Steve Greenland wrote:
You might consider including a default filter so that the only
candidates for automatic removal begin with 'lib' and don't end with
'-dev'.
This seems rather silly. The whole point of this feature is to
distinguish those packages that you manually requested from those
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
The way this garbage collection is implemented is one of the main
dislikes I have about aptitude. Aptitude contains a database with
packages that have been installed through aptitude; as such, it contains
no information on packages that were installed through a
Steve Lamb wrote:
No. But you said that the opposite is the wrong reason. If we like
Debian it is a bad reason to want to contribute. So the it is only
logical to presume that if you feel liking is a bad reason disliking
might very well be a good one.
This is logical? In what universe?
Chris Cheney wrote:
The only people
actually waiting that long now (aiui) are people James does not want in
the project at all.
Then why are they left hanging indefinitely rather than being rejected?
Also, it seems like most DD's don't maintain many packages anyway. Yes
there are other
Ben Collins wrote:
I bet someone would rebuild base+some extras using i386 target compiler
and make it available, if Debian did that. They would probably serve a
few hundred users total, at best. I don't think it would be too much to
expect debian-i386 to become a side-project.
debian-i386
David Nusinow wrote:
Honestly, how bad is removing this message? Is removing this really
plagiarism? No, as credits will be given as due in the credits file.
Right. Plagiarism would be replacing the credits with other credits,
claiming to have written someone else's work. That word has no
Martin Pool wrote:
For example, at least two people called Hans a troll. An upstream author
expressing concern about the way their code is packaged is not trolling
(i.e. making random arguments just to provoke flames.)
Considering that Reiser waved his arms frantically but said nothing of
Colin Watson wrote:
I note that few people are cc'ing Hans Reiser on things they seem to
expect him to respond to; is everybody assuming that he's subscribed to
debian-devel?
If he sends mail to debian-devel, it's nobody's fault but his if he
never sees the replies. I didn't see any
Florian Weimer wrote:
Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want the same visibility of credits for reiserfs that movies give
for their actors.
So you are concerned with the missing ad when mkreiserfs runs?
In this case, your analogy is wrong. The message does not give proper
Chris Cheney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First of all emacs is pure bloat so who cares what it does...
Don't be an ass. There are a lot of people who would say the same of
KDE, so it's silly for one of the main Debian KDE maintainers to be
saying such a thing.
Craig
Andrew Suffield wrote:
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 12:47:38PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
On Thursday 17 April 2003 02:32, Colin Walters wrote:
On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 20:21, Chris Hanson wrote:
I'd rather fix this properly; what you suggest is a workaround. What
I consider a proper fix is
Branden Robinson wrote:
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:20:26PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote:
So, can a standard be DSFG free?
Strictly speaking, no. A standard is an idea, or a collection of ideas.
There are many ways to express an idea, so there are many ways to
express a standard. Some of these
Steve Greenland wrote:
(Of course, if this is the worst problem we have with Debian package
descriptions, I say flip a coin and forget about it.)
I have a better idea -- just forget it altogether. It doesn't need to be
standardized in Debian; it certainly isn't standardized in the
publishing
David B Harris wrote:
Also, in the description template, two spaces are used after a period -
is that standard nowadays? (My understanding was that they were
primarily used for variable-width fonts, where a single space would take
up very little page space.
There was an interesting
Scott James Remnant wrote:
In correct English grammar and typography the space after a full stop
(period in Merkin) is supposed to be a wider space then that between
words and after commas and suchlike.
Therefore typists were always taught to press the space key twice after
a full stop.
Brian May wrote:
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:22:32AM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
Personally I think bayesian based spam filters are a godsend. They're a
bit
naive in places such as being unigram or bigram based, but that'll probably
get fixed in version two. And already they are
Thomas Hood wrote:
Arthur de Jong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(I had to downgrade from 2.1.0-1 to 1.0.3-2.2)
If you don't have them anymore, you can get them from:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bonobo-activation/
Unfortunately, version 1.0.3-2.2 is disappearing from mirrors,
Mathias Klein wrote:
just to let you know:
+++cut+++
:# apt-get install gphoto2
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that
Eduard Bloch wrote:
#include hallo.h
* Branden Robinson [Fri, Nov 22 2002, 10:34:21AM]:
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:20:04AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote:
(1) Why are you blatently insulting people on the lists??
Why are you blatanly misspelling blatant?
Best example for the difference
Fabien Penso wrote:
I think you will hear soon than the person who posted that to Slashdot
was wrong and misunderstood the license.
See the following...
,
| From: Steve Syatt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: mp3 licensing
| Date: 28 Aug
Julien Danjou wrote:
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-28
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: mp32ogg
Version : 0.11
Upstream Author : Nathan Walp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://faceprint.com/software.phtml
* License : Artistic License
Reagan Blundell wrote:
However, if I decided to stop using MP3 decoders today,
Why do you have to stop? You already have one. Keep using it until you
don't need it anymore. In the meantime, gradually re-rip/encode your CDs
one by one.
