Re: DebConf6: Final call for registrations / reconfirmations

2006-03-31 Thread Gunnar Wolf
; YOURSELF. > > The 3th of April? Precisely. Three/four days from now. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DebConf6: Final call for registrations / reconfirmations

2006-03-31 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Martin Michlmayr dijo [Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 11:50:15PM +0100]: > * Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-31 13:34]: > > > > Lets repeat that, as this is important: You *NEED* to confirm that you > > > > attend DebConf before the 3th April 2006, 23:59:59 UTC

Re: Possible conflict with XFree 4.5

2006-04-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
e packages in which most other packages depend, and it's one of the least trivial ones to get right. You can be almost sure that many things will break if you prefer to use an X server not provided by Debian - So the answer is right, why would you want to use XFree now? Greetings, -- Gu

Re: Possible conflict with XFree 4.5

2006-04-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
mp;submit=Submit+Query&arch%5B%5D=i386&arch%5B%5D=all There is no xorg 7.0 backport yet, and I fear it will not be easy to add one (as the Debian xorg 7.0 introduced _major_ packaging changes, if somebody puts up a backport it will probably be completely made from scratch to behave as

Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3

2006-05-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
wo weeks after Sarge had frozen. I also suggest you to use experimental for this. If you want a wider test base, maybe set up an unofficial repository and publicize it. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint:

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

2006-05-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ment IDs. As for Madduck: I hold as a proof of his identity his book, which has a photo of him, and I have since Debconf6. It's possible, but still very hard, to go through all the work to write a book and put your photo in it just to impersonate somebody :) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wol

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

2006-05-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
that your passport does not show the fact you were to that country. I have seen this both in Cuba and in Israel. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF --

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

2006-05-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
nd I was just proofing you cannot be in ten places at the same time for the whole time over two weeks :) It might be enough proof for some people that I am Gunnar Wolf - With or without an ID. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 20

Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
who you _know_personally_ and less about who has shown a real-or-fake-ID to you. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
some questions asked, some delays involved, but no detailed background checks. I'm sure neither the FBI or the CIA (or, as for Mexican authorities, CISEN or PGR) were involved. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D

Re: [Debconf-discuss] list of valid documents for KSPs (was: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys)

2006-05-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
KSPs, if we continue to hold them: Many of us have our photo as part of our key. Maybe if the printed sheet was not plain-text but included those photos that are available, it would be at least a slight improvement? Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244

Re: [Debconf-discuss] list of valid documents for KSPs

2006-05-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
x27;t have any document which many of the KSP attendees would recognize as an official ID, and there was quite a bitter argument regarding their bank cards with pictures - And there were not just one or two, there were _many_ locals showing their IDs. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
n Mexico, and once my passport expired, I had to go through the military service to get a new one. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Red team attacks vs. cracking

2006-05-31 Thread Gunnar Wolf
skip the KSP if it happens as it happened this time (and as in the other proposals I've seen). Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to execute a data-file's preferred app from the cmd-line?

2006-06-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ultiuser (i.e. LTSP). Its users will have different sessions. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: PHP application packaging policy/best practice?

2005-01-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
, I consider them as programs. Some people have pointed out that other PHP programs go to /usr/share as well. Just to complement: Perl modules also get installed to /usr/share if they are not architecture-specific. Python seems not to be that way, as its standard sys.path does not include /usr/shar

Re: rudeness in changelogs

2005-01-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
2004-12-15/2004-12-21/0 [3] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/385206/2004-12-22/2004-12-28/0 -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)1451-2244 / 5554-9450 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
me into Debian running away from OpenBSD's aggressiveness. [EMAIL PROTECTED] can be a huge flamefest, but not as big as [EMAIL PROTECTED] - even with 10x the number of developers. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)1451-2244 / 5554-9450 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
dules will be group-maintained - I will upload them, but they will be part of the pkg-perl group's repository. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)1451-2244 / 5554-9450 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- T

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
't point me to it ;-) ) who advocated a person with such a delicate skin to enter NM. I mean, NM is for people who are _already_ somewhat involved in Debian... And if a little aggressivity puts you off that badly, then... Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)1451-2244 / 5

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
a clear line, but I expect NM to filter people cleanly. I mean, I would not expect everybody to be a heavy d-d poster, but yes to at least be moderately interested in it, to follow d-d, to understand how we DDs are, and not to be pissed off just because one of us decided to call you a moron. Greetings

