Release-critical Bugreport for December 22, 2000

2000-12-22 Thread BugScan reporter
Bug stamp-out list for Dec 22 05:15 (CST) Total number of release-critical bugs: 485 Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 0 -- Package: afbackup (debian/main) Maintainer: Christian Meder

[ADMIN] Unsubscription problems

2000-12-22 Thread Anand Kumria
Hi there, A number of people have reported problems with unsubscribing from various lists, principally debian-user and debian-devel. We, the listmaster team, believe we have fixed the underlying problem and you should merrily be able to [un]subscribe as needed. Please inform us if you aren't

Uploaded cmatrix 1.1b-3 (m68k) to erlangen

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/m68k Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 05:25:06 -0700 Source: cmatrix Binary: cmatrix Architecture: m68k Version: 1.1b-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded black-box 1.4-1 (m68k) to erlangen

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/m68k Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 23:59:06 +0100 Source: black-box Binary: black-box Architecture: m68k Version: 1.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL

Uploaded tidy 20000804-1 (m68k) to erlangen

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/m68k Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 04:25:16 +0100 Source: tidy Binary: tidy Architecture: m68k Version: 2804-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Matej Vela [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded sgrep 1.92a-4 (m68k) to erlangen

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/m68k Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 17:22:19 -0600 Source: sgrep Binary: sgrep Architecture: m68k Version: 1.92a-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/m68k Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Jim Studt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded tar 1.13.18-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:09:44 -0700 Source: tar Binary: tar Architecture: sparc Version: 1.13.18-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/SPARC Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Uploaded update 2.11-2 (sparc) to ftp-master

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 19:01:38 -0600 Source: update Binary: update Architecture: sparc Version: 2.11-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/SPARC Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Roland Bauerschmidt [EMAIL

Uploaded bsdmainutils 5.20001028-5 (sparc) to ftp-master

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 21:24:32 +0100 Source: bsdmainutils Binary: bsdmainutils Architecture: sparc Version: 5.20001028-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/SPARC Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Marco d'Itri

Uploaded kdelibs 2.1-20001218-2 (all sparc) to ftp-master

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:22:00 -0700 Source: kdelibs Binary: libarts-dev kdelibs3 kdelibs3-dev kdelibs3-doc libarts Architecture: all sparc Version: 4:2.1-20001218-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/SPARC Build

Uploaded libmcal 0.6-7 (sparc) to ftp-master

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:48:30 +0100 Source: libmcal Binary: libmcal0-dev libmcal libmcal0 Architecture: sparc Version: 0.6-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/SPARC Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Ola

Uploaded qt2.2 2.2.3-3 (sparc all) to ftp-master

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:13:00 -0700 Source: qt2.2 Binary: qt2.2-doc libqt2.2-dev libqt2.2-mt-dev libqt2.2-mt libqt2.2 libqt2.2-gl Architecture: sparc all Version: 2:2.2.3-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/SPARC

Uploaded ami 1.0.8-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 18:32:23 +0900 Source: ami Binary: ami ami-gnome Architecture: sparc Version: 1.0.8-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/SPARC Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Changwoo Ryu [EMAIL

Uploaded kdegraphics 2.1-20001218-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 23:50:00 -0700 Source: kdegraphics Binary: kpixmap2bitmap kghostview ksnapshot kfract libminimagick-dev pixie kview libminimagick5 Architecture: sparc Version: 4:2.1-20001218-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low

Uploaded imagemagick 5.2.6-3 (sparc) to ftp-master

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:27:58 +0900 Source: imagemagick Binary: libmagick++5 imagemagick libmagick5-dev libmagick5 libmagick++5-dev Architecture: sparc Version: 1:5.2.6-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian/SPARC

Uploaded w3c-libwww 5.3.1-3 (sparc) to ftp-master

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:18:27 +0900 Source: w3c-libwww Binary: libwww-dev libwww0 Architecture: sparc Version: 5.3.1-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/SPARC Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Takuo KITAME

Uploaded mc 4.5.51-12 (sparc) to ftp-master

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:48:35 +0100 Source: mc Binary: mc mc-common gmc Architecture: sparc Version: 4.5.51-12 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Debian/SPARC Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Martin Bialasinski

