Re: Next Debian Release

2006-08-29 Thread Henning Makholm
can handle. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/08/msg5.html -- Henning Makholm*Jeg* tænker *strax* på kirkemødet i Konstantinopel i 381 e.Chr. om det arianske kætteri... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#380388: ITP: toga2 -- computer chess engine, calculates chess moves

2006-07-29 Thread Henning Makholm
on the planet. Hell of an opponent and stronger than 90% of the commercial chess engines. Would X% of Debian's other free chess engines not be a more relevant comparison? -- Henning Makholm sh: line 1: fortune: command not found -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit

2006-07-13 Thread Henning Makholm
reason). -- Henning Makholm Set your feet free! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-27 Thread Henning Makholm
$(DEB_MAKE_J_OPTION) on the $(MAKE) all line in debian/rules is a better choice after all. (In any case there is no need to check specifically whether it exists before using it - if it doesn't, make will silently expand it to nothing). -- Henning MakholmAnd why should I talk slaves' and fools' talk? I

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-19 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scripsit Falk Hueffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm wrote: Another related bug type that I found lurking in my packages when I investigated the warnings in this list, is trying to format a size_t

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-18 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Falk Hueffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm wrote: Another related bug type that I found lurking in my packages when I investigated the warnings in this list, is trying to format a size_t value with a %u or %d format string, which will break if size_t is 64 bits (unless

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-16 Thread Henning Makholm
ought to create a tool that could easily compare the buildd logs for a package on different architectures and flag warnings that appear only for some but not arches, indicating a possible portability bug. -- Henning MakholmWhat the hedgehog sang is not evidence

Accepted autotrace 0.31.1-13 (source i386)

2006-06-11 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:08:57 +0200 Source: autotrace Binary: libautotrace-dev libautotrace3 autotrace Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.31.1-13 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted bibtool 2.48alpha.2-3 (source i386)

2006-06-09 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 22:38:17 +0200 Source: bibtool Binary: bibtool Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.48alpha.2-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Henning Makholm [EMAIL

Accepted autotrace 0.31.1-12 (source i386)

2006-06-09 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 22:03:18 +0200 Source: autotrace Binary: libautotrace-dev libautotrace3 autotrace Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.31.1-12 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Re: Hidden files

2006-06-07 Thread Henning Makholm
an interactive shell _without_ the -a flag. -- Henning Makholm The compile-time type checker for this language has proved to be a valuable filter which traps a significant proportion of programming errors. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-04 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] As beautiful as this irony is of a non-developer asserting on a developer list that being involved in development is irrelevant, But being involved in development _is_ irrelevant as regards whether his arguments have merit or not. -- Henning Makholm

Re: NMU procedure and /usr/bin/nmudiff defaults

2006-06-04 Thread Henning Makholm
then the default ought to send to the existing bug if the changelog closes exactly one bug, and open a new bug report otherwise. -- Henning Makholm Skidt med din brud når der står et par nymfer

Re: Red team attacks vs. cracking

2006-06-01 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm dijo [Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:10:51AM +0200]: A KSP that depends on there being any pre-existing trust to abuse is *completely worthless* as a KSP whether or not that trust is abused or not. Ummm... There is a certain metric of pre

Re: Red team attacks vs. cracking

2006-05-30 Thread Henning Makholm
. -- Henning Makholm Jeg har tydeligt gjort opmærksom på, at man ved at følge den vej kun bliver gennemsnitligt ca. 48 år gammel, og at man sætter sin sociale situation ganske overstyr og, så vidt jeg kan overskue, dør i dybeste ulykkelighed og elendighed

Re: [Debconf-discuss] list of valid documents for KSPs

2006-05-30 Thread Henning Makholm
this obvious fact is not going to change it. good faith would have been to present the official ID and extend the web of trust. A security mechanism that only works in the non-presense of fraudsters is no security mechanism at all. -- Henning Makholm I can get

Re: [Debconf-discuss] list of valid documents for KSPs

2006-05-29 Thread Henning Makholm
. Correct. If you think the system depends on people being honest in the first place, the system has no conceivable useful purpose. -- Henning Makholm Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: [Debconf-discuss] list of valid documents for KSPs

