Re: kernel-package hooks transition

2005-12-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. (and put /dev/null in stdin and something else to avoi things reading from it) This way only buggy daemons would cause problems. (and beside fd_stop, just give them 3/dev/null to work around) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: statement from one of the klik project members [was: The klik project and Debian]

2006-01-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
be circumvented by calling ld.so directly, nosuid by perl-suid and so on, and there might always be some other program sleeping somewhere waiting for its chance) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to act on has always been placed in contrib when there was no free stuff available for them. History has always been: Write something free for it, then it is main; if you don't then it is obviously at most contrib. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: DPL Debate prepared questions list [Debian Policy Sucks]

2006-03-20 Thread Bernhard R. Link
are annoying and sad, but only annoying and not hurting people relying on a something advertised as stable keeping stable. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A progressive distribution

2000-03-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
would be either the same in frozen and progressive or they would be same in progressive and unstable. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: A progressive distribution

2000-03-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
wrote, nothing can be changed before. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Menu hierarchie for different users and general user settings

2000-08-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
for the user to change. It's disadvantage would be the enourmous amount of time to recompile all user-settings when the main-menu-database changes. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Menu hierarchie for different users and general user settings

2000-08-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
:-) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Subpackaging (Was: Potato now stable)

2000-08-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
use the same /usr/share with different rules what to install, so that no data is doubled but one system can remove a package and exacly that is removed in /usr/share what was there becaus only this package needed it). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Intel Assembly error

2000-08-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
comes from. It is this way. AX ist the low part of EAX (Since eax and ax shall make the same for values less then 2^16.) And there is no direct way to address to higher 16 Bits. But as a shr eax,16 need only one cycle it is not that serious. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Learning dpkg/apt

2000-08-21 Thread Bernhard R. Link
do not make it binary. There may be many things to speed up, but binary is evil in this situation. (Imagine a broken database and you can do just nothing against it.) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

2000-09-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
think the current standard is quite reasonable. Perhaps a non-world-readability would please very bloody beginers, but is would give the not so bloody beginers a false fealing of security. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: ITP or rather upload... KDE

2000-09-06 Thread Bernhard R. Link
/licensing.html some parts of kdenetwork are still licenced qpl. It may just need to recopy these parts from an gpl'ed qt, but I do not know KDE or qt well enough. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the branch, and merge everything together and produce an new diff and remove the local cvs-repro. This is much quicker done than to check the new patch if it collides with the other patches and change the other patches so that it does not collide. Yust my $0,03, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
be. I think aside of one diff or many diffs a list of patches done to the code and where you got them from is a good thing to have in every package. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
\ section=WindowManagers title=IceWM which most of the small and nice Window-Managers implement cleanly. (At least in potato) Why not us this info? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link (I already thought of changing wdm to use this, when I'm done with the strange radius/nis-combination I

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
but for anybody except the author, if there is a single one. (At least if it is GPL or any other similar licence) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- gEistiO sagen wir mal...ich hab alle sourcen in /lost+found/waimea me gEistiO: [...] Warum lost+found? gEistiO wo haette ich es denn sonst hingeben

Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-10 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to miss some things, most important in my eyes a possibility to switch window managers. (I doubt it is usable for anything than KDE or Gnome) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
things sperate will also help our users. (Imaging a rule /etc if for configuration except /etc/run, thus only tar the rest of /etc, if you want to restore your configuration later easily). There is a reason, why we have /home instead of /usr/home[s]. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
libgcc1 libstdc++3 gcc-3.0 fakeroot apt-get -u upgrade apt-get install fakeroot and perhaps some additional dpkg --configure -a if one missed something in between to upgrade to a new glibc. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
, they have to be stored on archive, too. Mainly for GPL licensing issues. Why that? I thought we use 3a and not 3b for distribution thus avoiding such problems? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
a system that works and can do what we need (with the exception of generating KDE-menus, though I do not see the fault in our system here), we should adopt another metadata not even able to describe the things we already have and are used? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like

Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Enrico Zini [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030417 03:30]: On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 05:10:58PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: We have at least three parallel menu systems around: the Debian Menu, the Gnome Foot Menu and the KDE menu. We have one menu system: the Debian menu. And we have several

Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!