Uploaded ash 0.3.7-13 (sparc) to ftp-master

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 19:32:34 +1100 Source: ash Binary: ash-udeb ash ash-medium Architecture: sparc Version: 0.3.7-13 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/SPARC Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Herbert Xu

Uploaded t-code 2.1pre3-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2000-12-22 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:17:53 +0900 Source: t-code Binary: t-code Architecture: sparc Version: 1:2.1pre3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/SPARC Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: UEYAMA Rui [EMAIL

Re: ITP: charities.cron

2000-12-22 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://freshmeat.net/projects/charities.cron/ I'll look at it and make a package, unless someone really objects... Fix the tmp security hole while you are at it, will you? Thanks, -- Marcelo

looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-22 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, I am maintainer for run and console-log, and waiting for NM to complete. Unfortunately, run has a nasty bug that causes console-log to hang which in turn may prevent a clean shutdown. Upstream doesn't maintain run any more (and I shouldn't have packaged it in the first place), and isn't

RE: linkchecker lintian warnings

2000-12-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Dec-2000 Bastian Kleineidam wrote: Hi, if you test my linkchecker .deb package: I just noticed that lintian gives the following warnings on my 1.2.12 package of LinkChecker: W: linkchecker: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link W: linkchecker: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link a

finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-22 Thread Joey Hess
It has been more than 1 year since the technical committee decided how the /usr/share/doc transition would be accomplished[1], and in that time most packages have implementede the transition. The decision stated that Thus, potato+1 (woody) ships with a full /usr/share/doc, and a /usr/doc full of

NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Brent Fulgham
No doubt most of you have seen the NSA's secure linux posting on Slashdot this morning. Looking at: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/docs.html there appears to be several utilities that have been updated to provide enhanced security. Should we be merging these patches into Debian, assuming they

please fix the smartlist setup on lists.debian.org

2000-12-22 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Donald J Bindner wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:44:54PM -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote: The cruddy, slow, GUI based email program I use at work seems to imply your reply to address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] but your email came from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or maybe its the other way around. I hate

RE: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
There are a total of 645 packages that have not been converted[2]. There are 16 weeks between December 31st and Aj's projected freeze date for woody. If 40 people could do one package a week, we would be done. Or 20 people doing two a week, or just 6 people doing one a day. In other words,

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-22 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Joey Hess wrote: There are a total of 645 packages that have not been converted[2]. There are 16 weeks between December 31st and Aj's projected freeze date for woody. If 40 people could do one package a week, we would be done. Or 20 people doing two a week, or just 6 people doing one a day. In

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:04:26PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: It has been more than 1 year since the technical committee decided how the /usr/share/doc transition would be accomplished[1], and in that time most packages have implementede the transition. The decision stated that Thus, potato+1

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I'd be glad to help. How should we proceed? Should we send patches to the appropiate maintainers or directly upload the NMUs? Honestly, they had enough time to tranist to /usr/share/doc. send patch, wait some period of time (maybe a week?) then warn of NMU, then NMU.

[ADMIN] Unsubscription problems

2000-12-22 Thread Anand Kumria
Hi there, A number of people have reported problems with unsubscribing from various lists, principally debian-user and debian-devel. We, the listmaster team, believe we have fixed the underlying problem and you should merrily be able to [un]subscribe as needed. Please inform us if you aren't

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of Brent Fulgham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): No doubt most of you have seen the NSA's secure linux posting on Slashdot this morning. Looking at: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/docs.html there appears to be several utilities that have been updated to provide enhanced

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Daniel Stone wrote: On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:06:53AM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote: Quoting Bas Zoetekouw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Now you can boost the reliability of ordinary Windows 3.x, 95 and 98 to nearly the level of Windows NT or 2000, Microsoft's professional and

Re: wnpp bug reports

2000-12-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:58:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: Is there any way to submit an ITP bug on WNPP, so that the bug number appears in the copy to -devel? Yes, put -devel in Cc: or (X-Debbugs-Cc:) fields. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brent Fulgham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No doubt most of you have seen the NSA's secure linux posting on Slashdot this morning. Looking at: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/docs.html there appears to be several utilities that have been updated to provide enhanced

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Buddha Buck
At 04:38 PM 12-22-2000 -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: from the secret journal of Brent Fulgham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): No doubt most of you have seen the NSA's secure linux posting on Slashdot this morning. Looking at: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/docs.html there appears to be several utilities that

Re: libapache-asp-perl - perl Apache::ASP - Active Server Pages for Apache with mod_perl.