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-23 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ome time :) - It is the Christmas Island, I understand that an Australian protectorate, between Australia and Indonesia. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
he needs to rebuild the kernel using a debconf dialog or by mailing him... -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: Debian menu system update

2003-05-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
icy for HIS work. Menu systems, IMHO, are the task of a distribution - a way to organize a collection of software. They should not be the task of individual developers. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
be split in many flavors (i.e. strict 386, 486 and up, 686, or whatever you fancy). And I am sure this can somehow help maintain the non-Linux ports - NetBSD gives us the potential to bring Debian to _many_ new platforms. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
description of stunnel3 explaining the situation and urging users to upgrade if possible. Even more, stunnel3 and stunnel4 can coexist - and some users will find it very valuable to have both the newest stunnel features and the ease of keeping their old configurations, or not having to be ro

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
-) Next Debconf is scheduled to be held in Vancouver, Canada. Some people were talking me into proposing Mexico for a future Debconf, but I don't think it would be that good an idea until we had some more developers in the country, but... Maybe for 2006? :-) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Joshua Kwan dijo [Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:35:51PM -0700]: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:22:00PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Next Debconf is scheduled to be held in Vancouver, Canada. Some people > > were talking me into proposing Mexico for a future Debconf, but I don't > &

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
n to Nuevo Laredo once, and it scared me - And a friend from that area told me it is among the best :-/ -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF pgpkJhwG6mCON.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Jonathan Walther dijo [Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:51:12PM -0700]: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:36:15PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > >Tijuana?! > >Being curious... What would you expect to find in Tijuana? > > Cheap hotels, cheap booze, cheap food, and cheap whores. :-) More or

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
t; the conference to be held somewhere that would accomodate an > archaeological daytrip... Well, we have everything in The City! ;-) ...But I'm shutting up for at least one more year. 2006 is still far off. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP k

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-31 Thread Gunnar Wolf
rlines and so on. > > All that could be taken care of by arranging some common transportation. Also, trains in Europe are quite nice, some of them are quite fast, not as expensive as airlines... Plus, a nice and large Debian team could go together from LinuxTag to Vienna... The train company

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

2003-08-01 Thread Gunnar Wolf
xecutable files under /etc, they belong to the most varied programs... And they are (or at least, they seem to be) perfectly valid configurable files. (most of them - see my next message) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10

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

2003-08-01 Thread Gunnar Wolf
y a binary, it is clearly not user-modifiable. Should it be in /etc? Should it just be a symlink to /usr/lib/xutils or something like it? Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
require a MTA to work. On the other hand, mutt can work in a more mundane environment with a remote IMAP server. Yes, a MTA is required to send mail, and is thus strongly recommended - but not having one does not render the package unusable, so it is not really depending on it. Greetings, -- Gunn

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
very important user base, we are obliged not to give them such a headache. Besides, I really doubt that even one tenth of the Debian developers would be happy to switch ;-) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
GTK+, file selector boxes allow for tab completion. ... So vim is just vi becoming Emacs? I know the hard-core vi guys just hated Ctrl-combinations. Anyway, this thread is not about editor wars. The flames are set on user friendliness. Back on topic... :) -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-

Re: Packaging some Redhat admin tools

2003-08-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ompassing our 'control' and 'rules' files) and, optionally, some patches. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF pgpLVy7niHa9u.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-08-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
not shipping with kernel 2.6 by default would seem odd. But by then, KDE 3.3 would be knocking the door... Please, this is Debian. We do not need no shiny new versions of neither ${package} nor ${subsystem}. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/

Re: Debian Weekly News - August 19th, 2003

2003-08-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
nterest) to debate their decision - and they are mostly people who most of us hold in quite a nice position. Now, why am I insisting in quoting the 'bigots'? Because they care. Because being involved in all those convoluted discussions in our behalf, in subjects we all care about

Re: Debian Birthday in Netcraft

2003-08-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
think it is right - The 'former Iron Curtain' countries (if I understand correctly, meaning 'the countries that were behind te Iron Curtain' include Germany(west), France, USA, UK and the Netherlands :-) -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key

Re: 0 RC bugs == releasable quality?

