Re: Plan to release a gplv3 compliant debian-based release

2013-07-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
as an exercise for reader. Since it was over a decade ago, I seriously doubt anyone would use anything that ancient as a basis for a modern kernel. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@sbih.org http WARNING: I cannot be held

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-21 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
the skeleton (which did get counted, but I removed README) Not that I think it matters at all, but I did also find 30 occurences of sleep being called. Anywhere from .1 seconds, up to 5 seconds. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] sean finney | export PATH=/usr/lib/nodejs:$PATH | | and problem solved, right? PATH isn't considered for #! lines, so not really. It is if you use #!/usr/bin/env node -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
19 [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.pdf pg 5 -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-28 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Olaf van der Spek wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:55 PM, John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: That's not our problem, is it? It is, if we are trying to be as compatible as possible. Compatible with what? Bugs in other implementations? What does

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-25 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
to be synced anyway. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type. spiders.html

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-13 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
decided to include the kfreebsd architectures. That's part of porting. What is wrong with porting kfreebsd behaivour instead? -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-28 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Gabor Gombas wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:38:58PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: This is one place where Solaris has gotten this right: /etc/nodename refers to the system itself, while each interface has its own (cf: /etc/hostname.hme0). That is still no good for linux since

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
badly because I have to change the output hostname -f returns. This is one place where Solaris has gotten this right: /etc/nodename refers to the system itself, while each interface has its own (cf: /etc/hostname.hme0). -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org

Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility

2009-11-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Firefox. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type. spiders.html

Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility

2009-11-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
is on the whatwg/w3c lists and would like to bring this up there, that would be great. +1 -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org

Re: dir-or-file-in-var-www on single-HTML file web apps or the like

2009-11-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
an index.html - file.html symlink in that dir We have webservers other than Apache. % aptitude search -F %p '~Phttpd'|wc -l 22 Only 4 of those are Apache. apache2-mpm-(event|itk|prefork|worker) -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
blocked due to other outstanding lintian blockers, or have one giant NMU that touches various pieces parts? -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above

Re: renamings to remove extensions

2009-09-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:05:29AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: /var/qmail/bin/qmail-send /command/supervise DJB bug. The correct answer: Difference of opinion. (And a symlink doesn't make the software FHS-compliant.) In the case of qmail-send[1

Re: renamings to remove extensions

2009-09-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
one with /var/qmail/bin being a symlink to /usr/sbin. We don't solve the latter one at all. Debian bug, or DJB bug? -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-05 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
was still given the option of making a separate partition for /usr. I have never installed Fedora or SuSE. The last time I installed Ubuntu was multiple years ago, so I don't know what they are doing currently. Thank you for clearing up this point of confusion. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq

Re: dpkg and hardlinks

2009-03-24 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
:/bin]% ls -il ls{,2} 7350701 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 101992 Apr 4 2008 ls 7342643 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 101992 Apr 4 2008 ls2 ls2 kept the old index node, but ls gets a brand new index node, thus showing that, indeed, dpkg will break hardlinks upon upgrade. -- John H. Robinson, IV

Re: cgroup mount point

2009-02-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
was leaning towards /sys/cgroup until this point was brought up. /var/lib does seem like the best default place. If a particular site needs it available before /var is available, then that site is free to mount it on /cgroup or /container or whatever they desire. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-18 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
the original call for votes). I woud like to see this vote run its course. I see no need to modify the ballot at all. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-18 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
the area? What do they know that I don't? -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-11-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
brew from the people who didn't manage to fix their bugs. I'm offering German beer to five winners, just as Joss did for cookies. But ... *who* is gonna want the aussie beer? :) Anybody that has had Victoria Bitter before. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-10-31 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
, and I'm in! (Still, BeerSprint is a cool name, let's keep it anyhow.) There are a lot of local breweries and wineries here in San Diego, California, USA. I might recommend the name of SloshBugs ;) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sloshball Bug Sloshing Party, anyone? -- John H

Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-12 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
)' Package: mktemp Essential: yes Package: debianutils Essential: yes [3] I liked [2] too much to remove it. Sorry. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-23 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
just start the application and its windows in a bare X; no window manager running at all. Xnest is a great tool for this. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-22 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
their own screen shots, where you would want the whole desktop. X Display Managers[2] should be eligible, too. [1] I count roughly forty-three window managers. [2] Five of these. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-22 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
is the default image displayed in rendering agent. For simplicity, they should be all the same format. I would suggest PNG. I am less certain how to handle the full/medium-sized images vs the thumbnail. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-21 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
to closing. I don't test Ubuntu builds - so I wold find it very presumptuous to close an Ubuntu bug. Or am I missing what LP: ### does? -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible

Re: FHS and /var/www

2008-07-21 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
is to ensure that there are no files being served by default. /var/lib/www anyone? -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org

Accepted wmaker 0.92.0-8 (source amd64)

2008-07-19 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:35:34 -0700 Source: wmaker Binary: wmaker libwmaker0-dev libwraster3-dev libwraster3 libwings-dev Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.92.0-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: John H. Robinson, IV

Accepted nullidentd 1.0-4 (source amd64)

2008-07-08 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:42:14 -0700 Source: nullidentd Binary: nullidentd Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.0-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: John H. Robinson, IV

Accepted wmcdplay 1.0beta1-10 (source amd64)

2008-07-08 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 12:51:16 -0700 Source: wmcdplay Binary: wmcdplay Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.0beta1-10 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: John H. Robinson, IV

Accepted wmbubble 1.46-2 (source amd64)

2008-07-08 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:49:13 -0700 Source: wmbubble Binary: wmbubble Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.46-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: John H. Robinson, IV

Re: Strange file problem

2008-07-06 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
option. Good luck. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type. spiders.html

Re: Handling of removed packages

2008-05-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
willing to work on formats and debugging. I don't really want to mess with apt* internals. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-26 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
, and he loves it) Bah, mascots. Cute fuzzy shwags are nice, though. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-26 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
have in Debian distribution makes Debian to have an _elephantastic_ size ! PostgreSQL already uses an elephant in their logo. While ths does not preclude us from using it, it could be taken as an endorsement of one particular DB engine, over others. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL

Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

2008-02-12 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Pierre Habouzit wrote: echo() { /bin/echo $@ } echo() { /bin/echo ${1+$@}; } I believe you mean. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

2007-12-21 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Joerg Jaspert wrote: There are *way* better MTAs [than qmail] out there that dont need tons of patches applied just to fulfill basic requirements for a MTA. No, there are not. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted wmaker 0.92.0-7 (source i386)

2007-12-12 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:52:58 + Source: wmaker Binary: libwraster3-dev wmaker libwmaker0-dev libwraster3 libwings-dev Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.92.0-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: John H. Robinson, IV

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
. RFCs are not seeming too free, are they? -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
will find that answer to be yes. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:05:05AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately /dev/rmt0 for *YEARS*, not just on Linux but on just about every platform, if -f is not given? No. tar != gtar. I think

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-28 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
the documentation match the behaivour. Rememer it is a Tape ARchival program. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
-- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type. spiders.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: /foo has been mounted xx times... check forced

2007-02-20 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
. It could be possible to use other tricks to shorten the boot cycle. I can't think of any at the moment, but that does not mean that they don't exist. Does XFS require fscks? Reiserfs does not. Maybe it is time to ditch ext3. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] (because @debian.org

Re: RFC: use readable $(cmd) syntax instead of unreadable `cmd`

2007-02-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
with a patch. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type. spiders.html

Re: Bell's theorem refuted. More information at ...

