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Re: How to maintain packaging files for multiple distributions in the same tree?

2007-02-16 Thread Michael Spang
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:00:03 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> >>> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:34:47 +0100, Goswin von Bre

Re: unwanted loading of libnss_nis.so in etch

2007-02-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:52:10AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > My understanding is that compat is mode to allow the +/- syntax which > is considered obsolete these days... Why do you say it is considered obsolete (beyond the whole "being NIS" thing)? It gives slightly more control than using the N

Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)

2007-02-16 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:45:53AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > I suspect you will find it behaves in much the same way on all Unix > like operating systems, unless caching is used or /etc/passwd has been > replaced with a db file or database (do any OS do this by default?). We've used nscd on Solar

Re: unwanted loading of libnss_nis.so in etch

2007-02-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Brian May] > My understanding is that compat is mode to allow the +/- syntax which > is considered obsolete these days... We use NIS and the compat module here at the University of Oslo on most of our 2000 unix machines, so I can assure you that it is in active use and not obsolete at all. :) I

Re: unwanted loading of libnss_nis.so in etch

2007-02-16 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:42:20AM +, Mark Brown wrote: > Why do you say it is considered obsolete (beyond the whole "being NIS" > thing)? It gives slightly more control than using the NSS module > directly. Because it uses NIS even if you are not aware of it thus wasting memory in _every_ ru

ITP: libauthen-simple-radius-perl -- Simple RADIUS authentication

2007-02-16 Thread Xavier Oswald
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libauthen-simple-radius-perl Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Christian Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~chansen/Authen-Simple-RADIUS-0.1/ * License

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:22:08 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > But Manoj says the 'maintainer ping' was tried and was > not liked. So I guess some other method need to be found. Just out of curiosity: What exactly was this "maintainer ping" and why was it disliked? gregor -- .''`. http://info.com

Re: unwanted loading of libnss_nis.so in etch

2007-02-16 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:54:59AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > If only LDAP had client side server failover like NIS. In theory, it has, you can specify multiple server URIs in the config file. In practice the OpenLDAP client libraries do not handle failover very well (at least not in the

Re: unwanted loading of libnss_nis.so in etch

2007-02-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Gabor Gombas] > In theory, it has, you can specify multiple server URIs in the > config file. In practice the OpenLDAP client libraries do not handle > failover very well (at least not in the past, things may have > changed). Nope, not even in theory. Sequencial 3 minute timeout per server is no

Re: unwanted loading of libnss_nis.so in etch

2007-02-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:08:59PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:42:20AM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > Why do you say it is considered obsolete (beyond the whole "being NIS" > > thing)? It gives slightly more control than using the NSS module > > directly. > Because it us

Re: How to maintain packaging files for multiple distributions in the same tree?

2007-02-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:43:48 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > What I want to do is apply a patch to the common ancestry of a set > of branches but have the RCS system check that it doesn't break any > branch. Currently I have to apply the patch to one branch and then > rep

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:10:44 +0100, gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:22:08 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: >> But Manoj says the 'maintainer ping' was tried and was not >> liked. So I guess some other method need to be found. > Just out of curiosity: What exactly w

Key expiry breaks most D-I Etch RC1 images - update

2007-02-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 11 February 2007 21:59, Frans Pop wrote: > The expiration of the Debian archive's signing key for 2006 has broken > most of the installation media from etch RC1. This effectively left us without useable full CD and DVD images as the weekly builds were affected as well. After some delibe

Bug#411167: ITP: splix -- Splix - SPL2/SPLc Samsung Printer Driver for CUPS

2007-02-16 Thread Carlos Pasqualini
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlos Pasqualini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: splix Version : 1.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Aurélien Croc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://splix.ap2c.org/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C Description :

Bug#411174: ITP: remake -- GNU make fork with improved error reporting and debugging

2007-02-16 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: remake Version : 3.80+dbg0.61 Upstream Author : Rocky Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/remake/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C

Re: unwanted loading of libnss_nis.so in etch

2007-02-16 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 02:30:48PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > This is a reason why one might prefer files over compat, not a reason > why one would prefer compat over the NIS module. If you're using NIS but do not explicitely require plus addressing then the compat module is still a completely un

Re: unwanted loading of libnss_nis.so in etch

2007-02-16 Thread Brian May
> "Petter" == Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Petter> Nope, not even in theory. Sequencial 3 minute timeout per server is Petter> not client side failover. It is just painful and useless. :) Can't you change the timeout? According to the comment in my libnss-ldap you

GNOME and usability.

2007-02-16 Thread Greg Folkert
Seems I am not the only one that believes GNOME is limiting. Linus Torvalds has submitted patches. I am betting they get ignored or rejected with "to complex for our idiot users". Yes, Joss could you please explain this away for me? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competit

Bug#411209: ITP: libwiimote -- Simple Wiimote Library for Linux

2007-02-16 Thread Kobayashi Noritada
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kobayashi Noritada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libwiimote Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Joel Andersson Chad Phillips * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/libwiimote/ * License : GPL Des

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:41:23AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:10:44 +0100, gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:22:08 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > >> But Manoj says the 'maintainer ping' was tried and was not > >> liked. So I gues

Seeking for Adrian Bridgett

2007-02-16 Thread Christian Perrier
I'm having trouble contacting Adrian Bridgett: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host master.debian.org[70.103.162.29] said: 550 user account locked (in reply to RCPT TO command) Would anyone know about an alternate emila address for him? Apart from this, what does that "locked" account mean, on maste