Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004, Charles Fry wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:59:09PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: > > > > In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use > > > > in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package > > > > operates? > > > > > > glastree prov

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > Here's an idea I just had about apt-proxy/apt-cacher NG. Maybe this > could be interesting, maybe it's just crap. Your call. rapt proxy is an actuall http proxy that caches debian packages. It's written in ruby and since all you have to do to use it

Bug#275596: nagios-text removes /etc/nagios on purge

2004-10-09 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 09 Oct 2004, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 07:32:19AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > On Sat, 09 Oct 2004, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 05:52:39AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > > Package: na

Re: [RFC] adding system users: which is the best way??

2003-12-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 03 Dec 2003, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > I think the idea of a namespace for usernames used by packages is a good > > idea, but rather than "debian-", we should take this to the LSB folk, so > > that we can get it done once. > > The prob

Bug#222592: ITP: sks -- Synchronizing OpenPGP Key Server

2003-12-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: sks Version : 1.0.5 Upstream Author : "Yaron M. Minsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/sks/ * License : GPL (parts are LGPL, BSD) Description : Synchronizing OpenPGP Key Server SKS is an

Re: Bug#218832: ITP: libnettle -- a low-level cryptographic library

2003-11-07 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003, John Belmonte wrote: > However in your package, assuming it is compiling GPL'd modules and > including them in the library, is producing an object file governed by > the terms of the GPL. Therefore your license field should read only "GPL". Last time I checked we didn't ha

Re: reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Russell" == Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Russell> Do we have a library in Debian that provides reliable > Russell> stream based communication over UDP? > > > librx from openafs provides this functionality; it may be somew

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Michael Furr wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 05:03, Roland Mas wrote: > > - Another idea I had was something along the lines of Debsmith or > > Iansmith, to keep both the idea of Debian and the idea of the forge. > > Unfortunately, plenty of people are called that way. Any

Re: Deleting /var/cache/*

2002-09-04 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 04 Sep 2002, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > Ofcourse, it could just do system("mkdir -p /var/cache/whatever/dir/it/is") > everytime it wants to open a file but that would be inefficient. If it has the permissions to do so. Not everything runs as root and can create directories belowe /va

Re: Packages.bz2, Sources.bz2, Contents-*.bz2, oh my

2002-08-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 10:05:10AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 07:06:47AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a couple of days uncompressed Packages files for unstable will cease > > > to be generated, and bzip2'ed Packa

Re: Work-needing packages report for Aug 30, 2002

2002-08-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Rodrigo Henriquez wrote: > I don't know if this is the place to send this mail, so > sorry if i'm wrong. > > > I like contribute in some of the following projects : > > emelfm (#158150), orphaned 119 days ago > Description: file manager for X/gtk > > gadfly (#113080),

Re: Work-needing packages report for Aug 30, 2002

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 0 > Number of packages offered up for adoption this week: 0 > Total number of orphaned packages: 0 > Number of packages orphaned this week: 0 Maybe you could run the script on satie rather than auric

Re: debbugs: assign someone from a group of willing people to fix a bug

2002-08-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Package: debbugs It would be bugs.debian.org. You don't file a bug against smartlist or qmail if you want a new mailinglist either. Please reassign. > What to do? > > I would like to propose a setup similar to the one used to translate > package de

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Debian Developer Packages Overview

2002-08-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Igor Genibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-28 17:20]: > > http://qa.debian.org/developer/ > > If you want to have it hosted there, you should really > a) put the files in CVS (module qa), and follow the current standards >for web pages (i.e. hav

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Debian Developer Packages Overview

2002-08-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Igor Genibel wrote: > Hi all, > > I have enhanced the ddpo (http://people.debian.org/~igenibel/index.php) > following all the request you made me (especially Yann Dirson). > Now you, developers, can track all the informations about all your > packages such as: > - the

Re: old ITP's

2002-08-26 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Below's a list of the bug tahtw will be renamed. The "filed" and > "changed" fields in the list are the number of days that have past since > the bug was opened, and since any addition was made to the report, > respectively. > #85612 mixmaster

Re: orphaning most (of my) packages

2002-08-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Robert van der Meulen wrote: > Then there's some ITP's i (enthousiastically) did; i'm going to be closing > them too. Interested people can upload and close at will, if they're faster > than me: ricochet, loop-aes, cryptoapi, ipsec-tunnel. Please retitle them to RFP (request

debian-release list dead?

