On 2/25/06, Hans Fugal <hans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It's only a matter of time before debian ships with rlimits-aware PAM. > > In fact the PAM maintainer is aware of it and is in the middle of > maintenance mode on the package, so he's planning to wait to put in the > rlimits patch until he packages a new upstream version. If you want to > see it sooner do feel free to make your voice heard. Package maintainers > are generally more responsive than congressmen, although they can also > be a bit more stubborn. :) Well, I'm not going to bug the debian maintainers, as I don't run debian on my desktop, I run Ubuntu, which already has the patch in PAM. If the debian maintainer is packaging a new upstream, then he won't have to patch it, as 0.79 was the last version of PAM that didn't have the rtprio limit in it. And, I think the latest version of PAM is 0.99.3. > Some demudi packages are probably only waiting for some TLC before being > put into debian. Demudi wasn't as adherent to debian policy, in the > spirit of being more agile and getting people what they wanted quicker. > Some of the packages in that custom list just need things like proper > control files and other policy basics before they can be put in > Debian. Others will of course have license issues. It's not hard to get > the basics of debian packaging under your belt and start contributing. > Read the debian new maintainers guide and see what you can do. I do already know how to package (https://launchpad.net/people/adolson/+packages) although I only started on Feb. 10th. What you say about some of the DeMuDi packages is true. Dana
