Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-09-27 Thread Martin Pitt
Scott Kitterman [2011-09-28 1:33 -0400]: > Will we sync from Testing or Unstable this cycle? My feeling is that syncing from testing served us well for the last LTS, and Debian is not in a freeze which would force unstable to calm down, so I would go again for autosyncing from testing, and lettin

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-09-27 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, September 23, 2011 09:56:17 PM Allison Randal wrote: > Hi all, > > While we're all in the final preparations for Oneiric, it's round about > that time in the cycle to start thinking about plans for the next cycle. > What's on your mind? > Will we sync from Testing or Unstable this cycl

Re: Cleaning up the users and locking down the shells in /etc/passwd

2011-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:03:55AM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:12:24AM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Colin Watson > > wrote: > > > > I'm afraid this is backwards. If you w

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-09-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 27, 2011, at 01:02 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >If you aim your minimum Python version at 2.6, it's not that hard to write >code that works with both python and python3. If you want a "P" target for >Python3, I'd suggest getting Ubuntu custom code working in either so that we >can throug

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-09-27 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:56:17 +0100 Allison Randal wrote: > Hi all, > > While we're all in the final preparations for Oneiric, it's round about > that time in the cycle to start thinking about plans for the next cycle. > What's on your mind? > > All

Re: Cleaning up the users and locking down the shells in /etc/passwd

2011-09-27 Thread Matt Alexander
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:12:24AM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Colin Watson > wrote: > > > I'm afraid this is backwards. If you want to go and hunt down packages > > > that rely on those global static u

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-09-27 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, September 23, 2011 09:56:17 PM Allison Randal wrote: > Hi all, > > While we're all in the final preparations for Oneiric, it's round about > that time in the cycle to start thinking about plans for the next cycle. > What's on your mind? Having a release where the release team wasn't fl

Re: Cleaning up the users and locking down the shells in /etc/passwd

2011-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:12:24AM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > > I'm afraid this is backwards. If you want to go and hunt down packages > > that rely on those global static users and get their maintainers > > (preferably in Debian) to work

Re: Cleaning up the users and locking down the shells in /etc/passwd

2011-09-27 Thread Matt Alexander
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 03:05:58PM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Colin Watson > wrote: > > > For almost everything, and certainly for the overwhelming majority of > > > new entries, we do exactly as you sa

Re: Cleaning up the users and locking down the shells in /etc/passwd

2011-09-27 Thread Matt Alexander
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Bear Giles wrote: > Matt, why not create a hardening package? Just write a script that scrubs > /etc/passwd and /etc/group and then create a small package that runs it once > (in postinst). I would also install it in, e.g., /etc/cron.daily so it's > rerun periodic

Re: libguile 2.0 packages for ubuntu?

2011-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 01:36:25PM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > I'm one of the developers or LilyPond (the GNU music notation application), > and we heavily depend on guile (actually, large parts of lilypond are written > in guile). > > Now, in February, guile 2.0 was released, which has a

libguile 2.0 packages for ubuntu?

2011-09-27 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Dear Ubuntu developers, I'm one of the developers or LilyPond (the GNU music notation application), and we heavily depend on guile (actually, large parts of lilypond are written in guile). Now, in February, guile 2.0 was released, which has a much improved garbage collection (based on libgc), p

Re: project ideas ubuntu

2011-09-27 Thread Gaurav Saxena
Hello Komputes, Thanks for your reply. On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:13 AM, komputes wrote: > Gaurav Saxena wrote on 25/09/11 18:08: > > > hello all i want to do a my fina; year projrct on ubuntu.. please > > > help me with some ideas realted to ubuntu on which i can work... > > Hi Gaurav, > > I a

Re: Cleaning up the users and locking down the shells in /etc/passwd

2011-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 03:05:58PM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > > For almost everything, and certainly for the overwhelming majority of > > new entries, we do exactly as you say. However, I (as base-passwd > > maintainer) will not remove en