Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-09 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 09:29:30PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: I would like to start by highlighting one very important line from my last email to you: > > Do not contact me with regard to Debian bullshit. And yet, you did. Fuck you. Do not contact me again. I shall consider any further cont

I resigned in 2004

2018-11-09 Thread Matthew Wilcox
I quit Debian development back in 2004. This was a moral decision, based on the malfeasance of the project secretary over the "Editorial changes" GR. For some reason, Debian as a project failed to notice that I had quit, even though my wi...@debian.org email address was deliberately forwarded t

Re: apache 1.3 will soon be removed from testing/unstable

2007-04-30 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:56:17PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > Same for apache 1.3 (including apache, apache-ssl, apache-perl); it too > will soon disappear from sid and lenny. There are currently only a > handful of apache 1.3 module packages in sid, against which bugs will > be filed, but th

Re: Lack of a GR proposal explicitly condemning dunc-tank

2006-10-12 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:34:01PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > I wrote: > > Normally I wouldn't publish private email but I think in this case the > > abusive nature warrants it. It really doesn't. Wanker. > It has been suggested that it would be better to include the context, > to avoid any pot

Re: Bug#388805: RFP: please package mod_auth_xradius

2006-09-23 Thread Matthew Wilcox
reassign 388805 libapache-mod-auth-radius retitle 388805 Please build apache 2 version kthxbye On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 07:10:04PM +0200, Ond??ej Sur?? wrote: > retitle 388805 RFP: please package mod_auth_xradius > reassign 388805 wnpp > severity 388805 wishlist > thank you > > You have filled bug

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)

2005-03-22 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:06:19AM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote: > And I believe that the Vancouver proposal, if implemented as intended up > to now, will not only affect what Debian really *is*, but in some ways > will *destroy* what Debian is. Debian has already decided to destroy what it is by g

Re: *** SPAM *** Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)

2005-03-21 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:10:12PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Matthew Wilcox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050321 17:05]: > > I'm not going to volunteer for them as I intend to leave Debian > > shortly after sarge releases. > > Why do you intend to leave Debian? The Vanco

Re: *** SPAM *** Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)

2005-03-21 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 04:08:19PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Thanks. Maybe i should resign from my debian duties then since i am not > wanted. Do you volunteer to take over my packages ? Please handle parted for > which i am searching a co-maintainer since > 6 month, and take over the > powerpc k

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)

2005-03-21 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:20:29PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Anyway, regarding kernels: I can imagine sometimes, especially with the > > backlog we have currently, a swift processing of some kernel package > > might be warranted and help Sarge. If there is such a case, it would > > help if some

Conflicting manpage for queue.3

2003-12-15 Thread Matthew Wilcox
[ As suggested by Policy 10.1 [1], I am forwarding this issue to debian-devel. Please maintain the cc list in followups. ] Recent versions of manpages-dev include a new manpage queue.3. dqs has been providing a manpage by this name for some time. Therefore there is a file conflict when attem

G++ 3.2 transition: How're we doing?

2003-07-02 Thread Matthew Wilcox
badly. http://people.debian.org/~willy/gcc-transition/ i think technically these are all worthy of an RC bug, but i don't want to file them and you don't want to see them. if your name's on the list: http://people.debian.org/~willy/gcc-transition/maint-packages-2.95 then figure out which of y

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-16 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 08:38:53PM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote: > In Jeff's plan: All C++ packages will be uploaded via NMUs. The > package maintainer can upload their packages afterwards if they have > to make other corrections. All of them? I sw someone do a count and there were around 1000 p

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-16 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 09:59:28AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > * Add a Conflict with the non-`c' version of the package. > > why can't we have both installed, just like the libfoo6 and libfoo6g > situation?? i explained this elsewhere... Why don't we put the libs in a differen

GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-16 Thread Matthew Wilcox
I got sick of listening to people discuss the gcc 3.2 transition in an uninformed manner. So I've whipped up a transition plan which will hopefully get us from A to B without causing too much pain. Haha. I'm entirely fallible and I don't pretend to understand all the issues involved with doing t

Any CAML people want to take over efuns?

2002-04-02 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Brent Fulgham put efuns up for adoption over a year ago. It's got 3 release critical bugs open against it. I considered adopting it, but as I don't know CAML and don't like emacs, it would be a bad choice. Please, could someone who knows CAML adopt this package and look it over? Otherwise, let'

Immutable files

1997-12-24 Thread Matthew Wilcox
>From a security point of view, it might be considered worthwhile to install system executables (particularly the suid ones) and then mark them immutable. This does stop some common attacks from succeeding, and it might prevent some stupid things accidentally done as root. My Debian 1.2.10 system