Bug#192668: O: biff -- a mail notification tool
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
The current maintainer of biff, Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>,
is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I orphan this package
now. If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed
instructions how to adopt a package properly.
Some information about this package:
Package: biff
Binary: biff
Version: 1:0.17.pre20000412-1.1
Priority: standard
Section: mail
Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.5.6
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/b/biff
Files: 8e02b164d510829ebcb894cc07a55f84 553 biff_0.17.pre20000412-1.1.dsc
0c303067e9954785953a81b5f82db554 13709 biff_0.17.pre20000412.orig.tar.gz
8f387bb6c2d15e46dfd2712410d0795e 2798 biff_0.17.pre20000412-1.1.diff.gz
Package: biff
Priority: standard
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 88
Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1:0.17.pre20000412-1.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
Filename: pool/main/b/biff/biff_0.17.pre20000412-1.1_i386.deb
Size: 12916
MD5sum: c4952f3affbd25f34abefa155542c965
Description: a mail notification tool
biff is a small little program that prints a message to your
terminal when mail arrives. Actually, the message is printed by
the comsat daemon, and biff just enables/disables the u+x
permission flag for the terminal, which comsat uses to determine
whether or not to write to your terminal.
.
biff is mainly of historic interest, since there are much better
alternatives (xbiff, gbiff, youbin) that are network-aware and do
not require a daemon. Although there are no known security problems,
running additional services is often considered risky.
.
By default, the biff service is disabled. To use biff email
notification, you must enable this service by running 'update-inetd
--enable biff' after the package is installed. You may also need
to modify the configuration of your mail transport agent to enable
comsat notification.
Justification: Neglected many packages for a long time, didn't respond
to pings
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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