Re: NoX idea

2005-03-02 Thread Henning Makholm
). -- Henning Makholm En tapper tinsoldat. En dame i spagat. Du er en lykkelig mand ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: self-depending packages

2005-03-01 Thread Henning Makholm
packages first and then configure them in one run, so that shouldn't matter? I will refrain from repeating what Tollef wrote, but read it again anyway. Apt neither unpacks nor configures packages; it uses dpkg for that. -- Henning Makholm The compile-time type checker

Re: [OT] maildir

2005-02-28 Thread Henning Makholm
need anymore. Mutt provides a nice UI for removing attachments, which involves modifying the message file. -- Henning Makholm ... and that Greek, Thucydides -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] maildir

2005-02-28 Thread Henning Makholm
. -- Henning Makholm `Update' isn't a bad word; in the right setting it is useful. In the wrong setting, though, it is destructive... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Henning Makholm
understanding of your intentions? -- Henning MakholmNu kommer han. Kan du ikke høre knallerten?

Re: [OT] maildir

2005-02-27 Thread Henning Makholm
this header into the message. -- Henning Makholm That's okay. I'm hoping to convince the millions of open-minded people like Hrunkner Unnerby. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Henning Makholm
/is not the solution (without proposing alternatives method) Now you have a third reply: Explain why people should care, and someone might actually start caring. -- Henning Makholm Det nytter ikke at flygte der er henna

Re: [OT] maildir

2005-02-27 Thread Henning Makholm
folder to /tmp and *then* try to move it to the final destination, usually in a home directory on another partition. :-( (I haven't checked whether this happens in sarge's mutt too). -- Henning Makholm Det er trolddom og terror

Re: [OT] maildir

2005-02-27 Thread Henning Makholm
for a maildir. It won't help you for mbox folders. Which kind of was the point, as I understand it. -- Henning Makholm Der er ingen der sigter på slottet. D'herrer konger agter at triumfere fra balkonen når de har slået hinanden ihjel.

Re: dehs will stop

2005-02-27 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Lucas Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 02/27/2005 11:15 PM, Henning Makholm wrote: Now you have a third reply: Explain why people should care, and someone might actually start caring. The core idea of dehs (as I understand it) is to keep track of [snip explanation] But why did I have

Re: pwc-source headed for unstable this weekend

2005-02-20 Thread Henning Makholm
able to test anything himself. -- Henning Makholm Also, the letters are printed. That makes the task of identifying the handwriting much more difficult. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: The ghost of libc-dev

2005-02-20 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 12:58:15AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: I don't think there can be much argument that anything that Provides c-compiler also has to make sure that standard header files like stdio.h or unistd.h are present on the system

Re: pwc-source headed for unstable this weekend

2005-02-18 Thread Henning Makholm
modules. On the other hand I have no idea what would be involved in checking this, so it might be probitively difficult. -- Henning Makholm Luk munden og se begavet ud! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: The ghost of libc-dev

2005-02-18 Thread Henning Makholm
-compiler, but that does not help with I need to compile $userspace package if $userspace package does not happen to require any third-party libraries. -- Henning MakholmMy fate? Servitude to the Embodiment of Whoops. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: The ghost of libc-dev

2005-02-18 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Joel Aelwyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:17:55PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: But can one get a C compiler at all (at least a Debian-supplied one) without also pulling in an appropriate libc-dev? I would think that I need to compile $userspace package *did* require

Re: The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-18 Thread Henning Makholm
of good conffile update management, or would you still prefer the separate files way if dpkg magically gained a well-tested and stable conflict resolution scheme with bells, whistles, and 3-way merges? -- Henning Makholm Gå ud i solen eller regnen, smil, køb en ny trøje

Re: The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-17 Thread Henning Makholm
changed that to look in /etc instead, which makes the configuration mechanism in Debian substantially different from upstream's. You may find this annoying, frustrating and confusing, but it's how Debian operates. -- Henning MakholmDe kan rejse hid og did i verden nok så flot

Re: pwc-source headed for unstable this weekend

2005-02-17 Thread Henning Makholm
aware of the problem. [1] Well, such as it is. As long as one does not get oneself in more trouble by trying to use the module against a different kernel build, the warning message at load time seems to be all that happens. -- Henning Makholm That's okay. I'm hoping

Re: The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-17 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm writes: I maintain one package whose upstream author apparently thought that $PATH would be a good place to look for a system-wide configuration file. I changed that to look in /etc instead, which makes the configuration mechanism

