Re: next d-i meeting - 2010.10.20, 21h00 GMT

Reminder Later on (21h00 GMT) will take place the next d-i meeting. If you are planning to make some notes before now it's a good time. (x-posting to -devel to reach a wider audience) -- Melhores cumprimentos/Best regards, Miguel Figueiredo http://www.DebianPT.org A Sexta 15 Outubro 2010 00:02

Bug#600795: ITP: slepc4py -- Python bindings for SLPEc libraries

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: trophime * Package name: slepc4py Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Lisandro Dalcin * URL : http://code.google.com/p/slepc4py/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Python bindings for SLPEc libr

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

[reply-to set to d-d only] On 20/10/2010 07:12, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org): > >>> On the other hand, is it really necessary a new group? Can't adm or >>> operator >>> be overloaded with this new functionality? (think Ockham's razor). >> >> No. Both o

Packages/DiffIndex

[Sorry if that's the wrong group, please point me to the right one, if appropriate. I've asked this question on debian-user before but got no reply there.] On my Lenny system, I maintain a small Debian archive. It's updated with "apt-ftparchive generate". I would like to add a Packages/DiffIndex f

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

* Vincent Danjean [101020 09:46]: > > How about the "root" group? > > This would hurt systems where umask is 002 (or 007) by default (the root > group is the primary group of the root user with nobody else in it) No, the root group (aka wheel) group is the group of people that are allowed to swit

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

On 20/10/2010 11:18, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > So I would suggest to use a name that is more likely to be unique. > unique wrt. what? "admin" seems "unique" since not used in Debian yet. > Happy hacking, -- Mehdi Dogguy مهدي الدڤي http://dogguy.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Bug#600812: ITP: ovito -- Scientific visualization and analysis tool for atomistic simulation data

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Pekko Metsä" * Package name: ovito Version : 0.9.2 Upstream Author : Alexander Stukowski * URL : http://www.ovito.org/ * License : GPL (v3) Programming Lang: C++ Description : Scientific visualization and analy

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 at 01:58:22 +, The Fungi wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 09:48:58AM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > > On the other hand, is it really necessary a new group? Can't adm > > or operator be overloaded with this new functionality? (think > > Ockham's razor). > > Maybe similar

Re: Packages/DiffIndex

Hi André, On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:44, André Berger wrote: > [Sorry if that's the wrong group, please point me to the right one, > if appropriate. I've asked this question on debian-user before but > got no reply there.] mhh, yeah, if debian-users@ can't provide help instantly: ask again - or

Bug#600827: ITP: zita-at1 -- JACK autotuner

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: zita-at1 Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Fons Adriaensen * URL : http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : JACK autotuner AT1 i

Re: Init dependency between nfs-kernel-server and name server

Enrico Weigelt writes: > * Jesús M. Navarro schrieb: > >> I imagine that in many cases if there's a locally installed >> authoritative nameserver it will be used by the local resolver too. > > That's just an assumption. In the last decade I had enough systems > where this was not the case. Aut

Bug#600831: ITP: zita-resampler -- C++ library for resampling audio signals

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: zita-resampler Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Fons Adriaensen * URL : http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : C++ library for

Re: Packages/DiffIndex

David Kalnischkies (2010-10-20): > mhh, yeah, if debian-users@ can't provide help instantly: ask again > - or just wait a tiny little bit longer than 2 days. ;) You're right; in my defence, this is in fact my second attempt. > You could also ask "upstream" - which is in this case the deity@ list

Bug#600840: ITP: fs2ram -- manage post-mount/pre-unmount scripts for tmpfs across reboot

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philippe Le Brouster * Package name: fs2ram Version : 0.3.7 Upstream Author : Philippe Le Brouster (native package) * URL : http://git.onagre.fdn.fr/?p=fs2ram * License : GPL Programming Lang: Shell Description

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:28:49PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > Quoting from base-passwd again: [...] > ... so in practice, staff is root-equivalent, but in principle it's not meant > to be. (Yay.) Right, which was why I also chose to use it for "staff" who I trusted with root access, but wanted

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

Maybe "god" ;-) On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 20/10/2010 11:18, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> >> So I would suggest to use a name that is more likely to be unique. >> > > unique wrt. what? "admin" seems "unique" since not used in Debian yet. > >> Happy hacking, > > --

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 17:38:23 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Otavio Salvador wrote: > > > Maybe "god" ;-) > > What about the "adm" group ? Is it the same as the "admin" ? > What about reading the thread and relevant documentation instead of repeating turned down ideas for the bikeshed

Re: Packages/DiffIndex

[Moved back to debian-user] On Mi, 20 oct 10, 14:47:17, André Berger wrote: > David Kalnischkies (2010-10-20): > > > mhh, yeah, if debian-users@ can't provide help instantly: ask again > > - or just wait a tiny little bit longer than 2 days. ;) > > You're right; in my defence, this is in fact my

Re: Init dependency between nfs-kernel-server and name server

[Goswin von Brederlow] > That way nfs-kernel-server is started after the name resolvers but > none of them is required. Does that look right? Nope. Virtual facilities (like $named and $local_fs) provided by several scripts should not be listed in the Provides line of individual init.d scripts. S

Bug#600879: RFH: apt-listbugs -- tool which lists critical bugs before each apt installation

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the apt-listbugs package. The other co-maintainer (Ryan Niebur) is currently almost MIA and finally told me that he no longer wants to be involved in apt-listbugs maintenance: see and

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

Christian PERRIER writes: > Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org): >>> On the other hand, is it really necessary a new group? Can't adm or >>> operator be overloaded with this new functionality? (think Ockham's >>> razor). >> No. Both of those groups also have other meanings. > How about

Re: Bit from the Release Team: Status of hppa

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 09:22:22PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Hi, > > As previously announced[1], hppa is no longer a release architecture for > Squeeze. What is omitted is the rationale for doing so at this stage. Removing an release architecture with an active porter group is not somethin

Bug#600891: general: Qt-based browsers crash when loading some web sites

Package: general Severity: important Web browsers that use QtWebKit crash when loading some web sites such as http://qt.nokia.com and http://www.linux.org.ru . Sites like http://www.google.com and http://www.youtube.com don't cause crashes. Tested browsers: Arora 0.10.2 (http://code.google.com/p

Bug#600901: ITP: ho22bus - English word reciting helper program

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: ho22bus Version : 0.8.5 Upstream Author : YunQiang Su * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ho22bus/ * Licenses: GPL-3 Programming Lang: C/C++ Description :