Re: Looking for DD willing to sign my key around Berkeley/Oakland/San Francisco CA

2018-08-08 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * Joseph Herlant (herla...@gmail.com) wrote: > I'm currently maintaining a few packages and am looking for one or two > DD around Berkeley/Oakland/San Francisco in California that would be > willing to meet in order to sign my gpg key so I can go ahead and > start the DM process. I'll

Re: Second call for votes: GR - Init system coupling

2014-11-12 Thread Stephen Frost
* Neil McGovern (ne...@debian.org) wrote: - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 57dd4d7c-3e92-428f-8ab7-10de5172589e [ 5 ] Choice 1: Packages may not (in general) require a specific init system [ 3 ] Choice 2: Support for other init systems is recommended, but n

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-13 Thread Stephen Frost
* Thorsten Glaser (t...@mirbsd.org) wrote: > (But it was > nice to have a published list of those people who maybe could > accidentally be hit by a tactical small-bus…) These comments are not necessary nor appropriate, ever. Thanks, Stephen signature.asc Description: Di

Re: Fwd: Re: BLAST+ speed & build issues

2011-08-04 Thread Stephen Frost
Olivier, Because "-h is slow" hardly seems like a good justification for having static packages. Last I checked (which wasn't long ago..), BLAST is typically a long-running process (at least on the stuff we're doing..). Also, are subsequent calls (even '-h' ones) faster? I'd expect them to be, o

Re: Which architectures are 64-bit?

2006-11-28 Thread Stephen Frost
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:41:13PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > > 64-bit: alpha amd64 ia64 > > The rest are 32-bit. > > > Am I missing any? > > Nope. *smirk > > Perhaps this is a suitable feature for dpkg-architecture. > > You could just as well d

Re: Which architectures are 64-bit?

2006-11-28 Thread Stephen Frost
* Shaun Jackman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 64-bit: alpha amd64 ia64 mips/mipsel, sparc, s390 and powerpc can all come in a 64-bit flavors, iirc. Thanks, Stephen signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ca-certificates symlinks out of /etc

2006-11-01 Thread Stephen Frost
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.10.31.2103 +0100]: > > > How are certificate files not intended to be modified? If they > > > expire? If they are incomplete? > > > > If they expire the

Re: ca-certificates symlinks out of /etc

2006-10-31 Thread Stephen Frost
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.10.31.2016 +0100]: > > In all of these cases the files pointed to are not intended to be > > modified but what file is used can be configured. > > How are certifica

Re: ca-certificates symlinks out of /etc

2006-10-31 Thread Stephen Frost
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.10.31.1948 +0100]: > > cat /my/favorite/editor >> /etc/alternatives/vi > > alternatives are surely an exception, don't you think? > > > cat /the/best/dic

Re: ca-certificates symlinks out of /etc

2006-10-31 Thread Stephen Frost
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Since #350282 is still being discussed, I ended up doing > > cat /etc/ssl/certs/cacert-class3.pem >> /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem > > on systems that needed access to all of CACert's certificates. cat /my/favorite/editor >> /etc/alternatives/vi cat /

Re: Status of inetd for etch

2006-08-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Aug 11, Adam Borowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why, for the love of Cthulhu, does netbase depend on inetd in the first > > place? Let's see: > Historical reasons. Not good enough. Not even close. > > It would be good to get rid of inetd from

Re: Poor quality of multipath-tools

2006-07-06 Thread Stephen Frost
* John Goerzen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:39:16PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > Not always true. Both paths can be active at the same time.. if supported by > > the SAN array. Then you do also load balancing between the paths.. > > Quite true, though my impression

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 25 May 2006, Stephen Frost spake thusly: > > I wasn't making any claim as to the general validity of IDs which > > are purchased and I'm rather annoyed that you attempted to > > extrapolate it out to such. What I s

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-25 Thread Stephen Frost
* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 25 May 2006, Stephen Frost verbalised: > > * Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Explanation? What we have here is an act of bad faith, in the guise > >> of demonstrating a weakness. In my experience, one

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-25 Thread Stephen Frost
* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Explanation? What we have here is an act of bad faith, in the > guise of demonstrating a weakness. In my experience, one act of bad > faith often leads to others. pffft. This is taking it to an extreme. He wasn't trying to fake who he wa

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-24 Thread Stephen Frost
* Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 06:14:51PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 04:18:44PM -0500, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Anyway, the background is that James Troup, Jeroen van Wolffelaar and > > > myself examined the license before a

Re: Changing the default syslogd (again...)

