Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

into the described problem in a few rare cases. What do you prefer? Also adding update-python-modules -p to a postinst script does not hurt, even when dependencies change. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp:

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

ge is being configured (Debian Policy 3.5). So if you depend on a properly install *and* configured lsb_release, either add a Pre-Depends *or* chose a different way to ensure it is configured properly. And this is an easy one actually as all you need to do is to run update-python-modules -p. -- Be

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

On 07/20/2010 09:50 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 21:44:21 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> On 07/20/2010 09:08 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: >>> Well, that lsb_release is written in Python is just an implementation >>> detail, no? So it just shoul

Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

On 07/20/2010 10:04 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> Sometimes, a package requires another package to be installed and >> configured before it can be installed. In this case, you must specify a >> Pre-Depends entry for the package. > > "In

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

for a renaming ever. > > Just an example. > > Have fun! > > Hans-J. Ullrich > > Just an example > > -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerpr

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

t > Russ> aren't required. > > Russ> I think wishlist is the correct severity for this. > > For the lintian check, or for the (coming) bug report? :-P both. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

of fonts in Debian is one of the reasons why many > desktop users switch to other distros. Interesting, I've never run into any trouble with subpixel rendering... -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp:/

Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

On 08/13/2010 11:56 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > The PTS is insufficient for this purpose as it can't automatically > unsubscribe people when their package is superceeded. That should not be too hard to implement without an extra control field. --

Re: Raw Idea: one more control field for sponsors

On 08/13/2010 06:22 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > >> On 08/13/2010 11:56 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> >>> The PTS is insufficient for this purpose as it can't automatically >>> unsubscribe people when their package

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

w do you call this? Obvious fail. The list is read only as the communication has to go trough the BTS. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 06

Re: Backports service becoming official

y have to maintain th ebug anyway, which includes looking at the bugs and fixing them... -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Backports service becoming official

ave no problem with people backporting any of my > packages that are useful to them, but I shouldn't have to read bug mail for > them. I have enough bugs of my own. Chances are good that htese bugs affect your package in testing, too. Why ignore them? Instead you should be happy that your packag

Re: Moving package with quilt to new upstream version

, the > tree will be dirty for git at annoying times), BUT it helps a DAMN GREAT > DEAL to keep quilt in check, enough that I do it for every package I > take care of. Keep one branch with the patches applied and export them when you're ready to build them - gbp-pq helps with that.

Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable

e it, I'd expect that a lot of developers would concentrate on throwing new stuff into unstable instead of fixing bugs to be able to release soon. The proper way to fix the issue is to release faster by fixing all remaining issues faster :) -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian

Re: Three common voting errors - how to avoid them

in the announcement-mail would hav ebeen nice. I almost sent mine to secretary@, too :) -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

o minutes to start only if you don't configure it properly. But yes, it should go imho. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6

Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

On 10/27/2010 06:36 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > FWIW, it's what worked best when I set up Time Machine over the network. That sounds like they're using CNIDs then... Indeed netatalk is the only way to get such things done properly. -- Bernd ZeimetzDeb

Useful descriptions please (was: ITP: haskell-hxt-xpath -- The XPath modules for HXT.)

Hi, posting a lot of ITPs for related packages to a mailing list makes only sense if you provide a proper short and long description, so people are able to review it. Otherwise you could save your time to create the ITPs and save the reader's time to look trough the ITPs. Cheers,

Re: Collecting data

On 12/24/2010 05:39 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 05:41:12PM +0200, derleader __ wrote: >> The kernel module will check the status of the OS every 5 minutes. What is >> the most efficient way to collect these data? > > apt-get install munin-node or use

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

ive that work to the buildd-admins... -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@

Re: Release file changes

r at least make sure that debmirror and friends are updated in an oldstable pointrelease. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB3

Re: Release file changes

either one of the following happens: # wget -q -O - ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/lenny/updates/Release | grep -i md5 # Please fix this on security.debian.org ASAP. Thanks, Bernd -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

es from build-dependencies, the issue should be fixed in the buildd software - it should know which libraries are available on all architectures and build against them, or maybe stick to the first available package in the list. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux De

Re: Are circular dependencies inside a source package OK?

y1.9.1 Here you're basically at a point where Python was years ago - one binary package for every supported version. i think you should find a way to move the whole stuff for all ruby versions into one package and find a proper way to handle dependencies and whatever else is needed. -

Re: Are circular dependencies inside a source package OK?

