Re: debian.org e-mail address and SPF/SRS

On Thu, 04.11.2004 at 00:15:19 +0100, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand my ISP's rationale which is to reduce virus mails hitting > ISP's mail server. I also understand that SPF will not be a bullet > proof against mail forgery. Please point your ISP to this interview (esp. pag

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

Hi, On Mon, 14.03.2005 at 07:37:51 +0100, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In general I would like to say that supporting a lot of architectures was > an important difference between Debian and other distributions. I know the > drawbacks of this but I just do not want to hide my opinio

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

Hi Steve, On Wed, 16.03.2005 at 15:23:42 +, Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote: > >Btw, why, or how, do other projects with much fewer users and also much > >fewer developers, manage to release for more than 4 architecture? > >*BSD come to mind... > > By having a much smalle

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

Hello, On Thu, 22.12.2005 at 17:20:42 +0100, Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes; therefore it is not bloat to have nvi and nano both in base; they > satisfy different needs (having a vi because we're unix resp. having a > non-modal editor for the rest of us). I'm not used to nano,

Re: removal of svenl from the project

Hello Andres, On Tue, 14.03.2006 at 21:01:09 -0500, Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am going through the expulsion process to have Sven Luther removed > from the project. The process is outlined here: > , > and I

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

Hi, On Mon, 31.07.2006 at 14:54:50 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With cdbs as negative and alitoh/svn as positive? what are your problems with CDBS? Best, --Toni++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

Hi, On Mon, 07.08.2006 at 12:52:26 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Toni Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.07.1126 +0100]: > > what are your problems with CDBS? > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/06/msg00451.html > http://li

interface copyrights, was: Re: cdrtools

Hello, On Sat, 12.08.2006 at 20:40:37 +0200, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a countermeasure, the FSF tries to extend copyright to interfaces, > so that you do create a derivative work merely by programming to a > specific interface of a library written by someone else, without >

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

Hello, On Wed, 30.08.2006 at 09:27:21 +0200, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 30, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Debian must decide whether it wants to ship BLOBs with licensing which > > technically does not permit redistribution. At least 53 blobs have this >

Re: ftp upload queue?

Hi, On Mon, 09.10.2006 at 21:47:06 +0200, Laszlo Boszormenyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 22:42 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Aurélien GÉRÔME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As soon as I send a mail, the deamon restarts... Good news! ;) > > Yep. Thanks magic elve

incoming locked?

Hi, I uploaded a version of my roundup package some two days ago which cleans up important bugs. The package page shows the upload on 2006-10-11, but when searching for it on w.d.o/packages, I get only an older version which *has* bugs. Any chance that the fixed version gets into Etch? http://pa

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

Hello, I agree with most of what Wookey and you said, but would like some clarification on this: On Sat, 14.10.2006 at 12:06:20 +0200, Ingo Juergensmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But sadly, I have very little hope that Debian will change anything it's > release structure soon. *sigh* Best

Re: Final call for votes for the debian project leader election 2006

On Thu, 06.04.2006 at 18:40:04 -0500, Debian Project Secretary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > 52717dc0-26e3-4337-a88b-cc2c260fcb51 > [ ] Choice 1: Jeroen van Wolffelaar > [ ] Choice 2: Ari Pollak > [ 3 ] Choice 3: Steve

Re: Final call for votes for the debian project leader election 2006

Hi sorry for the mistake :-( --Toni, not fully awake++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian and UDEV

Hello, On Tue, 16.05.2006 at 04:05:41 +, Brian M. Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ udev being, umm, not very nice ] > > Need I say more? yes: Please say *why* newer 2.6.x kernels actually do depend on udev instead of hotplug. Thank you! Best, --Toni++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

Hello, On Sat, 20.05.2006 at 16:18:44 -0500, Anthony Towns wrote: > three times the usual examination, and was done given the inability to > examine the license in public), this sounds _very_ strange to me. I can see why SUN might want their Java in Debian, but your statements just fuel consp

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

Hello, On Sun, 21.05.2006 at 13:38:57 +0200, Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know how much Sun decision-makers are worried that a move > against Debian could be bad PR... additionally, it harms *Debian's* PR a great deal if it turns out that Debian needs to pull the package.

Re: Bug#368225: please don't!

