On Thursday 03 August 2006 06:24, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
So upgraded systems don't get the benefits of certain changes to the
installer's defaults, or defaults in programs used by the installer.
http://wiki.debian.org/Sarge2EtchUpgrade
Anyobdy (Marco d'Itri?) can add some comments regarding
On Friday 28 January 2005 15.49, Steve Greenland wrote:
On 28-Jan-05, 04:30 (CST), Francois Bottin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For those not speaking french, this is a nigerian scam... The first I
have ever received in this language, albeit very poorly written.
That's sad, because the English
On Saturday 29 January 2005 18.28, Frank Küster wrote:
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, sean finney wrote:
why not do something like this in
any script that uses gettext:
#!/bin/sh
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/share/gettext/scripts
. gettext.sh
Because we
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 23.15, Mikael Olenfalk wrote:
So if there is a DD living in Stockholm, Sweden; I'm would be pleased
to pay for dinner+beer (or equivalent) for a laptop-packaging-session
Debian is about free speech, not free beer, so you can have that cheaper:
just allow the DD to
On Friday 08 July 2005 14.33, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
TODO: Should this be in
http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?ReleaseProposals ?
It's http://wiki.debian.net/?EtchTODOList - which contains a short
disclaimer on its difference vs. ReleaseProposals.
Manoj:
Mere wishlists by
On Saturday 09 July 2005 00.39, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:49:36PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
IMHO, we should keep dummy packages around for at least two releases,
to support upgrades which skip one release.
In practice, upgrades that skip a release are not
On Monday 04 July 2005 11.51, Horms wrote:
I am not sure about 3.4's ability to compile 2.4.27, but
it seems unlikely to me that all of the gcc versions you mention above
will be omitted from etch.
I'm quite confident that the release team and/or gcc maintainers will agree
that 'is needed to
On Monday 11 July 2005 09.59, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 08:25:11AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
This is a huge list, with probably 0 chances of getting
accomplished. How about this: remove every single item from the list,
and only add items
On Thursday 07 July 2005 14.13, martin f krafft wrote:
If you can help the Debian Project out in this area, we would
`appreciate it`_. Please contact the Debian host system administration
team at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and feel free to contact me
at [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well.
The ETH Zurich
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 11.51, Mikael Olenfalk wrote:
it was not my intention to state that Debian is about free beer
Sorry - you misunderstood me. I tried to make a (bad) joke, nothing more.
greetings
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On Monday 11 July 2005 22.18, Roger Leigh wrote:
Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Monday 04 July 2005 11.51, Horms wrote:
I am not sure about 3.4's ability to compile 2.4.27, but
it seems unlikely to me that all of the gcc versions you mention above
will be omitted from etch
On Sunday 17 July 2005 10.14, Karl Chen wrote:
Suppose package P contains files /usr/bin/B1 and /usr/bin/B2. B1
is the important program, and B2 is not as important. Is it OK
for the declared package dependencies to not satisfy all the
run-time shared library dependencies of B2? What if
On Sunday 17 July 2005 23.28, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
On 10353 March 1977, Santiago Vila wrote:
we need to remove
from the archive all the Woody-to-Sarge transition dummy packages.
No, that's not true, we don't *need* to remove woody-to-sarge dummy
packages, as they are also woody-to-etch
On Thursday 21 July 2005 14.41, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
[piuparts]
Go ahead - if you, as you say, investigate the bugs manually, it doesn't
matter how you discovered the bug.
Just curious: what kind of bugs can piuparts help discover?
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On Wednesday 03 August 2005 00.46, Joey Hess wrote:
[debconf dance]
Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
postgrey
tags +pending (fixed in svn)
I hear a new upstream version is in the works, so I'll wait a week or two
before uploading.
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On Sunday 14 August 2005 02.40, Robert Collins wrote:
On a related note, should we consider defining a convention similar to
soname for dynamic languages like perl/python etc? I.e. for a python
library 'foo', install the code as 'foo1', and have a dummy package
'foo' which has a __init__.py
On Monday 22 August 2005 16.08, W. Borgert wrote:
[...]
This is a really nice idea: A DD with a strange sense of humour
could
[...]