2006-05-28 Thread Henning Makholm
document he presents. -- 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: sending debian-private postings to gmail

2006-05-25 Thread Henning Makholm
? -- Henning Makholm I Guds Faders namn, och Sonens, och den Helige Andes! Bevara oss från djävulens verk och från Muhammeds, den förbannades, illfundigheter! Med dig är det värre än med någon annan, ty att lyssna till Muhammed är det värsta av

Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]

2006-05-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 17 May 2006, Henning Makholm wrote: How does sending directly to from reportbug to an ISP's smarthost validate the user's email address better than sending directly from reportbug to a HTTP POST somewhere? I'm talking about an HTTP access

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

2006-05-19 Thread Henning Makholm
for external SMTP or IMAP addresses. I have no doubt that it would gladly _accept_ such a specification if I needed to and cared to look up how to configure it, but the _default_ configuration is to use the _default_ mail transport mechanism in Debian, which is how it should be. -- Henning Makholm

Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]

2006-05-17 Thread Henning Makholm
would need to know it. -- Henning Makholm This imposes the restriction on any procedure statement that the kind and type of each actual parameter be compatible with the kind and type

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

2006-05-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Steinar H. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:13:46PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: Why not just install some software that can speak SMTP as the chroot's /usr/bin/sendmail? E.g. nullmailer. nullmailer is, in general, broken. Then something else. One can easily

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Henning Makholm
). The (Essential) coreutils package provides a userspace binary /bin/ln which makes these calls available to shell scripts. -- Henning MakholmGrisene fik gåsehud -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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

2006-05-16 Thread Henning Makholm
replacement - it's abstract method for using mailers in way you want to use. /usr/sbin/sendmail _is_ an abstract method for sending mail through the transport configured by the system administrator. -- Henning Makholm ... a specialist in the breakaway

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

2006-05-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:04 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Steinar H. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:13:46PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: Why not just install some software that can speak SMTP as the chroot's /usr/bin

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-16 Thread Henning Makholm
you think the problem is? -- 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 PROTECTED]

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

2006-05-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:21 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: The point is that they could if the wanted to. And if they did, it would work for _all_ programs, not just particular perl scripts that happen to use some obscure perl module to send mails. mail

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

2006-05-15 Thread Henning Makholm
setting up a chroot maildrop, and while there are packages to do this, using some module that can speak SMTP is often the path of least resistance. Why not just install some software that can speak SMTP as the chroot's /usr/bin/sendmail? E.g. nullmailer. -- Henning Makholm Wir kommen

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

2006-05-14 Thread Henning Makholm
interface, mandated by policy, LSB, etc? -- Henning Makholm We will discuss your youth another time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multiarch status update

2006-05-13 Thread Henning Makholm
/bin/python to be a symlink to /usr/bin/$arch/python with $arch chosen (somehow) appropriately for a default python interpreter. -- Henning MakholmDetta, sade de, vore rena sanningen; ty de kunde tala sanning lika väl som någon

Accepted xcftools 1.0.4-1 (source i386)

2006-05-13 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 04:12:20 +0200 Source: xcftools Binary: xcftools Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.0.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Henning Makholm [EMAIL

Re: utnubu-desktop for the masses

2006-05-02 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm wrote: Can tasksel tasks be manipulated programmatically with the same apt/aptitude inferfaces that metapackages can? This question does not have a yes or no answer, the situation is rather more complex than that. Concretely: In order

Re: utnubu-desktop for the masses

2006-04-25 Thread Henning Makholm
? If yes: Then how do they differ from packages, and how to we need a secondary concept at all? If no: Then I would very much like to keep the metapackages I use as ordinary packages, thank you. -- Henning Makholm Punctuation, is? fun! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Henning Makholm
think that version diffs should be a maintainer-default keyword, for the reason you cite. (But I'm not personally affected by the choice either way, so my opinion may not be important). -- Henning Makholm Larry wants to replicate all the time ... ah, no, all I meant

