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Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 21:12:10 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> This seems like a good practice kind of recommendation, not an >> requirement, and as such, may be better suited to be included in >> developers reference rather than policy, don't you think? > I

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 23:57:04 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:58:13PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Hmm. Are you willing then to help modify each game to allow this to >> happen? Some changes are quite extensive. > Hmm.. I am sure the maintainers o

Re: Why is sbcl getting installed during buildd builds?

Chris Cheney wrote: > I noticed that several of my packages are failing to build on quite a > few buildds. This is due to the sbcl maintainer uploading a broken > version of sbcl today (afaict). However, my package doesn't even depend > on sbcl at all, I use clean chroots to build my packages local

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:51:10PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Matt Zimmerman said: > > I do not think that version number milestones are important for a > > release. I think that having a well-integrated, high-quality > > distribution is important for a release, and this is

Re: Why is sbcl getting installed during buildd builds?

Chris Cheney wrote: > I think we determined on #debian-devel that the problem is that the > alpha, powerpc, and sparc buildds are broken and need manual > intervention to remove the sbcl package. And probably the common-lisp-controller package broken installation on buildd which is causing sbcl's

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 01:25:51 -0400 Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If something has been in unstable for a year and hasn't managed to > have few enough bugs to make it into testing, then I don't care to > have it in the release (either the older or newer version). But this is software t

Re: Bug#203820: Incorrect expanding [] glob

At Sat, 2 Aug 2003 03:23:35 +0200, Micha-B³ Politowski wrote: > On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 00:44:16 +0200, Artur R. Czechowski wrote: > > When LC_COLLATE is set to pl_PL [] glob does not work correctly: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bash-test$ echo $LC_COLLATE > > pl_PL > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bash-tes

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 04:51, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Matt Zimmerman said: > > I do not think that version number milestones are important for a > > release. I think that having a well-integrated, high-quality > > distribution is important for a release, and this is not so easil

Re: CUPS should be the default print service in Debian/Sarge

On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 23:31, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 02:52:04PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > However, I am biased, as I package the GNOME CUPS packages... :) > > And as a random comment, it's really sad that a printing system would have > any sort of dependency whatsoever on

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

On Saturday 02 August 2003 09:01, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > I disagree. We should ship ASAP despite, or even because of, older > milestones. With RC bugs and d-i (as is) fixed, Sarge would still be an > improvement on current stable, woody: the longer between releases the > less useful the distro

Re: CUPS should be the default print service in Debian/Sarge

* Joe Wreschnig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030802 10:05]: > CUPS is configurable via ordinary text configuration files like most > Unix programs, a web interface (which is what I use), GNOME or KDE > frontends, probably a number of miscelleaneous toolkit frontends, too... > > Personally, I'm surprised t

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

On Saturday 02 August 2003 09:01, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Secondly, we need to signal to upstream to fix up _their_ act, too. If > we can't ship, for example the latest gcc because glibc isn't ISO C > compliant and working with gcc-3.3 (see other thread), then others need > to act: glibc mainta

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:16:25PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Only because Steve Kemp is doing some good work on auditing our games. > I suspect he would have just as much luck finding security holes in some > other areas. I've mostly covered the games now, there's not too many left that I w

Bug#203862: ITP: beneath-a-steel-sky -- a science fiction adventure game

Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-02 Severity: wishlist * Package name: beneath-a-steel-sky Upstream Author : Revolution Software, Inc. * URL : http://www.scummvm.org/ * License : Probably not DFSG-free at the moment, hopi

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan [was: Re: Future releases of Debian]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:03:46PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > [3] http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/Debian/freeze > > Reading the whole "Future releases of Debian" thread, I thought that > the main idea was that Debian need a more 'readable' stat

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan [was: Re: Future releases of Debian]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 06:01:51AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > What we need, is a task management system almost like our bug tracking system. > A way we can express task that have to be done before next relese or any other tasks > goal we wants to achive. A

Re: Bug#203820: Incorrect expanding [] glob

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 16:11:58 +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Sat, 2 Aug 2003 03:23:35 +0200, > Micha-B? Politowski wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 00:44:16 +0200, Artur R. Czechowski wrote: > > > When LC_COLLATE is set to pl_PL [] glob does not work correctly: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bash