If we're starting to worry about what kind of damage a DD can do to the
world by providing some bogus uploads, let's just not. Any DD can cause
code to be
On Monday 22 August 2005 12.58, Marc Haber wrote:
I can imagine that for archs with less than 50 machines reporting to
popcon it could be possible to have some kind of registration
mechanism.
Uh, please don't add huge technical overhead for corner cases that will
rarely happen, if ever. I'm
On Monday 22 August 2005 12.17, Andreas Jochens wrote:
On 05-Aug-22 11:48, Andreas Barth wrote:
* Andreas Jochens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050822 11:36]:
If not, what does the 98% rule really mean?
Your port needs to be able to and does build the vast majority of the
archive before we
On Monday 22 August 2005 11.25, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
[ the 'must have a working installer' requirement ]
Trivial. debootstrap does that.
Debootstrap is not an installer, in very much the same way that tar
isn't, either.
They both are. They can install debian, so it's an
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 06.44, Joe Smith wrote:
By the way, i386 does not make the cut according to the vancouver
prospect due to the number of buildds required. So are we left with 0
archs in etch? :) That will certainly speed up the release.
LOL.
Release NOW! Release now, damnit!
I
On Monday 22 August 2005 23.51, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:22:11PM +, W. Borgert wrote:
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:29:31PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
really matters: can we (the Debian project) maintain the port? Thus
I propose we only limit on the number
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 17.15, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
Make sure you use only POSIX features when doing this. I think
grep -o is a GNU extension, FreeBSD doesn't have it for example.
Doesn't the 'only POSIX' apply to the shell code only? At least, shouldn't
it be judged on a
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 18.03, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Lars Wirzenius:
Isn't this:
int64_t, which
can, if necessary, be provided using suitable autotools magic.
exactly the answer to your:
[...] Some upstream developers have to deal with old Solaris
installations, though. We might
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 15.30, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[arch release criteria]
Personally, I find the list of requirements sensible, and very
understandable after the clarifying rounds on the lists. This colors
my view of the discussion.
AOL!!1!
The only thing I'd modify is the 50
On Thursday 22 September 2005 11.15, Debian-armeb Porting Team wrote:
We are keeping patches[7] for the armeb port separate, and are ready to
contribute them now, or at any future time that is more appropriate.
Another chicken-and-egg - are package maintainers expected to accept
patches for
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 17.36, you wrote:
Please have a look at this guys.
[word document attached]
[silly disclaimer to finish it]
Please, do not post word documents on this list. For several reasons:
- we're reading email here. Why should I need to start an additional
application
On Saturday 01 October 2005 17.07, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
But your reaction proves that the name cinelerra-cvs is misleading.
But IMHO that's not something the Debian packager can do anything other than
write it in the description. Renaming the package would only confuse users
searching for
Yo!
(Yes, I thought about sending this to -curiosa instead... :-)
For research/fun/..., I want to install historical versions of Debian. Does
anybody have install media of rex and buzz? I guess it is possible to
create packages by starting at bo and compiling the older binaries, but I
don't
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 19.40, Matej Vela wrote:
See http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/debian/1.1/
for buzz disks.
Thanks.
Now, does anybody know if buzz/Linux 2.0.0's 'ne' driver didn't support
realtek PCI network cards, or if it's a qemu problem? (I suspect the
On Friday 21 October 2005 22.22, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
It depends on what you mean by up to date. If we're only including
glibc headers, then we can only use functionality that glibc supports.
If we bypass glibc and directly use kernel functionality, then we get
all the latest and greatest
merge 335173 195948
thanks
On Saturday 22 October 2005 12.08, Rudolf Weeber wrote:
* Package name: dspam
I am packaging this program, because we are using it the students'
representation at university, and having a standardized, easy to install
package would be very handy.
Have you
Just a few hints for the future:
- you should not cc: a wnpp bug (ITP, RFP, ...) to d-devel, because these
bugs go to d-devel anyway.