2003-08-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ot;Good job!" (okay, okay, I admit, this only about 0.0001% of all >feedback) Keep up with the good job, Branden! Go get'em all! (is it at least 0.003% already? :) ) -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
n ignored bug > reports and problems for the project? Description, with the possible addition of a note in README.Debian would be better - it is targetted at the user. Bugs are targetted to the maintainer, and most users will not be aware of them. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-5

Bug#207791: ITP: ITP: libdata-formvalidator-perl -- Library for easily validating user input, mainly for HTML

2003-08-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
elease: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux jerx 2.4.21-gwolf #1 Fri Jun 27 13:04:09 CDT 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35

Re: Accepted kaffe 1:1.1.1-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
receiving this extra information. Some users might find it even useful. Some fellow developers might be interested in knowing how did you do it. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: "non-free" software included in contrib

2003-09-01 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ware, by not listing non-free in his sources.list (I know that listing contrib but not non-free will lead to broken packages, but... A user might do it). He might even be running vrms - and vrms will not complain about the non-free software he has installed! Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROT

Re: /var/run and scripts

2003-09-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
tmp or /var/tmp (of course, excercising enough care) -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF pgpISXYIOOxwL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug 70132 (on atari-fdisk)

2003-09-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
phaning this package? Is anyone willing to adopt it? It is a base package, priority required for m68k, and otherosfs priority: extra for all other architectures. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2

Re: Virus emails

2003-09-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
been sent. If you suddenly send a 5xx error code, the client might never receive it. You may close the connection, but th client might then retry - and consume your bandwith over and over. Greetings, [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0821.txt -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-97

Re: Virus emails

2003-09-23 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Steve Lamb dijo [Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:21:05PM -0700]: > Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0821.txt > > And what does RFC2821 have to say about it? I would not trust every MTA to implement newer versions of the RFC - Howeve

Re: Virus emails

2003-09-23 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Steve Lamb dijo [Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:29:51AM -0700]: > Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steve Lamb dijo [Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:21:05PM -0700]: > > > Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0821.txt >

Re: Virus emails

2003-09-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
to stop every mail which is (peeking at my inbox) between 1887 and 2183 bytes long just because it might be a virus? Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Virus emails

2003-09-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
1889 lines is about 140k > on the one I just received. Are they? hmmm... Ok, that weakens my statement ;-) But anyway, there are way too many 140K legitimate messages. Greetings -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C7

Bug#213149: ITP: libhtml-template-associate-perl -- Helps use HTML::Template in conjunction with other modules

2003-09-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libhtml-template-associate-perl Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/HTML/ * License : GPL, Artistic Description : Helps use HTML::Templat

Re: Re: Where are we now? (Was: Bits from the RM)

2003-10-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
's position... I am very fond of dselect's way of organizing its listings. Maybe we should ask the user at first boot if he wishes to use tasksel, dselect, aptitude or none-of-the-above, instead of going just tasksel and dselect... But, yes, that would increase the footprint of our bas

Re: RFC: allow new upstream into stable when it's the only way tofixsecurity issues.

2005-08-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
the world and the surrounding regions?) Any new upstream verison needs to be compiled specifically for stable, and pushed through proposed-updates or something similar. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)1451-2244 / 5623-0154 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D

Re: RFC: allow new upstream into stable when it's the only way to fixsecurity issues.

2005-08-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
eudo-stable flavors (you can probably take the 'hundreds' quite literally at the end of a release cycle). We should strive to have _one_ stable distribution - If for nothing else, for the ability of reliably upgrading. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)1451-2244 / 5623-0154 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF

Re: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation withspecial emphasis in security

2005-08-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
t > it? The OBSD crowd have reimplemented many important subsystems because they do not consider GPL-like licenses to be free enough. Yes, also because of technical reasons, but in this case it seems to be about (their version of) freedom. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+5

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
gt; buildds lagging or breaking and people bothering them about it. Huh? Would an off-the-shelf old 1.5GHz P4 lag behind a top-of-the-line m68k or ARM? Would it break more often than a MIPS? -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)1451-2244 / 5623-0154 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 F

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
g - You cannot be sure, of course. This, also, cannot become policy, as it cannot be checked... But I feel this is common practice already. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)1451-2244 / 5623-0154 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35

Re: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation withspecialemphasis in security

2005-08-23 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ebian will probably need > to include the package, but we will also have to make sure it doesn't > get called "cvs" (since it is going to have a different interface), > and we'll have to do extra integration work. Joy. Completely AOL. Greeetings, [1] http://www.openb