Bug#203883: ITP: msession -- session data management daemon

Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-02 Severity: wishlist * Package name: msession Version : 1.21 Upstream Author : Mark L. Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.mohawksoft.com/ * License : GPL, LGPL Description : session data ma

Re: Bug#203588: acpid: Shell script has nothing to do in /etc

> How do I configure your script to restart apache when the power button > is pushed? Because it has nothing to do with shutdown, you just change /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn, and modify it to action=invoke-rc.d apache restart Quickly, le Moine Fou -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A pgpffTsY

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:43:15PM -0700, Thomas Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 01:25:51 -0400 > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If something has been in unstable for a year and hasn't managed to > > have few enough bugs to make it into testing, then I don't care to > > have i

Bug#203900: ITP: qjackconnect -- GUI for setting up JACK connections

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: qjackconnect Version : 0.0.3b Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL or Web page : http://www.suse.de/~mana/jack.html * License : GNU GPL Description : GUI for setting up JACK connections QT based patchbay for the

Bug#203901: ITP: cecilia -- a Graphic User Interface for csound

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: cecilia Version : 2.0.5 Upstream Author : Alexandre Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://cecilia.sourceforge.net * License : GNU GPL Description : a Graphic User Interface for csound Graphic user int

Bug#203903: ITP: mcp-plugins -- LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: mcp-plugins Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Fons Adriaensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/ * License : GNU GPL Description : LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth

Bug#203902: ITP: ams -- realtime modular synthesizer for ALSA

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: ams Version : 1.5.9 Upstream Author : Matthias Nagorni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/ * License : GNU GPL Description : realtime modular synthesizer for ALSA Realtime modul

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:39:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > You are now talking about putting things into policy that > require maintainerrs to change program behaviour to attain similar > functionality and features; and all the examples you quote are about > packaging details tha

Bug#203904: ITP: horgand -- an organ-emulating softsynth

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: horgand Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Josep Andreu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/horgand.html * License : GNU GPL Description : an organ-emulating soft

Bug#203905: ITP: tkeca -- Tcl/Tk-based GUI for Ecasound

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: tkeca Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Luis Pablo Gasparotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://tkeca.sourceforge.net/ * License : GNU GPL Description : Tcl/Tk-based GUI for Ecasound Tkeca is a TCL/TK fro

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:24:46PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > DSA-360: no (daemon) > DSA-359: yes (uid root: hardware access) > DSA-358: no (kernel) > DSA-357: no (daemon) > DSA-356: yes (gid games) > DSA-355: no (web css) > DSA-354: yes (gid games) > DSA-353: no (daemon, temp fi

Re: Aaargh!

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:36:58PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Since then, the KDE maintainer decided to upload new KDE. And hit > a new bug in GCC (3.3) on ia64, which is fixed in GCC CVS but not in > the current GCC upload. The current GCC upload hasn't been built on > m68k (it appears

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

Matt Zimmerman said: >I disagree. If I'm not mistaken, this is the definition of an RC bug. >If >the package has an RC bug, it is not releasable. If there is an RC bug >which does not imply that the package is unreleasable, it has been >assigned >the wrong severity. So you're saying bug #1965

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:34:10AM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:06:48PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > > > > Yes. a debcamp of users would probably blow some fuse :) > > Speaking as someone who's held an FRA (US Federal Railroad Administration) > crew and fireman cert - it's

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 13:09:09 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:39:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> You are now talking about putting things into policy that require >> maintainerrs to change program behaviour to attain similar >> functionality and f

Bug#203911: ITP: tome -- A single-player, text-based, dungeon simulation game.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: tome Version : 2.2.2 Upstream Author : * URL or Web page : http://www.t-o-m-e.org/ * License : non-free, freely distributable, not for commercial use Description : A single-player, text-based, dungeon simulation game.