Hello Fabio, On Mon, 19.06.2006 at 11:19:22 +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Toni Mueller wrote: > > I'd say that making a "LAMP" package that includes a lot of PHP stuff > > and not much else is sort of hijacking a good name for

Re: News from the python policy transition

Hello, On Wed, 28.06.2006 at 23:20:46 +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please look for your name (or your team) in the list below and start > updating those as well! I'm expecting to update roundup this or the next weekend at the latest to fix all currently outstanding bugs, i

Alioth Tracker: no correspondence to BTS?

Hello, I've just poked around a bit in Alioth for a project I'm working on and found a bug report with a bug number that has no resemblance to anything in BTS, quite contrary to my initial assumption. Imho this would only make sense if integrating these two is hard, and if non-Debian projects are

Re: Alioth Tracker: no correspondence to BTS?

Hello, On Sun, 09.07.2006 at 22:15:40 +0200, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We (iso-codes maintenance team and, more precisely Tobias Toedter) > discovered that some people reported bugs in the Alioth BTS (or > tracker?) without us even knowing about it..:-) I've seen a very si

Bug#377956: ITP: python-psycopgda2 -- PostgreSQL adapter for Python

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Toni Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, I intend to package this module which would be a successor of python-psycopgda * Package name: python-psycopgda2 Version : 2.0.2 Upstream Author : Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Bug#377956: ITP: python-psycopgda2 -- PostgreSQL adapter for Python

Hello Hamish, On Thu, 13.07.2006 at 09:03:15 +1000, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wouldn't upstream intend to package it himself? Please contact him to > check his plans. ok, I missed, and will check, that, but was deluded into thinking he wouldn't because he is also not the mainta

Re: cdrtools

Hello, [ I'm leaning somewhat out of the window here w/o being a law expert ] On Wed, 12.07.2006 at 12:46:51 -0700, Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg clearly stands that: > > 1) Makefiles != scripts or at least it is unclear whether Makefiles may > be called "scripts": > ... > M

Re: ITO: catdoc

Hello, On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:10:19AM +0300, Peter Novodvorsky wrote: > ++ 20/12/00 12:52 -0700 - Bdale Garbee: > > I am no longer interested in maintaining the 'catdoc' package. However, I > > will continue my current level of inactive ownership of the package until > > such time as someon

Re: ITO: catdoc

Hello, On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:18:54AM -0600, Sam TH wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:25:54PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > > just wanted to point to wv which seems to do a much better > > job than catdoc, and also operates from a script if desired. > > Apparently onl

Feature Request: BTS

Hello, I'd like to have a feature in the BTS. That's the ability to select a minimum (maximum?) version of a given package to search for. Should shorten the sometimes rather longish lists of bug reports (and thereby helping to read them faster and closer, too. I may volunteer to do it, but would

sigs, was: Re: ITA: xmorph

Hello, On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 10:43:08AM -0700, John Galt wrote: > RTFFYI. It refers to bandwidth > On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Marc Haber wrote: > > The four lines rule doesn't apply to bandwidth. It applies to screen > > real estate. no need to quarrel here, historically it applied to *both*.

Re: Rambling apt-get ideas

Hmm. sorry to step in here, but On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 08:22:52AM -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote: > My point being, that yes I already use squid as a proxy server for a whole > network of apt-geting debian boxes and after only a little work it works this could also be replaced by NFS, or a small

Re: List of packages needing a new maintainer

Hello, On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:50:58PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > RFA: netcat -- TCP/IP swiss army knife I'll take a look, maybe i take this over. Best Regards, --Toni++

Re: Rambling apt-get ideas

Hi, On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:39:04PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > In dpkg cvs(what will be 1.9), dpkg no longer calls an external md5sum(it also > doesn't fork for it, which it still does for the gzip above). This isn't as btw, would it be hard to add sha1 support, as an alternative for md5 (i

Re: Huh, gcc 2.95.3?

Hello, On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 07:49:55PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:42:22AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Ack!(tm). Not shades of rh7, I hope? I know that people using sid (like > Uh, GCC 2.95.3 CVS NOT 2.96 OR 2.97! Please be careful what you say. We > are talking

s/key anyone?

