Re: Lets make `eudev + uselessd` Debian packages?

2014-10-29 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/27/2014 10:20 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ thiagocmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, I would like to evaluate both `eudev` (or any other *udev), plus `uselessd`, on Debian sid/testing. Lets do it?! I' m planning to achieve, at least, CGroups Process with `uselessd` (no init scripts).

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-27 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/25/2014 12:45 PM, Michael Orlitzky m...@gentoo.org wrote: On 10/25/2014 09:57 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/7/2014 6:03 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 22:56:28 Mike Gilbert wrote: Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting from

Re: reInstalling my laptop

2014-10-27 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/26/2014 3:17 PM, Jean-Marc jean-m...@6jf.be wrote: Thank so much for your answers. After reading them in the list archives, I think I will go for: - no dedicated partition for /boot; For my new debian groupware server (sogo, working great so far), I just installed with the defaults,

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/7/2014 6:03 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 22:56:28 Mike Gilbert wrote: Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting from make.conf. repos.conf is the newer, more flexible way to configure it. Unfortunately, that will break some

Question re: updating debain stable kernels...

2014-10-25 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello, Googling didn't seem to reveal a definitive answer... I'm still very new to the debian world, so... anyway... I just updated my wheezy install from 7.5 to 7.7, but I'm surprised that I wasn't prompted to reboot, as the kernel image was updated: linux-headers-3.2.0-4-amd64

Re: Question re: updating debain stable kernels...

2014-10-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/25/2014 10:41 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 25 oct 14, 09:07:56, Tanstaafl wrote: I just updated my wheezy install from 7.5 to 7.7, but I'm surprised that I wasn't prompted to reboot, as the kernel image was updated: As of Jessie there is 'needrestart

Re: Question re: updating debain stable kernels...

2014-10-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/25/2014 11:35 AM, Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: So apparently I need to reboot to be on the new kernel image... but, since I wasn't prompted, it apparently isn't important to do so right away? Just trying to get my head around

Re: [libreoffice-users] Another spreadsheet destroyed.

2014-10-24 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/22/2014 12:01 AM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, it seems that LibreOffice Calc mess up my dialogues. I had three dialogues and today all the names of all their buttons were replaced with some default crap. Sounds like you are using some macros? And that the

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-24 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/23/2014 4:10 PM, koanhead koanh...@riseup.net wrote: I propose OpenRC, having recently tried it. So far I'm liking how it works, and it solves most of the problems I had with sysvinit. It's not a replacement for PID1, and is supposed to be compatible with arbitrary PID1 programs

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-24 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/24/2014 4:49 AM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com wrote: Tanstaafl: And why was OPenRC not a contender? Your question takes a falsehood as its premise. It actually was, contrary to what M. Popescu dismissively stated. Several members

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/21/2014 4:21 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Upstart was the only real contender to systemd at the time of the evaluation by the Technical Committee, but it has or is being replaced by systemd everywhere. And why was OPenRC not a contender? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/20/2014 3:45 PM, Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative? And it can't be sysvinit. Yes. Syvinit still works, but it is after all 20 years old. It's been patched and

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/20/2014 10:36 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ thiagocmarti...@gmail.com wrote: 1- Fork udev (out from systemd's tree or before it got merged / engulfed); Maybe Gentoo's eudev would be a good place to start with that. I also don't see why OpenRC isn't on the list of obvious choices. It is the default

Re: Refracta systemd-free progress

2014-10-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/21/2014 1:08 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard, what's your impression of the relative boot time of nosh vs systemd? The *only* real world scenario that I can see where the boot speed difference is only really meaningful in the world of cloud based

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/21/2014 11:19 AM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html Doesn't address - and nothing can

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-20 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/20/2014 7:18 AM, Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: I think it's generally an admonishment not to get involved in relaying. No, it is generally an admonishment not to get involved with relaying if you do not have *access* to validate recipients. There are multiple ways this can be achieved.

