Re: what to do with `namespace-pollution'

1998-02-11 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "MB" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MB: There is no need to keep a silly choosen upstream name. We MB: change a lot of things defined upstream (file location, etc), MB: and I don't think that changing a name from "B" to something MB: more readable is confusin

Re: md5sums files (was Re: over 30000 bugs in our archive (!))

1998-02-11 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 09:42:06AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Tommi> BTW, I hope lintian will check that all the suid files are > Tommi> registered with suidmanager.. > Say what? When did this become policy? Uh-oh.. it isn't. It's a personal preference. Not necessaril

Re: md5sums files (was Re: over 30000 bugs in our archive (!))

1998-02-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Tommi" == Tommi Virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tommi> BTW, I hope lintian will check that all the suid files are Tommi> registered with suidmanager.. Say what? When did this become policy? manoj __> dpkg -l suidmanager pn suidmanager (no description

Re: suidmanager

1998-02-11 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Tue, Feb 10, 1998 at 12:51:09PM -0800, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > BTW, I hope lintian will check that all the suid files are > > registered with suidmanager.. > An issue then being that `suidmanager' must be one of the first > things to get installed. Should it then be part of the ba

Re: new policy topic --- syslog() [was Re: syslog facilities]

1998-02-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Well, apart from fax/ppp, there is also named (which is why I started all this in the first place), which can do tons of syslog based logging (with custom facilities and all). manoj -- Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old. Pink Floyd Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROT

Re: new policy topic --- syslog() [was Re: syslog facilities]

1998-02-11 Thread Adam P. Harris
[You (Karl M. Hegbloom)] > Some more facilities should be hacked into syslogd, I think. > > Hmmm... fax, ppp, www, isdn(?), uhhmmm... what else? I would have all dialout stuff (chat, ppp, isdn-ppp) go to a 'serial' facility, or perhaps a better name (dialout is not good, since it could be dial