Re: Bug#27050 (fdutils): A cause for security concern?

1999-01-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Yes. I would hate to discover a vulnerability and release an advisory days after we release slink.. Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Bug#27050 (fdutils): A cause for security concern?

1999-01-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
;t believe how many programs have a check like this and still work perfectly when they are not root.. Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: [EMA

Re: category code

1999-07-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
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Re: Bug report address

2000-05-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously peter karlsson wrote: > Something like a file containing a list of alternative bug reorting > addresses that these tools can use instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] We could put a Bugreports-To: field in the control file I guess. I suggest you propose this on the debian-policy list. Wichert.

Re: Bug#67896: Support patch for dh_builddeps

2000-07-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christian Hammers wrote: > > 1. strace can't handle more then 256 subprocesses, a limit you can (and > > will) reach when building packages. > really? I'll check it. Trust me, I'm upstream maintainer for strace so I'm reasonably aware of its features :) > > 2. strace'ing an application

Re: Bug#67896: Support patch for dh_builddeps

2000-07-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christian Hammers wrote: > Off-Topic: Why does it has this limitation? Lack of development time, subtle kernel bugs, etc. strace is not a trivial application. > Ok, what about this, I make a dpkg-genbuilddeps and a patch to debuild so > that it *optionally* runs strace only if the user

Re: Bug#67896: Support patch for dh_builddeps

2000-07-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christian Hammers wrote: > Well, I never received a mail froma an autobuilder saying that one of > my packages (about 10) were examined and found to have the following > buildtime dependencies. Probably because it's a recent change. > Maybe this should be done so that they can be incl

Re: More problems

2001-07-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously peter karlsson wrote: > dpkg-gencontrol: error: source package has two conflicting values - turqstat > and xturqstat debian/changelog and debian/control have different for the package name. > My source package "turqstat" generates two binary packages, "turqstat" > and "xturqstat". They

Re: oops I've deleted some hidden file from incoming

2001-08-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Sorry but, why with 'ls -al' those files wasn't visible? Probably because they were uploaded between the time you did ls and the time you did the rm. Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-p

Re: building a sponsored package

2001-10-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Colin Watson wrote: > If this is your only rationale, it is spurious, as you're talking about > Maintainer: in debian/control while I'm talking about Maintainer: in the > .changes file. The two are *distinct*. They are not (any more), with the caveat you can override it using a -m optio

Re: Bug#67896: Support patch for dh_builddeps

2000-07-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christian Hammers wrote: > > 1. strace can't handle more then 256 subprocesses, a limit you can (and > > will) reach when building packages. > really? I'll check it. Trust me, I'm upstream maintainer for strace so I'm reasonably aware of its features :) > > 2. strace'ing an applicatio

Re: Bug#67896: Support patch for dh_builddeps

2000-07-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christian Hammers wrote: > Off-Topic: Why does it has this limitation? Lack of development time, subtle kernel bugs, etc. strace is not a trivial application. > Ok, what about this, I make a dpkg-genbuilddeps and a patch to debuild so > that it *optionally* runs strace only if the use

Re: Bug#67896: Support patch for dh_builddeps

2000-07-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christian Hammers wrote: > Well, I never received a mail froma an autobuilder saying that one of > my packages (about 10) were examined and found to have the following > buildtime dependencies. Probably because it's a recent change. > Maybe this should be done so that they can be inc

Re: More problems

2001-07-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously peter karlsson wrote: > dpkg-gencontrol: error: source package has two conflicting values - turqstat > and xturqstat debian/changelog and debian/control have different for the package name. > My source package "turqstat" generates two binary packages, "turqstat" > and "xturqstat". The

Re: oops I've deleted some hidden file from incoming

2001-08-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Sorry but, why with 'ls -al' those files wasn't visible? Probably because they were uploaded between the time you did ls and the time you did the rm. Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-

Re: building a sponsored package

2001-10-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Colin Watson wrote: > If this is your only rationale, it is spurious, as you're talking about > Maintainer: in debian/control while I'm talking about Maintainer: in the > .changes file. The two are *distinct*. They are not (any more), with the caveat you can override it using a -m opti