Re: Problem with quotatool

2014-10-20 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/20/2014 6:58 AM, Peter Buzanits buzan...@gmail.com wrote: VMware ESX 4.0.0 Build 236512 That is really old... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Problem with quotatool

2014-10-20 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/20/2014 9:39 AM, Peter Buzanits buzan...@gmail.com wrote: Am 2014-10-20 um 15:17 schrieb Tanstaafl: On 10/20/2014 6:58 AM, Peter Buzanits buzan...@gmail.com wrote: VMware ESX 4.0.0 Build 236512 That is really old... You think that the hypervisor could cause problems in the kernel

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/17/2014 9:24 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: You do not accept messages you can not deliver unless you are relaying them. Absolutely wrong, this rule fully applies to relays just as it does final destination servers. Postfix allows you to do this even if you are unable to get/maintain a

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/17/2014 3:42 PM, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: The fun part will be to see who actually steps up to the plate to do all of the extra work. Especially amongst all of those pledged seconds. I hope someone is keeping a list. :) Ric From what I read, it will be one all debian devs

Re: MTAs denying messages

2014-10-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/13/2014 4:21 AM, Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: The intention is that the spam emails be accepted by a catch-all domain-wide mail server, then later bounced by the one that holds the mailboxes and knows the addresses are invalid. And that, by definition, is backscatter, which will

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/17/2014 12:21 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 07:54:06 -0700 (PDT) Rusi Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, October 17, 2014 8:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, Rob Owens wrote: - Original Message - Now let's see what happens with this!

Re: MTAs denying messages

2014-10-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/17/2014 12:03 PM, Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: My point is that a mail server which is accepting mail for a domain needs to know the valid recipient list, and to *reject*, not bounce, mail for non-existent users during the SMTP transaction. Not controversial at all. Ok, then no, you

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/17/2014 1:01 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 10/17/2014 at 12:38 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/17/2014 12:21 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Thank you Ian, and the seconders, and everyone who is speaking up for (what I call) sanity. Still only 4

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/17/2014 1:29 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I finished the thread right before I posted, and there were only 4 seconds. Guess I missed some sub threads or something... Oh well, glad to see it will get a vote... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

[libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document

2014-10-16 Thread Tanstaafl
Anyone ever encountered this? I finally decided to convert a few of our PDF forms into PDF fillable forms, and thought this was going to be easy. No luck with the existing documents, so I tried with a brand new blank writer document... I open the Form Controls Toolbar, but when I try to drag

Re: [libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document

2014-10-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/16/2014 7:32 AM, Sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Charles, Le 16/10/2014 13:28, Tanstaafl a écrit : I open the Form Controls Toolbar, but when I try to drag one of the fields, it just doesn't work. Once selected, draw the control in the document, it will appear then. Hah

Re: [libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document

2014-10-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/16/2014 7:39 AM, Sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: You're welcome :) to access the properties of the control, right click on it and choose Control. In the dialog you have a lot of things you can set. Awesome... One question though. In my first test, when a user dbl-clicks the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document

2014-10-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/16/2014 8:04 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Is there a way to force it to act like a template, and open a new/unsaved copy in fillable mode? Hmmm... but I would also like the newly created/saved copy to *not* act like a template any longer (s0, basically the same way

Re: OT: Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/15/2014 3:13 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: 1. email to invalid recipients should be rejected at the RCPT-TO stage, Easier said then done - at least when a server does relaying, but clearly ideal when possible. No, it is 100% easily done

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-16 Thread Tanstaafl
Please do not send to me directly, I am on the list. On 10/15/2014 3:15 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 10/15/2014 12:40 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: Easy enough to prove. By all means, quote the actual text of me saying this was 'OK'... You said: However, once a message has

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/15/2014 4:44 PM, Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: However, if the Reply-To: is forged, i.e. if it is spam, the alternative is considerably less OK. Bouncing a spam message simply delivers *the* *entire* *message* to an innocent third party, having been laundered through your (presumably

Re: OT: Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/15/2014 4:58 PM, Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: It's worth some effort, at the moment it is the single most effective anti-spam measure. If you outsource your mail, it's worth going to some trouble to find a hosting company who will hold and accept updates for a list of valid recipients.