- if you want to cc: a bug submission somewhere, please use the
X-Debbugs-CC: header (read up in the bts documentation) instead of directly
cc-ing, because
On Sunday 23 October 2005 21.48, Ken Bloom wrote:
I'm tracking through some old bugs I submitted, cleaning up. I'd like
to close bug 256715, because jpilot and gtk-engines-smooth no longer
interact (because jpilot uses GTK+2 now). What's the appropriate
version to specify to the BTS?
If you
On Thursday 03 November 2005 04.37, Erast Benson wrote:
If don't, Nexenta will continue its way more like Ubuntu does.
You'll hire heaps of Debian developers and actually pay people to contribute
their stuff back to Debian? Now there's a thing! Which Debian developers
are in your pay (just
On Thursday 03 November 2005 08.32, Erast Benson wrote:
Matthew:
[...] whether you want to be part of A Debian Release.
Hard to say right now... Lets see how all this thing will progress.
But, *yes* we are willing to cooperate.
So I guess this summarizes the technical side of this
On Thursday 03 November 2005 20.51, Erast Benson wrote:
HW vendors will *never* open their IP in
drivers.
Ok, this becomes a bit OT here, but let me just remark that Linux today
supports a *lot* of hardware, and that quite a few drivers (some RAID
controllers, Intel SATA stuff, most of the
On Friday 04 November 2005 19.00, Andrew Suffield wrote:
Complete bullshit. Get a life. plonk
Ahhh, yet another instance of asuffield.
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On Friday 04 November 2005 14.33, John Hasler wrote:
Wouter Verhelst writes:
Any *distributed* changes to foo.c must be contributed back to the
community.
That's not true either. Any distributed changes must be made available
to those to whom the changes were distributed. In practice
On Monday 07 November 2005 15.53, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 11:51 +1100, Brian May wrote:
However, I prefer the approach over apt-cacher, as the apt-sources
entries remain independent of the server that will be used to retrieve
the files.
Is there a good alternative?
I
[cc to you - I don't know if you read the list]
On Friday 18 March 2005 17.22, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
As for example, it's been now around 7 years for me now using Linux and I
do have a fair amount of knowledge now. It would be great if DD's here
could harness the skills in wannabe
On Monday 25 April 2005 14.51, Andreas Jochens wrote:
Steve Langasek wrote:
libmysqlclient-lgpl - Linuxthreads test has to be switched off for
amd64
[...]
Unfortunately, quite a few important packages still Build-Depend
on libmysqlclient10-dev:
exim4
Does that mean amd64 installer
On Saturday 30 April 2005 07.54, Dillinger wrote:
Hi,
I invented Macromedia Flash.
[...]
Can I get one of those things your're smoking?
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On Saturday 07 May 2005 16.56, Brad and Billie Fick wrote:
do you know how I can get the sheet music to this? If so I would greatly
appreciate it. Thank you
There we go again. I am so glad this happens, helps to lighten the mood
everywhere and certainly eases the way to general happiness in
On Sunday 15 May 2005 23.24, Grzegorz Bizon wrote:
Description : Guitar Pro 3/4 tabs viewer and player
Somebody should file a wishlist bug against all guitar related software
packages to include a certain song as example data.
I won't name it. If you're new on this list, google for
On Monday 16 May 2005 23.27, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On May 16, Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am not sure whether the ipfwadm package should be removed. Kernels
up to 2.4 still have support for ipfwadm filtering rules, so
theoretically people could still be using it with current
[cc:ed as I don't know if you read both -devel and -mentors]
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 22.05, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
[cogito]
Sebastian, can I humbly request that you don't announce cogito package
updates on (at least the -devel) mailing list? While I - and, I guess,
many others - are
On Friday 27 May 2005 14.15, Gergely Nagy wrote:
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:13 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
the right thing to do would be to switch from sections, to keywords, so
that kmplayer could live in sound + video + kde, instead of multimedia
that is not very informative.
Now
On Monday 30 May 2005 02.03, Nicolas François wrote:
Does anybody know where I can find older sources?
[ of shadow ]
- have you tried asking the shadow maintainers
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - perhaps somebody has old CVS
repositories or whatever lying around?
- The Debian changelog goes back to
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 19.17, Stephen Birch wrote:
Still looks more like a fork than a derivative . or a spoon :-)
I have problems with your terminology - what do you mean by 'fork', and what
do you mean by 'derivative'?
