Re: Work-needing packages report for Aug 19, 2005

2005-08-20 Thread Henning Makholm
-free) and only implements SSH1, which is probably not a good thing to use anyways. Do we have other ways to provide its functionality? I sometimes need to log into my machine from net cafes, and even SSH1 is preferable to telnet. :-/ -- Henning Makholm There were few families

Mindterm

2005-08-20 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:55:56PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: [on dropping mindterm] Do we have other ways to provide its functionality? I sometimes need to log into my machine from net cafes, and even SSH1 is preferable to telnet

Re: Work-needing packages report for Aug 19, 2005

2005-08-20 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Roberto C. Sanchez On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:55:56PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: [mindterm] Do we have other ways to provide its functionality? I sometimes need to log into my machine from net cafes, and even SSH1 is preferable to telnet. :-/ Anyterm will be packaged any

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-18 Thread Henning Makholm
. -- Henning Makholm Hør, hvad er det egentlig der ikke kan blive ved med at gå?

Re: Tcl8.0-dev dependency and automake?

2005-08-18 Thread Henning Makholm
. Try ./configure --with-tclconfig=/usr/lib/tcl8.4 -- Henning Makholm This imposes the restriction on any procedure statement that the kind and type of each actual parameter be compatible

Re: packages still setting /usr/doc link

2005-08-17 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andrew Pollock On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:19:34AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: Some of these packages have been orphaned, but have not yet had their maintainer fields switched to QA. There's only 30 odd packages currently listed at http://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html, and I

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README is upstream's entire user manual in text format. It contains a short section on how to get aptitude if one does not have a .deb available. I think this is fair, but it is of course

Re: Bug#323076: ITP: dealer -- bridge hand generator

2005-08-16 Thread Henning Makholm
of the source package would have wider rights to reuse the pulic domain files than to reuse the GPL-covered ones). -- Henning MakholmAnything you can discover we would be most happy to review. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-16 Thread Henning Makholm
? -- Henning Makholm Occam was a medieval old fart. The simplest explanation that fits the facts is always, God did it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 02:18:39AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: ...a lot of wise things... I have to agree. So how to proceed? File minor bugs against README files, that contain predominantly useless information? What other way would

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread Henning Makholm
with whitespace plus ./configure , but how reliable is that? -- Henning Makholm Wir kommen nun ans Ziel unserer Ausführungen.

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-15 Thread Henning Makholm
-user without network runlevel really relevant for even a significant minory of our users? How would those multiple users interact with the machine? Or does it mean single non-root user? -- Henning Makholm Monarki, er ikke noget materielt ... Borger! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:42:27PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: Yes - but how should Lintian detect it? Of course one could look for lines that start with whitespace plus ./configure , but how reliable is that? Attached test found some culprits

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Timo Aaltonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Henning Makholm wrote: Given that it is very rare for machines these days to have banks of local ttys attached, is a multi-user without network runlevel really relevant for even a significant minory of our users? How would those

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread Henning Makholm
that documentation in the .deb has to be named README at all. -- Henning Makholm What has it got in its pocketses? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-15 Thread Henning Makholm
will automagically add README to debian/docs if it is found. That may not, in retrospect, be a wise idea. -- Henning Makholm They discussed old Tommy Somebody and Jerry Someone Else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-15 Thread Henning Makholm
sounds like single user, multitasking. -- Henning Makholm ... not one has been remembered from the time when the author studied freshman physics. Quite the contrary: he merely remembers that such and such is true, and to explain it he

Re: packages still setting /usr/doc link

2005-08-14 Thread Henning Makholm
(as the current package is not debhelperized, and its handcrafted prerm script helpfully leaves the symlink untouched when $1=upgrade :-/). Some of the others are still in O state rather than ITA. -- Henning MakholmWe can hope that this serious deficiency

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-14 Thread Henning Makholm
in a .deb package are different from the ones for a README in a tarball. -- Henning MakholmThey want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation

Re: packages still setting /usr/doc link

2005-08-14 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm wrote: I agree that it *should* be a bug, but I cannot see that it officially *has* been one for three years. You're right. However, I think it's past time to change policy and make it a bug. Agreed. -- Henning Makholm And here we

Re: Bug#322282: ITP: swapspace -- Dynamic swap space manager

2005-08-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Jeroen Vermeulen On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:28:07PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: For us, taking the Debian parts out might be just as awkward. I really doubt that. Could you explain which problems you see with having a clear separation? Don't put words into my mouth