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/15/2014 5:12 PM, Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: Send an email with a large attachment(1) and there are quite a few servers that will silently drop it. Anyone who does that is breaking SMTP. If you don't want messages over a certain size, REJECT them, but absolutely do not EVER

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/15/2014 8:37 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: Tanstaafl couldn't answer it, and you can't either, because it's not violating any. I did answer it, you just ignored it or don't understand it. Quote: You do not have to violate an RFC to break SMTP. Here is a real world

Re: OT: Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/16/2014 7:31 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 06:50:01AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Anyone who runs a mail server and doesn't monitor the postmaster address shouldn't be running a mail server. Tell that to yahoo, they *don't seem* to have

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/16/2014 7:40 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 10/15/2014 8:37 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: Tanstaafl couldn't answer it, and you can't either, because it's not violating any

Re: OT: Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 1:58 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Well, this really is OT for debian-users, but Turns out that SMTP WAS/IS intended to be reliable. Reliable, absolutely. 100% reliable? That simply isn't possible when people are involved in the equation (people

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 12:03 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: The 'silly statements' reference was about your suggestion that it is in any way shape or form 'ok' to *accept* mail to invalid recipients then send it to dev/null. Incidentally, yes there may be some circumstances where

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 3:28 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 10/14/2014 12:03 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/14/2014 11:17 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 10/14/2014 8:05 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: If you think I'm kidding, please by all means go make these silly statements

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 3:20 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 10/14/2014 11:24 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: However, once a message has been accepted - ie, *after* the DATA phase is complete, it should never be bounced, it should be delivered - or, worse, quarantined, or worst case, deleted

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/15/2014 12:25 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 10/15/2014 at 12:11 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: You're limiting it too much. From Dictionary.com: obscurity noun, plural obscurities. 1. the state or quality of being obscure. 2. the condition of being unknown: ... That's

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/15/2014 12:06 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 10/15/2014 8:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/14/2014 3:28 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: But you just said it was OK to delete emails. Please don't misquote me. I said it was the *worst case*, meaning, only

Re: OT: Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/15/2014 12:50 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: I'll close by noting that this branch of discussion started with a focus on silently dropping spam, and whether that's a violation of standards. Actually, no, this branch started with a focus on whether or not it is a

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/13/2014 7:47 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: There is a header for requesting automatic confirmation of delivery, but it tends to be abused by malicious junkmailers (spammers). MUAs are supposed to be able to disable it, but I haven't seen that option in an MUA settings dialog

Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/13/2014 9:53 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: Not a grey area at all. ...dropping mail without notification of the sender is permitted As for the ...long tradition and community expectations... - that's nice, but according to some estimates, spammers now account for

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 10:15 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:05:00AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: To bounce all of those invalid addresses not only would further increase the amount of junk on the internet, That is pure and absolute nonsense. The vast

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 10:52 AM, Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:48:38AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Rejecting will actually *reduce* traffic, because it doesn't accept the entire messages, it slams the door at the RCPT-TO stage. Rejection can happen after the DATA phase

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 11:09 AM, Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org wrote: In a quest to ensure your personal happiness the systemd maintainers took your problem and changed udev to assign predictable names to network interfaces. And which resulted in much wailing and gnashing of teeth. -- To

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 11:17 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 10/14/2014 8:05 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: If you think I'm kidding, please by all means go make these silly statements on the postfix list and I'll just sit and watch the fun. You don't read very well. This has nothing to do

Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/14/2014 1:31 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: You're talking past each other. No, we're not, Jerry is arguing arguing against recipient validation on mail servers, and I'm correcting some of the bad/mis-information he is relying on when trying to support his argument. Still, the

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/8/2014 10:36 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: If what you did works for everybody when Jessie goes stable, you've just singlehandedly ended this whole argument. Not really. Just because it can be done easily now, doesn't mean it will be as easy - or even possible - a year

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-08 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/7/2014 5:56 PM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: Quite the opposite. Ideally, you should remove the PORTDIR setting from make.conf. repos.conf is the newer, more flexible way to configure it. Ok, did I miss a news item on this? Is this discussed in detail somewhere?