Hello, I can't find the 'skey' program anywhere in the distributions. Can anyone please tell me offhand why? If this isn't a licensing question, then I surely will make a stab at packaging this up! (and no, just saying "use otp instead" isn't the answer). Thank you! Best Regards, --Toni++

Bug#475517: ITP: python-webunit -- Unit test websites by simulating a web browser

Package: wnpp Severity: normal Owner: Toni Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-webunit Version : 1.3.8 Upstream Author : Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.mechanicalcat.net/tech/webunit/ * License : MIT Prog

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

Hi, On Thu, 08.10.2009 at 11:44:21 -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: > A few of us have been discussing the removal of sun-java6. It is hmmm... are we really talking about sun-java_6_ and not sun-java_5_? When I look at Sun's site, I find that Java 6 is the most current offering they have: htt

Re: GR proposal: the AGPL does not meet the DFSG (take 2)

Hi, On Thu, 12.11.2009 at 12:51:56 +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:07:24PM -0800, Rodrigo Gallardo wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:41:31PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > > > >-- The code is modified to interact with the user using a network > > > > protocol > > > >

Re: GR proposal: the AGPL does not meet the DFSG (take 2)

Hi, On Wed, 11.11.2009 at 23:46:59 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Yes, this is one of the awkward things I find in the AGPL. If it's not > a webapp, what then? please see this: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AGPLv3InteractingRemotely It could eg. also be network file sys

Re: Liability protection project - call for participants

Hi, On Tue, 15.05.2007 at 18:11:03 +1000, Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:51:40PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > > Some of us have homes, and other property that we would rather not place > > at risk of any lawsuit connected with our Free Software activities.

Re: Please all dependency info into your init.d script

Hi, On Fri, 06.07.2007 at 22:43:31 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you might be aware, there are several bugs in the Debian boot > sequence. The bugs affect some combinations of packages, and are some > times hard to solve. To solve them once and for all, I want us t

Re: system users

Hi, On Sat, 15.11.2008 at 08:49:12 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > On some systems like OpenBSD, all those users are starting with > underscore to avoid collision with real users. On Debian, I have never > seen this, even for packages that comes from OpenBSD (like openntpd > which

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

Hi, On Sun, 28.12.2008 at 21:08:04 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > If you consider the same results, without the supermajority requirements > for options 2, 3, 4 and 6, you get: > > Winner: Option 2: Allow Lenny to release with proprietary firmware considering all the problems around this p

Re: Package cache

On Sat, 18.08.2007 at 19:29:55 +0200, Gonsolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know disk space is cheap but having hundreds of megabytes wasted for > gnome pixmaps I never see or fonts i never use is annoying. I find the implications of your proposal MUCH more annoying: * Joe User has to be perm

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

Hi, On Wed, 12.09.2007 at 09:20:57 +, John Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that. What's real is the time wasted removing whole RFCs from Debian > in a mindless pursuit of "freedom." Why squander time on trivia when > there more important things to do. well, this one can be easily rectif

Bug#456782: ITP: tcpwatch -- tcpwatch is a recorder for HTTP requests in Python

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Toni Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tcpwatch Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Shane Hathaway <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://hathawaymix.org/Software/TCPWatch/ * License : ZPL 2.0 P

Re: Bug#456782: ITP: tcpwatch -- tcpwatch is a recorder for HTTP requests in Python

Hi, On Mon, 17.12.2007 at 23:10:35 +0100, Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:42:46PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > > * Package name: tcpwatch > > Description : tcpwatch is a recorder for HTTP requests in Python > A few things: wh

Re: Bug#456782: ITP: tcpwatch -- tcpwatch is a recorder for HTTP requests in Python

Hi, On Wed, 19.12.2007 at 18:23:19 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, personally, I'd rather not have such a thing in Debian with that name. > And the fact that upstream called it that way doesn't speak highly of the > tool, either IMHO. well, the latest relea

Re: Bug#456782: ITP: tcpwatch -- tcpwatch is a recorder for HTTP requests in Python

Hi, On Thu, 20.12.2007 at 08:50:39 +1100, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In that case, you could call the package funkload-tcpwatch? > Perhaps even install the binaries in /usr/lib for use by funkload only? it is only one "binary", and in fact, I already thought about that, but I'm

Re: Bug#456782: ITP: tcpwatch -- tcpwatch is a recorder for HTTP requests in Python

Hi, On Thu, 20.12.2007 at 00:06:55 +0100, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the FHS (and debian by extension) doesn't provide support for /usr/libexec. > in every case i know of, contents of what would otherwise have gone > in /usr/libexec go in /usr/lib/package/ instead. but this is

Re: Bug#456782: ITP: tcpwatch -- tcpwatch is a recorder for HTTP requests in Python

