On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 05:59:13PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
[...]
Finalement, j'ai du mal à savoir si je fais bien ou pas d'utiliser
debconf pour faire choisir la langue utilisée par défaut dans geneweb...:-)
Un gros avantage de debconf, qui n'a pas été mis en avant dans la
discussion,
Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Tu as certainement raison, regarde l'exemple dans debconf-devel(7),
c'est facile à comprendre. Si ton fichier /etc/default/geneweb existe,
tu le parses pour en extraire la valeur sélectionnée, que tu réinjectes
dans la BDD debconf.
C'est en gros ce
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:25:53 +1000, mbp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On 24 Apr 2003, Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:17, Martin Pool wrote:
The conventional way to get in touch with the developers of a
free software project to raise an issue is to write to the
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:52:33 +0900 (JST), Atsuhito Kohda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Now my understanding is;
the new mechanism might be okay if it first checks whether
texmf.cnf is an admin's file or a file generated by update-texmf
before generating texmf.cnf and overwrites it only
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:43:24 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:46:32 +1000, Martin Pool [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:53:14 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
I was intentionally using moderate language because (a) I don't
believe it is strictly plagiarism (as
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:04:00 +1000, Martin Pool [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:43:24 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:46:32 +1000, Martin Pool
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:53:14 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I was
intentionally using
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:38:32PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote:
What I was wondering is whether there is a way to do translations of
the fortune data, without having to have 'fortunes-debian-hints-lang'
packages. Granted, I probably won't be able to
From: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:51:23 -0500
Not quite. a) even if the file was generated by update-texmf,
and the user modified it later, the user changes *must* be
preserved.
Really?
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 02:02:45PM -0600, Adam Conrad wrote:
Roger Leigh wrote:
This works fine when the locales exist for each localisation, but if
they don't exist, it defaults to C locale/US-ASCII charset. Can the
autobuilders guarantee a full set of generated locales, or is only C
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:44:22PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
--
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. Igor Stravinsky
(-:
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote:
larger sense, is whether there is a way to have the translations available
in some easily selectable format.
I think the i18ned fortune makes this simple.
I suppose that simply having multiple text/index files with a language
designation as part of the
El día 23 abr 2003, Robert Millan escribía:
CCing debian-devel..
hi!
as noticed in DWN [1] and debian-devel [2], Arnd Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
has actualy started work [3] on the x86-64 port by using Bochs' x86-64
emulation.
it's likely that debian-x86-64 developement discussions
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:41:33 +0900
GOTO Masanori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So everytime we have to restart all binaries which use a library
involving security-problem. In additionm this problem affects
not only debian packages, but user-built binaries.
I also think it's nice idea
upon apt-get dist-upgrading, I couldn't print to my hp4050 anymore.
Cups was looking for /usr/lib/cups/filters/cupsomatic which doesn't
belong to the upgraded version.
Quick fix :
cd /usr/lib/cups/filters
ln -s foomatic-rip cupsomatic
and it works like a charm
my versions :
ii
Le jeu 24/04/2003 à 05:37, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
I agree. I am not trying to defend Hans's diplomatic skills.
Diplomatic skill? It is not a feat of extraordinary diplomacy
not to accuse your correspondent of various acts theft and piracy
while initiating a dialogue. Has common
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:52:33 +0900 (JST), Atsuhito Kohda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
the new mechanism might be okay if it first checks whether
texmf.cnf is an admin's file or a file generated by update-texmf
before generating texmf.cnf and overwrites it only in the case it
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 05:39:25PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
Can't you understand that as an author you would like that messages
like this are not removed without your consent? The internet
robustness principle says: Be liberal in what you accept and
conservative in what you send. Modifiying
Hello,
I tried to investigate the problem a little bit deeper. The problem seems
to be hidden in the configure script and I have no idea how to fix that.
This is from a build which I tried at crest.debian.org in an unstable chroot
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking
Shuttle:/home/josh# apt-get -s install libpng3
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libpng12-0
The following packages will be REMOVED:
kdelibs4-dev kdesdk kspy libarts1-dev libartsc0-dev libpng12-0-dev
Hi.
I'm trying to understand the dependency system so I can find the complete and
correct answer to questions in the form why is the latest version of package
X not in testing yet. I've been annoying some of you with wrong assumptions
previously, sorry about that. I'll avoid that this time and
I wonder why only the .changes files are readable in the NEW queue.
Is there a reason for this?
Christophe
--
Christophe Barbé [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
Le jeu 24/04/2003 à 13:12, Junichi Uekawa a écrit :
On the other hand, it will break any package that has a
versioned dependency on libpng12-0-dev (I don't know if there are
any).
It looks like there are no such packages.
Regards,
--
.''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\
: :' :
En réponse à christophe barbe [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I wonder why only the .changes files are readable in the NEW queue.