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit A Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED] debianizer - isn't there a debian/rules way to do this now? no way at all Yes way. See debian/rules get-orig-source in policy. Rest of reply in debian-legal. Why are you posting the same thing separately to two different lists? -- Henning Makholm

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-14 Thread Henning Makholm
with the offending files removed from it, but keep the rest of the .orig.tar.gz unchanged. Debian changes and package infrastructure should still go in a .diff.gz, and the package version should consist of an upstream version with a separate Debian revision. -- Henning Makholm

Re: volunteering to help development

2005-02-10 Thread Henning Makholm
of the structure of the project. Afterwards, subscribe to relevant mailing lists, participate in discussions, read the BTS lists for the packages you're interested in, fix bugs and forward fixes to the BTS, et cetera. -- Henning Makholm Hør, hvad er det egentlig

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread Henning Makholm
not to escalate flamewars) to count? -- Henning Makholm It will be useful even at this early stage to review briefly the main features of the universe as they are known today. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: policy-rc.d confusion

2005-01-25 Thread Henning Makholm
, or we have a FHS violation. Hm, I would have guessed /etc - what am I missing? -- Henning Makholm Al lykken er i ét ord: Overvægtig!

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-25 Thread Henning Makholm
a couple dozen strips. Therefore it cannot reasonably be described as porn, although one would probably be justified in calling it offensive due to the general taboo breaking. -- Henning Makholm Det er du nok fandens ene om at mene

Re: Release update: kde3.3, upload targets, kernels, infrastructure

2005-01-23 Thread Henning Makholm
in general (I do know where to point my anger at when it doesn't, but in those casses libc has never been involved). If sarge's libc6 were *not* backwards compatible, it would have been called libc7. -- Henning MakholmThere is a danger that curious users may

Re: Proper way to remove a package from both sarge and sid

2005-01-14 Thread Henning Makholm
automatically add all localization packages for the current locale where I have the underlying software installed. -- Henning MakholmLigger Öresund stadig i Middelfart?

Re: soname number in name of dev-package?

2005-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Stephen Frost * Henning Makholm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In summary: Yes, one could probably work around the lack of versions in the -dev packages name, but the result would be (in my view) significantly less elegant than having it there. Trying to support unsupported versions

Re: soname number in name of dev-package?

2005-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Thomas Bushnell BSG Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anybody advocating that we should try to support unsupported versions of libraries? I'm certainly not. Sure! That's what libc5 is. I'm not aware of even having mentioned libc5 in this thread (and I don't remember

Re: soname number in name of dev-package?

2005-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Thomas Bushnell BSG Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scripsit Thomas Bushnell BSG Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anybody advocating that we should try to support unsupported versions of libraries? I'm certainly not. Sure! That's what libc5

Re: If *-module depends on *-utils, should *-source recommend it?

2005-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
(with exception of configure cycles) beeing able to give them in whatever sequence as one is pleased to do. Nobody is suggesting that there should not be an option to override the default check for users (or front ends) who know what they are doing. -- Henning Makholm That's okay

Re: If *-module depends on *-utils, should *-source recommend it?

2005-01-12 Thread Henning Makholm
in the postinst phase. I can certainly accept and anticipate the objection that that would be difficult to implement, and nobody has cared to, but I still don't see why such a behavior would be *wrong*, per se. -- Henning Makholm Feet: Store in a cool dry place

Accepted vaiostat 1.2-7 (all source)

2005-01-11 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 15:46:58 + Source: vaiostat Binary: vaiostat-source Architecture: source all Version: 1.2-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Henning Makholm [EMAIL

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-10 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 19:37 +, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you *really* think that RTFM means Go read the documentation, that's what it's for? Yes, that's what it means. http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/R

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

2005-01-07 Thread Henning Makholm
than with the modules not unpacked at all? I fail to imagine any situation where that could be the case. -- Henning MakholmUnmetered water, dear. Run it deep.

Accepted autotrace 0.31.1-8 (i386 source)

2005-01-07 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 06:45:24 + Source: autotrace Binary: libautotrace-dev libautotrace3 autotrace Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.31.1-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Re: Experimental gaim_1.1.1-2 for Alpha

2005-01-06 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:47:57PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Does it also apply to signing .dsc's? The archive scripts won't act on an uploaded .dsc without an accompanying .changes file, so this is not an issue. Moreover, signing your .dsc

Re: Experimental gaim_1.1.1-2 for Alpha

2005-01-05 Thread Henning Makholm
to signing .dsc's? -- Henning MakholmHe who joyfully eats soup has already earned my contempt. He has been given teeth by mistake, since for him the intestines would fully suffice.