2006-12-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Ilija Barukcic wrote: Bell's theorem is refuted! I submit this as the oddest spam on a Debian list this year. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-10 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
and sincerely. I, personally, have seen many such examples. A lot of which are involved in professional settings, but I have also seen and experienced it in personal environments. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-19 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
editor than nvi. One of the first things I do on any debian install is to install vim, and set that to be a far higher priority for editor than anything else imaginable. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-04 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange -- John H. Robinson, IV

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-07-05 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
to read the dpkg database, to seek circular dependencies? Again, is this something useful? -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-06-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Olaf van der Spek wrote: On 6/25/05, John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can see where the game would be installed on the client system, and the data would live on the file server under /usr/share. Currently, the only way to do this is by having installed broken packages

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-06-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Olaf van der Spek wrote: On 6/27/05, John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: On 6/25/05, John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can see where the game would be installed on the client system, and the data would live on the file server under

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-06-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Roger Leigh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 6/27/05, John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (and thusly /usr/bin) between architectures. You can with /usr/share, as it is architecture independent. I guess

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-06-24 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
packages, and to copy the /etc/amphetamine files from the filer onto the client. vim and vim-common seem to suffer the same, except vim-common has nothing outside the /usr/share directory. In my case, though, I would likely have installed vim onto the filer, also. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL

Re: Orphaning recover and makeztxt

2005-05-04 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
with it. I will happily pick this up for you. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how

Re: Orphaning recover and makeztxt

2005-05-04 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
John H. Robinson, IV wrote: Gunnar Wolf wrote: Hi, About makeztxt, it is a nice program to convert text files into ztxt files, apt for reading in a Palm with the (GPLed) Weasel reader. It has a simple regex engine used to create the TOCs, and works just fine. The problem is, I

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-19 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
donot generally roost. Specifically, this package could be built with either gcc or icc. I will accept the argument from a pragmatic standpoint, in as much a bug in icc would be harder to track down, but not from a ``it is a different package'' because of using icc instead of gcc. -- John H

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-19 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
I am not subscribed to debian-legal Glenn Maynard wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:01:05PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: I'm saying that a package built with ecc (or icc or whatever) is not the same package that you'll get if you build the same sources with gcc; it's significantly

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-18 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
in contrib. Given the circumstance, I felt that this action is the best. We could fork this into a discussion of re-building all packages uploaded (ala source only uploads) which neatly sidesteps the entire ``intent of buildable with tools in main'' issue entirely. -- John H. Robinson, IV

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-18 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
I am not subscribed to debian-legal. Glenn Maynard wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 06:28:01PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: Note the exact words (I am assuming that Glenn copied them verbatim): the package in main must be buildable with tools in main Exact words

Accepted wmcdplay 1.0beta1-9 (i386 source)

2004-08-18 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:57:31 -0700 Source: wmcdplay Binary: wmcdplay Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.0beta1-9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: John H. Robinson, IV

Accepted wmbubble 1.46-1 (i386 source)

2004-08-17 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:56:46 -0700 Source: wmbubble Binary: wmbubble Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.46-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted nullidentd 1.0-3 (i386 source)

2004-08-17 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:40:18 -0700 Source: nullidentd Binary: nullidentd Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.0-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: John H. Robinson, IV

Re: Bug in cron postinst

2003-09-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Jan Schulz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmp$ IFS= [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmp$ for i in $L; do echo $i; done . ./a b Jan, learned the hard way... except for filenames with embedded newlines. use $i, and worry no more. -john

Re: Bug in cron postinst

2003-09-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:20:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bar% bash bash-2.05b$ L=`find` bash-2.05b$ for i in $L; do echo $i; done . ./a b No wonder. You aren't quoting correctly! Use 'echo $i'. there:[~]

Re: Bug in cron postinst

2003-09-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:40:51PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: Matt Zimmerman wrote: there:[~] /bin/bash [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ foo=a b [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for x in $foo; do echo $x; done a b $ foo=a b; for x

Re: vrms and contrib installers (was: Re: non-free software included in contrib)

2003-09-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:00:58PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Monday, Sep 1, 2003, at 12:38 US/Eastern, Gunnar Wolf wrote: He might even be running vrms - and vrms will not complain about the non-free software he has installed! Then file a bug

Re: vrms and contrib installers (was: Re: non-free software included in contrib)

2003-09-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
I don't need to be CC:'d, thanks. Mathieu Roy wrote: Basically, if Microsoft Office someday works for GNU/Linux, we may have a free software in contrib that will install it, without the possibility to remove it with the standard debian tools. my experience with the installer .deb's is

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Cardenas wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:22:00PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Some people were talking me into proposing Mexico for a future Debconf, but I don't think it would be that good an idea until we had some more developers in the country, but... Maybe for 2006? :-) Is this true?!

Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!

2003-06-25 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Herbert Xu wrote: Gerfried Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * New upstream release (closes: #123) which includes: - tmpfile race condition fix (closes: #124) - manual page included (closes: #125) The thing is: It helps the users and the person who reported the bug to see what bug

Re: Bug#198602: ITP: debbackup -- Backup and restore Debian specifics (package status, conffiles)

2003-06-24 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Adam Heath wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Daniel Stone wrote: * Package name: debbackup - installing/updating required packages, restoring configuration files, and more. Tell me when you upload this, so I can file an rc bug against it, for modifying other packages conffiles. let's

Re: Every spam is sacred

2003-06-16 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Mathieu Roy wrote: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : The 127th Ferengi rule of acquisition: Even if you got it for free, you paid too much. But the Rule 37th says otherwise: If it's free, take it and worry about hidden costs later. But the 96th confirms that For

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-26 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: The West coast may be more expensive to get to for foreign visitors. But I like the other suggestion of Florida. Lot's of cheap flights to there. i live on the west coast (san diego, specifically), but if there was a debconf held in southern florida (fort lauderdale,

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-23 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Marc Singer wrote: (Unintentionally, I first sent the reply to you directly.) On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 02:09:24PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: Incidentally North America != USA. And your point is, what? that north america contains not one, but three countries: Candada, USA, and Mexico

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
A by the voters. Under the original proposal, Option B would be discarded due to insufficient quorum requirements, and A would win. Under the amended proposal, option B would win. Please join the discussion on debian-vote. -- John H. Robinson, IV jaqque () debian () org --- proposal

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Matthias Urlichs wrote: You actually propose two separate amendments. Please don't do that, it smells of politics. :-/ the changes are related, if just 2 was changed, then the majority requirements in 3 have an undesired side-effect. let me find that message . . =

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Raul Miller wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:19:33PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: The amendment uses the concept of a Quorum requirement to inhibit stealth decisions by only a handful of developers. While this is a good thing, the per-option quorum from the amendment has

Re: /usr/{share/man,bin} vs /usr/X11R6/{man,bin} (policy 12.8.7)

2003-04-13 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Marcin Owsiany wrote: My question is: how to interpret policy section 12.8.7. Is to mean: All packages using imake should puth files where imake-generated makefile would put them, period. or Everything should go to /usr/{bin,share/man}, but if your package uses imake, you're

Re: keyserver.debian.org.com

2002-12-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Philip Brown wrote: Has anyone noticed that someone has pseudo-hijacked keyserver.debian.org.com .org.com has a wildcard pointing to it, so if you spell host.org wrong, your browser is likely to append a .com to it, and off to .org.com you go. i pointed my cache to my own dns server that

Re: [RFH] The need for signed packages and signed Releases (long, long)

2002-11-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Andrew Suffield wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 03:24:15AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: Yes, and avoiding binary uploads by maintainers can make the system a bit more transparently auditable. Not to mention making it break a lot more. Quit beating that horse, it's already been

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Russell Coker wrote: that is _NOT_ what a CNAME is for. a CNAME is for when the hostname is in a domain that is OUTSIDE of your control. ie: evil.debian.org - www.msn.com = CNAME (we don't control the msn.com domain) forge.debian.org - quantz.debian.org = A (we control the debian.org

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Ben Armstrong wrote: Bah, that's what CNAME is for. that is _NOT_ what a CNAME is for. a CNAME is for when the hostname is in a domain that is OUTSIDE of your control. ie: evil.debian.org - www.msn.com = CNAME (we don't control the msn.com domain) forge.debian.org - quantz.debian.org = A (we

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: I like maintaining the idea of forge, so my proposal is VULCAN (from Roman mithology). i prefer greek: hephaistos then there is the Celtic mythos: brigid Irish (Bride in Scotland), great triple goddess. Fire goddess and crafts-smith. Christians turned her

