Re: web browser url viewing proposal

2002-11-19 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
iable and substituting the url value in the proper way in every program seems to me an unnecessary duplication of code. Another utility that I would like to see in debianutils (or some other pkg) is a program to encode/decode an url. This would probably be useful also for the sensible-browser script. -- Massimo Dal Zotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?

2001-12-07 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
ould mandate its use by policy. It is true that we are volunteers but we all agree to follow a policy and if the policy says that we must use debconf we'll use it. -- Massimo Dal Zotto +--+ | Massimo Dal Zotto

packages without .md5sums file?

2001-07-27 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
Hi, I have noticed that many packages don't have the .md5sums file, for example http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/ae/ae_962-30_i386.deb. Is this allowed by policy? And if not should we change the policy and require that every package have the .md5sums file? -- Massimo Dal

Re: suid binaries should not be writable by owner

2001-02-07 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > chattr +i ? -- Massimo Dal Zotto +----------+ | Massimo Dal Zotto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Via Marconi, 141

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-11-29 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Why not simply include the GPL file in each package and replace it with an hard-link to the common copy in the package postinst? In this way we can make RMS happy and still have one real copy of the GPL. -- Massimo Dal Zotto +

Re: Finger daemons in Debian should use a virtual package

2000-05-22 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
t, > which should be enough (these packages aren't large in general, mostly about > 15KB .debs, I think even the m68k build daemon can catch up with these in a > day or two :), and I don't think there is any chance that anything RC would > break because of thos

Re: FWD: dh_compress

1999-11-04 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
o be able to read the docs and zless is already installed in every base system. -- Massimo Dal Zotto +------+ | Massimo Dal Zotto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Via Marconi, 141phone:

PROPOSAL: automatic installation and configuration

1999-05-25 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
Hi, I have done a few experiments about automatic configuration of packages and have now some working code. I want to describe my ideas and how to integrate in the distribution. You can download my experimental but almost working code at: http://www.cs.unitn.it/~dz/debian/dpkggetconfig_1.0.de