Is there a reason for this?
Yes, it is normal. The reason is crypto-in-main: they have to be
checked by ftp-masters first.
--
Jérôme Marant
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:04:51AM -0400, christophe barbe wrote:
I wonder why only the .changes files are readable in the NEW queue.
Is there a reason for this?
Crypto-in-main.
Michael
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 03:53:12PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
Really? As I explained already, I will put generated texmf.cnf under
/var, because it is not a file for a user to modify it. I believe
there are many such files under /var which don't preseve direct user
modifications.
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-24
Followup-For: Bug #189659
* Package name: dnrd
Version : 2.10-8
Upstream Author : Brad Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://users.zoominternet.net/~garsh/dnrd/
* License : GPL
Description : Proxy
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-24
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: splashutils
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : SuSE Gmbh.
* URL : http://www.bootsplash.org
* License : GPL
Description : User-space programs to manipulate the
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-24
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: kernel-patch-bootsplash
Version : 3.0.7
Upstream Author : SuSE Gmbh.
* URL : http://www.bootsplash.org
* License : GPL
Description : This is the home of the
Le jeu 24/04/2003 à 15:02, Robert Nagy a écrit :
* Package name: splashutils
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : SuSE Gmbh.
* URL : http://www.bootsplash.org
* License : GPL
Description : User-space programs to manipulate the framebuffer splash
logo
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:55:31PM +0200, Björn Stenberg wrote:
I know about the five rules, valid candidates, the excuses page(s) and
packages.qa.debian.org. I'm mostly looking at valid candidates and there are
a few things that I don't understand:
I have a feeling you want to discover
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 03:37:09PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le jeu 24/04/2003 15:02, Robert Nagy a crit :
* Package name: splashutils
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : SuSE Gmbh.
* URL : http://www.bootsplash.org
* License : GPL
Description
Hi,
Björn Stenberg wrote:
1) Debcheck often reports Package declares a build time dependency on [pkg]
which cannot be statisfied on [port]. Must all such build time dependencies
be resolved before a package is accepted into testing?
No. testing doesn't care about Builddeps. and you can safely
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:35:41AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote:
larger sense, is whether there is a way to have the translations available
in some easily selectable format.
I think the i18ned fortune makes this simple.
That's more or less what I was
* Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030424 03:56]:
Though I think that a debian-x86-64 list is worth you can open a
project in alioth in the interim. You could use it also to have a CVS
repo for patches or packages you need to build.
I thought this was a good idea. And since there
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Joel Baker wrote:
That's more or less what I was hoping - however, checking
/usr/share/doc/fortune-mod doesn't show any references to 'language', or
any obvious references to i18n or l10n, at least on stable (my chroots are
currently down due to one machine having some
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
* Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030424 03:56]:
Though I think that a debian-x86-64 list is worth you can open a
project in alioth in the interim. You could use it also to have a CVS
repo for patches or packages you need to build.
I demand that Nathan Paul Simons may or may not have also sent directly to me
despite my not having requested this...
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 08:28, Darren Salt wrote:
Hmm. They're conffiles (not sure why, given that they're all binaries);
have you tried 2.4 with the 2.3 drums files?
I believe
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
I thought this was a good idea. And since there was no such list yet I
requested the creation of 'debian-x86-64'. It will take 72 hours to
setup, I will reply to this thread when it's ready.
While it is good that your problem of creating a list is
Hello!
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:25:11PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
If someone wants to create a boot program and/or screensaver that picks
a random OS component to describe the authors of at boot time, that
would be nicest of all.
BTW, I just thought about it again and the screensaver
* Rich Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030424 13:43]:
On a side note, it would seem that the 'x86-64' branding may be dropped
in favor of 'AMD64'.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9133
(7th paragraph)
The Inquirer is not always right, so I am not sure if I should take that
as
Oleg Drokin wrote:
Hello!
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:25:11PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
If someone wants to create a boot program and/or screensaver that picks
a random OS component to describe the authors of at boot time, that
would be nicest of all.
BTW, I just thought about it again
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On Thursday 24 April 2003 19:05, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
On a side note, it would seem that the 'x86-64' branding may be dropped
in favor of 'AMD64'.
True, at least SuSE and MicroSoft are only talking about AMD64 on their
product pages. OTOH, the
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
* Rich Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030424 13:43]:
On a side note, it would seem that the 'x86-64' branding may be dropped
in favor of 'AMD64'.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9133
(7th paragraph)
The Inquirer is not always
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030424 13:55]:
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
* Rich Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030424 13:43]:
On a side note, it would seem that the 'x86-64' branding may be dropped
in favor of 'AMD64'.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:43:54PM -0400, Rich Payne wrote:
The Inquirer is not always right, so I am not sure if I should take that
as truth or just rumors.
