> > Greg Stark writes:
> > > We've got be be a little more careful with the Replaces header. I just
> > > installed the libc6 version of comerr, and dpkg helpfully deinstalled
> > > e2fsprogs.
I can see a security problem with this. Lets jump ahead several months
when we have deity working.
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can see a security problem with this.
Absolutely: pre/post inst/rm scripts run as root, this is the security
problem to dwarf all other security problems.
Our defense is a wide audience. The more people we have looking at the
system, the better
On 30 Nov 1997, Greg Stark wrote:
> I know i should install a new e2fsprogs, obviously. I was just suggesting we
> should find some way to avoid the default action being to deinstall packages
> that aren't really being completely replaced. I'm not sure what better to do
> though.
In this partic
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>The testers are starting to think about how to organized the 2.0
> testing effort. One idea that the testers seemed to like is to create a
> checklist for checking each package.
[details snipped]
Excellent! If this comes off, I think it will prob
Congratulations on a good decision, Bruce. :)
>DEBIAN ANNOUNCES $1000 GRANT TO GNOME PROJECT
>
> The Debian GNU/Linux Distribution is getting enough donations now that we
> can support the development of free software. We use most donations for
> our own work, but some outside projec
Oops, I left an SMTP command at the end of that message. Did you see it?
Bruce
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
: This list can be added to by anyone. What I'd like to ask for now is any
: comments on this.
A checklist like this is a good idea, particularly if it eventually provides
the list of things that initially need to be part of a regression suite for
the pa
On 1 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Oops, I left an SMTP command at the end of that message. Did you see it?
Yes.
Will
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At 04:27 AM 1/12/97 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Oops, I left an SMTP command at the end of that message. Did you see it?
Yes, we did :-)
I hate these "me too" messages. I wonder how many people will reply with
"yes, we did" now . You shouldn't have said anything, Bruce :-)
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> FAKEROOT: after stat, failing?: known=0, stat=d:i=(2051:196739),
> mode=0100664, nlink=1,
I've seen this too (on an x86 hamm system) but I forget if I filed it.
Running "fakeroot alien" on a .tar.gz file triggered it; the .tar.gz
file happenned to have pathnames longer than dpkg can handle [gr
Send it to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", with a package: and version: line
in the body, just like the website says (somewhere.)
> seems to be at fault. My /usr/include/X11 was empty, so the cp failed
Any idea how it *got* that way? Were you upgrading (from what) or
installing fresh? [you can look at /va
I don't understand why the debian developers are undertaking to
maintain debianified version of Perl modules when the CPAN module and
its mechanisms are so much more native to Perl, are well-supported by
the Perl community, etc? Besides, Perl already has it's own automated
upgrade system (CPAN),
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
I am working on the following packages:
Orphaned packages:
macutils
mcvert
opie
New packages:
hfs-fs (Macintosh HFS kernel module)
zile (Emacs clone)
For the time b
Yann Dirson wrote:
>
> Greg Stark writes:
> >
> > We've got be be a little more careful with the Replaces header.
> > I just installed the libc6 version of comerr, and dpkg helpfully
> > deinstalled e2fsprogs.
>
> That's perfectly normal if you previously had e2fsprogs <= 1.10-6,
> which does
Hi,
>>"Adam" == Adam P Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Adam> I don't understand why the debian developers are undertaking to
Adam> maintain debianified version of Perl modules when the CPAN
Adam> module and its mechanisms are so much more native to Perl, are
Adam> well-supported by the Perl com
Adam> I don't understand why the debian developers are undertaking to
Adam> maintain debianified version of Perl modules when the CPAN
Adam> module and its mechanisms are so much more native to Perl, are
Adam> well-supported by the Perl community, etc?
[Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
>
On 30 Nov 1997 02:13:23 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
bruce> Good healthy sex is fine. The stuff I objected to had nothing
bruce> to do with sex, it concerned acts only a mentaly ill person
bruce> would carry out.
Ummm... careful with those generalisations. I've gone through some
incarnation of
On , 30 Nov 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:
>Sorry. Quake or Doom are silly and stupid; they certainly aren't fun.
Normally it's silly to assume your own experience is everyone else's.
In a case like this, when it is blatantly obvious that a very large
number of people find both games fun, it's abs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Yep I was tempted to answer with just
:wq
quit
EXIT
^]
^C
eat flaming death
:)
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Hi,
as my email is still not added to debian-private (I don't want to bug
anyone) and it's election time I would like to ask some kind soul to
send me the archives of the last two months of debian-private (need
some background material for voting :-)
If possible please in the next couple of days
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How do I remove packages using cpan? Can I downgrade to a
> > lower version?
>
Adam P. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure but I don't think so. Probably, if you can think of some
> cases why you need this functionality, you could a
Hi!
Just a little note on the chosen new logo:
It says "Debian / GNU Linux". Isn't the project called "Debian GNU/Linux"?
Just wondering... Otherwise, the logo is very nice.
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Okay, I goofed up somewhat with sed by releasing a package which
pre-depended on eletric fence. Sorry about that.
But please: STOP reporting bugreports on this! I've fixed it and the
new package has already been installed on the FTP site.
