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Hi
I need to find a way of identifying the name of an installed
distrobution. This mechanism should be able to differentiate
woody
sarge
etch
sid
hoary
breezy
dapper
Prior to etch I was using lsb-release but it seems /etc/lsb-release is
no longer installed by 'apt-get install lsb-release'. The
Miles Bader([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2006-02-23 17:41:
Stephen Birch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I need to find a way of identifying the name of an installed
distrobution. This mechanism should be able to differentiate
To what end? Many people do not run pure releases, so the concept of
a distro
Enrico Zini([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-11-15 17:55:
I implemented a new kind of package search, here:
http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi
Nice.
Could this be tied in with the results of the popularity contest to
give a ranking of results?
Often several packages provide the
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On 4 Jul 2005, at 11:44 am, Wookey wrote:
Take a look at this patent (granted this week in europe)
http://gauss.ffii.org/PatentView/EP1170667
I'm fairly sure that apt-get and associated package-integratity
checking tools could be considered infringing. (Does dpkg/apt have
a modular
Moritz Muehlenhoff([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-07-06 12:45:
Europe, its time to choose.
It has chosen a few minutes ago; the commision's directive has been rejected
by the European parliament. This is not as good as the solution proposed
in the first reading or the amendments made by Mr.
Looks good!!!
I went to amazon.co.uk to order a copy, but it isn't listed yet :-(
They often list books *before* they become available so you may want
to contact them and provide details.
Steve
martin f krafft([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-27 03:05:
Dear all,
I am pleased to announce the
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This is an X Windows version of fplan (ITP files 311070).
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Steve Greenland([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-09 10:06:
I suspect that the problem is that you're confusing obsolete with
not current. Obsolete caries the connotation of useless except for
entertainment/hobbiest purposes. For example, steam engine cars are
obsolete. The 1999 Toyota Camry is not.
Bill
Just out of curiosity, when testing the upgrade procedure how do you
select the mix of packages installed prior to the upgrade?
Steve
Bill Allombert([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-09 22:53:
Hello Debian developers,
[Please store this mail in a safe place and read it when you have
Matt Zimmerman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-07 16:06:
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:03:24PM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote:
Matt Zimmerman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-07 13:35:
If the diff were zero bytes, Debian and Ubuntu would be identical. I hope
that you can understand my hesitation
Benj. Mako Hill([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-08 12:41:
I have no desire to spin things in a way that makes everyone throw
their arms up and love Ubuntu but rather to find constructive ways
that these two projects (both of which I care about) can work together
in mutually beneficial ways. The
Miles Bader([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-07 10:53:
Stephen Birch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The question was really this, if Ubuntu created a better bug tracking
program would Debian want to run the new software on the debian
servers thus replacing the current bug tracking programs
Michelle Konzack([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-06 20:22:
Am 2005-06-06 19:22:08, schrieb Peter 'p2' De Schrijver:
That sounds retarded in an age where a 200GB HD cost less then 100 Euro...
Anyway you can always decide to mirror only part of the archive if you
want to, even today.
Using an
Ian Murdock([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-07 11:34:
Second, I've been trying to start a private conversation about
this very issue since last November, and my attempts to do
so have largely been ignored. If taking the concern
public is the only way to get it addressed, then so be it.
The
Matt Zimmerman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-07 13:35:
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:25:53PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
You seem to try to pick up every little bit of my mails which is able
to drift us away from the main point:
Lets minimize the amount of work by beeing as compatible as
Matt Zimmerman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-05 12:55:
I don't think there exists a bug tracking system which meets this need
today, which is why Canonical is developing a bug tracking system which is
designed to meet the needs of open source projects collaborating with each
other on common code
Florian Weimer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-06 09:32:
* Stephen Birch:
Wow Nokia just became my new favourite company.
To put things into perspective, Nokia is one of the companies lobbying
for unlimited software patents in Europe.
Oops. I don't like to appear fickle but I guess
David Weinehall([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-06 11:47:
snip
top company to bottom in my mind. Sigh ... I would have liked one of
those tablet computer.
So, I take it you don't buy any products from Apple, IBM, Sony,
etc either?
Apple ... nope
IBM ... nope
Sony ... okay, so you got me!
Michelle Konzack([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-06 15:52:
I know, and I have no money to sue Microsoft which has stolen
a Software which was 1986 under PD for educational use only...
Just out of curiosity, what was that?
Steve
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David Nusinow([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-06 12:07:
Is it your hope that the debian project will switch to the new software
so ubuntu can stop running an independent bug tracker?
I think that's pretty unlikely, personally ...
Would it be of a lot of benefit to us if it could be done?
Matt Zimmerman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-06 08:38:
This may already happen but a good start would be to arrange for the
Ubuntu tools to *automatically* copy bug reports and patches on a
package to the packages DD.
That way the DD is alerted to the changes in a timely manner.
We're
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 22:57 +0100, Dave Holland wrote:
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:37:28PM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote:
Darren Salt([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 21:49:
For those who've missed the first three broadcasts today, there's one
more at
01:05 GMT; also see
URL:http
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 05:02 -0500, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting David Weinehall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Indeed. The Nokia OSSO (Open Source Software Operations) that work on
this product consists of several DD's (myself being one), plus at least
one person in the NM-queue. Some of our
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 00:53 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
There isn't much that I can do about packages that I don't maintain; we have
some tools for this, but it is primarily a matter of personal preference
(and not Debian dogma) how packages are maintained in Debian. If there is
some
On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 20:38 +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote:
* The handling of NEW packages and in which cases to file an ITP.
