Re: Security updates for sarge?

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:43:18PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 05:10:26 +0200, Sven Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Ingo Juergensmann [u] wrote on 22/10/2004 18:35: > >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 06:13:46PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > >> > >>> Because they have

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:25:48PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 20041022T134825+0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > >> Before "testing", the RM used to freeze unstable and people were > >> working on fixing bugs. There were pretest cycles with

Mass bug filing: build depends on libtool1.4

Hi, I was having a bit of a stab at the orphaned package list today, and noticed that libtool1.4 is down to be removed after Sarge releases. The following packages still declare a build dependency on libtool1.4: Maintainer: Dima Barsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package: cyrus-sasl Maintainer: Junichi

Bug#281331: ITP: dstat -- versatile resource statistics tool

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: dstat Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Dag Wieers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/ * License : GPL Description : versatile resource statistics tool Dstat is a versatile r

Re: crash of csh

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 05:26:19PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > hi, > is the maintainer of the bash currently the same as the maintainer of > the csh? Don't think so: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep-available -s Package,Maintainer -P --eregex '^bash$|^csh$' Package: csh Maintainer: Matej Vela <[EMAIL PR

For people more knowledgeable about buildds...

Hi, Is there a webpage that shows the current queue of packages in Needs-Build state? igloo's pages are great, but they only let you know the position in the queue of a package, not what's before or after it (out of curiosity). Also, what is involved with putting a package back into the Needs-Bui

Re: New stable version after Sarge

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:25:00PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > >At least that's been the case including sarge. Hence, such > > >a sentence would not mean anything. > > > > > >>I can understand something like "Debian releases when it's ready", but > > >>many people

Re: RunDinstallHourly

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:16:27AM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: > http://wiki.debian.net/?RunDinstallHourly (part of the ReleaseProposals > topic on wiki.debian.net) discusses the concept of speeding up the release > process by running dinstall hourly instead of once per day. This seems (to > my amateur

Re: RunDinstallHourly

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:45:12PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:36:11 +1100, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:16:27AM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: > >> http://wiki.debian.net/?RunDinstallHourly (part of the ReleaseProposals > >

Re: Info and statistics about the project

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:54:09PM -0400, Maykel Moya wrote: > Don't know whether the appropiate list for this post should be > debian-users or this. > > March 25, a Congress of Free Software will take place at UCI, here in > Cuba. I'd been preparing myself to give a talk about the Debian Project.

d-i has 99% support for filesystem labels (was: Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware)

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:20:00PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Miros/law Baran wrote: > > >>it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it > >>probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an unbootable system > >>after kernel-image updates, because the kern

Re: new mplayer 1.0pre7try2 package

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 06:06:36AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:08:39PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: > > >mplayer has had an explicit warning from upstream that it's patented; > > The proposed tarball for Debian has stuff excised left

Re: update-inetd and xinetd

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 05:09:32PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 13, Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > However it whould be great if update-inetd could create a file in > Many new features in update-inetd would be great, but nobody ever > finished implementing them. > I've been

Re: USB-to-UART converter

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:02:46AM -0800, kos wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to use a USB-to-UART (8 port) converter. I expected it to > get recognized and create device names like /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1 > ./dev/ttyUSB7. However, this did not happen. > > [Surprisingly, the single USB-to-UAR

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 05:03:50PM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > > You don't need to install anyone else's operating system. You can easily > do : > > Boot target using NFS root Ah but how do you create an NFS root for one architecture on another? This is one of the limitations of FAI

Re: The 98% and N<=2 criteria (was: Vancouver meeting - clarifications)

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:04:08PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 09:52:18AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > As you say, _most_ of the issues are triggered by one of those three > > chips, not all. And, by not making a hard requirement to compile the > > packages which will n

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:38:17PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Andreas Tille wrote: > > >My point: We need the possibility to recreate the current Debian > > >infrastructure for proposing changes to the current situation. > > Not only this, we need the possibility to setup an alternate machine q

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 06:32:02AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Andrew Pollock wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:38:17PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > >My point: We need the possibility to recreate the current Debian >

Re: Why do we still have this on the distribution?