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
urprisingly!) 132.248.181.148 (ftp.mx.debian.org - on a 100Mbps link from here ;-) ) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
rg" => [[132,248,181,148], 0] } There is another mirror in unam.mx (132.248.182.159), but it's only for certain architectures. I truly don't understand how deb.cdn.araki.net is mapped to be close to us :) -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
s, you could hardly find animals living as far apart as polar bears and penguins. A polar bear has to swim/walk close to 15,000Km (as neither lives really on the poles, right?) to find a decent penguin. Bah, mascots. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8

Re: On the subject of watchfiles (was Re: Proposed MBF: Debian upstream version higher than watch file-reported upstream version)

2008-02-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
l and the CPAN rock my world, although my programming is nowadays mostly Ruby-based. The Ruby general mindset is WAY inferior. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
y break most of our cultural myths/icons :) > (Also, it's a bloody mascot, who cares if they don't /really/ live in > the same locations. They live in the same /climate/ and that's good > enough for most people.) I do not care for a Debian mascot. The whole thread should bel

Re: On the subject of watchfiles (was Re: Proposed MBF: Debian upstream version higher than watch file-reported upstream version)

2008-02-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
to keep track of over 670 packages without automated tools. What really brings me down is that this is impossible in communities such as the Ruby one, which uses a incoherent and brain-dead packaging format, and insists on shoving it on distributions' throats. Bah. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROT

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
fnord, lighttpd, micro-httpd, mini-httpd or thttpd. What does it do better than any of them? Or worse? Or different? Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
the goddamn difference. That's extremely unhelpful from us. We should tell the prospective user at a first glance why he wants one httpd over another. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
eceive proper security team and QA attention. > (...) Why not instead call it http://www.apt-get.org? -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
on a much more serious tone: I do not trust anyone (hell, I often don't even trust myself! My hat off to our always kind ftp-masters) to check for proper licensing terms. And we cannot afford to have non-distributable or otherwise illegal content distributed from within Debian, however unofficial i

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
oked ISO files for download. /me throws question at the void: Would it be feasible to get something akin to an inverse-FUSE that presents ISO files in the presence of the individual debs and Jigdo files? Yes, it would probably be much more processor-intensive than just downloading a file, so I m

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
and establishing connections. It does. I ran Jigdo for i386 DVD 1 some months ago for a person that requested it from me. We have ftp.mx.debian.org in our university network, and I have theoretically a 100Mbps link to it (really it's about 8Mbps, but who am I to complain?). It was a bus

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
xample there's now a scandinavian telivision station that's starting > to distribute shows through bittorrent, we also already have debtorrent) I do know, and I do think the idea is a darn good one. Several ISPs, however, only see you are sharing via P2P - and might charge you extra o

Re: Version numbering for security uploads of native packages

2008-03-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
cted, as it is a lower version. I have not touched the package for three years at last. Tell me, don't you think this should trigger some QA alarms? At very least, I'd agree with you uploading 1.~1+etch1. That way, when I'm finally done with my Precious 1.1 release, I can still pr

Re: Service stopping in prerm considered harmful

2008-03-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
hat stopped status) > :-) Umh... Well, if the init script detects the service is still running after it tried to stop it, _then_ it can return failure Greetings -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9

Upstream's complete overhaul of the configuration file - And future handling

2008-03-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
uration. Do you think cherokee-admin should be started at boot time? (of course, this would be done using a separate initscript) Thanks for your comments. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F80

Re: ITP: libnet-dhcp-perl -- Interface for handling DHCP packets

2008-03-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
But do make sure the upstream tarball does not include the RFCs themselves, as they are non-free. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: ITP: libnet-dhcp-perl -- Interface for handling DHCP packets

2008-03-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
n it do with the > > packets. > > "With Net::DHCP you can create and analyze DHCP packets which are sent > or received with the help of IO::Socket::INET." > > I'll update the package description in svn tomorrow. Do you think this > sentence is descriptive enought? Yo

Re: Upstream's complete overhaul of the configuration file - And future handling

2008-03-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
, there is no way I can present a side-by-side diff... Unless I continue shipping my 0.5.x config file, just for comparison sake... -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF --

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-03-31 Thread Gunnar Wolf
rogrammers - They don't get along well (or didn't get along well, at least, in this scope)? Ok, so be it. But in the end, I _know_ they both put all their effort into making Debian evolve. I am nobody to judge you, specially given my lower activity level of the last months in the project.

