Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-22 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:38:15AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:13:57AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > You should always be able to backport a patch. If not, I'm sorry, but that > > this should be one quality of a Debian maintainer, you lack something... > Martin

Re: dh_shlibdeps quirky behaviour

2001-01-22 Thread Francis Irving
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 05:02:16PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Francis Irving wrote: > > Basically, when dh_shlibdeps runs from within dpkg-buildpackage > > -rfakeroot it doesn't generate the file debian/substvars. If > > I run it at the command line from the same directory, it > > correctly generat

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-22 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:38:15AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:13:57AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > You should always be able to backport a patch. If not, I'm sorry, but that > > this should be one quality of a Debian maintainer, you lack something... > Marti

Re: dh_shlibdeps quirky behaviour

2001-01-22 Thread Francis Irving
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 05:02:16PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Francis Irving wrote: > > Basically, when dh_shlibdeps runs from within dpkg-buildpackage > > -rfakeroot it doesn't generate the file debian/substvars. If > > I run it at the command line from the same directory, it > > correctly genera

Re: use debconf directly from init.d?

2001-01-22 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Hanson wrote: > I don't know the design decisions that went into debconf, but what I > am suggesting looks consistent with the design document in > "/usr/share/doc/debconf/specification.txt.gz". In that document, > debconf looks very much like a database, and it seems strange that I > should

Re: debian infrastructure out of sync? where's the reference debian package archive?

2001-01-22 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010122T173956+0100, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: > Now what is the refernce archive? I'm reading in the > "developers-reference" that it's ftp-master.debian.org, but it does not > seem to contain the archive, at least not through anonymous access... ftp-master.debian.org:/org/ftp.debian.org/

debian infrastructure out of sync? where's the reference debian package archive?

2001-01-22 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
A user reported to me that he can't find libstl for unstable. I checked and it was available on my mirror and I told him so thinking maybe it was a problem with pools and the package being somewhere in the middle of a transfer. Upon which he later reported that it even wasn't available on the main

Re: use debconf directly from init.d?

2001-01-22 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Hanson wrote: > I don't know the design decisions that went into debconf, but what I > am suggesting looks consistent with the design document in > "/usr/share/doc/debconf/specification.txt.gz". In that document, > debconf looks very much like a database, and it seems strange that I > shoul

Re: debian infrastructure out of sync? where's the reference debian package archive?

2001-01-22 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010122T173956+0100, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: > Now what is the refernce archive? I'm reading in the > "developers-reference" that it's ftp-master.debian.org, but it does not > seem to contain the archive, at least not through anonymous access... ftp-master.debian.org:/org/ftp.debian.org

debian infrastructure out of sync? where's the reference debianpackage archive?

2001-01-22 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
A user reported to me that he can't find libstl for unstable. I checked and it was available on my mirror and I told him so thinking maybe it was a problem with pools and the package being somewhere in the middle of a transfer. Upon which he later reported that it even wasn't available on the main

use debconf directly from init.d?

2001-01-22 Thread Chris Hanson
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:24:43 -0200 From: Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > That doesn't sound like a reason; it sounds more like an axiom. Care It is indeed, but if you do need a reason, here´s one: Should an admin need to migrate the system´s configuration, he must NOT

use debconf directly from init.d?

2001-01-22 Thread Chris Hanson
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:24:43 -0200 From: Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > That doesn't sound like a reason; it sounds more like an axiom. Care It is indeed, but if you do need a reason, here´s one: Should an admin need to migrate the system´s configuration, he must NO

Re: use debconf directly from init.d?

2001-01-22 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Chris Hanson wrote: >Chris Hanson wrote: >> Any reason not to do this? > >Debconf is Not a Registry (TM) I second that. Do *NOT* use Debconf as a registry. That is EVIL. Do not do it. > That doesn't sound like a reason; it sounds more like an axiom. Care It is

Re: time and interest and enough skill

2001-01-22 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know I want a xgospel_1.12-4.deb and xgospel_1.12-4.dsc > > I have been employed as a unix sysadmin and much more recently, perl > programmer (and even more recently, my first C project) > > And I have time. Well, download the required packages t

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-22 Thread Christian Hammers
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:49:22AM -0600, Scott Dier wrote: > * Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010122 02:38]: > > > You should always be able to backport a patch. If not, I'm sorry, but > > > that > > > this should be one quality of a Debian maintainer, you lack something... > > Martin? I

Re: use debconf directly from init.d?

2001-01-22 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Chris Hanson wrote: >Chris Hanson wrote: >> Any reason not to do this? > >Debconf is Not a Registry (TM) I second that. Do *NOT* use Debconf as a registry. That is EVIL. Do not do it. > That doesn't sound like a reason; it sounds more like an axiom. Care It is

Re: time and interest and enough skill

2001-01-22 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know I want a xgospel_1.12-4.deb and xgospel_1.12-4.dsc > > I have been employed as a unix sysadmin and much more recently, perl > programmer (and even more recently, my first C project) > > And I have time. Well, download the required packages

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-22 Thread Scott Dier
* Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010122 02:38]: > > You should always be able to backport a patch. If not, I'm sorry, but that > > this should be one quality of a Debian maintainer, you lack something... > Martin? It it the quality of a Debian maintainer to find the right line(s) in > a 10

Re: Few questions about changing source before packaging...

2001-01-22 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:27:59PM +0100, Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker) wrote: > Hi, > > As you all could've read I just adopted the micq package and i'm > very happy with that since I use micq very often... > > I have a few questions because I am still a little newbie at this :] Next time

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-22 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:13:57AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > (and not at least officially announced as stable) version 3.23.31 for > > potato. > > You should always be able to backport a patch. If not, I'm sorry, but that > this should be one quality of a Debian maintainer, you lack s

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-22 Thread Christian Hammers
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:49:22AM -0600, Scott Dier wrote: > * Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010122 02:38]: > > > You should always be able to backport a patch. If not, I'm sorry, but that > > > this should be one quality of a Debian maintainer, you lack something... > > Martin? It it t

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-22 Thread Scott Dier
* Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010122 02:38]: > > You should always be able to backport a patch. If not, I'm sorry, but that > > this should be one quality of a Debian maintainer, you lack something... > Martin? It it the quality of a Debian maintainer to find the right line(s) in > a 1

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Hammers wrote: > Hi > > As MySQL has a bad security problem and is accordingly to a @mysql.com person > no longer supported in potato's version my only chance is to build the latest What do you want to express? The security problem is no longer supported in the potato version? Fine. :

Re: Few questions about changing source before packaging...

2001-01-22 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:27:59PM +0100, Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker) wrote: > Hi, > > As you all could've read I just adopted the micq package and i'm > very happy with that since I use micq very often... > > I have a few questions because I am still a little newbie at this :] Next time

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-22 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:13:57AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > (and not at least officially announced as stable) version 3.23.31 for potato. > > You should always be able to backport a patch. If not, I'm sorry, but that > this should be one quality of a Debian maintainer, you lack somet