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-08 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/7/2014 7:09 PM, John Holland jholl...@vin-dit.org wrote: The license of ZFS makes it impossible to be part of the kernel per se. I have read multiple threads that explain why this is not true. don't understand them, wish I did... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/4/2014 1:37 PM, Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org wrote: The KDE release structure has evolved[1], decoupling the release cycle of the Platform, Workspace, and Applications. This means that there is no longer a single Software Compilation in the same way there was with KDE 4.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/5/2014 11:01 AM, Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org wrote: I'd be interested to know what KDE negatives you've experienced/heard in the past though. Bloat, buggy/unstable ever since the move from KDE3 to KDE4 (and never really gotten any better over time), etc... But of course there

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-04 Thread Tanstaafl
-devs like yours truly. Thanks again for taking the time to explain this so clearly. On 10/3/2014 8:26 PM, V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu wrote: @Charles, *, Tanstaafl wrote Also, I'm confused... Jan-Marek in the bug comment on August 17th - well before the 'Hard code freeze

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/4/2014 6:44 AM, Tom Collins tomcollins...@mail.com wrote: and depreciating (as if they have the right to do that) many programs that rely on gtk2 and non-syst__d. peeve It is 'deprecating', not 'depreciating' (an accounting term). /peeve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the Universal Operating System

2014-10-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/4/2014 9:33 AM, Jeff Bauer jwba...@charter.net wrote: Either could be accurately used. To wit: Maybe in general/non computer terminology, but not in with respect to computer software... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-03 Thread Tanstaafl
Fair enough. I guess that belief was a remnant from the Sun/Openoffice days. My apologies for a huge, incorrect assumption. Also, I just realized there is a distinction that I have been making, but that may have been missed and so may be causing a disconnect. That distinction is, code that

Re: [libreoffice-users] fixing as a service ...

2014-10-03 Thread Tanstaafl
it for themselves? Regards from Tom :) On 3 October 2014 11:55, Michael Meeks michael.me...@collabora.com mailto:michael.me...@collabora.com wrote: Hi Tanstaafl / Florian, On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 09:50 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: You obviously haven't read this entire thread

[libreoffice-users] Re: fixing as a service ...

2014-10-03 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi Michael, Thanks, mostly agree with your thoughts, with two comments... On 10/3/2014 6:55 AM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@collabora.com wrote: B. It is true that there is a sense in which large corporate users of LibreOffice capture a lot of benefit and cost saving from that - and a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Many apologies to the devs generally and the individual one in question

2014-10-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/2/2014 8:15 PM, Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote: I did say it was not a major thing to be guilty of, and I really mean that. These things happen, and a simple oops, my bad, I'll fix that is really all that I feel is needed here. I agree - but they didn't. Instead, users are told

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/2/2014 3:11 PM, V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu wrote: Charles S. (aka Tanstaafl) was given instructions and has agreed to do what needs to be done and review the corrected function for his use case with a current build of master (4.4.0alpha0+)--and respond in the fdo#76565

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/3/2014 12:36 PM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: It might be good to test-drive the alpha and beta release on 1 or 2 machines because they are generally stable enough for your own usage. I'm doing that now with this release - will change to a beta once it is available. Obviously

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/3/2014 12:35 PM, Florian Reisinger flo...@libreoffice.org wrote: Q: Why do not get bugs fixed at the moment they are reported? A: Before devs see the bug, it goes through the hands of QA. We are a small team and have a lot of backlog on reported bugs. (More bugs are reported than we are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/3/2014 12:25 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 10/2/2014 3:11 PM, V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu wrote: Charles S. (aka Tanstaafl) was given instructions and has agreed to do what needs to be done and review the corrected function for his use case with a current

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/3/2014 1:27 PM, Florian Reisinger flo...@libreoffice.org wrote: Bugs are bugs. Bugs are not meant to be introduced. I agree... your point? For developers and end users it one not matter, if the bug is in new code or not. True enough. Even if it seems to be in new code, how do you

