Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Russ Allbery writes: > The general principle that I would advocate for here, though, is that if > someone says clearly and explicitly "never contact me again," we should do > what we can to never contact them again. If the message would be signed I'd agree, but for a non-signed message that woul

Bug#921076: ITP: pound -- reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web servers

2019-02-01 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carsten Leonhardt * Package name: pound Version : 2.8 Upstream Author : Robert Segall * URL : http://www.apsis.ch/pound/ * License : GPL with OpenSSL exemption Programming Lang: C Description : reverse proxy

Recreating history of a package (was: Re: Reusing source package name of long-removed, unrelated package)

2019-02-06 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Ian Jackson writes: > There are utilities that will download all revisions of a particular > package from snapshot.d.o and make them into a combined history. Would you care to name those you know of? I have been searching for something like that but I didn't find anything useful. Regards, Cars

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-07 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Luca Boccassi writes: > Defaults are defaults, they are trivially and fully overridable where > needed if needed. Especially container and VM managers these days can > super trivially override them via SMBIOS Type11 strings or > Credentials, ephemerally and without changing the guest image at all

Bug#962918: ITP: bacula-libs3 -- S3 library for Bacula

2020-06-15 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carsten Leonhardt * Package name: bacula-libs3 Version : 0~20200523 Upstream Author : Bryan Ischo , modified by Bacula Systems * URL : https://www.bacula.org/downloads/ * License : LGPL 3+ Programming Lang: C

Re: Proposal: use /usr/bin/open as an alternative for run-mailcap and others.

2020-10-09 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
(Re-added Charles to Cc as he asked in his original mail) Andreas Metzler writes: > On 2020-10-07 Charles Plessy wrote: >> Hello everybody, hello Debian freedesktop.org maintainers, > >> /bin/open has been kindly freed a couple years ago (#732796) and I would >> like to propose to repurpose it

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-08-26 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Robert Edmonds writes: > I would guess that the vast majority of folks still using sysvinit with > Debian are running wheezy or older, and thus removing sysvinit scripts > from packages in unstable wouldn't affect them. But maybe that still > leaves a reasonable number of testing/unstable + sysvi

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

2016-11-16 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Ian Jackson writes: > Reading that bug I think it's a shame that we didn't manage to > effectively identify the issues we've now discussed here on -devel > earlier, despite Kurt's several messages to d-d-a. Concerns were already raised in June, in the subthread starting here: https://lists.debia

Re: intended MBF: wrong redirections in maintainer scripts

2018-08-04 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Hi, > as announced in our talk at debconf'18 [1] we intend a MBF about wrong > redirections in maintainer scripts. In general these are of the form > > foo 2>&1 1> /dev/null > > Here it was probably intended to send both stderr and stdout to /dev/null. > In reality the effect of this is to send

Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

2017-02-28 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Daniel Pocock writes: > On 27/02/17 21:26, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> But ntpd is also known to have a large amount of code written >> without as much regard for security as one would hope. It seems >> like an unnecessary risk for most systems. > Thanks for that security tip, I'm tempted to get ri

Re: Whether remotely running software is considered "software" for Debian.

2017-08-29 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Bernd Zeimetz writes: > On 08/12/2017 07:35 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Aug 12, "Dr. Bas Wijnen" wrote: >> >>> Which would be a great example of software that is free interacting with >>> software that is non-free. Thus the package with this as its main purpose >>> should live in contrib. T

Bug#807242: ITP: bacula-fd5.2 -- legacy bacula file daemon

2015-12-07 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Bacula Team * Package name: bacula-fd5.2 Version : 5.2.13 Upstream Author : Kern Sibbald * URL : http://www.bacula.org * License : Mainly GPL, parts LGPL, BSD and others. See http://www.bacula.org/git/cgit.cgi/bac

Re: bat: 3 different programms and one name

2016-02-05 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Michael Biebl writes: > Am 04.02.2016 um 12:06 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter: >> that the upload of alsa-utils/1.1.0-2 doesn't fix the name conflict >> in bacula-console-qt and bareos-bat! > > Please file a bug against the two packages to get this sorted out. No need, bareos-bat conflicts with bac