Hi Sean, On Thu, 20.12.2007 at 09:09:37 +0100, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and i just have to add that i think it's really silly to add a > package/program called tcpwatch that doesn't actually... watch tcp > connections. but whatever, it's not like i'm installing it. well, that wo

Re: Bug#456782: ITP: tcpwatch -- tcpwatch is a recorder for HTTP requests in Python

Hi, On Thu, 20.12.2007 at 13:57:39 +1100, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry you don't like our feedback, but this is the reason why ITPs are > posted to debian-devel. let me say that I think I did change my mind in the course of the discussion, maybe not entirely in the directio

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

Hi, On Fri, 21.12.2007 at 11:14:01 -0800, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the version that is proposed to be packaged patched to reject mail at > the SMTP level for unknown users rather than accept mail and bounce it > later? qmail in its default operational mode is a spam reflector

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

Hi, On Sun, 23.12.2007 at 20:17:16 +0100, Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are times where qmail-ldap is to much (on hosts where a smart host > is used for example) and there I use the 'simple' qmail package. On mail > servers, I use the qmail-ldap package... why, just set c

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

Hi, On Mon, 24.12.2007 at 07:29:58 +0100, Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - all that send receipt on acceptance/delivery, reject at SMTP etc (and > claims that this makes Qmail wide open for spams is rubish - it's only > if/when configured incorrectly that this becomes a problem)

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

Hi Florian, On Mon, 24.12.2007 at 09:41:22 +0100, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Turbo Fredriksson: > > (and claims that this makes Qmail wide open for spams is rubish - it's > > only if/when configured incorrectly that this becomes a problem) > > How can you configure DJB qmail s

Re: Bits from the release team: Release schedule; the RT needs YOU

Hi, On Mon, 08.02.2010 at 20:13:48 +0100, Marc Brockschmidt wrote: > we wish to freeze only after the number of these bugs has dropped below > the mark of 300. As you can see on the usual overview pages [RC-Bugs], great decision, imho. > Work towards fixing these bugs is greatly appreciated. W

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

On Sat, 27.02.2010 at 21:59:39 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Faidon Liambotis > | Beyond that, I've also seen filesystem corruption when using live > | migration and the filesystem cache hasn't been disabled -- an almost > | undocumented directive of libvirt's XML. > | > | All in all, I'm

Re: Best practices for development workstations

Hi, On Wed, 31.03.2010 at 08:46:01 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Dienstag, 30. März 2010, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote: > > > squid! > > > (Or any other normal http proxy. I don't recommend any apt-proxy > > > solution...) > > Can you explain why? > > apt-proxy had issues when I tried

taxbird & co: please provide updates via volatile

Hi, I suggest that updates to taxbird and its dependencies are provided via volatile. Reason: Users of taxbird have to comply with certain legal requirements, and eg. Lenny's version of taxbird is unfit to create tax reports for this year, while the version in Testing pulls in a significant num

Re: taxbird & co: please provide updates via volatile

Hi, On Fri, 09.04.2010 at 19:30:43 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 09/04/10 10:05, Toni Mueller wrote: > > I suggest that updates to taxbird and its dependencies are provided via > > volatile. > Why do you mail -devel and not taxb...@p.d.o or the maintainer or the b

Bug#560244: ITP mysql-cluster

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Toni Mueller * Package name: mysql-cluster Version : 7.1.3 Upstream Author : Oracle * URL : http://dev.mysql.com * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : cluster-enabled version of the MySQL

Re: Xen for Squeeze, 3.4 or 4.0

Hi, I know that I'm a bit late... On Thu, 10.06.2010 at 17:54:28 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > My personal preference would be to go with 4.0. If it's one, then I opt for 4.0. Thank you very much! Kind regards, --Toni++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

Hi, while working on a package I'm going to sponsor, it occurred to me with all the DD, DM and sponsoring going on, that I'd like to have a field in debian/control, like eg. Bugs-To: some...@debian.org, ... to have some...@debian.org automatically subscribed to the bugs for this package, much

Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

Hi, On Wed, 11.08.2010 at 17:48:09 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Toni Mueller wrote: > > in debian/control, like eg. > > Bugs-To: some...@debian.org, ... > This is the info which IMHO belongs to PTS and should stay there. after rethinking the issue, I agree that it

Downloading Testing with Jigdo unsupported?

