Re: Bits from the RM

2003-12-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:09:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: What happens if say there are simply not enough people interested in GNOME for example, and the RC counts rise, and rise at an increasing rate, and we never release again? That's not a very interesting hypothetical -- there're

Re: New release of ifupdown planned

2003-08-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:36:31PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: The ifupdown package hasn't been touched by its maintainer for over two years and it is about time some of its problems were addressed. Thanks for taking the initiative on this. I'd noticed it's neglect a while back but didn't have

Re: On packages depending on up-to-date data (was Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing)

2003-08-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:56:40PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: That's not correct, it cannot detected _new_ potentially harmful traffic. There's quite a lot of potentially harmful traffic (stable) snort can detect. The fact that it's not up-to-date does not mean that it's

Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing

2003-08-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 08:59:06AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: Before you object to this rather 'rude' bughandling, please keep in mind that version 1.8.4 of snort, which is in stable, has 3 severe security exploits, So, why hasn't a security update been released for it? Largely this

Re: Debian

2003-08-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 06:19:22PM +0100, Gavin Thomas wrote: hi there, i'm new to Debian and i would like to learn Debian and help out with Development, i have spare time on my hands and i would like to use that spare time wizely, please can you send me some information. Check out the list

Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing

2003-08-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:27:41AM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: (Essentially apt-get + apt-cache for snort rules. Clearly packaging a single rule file within one package is a gross misuse of resources but it might be sufficient if they were signed and hosted somewhere sensible..) Such a

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:29:54PM +0300, Halil Demirezen wrote: Debian Maintainers are becoming too elite. However, outside world becoming more excluded. And Debian finally is becoming so obsolete. Everybody has an opinion on this matter. I don't usually even bother posting mine, but here

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:37:15PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: The reason I havn't offered them for general Debian machines is that there are already (generally better) machines available on better connections. Last I checked, there weren't any public mips or mipsel machines. You checked

Re: Why is openoffice in Contrib?

2002-12-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:49:17PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: So much for write-once, run-anywhere. Did anyone ever believe that? I'm curious as to whether the Java classes as distributed with the Sun JRE would work with one of the other JREs out there. Not that it would help the status

Re: racoon ISAKMP implementation for IPsec

2002-12-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 08:01:02AM -0800, Steve Dunham wrote: No ITP, but I did manage to get this to compile against the 2.5.50 kernel source tree. It seems to work, but the other side of my tunnel is down at the moment (he upgraded his kernel but didn't rebuild freeswan). Cool, thanks.

racoon ISAKMP implementation for IPsec

2002-12-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
I just downloaded the latest upstream source for the iputils packages and noticed that they it now contains quite a bit of IPsec code. In particular, this includes libipsec and racoon. Racoon is the KAME ISAKMP (IPsec key exchange protocol) implementation. I haven't investigated further, but

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:41:45PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: Something is seriously wrong, if a single bug that affects a single arch can stop everyone else from forward. We need a way to get packages that are broken on some platform into the distrubution while the developers of the arch sort

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:52:16PM +, Bruce Stephens wrote: Releases tend to be out of date. But that's a feature: releases need to be composed of well tested stable packages. Yes they do, but the software in the packages is just as important as the packaging job. If you look back at

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 08:41:43PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: So, debian is coming the netbsd of Linuxes.. Sure a novel goal to support rare hardware, but why does ot have to come at the expense of commodity hardware owners? That's an interesting comparison. If you look at NetBSD, you'll see

letters in upstream version numbers

2001-09-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
Lintian gives errors when looking at a package with letters at the beginning of the upstream version number. Ch. 4 of policy indicates that the upstream version can't begin with a letter. However, it doesn't really indicate what should be done in case an upstream version does begin with letters.

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:53:38AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: I copied XF86Config from my old Woody system into the newly upgraded system and, while startx works just fine, wdm starts up but doesn't start the server, or log any messages in /var/log/wdm.log. (the log file exists, but is empty)

Re: Why why why!!???

2001-05-04 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:33:58AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: Oh crap. Ok guys it's been a lot of fun. I really enjoyed working with you and meeting some of you in person but now that Debian is going to be shut down I'll have to look for another operating system. Does anyone know if

Re: Work-needing packages report for May 4, 2001

2001-05-04 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
retitle 86871 ITA: snarf -- command line URL grabber snarf (#86871), orphaned 71 days ago Description: A command-line URL grabber I'll take this. It's one of the first packages I install on a new system, and I use it all the time. Plus I know the guy who wrote it. And anybody who

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:11:19AM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: Problem: Desktop Managers like kdm and gdm support Window Manager listings so that users can choose what they want to login in using. There currently is no common way for wm's to register themselves

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:20:55PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: Since every window manager / session manager is already registered with the alternatives system, I see no reason why the other display managers can't do what wdm already does. It includes a script, update_wdm_wmlist which

Re: testing ipv6 tools

2001-01-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:46:09PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: Pierfrancesco Caci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: connect(4, {sin_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(1025), inet_pton(AF_INET6, f e80::250:4ff:fe38:a630, sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=htonl(0)}}, 24) = -1 EINVA L (Invalid argument)