* How to retrieve patches in the easiest way.
* How to start group maintenance.
Maybe there are other issues, I missed in the thread.
How to report
Michael K. Edwards([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 23:01:
I think it's been so long since Debian started having pre-sarge
freeze-spasms that we've all forgotten what it's like when the
I am a long time Linux user but only saw the debian light just after
woody released so I have no experience with
John Goerzen([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-01 00:06:
Out of curiousity, do you have a rough estimate of the percentage that
actually make it into Debian? Or the percentage that are held back
with no good reason?
I wonder if it would be an idea to write a tool that compares Debian
and Ubuntu
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Forgive me if this has already been discussed ... if so could someone
give me a pointer to the thread.
I find myself fairly confused about Ubuntu packages. I had thought
that Ubuntu is a Debian derivative. Therefore I expected new
packages to be first placed in Debian and then flow to Ubuntu.
Tollef Fog Heen([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 18:06:
* Stephen Birch
| The project seems to have established a mechanism for putting new
| packeges directly into Ubuntu. Are new Ubuntu packages also put in
| Debian by the Ubuntu team members?
Yes.
Let me give you an example. I filed
John Goerzen([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 13:34:
I may do that too, but its architecture support is abysmal compared to
Debian, so I have no choice in the matter at this point (and lack the
time to port ubuntu to all my archs).
That is unfortunate for you. I am lucky (or unlucky perhaps) in
Miros/law Baran([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 21:02:
``The question is: who cares?''. Or, better: does it really matter,
what name will be used?
Its not the name that would bother me, it is the result. As Matt
Zimmerman pointed out elsewhere in this thread a fork is quite
negative and has the
Tollef Fog Heen([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 22:21:
... snip
It's both and not. I think of a fork as ??we want to do this
differently and we're not going to ???waste??? effort getting stuff merged
again??. Ubuntu isn't that; Ubuntu is trying to get the changes back
into Debian so they
Hi Ante, welcome to the debian project!
Ante Karamati?([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 20:09:
First of all, hi to all developers!
I packaged that wifi-radar for Ubuntu. It was my first package and I
didn't fill ITP, untill it was reviewed by others. I'm sorry for not
filling ITP. I didn't
Michael K. Edwards([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 13:56:
What is the point of, say, harassing the glibc maintainer to take a
patch against the version in sid, when he's planning on jumping to
2.3.4 as soon as sarge releases? If you want evidence on which to
judge the sincerity of Ubuntu's
Darren Salt([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 21:49:
For those who've missed the first three broadcasts today, there's one more at
01:05 GMT; also see URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/1478157.stm.
Why on earth does the BBC force its listeners to all hit its servers
at the same time.
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Carlos C Soto([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-04-19 14:55:
Great!
I use this module and wold be great to have it on debian.
I was thinking on put a RFP bug for it.
The package is not going to be ready in time for sarge though :-(
Steve
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Josselin Mouette([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-04-12 09:20:
Why? When you don't know Perl, and you feel like improving a software in
Perl is like eating oysters with skiing gloves,
LOL
rewriting the software in Python so that you can work on it seems
like the best solution.
An even better
I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my
machines with the list of orphaned packages. This is to be sure
a program in use isn't orphaned without me becoming aware of it.
Ideally the program would be run from cron about once a week and email
a status report.
Is there a
Matthew Palmer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-04-08 19:14:
You'd be wanting wnpp-check, in the devscripts package. Check out rc-check
while you're at it. Both are cronable.
ahh ... devscripts. I think you meant wnpp-alert not wnpp-check.
Thanks for the tip.
Perfect, thanks!
Steve
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Ken Bloom([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 09:10:
. snip
There's a discussion of release proposals ongoing at
http://wiki.debian.net/?ReleaseProposals
Please look around there to see what's going on and understand the ideas
that have been proposed.
Thanks for the pointer ... reading
Paul van der Vlis([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-04 14:40:
Hello,
One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it
takes for a new stable version.
I guess one man's meat is another man's poison.
Since I administer a large number of distant computers I view the long
time
Wouter Verhelst([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 13:46:
That's how testing started off. We stopped doing this because
a) it at one point stalled glibc; as a result, nothing moved to
testing
anymore, and when it finally did, the changes were so dramatic
that
testing was broken for quite
Wouter Verhelst([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 14:22:
You should ask the release managers about that.
Wow!! You mean the decision process is not made public? I would have
thought it would be out in the open for all to see.
Mind you, Debian seems to be a hotbed of emotion at times so perhaps a
Bas Zoetekouw([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 14:31:
I like that idea. We could even have a system to automagically throw
buggy non-RE packages out of testing.
That wouldn't be a bad idea at all. In the recent DPL interview:
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/23/2023223
Martin
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Andrew Suffield([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2004-12-05 09:55:
Non-commercial-use-only licenses are non-free.
Yup. Sigh. I closed the ITP. It turned out there were several problems
with the package:
1. License not DFSG
2. Coded in Java (I dont do Java)
3. IBM sign up required to access upstream
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Sorry - I guess this is probably a newbie question.
This posting says the new PostgreSQL pre-release was uploaded to
experimental. Is that the same as uploading to unstable or is there
another area beyond stable, testing, and unstable?
Steve
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 10:21 pm, Oliver
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