[Rkhunter-users] Default .conf file minor comment typo

2014-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello, Almost not worth mentioning, but... Fyi, I just updated to 1.4.2 on one of my gentoo systems, and noted a typo in the comments... # The default value is '1024000'. # #SUSPSCAN_MAXSIZE=1024 There is one less zero in the comment for the default value than there should be... ;)

Re: [Rkhunter-users] Default .conf file minor comment typo

2014-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/2/2014 7:14 AM, John Horne john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 06:35 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Hello, Almost not worth mentioning, but... Fyi, I just updated to 1.4.2 on one of my gentoo systems, and noted a typo in the comments... # The default value is '1024000

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/1/2014 11:36 AM, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: On October 1, 2014 8:03:05 AM PDT, Tanstaafl wrote: Irrelevant. I cannot install 'Daily builds' on 60+ PCs. What you do is once a week install and test a daily build, verifying that issues that affect your organization have been

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/1/2014 9:33 PM, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: What I describe is what any sysadmin worth their salt wold do, with _all_ of the FLOSS an, where an when available, non-FLOSS, that is deployed throughout the organization they work for. Oh, I do, but I'm a one man shop, my time is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/2/2014 1:22 AM, Florian Reisinger flo...@libreoffice.org wrote: I am sorry if the following sounds a bit sharp: do not rant. That won't help! If you want to have this bug fixes, pay for the fix. (Or test if works on master I guess this bug should be fixed relatively quick. I am not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/2/2014 4:34 AM, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: The real extortion here is someone who expects people to work for his own needs for free. I am *not* talking about enhancement/feature requests, I am talking about a major regression that should have never

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/2/2014 8:50 AM, Werner werner...@gmx.ch wrote: His pet bug has a fix but he is refusing to test it. Please refrain from posting falsehoods (you don't have a clue what I am or have been doing). The point, again, is it is irrelevant if there is a TEST BUILD that is fixed. The point is we

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/2/2014 8:58 AM, Werner werner...@gmx.ch wrote: No one suggested that users should have to pay. You obviously haven't read this entire thread. Florian is trying to extort money from me to fix this major regression. But it might be interesting for a certain user to get a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
Thanks Stuart, I will do this asap - but most likely won't have time until this weekend. That said - it is a simple test - either you can paste into Input Fields, or you can't. So, yes, I will confirm this at the latest this weekend. Thanks for the links, I'll bookmark them for future

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/2/2014 9:25 AM, Werner werner...@gmx.ch wrote: Most normal users will unfortunately have to be more patient until their pet bug gets fixed. Maybe english isn't your first language, and you don't realize how condescending your comments are? This isn't *just* 'someone's pet bug'. This is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/2/2014 7:34 AM, Sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: He is not blamed for bringing his pet bug, but for not being proactive on it and for waiting that a volunteer take care of it without helping in any way to have it solved. I have helped in every way that I can. 1. I am not a coder,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/1/2014 11:18 AM, Werner werner...@gmx.ch wrote: On 10/1/2014 17:03, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/1/2014 9:25 AM, Werner werner...@gmx.ch wrote: On 10/1/2014 14:47, Tanstaafl wrote: I didn't file it (it was already filed), but it is: https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76565

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/2/2014 10:01 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Anything else is just begging for ... well, threads like this one. I think everything has been said that needs to be said, so unless someone else says something really ridiculous that hasn't already been countered, I'll just let

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/2/2014 10:37 AM, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: That said, maybe you didn't mean it as it sounded, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt... Forgive me if I'm intrusive, but there is something I actually do not understand in your situation. If you are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/2/2014 12:04 PM, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: The devs have no idea how people use the product, and thus only test a minuscle subset of available features, functions, and capabilities. Relevant and true to an extent and in some cases, certainly, but I'm sorry, cut/copy/paste