Hi, I was under the impression that Testing installer images should be auto-generated on a weekly basis. Now I look at http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/, and at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/i386/jigdo-cd/ and find that the images are all actually several months old, whi

Re: Downloading Testing with Jigdo unsupported?

On Tue, 24.08.2010 at 22:12:37 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Probably you are looking for this? > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-cd/ Yes. The link to this isn't published prominently, but I found it at last. Thank you! -- Kind regards, --Toni++ -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: recovering from compromised keys

Hi, On Thu, 23.09.2010 at 15:13:06 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > Needing an unencrypted /boot just means you have to distrust /boot after you > lose and then regain control of your laptop. this probably means that you have to do this everytime you've set the device aside, or after you wake up

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

Hi, On Sun, 07.11.2010 at 11:45:05 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Screenshots on packages.d.o > --- > > You may have noticed that packages.d.o now includes screenshots[1] > with a link to a the Debian screenshots site[2]. Where a screenshot > isn't available a "No screensh

Re: Debian Enterprise - a Custom Debian Distribution

Hello, On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:53:19AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 07:31, David B Harris wrote: > > who run it, as is so often the case these days. I can't count the number > > of times I've heard horror stories from HP customers (and other vendors > > as well) about

Re: packages.debian.org is useless

Hi, On Thu, 27.11.2003 at 12:53:57 -0800, Carl B. Constantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems p.d.o is one of the compromised machines? is there an ETA for this already? TIA! Best, --Toni++

Re: anti-spam trick for debian ml (was Re: News about the Package Tracking System)

Hi, On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:36:10PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 06:28:06PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > How about ensuring that all addresses on the Debian keyring are > > > whitelisted by default? > > As well as all gpg signed mail? > Spammers are starting to u

Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Toni Mueller * Package name: libressl Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : The OpenBSD project, the OpenSSL project et al. * URL : http://www.libressl.org/ * License : BSD, OpenSSL, SSLeay, Public Domain. Programming Lang

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

Hi Kurt, [ I have trimmed the Cc list - we are all on devel@, anyway, right? ] On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 02:15:13PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 01:53:45PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 01:25:47PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > >

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

Hi, On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 07:43:44AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 12, Toni Mueller wrote: > > * Package name: libressl > I am highly doubtful at best. in which respect, and why? > What are your plans exactly? My plan is to first build the package(s) and upload

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

Hi Thomas, On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 11:52:24AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 07/12/2014 08:46 PM, Toni Mueller wrote: > > As libressl is currently under > > heavy development, it is imho not to be expected to have that stable ABI > > you are asking for. > > Well, I

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

Hi Jeroen, On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 12:22:49PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > At Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:46:45 +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > > Ok, but for whatever reason, they have an imho not as shiny track > > record, as has OpenBSD. Which is no wonder, given all the revelations

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL (addendum)

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:08:01PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 12:22:49PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > OpenSSL was part of OpenBSD before they created the LibreSSL fork, so > > how isn't OpenSSL part of the OpenBSD track record? > > it is in

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 07:43:27AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > That turns smaller adjustments in applications into > > developing entirely different interfaces for each application, while > > GnuTLS itself still lacks a lot of features. > > Do you have any reference for this? I have not foll

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 01:32:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > In the world in which BSD software is linked with LibreSSL and the license > exceptions have not been changed to allow OpenSSL-derived software, now > (due to the way that Debian applies this rule transitively) GPL software > can't li

Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

Hi, On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:26:26AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The value is the same as for most packages: it's easy to install and > easy to upgrade (I assume; I don't use Wordpress). Yes, the expected if someone in Debian would want to make that effort, I'd say that Wordpress and the li

Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 09:56:17AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > packaging and security issues and is because we need N independent > installations per server for different groups that can vary separately and That's one reason why packaged versions of web apps are quite often useless at my workpla

openvz, was: Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 04:23:27PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > This reminds me: is anyone going to bring back vserver or openvz in some I'm for having openvz back, then. Can we have this in a separate thread, please? Kind regards, --Toni++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@l

Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:53:25PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 04:23:27PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > This reminds me: is anyone going to bring back vserver or openvz in some > > form? > Ola Lundqvist had plans to do this in an > OpenVZ-hosted repository. Sounds goo

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

Hi, On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:34:39AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > So to use the image you need either a DVD or a USB stick, and if you're > using a write-once DVD you're perhaps wasting the unused space; but the > download time and install footprint are still kept low and in the range of > wh