Bug#203912: ITP: liblog-log4perl-perl -- A Perl port of the widely popular log4j logging package.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: liblog-log4perl-perl Version : 0.36 Upstream Author : Mike Schilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Kevin Goess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL 1 or later, or Artistic, same te

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:15:53PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > So you're saying bug #196564 should be downgraded then? I don't think > that *possibly* causing a segfault in another package (it's not clear > that it still does), on *one* architecture (m68k), when it's *probably* > a toolcha

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 12:49:06PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 13:09:09 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > No, we are talking about recommending that developers discuss with other > > developers before making a change to their package which is > > S

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

On Saturday 02 August 2003 12:15, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Perhaps the time has come to reconsider the requirement that, to be > releaseable, all packages must be release-ready on all 11 > previously-released architectures, and in sync on all 11 architectures. > That's a lot to keep in sync, espec

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:15:53PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Matt Zimmerman said: > >I disagree. If I'm not mistaken, this is the definition of an RC bug. > >If > >the package has an RC bug, it is not releasable. If there is an RC bug > >which does not imply that the package is unreleasa

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 14:50:16 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 12:49:06PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 13:09:09 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> said: >> > No, we are talking about recommending that developers discuss >> >

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

Sven Luther wrote: > You are aware that due to the high heat we had in france this early > summer, lot of train going to the south of france did blew a fuse or > something because of the climatisation or something such, and thus where > delayed various hours (until the time became cooler, the clima

Bug#203924: ITP: libxtemplate-ruby1.8 -- Lightweight XML templating engine like Amrita and XSLT

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist From homepage http://xtemplate.sourceforge.net/>: XTemplate is a package of Ruby libraries and programs which formats a XML/HTML document according to a Ruby's data structure which consists of Hash and Array. This idea comes from Amrita. So we do not nee

setgid crontab

Apropos of the recent setuid/setgid thread, and also being prodded by Stephen Frost, I've changed crontab to be setgid 'cron' rather than setuid 'root'. Beyond the coding (which is mostly removing setuid() calls), this involves the following changes: add system group 'cron' change /var/spool/cron

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 02:22:27PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Often, I believe that the discussion will determine whether or not > > it truly depends on being setid. > > That would be really hard to do, unless soneone gets into the > nitty gritty of the code and determines it is not

Re: setgid crontab

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 02:51:03PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > change /var/spool/cron/crontabs from 755 root.root to 775 root.cron > change crontab files in the spool directory from 600 root.root to 600 > userid.cron It would ne nice, if cron is checking file owner then. So that the file "user

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 02:22:27PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 14:50:16 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > First, no one would _need_ to discuss this because it is only a > > recommendation (though a wise one). > > Again, a recommendation, about iss

Re: setgid crontab

On 02-Aug-03, 14:51 (CDT), Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Beyond the coding (which is mostly removing setuid() > calls), this involves the following changes: To ship the setgid program, I need to have the group 'cron' on the build system. Not a problem for me, of course, but how do

Re: setgid crontab

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:53:00PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > To ship the setgid program, I need to have the group 'cron' on the > build system. i think this is covered by fakeroot. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http:/

Re: Bug#203903: ITP: mcp-plugins -- LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 07:02:35PM +0200, Andrea Glorioso wrote: > Description : LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth > > Setof LADSPA plugins that vastlyimprove the sound of > AlsaModularSynth. Currently they consist of these plugins: Are these really specific

time(1): Return value and sys/wait.h macros

I've been asked (#203804) to supply an entry in the Debian manual page of my GNU time package (which, btw, is orphaned upstream, any takers ?). The main() function ends on if (WIFSTOPPED (res.waitstatus)) exit (WSTOPSIG (res.waitstatus)); else if (WIFSIGNALED (res.waitstatus)) exit

Re: setgid crontab

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 05:51, Steve Greenland wrote: > Apropos of the recent setuid/setgid thread, and also being prodded by > Stephen Frost, I've changed crontab to be setgid 'cron' rather than > setuid 'root'. Beyond the coding (which is mostly removing setuid() > calls), this involves the following

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 22:44:24 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 02:22:27PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> > Often, I believe that the discussion will determine whether or >> > not it truly depends on being setid. >> >> That would be really hard to do, unl

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 05:09:56PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > It is? OK, I am telling you /usr/bin/bar program in package > foo really needs to be sgid. I'll document it in bar.6. Is this the > end of discussion? Or are we going to really need to look at the code > to see if the setg

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 16:55:12 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 02:22:27PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 14:50:16 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> said: >> > First, no one would _need_ to discuss this because it is only a >>

Re: setgid crontab

On 02-Aug-03, 16:25 (CDT), Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:53:00PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > To ship the setgid program, I need to have the group 'cron' on the > > build system. > > i think this is covered by fakeroot. No, 'chgrp cron foo' fails if