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-03 Thread Henning Makholm
that is able to function if the firmware is already loaded by some other means does not itself require the firmware. I know what I think about such opinions, but the fact is that they are held by some, and in at least some cases probably sincerely. -- Henning Makholm Der er ingen der sigter på

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-01 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] That would, however, cover firmware and wind up sending X to contrib. So maybe: ... iff it is stored on the local machine's file system. That would be my *intuitive

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-01 Thread Henning Makholm
loaders, to declare more than a Suggests: against an alternative BIOS. That would just bloat the user's file system without gaining him anything. -- Henning Makholm Det er du nok fandens ene om at mene. For det ligger i

Accepted bibclean 2.11.4-5 (i386 source)

2004-12-31 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:27:06 + Source: bibclean Binary: bibclean Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.11.4-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Henning Makholm [EMAIL

Accepted vaiostat 1.2-6 (all source)

2004-12-30 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:10:59 + Source: vaiostat Binary: vaiostat-source Architecture: source all Version: 1.2-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Henning Makholm [EMAIL

Re: Bug#284283: ITP: fairuse -- spam filter based on sender identity verification

2004-12-05 Thread Henning Makholm
received their | email, allowing them to click to deliver it. Meanwhile, they only | sit in the queue for an hour if they can't be delivered. Sigh. -- Henning Makholm Monarki, er ikke noget materielt ... Borger!

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Henning Makholm
. -- Henning Makholm Larry wants to replicate all the time ... ah, no, all I meant was that he likes to have a bang everywhere.

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meanwhile, what's the total installed space for glastree if you're not a Perl lover? Perl-base is 'Proirity: required' and 'Essential: yes'. It doesn't even have to be depended on. -- Henning Makholm It will be useful

Re: remove me from callwave

2004-11-09 Thread Henning Makholm
four when googling for callwave remove (without quotes). I still wonder what the people posting here are thinking, though. If they are thinking at all, that is. -- Henning Makholm This imposes the restriction on any procedure statement

Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

2004-11-09 Thread Henning Makholm
is to allow the sysadmin to control who gets the privilege of using pmount. -- Henning Makholm `Update' isn't a bad word; in the right setting it is useful. In the wrong setting, though, it is destructive...

Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-03 Thread Henning Makholm
this. IAARODL. If the DFSG-free part cannot be distributed without the non-DFSG-free parts, then it was never DFSG-free in the first place. -- Henning Makholm This imposes the restriction on any procedure statement that the kind and type

Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-01 Thread Henning Makholm
it by running a configure script. Some minor typos, most certainly originally made by me: officially distributed to the upstream author: s/to/by/ non-DFGS-free material: s/GS/SG/ the latter two points it to let: s/it/is/ -- Henning Makholm Also, the letters are printed. That makes

Re: Package name eMail or not?

2004-10-30 Thread Henning Makholm
to give his software a non-generic name] or something like that. -- Henning MakholmVi skal nok ikke begynde at undervise hinanden i den store regnekunst her, men jeg vil foreslå, at vi fra Kulturministeriets side sørger for at fremsende tallene og også

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-12 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Sven Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [u] wrote on 11/10/2004 20:22: [volatile.debian.org] Security fixes should be handled by security.d.o. Perhaps yes, perhaps no. Security fixes *to* packages already in volatile is a grey area, yes. I thought I was talking about

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-12 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 07:22:15PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To be fair, the issue is that if were just rules, there wouldn't be a need. Why not? Well, the argument goes: that can be done out-of-band

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-12 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 03:05:05PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: But isn't volatile.d.o supposed to *be* the out-of-band mechanism (whatever out-of-band means here)? No. clamav virus signatures, for example, can be maintained by a program, freshclam

Re: [OT:HUMOR] Re: software

2004-10-11 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Price for Commercial Software: Cost: several hundreds dollar and vendor lock-in And even more if one wants legit copies. Membership has its privedleges! Which? No membership is required. -- Henning Makholm

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-11 Thread Henning Makholm
than that - no thanks. -- Henning Makholm Punctuation, is? fun!

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-11 Thread Henning Makholm
; it does not receive mail, expand aliases or manage a queue. That belongs on a mail hub with a system administrator. Neither of these are necessary tasks for an MTA. -- Henning Makholm The spirits will have to knit like banshees, but with enough

Re: TG3 firmware report...