Craig
pgphngQCMQnYh.pgp
Description: PGP signature
Robert Millan wrote:
* Package name: oggasm
Upstream: Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://oggasm.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
Description : MP3 to Ogg converter
I'm not the ITPer, Sean Kellogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] packaged
orgasm but
John Hasler wrote:
Russell Coker writes:
They don't apply to SE Linux either, the NSA says that SE Linux is
licensed under the GPL only. If anyone wants to dispute that then they
have to sue the NSA...
The licensing of the software is orthogonal to the licensing of the
patents.
Not
begin Robert van der Meulen quotation:
Sorry, i was referring to 1.20-1 indeed.
Interesting. 1.20-1 seemed to be working for me. However, just to be
safe, I've downgraded to 1.19-1 and marked the package hold.
Can we expect a fixed 1.20-2 shortly? I don't see one in Sid or incoming.
Craig
begin Robert van der Meulen quotation:
Please don't upgrade spamasassin/razor today, as it, ehm, doesn't work. I
made a boo-boo in yesterday's upload, which basically f*cks it up. A new
upload will follow later today, adressing these issues.
There was no new spamassassin or razor in Sid
begin Branden Robinson quotation:
A couple of people on a recent thread in debian-devel linked to a
message I recently posted on Slashdot on this subject. I had thought
about posting this information to Debian's lists as well, but at the
time, didn't see a need.
Thanks to that recent
begin Gustavo Noronha Silva quotation:
Em Tue, 9 Apr 2002 14:26:39 +0300, Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
escreveu:
If the GFDL were a free to use and modify license, then we would not
be having this discussion. The problem is that the GFDL specifies
parts that we are _not_ free
begin Dale Scheetz quotation:
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Branden Robinson wrote:
As usual, this issue has been beaten to death on a list you don't read.
Please review the archives of debian-legal for the past several months.
In a nutshell:
1) The current version of the GNU FDL is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:01:17AM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
On 13/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| int i;
| for (i = 0; i -1; i += 1) {
| // ...
| if (terminal_condition)
| break;
| // ...
| }
[...]
| Moreover, i is
Richard Kettlewell wrote:
Even if you don't care about weird platforms, x -1 is a
ridiculously obscure test in this context; to achieve the same effect
it would be much clearer to make x unsigned and do x =
(unsigned)INT_MAX.
I find x = (unsigned) INT_MAX to be more obscure than the
Ilia Lobsanov wrote:
Perhaps creating a new package, eg. 'mutt-reader' with no MTA dependency,
could solve this problem.
Would the only difference between mutt and mutt-reader be that one
dependency? If so, then it would be better, I think, to simply change
Depends: mail-transport-agent to
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
If a package has gotten very stale, and nobody has taken up
maintainence, isn't that a pretty good indication that nobody is
using it anyhow?
Is it? Is the average Debian user both able and willing to be a
maintainer, and sufficiently aware of ongoing developments
Darrell Rene Dupas wrote:
no it isnt flame bait but it is newbie bait!
Not if you read it correctly. Try again.
there is an good discussion on this very topic at the following url
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
I was talking about Debian policy and procedures, not
Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Jan 02, Paul Dwerryhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something here, but it's actually quite annoying to
Yes, you are.
echo 'en_AU.ISO8859-15 ISO-8859-15' /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
Possibly dumb question: does it matter that the above is not
Douglas Bates wrote:
On a Debian 3.0 (testing) system updated to binutils 2.11.92.0.12.3-4,
I get a failure when trying to compile a 2.4.17 kernel. The last part
of the transcript is enclosed.
ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux-2.4.17/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext
arch/i386/kernel/head.o
Caleb Shay wrote:
However, as was pointed out below, vim is NOT the
default vi when you install,
Only true if you install nvi (or some other higher-precedence vi clone),
which isn't required. (g)vim is the only vi-like editor I have installed.
Craig
Simon Law wrote:
On 27 Dec 2001, Bill Gribble wrote:
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 10:54, Simon Law wrote:
Hrm... Could you list the output of `complete` and `set -o` for
me? I have the same inputrc, and am unable to reproduce the problem.
I am running libreadline4 4.2a-3 and bash
Jeff Lightfoot wrote:
I think libzvt2 is the culprit. A downgrade of this package removed the
2 tabs problem.
Downgrading to libzvt2_1.4.1.2-8 fixed the problem for me too.
Craig
martin f krafft wrote:
The SpamBouncer is a set of procmail recipes, or instructions, which
search the headers and text of your incoming email for indications of
spam. If spam is identified, there is a plethora of actions you can
take, ranging from tagging, deletion, to complaining to
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