Re: setgid crontab

On 02-Aug-03, 17:00 (CDT), Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 05:51, Steve Greenland wrote: > Sounds good to me. You are not the first person to do it however, I believe > that Solar Designer did the same thing for OpenWall (of course when Solar > Designer has the sam

Re: time(1): Return value and sys/wait.h macros

On 02-Aug-03, 16:52 (CDT), Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > .SH DIAGNOSTICS > Upon termination, > .B time > returns one of three possible return values depending on whether the program > was stopped, interrupted, or exited normally. The return value is derived > used the macros d

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:21:52PM -0500, Thomas Smith wrote: > architecture combination) release would be like at any time. It becomes more > complicated when dealing with RC bugs than it is with the buildds, because > they don't have architecture tags (some of them have [subject prefixes] but

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 05:38:41PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 16:55:12 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > The rules in this section are guidelines for general use. If > > necessary you may deviate from the details below. However, if > > y

Re: setgid crontab

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:53:00PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 02-Aug-03, 14:51 (CDT), Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Beyond the coding (which is mostly removing setuid() > > calls), this involves the following changes: > > To ship the setgid program, I need to have the gr

Re: setgid crontab

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 09:03, Steve Greenland wrote: > > It's easy enough to make the directory containing the files be mode 0775 > > to solve this. > > I'll assume you meant 0770? 775 and 771 don't solve the problem, and I > don't see the point of 774 over 770... Yes, I meant to say 0770. > > I don'

Re: setgid crontab

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 02:51:03PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > Apropos of the recent setuid/setgid thread, and also being prodded by > Stephen Frost, I've changed crontab to be setgid 'cron' rather than > setuid 'root'. Beyond the coding (which is mostly removing setuid() > calls), this involv

Re: setgid crontab

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:25:47PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:53:00PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > To ship the setgid program, I need to have the group 'cron' on the > > build system. > > i think this is covered by fakeroot. It is not, though doogie and asuff

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 20:48:26 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > That's nice. angband links with every library on the planet, > including X11. This should be easy. > [...about 2 minutes later...] > Even easier than I thought. > mizar:[...ity/angband/angband-291/src] tail +81 mai

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 13:46:48 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- policy.sgml.orig 2003-08-01 13:40:51.0 -0400 > +++ policy.sgml 2003-08-01 13:45:24.0 -0400 > @@ -7104,6 +7104,14 @@ > execute them. > > > + > + Since setuid and set

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ATM, TMPDIR is defined using #define in libpam-tmpdir's source. > Patches for having that as a run-time configuration are accepted. I recently posted to debian-devel a patch to do this (not sure whether you saw it or not). However, at the time, I didn

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 08:14:15PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Heh. You should look at what is in the current version: Is that what you would say to the users who have angband installed on Woody? I do not think this is something to laugh about. > Superficial audits are probably

Re: time(1): Return value and sys/wait.h macros

Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been asked (#203804) to supply an entry in the Debian manual page of my > GNU time package (which, btw, is orphaned upstream, any takers ?). > > The main() function ends on > > if (WIFSTOPPED (res.waitstatus)) >exit (WSTOPSIG (res.waits

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 20:48:26 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> This, sir, is a lie. > This statement has very little meaning from you. Then I think this discussion has reached the end of its useful life. >> I did not call you disingenuous for asking for clarification,

libraries being removed from the archive

Today I was reminded of something that causes apps not to migrate into sarge. When maintainers remove old libraries from the archive! Today for example libexif8 was removed by Christophe Barbe and replaced by libexif9. Guess what that does... any package which depends on libexif8 now becomes...

mutt co-maintainer badly needed

I need help with: - classifying and forwarding upstream open bugs - eventually packaging the mutt CVS tree, as the author has not made any new snapshots in the last months -- ciao, | Marco | [1076 ne2PTad64PE/6]

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 10:57:51AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > I don't care if you mandate a prior peer view _request_ (not prior approval) This is what was proposed, except that it was recommended rather than mandated. -- - mdz

Re: setgid crontab

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:19:23PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 02:51:03PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > > Apropos of the recent setuid/setgid thread, and also being prodded by > > Stephen Frost, I've changed crontab to be setgid 'cron' rather than > > setuid 'root'.

Re: setgid crontab

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:17:27AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:19:23PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Under this setup, when cron opens a crontab file, it should fstat() it > > and check that it is owned by the uid under which its contents will be > > executed be