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:18:23AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Wed, April 6, 2005 01:09, sean finney said: > > - sarge is around the corner, and keeping it in means maintaining > > it for possibly another 2-4 years! if it's *already* > > no longer maintained upstream... > > This raises

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 08:09:16PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > Yep. The problem is that you need umpteen iterations for the > installation and you'll end up changing the FAI setup, installing, > waiting half an hour, testing, doesn't work, change FAI, repeat. Been there, done that, got t

Re: Thoughts about changing Debian's release process

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 08:10:58PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:36:36AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > sausage-machine style. Then of course you need to keep it up to date as > > > well. > > > > I think that last phrase is the major problem... > > Yep, likewi

Re: Why do we still have this on the distribution?

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 04:16:18PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > FWIW: This would mean to remove all of Mozilla and friends, since they > don't receive any security support upstream, and neither the maintainer > or the security team are in a position to backport all fixes and correcte > all stu

Re: www.debian.org and users information

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:25:48AM -0500, Adam M. wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > >Hi DD folks, > >Sarge is now approaching zero kelvin and folks are scrambing to get the > >last few bugs squashed. I was recently thinking about why the non-clued > >folks bash Debian with incomplete or inaccurate fa

Re: dhcp-client package in sarge

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:01:22AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 09:00:28 +0200, Nicolas Kreft wrote: > > Is it for a special reason that the default dhcp-client > > in sarge is ancient (version 2.0pl5)? > > > Some years ago when the release of sarge was supposed to be imminent

Re: dhcp-client package in sarge

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 08:56:07AM +0200, Nicolas Kreft wrote: > Hi List! > > > Is it for a special reason that the default dhcp-client > in sarge is ancient (version 2.0pl5)? > I've been told that the reason debian-installer uses dhcp-client instead of dhcp3-client is because of the size of th

Re: dhcp-client package in sarge

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 04:23:46PM +0200, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 10:19:03PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > FWIW, I've recently become a co-maintainer, and now the Sarge has released, > > I'm planning on bringing dhcp3 up to date with the latest

Re: initrd, lvm, and devfs

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:34:06AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > so unless Debian wants to stay with stoneage kernels you're better of > starting to fix D-I. That beeing said D-I people have been told > repeatedly that basing an installer on devfs is a bad idea long time > ago, but let's no

Re: not starting packages at boot

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:53:48AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 20-Jan-05, 22:09 (CST), Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sure, one can go behind the backs of maintainers with > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch3.en.html#s3.6 > > > ("Disabling daemon se

Re: no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 03:14:26PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > > It is unfortunate, that there is no easy access to the changelog, I know of, > > but all other infos can be seen on the package tracking system: > > I guess that you've never heard of > Any

Re: Problems with Samba and/or Sundance Ethernet Driver

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 07:56:52AM -0400, Paul Galbraith wrote: > I didn't have any luck with this on the user list, I'm hoping someone on > this list can offer some suggestions. I'd really like to spend some time > digging into this to see if I can find the real problem, but I'm not sure > where

Zeroconf Debian?

I'm currently at the SAGE-AU annual conference, and Apple presented a paper about their Rendezvous technology, which is their implementation of Zeroconf[1]. Is anyone working on getting Debian to do any of this sort of stuff? If not, I might look into spinning off a subproject. I don't think it

Re: Zeroconf Debian?

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:44:18PM +1000, An?bal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > > > > Is anyone working on getting Debian to do any of this sort of stuff? > > There is already a project for zeroconf [1]. And a debian source > package [2]. There is also a paper [3] presented at lca2003 [4] by Brad > Ha

Re: MEI Whitelist Autoresponse

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:45:18PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > > I think virus scanners are in a different class, though. Mailing list > software isn't designed to recognize viruses, while virus scanners are. > It's disgustingly incompetent to recognize a mail as Sobig.F, which is > known to

Re: boot problem : snort starts too soon

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 05:52:59PM +0200, Timothy Demulder wrote: > Hi, > > Could it be possible to start snort at a later time in the bootprocess? > I'm asking this because ppp starts S14 and snort starts S20. > Point is, pppd call takes a couple of seconds to negotiate an > ip with the ISP so s

Re: netsaint

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:36:07AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > I've been EXTREAMLY busy so I haven't even LOOKED at my 'debian bugs mail > folders'! A quick look reveals that I have 112 mails in there that haven't > been taken care of. > > Things is getting calmer every day, and hopfully

Re: controlling spam via mail interface?

