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

2003-12-18 Thread Jim Penny
of the term. 19th Century. http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Daemon.html Jim Penny

Re: rice doc status

2003-11-07 Thread Jim Penny
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:55:25 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if you are virused, or if your sender has been spoofed, or what. Anyway, you might want to look into this. You appear to be spewing odd word documents people you don't know. Jim Penny -Original Message

Re: Removing python-pygresql and libpqpp packages

2003-10-10 Thread Jim Penny
merged into pygresql. Jim Penny This is not strictly orphaning, more infanticide. I'm not sure conventional orphaning fits, since the source package is not being orphaned. The PostgreSQL python interface (python-pygresql) has been separated upstream into its own source tree. Since

Re: 2.5/2.6 IPsec stack should live in a kernel-patch!

2003-10-01 Thread Jim Penny
your voice be heard! i'm interested only in the debian kernel without 2.5/2.6 IPsec. in my mind this should be vanilla kernel + debian fixes. But 2.5/2.6 include IPSEC in the vanilla kernel! Jim Penny

Re: music sheet

2003-09-08 Thread Jim Penny
notion that debian is a good place to get the music! Jim Penny

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Jim Penny
the adventurer, and probably no idea of whether anything is worth picking up and risking the possibility of a curse. Jim Penny who has in past lives spent far too many hours playing nethack

Re: Bug#203498: ITP: decss -- utility for stripping CSS tags from an HTML page.

2003-07-30 Thread Jim Penny
has a file names deCSS on their system. This is an attempt to make such a filename so common that these letters are pointless, and possibly evidence of illegal activity. Jim Penny

Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-03 Thread Jim Penny
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 22:25:26 +0200 Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Penny wrote: Now, this breakage happens to be somewhat benign, in that without configuration, it does not function at all. But it is also somewhat difficult to test for many uses. Further, when

Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-02 Thread Jim Penny
system fails to start, the failure is completely silent. This adds to the problems. Jim Penny -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer

Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-02 Thread Jim Penny
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:57:01 -0500 Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:50:29AM -0400, Jim Penny wrote: On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 20:40:02 -0500 Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:12:22PM +0200, Julien LEMOINE wrote: I

Re: Bug#198665: ITP: pmk -- The pmk project aims to be an alternative to GNU/autoconf (configure scripts).

2003-06-24 Thread Jim Penny
. Perhaps: A tool to configure software (GNU Autoconf also has this purpose) Jim Penny

Re: curl, testing and gcc-3.2 (?) (was Re: Debian curl package depends on gcc-3.2?)

2003-04-15 Thread Jim Penny
libraries are strongly backwards compatible. When it does become a problem, it can be terrible for a few weeks. Lots of packages need to be rebuilt. Unstable becomes, well, unstable. Then things get back to the normal level of chaos. Jim Penny Note: I don't have a suggestion for a better

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-10 Thread Jim Penny
to reverse engineer the Unicode data files, much less the ancillary algorithms. That is, a 32 bit search space with at least 36 properties to be discovered per data point is whopping big. Jim Penny

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-06 Thread Jim Penny
?rev=1.17content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Both show that these projects (at least) are mechanically deriving their internal unicode tables from UnicodeData.txt. Jim Penny

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-03 Thread Jim Penny
names, or are they maintained in a separate table? How do you use the name programmatically if you don't know the language they are in? I did some googling, but could not find the French trasnlation files. Is there an URL? Jim Penny

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-03 Thread Jim Penny
be in debian main? In other words, does the program require ... non-free packages or packages which are not in our archive at all for ... execution? Jim Penny

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread Jim Penny
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 11:06:12AM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:35:25PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: I think you are missing the points here. First of all, DFSG applied to the standard does not want to change the standard, but wants all to be able

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread Jim Penny
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 11:10:09AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021130 18:43]: Huh? If I change the text of the standard, I have changed the standard! For example, if I have : 0332;COMBINING LOW LINE;Mn;220;NSM;N;NON-SPACING UNDERSCORE and change

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread Jim Penny
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 07:30:57PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:16:07AM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 11:06:12AM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote: There are all sorts of reasons why you might wish to create derivative works based on the standard

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread Jim Penny
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:43:42AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, where in the Unicode license does it give you permission to create derivative works? The license does say Information can be extracted from these files Oh, and you have

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-30 Thread Jim Penny
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:37:41AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021128 03:35]: So, according to Branden, international standards are supposed to allow debian the right to modify them and to distribute the modified versions. Absent said permission, which

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Penny
. Yet, unicode is supposed to be the canonical character encoding scheme for debian. Does this mean every unicode text editor belongs in contrib (depends on something non-free)? What an interesting anecdote! Jim Penny

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Penny
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:53:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:23:51PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: I see no problem with this license as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. There is no permission granted to make modifications (and distribute

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Penny
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:34:20PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Wednesday 27 November 2002 02:03, Roland Mas wrote: Current candidates include: hey how about something much less cryptic like forge. Nothing worse than having to guess what woman's name some silly coder named the

Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?

2002-08-14 Thread Jim Penny
the debian developer should be taking care of. There has been dicussion of removing python1.5. But this is because there are very few packages left that depend on it. Debian does not historically remove packages easily or without thought. Jim Penny Laura Creighton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?

2002-08-14 Thread Jim Penny
will be issued some time later this year. But Zope 2.5, one the more popular applications, requires 2.1.3. Can we be more aggressive in changing default versions than Zope? Jim Penny I don't expect 2.3 to reach maturity until mid 2003. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org

Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?

2002-08-14 Thread Jim Penny
defenseless things for a hobby! 2.2 is available in woody already. Invoke it using /usr/bin/python2.2. BTW: is the PIAT consortium going to offer any DSFG free software? Jim Penny

Postgres and non-us

2001-05-08 Thread Jim Penny
PostgreSQL now has a dependency on openssl/ssl.h in a fundamental header file, postgresql/libpq-fe.h. Does this mean that every piece of software which requires this header file to compile will also have to be migrated to nonus? Jim Penny

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Jim Penny
the answer to my questions. These are: 1) how do I boot from a non-IDE root disk? 2) How do I control what goes into initrd in a more reasonable way than nothing/most/all. (and what does most do, anyway?). Jim Penny