To my understanding, Ubuntu is certainly a derivative of Debian
On Saturday 04 June 2005 07.50, venkat prasad wrote:
sir,
can u please give me the information bout the decik WAP phone
simulator.i.e., the brief description about the phone simulator.
As far as I can tell, Debian does not ship the decit WAP phone simulator, so
I don't know what
On Saturday 04 June 2005 19.20, Joshua Jackson wrote:
Where could I find out about projects that still need developers. I could
code in perl and java. Please tell me where I can read the resources
regarding to the available projects in debian.
Java: A group of people tries very hard to get as
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 01.03, Javier Fernndez-Sanguino Pea wrote:
[ End user improvements ]
- better support for displaying as many languages as possible without
having to search for corresponding font packages. From what I can see
gnome is slightly better than KDE in replacing missing
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 01.47, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Jun 07, Javier Fernndez-Sanguino Pea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my wishlist there is NO support of 2.4 kernels
Hmm. I've never verified this myself, however until recently it was often
claimed that 2.6 is still quite a bit worse than 2.4
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 19.51, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Jun 07, Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my wishlist there is NO support of 2.4 kernels
Hmm. I've never verified this myself, however until recently it was
often claimed that 2.6 is still quite a bit worse than 2.4
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 23.32, Roger Leigh wrote:
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 23:02, Roger Leigh wrote:
Existing installs are already configured with debconf. Their
/etc/locale.gen will not be touched.
If you do dpkg-reconfigure locales, then users could
On Friday 10 June 2005 10.40, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
Hello Olaf,
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:58:21PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
ifconfig is in /sbin and only in root's path. But ifconfig is runnable
and useful for normal users, so it'd be nice if it could be added to
the path of
On Friday 10 June 2005 21.39, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
Hello.
Is the TODO list for etch available anywhere?
It is now.
http://wiki.debian.net/?EtchTODOList
Please help updating it. Because I really mean it, I repeat here the
guidelines that I feel can keep this list useful instead of
On Monday 13 June 2005 09.41, frank wrote:
[texlive vs. teTeX]
Let me add some comments from my point of view (Debian teTeX
maintainer).
Sounds like packaging texlive and trying to get it really stable would be
the thing to do, with the goal of phasing out teTeX for etch+1
Not becuase I don't
On Monday 13 June 2005 23.00, John Hasler wrote:
Jesus Climent writes:
Exactly my point, what impedes an admin to set some defaults wether the
system comes as it comes now or with some predefined options and
settings?
Nothing, except for the fact that most admins haven't the foggiest idea
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 08.00, Eric Dorland wrote:
3. Accept MoFo's offer of Debian-specific trademark usage.
I don't
believe #3 is acceptable under the DFSG.
IMHO this *trademark* license corresponds quite exactly to the *copyright*
license that require renaming on change, which seems to
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 18.21, Eric Dorland wrote:
* Matthew Garrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Julien BLACHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is DFSG 4 if not a grudging acceptance of this sort of
behaviour as free?
(This is a compromise.
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 16.20, Humberto Massa Guimares wrote:
* Towns ::
Does calling it firefox or thunderbird hurt free software?
At first, no. But it *does* hurt our users. Why? Because they are
confident that getting something from the Debian mirror, modifying
it and re-distributing
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 14.24, Colin Tuckley wrote:
TaRT features include random
taglines, optional daemon functionality, display of current date, custom
layout of signature, and special date tagline text. The command line
syntax is simple and well explained. LinuxTaRT is designed to be run as
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 19.14, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote:
[...]
Hmmm. Is it just my kmail, or does your mailer produce strange (or no?)
In-Reply-To headers? All your posts I saw (and none others afaict)
appeared to be in reply to some completely irrelevant other message in the
same
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 20.02, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
[debian infrastructure]
I've been wondering, would it be an idea (for the long-term) to use
(more) distributed ... or p2p concepts to reduce the dependency and
load on central servers?
You said it yourself: in the long term.
