade to work, but if we have a plan for avoiding t

Re: test if primary group, with only implicit membership of the user?

2010-05-28 Thread Harald Braumann
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:30:25AM +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote: > I'm not sure yet, if I do properly understand the point when/why > relaxing conditionally is a bad idea. To me, setting *fixed* umasks with > group permissions equaling user permissions seems worse, > especially because not all users

Re: Improving in-place upgrades of Ada packages from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-05-28 Thread Stephen Leake
Ludovic Brenta writes: > Stephen Leake wrote: >> Ludovic Brenta writes: >>> The reason for all this is that when a package libX2-dev Conflicts: > with >>> and Replaces: a package libX1-dev, aptitude does not remove libX1-dev >>> and install libX2-dev; instead, it marks libX1-dev as broken and le

Bug#529974: RFP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol

2010-05-28 Thread Reinhard Tartler
retitle 529974 ITP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol owner 529974 ! stop I'm going to package rtmpdump next week. On Fr, Mai 22, 2009 at 16:33:44 (CEST), Sam Morris wrote: > * Package name: rtmpdump > * URL : [hidden obsolete url] > * License

Re: test if primary group, with only implicit membership of the user?

2010-05-28 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Fri, 28 May 2010 08:37:05 +0100 schrieb Roger Leigh: > Calling getgrgid/getgrnam and > checking that the user list is empty is *ensuring* that it's private, > at least at the point in time we check (we can't predict the future). > > This check would protect against adding other users to UPGs,

adduser or useradd (package passwd)?

2010-05-28 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Wed, 26 May 2010 08:40:26 +0100 schrieb Stephen Gran: > first useful argument I've heard for changing adduser's > behavior. Interoperability with other software is a useful goal, Would the change have to go into adduser or useradd (part of base-passwd)? 9.2.1: "Packages other than base-passw

Re: Looking for maintainers of Spacewalk packages

2010-05-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
Am 28. Mai 2010 06:08:43 UTC+2 schrieb Miroslav Suchý : > BTW: our plan for summer, is to develop plugin for apt-get which allows you > to download packages from Spacewalk server directly using apt-get. That is > last missing piece for declaring support for Debian as complete. Feel free to join

Re: test if primary group, with only implicit membership of the user?

2010-05-28 Thread Roger Leigh
On 28/05/2010 00:00, C. Gatzemeier wrote: 2) A special case is true: The group is set as the main group of the user (in /etc/passwd) while the user is NOT added to his group in /etc/groups. May pam_umask test this, for umask relaxation? Just IMHO, this is *exactly* what pam_umask s

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-28 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Thomas Goirand wrote: > Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: >> So far this is independent of third packages which is IMHO fine and >> desirable. So far, this could be solved by a postfix-conf.d-snippet >> shipped with the amavis package. > Quite not. You also need to configure the incoming and outgoing