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-22 Thread Henning Makholm
in English, but being able to see more lines at a time should benefit everybody who want or need more control than just accepting all of the defaults. -- Henning Makholm The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason

Re: [Help] Versioning of a library

2006-04-22 Thread Henning Makholm
versions inbetween? Why do you have an -X component in the package name, if the 0.5.2.0 is the full upstream version number? Seems superfluous to me. -- Henning Makholm The great secret, known to internists and learned early in marriage by internists

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-18 Thread Henning Makholm
. -- Henning Makholm There were few families that didn't have at least one hopeful who, from Reading Day on, was the great hope because of the way he handled his trisyllabics. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-17 Thread Henning Makholm
installation option, even a light one. There, I think, the defining characteristic is that one can get work done *without* meeting any command lines in one's day-to-day use of the computer. -- Henning MakholmAnything you can discover we

Accepted xcftools 1.0.3-1 (source i386)

2006-04-16 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 04:19:09 +0200 Source: xcftools Binary: xcftools Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.0.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Henning Makholm [EMAIL

Re: Eiffel.

2006-04-12 Thread Henning Makholm
download option which I have not tried, but it may be more explicitly released. -- Henning Makholm Ambiguous cases are defined as those for which the compiler being used finds a legitimate interpretation which is different from that which

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-12 Thread Henning Makholm
in particular as work worth money would be far out of proportion. -- Henning Makholm Punctuation, is? fun! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Use clisp shiped with source or from Debian?

2006-04-12 Thread Henning Makholm
. This reasoning also holds if the version without is internal to third package. -- Henning Makholm Det er du nok fandens ene om at mene. For det ligger i Australien! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-04-05 Thread Henning Makholm
the simplest and most direct way to test your hypothesis that that particular package update is the cause of your problem. (And, yes it _it_ the clever way to start, rather than trying to dig into code changes that may and may not be related to the effect you're seeing). -- Henning Makholm

Re: Bug#360340: ITP: libpcl1 -- the Portable Coroutine Library (PCL) implements the low level functionality for coroutines

2006-04-01 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Damián Viano [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a more complete definition of the term coroutine see The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth. I nominate this for the 2006 Most Precise Literature Reference in a Package Description award. -- Henning Makholm That's

Re: Maintainers Guide

2006-03-29 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:51:30PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: Only for some pretty strange values of worthless. AFAIU the only legal effect of the notice requirements you cite is as defined by subsection (d): if a compliant notice is present

Re: Bug#358695: ITP: latex-utils -- utilities for LaTeX/xfig

2006-03-29 Thread Henning Makholm
. LaTeX programs are not being _compiled_; they are being _executed_ and their output are page descriptions. -- Henning Makholm The man who catches a meniningococcus is in considerably less danger for his life, even without chemotherapy, than

Re: Maintainers Guide

2006-03-28 Thread Henning Makholm
that the defendant did in fact know that the work was subject to copyright. The only difference is that the defendant gets to try to convince the court that he did not recognize the notice as an assertion that copyright exists. -- Henning Makholm*Vi vil ha

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-27 Thread Henning Makholm
. The generated autofoo stuff does not end up in the .deb, so the copyright file needs not describe it. -- Henning Makholm Vend dig ikke om! Det er et meget ubehageligt syn! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-27 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Henning Makholm wrote: And we ignore any (C) FSF in generated autofoo stuff. The generated autofoo stuff does not end up in the .deb, so the copyright file needs not describe it. It often ends up in the source

Re: Уникальные семинары!

2006-03-23 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 22 March 2006 09:45, Henning Makholm wrote: Listmasters have been trying to identify the responsible subscriber with no luck Why not just 500 all posts from sites known to use challenge-response? The challenges are send directly from

Re: Уникальные семинары!

2006-03-22 Thread Henning Makholm
is _not_ at uol.com.br, inform listmaster at lists.debian.org with as much documentation as you can get, in particular full headers. -- Henning Makholm It will be useful even at this early stage to review briefly the main

Re: one binary package created by different source packages, will the old source package disappear?

