Hi. I'm dropping all my packages. That is dcd (a console CD
player) and lletters (a children game). Freeciv has already
been adopted by Jules Bean.
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 03:06:57PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
But it won't. This approach ignores the fact that stability is a property
of a release as a whole (the set of packages and their interdependencies,
ISOs, boot floppies and the
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:14:55AM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote:
Package: dpkg (debian/main).
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
58091 package name Eterm -- eterm
In the meanwhile, this bug should be renamed to something like
dpkg has problems with non-lowercase package names.
(sorry for cross-posting to -devel-announce, but I think the
answer to this is important enought to be posted there)
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 06:40:53PM -, Debian Project Secretary wrote:
For anyone who might have misunderstood the last ballot. The election has
started. Please vote. The
Ok, everyone who said ``the Incremental release process is
cool, but we'd like to have some code first'': the coding
starts officially today (my Zope server is online, and I
finally have some time off the job).
Those willing to code, let's get things done.
I was thinking of a temporary mailing
As the maintainer of FreeCiv, and as someone who would like to
take over a few not-yet-packaged games if I had time, and
prompted by the new QA stuff, I'd like to propose the creation
of a new mailing list, debian-games or perhaps just to make
things VERY clear, debian-devel-games, for maintainers
I'm having a problem with packages that depend on things they
shouldn't. If only a minor component of the package needs some
other package, the Policy Manual says it should recommend the
other package, and not Depend.
For example, I recently filed a bug against python-pil because
it depends on
This weekend I sat over gettext thinking of translated
initscript messages. This is a proposal for some practical
solution, so I'm mailing -devel-announce, but please followup on
-devel [and send me CC, since I don't plan to subscribe to
-devel again]. Also, please leave -user-portuguese out of
On May 04, Wichert Akkerman - Debian Project Leader decided to present us with:
* villate
Concept: seal balancing the world
Note: should be modified to be an outline
Pros: playful, cute
Cons: needs some hard work to modify it to an outline
Hmm, not correct. Villate is in this list and
On Apr 07, Wichert Akkerman - Debian project leader decided to present us with:
* raul (swirl)
Concept: magic being release from a genie bottle.
Pros: simple, good associations, already in a good format (EPS)
Cons: none :)
If we choose to have a single logo, then perhaps this becomes
two
[Please don't follow up in debian-devel; I'm not subscribed to
this one and also it's not the right place for this discussion.
I'm only bringing it up there because more people read it, but
people there who want to follow the thread may subscribe to
debian-publicity which is the correct place]
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While doing my necessary daily check of Slashdot and Freshmeat,
I noticed two programs I will most likely use - one is irssi, a
GTK IRC client that runs in the panel, but I can't package it
now because none of my GTK-1.1 stuff is working (figures I'll
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Shaleh hinted that I might want to look at the Olex license. It
does put some restriction on output - which, differently from
the buttonware discussion a while ago, seems legitimate to me
since Olex output is full of code written by the
On Jan 25, Brandon Mitchell decided to present us with:
The thought I had was to make pgp signatures of the package
files and save them as Packages.pgp. This will not interfear
with the current package files, therefore we are still
backwards compatable. Then apt could check for a pgp file and
On Jan 19, Joel Klecker decided to present us with:
At 17:15 -0200 1999-01-19, Lalo Martins wrote:
Oh boy! Cammon! Now I need to install 25M (tetex-bin~=10 +
tetex-base~=15) just to compile texi files into html or info?
Uhh, not now, makeinfo and texi2html in tetex-bin is not a new
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Oh boy! Cammon! Now I need to install 25M (tetex-bin~=10 +
tetex-base~=15) just to compile texi files into html or info? No
good. I hate tex and my HD is small. :-)
I really think we should continue to provide separate texinfo
and
On Jun 23, Philip Hands decided to present us with:
1:2.0.8-0pre1.1
1:2.0.8-0pre1.2
1:2.0.8-0pre1.2.1 (NMU)
1:2.0.8-1
etc.
No, that's very bad, because it implies that the upstream source
is the same and the only difference is in the Debian packaging.
Wrong.
I think we need a
On Jun 09, Anthony Towns decided to present us with:
I wonder if we'd like to make a press release about this? Initial
sentiment on the IRC channel is quite positive, but I thought I'd
ask here as well.
Yes I think so. Not the first case of almost-free software being
made free:
1:
On Apr 08, Jeff Noxon decided to present us with:
Anyone have a digitized copy of this? :)
I read at slashdot that the company that recorded the program
(sorry for forgetting the name, I'm not in US) will put it
online tomorrow, likely as RA.
[]s,
On Apr 07, Falk Hueffner decided to present us with:
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998 22:43:28 +0100, Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Well, it's not broken, but we have no way to use pristine sources with
multiple-tar packages, so it may be improved (and it should).
And there are *still* no
On Apr 07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] decided to present us with:
hello i was wondering if anyone knew how to cross compile from
linux for dos/win95. i wrote a lot of c code using the curses.h
library and it does not port to borland or turbo c. is there
some way i can tell gcc to compile it for a
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