I think they're right this time. Most of the press releases that have gone
out mention AMD64 instead of x86-64, and the marketing
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
Yes, it is normal. The reason is crypto-in-main: they have to be
checked by ftp-masters first.
I don't see why they should not be readable by everyone before being
checked by ftp-master. I don't said I disapprove that (for what it
* LapTop006
| I use both Mutt and OE to read my E-mail (mostly mutt). The one feature
| OE has (on both mac and windows) that NO other client I've seen matches
| (Mozilla 1.0 came close, haven't tried since then) is its support for
| offline IMAP.
use isync or something similar? Or try gnus
* Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030424 14:17]:
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
I thought this was a good idea. And since there was no such list yet I
requested the creation of 'debian-x86-64'. It will take 72 hours to
setup, I will reply to this thread when it's ready.
On 21-Apr-03, 21:16 (CDT), John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don Armstrong writes:
I (apparently incorrectly) presumed that debconf was also intended to
allow for the eventual automation of replicated Debian installations.
I distinctly remember reading exactly that.
I remember that
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:17:16AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
Imagine you are the developer of some random piece of free software. You
don't necessarily use Debian; you certainly don't understand all its
systems and protocols.
The conventional way to get in touch with the developers of a
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:46:56PM +0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
BTW, I just thought about it again and the screensaver code is here
already ;) There is screensaver that displays random fortunes (executes
fortune(6)). Create fortune's database consisting of credits information
and you are done.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:01:52PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
I thought this was a good idea. And since there was no such list yet I
requested the creation of 'debian-x86-64'. It will take 72 hours to
setup, I will reply to this thread when
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:50PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
Yes, it is normal. The reason is crypto-in-main: they have to be
checked by ftp-masters first.
I don't see why they should not be readable by everyone before
* Joey Hess
| Hmm, you might have to do something mildly tricky with the limits stuff;
| if the user did not turn it on you would have to manage
| commenting/uncommenting the lines in the config file. Still seems quite
| doable.
db_get mailman/gate_news || true
if [ $RET = no ]; then
* christophe barbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
Yes, it is normal. The reason is crypto-in-main: they have to be
checked by ftp-masters first.
I don't see why they should not be readable by everyone before being
checked by
christophe barbe wrote:
I don't see why they should not be readable by everyone before being
checked by ftp-master. I don't said I disapprove that (for what it would
worth) but I don't understand the logic. Can someone explain?
There is no logic involved. Just US law. Cryptographic software
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:50PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
Yes, it is normal. The reason is crypto-in-main: they have to be
checked by ftp-masters first.
I don't see why they should not be readable by everyone before
I think they're right this time. Most of the press releases that have gone
out mention AMD64 instead of x86-64, and the marketing info at amd.com all
mentions AMD64 as well.
Most of the press releases I've read also mention 'Itanium' and not
'ia64'.
...But IA64 is the name for the
How can I create a base.tgz which will be useable for pbuilder with
sid?
1.
pbuilder update --distribution sid --logfile
/var/cache/pbuilder/sid/log/update --override-config --basetgz
/var/cache/pbuilder/sid/base.tgz
where /var/cache/pbuilder/sid/base.tgz is the one I use for sarge
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On Thursday 24 April 2003 20:00, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
Good point... it is probably best to follow the decisions made at the
kernel/gcc layer. And since both of these call the platform x86-64,
that is what will stick.
No, they don't both use
On Wednesday 23 April 2003 06:17 pm, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le mer 23/04/2003 à 22:23, Josh Metzler a écrit :
Shuttle:/home/josh# apt-get -s install libpng3
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libpng12-0
The
* Frank Lichtenheld ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
When I read http://www.debian.org/legal/cryptoinmain correct, all
Software that contains cryptographic functionality must be registered
before it can legally be distributed. So the ftp-master must check if
a new package contains cryptographic
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
I meant in the meantime. I think that the list in lists.d.o must be
created, but as this will take some time and seems that there are some
people interested in this, I think that it's better this way.
I perfectly understand your
Hi,
It seems that libpng12-0-dev has been silently replaced
by libpng12-dev, and packages depending on it are broken
now.
Shouldn't a libpng12-0-dev depending on libpng12-dev have
been kept, for transitional purpose?
Cheers,
--
Jérôme Marant
http://marant.org
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 10:00:49PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:50PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
Yes, it is normal. The reason is crypto-in-main: they have to be
checked by ftp-masters
Il gio, 2003-04-24 alle 21:07, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
A Debian maintainer should not be a stranger to the upstream maintainer.
Your (active) upstreams should _already_ know who you are and that you are
responsible for the Debian packaging of their software. The one thing that
they need to know
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 10:00:49PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
When I read http://www.debian.org/legal/cryptoinmain correct, all
Software that contains cryptographic functionality must be registered
before it can legally be distributed. So the ftp-master must check if
a new package
Le jeu 24/04/2003 à 22:57, Jérôme Marant a écrit :
Hi,
It seems that libpng12-0-dev has been silently replaced
by libpng12-dev, and packages depending on it are broken
now.
