Bug#645723: marked as done (general: asks for root password instead of user password)

2011-10-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#645723: general: asks for root password instead of user password

2011-10-17 Thread Jimmy Li
Package: general Severity: important Apparently, anything that needs root asks for the root password instead of my user password. Apparently, it's using su instead of sudo. Just a moment ago, I had to manually re-add myself to the sudo group. Now sudo works, but all applications still ask for the

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-17 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:26:12AM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > standard, we should also not ship nfs-common, rpcbind, or libtirpc since > NFS is used even less often than an MTA and the same rationale for not > installing it applies. Those seem like reasonable things to drop, though I don't t

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-17 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 07:20:54PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > I think that the real question is: how much should Debian GNU/Linux > mimic a standard UNIX system by default? I think this is the real question. If standard is a default Unix system, then it needs to have an MTA. I believe this eve

Bug#645700: RFP: civicrm -- contact and relationship management system for community and advocacy groups

2011-10-17 Thread Ben Finney
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: civicrm Version : 4.0 Upstream Author : CiviCRM LLC * URL or Web page : http://civicrm.org/ * License : GNU AGPL-3 Description : contact and relationship management system for community and advocacy groups CiviCRM

Bug#645683: ITP: xul-ext-imkbizle -- Parses 3. party web sites to retrieve IMKB100 stock data

2011-10-17 Thread Bekir Dogan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Erhan Kesken * Package name: xul-ext-imkbizle Version : 2.4 Upstream Author : Erhan Kesken * URL : http://code.google.com/p/imkbizle/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imkbizle/ * License

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 16 octobre 2011 à 02:41 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > That's the main one that I'd worry about. Also overheating warnings, for > > which even the home user can do something immediately. > > The user generally can't even read the warning in time to make a > decision; the system m

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-17 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! Just some small notes without re-iterating what other people already wrote in this (now too-long) thread. On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:26:06 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > Am 12.10.2011 23:39, schrieb Josh Triplett: >> Not every system needs an MTA, and I'd argue that today most systems >> don'

Re: Tasksel's "standard" task (was: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional)

2011-10-17 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:55:09 +0200 Luca Capello wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:48:11 +0200, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Neil Williams wrote: > >> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:29:56 +0200 > >> Andreas Barth wrote: > >> > * Neil Williams (codeh...@debian.org) [111015 22:23]: > >> > > The problem with "Sta

Re: / vs. /usr vs. fsck(8)

2011-10-17 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:15:43 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 11:19 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:24:33 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> > The Debian initramfs of my sid system is 10 MB, while the one from my >> > RHEL 6.1 servers is 12 MB. So there

Advocating the use of RDF for Debian's published metadata - Was: Re: Proposal for additional metadata in Debian archives (DEP-11)

2011-10-17 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. I'm not subscribed to ftpmasters, so feel free to CC me in response, and I hope d-d@l.d.o is the proper place it will be debated, then (even thouh -project already holds some bits too). Le vendredi 14 octobre 2011 à 19:08 +0200, Matthias Klumpp a écrit : > AppStream features XML to store met

Tasksel's "standard" task (was: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional)

2011-10-17 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:48:11 +0200, Josh Triplett wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: >> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:29:56 +0200 >> Andreas Barth wrote: >> > * Neil Williams (codeh...@debian.org) [111015 22:23]: >> > > The problem with "Standard" is that it is currently (and heavily) biased >> > >

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-17 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! Disclaimer: I am not an SMTP expert. On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:37:59 +0200, Josh Triplett wrote: > Andrea Bolognani wrote: >> The proxy one needs to go through to access the Internet from inside my >> University buildings cuts off SMTP. > > Have you checked to see if it blocks SMTPS, or th

Bug#645621: ITP: libnet-ssh-perl-perl -- Perl module implementing a Perl client interface to SSH

2011-10-17 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Package: wnpp Owner: Salvatore Bonaccorso Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libnet-ssh-perl-perl Version : 1.34 Upstream Author : David Robins * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-SSH-Perl/ *

Re: Periodic automake cleanup: removal of automake1.7 [and 1 more messages]

2011-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Eric Dorland writes ("Re: Periodic automake cleanup: removal of automake1.7"): > The versions after 1.4 were where backwards-incompatible changes > started showing up. As a very unscientific census using google code > search, there are about 36,800 Makefile.in's generated by automake 1.4 > on the w

Re: ITP: wolf4sdl -- SDL-Port of Wolfenstein 3-D and Spear of Destiny

2011-10-17 Thread Fabian Greffrath
I have prepared a new package of upstream SVN snapshot r262 that replaces the non-free MAME OPL2 emulator with a GPL'ed one from DOSBOX. Furthermore, I got a confirmation email by John Carmack himself of iD software stating that the original Wolf3d source code has been relicensed under the GPL.

MUA's vs. local mail

2011-10-17 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: […] > I do know many of the GUI MUAs are incomplete jack-jobs that fail to > add a handler for local system folders (i.e. were only partially > ported to Linux). I am not sure which would be the better aproach to > deal with this deficiency.

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-17 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 at 16:09:50 +0100, Roger Lynn wrote: > On 15/10/11 22:00, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Every ISP mailserver I've seen, and for that matter almost every other > > mailserver I've seen, requires SMTP AUTH to send mail; the SMTP AUTH > > credentials vary by user. > > I don't believe t

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-17 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 at 13:23:00 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Do you mean [...] the > envelope icon Gnome3 adds that holds such important info like the last song > that started playing (used to OSD for a couple of seconds), or that you got > new mail (no matter it's already shown elsewhere, and the