Re: Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

2010-02-19 Thread Keegan Quinn
linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped Am I missing something? Apologies in advance if so. - Keegan -- Keegan Quinn kqu...@storix.com Software Support Engineer Storix, Inc. (619) 543-0200 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-14 Thread Keegan Quinn
(or Advanced maybe?) * openbox * fluxbox * etc. I don't know if this would be practical but I think it could be useful. HTH, -- Keegan Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://keegan.sniz.org q=' qq='echo q=\$q\ qq=$q$qq$q \\ eval \$qq' eval $qq signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-15 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:03:00PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Demons are evil, and the BSD mascot is a demon (albeit a stylised one). On the other hand, it's not /intended/ to be evil. In this particular case, my personal thought on this is that the intent outweighs the fact that it's a demon

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:29:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Why not call it linux-experimental or linux-rmh or similar then? I'm sure a lot of people would be much happier with your proposal if it didn't claim the important namespace of linux, which implies that it is the preferred kernel

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-09 Thread Keegan Quinn
(As if this ITP hasn't been nit-picked quite enough...) On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:12:19PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: Description : Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86 An input driver for the XFree86 X server to enable advanced features of the Synaptics Touchpad

Re: kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-06 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:14:31PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: On 05-Nov-03, 19:14 (CST), Jonathan Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in two minds whether or not to ask this, but I've been wondering about the naming scheme for linux packages - kernel-*. Why not linux-kernel-* or

Re: Bug#219277: ITP: gnusound -- Powerful sound editor

2003-11-05 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:21:12PM +0100, Marc Dequ??nes wrote: GNUsound is a sound editor for Linux. It supports multiple tracks, multichannel output, and 8, 16, or 24/32 bit samples. It can read a number of audio formats through libaudiofile, and saves them as WAV. GNUsound supports a large

Re: Bug#215058: ITP: libdvb -- library to tune and command DVB cards

2003-10-10 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:41:23AM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: * Package name: libdvb Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Marcus Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.metzlerbros.org/dvb/index.html * License : GPL Description : library to tune and

Re: many scripts fail if /tmp/tempfile.$$ exists - local DOS vulnerability

2003-09-04 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:50:01AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Jakob Lell wrote: [...] Is it a good idea to report bugs against all packages containing this local DOS vulnerability? Yes, but please follow our common guidelines for reporting bugs. If you plan to submit many of them, ask

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-29 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:31:59PM +, benfoley wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 09:28, Steve Lamb wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 00:36:57 -0700 Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, since we're pointing fingers, it's really SMTP that's broken by design, and all anti-spam programs

Re: Bug#203903: ITP: mcp-plugins -- LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth

2003-08-02 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 07:02:35PM +0200, Andrea Glorioso wrote: Description : LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Synth Setof LADSPA plugins that vastlyimprove the sound of AlsaModularSynth. Currently they consist of these plugins: Are these really specific to

Re: CUPS should be the default print service in Debian/Sarge

2003-07-31 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 03:38:55PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I believe it would be a good idea if the default print system in the next release of Debian (Sarge) is changed to CUPS. CUPS is a more complete, more userfriendly and RFC complient printing system. FWIW, I've had very good

Bug#202556: ITP: apradar -- a GTK+-based graphical netstumbler

2003-07-23 Thread Keegan Quinn
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-22 Severity: wishlist * Package name: apradar Version : 0.41 Upstream Author : Don Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://apradar.sourceforge.net/ * License : MIT Description : a GTK+-based graphical

Re: Closing cinelerra ITP [was: cleaning of the wnpp / RFP]

2003-07-23 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:15:57AM -0400, Michael Furr wrote: This isn't to say that it can _never_ enter debian, just that a significant amount of code hacking would have to take place as well as a general audit. Needless to say, I do not have time(nor the hardware) to make these

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-11 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:34:23PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: So, you mean, this is not the package our users should be looking at when they search for a VoIP application? It's not only orphaned but not even used? *HINT* *HINT* It would be nice to see some popularity-contest data

Bug#200576: ITP: oddcast -- encodes and transmits audio to a streaming server

2003-07-09 Thread Keegan Quinn
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-08 Severity: wishlist * Package name: oddcast Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : oddsock [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.oddsock.org/tools/oddcastv2_xmms/ * License : GPL Description : XMMS plugin

Bug#200579: ITP: xmms-oddcast -- XMMS plugin for broadcasting

2003-07-09 Thread Keegan Quinn
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-08 Severity: wishlist * Package name: xmms-oddcast Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : oddsock [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.oddsock.org/tools/oddcastv2_xmms/ * License : GPL Description : XMMS

Bug#200580: ITP: xmms-null -- null output plugin for XMMS

2003-07-09 Thread Keegan Quinn
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-08 Severity: wishlist * Package name: xmms-null Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : Håvard Kvålen [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://havardk.xmms.org/plugins/null_output/ * License : GPL Description : null

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

2003-06-24 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 10:59 am, Emile van Bergen wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:44:51AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: Tell me when you upload this, so I can file an rc bug against it, for modifying other packages conffiles. *g* 5 serious replies already -- sorry Adam, I'm afraid