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:06:29PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 07:47:18PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > > And yes, I expect that all messages reported will need to be manually > > reviewed to avoid deleting good mails from the archive. > > It would be c

Re: not starting daemons at boot: ln -s disabled

On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 12:15:29PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Dan Jacobson writes: > > But the downsize is later, unless one keeps records, one isn't quite sure > > of just what tampering one has done in /etc/rc?.d/ > > Sysvconfig keeps records. Sweet. Now I get a Red Hat-like service command as

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

On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 11:10:04PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Hello. > > As it is being currently discussed on debian-security [1], security team > has hard times supporting mozilla family of packages, because of > unfriendly upstream policy - they don't want to isolate security fixes

Re: packages still setting /usr/doc link

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:19:34AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The following is a list by maintainer of the 497 packages that still > > contain code in their postinst to create links in /usr/doc/. > > Some of these packages have been orphaned, but

Re: packages still setting /usr/doc link

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 05:00:05PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Andrew Pollock > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:19:34AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > > > > Some of these packages have been orphaned, but have not yet had their > > > maintainer fields switc

Re: wnpp situation

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 12:47:33AM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > Hi, > If you go through the list of wnpp bugs you will see alot of > open bugs which are very very old. > Especially the RFPs. What about closing an RFP bug > automatically after the third semi automatic notice mail > which is sent to

Looking for historical package information

Hi, The debian/changelog for dhcp3 has a malformed first entry, which I'd like to fix if possible. I'm trying to determine the date and uploader of dhcpd (0.5.5-1) to experimental, sometime around or before September 1996. Is there anything useful stashed away somewhere that Google can't see? r

Re: Bug#323227: new list: debian-planet to distribute planet.debian.org postings; archive to enable searching

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:01:42PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > * Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050914 10:47]: > > | Maybe, if you don't want your output to be found on the Internet, you > > | should not make it available on the Internet? > > I think there is a difference between puttin

Re: Managing users and groups within multiple devel chroots.

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:12:54PM -0700, Rob Browning wrote: > > Is it possible to configure a set of chroots (woody, sarge, whatever) > so that all of the chroot passwd/group DBs will stay in sync with each > other and with the host DB automaticall, so that, for example, a > useradd, usermod, or

Re: removal of support for /etc/hotplug/usb/

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:21:08PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > After having been deprecated for a long time, support for map files in > the /etc/hotplug/usb/ directory will be removed from the udev-hotplug > subsystem. This is scheduled to happen next month, when most of the > current hotplug pack

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:25:05PM -0400, Decklin Foster wrote: > W. Borgert writes: > > > I found out, that more and more important information about > > Debian development are on the planet.debian.org/.net website. > > I'm illiterate on "blogging", so please could someone tell me > > whether/how

Bug#475116: ITP: asterisk-espeak -- eSpeak text-to-speech module for Asterisk

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: asterisk-espeak Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Francois Aucamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/asterisk-espeak * License : GPL

Bug#547617: ITP: pymetrics -- Python code metric reporting tool

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Pollock * Package name: pymetrics Version : 0.8.1 Upstream Author : Reg. Charney * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pymetrics * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Python code

Bug#551210: ITP: blame -- display the last modification for each line in an RCS file

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Pollock * Package name: blame Version : 1.3.1 Upstream Author : Michael Chapman * URL : http://blame.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C Description : display the last modification for

Bug#429634: ITP: slack -- configuration management program for lazy admins

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: slack Version : 0.14.1 Upstream Author : Allan Sundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.sundell.net/~alan/projects/slack/ * License : GPL Programmin

