Re: debian-devel-digest Digest V102 #266
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>debian-devel-digest Digest Volume 102 : Issue 266
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>Today's Topics:
> adding new users for web stuff [ Mark Eichin <eichin@thok.org> ]
> Re: OT: Any developer in New Hampshi [ Mark Eichin <eichin@thok.org> ]
> Re: [2002-02-22] Release Status Upda [ Samuli Suonpaa <suonpaa@iki.fi> ]
> Bug#135004: marked as done (general: [ owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug T ]
> Re: [2002-02-22] Release Status Upda [ "Ed Boraas" <ed@boraas.ca> ]
> Re: [2002-02-22] Release Status Upda [ Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org> ]
> Re: Bug#134774: slapd: fails to inst [ Joshua Haberman <joshua@haberman.co ]
> Package Browsing [ Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org> ]
> Re: Bug#134658: ITP: lsb -- Linux St [ teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind =?iso- ]
> Re: xconq (was: [2002-02-22] Release [ Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at ]
> Bug#135088: ITP: gksu -- Gtk+ fronte [ Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.o ]
> Re: [2002-02-22] Release Status Upda [ Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.o ]
> Architectures to be released [ Bob Hilliard <bob@bobhilliard.net> ]
> Re: Architectures to be released [ Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> ]
> Bug#135092: ITP: gksu -- a su and su [ Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.o ]
> Re: Package Browsing [ Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net> ]
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>Date: 21 Feb 2002 13:59:19 -0500
>From: Mark Eichin <eichin@thok.org>
>To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>Subject: adding new users for web stuff
>Message-ID: <[🔎] xe1k7t6hda0.fsf_-_@swat.thok.org>
>I'm packaging twiki (mostly done, in fact.) It includes an initial
>chunk of data which is supposed to be writable to the twiki cgi (the
>whole point of twiki is to let users edit a community pageset.)
>Currently I drop the initial data into a tar.gz file, and with a
>positive answer to a debconf question [and no prexisting files],
>unpack it in the location twiki expects. However, to get this right,
>I need to
> 1) create a user at install time
> 2) arrange for the cgi to run as that user (suexec?)
>Is there a good example of a package that already does this right?
>User creation in preinst (if it doesn't already exist - a quick check
>found at least 3 different ways that packages do this, but isn't just
>running adduser good enough?), and I couldn't find any examples of
>suexec configury...
>I can cook something up, but this is sufficiently security related
>that I'd be much happier starting with something that has survived for
>a bit (and fixing *both* of them if I have to :-)
> _Mark_ <eichin@thok.org>
> The Herd of Kittens
> Debian Package Maintainer
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>Date: 21 Feb 2002 14:06:15 -0500
>From: Mark Eichin <eichin@thok.org>
>To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: OT: Any developer in New Hampshire, USA?
>Message-ID: <[🔎] xe1heoahcyg.fsf@swat.thok.org>
>and depending on where in NH you care about, developers in MA may be
>"in reach"; southern NH is a "long commute" from Boston.
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>Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 21:07:27 +0200
>From: Samuli Suonpaa <suonpaa@iki.fi>
>To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: [2002-02-22] Release Status Update
>Message-ID: <[🔎] 87vgcqfyc0.fsf@puck.erasmus.jurri.net>
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>Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote in debian-devel-announce:
>> As promised, a bunch of packages that aren't in a fit state to be released
>> (ie, have release-critical bugs) are being removed from woody. The first
>> phase includes the following packages:
>[...]
>> anarchism
>At least this one should be very easy wo fix, if anyone's interested.
>The bug #133359 is - as explained in the bug report - due to bad
>permissions on just a couple of files.
>I'm not a developer, so I can not fix this but if someone would like
>to NMU, I can provide the patch needed.
>> logcheck
>The bug seems to be, that logcheck saves information in /tmp/var that
>it expects to find there the next time it's run. Shouldn't be hard to
>fix.
>Anyone interested in NMU'ing this, if I provide the patch?
>Suonpää...
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>Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:18:08 -0600
>From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System)
>To: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
>Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Bug#135004: marked as done (general: cyclic symlink under /etc/X11 prevents backups)
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>/etc/X11/app-defaults/app-defaults is symlinked to /etc/X11/app-defaults
>producing a syclic symlink.
>This prevents backups with veritas backup-exec. Possibly other backup
>software and software that tries to traverse dirs can be affected as
>well (can't test).
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