Re: advise for packaging duali arabic spell checker

2003-06-23 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Sunday 22 June 2003 12:48 am, Mohammed Sameer wrote: i was thinking about splitting duali itself into 2 packages: 1- duali the main dictionary 2- duali-dev contain the script duali-data build-depends on duali-dev while duali itself depend only on duali-data I really don't know what to do

Re: no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

2003-06-17 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 03:09 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote: Sure, you don't need to know the date, as you are using sid and did apt-get update, you are assured it's the latest version. Well, one doesn't need the maintainer field either etc. Are you implying that knowing the date you last updated

Re: Every spam is sacred

2003-06-16 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Friday 13 June 2003 05:13 pm, Don Armstrong wrote: Oh, what the hell. This damn song won't get out of my head, so now you all get to be subjected to it to[1]: FWIW, the original version of this song has also been in my head for weeks. Thanks for digging up the full text :) 1: Misery

Re: Bug#195236: ITP: eclipse-cdt -- C(++) Development Tools for Eclipse

2003-05-29 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Thursday 29 May 2003 05:15 am, Jan Schulz wrote: As I'm more a java guy (it's a C IDE written in java), I would like to have someone testing the functionality. I will drop a mail with the apt repository, when I'm ready with packaging... As I'm not a DD yet, this packages will need a

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-16 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Friday 16 May 2003 01:07 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2003, Colin Watson wrote: I agree with Wouter. For me would be an issue having the base system bigger than it is now. Specially preparing very small black box where i need to save as much space as i can even

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-16 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Friday 16 May 2003 11:45 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote: more than once i had to install small dns servers on boxes with less than 100Mb flash and stuff like that... so basically also the minimal installation has to be tight.. then rm doc

Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?

2003-05-16 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Friday 16 May 2003 12:13 pm, Keegan Quinn wrote: On Friday 16 May 2003 11:45 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote: more than once i had to install small dns servers on boxes with less than 100Mb flash and stuff like that... so basically also

Re: security in testing

2003-05-15 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Thursday 15 May 2003 08:31 am, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Matt Zimmerman wrote: In that case, I invite any maintainer with a security fix for their package in 'testing' to upload it to testing for testing-proposed-updates. Problem solved. Are you the one who will be responsible for

Re: Answers to Why is package X not in testing yet?

2003-05-15 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Thursday 15 May 2003 09:51 am, Joe Buck wrote: Joe Buck wrote: However, the output is redundant in many cases. On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:37:45AM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote: Fixed now. Terrific! I'm impressed at your bug-fixing speed; there's a quick fixed now to almost every

Re: show all Suggests packages not installed

2003-05-14 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Tuesday 13 May 2003 07:31 pm, Brian May wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:21:33AM -0700, Keegan Quinn wrote: On Monday 12 May 2003 04:40 pm, Brian May wrote: Also, just blindly purging packages can be dangerous, in some cases old packages will purge files used by newer packages

Re: show all Suggests packages not installed

2003-05-14 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Wednesday 14 May 2003 11:05 am, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2003 09:36:57 -0700, Keegan Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The only solution I think is if dpkg were to take over responsibility for deleting configuration files, so that the postrm script doesn't have to worry. I

Re: security in testing

2003-05-14 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Wednesday 14 May 2003 04:53 pm, Björn Stenberg wrote: What's worse, saying testing is not for public use means there is _no_ place to get updates, since unstable is obviously not an option for end users. This makes Debian the only linux distribution I know of that completely eschews

Re: show all Suggests packages not installed

2003-05-13 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Monday 12 May 2003 04:40 pm, Brian May wrote: Also, just blindly purging packages can be dangerous, in some cases old packages will purge files used by newer packages that are still used by the system. I'm pretty sure that would be a bug. You should report this behavior if you see it.

Re: libstdc++... Help please

2003-04-29 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Tuesday 29 April 2003 11:05 am, Andreas Metzler wrote: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sid=unstable - you know that, don't you? We need someone to test unstable, don't we? We can not realistically test our distribution if the only people running it are those with many

Re: i386 compatibility libstdc++

2003-04-25 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Friday 25 April 2003 08:06 am, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Friday 25 April 2003 15:43, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 01:37:04PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote: Hmm... I'd argue for putting the split at either 386 vs 486+ (the latter at least has a math copro and CMPXCHG), or

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-21 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Monday 21 April 2003 03:29 pm, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: Am I missing something? Only the fact that, as Debian maintainer, you do not have the right to decide which files Debian users may or may not edit. Policy says they can do as they like, regardless if you like it or your packages care for

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-21 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Monday 21 April 2003 04:24 pm, Adam Heath wrote: On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Keegan Quinn wrote: On Monday 21 April 2003 03:29 pm, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: Am I missing something? Only the fact that, as Debian maintainer, you do not have the right to decide which files Debian users may or may

Re: Nameserver-pushing mechanism

2003-04-14 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Monday 14 April 2003 02:36 am, Thomas Hood wrote: Proposal: Implementation steps for dynamic resolver configuration [snip] * New resolver package includes /etc/init.d/resolver which generates /run/resolv.conf from /run/resolver/interface/* and does a run-parts on