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-10-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 9/30/2014 5:50 PM, Paul paulste...@afrihost.co.za wrote: Personally I would vote for something like Stable-Current or Stable-Features and Stable-Mature, or terms in that vein, but I have to agree, choosing those sorts of terms would be more in line with the explanations of what they are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-10-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/1/2014 5:06 AM, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: I don't see these on the Firefox site, I see Firefox, Firefox Beta and Firefox Aurora, and these seem to have a passable explanation. I would have liked a slightly better, or more in-depth one, but at least I

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to handle regressions

2014-10-01 Thread Tanstaafl
frustrated with it due to the misuse of threads! On 10/1/2014 12:27, Tanstaafl wrote: rant Charles, fyi, in our office, we are stuck on 4.1.6 because of a major regression introduced in 4.2 that is still there today. When our first user reported this after I started updating everyone (at about

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/1/2014 8:21 AM, Werner werner...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi, On 10/1/2014 14:04, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi Werner, This regression has already been discussed here, with essentially the same result (fix it yourself, pay someone else to fix it, or shut up about it)... That is not Sophie's view

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-01 Thread Tanstaafl
Not to mention this one: https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65205 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to handle regressions

2014-10-01 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi Tom, Thanks for the suggestions, but I assure you, I have had many, many conversations with him about this over these past 15 years I've been managing his systems. On 10/1/2014 9:03 AM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) I think probably the best way to handle it is to arrange a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/1/2014 9:25 AM, Werner werner...@gmx.ch wrote: On 10/1/2014 14:47, Tanstaafl wrote: I didn't file it (it was already filed), but it is: https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76565 Have you tested the daily build which included the patch committed on 2014-8-17

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/1/2014 9:36 AM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe we should rename Still to Eggs and change Fresh to Omelette. Both have advantages. trying to say that Omelette is really unbroken eggs seems daft to me. I'm a steak guy, so I prefer: 'Still' Sirloin 'Fresh' Tenderloin (or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/1/2014 12:54 PM, Florian Reisinger flo...@libreoffice.org wrote: 9 bugs for 30k €. That is a fair price... Continuing reading the thread now... PS: If a volunteer does not tackle your pet bug, you should get someone to fix it (search for libreoffice L3 support for other service

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-09-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 9/29/2014 2:55 PM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, Fresh is stable but because it's had new features added we can expect to find that some things that don't so well in Fresh and yet still find that they work perfectly fine in Still. To many of us that all sounds like a lot of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-09-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 9/30/2014 8:54 AM, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: I am sorry to say this, but what is ridiculous here is the inability of some to even understand what is being discussed. Oh, I understand what is being discussed. What you don't understand is the complaint.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-09-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 9/30/2014 9:53 AM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: I think people are talking about a single installer that does the whole job. Something that normal users can just double-click on, rather than a long set of complicated instructions. Yes. The installer should automatically detect the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-09-30 Thread Tanstaafl
On 9/30/2014 10:41 AM, Sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: What makes no sense for me is to refuse something without even having a look at it. What am I refusing to look at? The complicated instructions? Or are you saying that the installer already works as I described? If it does,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Bug check - 4.2.4, editing Input fields is broken?

2014-09-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 7/30/2014 11:01 AM, Sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: However, if you want to know more about what they are doing to improve the quality of LibreOffice, I recommend you read: https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2014-07-29-under-the-hood-4-3.html I think it answers your questions about

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Something wrong in release build (4.2.6.3?)

2014-08-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 8/26/2014 7:49 AM, Pedro pedl...@gmail.com wrote: There WILL be a 4.2.7 version. It is scheduled for late October https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan People have to hang on to the 4.2 branch until 4.3 reaches stability from regressions/bugs added (by 4.3.4?) Or some people have

[gentoo-user] Pin a package to a binary (quickpkg'd) version?

2014-08-23 Thread Tanstaafl
Is it possible to do this? Thanks...

Re: [gentoo-user] Pin a package to a binary (quickpkg'd) version?

2014-08-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 8/23/2014 8:16 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/08/2014 12:34, Tanstaafl wrote: Is it possible to do this? Not directly. I'm assuming you mean packages you built yourself and quick-pkg'ed them, not something available as a -bin Correct... I have buildpkg feature

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