Friday·30·September·2011
Fun facts from the UDD //at 23:20 //by abe
After spotting an upload of mira, who in turn spotted an upload of abe (the package, not an upload by me aka abe@d.o), mira (mirabilos aka tg@d.o) noticed that there are Debian packages which have same name as some Debian Developers have as login name.
Of course I noticed a long time ago that there is a Debian package with my login name “abe”. Another well-known Debian login and former package name is amaya.
But since someone else came up with that thought, too, it was time for finding the definite answer to the question which are the DD login names which also exist as Debian package names.
My first try was based on the list of trusted GnuPG keys:
$ apt-cache policy $(gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --list-keys 2>/dev/null | \
grep @debian.org | \
awk -F'[<@]' '{print $2}' | \
sort -u) 2>/dev/null | \
egrep -o '^[^ :]*'
alex
tor
ed
bam
ng
But this was not satisfying as my own name didn’t show up and gpg also threw quite a lot of block reading errors (which is also the reason for redirecting STDERR).
mira then had the idea of using the Ultimate Debian Database to answer this question more properly:
udd=> SELECT login, name FROM carnivore_login, carnivore_names
WHERE carnivore_login.id=carnivore_names.id AND login IN
(SELECT package AS login FROM packages, active_dds
WHERE packages.package=active_dds.login UNION
SELECT source AS name FROM sources, active_dds
WHERE sources.source=active_dds.login)
ORDER BY login;
login | name
-------+---------------------------------------
abe | Axel Beckert
alex | Alexander List
alex | Alexander M. List 4402020774 9332554
and | Andrea Veri
ash | Albert Huang
bam | Brian May
ed | Ed Boraas
ed | Ed G. Boraas [RSA Compatibility Key]
ed | Ed G. Boraas [RSA]
eric | Eric Dorland
gq | Alexander GQ Gerasiov
iml | Ian Maclaine-cross
lunar | Jérémy Bobbio
mako | Benjamin Hill
mako | Benjamin Mako Hill
mbr | Markus Braun
mlt | Marcela Tiznado
nas | Neil A. Schemenauer
nas | Neil Schemenauer
opal | Ola Lundkvist
opal | Ola Lundqvist
paco | Francisco Moya
paul | Paul Slootman
pino | Pino Toscano
pyro | Brian Nelson
stone | Fredrik Steen
(26 rows)
Interestingly “tor” (Tor Slettnes) is missing in this list, so it’s not complete either…
At least I’m quite sure that nobody maintains a package with his own login name as package name. :-)
We also have no packages ending in “-guest”, so there’s no chance that
a package name matches an Alioth guest account either…
Tagged as: Alioth, DD, Debian, GnuPG, GPG, PGP, UDD
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