2000-12-22 Thread Stephen Zander
Piotr == Piotr Roszatycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Piotr ITO: libapache-asp-perl Piotr ITO: libapache-filter-perl Piotr ITO: libapache-ssi-perl Piotr ITO: libcgi-pm-perl Piotr ITO: libdbd-csv-perl Piotr ITO: libhtml-clean-perl Piotr ITO: libhtml-simpleparse-perl

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of Buddha Buck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): unless we have a policy against security, it should be fine. :) it's all gpl. i posted that before i hit the download page. Security-enhanced Linux is not an attempt to correct any flaws that may currently exist in Linux. Instead,

the experimental mutt package

2000-12-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
Some days ago I uploaded mutt 1.3.12 to experimental. Please test it, because if people will not complain I'm going to upload it to woody. README.Debian says: ~~ ~ NOTES ABOUT THE EXPERIMENTAL PACKAGE ~ ~ There is no

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Britton
Pardon my paranoia, but even if it was worth making all the changes they are talking about (which are pretty extensive), I'd want to see anything coming from the NSA audited carefully before being included. Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. On Fri, 22 Dec 2000,

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of Britton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Pardon my paranoia, but even if it was worth making all the changes they are talking about (which are pretty extensive), I'd want to see anything coming from the NSA audited carefully before being included. Britton Kerin you're

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:39:45AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:43:03AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Hmm, the debian lists get quite a lot of spam lately. Is there anything that can be done about this? Pardon my French, but this is a fucking stupid idea. Did

Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-22 Thread KORN Andras
Package: general Version: 20001222 Severity: important Hi, I feel that there exists a general confusion among some Debian developers as to what user ids such as 'nobody' should be used for. I suggest that the policy be updated with relevant advice. As I see it, 'nobody' should be a user

Re: wnpp bug reports

2000-12-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:58:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: Is there any way to submit an ITP bug on WNPP, so that the bug number appears in the copy to -devel? Yes, put -devel in Cc: or (X-Debbugs-Cc:) fields. When I have done this,

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Britton
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Jacob Kuntz wrote: from the secret journal of Britton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Pardon my paranoia, but even if it was worth making all the changes they are talking about (which are pretty extensive), I'd want to see anything coming from the NSA audited carefully before

Subject: http://www.lists and 5000 best domain names free to register

2000-12-22 Thread trademark
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Close list

2000-12-22 Thread Carl B. Constantine
I'm getting tired of getting spam through mail lists I subscribe to that have an open post policy. Can we please close the debian-devel and other such lists that should be closed. I don't think trademark domains is doing anything for debian development. -- Carl B. Constantine ([EMAIL

Re: Close list

2000-12-22 Thread Joey Hess
Carl B. Constantine wrote: I'm getting tired of getting spam through mail lists I subscribe to that have an open post policy. Can we please close the debian-devel and other such lists that should be closed. I don't think trademark domains is doing anything for debian development. This is

Re: Close list

2000-12-22 Thread David N. Welton
Carl B. Constantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm getting tired of getting spam through mail lists I subscribe to that have an open post policy. Can we please close the debian-devel and other such lists that should be closed. I don't think trademark domains is doing anything for debian

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Marc Haber wrote: Hi, I am maintainer for run and console-log, and waiting for NM to complete. Unfortunately, run has a nasty bug that causes console-log to hang which in turn may prevent a clean shutdown. Upstream doesn't maintain run any more (and I shouldn't have packaged it in the

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of esoR ocsirF ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): A possability might be to have a signature key. This is not significantly different than the extra header idea but it would allow *any* MUA to work with it. Could be something like a GPG fingerprint or whatever. Just a thought.