Re: Bug#322282: ITP: swapspace -- Dynamic swap space manager

2005-08-13 Thread Henning Makholm
have to do the uploading yourself. Before this happens you will have to find a sponsor to do it, and so you don't yet need to concern youself with direct uploads. Is this something that needs to be updated? Not as far as I can see. -- Henning MakholmDe kan rejse hid og did i verden

Accepted autotrace 0.31.1-9 (source i386)

2005-08-13 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:59:05 +0200 Source: autotrace Binary: libautotrace-dev libautotrace3 autotrace Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.31.1-9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread Henning Makholm
name just to accommodate a newcomer. OTOH, cogito is not in sarge; there are no prior user expectations about what its command name should be. -- Henning Makholm Punctuation, is? fun! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Bug#322282: ITP: swapspace -- Dynamic swap space manager

2005-08-11 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Jeroen Vermeulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:00:59PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: On the other hand integrating Debian's *packaging* infrastructure (i.e., the debian/ subdirectory) in upstream source cannot be recommended. It only creates trouble for developers when

Re: shouldn't I use update-alternatives for this?

2005-08-11 Thread Henning Makholm
to be referred to the Technical Committee. There can be no circumventing this. -- Henning Makholm Jeg mener, at der eksisterer et hemmeligt selskab med forgreninger i hele verden, som arbejder i det skjulte for at udsprede det rygte

Re: Bug#322282: ITP: swapspace -- Dynamic swap space manager

2005-08-10 Thread Henning Makholm
in their Debian rules. Many packagers by default try to touch the upstream makefiles as little as possible, but that ought to be reversible if the upstream author requests so. -- Henning Makholm We will discuss your youth another time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Henning Makholm
am not convinced that it should be packaged separately until we have applications that actually do something useful with the library. -- Henning Makholm I tried whacking myself repeatedly with the cluebat. Unfortunately

Would anybody miss bibtool-dev?

2005-08-10 Thread Henning Makholm
tempted to decide that bibtool-dev is just a waste of mirror space and Packages.gz bandwidth. On the other hand, it might be considered unethical to adopt a package only to kill off one of its .debs. Opinions solicited. -- Henning Makholm Nett hier

Re: fakeroot: line 152: 7689 Segmentation fault

2005-08-09 Thread Henning Makholm
further action by me? The buildd is sick. Has happened for many packages. The buildd operators will reschedule the failed builds once the problem is believed to be fixed. -- Henning Makholm Al lykken er i ét ord: Overvægtig!

Re: Firefox:I get redirected to microsoft website when entering http//kernel.org or http//debian.org

2005-08-08 Thread Henning Makholm
a normal Google search without the I feel lucky redirect. Essentially the address bar ends up doubling as a search box, as long as one stays away from punctuation that Firefox thinks looks like part of a real URL. -- Henning Makholm Det er trolddom og terror

Re: Asking Debconf questions about database data

2005-08-07 Thread Henning Makholm
anyway. It is at least conceivable for the postinst to actively store the reply in an appropriate file in /etc which the postrm later reads. Not that I think this would make much sense UI-wise anyhow. -- Henning MakholmI have seen men with a *fraction

Re: NMUs wanted: C++ library packages in need of uploading

2005-08-07 Thread Henning Makholm
several minutes for a graph this size. #print \tsplines=true;\n ; print ; } else { print ; } } -- Henning MakholmThey want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

2005-04-22 Thread Henning Makholm
be useful post-Vancouver for letting lesser architectures sneak #ifdef'ed corrections into the stable source pool without risking functional changes on the released architectures. -- Henning Makholm De spiller på harpe og drikker øl.

