Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 06:46:49PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > > nonus.debian.org 23780 nonus.debian.org: libssl-dev is obsolete [220] > > > > (Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > ... > > > Will non-us ever be fixed? > > > > It is but I'm afraid the bugs have not been closed. Hei

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
> > > nonus.debian.org 23780 nonus.debian.org: libssl-dev is obsolete [220] > > > (Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > ... > > Will non-us ever be fixed? > > It is but I'm afraid the bugs have not been closed. Heiko seems really > overloaded (and does not reply a lot even on other subje

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Brian White
> > Hmmm... If things were installed by hand ("dpkg --install dpkglib...") > > or if install were to fail between the two packages, then you could have > > a problem where the install tool doesn't function, right? > > Right. But since libdpkg is still a part of the dpkg package we > shouldn't nee

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sunday 31 January 1999, at 0 h 48, the keyboard of Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > boot-floppies 32269 partion harddisk fails if WIN95_EXTENDED present > > [0] (Enrique Zanardi ) > > The report log is a little unclear. It looks like there is a version of cfdisk > that work

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Brian White wrote: > Hmmm... If things were installed by hand ("dpkg --install dpkglib...") > or if install were to fail between the two packages, then you could have > a problem where the install tool doesn't function, right? Right. But since libdpkg is still a part of the dpkg packag

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Jonel Rienton wrote: > Slink's latest lprng is broken, it's give me a problem about permission or > something'. Vincent already uploaded a fix for that. Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a messa

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 12:05:27PM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > > general 28850 gettext: security problem when used in setuid > > > > programs [0] (debian-devel@lists.debian.org) > > > > > > Everyone who has a package with a setuid

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Richard Braakman
Joey Hess wrote: > Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > general 28850 gettext: security problem when used in setuid > > > programs [0] (debian-devel@lists.debian.org) > > > > Everyone who has a package with a setuid program or something that runs > > as root should check if it uses gettext,

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > general 28850 gettext: security problem when used in setuid > > programs [0] (debian-devel@lists.debian.org) > > Everyone who has a package with a setuid program or something that runs > as root should check if it uses gettext, and if so recompile it with >

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Jonel Rienton
Slink's latest lprng is broken, it's give me a problem about permission or something'.

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 10:10:25PM -0500, Brian White wrote: > I understand. My point, however, was that anyone who exports those things > on purpose could just as easily copy the file, ftp it, email it, or > whatever. Plugging a whole in the side of a boat doesn't help when the > boat has no bot

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Brian White
> > > Previously Brian White wrote: > > > > apache32204 user directories allow symlinks to other files > > > > [0] (Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > > > > > We should just force SymLinksIfOwnerMatch for /home to solve this. > > > > You know, I don't see this as "grave". It mea

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Brian White
> > You know, I don't see this as "grave". It means that a user can > > effectively "export to the world" any file readable by www-data. In > > general, this means only things that can be read by public. So, > > the user can't intentionally export anything that he/she couldn't already > > do by

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 02:20:00PM -0500, Brian White wrote: > > Previously Brian White wrote: > > > apache32204 user directories allow symlinks to other files > > > [0] (Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > > > We should just force SymLinksIfOwnerMatch for /home to solve this. > >