Thanks,
Wichert.
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I am planning to become a developer in the near future. To do
so, I will require my PGP key to be signed by at least one developer,
but I am unsure of the procedure to do this.
Is it necessary to physically meet the signqing developer? If
so, I would like to hear from developers who wo
In the debian distribution, I miss a collection of xpilot utilities, apart
from the game itself. Therefore I have the ambition to create a debian
package, collecting several such programs into a complementary
xpilot-extra package.
My main concern is, should I create one package for each utility (
It is always best to install the xearth package
to find Debian developers close to you. Of hand, some
developers do live in Florida: I live in Palm Beach, there is one
in Miami, and a redneck in Hee Haw junction who spends the night
outside 7-11, buying lottery tickets while s
Brandon Mitchell wrote:
>
> I can see a security problem with this. Lets jump ahead several months
> when we have deity working. A user points deity to several sites, some
> providing a bunch of debs that they have created but don't want to be part
> of the main distribution. Now they upload a
Andy Mortimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OTOH, if you make this too simplistic, then I fear you're going to miss most
> of the problems: I'm sure the majority of developers do test their packages at
> least a little bit before releasing them. I certainly do. But one of the
> things Debian has bee
Petri Wessman wrote:
> Sigh, someday I'll probably understand the American mentality when it
> comes to sex (and equating it with violence on the "ooo, bad stuff"
> scale).
When you do, let me know (and I live there - thought I'm not one) :)
Stephen
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On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> I'd also be interested in some kind of verification, so I can accept all
> packages put together by some maintainer, and the maintainers on the
> debian keyring, but no one else.
I had exactly the same idea in the previous KDE/virtual package discus
[You ([EMAIL PROTECTED])]
>About two months ago, I upgraded a CPAN bundle on a production server.
>Two interesting things happened:
>
>(1) perl itself got upgraded, and
>(2) wais got upgraded.
Huh??? Perl itself? I don't think this is possible.
[...]
>Also, there are CPAN modules whose installa
Quoting Mark W. Eichin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > seems to be at fault. My /usr/include/X11 was empty, so the cp failed
>
> Any idea how it *got* that way? Were you upgrading (from what) or
> installing fresh? [you can look at /var/lib/dpkg/status.yesterday.*
> for hints, if you don't remember...]
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >About two months ago, I upgraded a CPAN bundle on a production server.
> >Two interesting things happened:
> >
> >(1) perl itself got upgraded, and
> >(2) wais got upgraded.
Adam P. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Huh??? Perl itself? I don't think th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 30.11.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 02:07:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> ..
> > There are some valid arguments why showing violence is bad.
>
> No there ain't. There are some valid arguments why people who
> can't control their violent tende
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> The default keyring would probably be the developers keyring. The
> sysadmin could then add new keys of persons/organziations which he/she
> trusts to that keyring.
> Comments?
Err... yes.
Am I the only one seeing a bit of a problem here? (Or am I
does anyone know where i can contact Orn E. Hansen.
he was the developer of dialdcost, which i would like
to take over. his email-adress [EMAIL PROTECTED]
unfortunately bounces.
thanks,
jjm
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Juergen Menden wrote:
> does anyone know where i can contact Orn E. Hansen.
> he was the developer of dialdcost, which i would like
> to take over. his email-adress [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> unfortunately bounces.
Dialdcost is orphaned, see
http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html.
As far
I use Debian 1.3.1 and was wondering, which package in the msdos-i386
directory is X11. Also, how do I get access to my floppy drive in the
text-shell? Please respond. Thank you.
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Why do we need to take out the offensive part of the package when
we already have an example of how to package offensive material. The
fortune and fortune-mod package asks during installation if the offensive
material should be removed.
Why can't we just follow the policy set forw
Anyone know what's up with David Engle's email address?
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (unrecoverable error)
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553 icarus.ods.com config error: mail loops back to myself
554 <[EMAIL PRO
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Damerell) wrote on 01.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On , 30 Nov 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> >Sorry. Quake or Doom are silly and stupid; they certainly aren't fun.
>
> Normally it's silly to assume your own experience is everyone else's.
>
> In a case like this, when i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) wrote on 01.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [You ([EMAIL PROTECTED])]
> >About two months ago, I upgraded a CPAN bundle on a production server.
> >Two interesting things happened:
> >
> >(1) perl itself got upgraded, and
> >(2) wais got upgraded.
>
> Huh??? Perl
Christian Schwarz wrote:
>
> I suggest that we add a new control field to our packages called
> "Origin:" (or similar). This could either be set to "SPI" or
> "Debian", for example. Then, all Debian packages should be signed
> with some PGP key (either only one key for the whole system or by
> the
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Am I the only one seeing a bit of a problem here? (Or am I missing
> something I should know?) That is, PGP is non-US. To be able to put PGP
> in the main distribution, the master FTP site has to be moved off the US.
> I don't have a problem with t
Hi folks!
I'm really happy that we finally have a logo for Debian GNU/Linux!
I've just updated the Debian logo pages at
http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/
The pages include all new submittions that I've received since the last
logo page, the old logo pages and th
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