2002-08-17 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi, I intended to ask for removal of this list but Joey sugested to ask first whether anybody intents to use this list or finds it useful as it is now. In my -release folder I found: | Total messages since November 2001: 128 | (some spam has been fltered out by SA locally, I won't dig them out) |

(fwd) uucp_1.06.1+1.07beta1-patch2-2_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2002-08-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
taller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 03:47:07 +0200 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rejected: no signature found in uucp_1.06.1+1.07beta1-patch2-2_powerpc.changes. Rejected: no valid distribution. Rejected: no source found f

Re: Bug#156257: ITP: libpam-ssh -- SSH key authentication and single sign-on via PAM

2002-08-12 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Brian May wrote: > (irrelevant side note: do you need to enter your old passphrase before > changing > it?) The Passphrase actually encrypts your key, so you of course need to supply it to change or reencrypt the key with a different passphrase.

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-26 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 26, Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Are there any problems I missed with cimply copying the files? > Yes: people do not want to restart bind at every configuration changes. good point. > >Mount

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-26 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: > On Sep/26/2001, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > > I think that maybe he refers to the fact that, for example, you may > > > have formatted your ext2 partitions so they are incompatible with 2.0.x > > Well, I once heared about this, but never read an

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-26 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > and would instead suggestion to modify the documents stating that all > > > config files should be in /etc to make a exception for $CHROOT. > > > > > NEVER. This is not some low-grade distribution where you can go around > > scattering configurati

Re: analysis of package dependencies

2001-04-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Matt! On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Deborphan is nearly perfect for this. Right now, it just keeps track of > > whether a package was installed to satisfy a dependancy, or because you > > really want it. If instead of the y/n question it uses for this, it > > asked _why_ you

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-24 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Richard Braakman wrote: > Ironically, it won't prevent the problem that sparked this thread, > namely a weird build environment on the machine where the NMU is > compiled. I would still love to see Source Only uploads becoming the standard way of getting new versions into the

Re: What is wrong with kde2.1 and unstable ?

2001-01-06 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Ivan! On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:46:54PM +0100, Michael Meding wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > as of three days ago, every attempt to do a dist-upgrade tries to uninstall > > almost every kde package. What is wrong there. > > > > Maybe the package m

Re: ITP: libxml-simple-perl

2001-01-04 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Gordon! On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > XML::Simple is a Perl module that facilitates reading and writing Perl > data structures to XML. It is especially useful for configuration > files. > > It's licensed under the same terms as Perl. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S XML/Simple

Re: PGP/GPG transition + db.debian.org

2001-01-04 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Pawel! On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, Pawel Wiecek wrote: > On Jan 4, 1:11pm, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > (see a thread here on -devel perhaps a > > month or two ago). > > I can't find it in the archive... http://lists.debian.org/debia

Re: PGP/GPG transition + db.debian.org

2001-01-04 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Pawel! On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, Pawel Wiecek wrote: > How long does it take usually for a (GPG) key sent to keyring.debian.org > to show up in official keyring (and maintainers database)? > I'm waiting for my new GPG key to show up for quite a few weeks and it seems a > bit excessive to me :^) Ne

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: > I'd sooner killfile you than respect a lame Mail-Followup-To like this: So you o expect people to honor your Mail-Followup-To header, yet o ignore mine on purpose. Yes, please killfile me so I don't have to deal with your replies. > The problem

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Branden! On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:35:26PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > > From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Mail-Followup-To: debi

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi! On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mail-Followup-To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org ARGL, /me should really get glasses or whatever. Any reason you ignored my MailFup2 header? yours,

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Branden! On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:57:35PM -0800, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > I suspect most people's MUA's don't display non-standard headers by default > > But there is also this, which *is* standard[1], and which I also have: > > Mail-Copies-

Re: [Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Eray! On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sending this mail because libc maintainer seems to have closed > the bug I've issued without doing any investigation on his own. | It has been closed by one of the developers, namely | Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. | | T

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Guenter! On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Guenter Bechly wrote: > Hello again, > > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:50:52PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > FWIF I'ld really like to see removal of packages beeing announced to > > debian-devel-changes and debian-changes repectivly.