2004-10-11 Thread Henning Makholm
own licensing terms. He does not need a license at all to distribute his own work, thus there is nothing for *him* to violate. -- Henning MakholmJeg køber intet af Sulla, og selv om uordenen griber planmæssigt om sig, så er vi endnu ikke nået dertil hvor

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-11 Thread Henning Makholm
/packagename/*.so is fair game). -- Henning Makholm ... popping pussies into pies Wouldn't do in my shop just the thought of it's enough to make you sick

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-11 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 05:06:21PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: A backport of a new Mozilla release is something vastly different from new rules for a spam filter, To be fair, the issue is that if were just rules, there wouldn't be a need. Why not? I

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-11 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 11 October 2004 19:18, Henning Makholm wrote: The definition of mail-transport-agent is that it provides a /usr/sbin/sendmail that local software can use to submit emails for delivery to arbitrary addresses with some reasonable

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-10 Thread Henning Makholm
it as a sendmail alternative, just like nullmailer or ssmtp or other ones... Nullmailer is simply a way to deliver mail to a remote SMTP server. For example you cannot have it listening on port 25. Nevertheless it quite correctly provides mail-transport-agent, and so on. -- Henning Makholm

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-09 Thread Henning Makholm
as such. If it provides the same functionality as /usr/sbin/sendmail but with a different command name, then somebody needs to explain why. -- Henning Makholm Jeg forstår mig på at anvende sådanne midler på folks legemer, at jeg kan varme eller afkøle dem, som

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-08 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some things are not so obvious: Should volatile include updates of packages such as debian-keyring? debian-policy and developers-reference? -- Henning Makholm Al lykken er i ét ord: Overvægtig!

Re: Bug#274923: ITP: wnpp -- C++ library for robust numerical and geometric computation

2004-10-06 Thread Henning Makholm
with other libraries using the same name, I think Debian should provide the library under the same name. Client application source will be written to use -lcore, and we'd do nobody a service by forcing Debian users to change that manually. -- Henning Makholm Hele toget raslede imens

Re: Installed-Size and block size

2004-10-06 Thread Henning Makholm
a specific very good reason to bypass dpkg-gencontrol (or its debhelper wrapper). Do you? -- Henning Makholm Also, the letters are printed. That makes the task of identifying the handwriting much more difficult.

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-06 Thread Henning Makholm
. (But release-manager intervention would still be needed for SA3 to proceed to testing before all current clients have been fixed). -- Henning Makholm The compile-time type checker for this language has proved to be a valuable filter which

Re: Installed-Size and block size

2004-10-06 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andre Majorel [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2004-10-06 16:09 +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Do not try to compute Installed-Size by hand - dpkg-gencontrol will do it for you correctly. For my enlightenment, what does dpkg-gencontrol do that is more correct than summing st_blocks ? Use

Accepted autotrace 0.31.1-7 (i386 source)

2004-08-04 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 12:05:45 +0100 Source: autotrace Binary: libautotrace-dev libautotrace3 autotrace Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.31.1-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted autotrace 0.31.1-5 (i386 source)

2004-04-12 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 03:42:14 + Source: autotrace Binary: libautotrace-dev libautotrace3 autotrace Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.31.1-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted bibclean 2.11.4-3 (i386 source)

2004-02-28 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:58:56 + Source: bibclean Binary: bibclean Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.11.4-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Henning Makholm [EMAIL

Accepted autotrace 0.31.1-4 (i386 source)

2004-01-12 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 10:59:32 + Source: autotrace Binary: libautotrace-dev libautotrace3 autotrace Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.31.1-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted autotrace 0.31.1-3 (i386 source)

2003-12-20 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 01:32:54 + Source: autotrace Binary: libautotrace-dev libautotrace3 autotrace Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.31.1-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread Henning Makholm
, cc, make, nroff, etc. That's prominently visible to users; the libc is a technical detail that most users wouldn't care about unless it breaks. -- Henning Makholm Jeg har tydeligt gjort opmærksom på, at man ved at følge den vej kun bliver gennemsnitligt ca. 48 år

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread Henning Makholm
, that will work well, methinks. -- Henning Makholm However, the fact that the utterance by Epimenides of that false sentence could imply the existence of some Cretan who is not a liar is rather unsettling.

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread Henning Makholm
up your accusations in public, you shouldn't make them in public. -- Henning Makholm Hele toget raslede imens Sjælland fór forbi.

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:31:42AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Which would amount to saying We won't tell you why, but please change your name. I think that would be discouteous in the extreme. No, they simply could have said that they were

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:12:21AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: I think you trimmed away content that was crucial for understanding the parts you did quote, but whatever. If you need reptition or elaboration, I'll provide it. Please do. I found

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

2003-12-15 Thread Henning Makholm
machine as the package itself is false. -- Henning Makholm Det er du nok fandens ene om at mene. For det ligger i Australien!