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-04-03 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 01:19:32AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] One example: with our current package management tools once you've got an apt source in your configuration the packages it provides will start

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-04-02 Thread Henning Makholm
firmware as free. -- Henning Makholm The spirits will have to knit like banshees, but with enough spirits it *can* be done! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-04-02 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) On Apr 02, Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm ok with (1), provided we do it in the non-free archive. This does present certain logistical problems for producing installers. Which ones? The fact that they need these firmwares to work

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-04-02 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Wouter Verhelst On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 02:39:57PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: The installer images in question would of course need to be labeled as containing non-free components, but that hardly constitutes a logistical problem that is worth worrying about for long

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-04-02 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) On Apr 02, Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm ok with (1), provided we do it in the non-free archive. This does present certain logistical problems for producing installers. Which ones? The fact that they need these firmwares

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-04-02 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm ok with (1), provided we do it in the non-free archive. This does present certain logistical problems for producing installers. Which ones? non-free isn't

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-04-02 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) On Apr 02, Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where does it say that such images are not allowed? At least current practice, and the build scripts not being able to do it. The only thing that is necessary is to update the build scripts then. I

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-04-02 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 04:57:09PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've suggested before that creating a separate section for firmware may be the best solution. You have not described how that would differ from

Re: Bug 456789: ITP: libjustdoit -- Always does what you want

2005-04-01 Thread Henning Makholm
name as well as the API identifiers will need be changed to avoid trademark problems with Nike. * License : Whatever you wish it is. Have you cleared this with -legal? Usually licenses are not considered Free if one needs to invoke wishful thinking to fit them to the DFSG. -- Henning

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-26 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 05:37:02PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Do you have any arguments for this that do *not* basically reason backwards from we want this stuff to be in main, freedoms or not? Well, I would start with we want this stuff in main

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-26 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Henning Makholm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050326 00:55]: Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) And one of the reasons for which licensing for documentation has not been discussed is that most people were not aware of the scope of the editorial

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-25 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Paul Hedderly [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 05:33:50PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Paul Hedderly [EMAIL PROTECTED] What you are showing here is that code that can be compiled is not a working defintion of source code. It not only works, but has been used

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-25 Thread Henning Makholm
to eternity; it will not cause it to become true. -- Henning Makholm Den nyttige hjemmedatamat er og forbliver en myte. Generelt kan der ikke peges på databehandlingsopgaver af en sådan størrelsesorden og af en karaktér, som berettiger

Re: Bug#301083: ITP: libevolution-ruby -- revolution, ruby binding for the evolution mail client

2005-03-24 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit David Moreno Garza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Revolution is a little Ruby binding to the excellent Evolution email client. Is it so little that it would be better to include it with the evolution package? -- Henning Makholm Al lykken er i ét ord: Overvægtig!

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-24 Thread Henning Makholm
. What you are showing here is that code that can be compiled is not a working defintion of source code. -- Henning Makholm Logic is a system for talking about propositions that can be true or false, or at least enjoy properties

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-24 Thread Henning Makholm
backwards from we want this stuff to be in main, freedoms or not? -- Henning Makholm Occam was a medieval old fart. The simplest explanation that fits the facts is always, God did it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Idea: about package installation under chroot.

2005-03-24 Thread Henning Makholm
example that is particularly troublesome is rwhod. ... Is there some other, better solution to this problem? Write a policy-rc.d script for the chroot that denies starting either the particular demon or all demons in general. zless /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.policy-rc.d.gz -- Henning Makholm

Re: Idea: about package installation under chroot.

2005-03-24 Thread Henning Makholm
/daemon start in its postinstall script to start that daemon. As far as I'm aware it's a bug if a package has that in its postinst rather than invoke-rc.d daemon start even though it is not yet mandatory policy. It is, however, strongly recommended (§9.3.3.2). -- Henning Makholm

Re: Ubuntu Patches

2005-03-22 Thread Henning Makholm
. This process does not open bugs in debbugs (for obvious reasons). I still don't see why it is obvious not to pass the fix upstream when one fixes a bug that upstream does not know about. -- Henning Makholm It's just as meaningful to say that our ancestors could

Re: Ubuntu Patches

2005-03-21 Thread Henning Makholm
BTS? If you have an honest question, I am happy to answer, This is an honest question. -- Henning Makholm It was intended to compile from some approximation to the M-notation, but the M-notation was never fully defined, because representing LISP functions

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Henning Makholm
whining about unstable-only earlier this week (with an outlying relapse yesterday - sorry, Anthony). -- Henning Makholm Panic. Alarm. Incredulity. *Thing* has not enough legs. Topple walk. Fall over

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au Henning Makholm wrote: The question is whether the *porters* think they have a sufficiently good reason to do the work of maintaining a separate testing-esque suite. If the porters want to do the work they should be allowed to do

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-19 Thread Henning Makholm
to build the unmodified package. -- Henning Makholm However, the fact that the utterance by Epimenides of that false sentence could imply the existence of some Cretan who is not a liar is rather unsettling. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-03-19 Thread Henning Makholm
it make more sense for them to switch to maildir instead of mbox? I wouldn't like to search for new mails in there. Woah... deja vu. -- Henning MakholmI ... I have to return some videos. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: The 98% and N=2 criteria

2005-03-19 Thread Henning Makholm
actually have gained anything then? -- Henning Makholm og de står om nissen Teddy Ring.