On 03/01/2011 11:17 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 01/03/11 at 10:44 +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 02/27/2011 04:31 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >>> Ideally, we would have binary packages named like that: >>> ruby-foo: arch-indep part of the foo library >>> r

Re: Call for projects for Google Summer of Code 2011

. See current > d-devel discussion. What about a project which prepares a migration to http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd ? -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Finger

Re: Call for projects for Google Summer of Code 2011

mons on (k)freebsd. For systemd it definitely makes sense to use all the fancy linux APIs - but it should still be possible to write a proper replacement for freebsd. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debia

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

ported' (but non-default) other versions. Again my recommendation - look at the way how these things are handled in Python (yeah, ignore the discussions around varoius Python helpers and so on). -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

Lucas Nussbaum schrieb: >That's what we plan to do: for now, ruby1.8 is the default >implementation/version, and will have the highest priority in >alternatives. So switching to say jruby would require manual >intervention. Exactly that will ensure you run into a mess. Don't allow to switch

Re: [Python-modules-team] Bug#616782: cssutils: deprecation of dh_pycentral, please use dh_python2

Now I see yet another mess of left-over files coming. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

me to rewrite working stuff in a different language. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dev

Re: Removal of wanna-build from sbuild

these two branches not merged and developed by a team? -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Mirror problems?

hy does anyone package it? If we can get is as a package, > it's easier to update. git clone https://ftp-master.debian.org/git/archvsync.git Easy enough to keep updated. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de

Re: Mirror problems?

On 03/15/2011 04:17 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Indeed, I don't know why we bother with packages at all. Thanks for your constructive comment. -- Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.

Re: Mirror problems?

On 03/15/2011 04:54 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 03/15/2011 04:17 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >>> Indeed, I don't know why we bother with packages at all. >> >> Thanks for your constructive comment. &g

Re: testing packages at build

e. The world on *BSD which supports this is much much smaller and more closely maintained in one CVS. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257

Re: language-chooser: Language order shouldn't be alphabetical

ow you can skip hundreds (by first letter) compared to a list which you have to go down and match entry by entry. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: language-chooser: Language order shouldn't be alphabetical

On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 11:50:31AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > Not when the entry I want is alternatively "American English", "English", or > "US/English" ... thats why it is best to sort by the locale en_* Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: language-chooser: Language order shouldn't be alphabetical

, I dont think anybody has problems with that. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outla

Re: language-chooser: Language order shouldn't be alphabetical

needs to include the locale names anyway. There are so many places where you are confronted with nation and language identifiers. I doubt you can ignore them. And even if they are not the same (TLD, car-signs, language2, language 3, nationality) they are for sure common knowledge (at least your own

Re: Source only uploads?

cuirty policies. Not that I think auto builders are safe from that, but the environemnt is more easyly controleable. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PRO

Re: What's the deal with NMUs? [was Re: Are you still there?]

ations, it is not such a big issue. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

kde package description

module. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: POSIX capabilities patch

ul usage of capabiltiies at all w/o it, and therefore it is a bug? I mean is this broken on purpose? Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +4972

Re: POSIX capabilities patch

nt be right to enable it :) Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: UserLinux white paper

ustry group for economy of scales" The above may give you also the possibility to reword the reasoning for industry support in a way, that it is not offensive to ISVs. I am not sure this is the right place here, Bruce, do you have another list to discuss your plans? Greetings Ber

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

erable if they had used 2.4.23. At least not at that point in time. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When crypto

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

other risks, which are harder to tackle. Smart Cards for example will require a huge investment. And sadly it is not one a sponsor can cover easyly. But using them will, for sure make the trust in a developers signature stronger. It will not allow us to trust the developer more. Greetings Bern

Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion

cessing speed, especially since it can be easyly compensated with "3rd party" timestamps. Greetings bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 B

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

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:54:22PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > >Nov 28 22:39 Linux 2.4.23 released > > ^^^^^ > > Bernd is correct, though - if the machines had been running 2.4.23, they > wouldn't have been vulnerable. The fact

Re: UserLinux white paper

e if OEM business) earn more than 50% of their money by services. It is already the case, that service is the main focus in the business. You do not sell software, you solve problems. (You sell solutions, like Ted put it) Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL

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

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:34:13AM +0100, Artur R. Czechowski wrote: > What about RSA tokens? This solution does not require any special hardware > to connect on the client side. This also means it does not provide any additional security, besides the costs. Greetings Bernd --

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

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:03:52AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > For an initial order of 1200 units and the potential for other larger orders > they may reconsider this. There are some more tokens, which are baed on the open X9.9 DES protcol and not the secret SecureID stuff. Greetings

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

nge. OpenSSh with protocol 2 supports challenge response authentication like opie/skey which can also be used for X9.9 DES cards I guess. At least my FreeBSD router annoys me with such a server generated login challenge. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packages/projects/positions up for adoption

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:26:59PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > I'll take xml-resume-library back ok, i will stop to work on it Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD

Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion

I did not know that buildds do make so much work. I am impressed about the work wgich is put into the project. I would personally not handle this by hand. And looking at the thoughput of some daemons I highly doubt there is any review of packages before beeing uploaded. Greetings Bernd -- (OO)

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security

shared secret. Only a few can avoid replay attacks, and those are even more vulnerable to false positives. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257

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

those exotic architectures. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvy

Re: Accounts on debian.org machines

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 09:27:53PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > father's windows 2000 laptop when it's only connected to a NAT-ed > internet connection. How do you know it is not trojaned when u use it? Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. )

Re: Building Debian Completely From Source

ast it will generate a nearly completely reproduceable build environment. Greetings Bernd [1] http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/ -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PRO

Re: Initrd and software raid [was: Initrd rocks!]

etings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: Initrd rocks! (was Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages)

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:26:39PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > If you don't have the underlying devices there RAID autodetection > will not work. Well, if you have no devices, you cant detect them. However, on boot you most likely do have the devices. Greetings Bernd -- (OO)

Re: PRINT EPSON STYLUS C82; bug #235522?

recent stylus printers. When I wrote this bug report, I didn't know yet that many others Epson stylus printers do have the very same problem. Thanks, Bernd

Re: Bug#275140: Redirections and noclobber

e .bashrc in the first place? First of all .bashrc is not invoked if you call /bin/sh and neigher bash ./test.sh nor ./test.sh (with test.sh beeing "#!/bin/bash\necho test" and .bashrc = echo bashrc) is execuring .bashrc Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

a newaliases program, even > if it does nothing, but older MTA packages did not do this so programs > should not fail if newaliases cannot be found." (11.6). Is it otherwise the requirement for /usr/sbin/sendmail? (in that case it is actually not an MTA but an MSA

Re: forwarding bugs to other packages

y package). So you do not want to reassign them to the correct package? I dont think thats a good idea (even when i can understand where are you coming from). Perhaps we need a "read this before submitting bugs against my package" function in reportbugs :) Gruss Bernd --

Re: Bug#156257: ITP: libpam-ssh -- I didn't write it, I'm just working on it. It authenticates you by u

t case never be checked. Greetings Bernd

Re: Apache2

le shell script and i dont think it is a good idea to have them lay around and clutter the namespace. I dont know about the vhost stuff besides the site dir. > Have I caught the apache2 package in a state of extreme development? the packages are pretty new, but working well for me. Greetings Bernd

ITO: bubblemon

load currently and in the last few seconds. DD Feel free to make a new upload. I will do one with qa as the maintainer if i feel nobody cares for the package. Greetings Bernd

Re: When bind9 reinstalls, no db.root

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:38:36PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > The trouble with removing db.root is that it may not be obvious how to > recover when it is missing. the questions to replace/diff/keep a modified conffile, why dont they apply to missing conffiles, too? Greetings Bernd --

Re: old ITP's

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:11:03PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > The changed date is clearly wrong. I suggest you redo your stats and > post an updated list. and please include the email address of the reporter for better grepping. Greetings Bernd

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:32:33PM -0500, Benoit Peccatte wrote: > 10% of the whole distribution : that's a lot > Moreover bandwidth costs too. multiple architectures can be placed on different servers. The overall traffic will not increase and the overall disk space also wont. But well, perhaps

Re: Bug#170069: ITP: grunt -- Secure remote execution via UUCP or e-mail using GPG