2003-05-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
and this version was uploaded. And the mail generated when putting a (closed:# ...) after a changelog entry describes this with nice words and with much less chance to make additional errors. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing

Re: Debian menu system update

2003-05-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
is the entirely wrong way to go. A working menu is a good way to go. The currest system works and has many nice aspects of configurability and administrability, missing in the newer parts. Only thing I see missing are KDE packages obeying menu policy. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Debian menu system update

2003-05-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
be supported of course). It's task is to allow the menu-package to include some menus by default in the starting phase, and to make it easier for the administrator to localy change an item. (Without the fear to have phantom entries after the package is removed). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Debian menu system update

2003-06-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
and in general be a nightmare to administrators. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: Debian menu system update

2003-06-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
a system before showing you don't understand the issues at all. Was this a memo for yourself or are you just trying to insult? MfG, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: Debian menu system update

2003-06-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
part. It is related. Heck, this specification even gives in the example the Icon as .png-file. While using .xpm-only for menus is really long-lasting standard, with no reason to stop this... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing

Re: Debian menu system update

2003-06-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
before, even the way to more directly recylcle upstream's suggestion for menu items does not get more simple but just more error prone). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link [1] This might be partly resonable for KDE-menus, for a menu standard this just says: It is not bloated as we

Re: postrm::downgrade?

2003-07-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
it. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: gcc on a biarch system

2003-07-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the behaviour clearly enough.)) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. (Benjamin Franklin)

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to try hard to get it worse). 262 distinct users here with 13 installations. and in the near environment a pool with about 30-40 installations and over 800 users. (And some smaller with about 20 installations and 40 to 50 users) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
circumstances he is able to get something done, if I want to get an indicator for usefulnes. And not showing screen- shots to windows-users and looking if they sheer.) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
as something without graphics is even harder. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
Discussing via emails seems to get hard again... * Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030725 16:37]: Bernhard R. Link wrote: Both a system presenting a utter mess of uneeded things and technical terms and a system only saying Installation successful or Installation failed are two ends of user

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
get my sister using Knopix, as it's autoprobing for SCSI-hardware froze the computer and the expert-mode was barely understandable by me. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Bernhard R. Link
a dependency. What if the MTA is on a different host? Can't mutt speak SMTP? If mutt spoke SMTP, it would be a MTA itself. (Perhaps still missing the proper interface to link /usr/lib/sendmail to mutt, but that would be the lesser part). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030806 13:43]: On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:10:03 +0200 Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If mutt spoke SMTP, it would be a MTA itself. (Perhaps still missing the proper interface to link /usr/lib/sendmail to mutt, but that would be the lesser part

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030806 17:04]: On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:03:07PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030806 13:43]: On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:10:03 +0200 Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If mutt spoke SMTP, it would be a MTA

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the dns-server to use is not a admin thing. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-10 Thread Bernhard R. Link
on... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link [1] for example the key to make it finaly do something -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Question about GFDL

2005-01-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
|to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other |conditions whatsoever to those of this License. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link [1] As this specific info page is not yet in a package, though I do not doubt there will be some that have the same problem. [2] Consider

Manpages licensed under GFDL without the license text included

2005-01-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
] partimage: partimage.1.gz partimage-server: partimaged.8.gz partimagedusers.5.gz Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: APT Repository HOWTO

2005-01-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
, Bernhard R. Link

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

2003-08-27 Thread Bernhard R. Link
... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- They said: Smile and be happy, it could become worse. And I smiled and was happy. And it became worse.

Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!