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Henning Makholm
nor vice versa; yet they could still have much source in common. -- Henning Makholm Jeg skrællet har kartofler; min ene tommeltot røg vistnok med i gryden. Jeg har det ellers got.

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-18 Thread Henning Makholm
the work of maintaining a separate testing-esque suite. If the porters want to do the work they should be allowed to do it. -- Henning Makholm We will discuss your youth another time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Vancouver hierarchy - proposed terminology

2005-03-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:56:03PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: An IRREGULAR architecture either does not make releases, or release according to a schedule that does not match the REGULAR one. (One possible instance of this is we'll try

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
sustain the load? If not, why not? -- Henning Makholm Panic. Alarm. Incredulity. *Thing* has not enough legs. Topple walk. Fall over not. Why why why? What *is* it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
, well, wait a few months and cross your fingers :). And what if a secondary architecture does not want to lower themselves to that standard. -- Henning MakholmVi skal nok ikke begynde at undervise hinanden i den store regnekunst her, men jeg vil foreslå, at vi fra

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
reason why the solution has to include a ban on making any stable release for a minor architecture at all. -- Henning Makholm Hele toget raslede imens Sjælland fór forbi.

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
a good option. Only it's a pity that the Vancouver plan does not allow it. -- Henning Makholm However, the fact that the utterance by Epimenides of that false sentence could imply the existence of some Cretan who is not a liar is rather

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
? -- Henning Makholm Slip den panserraket og læg dig på jorden med ansigtet nedad!

Re: stable - yes or no?

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit David Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:57, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] This really makes unstable snapshotting, or building stable once it's released as Anthony has also suggested in this thread, look like much better

Re: Security support for tier-2

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
. -- Henning Makholm Det er trolddom og terror og jeg får en værre ballade når jeg kommer hjem!

Re: stable - yes or no?

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit David Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:08, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit David Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] If a arch can show that it is able to support a high-quality-Debian-stable as we all know and love, it can be promoted to tier-1. Um, isn't

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Henning Makholm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050315 12:45]: Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there an underlying reason why the wanna-build management for all architectures needs to happen on ftp-master? For any architecture that builds

Re: Security support for tier-2

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Henning Makholm wrote: Nothing's going to prevent porters from adding stable-security (or whatever) to their autobuilders, True - for as long as they do not try to upload the result to the Debian archive, which will carry only unstable. I do

Re: s390 not currently projected releasable

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
the other end of the list. Then cycles would only be wasted when the queue is nearly empty anyway. -- Henning Makholm Man vælger jo selv sine forbilleder.

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
be allowed to have positions in Debian? -- Henning Makholm Occam was a medieval old fart. The simplest explanation that fits the facts is always, God did it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
exile (which it's most definitely not) WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH -- Henning Makholm The great secret, known to internists and learned early in marriage by internists' wives, but still hidden from the general

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] This one time, at band camp, Henning Makholm said: The announcement that actually got posted says that the only architectures that will be allowed to have testing and eventually stable after sarge releases will be i386, ia64, powerpc, and amd64. All

Re: s390 not currently projected releasable

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:27:34PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: How can something really be blocked by the w-b admins? The buildds build .debs from publicly available source packages, don't they? They upload to the upload queues that are avaiable

Re: s390 not currently projected releasable

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm wrote: If a DD has a machine with cpu cycles to spend on an architecture that's lagging behind, what's to stop them from just beginning to build packages and upload them? It needs e.g. to take P-a-s into account, for example. What

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:45:48PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Meaning that they are kicked out and told to start their own project where they can take matters in their own hands. Just what they've always wanted to do, I am sure. It's not ideal

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:57:27AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Building stable once it is released does look indeed like a good option. Only it's a pity that the Vancouver plan does not allow it. There are lots of things not allowed by the plan

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
the necessary | manpower to cover the daily operation of such additions. That would not close the door on lesser architectures like the current text does, and would still leave the main release and ftpmaster teams to care about the main architectures only. -- Henning Makholm