Re: experimental codename

2003-12-15 Thread Henning Makholm
for tracking unstable, simply because I have to download it in full every day. So inflating experimental/Packages to full distribution size would probably have a measurable effect on mirror load level. -- Henning Makholm I've been staying out of family

BTS and maintainer changes

2003-12-15 Thread Henning Makholm
not yet completely up after the compromise? -- Henning Makholm We can build reactors, we can melt ice. Or engineers can be sent north for re-education until they *do* understand ice.

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-14 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:30:04PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: I think you're seing spectres. I think you didn't bother to read any of the parts of my message that you didn't quote. I did. But I trimmed away those that were not necessary

Re: Proposed change to debian release system

2003-12-14 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everybody seems to agree that new stable versions *should* be out about every 6 months. No. I stand corrected, apparently. (But I have yet to imagine which arguments would be used against doing a release

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-13 Thread Henning Makholm
think you're seing spectres. -- Henning Makholm ... and that Greek, Thucydides

Re: Proposed change to debian release system

2003-12-13 Thread Henning Makholm
the goal current instead of stable. -- Henning Makholm What has it got in its pocketses?

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for December 12, 2003

2003-12-12 Thread Henning Makholm
: FTBFS: Errors in kernel headers (If the maintainer is unresponsive or something I would adopt either package.) This bug is less than a week old, so it's a little early to declare that the maintainer is unresponsive. -- Henning MakholmWhat the hedgehog sang is not evidence.

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-11 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Henning Makholm wrote: Have you quantified the bloat you are speaking about? Can the same argument not apply to any i18n effort? Yes, using KDE2. The script removed any lines with [stuff] in them from KDE files (was possible

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-11 Thread Henning Makholm
will be necessary in order to prevent bloat my maintainer scripts and standard /usr/share/doc/* contents. Some kind of by-demand distribution and assembly of Packages files might also be necessary in practise. /brainstorm -- Henning MakholmNej, hvor er vi altså heldige! Længe

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-11 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oops, possible meaning-disturbing typo: implementation engineering will be necessary in order to prevent bloat my maintainer scripts and standard /usr/share/doc/* contents. s/my/by/ -- Henning Makholm Det er du nok

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-10 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: If you don't think the problem being discussed matters, why are you participating in the discussion? The problem

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-09 Thread Henning Makholm
). -- Henning Makholm Ambiguous cases are defined as those for which the compiler being used finds a legitimate interpretation which is different from that which the user had in mind.

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-09 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Straw man, again. The proposal was to rewrite all menu entries as .desktop files - Yes. That is a straw man. -- Henning MakholmNej, hvor er vi altså heldige! Længe leve vor Buxgører

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-09 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:57:29PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Are you claiming that everyone who says that .desktop has technical advantages is a liar? No. I'm claiming that everyone who says that only by using .desktop exclusively can we do

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-09 Thread Henning Makholm
much time and resources as it is, and you want to use up more, for what gain? Just how much more time and resources would it take to convert .desktop files to Debian menu definitions? How often does it have to be done? -- Henning MakholmI have seen men with a *fraction

Accepted autotrace 0.31.1-2 (i386 source)

2003-12-09 Thread Henning Makholm
-By: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: autotrace - bitmap to vector graphics converter libautotrace-dev - bitmap to vector graphics converter, development files libautotrace3 - bitmap to vector graphics converter, shared library files Closes: 206859 Changes: autotrace (0.31.1-2

Accepted bibclean 2.11.4-2 (i386 source)

2003-12-09 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 16:26:49 + Source: bibclean Binary: bibclean Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.11.4-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Peter Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Henning Makholm [EMAIL

Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion

2003-12-06 Thread Henning Makholm
certainly want to toss out the culprit ASAP. -- Henning Makholm Jeg forstår mig på at anvende sådanne midler på folks legemer, at jeg kan varme eller afkøle dem, som jeg vil, og få dem til at kaste op, hvis det er det, jeg

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-05 Thread Henning Makholm
to maintain it. -- Henning MakholmWhat the hedgehog sang is not evidence.

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm wrote: The proposal is to enhance update-menus such that it knows how to parse .desktop files and feed the information from them transparently to menu methods that expect the Debian native format. The head of this thread is about

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:05:34PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: Step 2: Packagers can now chose to supply .desktop files instead of the Debian format, with a versioned dependency on menu. I can see no reason to proceed any further than

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