Re: help with lintian output

Roman StÃckl-Schmidt wrote on 02/04/2005 00:37: Moved from debian-user to debian-mentors because it seems to be the better place for the issue. Please be so kind and CC me in case of a reply, because I'm not on it and gmane doesn't have it yet =) Florian Ernst wrote on 01.04.2005 22:19: | Hello *,

Re: user feedback during (un)installation

Bas Wijnen wrote on 02/04/2005 00:31: Sven Mueller wrote: Installations with debian packages are far too verbose already for my taste. Please don't bother the admin (me) with questions at uninstall time as well. I hate giving an (un)install command, only to come back a few hours later to see that i

Re: Create user during installation

Bruce Sass wrote on 02/04/2005 01:02: Ya, ok, it is still a significant amount of work, but it would be Debian's work and not that of the upstream authors. Now, what does make more sense? a) Investing a huge amount of time and thought into cleanly managing system users (i.e. UIDs not associated

Re: Create user during installation

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Sven Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.01.2133 +0200]: way of registering UIDs to packages. And more often than not, usernames are used across multiple packages (even though most are used only by packages generated by the same source package

Re: help with lintian output

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Moved from debian-user to debian-mentors because it seems to be the better place for the issue. Please be so kind and CC me in case of a reply, because I'm not on it and gmane doesn't have it yet =) Florian Ernst wrote on 01.04.2005 22:19: | Hello *, |

Re: user feedback during (un)installation

Sven Mueller wrote: Installations with debian packages are far too verbose already for my taste. Please don't bother the admin (me) with questions at uninstall time as well. I hate giving an (un)install command, only to come back a few hours later to see that it waits for my input approx. 10% throu

Re: Create user during installation

also sprach Sven Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.01.2133 +0200]: > way of registering UIDs to packages. And more often than not, > usernames are used across multiple packages (even though most are > used only by packages generated by the same source package). So > which package should remove t

Re: Create user during installation

Neil McGovern wrote on 01/04/2005 02:02: On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:32:00AM +0200, Tilman Koschnick wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 23:20 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:13:39PM +0200, Tilman Koschnick wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 22:47 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote

user feedback during (un)installation

Kim Lundgren wrote on 01/04/2005 00:16: Leave the deletion of obsolete users up to the system administrator, do not do so on purge. What about small daemons that don't generate any files and don't require anything apart from what's in the package? In general, you cannot assume that the administator

Re: RFS: mkat - Burn, catalog, search data, audio CDs or directories with tagging support

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:41:15PM -0400, Bruno Barrera C. wrote: > > I'm looking for a sponsor for my package for mkat, that is a tool to > > "Burn, catalog, search data, audio CDs or directories with tagging > > support". Mostly I worked on data CDs, with rudimentary audio CD > > support.

Re: what's a sponsor ?

Hello Rakotomandimby, * Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-01 12:44]: > Hello, > > I saw a flow of "RFS:" messages. > Does RFS mean Request For Sponsor? > What's that? What is it about? I dont understand... > > Searching "debian sponsor" on google did not give the answer

Re: what's a sponsor ?

On Friday 01 April 2005 01:48, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:21:23PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > > On Thursday 31 March 2005 23:08, Florian Ernst wrote: [...] > > > links to > > >