Re: Question on "Bug#74171: recommends nonexistent package"

2000-10-06 Thread Simon Richter
On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > Hi, should this bug be at important severity? I don't think so! Yes and no. Not for the reason Brian wrote, but you could argue whether depending on nonexistant packages is an important bug. > BTW, I plan upload the missing package xfonts-thai as a

Question on "Bug#74171: recommends nonexistent package"

2000-10-06 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Hi, should this bug be at important severity? I don't think so! BTW, I plan upload the missing package xfonts-thai as a meta package that install several thai fonts. Should I down grade this bug to normal or wait until I upload xfonts-thai package and close this bug! Chanop - Forwarded messag

Question on "Bug#74171: recommends nonexistent package"

2000-10-06 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Hi, should this bug be at important severity? I don't think so! BTW, I plan upload the missing package xfonts-thai as a meta package that install several thai fonts. Should I down grade this bug to normal or wait until I upload xfonts-thai package and close this bug! Chanop - Forwarded messa

RE: rpath (was Re: Two questions about policy)

2000-10-06 Thread Simon Richter
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you want to use rpath then you might want to check it with > somebody with experience in security (Debian security team?), rpath has some advantages in this case over hardwiring the paths into the executable (for example, you can add paths at runti

RE: rpath (was Re: Two questions about policy)

2000-10-06 Thread Simon Richter
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you want to use rpath then you might want to check it with > somebody with experience in security (Debian security team?), rpath has some advantages in this case over hardwiring the paths into the executable (for example, you can add paths at runt

Re: Reentrant libraries

2000-10-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:10:51PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:58:08PM -0400, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > I've been skimming the recent thread about reentrant libraries... just a > > quick question: *where* do you put the -DREENTRANT flag? The library I'm > > maintaining right

Re: Reentrant libraries

2000-10-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:10:51PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:58:08PM -0400, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > I've been skimming the recent thread about reentrant libraries... just a > > quick question: *where* do you put the -DREENTRANT flag? The library I'm > > maintaining right

RE: rpath (was Re: Two questions about policy)

2000-10-06 Thread arto . astala
If you want to use rpath then you might want to check it with somebody with experience in security (Debian security team?), I think one of the arguments was about security. I may be totally off here, but IIRC rpath also checks an environment variable and this is considered very insecure. HTH t.aa

RE: rpath (was Re: Two questions about policy)

2000-10-06 Thread arto . astala
If you want to use rpath then you might want to check it with somebody with experience in security (Debian security team?), I think one of the arguments was about security. I may be totally off here, but IIRC rpath also checks an environment variable and this is considered very insecure. HTH t.a