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Daniel Stone
from the secret journal of Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Solution: just deal with the few spam we get so as not to hinder real discussions. Ben amen. OK, if you can do that, I'm absolutely thrilled to do it, PLEASE make debian-devel spam-free. But the problem is that you CAN'T.

Re: wnpp bug reports

2000-12-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 06:03:28PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, put -devel in Cc: or (X-Debbugs-Cc:) fields. When I have done this, the report shows up on -devel the same as I submitted it - the Bug Number doesn't appear. If you CC it it will -

Re: testing to be implemented on ftp-master

2000-12-22 Thread Joey Hess
Adrian Bunk wrote: BTW: Are there any rules when a developer has to use which urgency or can he if he wants to simply do all his uploads with the urgency set to high? I read the Packaging Manual and I did only find a very vague how important it is to upgrade to this version from

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread safemode
Daniel Stone wrote: from the secret journal of Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Solution: just deal with the few spam we get so as not to hinder real discussions. Ben amen. OK, if you can do that, I'm absolutely thrilled to do it, PLEASE make debian-devel spam-free. But the

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 12:00:26PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: from the secret journal of Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Solution: just deal with the few spam we get so as not to hinder real discussions. Ben amen. OK, if you can do that, I'm absolutely thrilled to do it,

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Robert van der Meulen
Quoting Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): BTW, I'm on a 28.8, and I get over 1000 emails a day from all the lists I am sub'd to. So I do see a lot of spam, even beyond Debian's lists. If I can ignore it, so can everyone else, IMNHO. Ignoring spam has made the internet the spam-ridden place it is

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 02:21:46AM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote: Quoting Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): BTW, I'm on a 28.8, and I get over 1000 emails a day from all the lists I am sub'd to. So I do see a lot of spam, even beyond Debian's lists. If I can ignore it, so can everyone

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread John Galt
You going to send them the bill then? At the bottom off the mailinglist subscription page: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe is the mailinglist policy. Basically, the policy says either pay us $1,000 up front or $1,999 after. Martin (Joey, whatever you prefer...), Remco,

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread John Galt
I was kind of feeling sorry about including you as a CC in the last post--partial oversight, partial personal policy (I never quite know how to deal with tertiary CCs: I generally detest people who adulterate a message they're replying to, but I also think that responsibility for replies stops

update excuses.. how to read them

2000-12-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, if i take for example: http://ftp-master.debian.org/~ajt/update_excuses.html adns 1.0-3 (low) Maintainer: Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] adns is 27 days out of date! out of date on alpha: libadns0, libadns0-dev (from 0.8-2) out of date on i386:

Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!

2000-12-22 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 02:21:46AM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote: Quoting Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): BTW, I'm on a 28.8, and I get over 1000 emails a day from all the lists I am sub'd to. So I do see a lot of spam, even beyond Debian's lists. If I can ignore it, so can

Re: Close list

2000-12-22 Thread Miles Bader
Carl B. Constantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm getting tired of getting spam through mail lists I subscribe to that have an open post policy. Can we please close the debian-devel and other such lists that should be closed. I don't think trademark domains is doing anything for debian

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-22 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:04:26PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: base/update I uploaded a NMU for this already. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Close list

2000-12-22 Thread Carl B. Constantine
On 12/22/2000 19:44, Miles Bader at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, lets not. Right now I'm subscribed to debian-devel, but often in the past I've read it occasionally in the archives, and sent mail as I thought appropriate. I know there are other people who do this. The fact is that the

Re: Close list

2000-12-22 Thread Miles Bader
Carl B. Constantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yo ppl, it's not hard to archive a closed list, most list software supports archive directly. Sheesh! You make it sound like it's the end of the world for crying out loud. Give me a break! I was complaining about not being able to post to the list

Re: Close list

2000-12-22 Thread Carl B. Constantine
This discussion is being taken off list to avoid yet another flame war (not my intention to start another flamewar). -- Carl B. Constantine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])Phone: 250.953.2650 Open Source Solutions Inc. Fax: 250.953.2659 4252 Commerce Circle,

Re: update excuses.. how to read them

2000-12-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:04:03AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: if i take for example: http://ftp-master.debian.org/~ajt/update_excuses.html adns 1.0-3 (low) Maintainer: Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] adns is 27 days out of date! out of date on alpha: