Re: Bug#262402: Severity of bug #259993

2004-08-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 11:13:44 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > That is, an attacker could submit a print job containing PostScript > > commands which, when interpreted by gs, would open files, etc. with the > > privileges of cups-pdf (apparently,

Re: gtk-doc-tools and #196073

2003-06-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:53:58 +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > you uploaded a new version of gtk-doc the 2003-06-19 (maintainer: > debian-qa) to fix a few bugs, but you forgot the #196073 one, which were > marked pending by the maintainer before orphaning, and not fixed. I didn't forget it. I was

Bug#166527: developer.php: not picking up package that exists only in experimental

2002-10-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
Package: qa.debian.org Version: unavailable; reported 2002-10-26 Severity: normal http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] generates an incomplete overview of my packages: it does not list libgsf (http://packages.qa.debian.org/libg/libgsf.html). Most likely this has to do with libgsf only existing i

Re: xfce package

2000-03-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 21:19:36 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > upstream source. I don't know if we should upload it to frozen or if we > should remove xfce from potato and only upload the new version to woody as > suggested in the bub report #60258. I'd second that suggestion. Unlike the old ver

Re: Y2k problem in perl 5.004.04-7

2000-01-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 14:41:32 +0100, Rodrigo Fernandez-Vizarra Bonet wrote: > $year = (localtime(time())->year); > Actual date 22-0-100 This is not a Y2K problem in perl, but a case of not reading the relevant part of the fine perl manual. Quoting perlfunc(1p) on localtime: :Also, $year is the

Re: Embedded PPC 603e

2000-01-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 22:31:10 -0800, David R. Whipple wrote: > We are trying to port the Linux OS to run on a Motorola MPC603e (similar > to the MPC8xx boards) . The October 1999 issue of Linux journal has an article "Porting Linux to a Power PC Board" by He Zhu and Xiaoqiang Chen [An experime

Re: dvi2tty.deb

1999-11-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:13:40 +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Ray Dassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [That's my old address BTW; it still works though] > is working on a free replacement; if anyone wants to help finish it, I'm > sure he would appreciate it. It's more accurate to say I have framework co

Re: Bugs in packages maintained by Debian QA Group

1999-10-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 17:50:30 +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > Does anybody use 9wm, 9term, and 9fonts? Can we dump them? 9term and 9fonts provide for the only UTF-8 (unicode) capable terminal emulation for X currently packaged AFAIK; it would be convenient to have them available for i18n testing p

Re: Bugs in packages maintained by Debian QA Group

1999-10-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 18:11:06 +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > #41356 lesstifg-dev: should depend on xlib6g-dev > > Any comments on that? Just an AOL. It should indeed. > I think I had some more comments, but I have no connection to > bugs.debian.org and can not research them. (think I have some

Re: Ispell - upstream address?

1999-08-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 09:54:21 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > I've noticed ispell is orphaned, and intend to adopt it (I'll post > the intent formally a bit later) - but I'd like to get hold of upstream > if at all possible, and the web address given in the source returns me > 404, which m

Re: Bug#42795: manpages-it

1999-08-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
lopment changes or moves). Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better one than the one the blocks | live in but it'll be a sight more vivid.

Re: mozilla

1999-05-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 20:33:13 -0500, Chris Mazuc wrote: > I wish to take over as packager for mozilla, Several people are currently working on getting up to date mozilla packages; their current work can be found on va.debian.org in ~joy/mozilla . Please get in touch with Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PRO

Bug#35853: electric-fence: new upstream release

1999-04-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
Package: electric-fence Version: 2.0.5-4.1 Electric Fence 2.1 has been released; see http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/04/09/923681673.html Bruce is explicitly asking for patches (prior to working on thread-safety), so it would be cool if #33185 got fixed now too. Ray -- Cyberspace, a final fronti

Re: is the cfs package orphaned?

1999-03-31 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 00:28:27 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 11:44:12PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > If not, I will fix some bugs and change the maintainer to debian-qa. > > Actually, I'm not expert enough in RPC to fix it. It references > members of the RPC structur

How to deal with "Maintainer unknown" bugreports

1999-03-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
Currently, there are over a hundered bug reports in the bug tracking system that are filed under "maintainer unknown" (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/ma/l-28_unknown-29_.html). In my experience, there are a few categories to be seen in these - Bug reports with missing Package: pseudo-header (or one

Mozilla/NSPR coordination (was Re: Mozilla Build)

1999-03-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 16:16:03 -0800, Brent A. Fulgham wrote: > I noticed that our most recent mozilla build is circa Oct 1998. That was the last time it built on a slink system, before the switch to Gtk as the standard GUI library (which required a newer Gtk than slink had). > I plan on attemp

Bug#33238: libpam / nmu

1999-02-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 23:08:43 +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Are you planning to make a new NMU of libpam for slink to fix > the bogus dependency? No I'm not, as I've already done that: lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/debian/home/ftp/private/project/Incoming> ls -l *pam* | grep jdassen -rw-r--r-- 1 j

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

1999-02-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 03:06:47 -0500, Brian White wrote: > libpam0g-util 33238 libpam0g-util: bogus cracklib2 dependency. [0] > (Debian QA Group ) This is fixed in pam_0.65-0.9 which is currently in Incoming. Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto-

Bug#33238: libpam0g-util: bogus cracklib2 dependency.

1999-02-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
; CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, "J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: sudo and cracklib Apologies for the personal cc's, but I *really* want to make sure this message gets noticed. Guy Maor wrote: > Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes

Bug#33186: electric-fence: Documentation improvement

1999-02-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
Package: electric-fence Version: 2.0.5-4 README.debian does not explain how to use Electric Fence from within gdb without having to relink the binary. One can find out how to do this by perusing the gdb docs thoroughly, but it would be nice if this readme would include an enlightening example, lik

Bug#33185: electric-fence: Forward shared lib suggestion.

1999-02-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
Package: electric-fence Version: 2.0.5-4 AFAIK the upstream release of Electric Fence doesn't utilise the trick of making it into a shared library like the current Debian package does. Please forward this trick upstream; it is very useful not to have to relink a binary in order to use Electric Fen

Bug#21742: Bugs reported against the old mozilla packages

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 19:56:36 +, Jonathan H N Chin wrote: > > OK. I've just reassigned it to mozilla. Do you think "Severity: > > wishlist" is appropriate for it? > > I consider it to be a significant bug. > If I run lynx, I don't expect it to create a .mosaic directory. > If I use emacs, I

Mozilla status

1998-11-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
This morning, I uploaded a mozilla (latest tarball) compiled with the fixed libc6 and libstdc++2.9. It no longer dumps core immediately after startup, and should be somewhat usable again (it's still alpha code of course). It is marked Maintainer: Debian QA group . This means #26712, #27181, #29149

Bug#27181: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:46:58PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: > While you're all on this thread, what about mozilla? The current Debian package doesn't work with the current libc (#27181, severity: grave). > I was going to ask Brian for an extension for mozilla as I won't make > 00:00 Saturday

Bug#26712: mozilla: any progress made on this bug?

1998-10-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 01:59:51PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > If this issue can't be resolved before the release is made, can we please > remove the package out of slink. I agree. It would have been nice to have a working mozilla in it, but it appears to be unlikely. > > I've seen suggestions

Bug#26712: mozilla: any progress made on this bug?

1998-10-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 12:41:23PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > Has any progress been made on tracking down the cause of this bug. Not really. I've tried rebuilding the version that's currently in slink against the latest libs; this made no difference (immediate coredump). Yesterday I tried