Bug#429950: ITP: sieve-connect -- A client for the MANAGESIEVE protocol

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sieve-connect Version : 0.33 Upstream Author : Phil Pennock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://people.spodhuis.org/phil.pennock/software * License : BSD

Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pssh Version : 1.3.1 Upstream Author : Brent N. Chun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.theether.org/pssh * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:37:23PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 19 juillet 2007 à 09:02 -0700, Andrew Pollock a écrit : > > Description : Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools > > > These tools are good for controlling large collections of nodes,

Bug#435306: ITP: sma -- Sendmail log analyser

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sma Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Jarkko Turkulainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.klake.org/sma/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C

Bug#564820: ITP: libpam-barada -- PAM module to provide two-factor authentication based on HOTP

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Pollock * Package name: libpam-barada Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Moxie Marlinspike * URL : http://barada.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : PAM module to provide two

netkit-inetd in sarge

Hi, I finally had some time and a new hard drive to get around to trying out a virgin sarge installation. To my dismay, I found that netkit-inetd is still going on as part of base. As a security professional, I think this is a Bad Thing(tm). For all the woody boxes I deploy in my infrastructure

Re: netkit-inetd in sarge

On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:40:51AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:04:31AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > To cap it off, the discard service seems to be enabled out of the box. So > > is daytime. Daytime's not too bad, but discard? I personall

Re: netkit-inetd in sarge

On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 09:32:54PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:48:47AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:40:51AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Yes, it receives data from the network and throws it away. But I do

Re: netkit-inetd in sarge

On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:40:51AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:04:31AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > It's pretty trivial with netkit-inetd as well; you edit /etc/inetd.conf and > comment out what you don't want. > Additional packages th

Re: netkit-inetd in sarge

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:13:02PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > > Yeah, but you can do that on any given port whether it's open or not. e.g. > > cat /dev/zero | nc -u victim 12345 > > (nc in UDP mode seems to ignore "ICMP port unreachable" packets in my > testing... if it doesn't you can alw

Re: netkit-inetd in sarge

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 08:39:58PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Yes, I think you are the only one so far who thinks that this is any > different, in terms of potential harm, from spraying exactly the same > packets without anything listening on the discard port on the remote host. Righto, bac

Re: Source only uploads?

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 06:08:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Sure, sure. > > Just give me one real world reason why it is not good to build in an > artificial environment like you call it (either pbuilder or an > autobuilder) and i will go away, as you say. Yes, please do. I've been following t

Anyone know anything about 3dwm?

Hi, I'm trying to prepare a QA upload of the 3dwm source package, and close a few of the trivial bugs assigned to it (mainly binary package descriptions being shite). Unfortunately the upstream website appears to be down so I can't try and learn anything much about the software right now. I wa

Re: Anyone know anything about 3dwm?

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 10:03:42AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 14-Nov-03, 19:52 (CST), Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to prepare a QA upload of the 3dwm source package, and clo

Re: apt-rpm article -- the features we don't have

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 07:50:29PM -0800, A.J. Rossini wrote: > [snip] > > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] > > > > To install a package directly, with apt downloading any necessary > > dependencies: > > apt-get install rpmver-2.0-13498cl.i386.rpm > > couldn't this just refe

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:08:03AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > Apparently nobody knew it was comparable to ptrace, it looked like a > simple bugfix and not like a local root exploit. > What bugs the hell out of me is that people with nothing better to do with their time can sit on the lkml

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:17:19AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > Of course someone could look at the MS fixes and do some decompilation for a > similar result. Sure it would be more difficult to analyse the assembler > code produced from decompilation than to analyse C source, but OTOH there is

Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages

Where I'm working, we have Debian stable deployed on a number of boxes. For hardware support reasons, we've had to grab newer kernels from testing, and have been reasonably successful at not dragging in half of testing with them. We're going to want to upgrade everything to 2.4.23 ASAP, but I'd pr

Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:59:40PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 16:41, Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, I was wondering how to go about taking the source package for > > 2.4.23-686 (and the SMP version) and backport them to stable? &g

Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:08:53PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > I presume I can lower the dependencies on things like modutils and whatnot > > down to the versions that are in stable with no ill-effects? > > It only depends on coreutils|fileutils, so there's no problems in that regard. What a

Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 05:11:50PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:35, Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:08:53PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > > > I presume I can lower the dependencies on things like modutils

Re: Proposed change to debian release system

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 03:20:27PM +, Scott Minns wrote: > Hiya all, > First of all let me introduce myself, my name is Scott Minns, i'm a > debian user, not a developer. That most likely makes you question why > i'm using thins mailing list at all, let alone having the gall to > propose al

Re: RFC: best practice creating database

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 05:19:07PM +0200, Uwe Steinmann wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:38:59PM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: > > Hello! > > > > What is consideres best practice when a package uses a SQL database > > (mysql, postgresql) and needs to create its own catalog and/or tables?

Re: discover or alsa?

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:17:59PM -0400, sean finney wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:37:07PM -0600, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > > For what it's worth, hotplug recently had a similar issue on a test > > install for me: it actually loaded both OSS and ALSA drivers for my > > soundcard. > > likewis

Re: Maintenance of User-Mode Linux packages

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 06:51:52PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Is anyone (other than martin f krafft) interested in co-maintaining some or > all of the UML-oriented packages in Debian? This includes the following > source packages which I currently maintain: > > - user-mode-linux > - kernel-pa

New maintainer process

Hi, Since satie.d.o has been destroyed, where does this leave the NM process? Andrew

Need access to an Alpha

Hi, I've got a problem with a package I maintain building from source on the Alpha architecture. I'm still going through the NM process, and I believe that once I become a DD I'll get access to a Debian Project Alpha. In the meantime, does someone have an Alpha that they can give me temporary ac

Backporting a package from unstable to stable

Hi, To use an example, I'd like to take the source package for Snort (2.0.0-2) in unstable and rebuild it against stable so that I can update my otherwise stable installation with a newer version of Snort, without dragging in all the other dependencies from unstable that just installing the Sn

Re: Backporting a package from unstable to stable

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:41:13PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > To answer the question, the answer is 'no, not always'. > > You need some try-and-error, and usually backporting one package > requires backporting of another. However, many people do it due to > their needs. > > The biggest st

Re: New virtual package: festival-voice (bug#112565)

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 05:15:44PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > The festival speech syntesizer needs at least one voice file. I'd like to > use a virtual package named "festival-voice" so that people cannot install > it without one, which is a problem (see the above bug). Last time I looked, t

Breaking into a Linux box running initrd

Hi, The way I've always broken into a Linux box when it's been seriously broken or the root password's been forgotten is to go "linux init=/bin/sh" at the LILO prompt. However, this doesn't appear to have the desired effect when you've got a system that boots with an initrd. Can anyone enligh

DSA's via rsync

As previously mentioned on this list, where I work, we have a sizeable chunk of infrastructure that can't connect out to a Debian mirror[1] One of my colleages has written a script, which works on the /var/lib/dpkg/status file on a host that may require updating comparing it against the /var/l

Re: DSA's via rsync

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 04:25:20PM +0400, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 19 May 2003 18:28:19 +1000 > >>>>> "AP" == Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AP> > AP> > AP> This would be made easier if the D

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > > So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, > and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts > on various debian.org machines (primarily ries), and about 1000 spams a >

Bug#657114: ITP: barnyard2 -- output processor for Snort

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Pollock * Package name: barnyard2 Version : 1.9 Upstream Author : Ian Firns > * URL : http://www.securixlive.com/barnyard2/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C, Description : output co-processor

Bug#786375: ITP: grpc -- A high performance, open source, general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Pollock * Package name: grpc Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : * URL : http://www.grpc.io/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : A high performance, open source, general RPC framework that

Bug#850395: ITP: tpm-quote-tools -- programs that provide support for TPM based attestation using the TPM quote operation

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Pollock * Package name: tpm-quote-tools Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : John D. Ramsdell * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/tpmquotetools * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#860067: ITP: minijail -- Utility to run a program inside a sandbox

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Pollock * Package name: minijail Version : 1 Upstream Author : Jorge Lucángeli Obes * URL : https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-guide/chromium-os-sandboxing * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, C