Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/01/2011 06:19 AM, ximalaya wrote: Hi all, [snip] BTW, I ever tried on Redhat Linux 9, no such problem. This is the interesting part. Is RH keeping their patches, or are upstream and other distros just not determining them worthwhile? -- I prefer banana-flavored energy bars made

Bug#615476: general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library

2011-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/26/2011 12:43 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: severity 615476 important tag 615476 + unreproducible thanks On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:25 +0300, sergey wrote: Some programs can not start because of missing libtiff.so.3 file. I suspect this is a local problem, as none of the packages in

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2011 07:26 AM, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: On Jueves 17 Febrero 2011 22:18:25 Ron Johnson escribió: On 02/17/2011 08:58 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: [snip] Should it be locked down like Fort Knox? There's a heck of a lot of middle ground between Fort Knox and Hippy Commune. We

Re: What should we do with iceweasel/xulrunner/libmozjs?

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2011 05:42 AM, Axel Beckert wrote: Hi, Mike Hommey wrote: - Push 3.6 to unstable and the last 4.0 betas/rc to experimental. Push 4.0 to unstable when it's out. That would be my favourite. I use Conkeror (which is a XULRunner application and hence depends on xulrunner) with 3.6

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2011 10:55 AM, Martin Owens wrote: On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 15:24 +, Roger Leigh wrote: Yes, but like everything there is a tradeoff. A totally secure system is an unusable system. Having to instruct every user how to relax the permissions to allow others to access their files, or

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2011 08:58 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: [snip] Should it be locked down like Fort Knox? There's a heck of a lot of middle ground between Fort Knox and Hippy Commune. Should it be generally usable, and easy for users to see each other's stuff? Only with the owner's permission.

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2011 09:24 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: [snip] Yes, but like everything there is a tradeoff. A totally secure system is an unusable system. Why the black and white? What happened to grey? Having to instruct every user how to relax the permissions to allow others

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

2011-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/14/2011 10:39 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: [snip] The fact that naive Python programs work (honouring LC_CTYPE as they should) unless you pipe their output to something is clearly a bug. The fact that it's a specification bug doesn't mean it's not a bug. It doesn't seem to work for me. $

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

2011-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/14/2011 04:26 PM, The Fungi wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:57:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: It doesn't seem to work for me. [...] $ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 python -c 'print u\u00a3' Traceback (most recent call last): File string, line 1, inmodule UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

2011-02-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/11/2011 07:36 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: [snip] UTF-16 is never, ever useful. It is a sad trap for win32 and Java developers, due to a bad engineering decision suggested, as I was told, by [snip] No, there is only one encoding left, as long as you don't have to talk to Windows. Never

Re: Installing Vmware v71

2010-10-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/10/2010 08:04 PM, Tong Sun wrote: Thanks a lot, that's already good enough for me. Please tell me, ...but please don't tell debian-devel. (MFT set) Sorry, but I really can't get it. All over the web, people from other distros are sharing how they can beat it, but I just can't find

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/24/2010 02:06 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: [snip] And then there is the (nowadays perceived) problem that reportbug needs a working MTA setup or at least outgoing traffic on port 25/587. Both ports are blocked on almost all my machines, so I still have not much bothered with reportbug. (I'd

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/22/2010 11:42 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote: [snip] But this is not a problem you can solve. You cannot avoid requiring some effort from users wanting to report a bug. For some value of some effort. MS Windows has a bug-reporting pop-up window that with the click of a button sends traceback

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/21/2010 06:50 AM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: [snip] Or a better idea: * Provide semi-official images with non-free enabled (on cdimage.debian.org) of our releases. This is one big reason, why users decide to use Ubuntu instead of Debian. That's why I installed Ubuntu on my wife/kids' PC:

Re: suggestion about debian devel extension

2010-07-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/07/2010 03:51 AM, j jj wrote: Dear Asheesh. It is very glad to disscuss with you. That looks pretty cool! What do you mean by put it under debian? I want to host the website under debian. Because the number of packages in debian is huge, it is beyond my capibility to

Re: Waqf General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/02/2010 06:33 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: On Freitag, 2. Juli 2010, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/03/msg00064.html ? It's funny... yes... but there is no discriminatory or similar content in it. Huh? It clearly discriminates evil-doers! I

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/28/2010 06:54 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 05:36:11AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: [snip] Second, for the reasons given earlier, releasing with iceweasel 3.6 and icedove 3.1 would mean to avoid releasing with iceape 2.0. This may not be a huge problem, as we already

Re: Bug#586589: ITP: swat -- Samba Web Administration Tool

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 02:55 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jelmer Vernooijjel...@debian.org * Package name: swat Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Ricardo Velhotervelh...@gmail.com * URL : http://github.com/rvelhote/GSoC-SWAT * License