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Josip! On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:40:41PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > Again there is a pointer from packages.debian.org, but the deb is not > > > in the directory pointed to. > > > > Seems like packages.debia

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Guenter, On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Dr. Guenter Bechly wrote: > I suggest that the intent to > remove a package should always be filed as a bug to this package or even > better as a bug to wnpp-peudopackage, so that the information can be > traced with rea

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Oliver! On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Peter Palfrader wrote: > >> There is a further weird package disappearance in unstable: all mgetty > >> packages (execept mgetty-doc) are gone! > > >

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Tinguaro! On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Tinguaro Barreno Delgado wrote: > Hello all. > > I maintain a rsync mirror of potato and woody (i386) and this week the > distribution has lost +50 packages. They aren't in ftp.debian.org (I'm > rsyncing from ftp.de.debian.org). Can anyone explain this? Have

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi GBechly! SCHREI NICHT SO! On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am very sorry for the loud subject of my mail (I know it is bad > netiquette), but since I got no satisfying answer on my first mail > concerning "disappeared packages" and because the issue is important > I decided t

Interbase

2000-12-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi, some while ago you where talking about packaging Interbase for Debian. Who is it doing now and if at all, how is it going? yours, peter [please respect the Mail-Followup-To header!] -- PGP signed and encrypted m

Re: Packages file not updated for pool

2000-12-29 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Nils! On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > Why is the woody Package file not updated when Files enter the Package pool? > Or is there still another Package file that I need to use? The only Pool > files that had mad it into the Package file are libc6 and spong. woody is not unstable:

Re: vim-perl update fails

2000-12-28 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Guenter! On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Dr. Guenter Bechly wrote: > Should I file this as a bug, or could be something wrong with my Perl > installation? This issue has been filed about 10 time (really!) and is resolved in -2 which is currently in incoming (yes, wiggy uploaded a new -2).

Re: How to update packages?

2000-12-26 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi Olaf! > > You wrote: > > > I have made a couple of packages for potato and would like > > to update them to the latest upstream-version? What is the > > easiest way to update the source-package? > > Use uupdate. This is descriped in the new-maint

Re: Bug#80433: test, ignore

2000-12-24 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Tomasz! On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Tomasz Barszczak wrote: > Package: general > Version: N/A; reported 2000-12-24 > Severity: wishlist > > This is only a test, should not be sent to debian. Didn't work, it went to Debian all way through. Merry Xmas! yours,

Re: libapache-asp-perl - perl Apache::ASP - Active Server Pages for Apache with mod_perl.

2000-12-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Stephen! On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Stephen Zander wrote: > > "Piotr" == Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piotr> ITO: libapache-asp-perl > Piotr> ITO: libapache-filter-perl > Piotr> ITO: libapache-ssi-perl > Piotr> ITO: libcgi-pm-perl > Piotr> ITO: libdbd-csv-pe

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-12 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Miros/law! On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran wrote: > 12.09.2000 pisze Torsten Landschoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Don't change that. Beginners would be very confused if the keytable > > is not working as expected. Not everybody can work with a US keyboard > > table if the need a

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

2000-09-02 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Ethan! On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 01:25:09AM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: > > > > > > my home directory is mode 710 and ssh works fine, on other systems my > > > home is mode 755 and ssh still works fine (all with RSA auth and > > > StrictModes yes) > >

Re: ITP: penguin command

2000-09-02 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Bernhard! On Sat, 02 Sep 2000, Bernhard Josef Rieder wrote: > Package: penguin-command > > Section: non-free/games > > Depends: ${shlibs:Depe

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

2000-09-02 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Roland! On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 06:21:51PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: > > 751 seems more reasonable IMO. > > This sounds also reasonable for me. And because of the x-bit UserDirs, > etc. should work. Does anyone objects if I change this with

ITP: Class::MethodMaker

2000-08-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I ITP Class::MethodMaker which is a module for creating generic methods. It is needed by GnuPG::Interface. Upstream source can be found at http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Class/ Author: (Original) Peter Seibel (Organic Online) Current Maintainer

ITP GnuPG::Interface

2000-08-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I ITP GnuPG::Interface, a Perl interface to GnuPG. It is distributed under the GPL. Upstream sources are at http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/GnuPG/ Upstream Author is Frank J. Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'll contact him wheter including GnuPG::Interface is

Bug#33993: general: Should log all the boot messages

2000-08-17 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Decklin Foster wrote: > Cesar Eduardo Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Package: general > > Version: N/A > > Severity: wishlist > > > > There are too many boot messages, and they sometimes scroll too > > fast. It would be nice to log all the output from the boot scri

Re: New Mailing-Lists

2000-04-01 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Josip! On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 02:19:24PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > > [new lists created] > > > > > > On related note, why not have new-maintainer lists on our listserver, > > > too? > > > >

Re: New Mailing-Lists

2000-04-01 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Josip! On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:17:26AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > [new lists created] > > On related note, why not have new-maintainer lists on our listserver, > too? Isn't this what debian-mentors is for? you

Re: Permissions/ownerships of /cdrom and /floppy

2000-03-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Santiago! On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > Permissions on mount points don't seem to make much difference. I was able > > to > > mount a filesystem on a mount point with mode 0, and once mounted the > > permissions come from the mount

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