Re: FSVS and versioning /etc

2008-02-14 Thread Philipp Marek
Joey Hess wrote: > Philipp Marek wrote: > > * Some files have a commit-pipe defined, so that eg. the passwords get > > stripped out of the shadow files. > > In case of a restore all passwords have to be set afresh. > > * For a few files that include password

FSVS and versioning /etc

2008-02-13 Thread Philipp Marek
Hello everybody! Now that FSVS has made it into debian (http://packages.debian.org/fsvs) I'd like to make it easier for users to keep track of their systems' configuration. I asked Sheldon to build a package fsvs-system-versioning; that will depend on fsvs, and provide some default configurati

Re: Sheldon Hearn MIA?

2007-12-07 Thread Philipp Marek
Hello Thomas, > On Friday 07 December 2007 01:02:14 Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > He seems to have progressed in creating packages because there is an > > (unanswered) request to sponsor (upload) them[1]. > > > > He also posted to debian-kernel in mid-October[2]. yes, thank you - he's back :-) Hello

Sheldon Hearn MIA?

2007-12-06 Thread Philipp Marek
Hello everybody, please forgive me if this is the wrong address; simply point me to a better place, and I'll be off. Does someone know if "Sheldon Hearn" is MIA? I had some conversations with him in September; I last heard from him on Sept. 26th. Since then I've tried to reach him, but didn'

Re: Compiling all packages with debug information?

2007-10-08 Thread Philipp Marek
Mario Iseli wrote: > True, true, true... I guess it's a good solution as we have it now, if the > maintainer thinks a -dbg package would be useful, he/she can create one and > provide it to the users. I personally wouldn't do that for smaller packages > which are compiled on "normal modern i386 stu

Compiling all packages with debug information?

2007-10-08 Thread Philipp Marek
Hello everybody! [[ I already sent this mail to debian-user - but it didn't seem to get there. Thinking about it once again, I'm re-posting to -devel. ]] As I'm running unstable I sometimes find bugs in applications. Now it would be very nice if there was some way to get the matching debug in