I think
On Monday 27 June 2005 18.15, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
[circular dependencies]
[uninstalling foo-data at libfoo uninstall]
This should really be fixed in the packaging tool -- aptitude will
handle this very elegantly, maybe bringing its expanded package states
to libapt itself would be
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 20.23:16 Roman Müllenschläder wrote:
Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running Edgy ;)
Maybe I should compile lintian by hand ... tried using sources from
feisty but they need to much dependencies ...
If you're building packages for Debian,
On Thursday 15 March 2007 20.02:14 Greg Folkert wrote:
And for clarity, IA32 cover 32-bit Intel and works for AMD 32-bit
processors. IA64 is the Itanium series of processors, amd64 cover the
AMD K8/Opteron processors AND the Intel emt64* Intel processors.
... and just for completeness: x86_64
On Saturday 17 March 2007 09.29:10 Peter Samuelson wrote:
x86=64 would have been
amusing too. Is it a veiled Commodore 64 reference, or is it
quoted-printable?
Not to speak of broken mime decoders that would just display x86d.
I'd rather say it's to do something with Georg Orwell. If 2+2=5,
On Thursday 29 March 2007 06.24:52 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:52:33 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
You do not handle signing subkeys?
What makes you think that? Any key
On Friday 30 March 2007 08.47:53 Manoj Srivastava wrote:
OK, so please take this honest.
I don't think I have ever been dishonest about it. Amused,
perhaps, dishonest, no.
Language issue. s/honest/serious/
Admittedly, I'm guessing.
cheers
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On Sunday 01 April 2007 23:19, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Sun, 01 Apr 2007, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
IIRC signing subkeys are not accepted at package uploads, so maybe
that's what you were thinking about.
AFAIK, they are.
Policy URLs are not accepted, that's what I was thinking
Yo!
Just a quick heads-up for those who don't read planet and have been
wondering why Xorg 7.2 is lingering in experimental: There's an excellent
announcement on David Nusinov's blog at
http://gravityboy.livejournal.com/34738.html. I wish such stuff would be
posted to the mailing lists and
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 20.51:16 Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
man procmailrc
On gmail?
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On Thursday 19 April 2007 03.15:21 David Nusinow wrote:
We
need to push XCB forward though, and how to deal with the java bug
mentioned in that post isn't clear yet.
What I don't quite understand is how a non-free package should block this
upgrade.
Yes, Java is used by a lot of people and
Please DO NOT DO THIS AGAIN:
+++
$ apt-cache policy mysql-server-4.1
mysql-server-4.1:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 5.0.32-7etch1
Version table:
5.0.38-3 0
600 http://syydelaervli unstable/main Packages
5.0.38-1 0
700 http://syydelaervli lenny/main Packages
On Friday 04 May 2007 08:45, sean finney wrote:
hi,
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 07:52 +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
An unfortunate string of events lead me to upgrade a server from sarge
to etch, using the mysql-server-4.1 package and stupidly assuming that
a package with the package name
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22.46:30 Kris Deugau wrote:
I've been writing custom utilities and libraries for various systems at
work, and with one particular project recently it's become (more)
important to know exactly which Debian release it's running on (at some
stage or other between
On Friday 01 June 2007 20.51:27 Kris Deugau wrote:
Instead, we try to make them work
as far as their dependencies are met.
... which means what, exactly, if my program expects
/usr/lib/apache2/suexec but the system (stock Debian sarge) only has
/usr/lib/apache2/suexec2? Or vice versa for
On Monday 04 June 2007 14.20:46 Frank Küster wrote:
Michael Welle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The german term 'Sturmbahn' as in 'Sturmbahnfahrer' describes a trail
were you have to vanquish some barriers to train your physical
fitness.
[...]
[1] and I'm german, not swiss as my sig might
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 20.04:38 Russ Allbery wrote:
Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Slapd may require an
external SQL server if a suitable backend is defined, and I guess that
a whole slew of other applications have similar problems.
You should require everything you might use
Hi!
[please cc: me. Thank you.]
How can I (more or less efficiently - I do have a script but it's very crude
and probably buggy) download all .debs (and for bonus points the source
pkgs, too) that belong to some .deb that I have (same src package, same
version)?
cheers
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On Friday 07 September 2007 09.48:36 Adeodato Simó wrote:
* Adrian von Bidder [Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:49:19 +0200]:
No, all the other .deb packages that come from the same source pkg as
the one I have. (But usually I only want i386 and all architectures.)