Re: big .debian.tar.xz - EG Wordpress

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:53:11PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Russell Coker wrote: > > Would it be possible to have somewhere on the Debian servers for storing > > such > > files so that they can be referenced in a README file or something rather > > than > > sent

Re: big .debian.tar.xz - EG Wordpress

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 03:56:25PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > Hopefully you've got the build-dependencies too. Which, if the source packages > were split off into other packages, you'd then pull in. Being able to read the source code can often get you quite far already, but yes, usually, I want a

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

Hi, On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 02:22:24AM +0300, Serge wrote: > What's a temporary file? Really, why would applications temporarily store > its data in a file? They do that to *free some memory*. Placing those files > back to memory renders the whole process of writing the file useless. > If the fil

Re: Packaging on GitHub ?

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 05:58:55PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Charles Plessy dixit: > >upstream source moved to GitHub, and we would like to try to maintain the > >Debian package there as well. > > This is not a good idea: http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html MUCH seconded. Thanks for

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 08:26:52AM -0400, Weldon Goree wrote: > at some point). Much better developers than me seem to have formed > this opinion too (cf browsers' behavior while it waits for you to tell > it what to do with an unknown content-type: it's a disk-based pipe to > whatever program you

Re: Starting services automatically after install

Hi Phil, On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 07:49:03PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > The Debian approach has always been to not install anything that you > don't intend to use. I have brought up this topic in the past, too. Summary: I often do want the Debian-packaged software on my systems, but use it enti

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

Hi Thomas, On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 07:33:26PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > All the complaints about /tmp as tmpfs come down to one simple issue: > > The size of the tmpfs isn't chosen well. It would be more constructive > > to find a better heuristic for the size there. > > No. The complain i

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 07:00:52PM +0300, Serge wrote: > Well, nobody named the benefits yet. Just the problems. There were a Well, I named one on 28th of May. Did you read it? Kind regards, --Toni++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Starting services automatically after install

On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 08:21:34AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Aaron Toponce [120602 16:26]: > > However, I am calling into question the validity of starting a service by > > default post-install. I think it introduces security concerns, possible > > headaces on the local LAN, and just un

Re: Starting services automatically after install

On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 08:21:02AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > Enabling services on external interfaces by default is indeed a bug, IMO, > especially things like SSH, DHCP, SMTP or Bind (which has a long history of > security problems). SSH is imho the one exeption to the rule, provided it h

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 05:11:16PM +0300, Serge wrote: > 2012/6/2 Toni Mueller wrote: > > Eg. web application's session data very frequently goes there, and/or > > the sysadmin wants it to go onto a tmpfs. > > First, there can be rather large session directory, you pro

Re: Starting services automatically after install

Hi Bernhard, On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 01:51:33PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Toni Mueller [120603 11:41]: > > Since we obviously can't agree on *how* the service is to be run, one > > could just ask the user, eg., in the case of a printing service: > The print serv

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 06:34:57AM +0300, Serge wrote: > 2012/6/3 Toni Mueller wrote: > >> First, there can be rather large session directory, you probably don't > >> want ~365595 files to be always eating your RAM. > > Well, I much rather want that, or st

Re: gnome is completely f^Mmessed up

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 02:26:23PM +0200, Florian Reitmeir wrote: > Norbert Preining wrote: > >is this only me or do I have the feeling that we are going down > >the trench with Gnome? > > ... > >Is this a joke? Are we going to release that in June/July/whenever? > i use gnome too, and for me its

Re: Re: Is Debian affected by the recent MySQL sql/password.c flow?

Hi, On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:53:50PM +0200, Peter Pöschl wrote: > Seems you overlooked this: > > > Debian Unstable 64-bit 5.5.23-2 I just tried on my 32bit machine, and didn't get in in some 50.000 attempts. Also, the squeeze versions are listed under "unaffected", which is what reduces the s

scim and assorted packages

Hi, today I received an email from the FTP masters that a pacakge that is highly relevant to me, has been pulled from Debian. I understand that most folks are now looking at that ibus stuff (which is imho not ready for prime time, yet), but would like to understand better how a package with only

Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

Hi, On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 08:41:07AM +0200, Michael Hanke wrote: > I think this is approaching the problem from the wrong end. Instead of > preserving the status quo and asking oracles to predict the future we > should have better means of _removing_ software that has proven to be > inferior of

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