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:37:25PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: snip lots of circular discussion Please point out what's circular about my discussion. Your entire argument seems to hinge on one single thing: unstable-only. Yes, because

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
of FOAD). I'm criticizing it because I hope that those in charge can be convinced to changed their minds. -- Henning MakholmAnd why should I talk slaves' and fools' talk? I don't want him to live for ever, and I know that he's not going to live

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
and improve the signal to noise ratio. Your wording is not on a level I would expect from a DD. FWIW, Matthew just climbed at least one position on my DPL ballot. -- Henning Makholm Jeg har tydeligt gjort opmærksom på, at man ved at følge den vej kun bliver gennemsnitligt ca

Vancouver hierarchy - proposed terminology

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
terminology: Widespread - utlanning Narrowspread regular - framling Irregular- ramen Other unix-like OSes - varelse Microsoft Windows- djur ) -- Henning Makholm Jeg forstår mig på at anvende sådanne midler på folks legemer, at jeg

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:31:03 +, Henning Makholm My job is keeping me from working on Debian as much as I'd like. Should I resign as a DD? You should resign from a job that only has a limited number of people able to do it. As a random developer

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:54:24AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: There is no visible reason why the solution has to include a ban on making any stable release for a minor architecture at all. The question is, if we're not going to be releasing

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Henning Makholm
to use in deciding which packages to keep out. A lesser architecture's concept of testing could just be, we're trying our best to keep up with the package versions in the official testing, regardless of bug counts. -- Henning Makholm Jeg mener, at der eksisterer et hemmeligt

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-14 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Henning Makholm | When I provide a configure script in the source package it means, on | the contrary, that I *have* tried it and therefore has some kind of | evidence that it will probably work for other people too. You have probably only tried

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Henning Makholm
, and I mean no offense. But I can see quite clearly that it would be difficult for the security team or other groups to keep up with things growing the way they are. Sure. But effectively throwing people out in this manner ought not to be the answer. -- Henning Makholm

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Henning Makholm
an architecture from providing stable packages. -- Henning Makholm Gå ud i solen eller regnen, smil, køb en ny trøje, slå en sludder af med købmanden, puds dine støvler. Lev!

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Henning Makholm
scripts in the source package. -- Henning Makholm Larry wants to replicate all the time ... ah, no, all I meant was that he likes to have a bang everywhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Henning Makholm
a configure script in the source package it means, on the contrary, that I *have* tried it and therefore has some kind of evidence that it will probably work for other people too. -- Henning Makholm That's okay. I'm hoping to convince the millions of open-minded

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-13 Thread Henning Makholm
be avoided by removing it. I am not stupid enough to claim that this applies to all build-dependencies, so I am not going to play strawman to the rest of your argument. -- Henning MakholmJeg køber intet af Sulla, og selv om uordenen griber planmæssigt om sig, så er vi

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-10 Thread Henning Makholm
by that? -- Henning Makholm Det er du nok fandens ene om at mene. For det ligger i Australien! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-10 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] I seem to recall the devel-reference or some similar document to specifically address this issue, but I cannot find the location anymore. Are you thinking about /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz? -- Henning Makholm They discussed old

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-07 Thread Henning Makholm
in Debian a bit more often. Yes, but we shouldn't act as if it was a _freedom_ problem. It's a _quality_ problem and should be treated as such, i.e. without invoking the DFSG. -- Henning Makholm The great secret, known to internists and learned early

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-07 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm writes: Yes, but we shouldn't act as if it was a _freedom_ problem. If it was deliberately made bloody horribly ugly and painful in order to make changing it difficult, it's a freedom problem. True. But in that case I would not agree

Re: Bug #298195: ITP: tinywm -- Ridiculously tiny window manager

2005-03-06 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Nick Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] From what I can gather, the license was developed through discussion on OSI's mailing list, and in the end it was OSI who approved it. That only goes to show that the OSI has finally lost every last bit of sense they used to possess. -- Henning Makholm

Re: NoX idea

2005-03-05 Thread Henning Makholm
is normal/full multiuser 5 multiuser with xdm or equivalent 6 reboot That seems awfully restrictive, only giving the local admin a single runlevel to customize to his own needs. -- Henning MakholmNej, hvor er vi altså heldige! Længe

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