Time to properly learn grep-dctrl, I
On Thursday 06 September 2007 19.33:50 Neil Williams wrote:
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:45:28 +0200
Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I (more or less efficiently - I do have a script but it's
very crude and probably buggy) download all .debs (and for bonus
points the source
On Friday 19 October 2007 17.52:29 Steve Kemp wrote:
I don't believe that post contains significant new information,
(except that I like pies!), and as such I didn't believe it deserved
massive visibility.
That you like pies is important.
Seriously: I think exactly this kind of not
Hi everybody,
Allow me to point out the message at
http://blog.steve.org.uk/articles/2007/10/19/as-i-move-on-through-the-year
which is really a Bits from the Security Team.
Why is - once again - a message that I'd consider appropriate for d-d, or
perhaps even d-d-a (though I admit that the
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Adrian von Bidder avbid...@fortytwo.ch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
+++
* Package name: jwhoisserver
Version : 3.3.0 or newer
Upstream Author : Klaus Zerwes zero-sys.net zero...@users.sourceforge.net
* URL
Hi Steven,
On Thursday 13 January 2011 13.18:58 Steven McCoy wrote:
A year later and I have a basic Autoconf/Automake system in trunk for
OpenPGM ready to package for Debian.
Nice to see progress, note that I'm not involved in zeromq packaging anymore
(except to sponsor the odd upload)
On Wednesday 19 January 2011 00.54:44 Silvio Cesare wrote:
I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux
distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13). The list is
automatically generated.
Cool!
Maybe I have missed a pointer or whatever: how did you compute this
On Friday 04 February 2011 12.47:21 Fernando Lemos wrote:
do, say, an apt-get upgrade, apt prepares an upgrade plan that
uses a given set of packages. If apt wouldn't lock [...]
new plan would have to be created, the user would
have to be asked for confirmation again. Doesn't sound that great.
On Monday 07 February 2011 13.54:24 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
1. they can declare a conflict with each other, so that the packaging
system will never let both get installed in the same system.
JavaScript and AX.25 sounds like it might be quite a distance in terms of
people
On Wednesday 09 February 2011 01.12:57 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
wrote:
Of course, we can simply orphan Qt 3, and hope somebody will step up to
maintain it; we are unconvinced this is a responsible step for us to take
as it would place the maintenance burden of a large package onto
Heyho!
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 22.57:51 Pontus Andersson wrote:
Hi. I like to make a request regarding the Debian Linux kernel.
I think the tux boot should be compiled with the Debian logo..
With tux boot I mean that some distros e.g. Arch and slackware boots with
the logo
while
Hi,
On Thursday 10 February 2011 01.32:12 Jakub Wilk wrote:
Description : scanner button daemon
Scanmonitord is a daemon which runs device monitors on one or more
devices. [...]
I'm curious (and you might want to add it to the description): does this tie
in with modern desktop
On Saturday 26 February 2011 21.44:07 Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
I'd like us to decide on a policy about enable/disable flags in
/etc/default in general.
+1 on those who don't like to have them.
The init scripts (or whatever) need to
* provide a sane default for startup order
* allow users to
Hi!
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 03.38:42 Ron Johnson wrote:
On 03/01/2011 06:19 AM, ximalaya wrote:
Hi all,
[snip]
BTW, I ever tried on Redhat Linux 9, no such problem.
This is the interesting part. Is RH keeping their patches, or are
upstream and other distros just not determining
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 10.43:44 Ana Guerrero wrote:
Debian is applying as mentoring organization to the Google Summer of Code
(GSoC) this year
Dealing with the init scripts / service enable / disable mess. See current
d-devel discussion.
As much a discussion / social skills project as a
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 17.02:11 Marius Vollmer wrote:
- Instead, we move all packages that are to be unpacked into
half-installed / reinstreq before touching the first one, and put a
big sync() right before carefully writing /var/lib/dpkg/status.
You don't want to do this. While
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