Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-09 Thread Martin Mitchell
Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll wait then. I was talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this, and whipped up some packages for the new version. They're done, but I won't upload them until Jens or Sami gets back to me. Martin Sami gave us http://www.x11amp.ml.org/ as website

Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
This is my formal announcement of intention to package x11amp, a graphical .mp3 player for X. x11amp is a clone of WinAMP. It's free to redistribute, but no source is available, so it's going into non-free/sound. Its home page is: http://www.x11amp.bz.nu/ One question: x11amp uses the real-time

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
BG == Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BG One question: x11amp uses the real-time functions of Linux (and BG sounds much better) if it's installed suid-root, but there are BG unknown holes that this opens up. Should I use suidmanager and BG make it suid? I would say to register

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Larry == Larry 'Daffy' Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Larry I would say to register it with suidmanager, leave it Larry non-suid by default, and place a notice somewhere that if Larry performance is an issue, it may be made setuid through Larry suidregister. On my K6-200, the

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
BG == Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Larry == Larry 'Daffy' Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Larry I would say to register it with suidmanager, leave it Larry non-suid by default, and place a notice somewhere that if Larry performance is an issue, it may be made setuid through

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
One question: x11amp uses the real-time functions of Linux (and sounds much better) if it's installed suid-root, but there are unknown holes that this opens up. Should I use suidmanager and make it suid? don't make it suid if it works without (mpg123, amp both work well as normal programs),

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Andreas == Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas don't make it suid if it works without (mpg123, amp both Andreas work well as normal programs), register it with Andreas suidmanager without suid bit, and document in Andreas README.debian how to make it suid, what

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Gertzfield wrote: No source available. :/ In the FAQ, though, it says there will be source available sometime. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 07:37:57PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: This is my formal announcement of intention to package x11amp, a graphical .mp3 player for X. x11amp is a clone of WinAMP. It's free to redistribute, but no source is available, so it's going into non-free/sound. Its home

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 12:10:56PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 07:37:57PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: This is my formal announcement of intention to package x11amp, a graphical .mp3 player for X. x11amp is a clone of WinAMP. It's free to redistribute

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin There are one or two others who have already signed up for Martin this package: Sami Haahtinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Jens Martin Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Sami is still in the Martin new-maintainer procedure and has told