2006-05-22 Thread Stephen Frost
* Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Nathanael Nerode: > > (2) Upstream status. > > There hasn't been a new upstream for sysklogd since 2001. > > All of the others are active upstream. > > Have you checked if SuSE's syslog-ng is heavily patched? If it's > mostly alright, it's probably

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-22 Thread Stephen Frost
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 08:01:34AM +0200, Juergen A. Erhard wrote: > > On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 03:55:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > [...] They didn't ask you because Debian is not a democracy and random > > > opinions on this decision *don't*

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-19 Thread Stephen Frost
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:09:28AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > If you really have urgent reasons to get a package into new, the best > > action is probably to send a mail to debian-release and to present these > > reasons. > > Please don't abuse the

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula (Heads up, Get The Facts!) (long)

2006-05-19 Thread Stephen Frost
* Turbo Fredriksson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You keep saying that, without showing the problems. From what I can see, > all you say is "it's wrong", "it's very wrong" and "there's major problems > with it". John pointed out the issues to it earlier in this thread, which you said you had follo

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula (Heads up, Get The Facts!) (long)

2006-05-19 Thread Stephen Frost
* Turbo Fredriksson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Quoting Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > * Turbo Fredriksson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> But regarding the build system, I REALLY object to any major changes! > >> Fixes yes, > >> but not REPLACE

Re: Bug#367962: Please don't ship a /lib64 symlink in the package on amd64

2006-05-19 Thread Stephen Frost
* Aurelien Jarno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The FHS is actually not very clear, as it says 64-bit libraries should > be in (/usr)/lib64, whereas system libraries should be in (/usr)/lib. > This is a contradiction for a pure 64-bit system. The FHS is very clear about the path to the 64bit linke

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula (Heads up, Get The Facts!) (long)

2006-05-19 Thread Stephen Frost
* Turbo Fredriksson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > But regarding the build system, I REALLY object to any major changes! Fixes > yes, > but not REPLACEMENT!! Uhh, or, not... Sorry, but the build system was terrible and is certainly something which should not be encouraged. I'd encourage you to lo

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-12 Thread Stephen Frost
* Riku Voipio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:05:17PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:09:11PM +0200, Roberto Lumbreras wrote: > > > The package has bugs, lots of them, and for that reason has been removed > > > from testing, well done, unstable it is

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jos? Luis Tall?n ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Stephen Frost wrote: > >> If the maintainer still wants to maintain it, help him, do NMUs, whatever, > >> but I'm still looking for one reason you can take over the package against > >> the maintainer's opini

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jos? Luis Tall?n ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > Actually, we've heard in this thread that Stephen (his AM) *did* offer to > > sponsor bacula uploads, and José Luis did not avail himself of this. > When the offer did come, I wasn't able to prepare the upload anyway. > I sus

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Roberto Lumbreras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Speaking about your mail, I think it's your opinion, mine is different. Sure, but you're looking through some very rosy glasses. > Jose Luis doesn't want just his name in some place, he has worked a lot > in bacula in the past, and I don't know why

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Roberto Lumbreras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I don't agree, all those things are not in my opinion enough for the > hijacking. Thankfully, you're wrong. > The package has bugs, lots of them, and for that reason has been removed > from testing, well done, unstable it is here for that. It's *n

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-18 Thread Stephen Frost
* Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:34:33AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > FWIW, I think your implied assumption that all Debian derivatives should > > be treated the same is flawed. Ubuntu is just not like any other > > derivative, it's a significant operati

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-18 Thread Stephen Frost
* Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:07:25PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > > You're already rebuilding the package, which I expect entails possible > > Depends: line changes and other things which would pretty clearly > > 'no

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-17 Thread Stephen Frost
* Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I would very much appreciate if folks would review > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00260.html and consider the > points that I raise there. I put some effort into collating the issues > which came up the last time and presenting them.

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-17 Thread Stephen Frost
* Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * for unmodified debs (including ones that have been rebuilt, possibly > >with different versions of libraries), keep the Maintainer: field the > >same > > Joey Hess and others in this thread have said that this is not acceptable to > them.

Re: Any volunteers for ploticus in Debian?

2006-01-09 Thread Stephen Frost
* Simon Huggins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone want to adopt/help with the ploticus packages in Debian? I'm only slightly better than MIA (and some might dispute even that), but I'd really like to see ploticus in Debian updated/improved. I don't use it much myself but it's one of the pa

Re: Stephen Frost MIA?

2005-11-30 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jos? Luis Tall?n ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Having sent you e-mails with my last answers to the Tasks&Skills > stage of the NM process on 2005/10/05, and having received receipt > confirmation from you on 2005/10/18, i still have no answer from you. > Moreover, i have ping'd you on 2005

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Are you saying you should bounce SPAM mail??? *I* don't bounce much of anything. Talk to Ian about wanting to generate bounces, it wasn't my idea. What I want is for him to bounce it himself if he feels it needs to be bounced, not make master do it. No, I

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-22 Thread Stephen Frost
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I don't want to accept any random crap that a forwarding host might send > me just because I asked it to forward mail for me; my resources (in the > form of bandwidth, processing time, and disk space) are limited, and if Then don't run a mail server.

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-19 Thread Stephen Frost
* Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Stephen Frost writes ("Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time"): > > * Andy Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > a) inflict bounce spam scatter on the forged from addresses in the > > >malware and spam

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-19 Thread Stephen Frost
* Steinar H. Gunderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 02:11:43PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > > I expect you could do it though I havn't tried myself because I'm not a > > big fan of smtp-level rejects exactly for these reasons. I just accept >

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-18 Thread Stephen Frost
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Since we are talking about it, it is not always trivial to special-case an > incoming connection for a local bounce instead of a SMTP-level bounce, > though. At least not with all MTAs. Using an MTA with the capabilities you need should b

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-18 Thread Stephen Frost
* Andy Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You would prefer that Ian: > > a) inflict bounce spam scatter on the forged from addresses in the >malware and spam he doesn't want to accept delivery for; or That is what he's said he wants to do. What I want him to do is have *his* servers do it, n

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-18 Thread Stephen Frost
* Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Stephen Frost writes ("Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time"): > > Then bounce it locally. Duh. No reason to force master to deal with > > the bounce messages you feel are 'right' to send. > > I don

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-18 Thread Stephen Frost
* Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Steve Langasek writes ("Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time"): > > So accept it and auto-discard it instead, if you prefer; but don't throw it > > back at master after telling master to send it to you. > > I'm strange in that I like my mail to be r

Re: A thought about killing two bird with one stone

2005-10-27 Thread Stephen Frost
* Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Stephen> Not to mention that quite a few things do things like DNS > Stephen> lookups which could take quite a while for an u

Re: Removing system users on purge [Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch]

2005-10-27 Thread Stephen Frost
* Frank K?ster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have we actually got a specific case of this happening and there being a > > real security threat from it? > > When I ran a samba server years ago, I changed the default log file

Re: A thought about killing two bird with one stone

2005-10-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* Lars Wirzenius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ke, 2005-10-26 kello 12:39 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG kirjoitti: > > David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > In various discussions recently it has been suggested that it would be > > > a good idea (TM) to make the init.d scripts run in

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > We aren't talking about log files created by the package, but by the > sysadmin. > > What if the sysadmin has taken the sensitive log and squirreled it > away, saving it for future reference? Is that no longer a supported > thing? One would hop

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Leaving around unused accounts is plainly wrong too, and also a > > potential security risk. > > Can you outline the risk please? Sure. Locking accounts isn&#x

Re: Removing system users on purge [Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch]

2005-10-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 05:24:28PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > > What about log files with sensitive content? > > > > Non-issue, as I said in the end of my post, those should be removed >

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* sean finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:58:15PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > Leaving around unused accounts is plainly wrong too, and also a > > iyho. Duh? I ain't humble tho. :) > > potential security risk. If we're going to try

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Stephen Frost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051026 20:46]: > > Additionally, this is *not* a problem with the orphaning of the file, > > it's a problem with the reuse of a previously-used uid. I could see > > adding a system to trac

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Stephen Frost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051026 20:13]: > > This is just patently false, as has been pointed out elsewhere. What > > security hole, exactly, is created by orphaning a file? > > Well, if some process (maybe within t

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Same way you know that the system administrator hasn't modified a file > > in /usr/bin. > > Um, I know that by comparing the contents against a known-true > ve

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > By knowing what the package uses the user for. This is somewhat akin to > > the PostgreSQL package's question "do you want your data files to be > > purged upon p

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Problem being, if daemons don't remove their (supposedly exclusive-use) > > accounts, you can end in two years with 100 unnecessary accounts in a > > workstation. > > And what bad results does this

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * sean finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051026 14:20]: > > i don't think removing and reusing users is a good idea in practice. > > what harm would there be in simply leaving the user account on the > > system permenantly, with maybe locking the account and s

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I disagree with the idea that removing a user is a bug. If the user was > > added by the package, and the package is being purged, and there's a > > reasona

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:11:00 +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some remove the user > >(and fail to check if it was created by the postinst/preinst and not by the > >alocal admin), > > Removing the user is a general bug

Re: changing default ping (was Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Oct 23, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Making one of the portable versions the default ping for Debian seems like > > the > > right thing to do. > Please explain why. Consistancy. The alternatives system could be used if someone

Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-21 Thread Stephen Frost
* Noah Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:13:30PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > Is a portable version required to be not working and not up to date? > > If the upstream maintainer is not interested in it, yes. > > It depends on what you mean by "up to date". If w

Re: dh_libtool proposal (-dev dependencies on -dev from libtool)

2005-10-06 Thread Stephen Frost
* Peter Samuelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'd argue to go one step further and invent a virtual package like > 'no-static-link-support' (well, a shorter name would be better) and > generate each dependency on "libfoo-dev | no-static-link-support". > Then I can install one little equivs package

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:14:28AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > Sure we do, for certain ports (ie: amd64). Really, this just means it'd > > be better to implement a system along the lines of: > > > > source upl

Re: Using buildds only (was: Results of the meeting...)

2005-08-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:32:33AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > It doesn't really hurt us right now, so we didn't start to force > > building packages in pbuilder. buildd time is cheap compared to > > developer time, so introducing mandatory pbuilding

Re: SUMMARY: Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-28 Thread Stephen Frost
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It doesn't exist; I think it's a great idea. Perhaps a tool named > dh_libtool, which populates a substvar named ${libtool:Depends}? This sounds reasonable to me; I appriciate that it's a libtool-specific thing and not a blanket policy. :) > FWIW, de

Re: SUMMARY: Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-28 Thread Stephen Frost
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - Option 4 (requires volunteers): fix libtool > > Blankly stating that libtool needs to be 'fixed' > because it is 'broken' is not very helpful. > Would you care to explain what needs to be fixed and why > it is broken? Good working examples would

Re: SUMMARY: Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-28 Thread Stephen Frost
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:57:51PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:20:44PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > libtool is broken in this r

Re: SUMMARY: Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-27 Thread Stephen Frost
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:20:44PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > libtool is broken in this regard and needs to be fixed to survive > > missing files. > > Then fix it instead of giving people bad advice. Do you actually have any

Re: SUMMARY: Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-27 Thread Stephen Frost
es where it's required (because the headers of one #include's headers from the other) but that definitely doesn't deserve a 'should'. In fact, even those cases should generally be discouraged. > Stephen Frost argued in this thread that -dev packages do not need to &

Re: Who needs libcurl3?

2005-07-18 Thread Stephen Frost
* Torsten Landschoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 10:53:02AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > Working on that. At least theoretically - when I get time, yada, yada. > > > > Steve Langasek had offered to help with this too.

Re: Who needs libcurl3?

2005-07-18 Thread Stephen Frost
* Torsten Landschoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 09:06:20AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > No, that was *worse*. We tried that before. The answer really is > > reasonably simple- just modify libldap2 to use GNUTLS. That was done w/ > > an

Re: Who needs libcurl3?

2005-07-18 Thread Stephen Frost
* Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I guess the savest way is to have a libldap-nossl-dev and > libldap-ssl-dev. The former should have anything ssl derived > removed. No, that was *worse*. We tried that before. The answer really is reasonably simple- just modify libldap2 to use

Re: API/ABI in -dev package name?

2005-07-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Exactly! :) We must have a seperate tracking of API and ABI changes. > > To do otherwise is madness. > > Hmm... I don't think Debian -dev package and > shared library packages really reflect what we consider to be > ABI/API. > > Nothing documented

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Francesco P. Lovergine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:36:47AM +0300, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.07.14.1416 +0300]: > > > libfoobar-2.1-0 will have > > > libfoobar-2.1-0-dev. > > > > Please distinguish between API and

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > If this is actually necessary for libtool-using packages, then write > > something which goes through all of the .la files and does this, since > > that's what libtool wants to do. > > and > > > Errr, you still havn't said what problem you're tryin

Re: Build-Depends: libfoo-dev more susceptible to breaking (Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal)

2005-07-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > BTW, having Build-Depends: libfoo-dev in > > > a library's build-deps, will allow the developer > > > to overlook a soname change in depending shared library. > > > Which is a bad idea in the QA standpoint. > > > > Yes and no. > > > > The program

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The current recommendation I'm trying to give is: > > Package: libXXX-dev > Conflicts: libXXX-dev > Provides: libXXX-dev > > > Thus, it won't contradict with your requirement to > be able to just build-depend on libXXX-dev. Uhh, then it doesn't

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > BTW, having Build-Depends: libfoo-dev in > a library's build-deps, will allow the developer > to overlook a soname change in depending shared library. > Which is a bad idea in the QA standpoint. Uh, no it isn't. SONAME changes are fine, the package h

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > There may be other showstoppers. > > > > What does doing this solve? What does it even help with? > > Hmmm... we are talking about naming > Debian development shareed library package names based on > Debian runtime shared library package names.

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I'd like to propose, for new -dev packages, to > > > name -dev packages after their runtime library counterparts. > > > > Uh, no? The -dev packages have no need to match to a specific runtime > > li

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > There may be other showstoppers. What does doing this solve? What does it even help with? > I would really like this 10-year old non-regulation to > go to a concensus (it is indeed rather embarassing we don't > agree on a good solution after 10 yea

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'd like to propose, for new -dev packages, to > name -dev packages after their runtime library counterparts. Uh, no? The -dev packages have no need to match to a specific runtime library and this just creates unnecessary work. > This allows mechani

Re: Shared library versioning

2005-07-07 Thread Stephen Frost
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well I did say that : "The .h file has to include the .cc one in order for the > compilation to work." > Now if you decide to leave the code that I put into g.cc only the .h file, it > works too... The template class has to actually be included, and

Re: Shared library versioning

2005-07-07 Thread Stephen Frost
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > That's almost certainly a terrible idea. > > I somehow expected that might come up. I didn't fell to comfortable with this > idea, but I think there must be another solution than simply doing it "by > hand", > a more "elegant" way. You can't rea

Re: Shared library versioning

2005-07-07 Thread Stephen Frost
* Alexis Papadopoulos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>The thing is that the library is written in C++ and makes heavily use of > >>templates which means that even a small change in the code, that doesn't > >>change the ABI, might lead to incompatibility. > > > >There's no 'might' about it... Eith

Re: Shared library versioning

2005-07-07 Thread Stephen Frost
* Alexis Papadopoulos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >It's a single headache for the one library developer/packager, as > >opposed to headaches for _every user_ of the library. > > > Yes indeed, but it's still a headache for one person ;). If that one person isn't willing to deal with it then that

Re: ftp-master, ftp and db .debian.org moving - hosting sought

2005-06-22 Thread Stephen Frost
* Thijs Kinkhorst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, June 22, 2005 11:36, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > I think the point is that we ask for a donation before we spend money > > on it. > > Sure, but the statement quoted above rules it out entirely. "can't pay" is > pretty definitive. I'm wonder

Re: libselinux1 - required

2005-06-08 Thread Stephen Frost
* Thijs Kinkhorst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, June 8, 2005 12:50, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > In RedHat, using selinux is a run time option. If one don't want to use > it, > > all one need to do is update a config file and reboot. I'm sure can get > > something similar working in Debi

Re: libselinux1 - required

2005-06-07 Thread Stephen Frost
* Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > last time i spoke to him [name forgotten] the maintainer > of coreutils would not accept the coreutils patches - > already completed and demonstrated as working and sitting on > http://selinux.lemuria.org/newselinux - because libselinu

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-07 Thread Stephen Frost
* Robert Lemmen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:12:04AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > - sparc: one buildd which is not consistently able to keep up with the > > volume of incoming packages; no backup buildd, no additional porter > > machine. > > how powerfull would a

Re: package building problems (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-07 Thread Stephen Frost
* Blars Blarson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've been watching the sparc buildd queues for the past 9 months or > so, filing most of the ftbfs bugs for sparc, and prodding the buildd > maintainer when a package needs a simple build requeue or the sbuild > chroot is broken. Great! What mechanisms

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-07 Thread Stephen Frost
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:12:00PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Clone yourself and make yourself a slave to the buildds for 7 or 8 > > > architectures, so that the r

Re: libselinux1 - required

2005-06-06 Thread Stephen Frost
* Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > any progress on making libselinux1 a "Required" package? > > the possibility of having debian/selinux is totally dependent > on this one thing happening. > > no libselinux1="Required", no debian/selinux [all dependent packages > e.g. cor

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Stephen Frost
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:12:00PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Clone yourself and make yourself a slave to the buildds for 7 or 8 > > > architectures, so that the r

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Stephen Frost
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Clone yourself and make yourself a slave to the buildds for 7 or 8 > architectures, so that the release team doesn't have to. Neither the Whoah, whoah, whoah, is this actually an option? Last I checked that answer was 'no'. Hell, that's most of the

Re: [HELP] libldap2 2.1.30 breakage?, guru for ld.so needed

2005-05-30 Thread Stephen Frost
* Simon Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Stephen Frost schrieb: > > Completely breaks dlopen()'ings of libldap2. Don't know if there are > > any in sarge but don't see any reason to break them if there are. > > dlopen() should handle dependency libs ju

Re: [HELP] libldap2 2.1.30 breakage?, guru for ld.so needed

2005-05-30 Thread Stephen Frost
* Torsten Landschoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At first sight this looked (for me) like making sense and having no > negative implications. Of course reality was different - ldconfig had > problems setting the right symbolic links. setting the right symbolic links? It's not being used to set

Re: [HELP] libldap2 2.1.30 breakage?, guru for ld.so needed

2005-05-30 Thread Stephen Frost
* Nigel Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Unless there is a related RC bug there, I don't think it's gonna > matter when the change is to get it in sarge (i personally have not > seen any RC bugs though...) There's RC bugs all over this. Stephen signature.asc Description: Digital signa

Re: [HELP] libldap2 2.1.30 breakage?, guru for ld.so needed

2005-05-30 Thread Stephen Frost
* Simon Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Torsten Landschoff schrieb: > > > Suggestions how to fix that for real before getting sarge out of the > > door with this risk that I don't feel I can estimate? > > Build a dumy libldap.so.2 with the same SONAME that consists of a NEEDED > entry for li

Re: Bug#305287: ITP: slony1 -- Slony-I is a "master to multiple slaves" replication system with cascading and failover.

2005-04-19 Thread Stephen Frost
* Tim Goodaire ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I haven't been able to find an ITP for this. I've found an RFP for it > though (278810). Is this what you're referring to? Yes. > Also, my ITP bug (305287) has already been closed on me. Apparently I Yes, I closed it since it was a duplicate WNPP bug.

Re: unixODBC vs. iODBC

2005-03-31 Thread Stephen Frost
* Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Qt in Debian must build against libiodbc2-dev because otherwise it would > have a circular build-dependency with unixodbc. Circular build-deps aren't necessairly a real problem. There's a fair amount of other stuff which have them and in general I think

Re: Emulated buildds (for SCC architectures)?

2005-03-21 Thread Stephen Frost
* Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) wrote: > >Apparently the feeling wrt distcc is somewhat different and is likely to > >be a more generally accepted solution to the slow-at-compiling issue. > > I like distcc -- heck I went to high school with the author -- and I > think it's cool. I don't

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