RE: Proposed change to debian release system

2003-12-15 Thread Lucas Albers
Sorry, you are correct. I apologize for the error. Lucas, not only did you horribly misquote my statement as coming from Scott, but you also seem to not having read my mail thoroughly. Nowhere did I suggest that installed packages stop working when expired, did I? Please re-read my

Re: Bug#223772: general: no md5sums for many packages (e.g. bc)

2003-12-15 Thread Lucas Albers
Re: Goswin von Brederlow in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why not set it so they are generated when a package is created? Am I understanding correctly? And then they could b gpg signed by the developer??? This adds one more check to the security of the system. I used debsums just a few days to determine if a

RE: Proposed change to debian release system

2003-12-14 Thread Lucas Albers
My friend has a high volume mail server running spamassassin 2.31 Oops the spamassassin stopped working. Now I have 12,000 people angry with me. Take that to the bank. --luke Scott Minns wrote: I know this is no panacea, since in many cases, the maintainer cannot know whether a package will

install openwebmail interfere's with mysql-server install.

2003-12-14 Thread Lucas Albers
I recently encountered a potentail bug involving openwebmail and mysql-server. I wanted to know if anyone else could reproduce it. Result: Install openwebmail and modifyting DB_File as per directions in openwebmail and then installing mysql-server will prevent mysql-server from starting. Expected

Set up build environment.

2003-12-14 Thread Lucas Albers
I recently ported a testing package to stable. Did not have to make any changes to the package, just rebuilt it on a stable system. Here are the directions for setting up a stable build environment. Should be helpful to any who is starting off on setting up build environments. In the example I