2006-03-20 Thread Henning Makholm
with an older one. Probably a better solution would be to rename libfoo-dev to libfoo1-dev such that if packages that link to libfoo1 reach stable there will still be a way to rebuild them for security updates without adding the new-bug risks of switching to a new implementation of the library. -- Henning

Re: Request of expulsion of Zeke the Cat from the Debian Project

2006-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please, people, the mere fact that we have an expulsion procedure should *not* mean that we have to invoke it twice in a few weeks. Hear, hear! -- Henning Makholm Nett hier

Re: Delayed ldconfig execution in postinst step

2006-03-14 Thread Henning Makholm
forbid such a packaging - see the last paragraph before section 8.1.1. -- Henning Makholm And here we could talk about the Plato's Cave thing for a while---the Veg-O-Matic of metaphors---it slices! it dices! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: ITP: moleinvasion -- Jump'n run game with Tux

2006-03-14 Thread Henning Makholm
for the LONG_TEXT_FILE string. (It does prevent executing arbitrary code taken from the environment variable _instead_ of dying horribly). -- Henning MakholmThere is a danger that curious users may occasionally unplug their fiber connector and look

Re: GFDL question

2006-03-14 Thread Henning Makholm
sentence from Jacobo Tarrio seems to use not distributable in sense (b). Since this is not in fact -legal, I assume that we all actually agree and that JT is simply unfamiliar with the relevant jargon. -- Henning MakholmLigger Öresund stadig i Middelfart? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Private.

2006-03-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] you are not francois massaquoi's son Indeed I am not. I see nothing can be hidden from you. Rather a brilliant display of observation and deduction, actually. I don't suppose we could interest you in a job at the Yard? -- Henning Makholm I

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-08 Thread Henning Makholm
a couple of years ago. However, the current sysvinit has no trouble shutting down my sid box. -- Henning Makholm However, the fact that the utterance by Epimenides of that false sentence could imply the existence of some Cretan who

Re: Bug#355848: ITP: pcmanfm -- GPL'd lightweight file manager for X Window

2006-03-08 Thread Henning Makholm
license a package has, and they can just look in the copyright file (which is available from p.d.o. when p.d.o. works fully). -- Henning Makholm Jeg forstår mig på at anvende sådanne midler på folks legemer, at jeg kan varme eller afkøle dem

Re: New packages.debian.org

2006-03-06 Thread Henning Makholm
implies that this somebody must be Debian user or developer. -- Henning Makholm The man who catches a meniningococcus is in considerably less danger for his life, even without chemotherapy, than meningococci with the bad luck to catch a man

Re: New packages.debian.org

2006-03-06 Thread Henning Makholm
? Chances are good that they will be there come morning. -- Henning Makholm It was intended to compile from some approximation to the M-notation, but the M-notation was never fully defined, because representing LISP functions by LISP lists became the dominant

Re: 4GB address space

2006-03-05 Thread Henning Makholm
to be directly relevant to the development of Debian, and I'd expect most people here haven't ever even looked at kernel source. -- Henning Makholm Y'know, I don't want to seem like one of those hackneyed Jews that you see in heartwarming movies

Re: Bug#354831: ITP: bfc -- Brainfuck compiler

2006-03-02 Thread Henning Makholm
calculus, and (2) the use of toy languages generally do not depend on having a compiler for them. -- Henning Makholm In my opinion, this child don't need to have his head shrunk at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#354831: ITP: bfc -- Brainfuck compiler

2006-03-02 Thread Henning Makholm
that this is _not_ just a proof-of-concept item? -- Henning Makholm Man vælger jo selv sine forbilleder. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#354831: ITP: bfc -- Brainfuck compiler

2006-03-02 Thread Henning Makholm
brownfox. I was reacting to the (to me) evident uselessness of the proposed package. [1] Except that I think it grossly overstates the strangeness of what is just a straightforward if rather verbose encoding of a well-known computation model, but that is not the packager's fault. -- Henning

Re: Bug#354831: ITP: bfc -- Brainfuck compiler

2006-03-01 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] * License : BSD-like Description : Brainfuck compiler What is this useful for? -- Henning Makholm Ambiguous cases are defined as those for which the compiler being used finds a legitimate interpretation

Re: Bug#354831: ITP: bfc -- Brainfuck compiler

2006-03-01 Thread Henning Makholm
for years and is a Turing-complete programming language consisting of only eight commands: Basically just a horrible way to write down counter machines. Who would use that for anything? -- Henning Makholm We will discuss your youth another time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-28 Thread Henning Makholm
. An example is libc5 - it exists in sarge *only* to support old applications, presumably non-free and certainly not in main themselves. Yet I have not heard anybody suggest that it ought to have been in contrib for that reason. -- Henning Makholm ... a specialist

Re: Is there some guideline saying that native packages should be avoided?

2006-02-28 Thread Henning Makholm
distribution there instead of here, confusion will result if the Ubuntu packaging in debian/ cannot be easily separated from the upstream source that a new Debian maintainer might want to package. It is easier to just do it right from the beginning. -- Henning Makholm Jeg mener

Re: Is there some guideline saying that native packages should be avoided?

2006-02-28 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 21:26 schrieb Henning Makholm: Further, providing an .orig.tar.gz without the debian/ directory helps prevent confusion for users on non-Debian systems. On the other side, some user may find it very useful

Accepted xcftools 1.0.2-1 (source i386)

2006-02-22 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:16:11 +0100 Source: xcftools Binary: xcftools Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.0.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Henning Makholm [EMAIL

Accepted bibtool 2.48alpha.2-2 (source i386)

2006-02-21 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:27:02 +0100 Source: bibtool Binary: bibtool Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.48alpha.2-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Henning Makholm [EMAIL

Accepted xcftools 0.7.1-1 (source i386)

2006-02-19 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 05:10:21 +0100 Source: xcftools Binary: xcftools Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.7.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Henning Makholm [EMAIL

Accepted xcftools 1.0-1 (source i386)

2006-02-19 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:57:52 +0100 Source: xcftools Binary: xcftools Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted xcftools 1.0.1-1 (source i386)

2006-02-19 Thread Henning Makholm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:16:16 +0100 Source: xcftools Binary: xcftools Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.0.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Henning Makholm [EMAIL

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-18 Thread Henning Makholm
under a viral license ;-) And, more important, is not covered by copyright law Even more important: Debian does not distribute kittens at all. -- Henning Makholm ... and that Greek, Thucydides -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Library interface version question

2006-02-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm wrote: You are supposed to write an appropriate shlibs file, as described in policy �8.6. Have you done so? My file is currently automatically generated by dh_shlibdeps, and says libargtable2 0 libargtable2-0. No it isn't

Recommending an image viewer

2006-02-14 Thread Henning Makholm
. But that does not seem quite the Debian way of doing things. (On a related note, will I lose my position in the NEW queue by uploading improved versions of the package before it is accepted?) -- Henning MakholmThere is a danger that curious users may

Re: Library interface version question

2006-02-13 Thread Henning Makholm
system. -- Henning MakholmI, madam, am the Archchancellor! And I happen to run this University! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#352535: ITP: gitmail -- Very simple graphical mail user agent for sending mail (GTK)

2006-02-12 Thread Henning Makholm
with an off-the-shelf MUA that can be configured to send to a smarthost rather than to a local MTA. -- Henning Makholm En tapper tinsoldat. En dame i spagat. Du er en lykkelig mand ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Automatic testing of .deb's

2006-02-07 Thread Henning Makholm
be helpful, because I don't have the time to read up on it now, but will want to when you file the first bug on my pkgs, FWIW, I agree with both of these points. -- Henning Makholm This imposes the restriction on any procedure statement

Re: NEWS.Debian abuse

2006-01-31 Thread Henning Makholm
, such that users upgrading from sarge to etch won't be needlessly bothered. I still maintain that the information provided was useful, Whether it is useful is the wrong question. Lots of things are useful but still not relevant to spam the sysadmin with during upgrades. -- Henning Makholm

Re: Bug#349424: ITP: xcftools -- command-line tools for extracting data for XCF files

2006-01-30 Thread Henning Makholm
for pointing out that imagemagick does have some support for layers. This wasn't apparent to me the first 20 times I read the manpage :-) (In related news, an xcftools package is now in the NEW queue). -- Henning Makholm ... not one has been remembered from the time

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

2006-01-30 Thread Henning Makholm
. -- Henning Makholm ... popping pussies into pies Wouldn't do in my shop just the thought of it's enough to make you sick and I'm telling you them pussy cats

Bug#349424: ITP: xcftools -- command-line tools for extracting data for XCF files

2006-01-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: xcftools Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://henning.makholm.net/software * License : GPLv2 Description : command-line

Re: Derived distributions and the Maintainer: field

2006-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
Maintainer: fields, unless the maintainer agrees to have his name on it. You seem to require a standard of attribution in the Maintainer field that Debian does not itself follow in our default procedures. To wit: NMUs _within_ Debian keep the Maintainer field unchanged. -- Henning Makholm

Re: libecw

2006-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
are not permitted to change the ECW file format. This, however, directly kills DFSG-freedom as well as GPL compatibility. If the library is actually linked with GPL code, as the authors seem to expect, the entire think becomes legally undistributable even in non-free. -- Henning Makholm

Re: Aptitude question

2006-01-10 Thread Henning Makholm
often just hit ^C to exit after upgrading, instead of waiting ages for all the updating random stuff #11, very slowly... 2% stuff to finish before I can type q aol / -- Henning Makholm Logic is a system for talking about propositions that can

Re: How to Increase Contributions from Volunteers

2006-01-04 Thread Henning Makholm
merely vocing objections to lowering the bar for people who are responsible for Debian packages, and can thus run code as root on my machine. How on earth do you manage to interpret promote the easy entry points to contributing to debian more prominently as lowering the bar? -- Henning

Re: not getting CCs from the bugs I reported

2006-01-03 Thread Henning Makholm
while they figure out how to fix the problem. On the other hand, I do not think that most of the bugs in our BTS are reported by non-technical users. -- Henning Makholm This imposes the restriction on any procedure statement that the kind

Re: something strange with rsh/ssh + bash/tcsh is happening. Please advise

2006-01-03 Thread Henning Makholm
to the -c option is being interpreted as _a shell script_ itself. -- 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

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-22 Thread Henning Makholm
a non-modal editor for the rest of us). -- Henning MakholmThere is a danger that curious users may occasionally unplug their fiber connector and look directly into it to watch the bits go by at 100 Mbps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-20 Thread Henning Makholm
strings. (Of course², nobody said that this will be easy to do for any particular program). -- Henning MakholmUnmetered water, dear. Run it deep. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-13 Thread Henning Makholm
will necessarily decrease the experience of a group of people at all. -- 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

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12/13/05, Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alternatively each user can spread his load over all three servers; his download now takes 5 minutes, and each server _still_ sees 600*5 = 3000 active connections at any time. Thus _all_ users

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-12 Thread Henning Makholm
at the end of such links would have little use for parallelism in the first place. -- Henning Makholm What has it got in its pocketses? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#341425: ITP: libmail-date-perl -- RFC2822 compliant date-time conversion

2005-12-06 Thread Henning Makholm
RFC2822 representation. Is this worth a package of its own? It's not as if generating RFC2822 dates in perl is hard - there are twoliners easily googleable. -- Henning MakholmYou are in a little twisting maze of passages

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-12-01 Thread Henning Makholm
of your case. *shrug* The computer security folks at that university started spreading FUD about various security systems, mainly rehashing the work of others. They seem to be in it mostly for the publicity. More ad hominem arguing. -- Henning Makholm Jeg mener, at der

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-29 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:15:34PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: I would expect something like $ dsum -a sha1 COPYING; sha1sum COPYING s.w4runjyMTV1ZT_VIob4FRTAjAW1ihpMfZRLbIV7B_UI COPYING sha1sum already exists; and isn't that long. Do you

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