Re: Bug#586132: ITP: indicator-messages -- indicator that collects messages that need a response

2010-06-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/16/2010 12:41 PM, Evgeni Golov wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: The Ayatana Packagerspkg-ayatana-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: indicator-messages Version : 0.3.7 Upstream Author : Ted Gouldt...@canonical.com * URL :

Re: Bug#529974: RFP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol

2010-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/2010 03:21 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: There must be a good *reason* why Christian still maintains ffmpeg and mplayer in d-m.o even though same-named packages are also in Debian. Maybe he likes the extra work?? Maybe because he activates some 5 more built-in encoders in ffmpeg and

Re: Archive area for clamz (Amazon MP3 downloader)

2010-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/2010 12:54 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On dim., 2010-05-30 at 21:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Clamz just moves some bits from Point A to Point B. I hope you don't use this as a definition of dfsg-free? Hardly. My (possibly flawed) thinking was originally raised here: http

Re: Archive area for clamz (Amazon MP3 downloader)

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/29/2010 09:47 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 19:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/29/2010 03:28 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 21:14 +0200, Felix Geyer wrote: clamz [1] has been rejected from Debian NEW [2] some time ago. The FTP assistent that processed

Re: Bug#529974: RFP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/29/2010 12:25 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: On Fr, Mai 28, 2010 at 22:49:43 (CEST), Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/28/2010 09:20 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: On Fr, Mai 28, 2010 at 16:00:27 (CEST), Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/28/2010 01:25 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: I'm going to package

Re: Archive area for clamz (Amazon MP3 downloader)

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2010 04:40 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 08:09:52PM +0200, Felix Geyer wrote: On 30.05.2010 04:47, Ben Hutchings wrote: I think the policy being applied is that if a package is only useful in conjunction with non-free data, it belongs in contrib (just as if it

Re: Archive area for clamz (Amazon MP3 downloader)

2010-05-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/29/2010 03:28 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 21:14 +0200, Felix Geyer wrote: clamz [1] has been rejected from Debian NEW [2] some time ago. The FTP assistent that processed the package was of the opinion that it belongs to contrib instead of main because it's only useful

Re: Bug#529974: RFP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol

2010-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/2010 01:25 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: retitle 529974 ITP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol owner 529974 ! stop I'm going to package rtmpdump next week. On Fr, Mai 22, 2009 at 16:33:44 (CEST), Sam Morris wrote: * Package name: rtmpdump * URL

Re: Bug#529974: RFP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol

2010-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/2010 09:20 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: On Fr, Mai 28, 2010 at 16:00:27 (CEST), Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/28/2010 01:25 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: I'm going to package rtmpdump next week. On Fr, Mai 22, 2009 at 16:33:44 (CEST), Sam Morris wrote: * Package name: rtmpdump * URL

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2010 11:42 AM, Michael Banck wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:58:26PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: I'm installing apache2 and have a web server - more or less working, I'm installing dhelp and ... magic, magic ... it extends the running web-server to

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2010 02:29 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: [snip] Anyway, postfix is NOT the only package that we shall consider modifying here. As per my original post, there's loads of other components that are to configure as well. The question is: is there a will to do this job by other maintainers. I

Re: Bug#582321: TAG: dirsum -- commandline directory summary

2010-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/19/2010 05:36 PM, jaromil wrote: Package: itp Severity: wishlist Version: 0.4; * Package name : dirsum Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Dirk Bartleybartle...@chartermi.net * URL: http://code.dyne.org/?r=dirsum * License: GNU GPL Description: Dirsum is a command line tool to assist sorting

Re: Bug#582321: TAG: dirsum -- commandline directory summary

2010-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/20/2010 05:05 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On 20/05/2010 11:21, Ron Johnson wrote: hat does this do that existing tools don't? $ du -Sk | sort -nr | head -n10 131960./.Newsletters.Washington_Post/cur not sure dirsum can do that either, but it's painful that du itself can't sort

Re: Bug#582321: TAG: dirsum -- commandline directory summary

2010-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/20/2010 06:42 AM, Mika Pflüger wrote: Hi, Am Thu, 20 May 2010 12:05:50 +0200 schrieb Yves-Alexis Perezcor...@debian.org: On 20/05/2010 11:21, Ron Johnson wrote: hat does this do that existing tools don't? $ du -Sk | sort -nr | head -n10 131960./.Newsletters.Washington_Post/cur

Re: Bug#582321: TAG: dirsum -- commandline directory summary

2010-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/20/2010 07:34 AM, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Thu, 20 May 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/19/2010 05:36 PM, jaromil wrote: * Package name : dirsum Description: Dirsum is a command line tool to assist sorting out which directories in a filesystem contain the most bytes. It will sort all

