No buildd redundancy for alpha/mips/mipsel

2007-11-27 Thread Frans Pop
http://release.debian.org/etch_arch_qualify.html lists that alpha, mips and mipsel a having buildd redundancy, but that does not seem to match reality as both only have a single buildd (alpha: goetz; mips: ball; mipsel: rem). Both mips and mipsel also currently seem to be having problems keeping

Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring

2007-11-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 27/11/2007, Joey Hess wrote: > With the upload of debian-maintainers version 1.6, the following > changes to the keyring have been made: > > dm:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Full name: Aur�lien G�R�ME (rewritten w/o half-broken encoding, maybe it would be nice to send mails using something different

Re: linhdd concerns

2007-11-27 Thread Daniel Baumann
[ late, but for the records. ] Kartik Mistry wrote: > linhdd introduce binary abs_fdisk which was modified copy of fdisk > from new version 0.4. It was arch:all before that too, and previous > maintainer set it to arch:all saying 'it will save achieve space'. hu?? the previous maintainer, me, did

Thank You All

2007-11-27 Thread David VanDuivendyk
I could not find a relevant address to send this to. I hope that you will share this with everyone you can. Thank you so much for all the work and effort to produce *Debian.* I have been using Linux for 5 years and Debian for 2 of those years- Debian is the best for me.

Proposed removal of spam from the debian-project mailing list web archives

2007-11-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, four people have checked the spam web form submissions concerning debian-project. More background can be found at [1]. Thanks to Bas Wijnen, Paul Wise, and Richard Hecker for reviewing! (Of course, a special mention to Y Giridhar Appaji Nag who already looked through debian-devel, but that isn

Re: linhdd concerns

2007-11-27 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:38:06PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:51:35PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: > > What information does linhdd need from fdisk? > > Fdisk seems to run just fine as a normal user on Debian. The issues > > seems to be that /dev/{s,h}d* are dire

Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring

2007-11-27 Thread Joey Hess
With the upload of debian-maintainers version 1.6, the following changes to the keyring have been made: dm:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Full name: Aurélien GÃ\x89RÃ\x94ME dm:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Full name: Manuel Prinz Added key: 802EB746852F21A39239C111F16961C8CC8D7957 dm:[EMAIL PROTECTED] F

Re: linhdd concerns

2007-11-27 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
Steve Langasek wrote: > No, that would be a security hole. Even making it setgid disk would be a > security hole, since the disk group has write access to all disk devices. I didn't mean a simple wrapper around the binary, I meant a wrapper around the binary with a specific set of arguments, lock

Re: Driver

2007-11-27 Thread Pablo Martí Gamboa
On Nov 27, 2007 1:29 AM, Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 27, 2007 6:09 AM, Pedro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I suggest include the driver : > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodafone_Mobile_Connect_Card_driver_for_Linux > > > > in Debian. > > Looks like it already contains Debian

Re: linhdd concerns (was: Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring)

2007-11-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:44:50PM +0530, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote: > As people have already explained, this is not the first mistake people > have commited. And at the same time, I agree that it was a grave > mistake on my part and I publicly apologize for this mistake. If you > care to r