2003-09-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
think not having the term linux in it more of an issue than having -debian in it... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: recent spam to this list

2003-10-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
... Well, this proposal sounds like People who do not want to get hit by falling statlites should wear a fish on their head. I'm against this proposal, even though I would not even wear a fish on my head, if it became a law. MfG, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system

Re: faster boot

2003-10-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
commands which override disabled services and so on. I think init.d scripts should start, when they are called with start, and not refuse to do so. That's the whole policy/invoce-rc.d about, that the test is done before... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice

Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
between all those words. Greetings, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: debsums for maintainer scripts (was: Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion)

2003-12-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
generated, you have no chance at all to be sure they are not modified. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: debsums for maintainer scripts (was: Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion)

2003-12-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
catches intruders, hwo are to stupid to cope with system installed. (Which is the same as with installed .md5sums files) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: debsums for maintainer scripts

2003-12-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to see the broken memory chip one just replaced with a working one has not caused any bit-changes in the installed files. If the checksums were created at the same system, one has to get them from somewhere else, so there is little sense in having them generated at all. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R

Re: debsums for maintainer scripts

2003-12-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [031204 02:46]: Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think so. md5-calculation it not the fastest thing (especially on non-i386 it often feels like downloading and installing together needs less time than the md5sum-verification. So

Re: debsums for maintainer scripts

2003-12-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the .md5sums and copying is much less hassle, then sending all the files at whole over the network. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: debsums for maintainer scripts

2003-12-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the last some packages to follow. And your only reason beeing a ridiculous small amount of disc space and bandwidth) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link BTW: I don't need your mails twice. Please do either send to me or the list and not both. Thank you. -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating

Re: debsums for maintainer scripts

2003-12-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.

Re: debsums for maintainer scripts

2003-12-06 Thread Bernhard R. Link
./count.sh {} \; | ./avarage.awk 5333.54 Where count.sh is gzip $1 | wc -c and having the md5sums file packaged in a larger .tar.gz might even cause less space. (All numbers from my woody system, where 989 out of 1158 packages have md5sums files). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail

Re: Bug#223772: general: no md5sums for many packages (e.g. bc)

2003-12-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
with such arguments, that I have an hard time to suppress my wish to use the same and requesting the removal of all .desktop files. (I do not need them, they are a waste of space and bandwidth and anyone using them is stupid.)) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
programs work with valid versions and no other programs might cause problems when first hit by them) my suggestion is to adapt policy to practice. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
if it starts with a letter. What is the scope of the bug fixing required to bring the programs in line with long established policy? Noone knows. That's the problem. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
there is a documented normal other way to do it. Shall two errors force the general acceptance of it? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060424 18:14]: * Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060424 17:39]: Package gnus, version x.y-z.dfsg. That way its clearly marked that gnus is modified to be dfsg free, and you dont change any source/package name. A lot of other packages

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
in contrast choose to add or modify things in the .orig.tar.gz, you are in this (perhaps a bit personally coloured) view no longer making changes within Debian, but are creating a new fork on the upstream side and are packaging your own fork. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
on a policy? Can't Manoj just package gnus-dfsg and be done with it? Is that really such a big problem? I guess it would be less of an issue, if he did not insist of what almost everyone else has agreed on and I never saw disputed is unethical. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
there, be it before or after the first dot will make people believe that) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
in the .diff.gz. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using /usr/bin/nologin instead of /bin/false in adduser?

2006-05-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
some absurd ftp server or something might compare it with /bin/false, but then of course the second defense line of an disabled password hash is still there. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: pbuilder, and why not...

2006-05-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email

2006-05-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
be implemented in different ways. Yes. The standardized interface is smtp. The standard *NIX way to send mail is the sendmail symlink, the standard for computers to exchange their mails is SMTP. Thats a difference. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Section of -dev packages

2006-05-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GBit performance problem with nfs client

2006-06-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
a mere old HUB with several dozen clients or a little 5 port switch had no problems at all. (In that case using 100MBit cards helped, and I'd be suprised if the the GB ports had exactly the same problem, but perhaps they get confused some similar problem). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: SUMMARY -- Generic handling of WORD, EXCEL, FILE MANGER ...