Re: Dual init scripts (or two init scripts in one package)

2010-05-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/07/2010 09:35 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Roberto C. Sánchezrobe...@connexer.com writes: Greetings. I am curious as to how the scenario described in the below message would work in Debian. That is, can one package install two init scripts? Sure. A package can install as many init

Re: Bug#560088: ITP: python-portio -- low level port I/O for Linux

2009-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-12-08 17:42, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: 2009/12/8 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk: I do hope not; this should never be used in production. But it may yet be useful in hardware development. Ben. I'm working on a parallel LCD interface with my custom PCB and I wanted interactive way

Re: cupt, the APT competitor

2009-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-28 14:28, Free Ekanayaka wrote: Hi, |--== On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:52:14 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin jac...@debian.org said: EVL This mail is to inform that Debian APT suite now has a competitor named Cupt [1]. For the ones who don't know it, I'd like to point out that there is at

Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-04 07:46, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 04, Gabor Gombas gomb...@sztaki.hu wrote: Incompetent, no. Careless, yes. Just think about the udev-related breakages in the past. And speaking about design, udev was originally praised because it can do everything in user space. Now, the authors

Re: Bug#544539: RFP: Linux Unified Kernel

2009-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-01 05:29, Ivan Borzenkov wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: Linux Unified Kernel Version: 0.2.4-1 Upstream Author: Insigma li...@insigma.com.cn URL:

Re: Debian, universal operating system?

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 01:11, George Danchev wrote: Quoting Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net: On 2009-07-26 17:00, Miles Bader wrote: Chris Lamb la...@debian.org writes: Agreed. IMHO, it is one of those phrases (along with Our priority is our users) that actually means extremely little in practice

Re: Debian, universal operating system?

2009-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-26 17:00, Miles Bader wrote: Chris Lamb la...@debian.org writes: Agreed. IMHO, it is one of those phrases (along with Our priority is our users) that actually means extremely little in practice, except for generating lots of hot air with nobody agreeing. Our priority is endless

Re: Considering the removal of ntpdate

2009-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-24 13:53, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 24 April 2009, Frans Pop wrote: Florian Lohoff wrote: rdate ist not a replacement for ntpdate - it does not use the ntp protocol but the time protocol (builtin inetd) - So making ntpdate depend on rdate is not a solution as it changes the

Re: Bug#516659: ITP: w3bfukk0r -- scan webservers for hidden directories (forced browsing)

2009-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/24/2009 08:13 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 07:27:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: But what (besides web crawling) is the (legal) purpose of that? And why does it need a word list? It seems to me that this tool is as open to abuse as nmap, ping, wget, and several other

Re: Bug#516659: ITP: w3bfukk0r -- scan webservers for hidden?directories (forced browsing)

2009-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
! or the keys. You're hosed anyway... -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA The feeling of disgust at seeing a human female in a Relationship with a chimp male is Homininphobia, and you should be ashamed of yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#516659: ITP: w3bfukk0r -- scan webservers for hidden directories (forced browsing)

2009-02-22 Thread Ron Johnson
is the *purpose* of w3bfukk0r? Besides fscking up the intarweb? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA The feeling of disgust at seeing a human female in a Relationship with a chimp male is Homininphobia, and you should be ashamed of yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Bug#516659: ITP: w3bfukk0r -- scan webservers for hidden directories (forced browsing)

2009-02-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/22/2009 07:18 PM, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/22/2009 04:39 PM, Maximilian Gaß wrote: Description : scan webservers for hidden directories (forced browsing) w3bfukk0r is a forced browsing tool, it basically scans webservers (HTTP/HTTPS

Re: Is the FHS dead ?

2009-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
the LSB auspices might deter other Unix vendors to consider it or get involved, which would seem like a regression. Maybe hosting it on a more neutral place would be better? But will the legacy vendors make even more changes to make it even easier to move off their platforms? -- Ron Johnson

Re: Is the FHS dead ?

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
/ Present Status LSB-FHS2.3 merged into LSB 2.0 runtime tests. This test suite is now being maintained in the LSB CVS tree see http://www.linuxbase.org/test/ -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Re: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
purpose is to start a flame war. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
] at the bottom. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/09/2009 08:04 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/09/2009 12:28 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: If jed can deal with files that large, sure. But if it expects to be able to load the entire file into memory - as most text

Re: Bug#514639: ITP: frei0r -- a minimalistic plugin API for video effects

2009-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
the recurring reimplementation or adaptation issue of standard effects. It is not meant as a generic API for all kinds of video applications. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Ron Johnson
while the others are mostly unused? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at above-market rates from eco-friendly organic farming cooperatives in Latin America. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

[OT] American Slavery (was Re: Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post)

2008-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
Well, I've heard, that formally, a slavery has been cancelled just 1994 in some states of USA. Maybe some old Jim Crow[0] laws that hadn't been enforced in 20 years. Slavery, though, has been illegal since December 1865. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws -- Ron Johnson, Jr

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Ron Johnson
and thought Academia knew everything. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at above-market rates from eco-friendly organic farming cooperatives in Latin America. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Is The number of stable users dropping fast?