Shouldn't a libpng12-0-dev depending on libpng12-dev have
been kept, for transitional purpose?
As libpng12-dev
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:36:10PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 06:28:06PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
How about ensuring that all addresses on the Debian keyring are
whitelisted by default?
As well as all gpg signed mail?
Spammers are starting to use faked
Hi!
I'm hit by a strange bug, and I really don't know to wich package
report, nor how to further debug it.
Mi personal machine runs sid and I have an i386 Debian mirror,
updated dayly with debmirror in a cron job. At 2003/04/21 debmirror
stopped working, with the logs showing nothing. This
do u know how to send them?
* Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030424 16:36]:
...But IA64 is the name for the platform, as opposed to a specific
implementation. We also refer to the Pentiums, Athlons and their smaller
cousins as x86 or i386 chips[1]. The right naming should follow the
architecture's name, not a specific
I'm trying to implement ucf in a perl postinst script, but I'm running
into problems due to debconf's fuckage with the file descriptors, I
think.
I call stop() as soon as I'm done interfacing with debconf, but that
doesn't seem to be good enough when I get to ucf. First, I tried
* Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030424 17:18]:
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
I meant in the meantime. I think that the list in lists.d.o must be
created, but as this will take some time and seems that there are some
people interested in this, I think that
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 06:27:34PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
A bug on the lack of a debian-x86-64 mailing list has been opened (162668).
All that can be done has been done -- it's out of our hands now :)
The pressure, as you put it, could be increased by modifying the bug's
severity;
Michael Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Format: 1.7
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:30:39 +
Source: cyphesis-cpp
Binary: cyphesis-cpp-mason cyphesis-cpp cyphesis-cpp-clients
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 0.2.0+0.2.1rc1-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Michael Koch
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-24
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: freedroidrpg
Version : 0.94
Upstream Authors: Johannes Prix [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reinhard Prix [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://freedroid.sourceforge.net/
*
Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:07:10 +0100
Source: xt
Binary: xt
Architecture: source i386
Version: 0.9.1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changed-By: Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 00:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
do u know how to send them?
please add this guy to spamassassin's black lists.
cheers
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:02:02PM +0200, Andrea Capriotti wrote:
A big part of your job as Debian maintainer will be to stay in contact
with the upstream developers...
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-developer-duties.en.html#s-upstream-coordination
I thought that
As some people were asking for it, and the situation is pretty unclear,
I think it is time for a few answers to the questions that can be asked
about libpng. This mail is targetted to maintainers of packages using
libpng.
Q: Why are there 4 versions of libpng on my system ?
A: In fact, there are
* Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030424 19:26]:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 06:27:34PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
A bug on the lack of a debian-x86-64 mailing list has been opened (162668).
All that can be done has been done -- it's out of our hands now :)
The pressure, as you put
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 02:02:22AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Q: Why don't we just say goodbye to binary-compatibility with other
distros on those few corner cases ?
A: I'm not against that, but some people in the project seem to be.
Anyway, this is certainly not a move we can make without
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:58:08AM -0600, Ed Boraas wrote:
Hello, all.
Ideally, I think, including the verbatim message in a separate file
(SPONSORS?) and including a reference to that file in mkreiserfs'
output should serve as an acceptable balance. I'm willing to reconsider
that
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:03:53PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 02:02:22AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Q: Why don't we just say goodbye to binary-compatibility with other
distros on those few corner cases ?
A: I'm not against that, but some people in the project
Adam Majer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Having a one or two liner message
during startup of a command line utility is fine by me. Having
5 pages of stuff is not fair to the user. Period.
The job of a maintaier is to make the software as usable to a user
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:59:42PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
Repetitive, largely useless to the user messages like those should
be removed and put in a file like SPONSORS or whatever. I would
NOT use any program that is going to spew out poinless stuff
when I do not want to see it.
one could
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:16:34PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
Wrong. It was Red Hat who *instigated* the change in library names
upstream to allow the devel packages to be installed simultaneously,
because they have no intention of trying to recompile GNOME 1 against a
different libpng.
So
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:46:03PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:16:34PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
Wrong. It was Red Hat who *instigated* the change in library names
upstream to allow the devel packages to be installed simultaneously,
because they have no
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:44:58AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
Repetitive, largely useless to the user messages like those should
be removed and put in a file like SPONSORS or whatever. I would
NOT use any program that is going to spew out poinless stuff
when I do not want to see it.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:44:58AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:59:42PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
Repetitive, largely useless to the user messages like those should
be removed and put in a file like SPONSORS or whatever. I would
NOT use any program that is going
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