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
o be downloaded... So, even with pipelining and all, storing too many diffs becomes irrelevant. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to handle Debian patches

2008-05-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ncluding a "the maintainer shuold not modify files outside of the debian/ directory without a strong rationale", and provide lintian checks for packages still directly modifying upstream code... It can become a long transition, but a good one in the end, /methinks. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EM

Re: How to handle Debian patches

2008-05-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
good maintainer would split and name that in debian/patches/01_fixes_blah, debian/patches/02_foo and so on, and in each of the files' headers would note what bug or issue is this patch addressing. And we can make tools understand said headers - and complain if an unexplained patch was found

Bug#482073: ITP: wnpp -- libwill-paginate-ruby

2008-05-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ginate is aimed at being used from the Ruby on Rails framework. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Dpkg triggers and user experience, aka "How do I disable those triggers" side effect.

2008-07-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
lem that > was caused by an (IMHO unnecessary and boring) call because of > the trigger feature. This, however, is an interesting point to work on - Of course, it should be fixed by making more robust the processes that are triggered, not by removing a feature by labelling it as a bug!

Re: Intent to NMU tinyproxy

2008-07-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ge? I think everybody will be better off that way... (of course, keeping Ed in the Cc: - Ed, are you still interested in this package? Would you oppose Jordi taking over?) -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D

Re: Dueling Banjoes

2009-07-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Andrea Bolognani dijo [Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 05:03:37PM +0200]: > We haven't got multiarch yet, and you ask for multibanjos support already? > > That's pretty rude if you ask me. But bibanjo can perfectly solve the needs at hand, with the hardware at hand. -- Gunnar Wol

Re: default character encoding for everything in debian

2009-08-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
tibility. We users of Latin-based alphabets migrate easily to UTF8, with occassional problems where we use diacritics. Eastern Asian encodings are _completely_ incompatible with UTF8, so it is just not possible to tolerate broken text every now and then. Everything just breaks completely. -- Gunnar

Re: default character encoding for everything in debian

2009-08-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
g output into the terminal as input). Now... Well, printing an unprintable string can cause segfaults in some cases. -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

2009-08-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
d. BTW, reiterating so much on when Ubuntu is, when DebConf is and all that... Is just too reiterative, if you allow me to reiterate ;-) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 pgp7bym5vNeo7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
m not familiar with the procedure, but I suppose a debian/control field would indicate whether this package allows being built as a .ddeb (as there would be no way i.e. to build a Perl module as a ddeb) • Less namespace explosion. We would get rid of all the -debug packages. -- Gunnar Wolf

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ools must be aware of it. And apt should know -before updating or whatnot- that a package was installed from a ddeb, if they are to share the base name. But I feel ddebs will allow debugging packages creation and installation to take place in a much more transparent, automatic fashion. I think this w

Re: Automatic Debug Packages

2009-08-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
in a public location? > > What's wrong with /usr/lib/debug/build-id? > > > > I don't think the unnecessary obfuscation is warranted. > > Because that is where gdb looks for them. Umh, and for human joy, adding a symlink at /usr/lib/debug/lib_or_binary_with

Re: Relation between Suggests and Enhances

2009-08-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
as well: If a user has his apt{-get,itude} configured to auto-install Suggests:, it should also auto-install reverse-Enhances:, right? -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: piuparts-MBF: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

2009-08-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ove on. How should I proceed with this? Greetings, ¹ http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/cherokee.git;a=blob;f=debian/cherokee.preinst;h=0c39283a3d883ff68958410b8b41d0ca8b8f547c;hb=HEAD -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 pgp6iDNuSJOMK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: trayer_1.1_i386.changes REJECTED

2009-09-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
e to do packaging-specific changes while keeping track of your upstream releases? -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: trayer_1.1_i386.changes REJECTED

2009-09-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Wouter Verhelst dijo [Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:01:47AM +0200]: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 06:29:31PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Why should it be Debian-native? > > I never said it *should* be. I said it *could* be, and that whether or > not it is should be the maintainer&#

Re: Copyright infringement on ww w.rossbeazley.co.uk — Overreacting?

2009-09-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
are_ formally right, I would rather not come down with a harsh message at someone who is not really hurting any of us except for failing to provide a link back. Even the place's name is clearly personal! Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNS

Re: What is this rule for?

2009-09-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
hich adds very, very little real value. ...Or possibly we could decide on renaming /bin/ls to /bin/ls.elf in order to show what kind of file it is, and allowing for different implementations to coexist? -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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