Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 28, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - critical security fix:2 days. I think those fixes should be uploaded as fast as possible by anyone willing, if a remote root exploit for some package like apache or ssh is published users can't just shut down their machines fo

Re: FHS or FSSTND or NOTHING

1999-03-29 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > Well, we could concievably follow the FHS in every other respect, though, > right? From a standards-compliance point-of-view, it's less egregious to > have an extra directory in /var (/var/lib) than to fail to have directories > the FHS says should be there. I

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-29 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Darren O. Benham wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 05:21:55PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Eh? You can't be a Debian developer without an account on master, if Lars > Sure you can. Lars is. Ah, let us be a little more clear here. If we move to using a central directory

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-29 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 05:21:55PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Eh? You can't be a Debian developer without an account on master, if Lars Sure you can. Lars is. > How are you going to do it any other way, the only thing every maintainer > has to do is access the machines, some people never upl

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-29 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Darren O. Benham wrote: > > I *hate* expiring passwords! > > There is another problem: not all developers have an account on master. > (simple example: Lars Wirzenius). > > Can't we do this in the LDAP database? Eh? You can't be a Debia

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-29 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Darren O. Benham wrote: > I *hate* expiring passwords! There is another problem: not all developers have an account on master. (simple example: Lars Wirzenius). Can't we do this in the LDAP database? Wichert. -- ===

Re: Maintainership, vanishing or absent maintainers (QA)

1999-03-29 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 02:47:37PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I am hoping to get a mechanism to detect absent maintainers as we move to > having our maintainer database in a directory. My current thought is to > just turn on shadow password aging, you have to set your password once a > year or