Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

2016-02-11 Thread Bret Busby
e that box was running Squeeze LTS, I found xfce > to be the fastest GUI (compared to lxde and gnome). Now with Wheezy, > Gnome is the speediest. It's slow but works. > > Have you tried the MATE desktop? I do not know how the different desktops compare, in terms of speed, but,

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

2016-02-08 Thread Bret Busby
elease date yet. Next Sunday, 14th February should > be Ok? > > Cheers, > > Santiago > End of Life on Valentines Day? So, Valentines Day means death to many lifes? A Valentines Day Massacre? (Someone had to say it...) :) -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia ..

Re: Debian squeeze LTS, a last release

2015-05-27 Thread Bret Busby
a time (apart from editing the /etc/apt/sources.list file, which is only a few minutes), over what a normal installation procedure would involve (apart from the problem with the changelog causing the procedure to hang). I suggest that, therefore, this solves the problem. -- Bret Busby Armadale We

Re: squeeze update of firestarter

2015-04-12 Thread Bret Busby
r firestarter, that I remember, and I have been subscribed to the CERT advisories, for a number of years. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1

Re: squeeze update of firestarter

2015-04-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 11/04/2015, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> Hello dear maintainer(s), >> >> the Debian LTS team would like to fix the security issues which are >> currently open in the Squeeze version of > > Hello, LTS people. > > I am won

squeeze update of firestarter

2015-04-10 Thread Bret Busby
es" would likely be applicable, for Debian 6 LTS, and for Debian 7, and, thus suggests that review and maintenance of firestarter, would be an appropriate activity for the LTS project, in the absence of otherwise review and maintenace of firestarter. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .

Re: Any ideas on possibility of wheezy-lts?

2015-03-30 Thread Bret Busby
Debian 5. That, I believe, is a security issue in itself. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to th

Query about possible bug fix involving security issues for web browsers

2015-03-28 Thread Bret Busby
void the risk of web browser crashing, and inherent security threats, from flash stuff. Thank you in anticipation. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter

Re: squeeze update of flightgear?

2015-03-25 Thread Bret Busby
, is is simply that the LTS system is now going to be allowed to collapse, due to the security issues being regarded as unimportant? Hmmm. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."

Re: Bug#780201: new codename needed for oldstable (due to squeeze-lts) when stable becomes oldstable

2015-03-10 Thread Bret Busby
*dislike* "obsoletestable" and "stalestable" as they are either wrong >> (squeeze is not obsolete) or carry a bad connotation. >> >> >> cheers, >> Holger > > What about 'extremely-stable' ?? > Why not simply use the states expe

Re: spamassassin update

2015-02-01 Thread Bret Busby
pdates, and, not for fixing software problems? Clarification would be good, for we lay people - the users. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of

Re: New problem with GIMP plugin file-jpeg

2015-01-29 Thread Bret Busby
On 30/01/2015, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > Dear Bret > El 28/01/15 a las 09:18, Bret Busby escribió: >> Hello. >> >> I have, in the last hour, tried to open a JPEG file, to crop it, using the >> GIMP. >> > [..] >> >> I believe that recently, an

New problem with GIMP plugin file-jpeg

2015-01-28 Thread Bret Busby
I also get the same error mesage, with .jpeg files I have just searched for, downloaded, and, successfully opened, a .png file, opening that file with the GIMP, so I assume that the problem appears to apply to only JPEG files, using the GIMP. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia ..

Re: [SECURITY] [DLA 131-1] file security update

2015-01-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/01/2015, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >>On 12/01/2015, Bret Busby wrote: >>> Error message: >>> Failed to fetch >>> http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/file/file_5.04-5+squeeze8_i386.deb >>> 404 Not Found [IP: 46.4.205.44 80] >>>

Re: [SECURITY] [DLA 131-1] file security update

2015-01-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/01/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 09/01/2015, Christoph Biedl wrote: >> Package: file >> Version: 5.04-5+squeeze9 >> CVE ID : CVE-2014-8116 CVE-2014-8117 >> Debian Bug : 773148 >> >> Multiple security issues have been found

Re: [SECURITY] [DLA 131-1] file security update

2015-01-11 Thread Bret Busby
as been aborted. Error message: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/file/file_5.04-5+squeeze8_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 46.4.205.44 80] Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/file/libmagic1_5.04-5+squeeze8_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 64.86.226.67 80] &q

Query about validity of updates

2014-10-08 Thread Bret Busby
, I do not remember getting these results, when I updated this Debian 6 LTS system, from which I am sending this message. Thus, I am not confident that the update system, has not been breached. Could what is happening, be clarified, please? Thank you in anticipation. -- Bret Busby Armadale West

Re: [SECURITY] [DLA 62-1] nss security update

2014-09-25 Thread Bret Busby
he Debian-branded version of the Seamonkey suite needed to be stopped before the end of the regular security maintenance life cycle. " Why is it, that the support "needed to be stopped before the end of the regular security maintenance life cycle" ? -- Bret Busby Armadale West Aus

Re: [SECURITY] [DLA 62-1] nss security update

2014-09-25 Thread Bret Busby
is also affected by CVE-2014-1568, however > has reached end-of-life in Squeeze(-LTS) and thus has not been fixed. > Hello. Given the last sentence of the message above, what is the standing of iceape, and, does the patch apply to iceape? -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia ..

Query about whether a Request For Change can be made on this list

2014-09-09 Thread Bret Busby
st (or otherwise) is maintaining GNOME2, especially, the File Browser application, and, whether the suggestion could be implemented. Thank you in anticipation. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer me

Re: check-support-status

2014-05-29 Thread Bret Busby
-support-status) is in deb http://http.debian.net/debian squeeze-lts main contrib non-free Bret When I previously searched for the package in the Debian package search facility, the package showed as being available only for Debian unstable. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia

Perceived problem with LTS update procedure

2014-05-27 Thread Bret Busby
sitory, rather than the current Debian 6 repository, and I do not know whether my attempt to access the LTS repository, has worked. Thank you in anticipation, for constructive assistance. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question act