2006-06-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
or even shorten (if its type can be detected automatically correctly and one has no other information:) see this.xls (All available in the mime-support packages and already used for this purpose by a variety of packages.) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: additions to dpkg-architecture

2006-06-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
| usr/lib/v9/libssl.so.0.9.7 | usr/share/doc/libssl0.9.7/changelog.Debian.gz | usr/share/doc/libssl0.9.7/changelog.gz | usr/share/doc/libssl0.9.7/copyright In other words: Problem solved since sarge. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: additions to dpkg-architecture

2006-07-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
| libresolv.so.2 = /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x7002c000) | libcrypto.so.0.9.7 = /usr/lib/v9/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 (0x7005) | [...] And I cannot remember having anything changed. (Also the libcrypto 0.9.6 in your ldd output looks more like woody than like sarge) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Challenge: Binary free uploading

2006-07-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
absurd short time making it inplausible the build was actually checked. Something like a quarter of an hour, I'd suggest. On a second thought, perhaps better half an hour and also checking the .diff.gz was downloaded... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Challenge: Binary free uploading

2006-07-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
there are no proper testing procedures, at least the procedures should be choosen to not discourage testing. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building in chroots hides bugs? (was: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
, but the test before if the file is already there (as make install does not want to overwrite a config file) was forgotten. This leads to a corrupt package when build on a system where the package is already installed, i.e. is hidden away in any clean chroot. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Building in chroots hides bugs? (was: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-04 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060801 18:17]: also sprach Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.01.1701 +0100]: Missing $(DESTDIR)s in Makefiles are an example. Especially when the install part was DESTDIRified, but the test before if the file is already there (as make install

Re: dpkg doing wrong math (0.09 = 0.9) ?

2006-08-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
would be larger then 0.09 but smaller than 0.19, or one would have to add the zero everywhere causing versions to look different from upstream) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
there) parse a file which is of no interest for him but for the other daemons? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Detecting dependency cycles and conflict dependency problems in packages

2001-12-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
pitfalls, I think many people will be happy, though I would not bet on anyone finding one). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Preparing a Proposal: 3 DD needed for every NEW package

2001-12-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
begun to bloat - so many unneeded, unused, unmaintained(!) packages. I think it may help more to think of ways to get rid of packages than making adding more difficult. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Bug#127252: -unstable compiled against the wrong libpng

2002-01-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Bug#127252: -unstable compiled against the wrong libpng

2002-01-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
likely not link directly against it as the normal script does it. But I'm again guessing and do not know if there is a real chance for this or if the maintainer did simply not realize it. And perhaps there is some other reason for directly linking... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
in my eyes only the disadvantage of addings unneeded complexity. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- gEistiO sagen wir mal...ich hab alle sourcen in /lost+found/waimea me gEistiO: [...] Warum lost+found? gEistiO wo haette ich es denn sonst hingeben solln?

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
or whatever) that were protected by copyright law and the standard would allow no modifications, then noone would be allowed to copy the editor. (No special problem with debian) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- gEistiO sagen wir mal...ich hab alle sourcen in /lost+found/waimea me gEistiO

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. These program would certainly include unicode editors, and would probably include python, perl and ruby. These no doubt are all wrong in my eyes. MfG, Bernhard R. Link -- gEistiO sagen wir mal...ich hab alle sourcen in /lost+found/waimea me gEistiO: [...] Warum lost+found? gEistiO wo haette ich

Re: lsb-base

2005-07-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
this to not create masses of processes and confusing the user with colors? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Who needs libcurl3? (was libcurl3-dev: A development package linked again gnutls needed)

2005-07-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
an alternative libcurl, duplicating the source code, making it harder for everyone involved. So it is more than just a avarage wishlist-bug where the maintainer's opinion is the last word. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: lsb-base

2005-07-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
messages followed by a light green OK might be funny, I'd not like to see it on mine. While Suse's and Redhat's failure does admittedly not mean it will also happen to Debian, it still gives a hint about the likelyhood of success. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#330064: wm2 should provide a session file for kdm and gdm

2005-09-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
... Additionally, I must have missed the announce on debian-devel for your bug mass-filing. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mass-bug-filing: wms should provide a session file for kdm and gdm

2005-09-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
in my eyes. Thus I want to ask all involved parties to not ship .desktop files, at least unless your window manager copes with .desktop files anyway. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Accepted aptitude 0.3.4-1 (source all i386)

2005-10-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. Using getpwuid to get the home-directory is compareable to hard-coding /root. (Hardcoding /root is even a bit cleaner, as it might not lure people into using it when not working around bugs in sudo). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. (As is assembler files currently, or as C source code would be if almost everyone switched to some other language with a compiler generating C code as intermediate format.) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA

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