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-22 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Jim Lynch wrote: (small point on kde 3.1 final existing before announcement disposed of: it won't be final until it's announced. by definition. also, there may be current reasons why the announcement has not been made.) unless Gentoo is refering to a CVS tag i see a difference between

Accepted wmaker 0.80.1-4 (i386 source)

2002-11-10 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libwings-dev - Window Maker's own widget set libwmaker0-dev - Static libraries and headers for Window Maker applications. libwraster2 - Shared libraries of Window Maker rasterizer. libwraster2-dev - Static libraries

Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

2002-08-29 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Fabien Penso wrote: I think you will hear soon than the person who posted that to Slashdot was wrong and misunderstood the license. i think the PR firm is trying to cover up something. the license page makes no exception for freely distributed decoders. -john

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-11 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:35:31AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:38:14PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: On Thu Apr 11, 2002 at 08:31:55PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Seriously: everyone reading this mail, burn a copy of Raphael's test image on a CD and try booting it

Re: kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3, initrd and ext3

2002-01-11 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:44:54PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: All this will be easier if you use auto as fs type and WHEN Herbert Xu finally applies MY PATCH submitted a while ago. would type auto work with a fresh, hand compiled kernel from kernel.org? if not, the i would not recommend the

Re: kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3, initrd and ext3

2002-01-11 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:17:13PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: if not, the i would not recommend the use of auto in that case. It is a patch for mkinitrd well, you answered my questions! it seems then ``type auto'' would be fine, especially since the patches in question don't affect the

Re: How to put files at a location determined at install-time.

2002-01-01 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:09:41PM +0100, Marc L. de Bruin wrote: Therefore it is up to the root-user (and his filesystem) where the files should end up after installation. Is this possible? Thanks again, if this is the case, then i would strongly recomend distributing it as a tarball,

Re: Source-only uploads

2001-12-31 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 09:59:04AM +, Mark Brown wrote: Conversely, I would sometimes like to be able to get my arch-specific and arch-independant packages built by the build daemons in order to detect build time errors that don't show up on my own system (missing build deps, for

Re: How to put files at a location determined at install-time.

2001-12-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 11:03:15PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: For something that multiple users could potentially want to use, really the best thing to do is provide a tarball in the package, and let the end-user be responsible for unpacking it where they feel is appropriate; this is the

Re: why does xlibs-pic exist?

2001-12-26 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:08:34PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Robinsonitis seems to be a contagious disease... grr, i'm _always_ nice, and *never* rude. -john -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: orphaned packages in DWN?

2001-12-26 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:53:54PM +, Adam Olsen wrote: How about we post a list of orphaned packages in the weekly news? not every week! news is for _new_ stuff, not the same-old from the previous week. perhaps a monthly/biweekly post to #debian-devel, or some other (moderated) list set up

Re: XFS Kernel image packaging

2001-09-25 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:02:01AM +0200, Dominik Kubla wrote: There are _no_ kernel images for patched kernels as far as i can tell. kernel-image-idepci and kernel-image-reiserfs for a couple. -john

Re: XFS Kernel image packaging

2001-09-25 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:47:00PM -0600, Russel Ingram wrote: Okie dokie. Does anyone have an answer for me on how to get around the custom-1.00 tag on my packages? take a look at the source for kernel-image apt-get source kernel-image-2.2.19 -john

Re: /bin/ls is impure!

2001-09-19 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:14:24PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Norbert Veber wrote: Interesting. How did you obtain the environment dump? set, with no arguments. May be a bashism, though. Not sure. it is not a bashism. -john

Re: neat mutt bug.

2001-09-17 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:17:37AM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote: Interesting highlighting bug in mutt -- could confuse an unsuspecting person into thinking Branden actually signed this. except for that long pause for the signature checking itself that was conspicously missing. -john

Re: root rm: Permission denied (Was: unable to stat `./usr/share/ man/man3/qcanvas.3qt.gz')

2001-09-12 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 04:52:45PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: You notice this on ext2 when an inode has been corrupted. There's a 50% chance the immutable bit may have been set, leading people to wonder why they can't delete the file even as root. I don't know whether reiserfs

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