On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:31:46AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > You need to keep track (at both ends of the link) of the last > sequence number sent. can we perhaps set up a mailinglist or discuss this on the mailinglist of grunt, it realy gets offtopic. Greetings Bernd

Re: Why do system users have shells?

s a feature to prevent exactly this. login with system user accounts. Greetings Bernd

debian jabber packages

Sami Haahtinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (running a server) Mats Rynge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (waiting for DAM aproval, do not forget him!!) and Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (running 1 server in co) for offering help. Very apreciated. Greetings Bernd PS: the diff will go to jdev list

Re: guaranteed non-interactive installation and upgrades

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 08:23:16PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > if the maintainers won't do that, we need a policy paragraph to force > them. No you need patches to help them. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debia

Re: Problems with XFS patch and SMP

ts for ftpds which exec() dynaically linked ls. Greetings Bernd

Re: What should go into "How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format"?

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 06:06:41PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > In the end it makes very little sense for a3rd party to provide debs. It makes sense for the debian user, dont u think? Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.

Re: What should go into "How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format"?

ree software. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

ering the latest version from sid of a package. Well, they have to be stored on archive, too. Mainly for GPL licensing issues. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93

Bug#189313: general: tcsh displays erroneous limit data

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 01:21:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > filesize4194303 kbytes on bash umlimit -f is in blocks, perhaps thats the problem?

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

upstream. I know this does not always work, but this is still the way dpkg should handle it. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613

Re: libc6 (security) update does not restart system-services?

ems for no security reasons: - it will free memory and will make the filesystem get rid of open/deleted files, which can cause problems like the inability to remount ro or messages like "setting dtime of deleted inode" on fsck. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

see it. one could think about a ~/.reiser-motd flag file which will make sure the message is displayed only once. But especially the boot time stuff might be too risky to implement somethign like this. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debi

Re: lilo with debconf

fault Debian installation in some way. You can upload it to a private location for review. I am willing to check it. I hope you do lilo.conf parsing and rewriting? Therefore it would instantly work with an exisiting lilo.conf without new questions? Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMA

Re: lilo with debconf

should only skip the liloconf step, but not the link step in postinst. BTW: the lba32 option by liloconf is inserted into the file without a boilerplate comment and before the "# generated by" line. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],li

fwctl and ipchains-perl - any takers?

Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: can touch(1) readonly files

e dir entry has no info about that. This is btw a "feature" of the kernel, not core-utils. Greetings Bernd

Re: can touch(1) readonly files

ple immutable and append only files, RBAC or SELinux). And it is still not a core-utils bug but a property of the Linux kernel. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EM

Re: can touch(1) readonly files

file, which > wasn't allowed cause of the +i. well, on linux, you can of course also stop root from removing the immutable flag, after all that is what the flag is all about. it used to be linked to the security level, nowadays one controls it via capabilities. Greetings

Re: fwctl and ipchains-perl - any takers?

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:57:27PM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > No one seems to have responded, or? yes, i will file a bug report to remove the package from unstable/testing. esecially since no upstream response was received. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Debian Wiki

ile uploads. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

d by the new version". which is perfectly valid. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is ou

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

themself some work. This might have the opposite effet than desired. Greetins Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When crypto

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

Well, an admin who is not online but do has changelogs which are more recent that his installed packages is for sure quite seldom. I wonder is that is a very common reason at all. For those admins i would suggest to mirror mozilla bugtracker in addition to mozilla archive. :) Greetings Bernd

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 09:51:33PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > Admin installs from cd. Admin runs programs. Admin finds something he thinks > is a bug. Admin reads changelog to see if the bug existed previously. hmm.. why would he do that? Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

binary packages dont get caught. I would urgendtly vote: NO NMU for non-critical Bugs BEFORE a patch is ignored in the Bug Tracking System for X weeks (x > 3) Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

Channels for 8 Disks, so no slave needs to be used. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is

New Package snmptrapfmt / Orphaned Package snmptraplogd

Hello, I have orphaned snmptraplogd. I have uploaded the new package snmptrapfmt. The reasons can be read in the README.debian file of snmptrapfmt. I have also attached the description of the control file of snmptrapfmt. I hope everything is OK !? Regards Bernd Schumacher

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

Because a cracker can tamper a checksum, but it can't tamper a Signature. (Unless she has compromised ftp-master). Greetings Bernd

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