2008-12-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-contest but don't see anything.) -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at above-market rates from eco-friendly organic farming cooperatives in Latin America. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-19 Thread Ron Johnson
thinks of JM's comment. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled? What different abilities do I have? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-19 Thread Ron Johnson
... I'd better stop right there. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled? What different abilities do I have? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
not appropriate to blurt out whatever you're thinking. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled? What different abilities do I have? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Bug#508990: ITP: dicomscope -- DICOMscope - DICOM Viewer

2008-12-17 Thread Ron Johnson
to be used in a clinical environment, e.g. for reporting. END Does this really have to be in the long description, or should it be in the README.Debian? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled? What different abilities do I

Re: Bug#508992: ITP: pvrg -- JPEG implementation from Standford

2008-12-17 Thread Ron Johnson
/JPEGv1.2.tar.Z. $ mtr havefun.stanford.edu Couldn't get fd's flags: Bad file descriptor Name or service not known: No such file or directory -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled? What different abilities do I have

Re: Bug#507451: ITP: iptux -- IP Messenger client for Linux

2008-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
to other clients. How does this relate to IM, or to older protocols like talk? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled? What different abilities do I have? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Bug#507451: ITP: iptux -- IP Messenger client for Linux

2008-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/01/08 11:50, Evgeni Golov wrote: On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:18:24 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: Google Error Not Found The requested URL /iptux was not found on this server. http://code.google.com/p/iptux/ is the right URL Thanks. But still: How does this relate to IM, or to older protocols

Re: Bug#505968: ITP: urlwatch -- email notifications of changes to URLs

2008-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
works out of a single directory, so no need to install anything. State files are kept in the same folder. The script supports stripping always-changing parts of a page through the use of a filter hook function. urlwatch is only 140 lines of Python. The deb will be *tiny*. -- Ron Johnson, Jr

Re: Bug#505924: ITP: cwm -- a lightweight and efficient window manager for X11

2008-11-16 Thread Ron Johnson
of window management. It also aims to maintain the simplest and most pleasant aesthetic. What makes it better than all of the other lightweight and efficient window manager that Debian packages? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA If you don't agree with me, you are worse than Hitler

Re: Bug#499917: ITP: esekeyd -- multimedia keyboard daemon for Linux

2008-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson
. It is a userspace program that pools /dev/input/event? interfaces for incoming keyboard key presses. Is ESE some special keyboard? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. -- Thomas Jefferson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Bug#499917: ITP: esekeyd -- multimedia keyboard daemon for Linux

2008-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/23/08 12:45, Krzysztof Burghardt wrote: 2008/9/23 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 09/23/08 11:24, Krzysztof Burghardt wrote: * Package name: esekeyd Is ESE some special keyboard? Unfortunately, it is just random keystroke to make program name a bit longer. :-) :) So

Re: Bug#498762: ITP: sdlbasic -- BASIC interpreter for game development

2008-09-13 Thread Ron Johnson
the power of SDL library. It was inspired by the old and glorious AMOS. Does this mean supporting games written in BASIC? Why should it? You don't support all of the user apps written in basic256, bwbasic or yabasic. Is that really... necessary? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Do not bite

Re: Unsafe storage device unmounting

2008-08-31 Thread Ron Johnson
notifications? The point at which the icon disappears is not the point at which the drive is safe to remove. DBus normally raises a notification window Data is being written to the device followed by Device is now safe to remove. How does one check whether dbus notification is enabled? -- Ron Johnson, Jr

Bootstrapping (was Re: ITP: MUMPS -- ...)

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 02:05, Andreas Tille wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Mumps is a computer language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS And there is a GPLed implementation of this at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm

Re: ITP: MUMPS -- MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver

2008-07-16 Thread Ron Johnson
such as METIS. Version 9.3 of Code_Aster (ITP 458812) uses MUMPS, so this package will play a role in that packaging effort. Mumps is a computer language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York

Package management unsafe?

2008-07-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/justin/packagemanagersecurity/attacks-on-package-managers.html What are people's thoughts on this? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York

Re: Bug#489824: ITP: pllua -- PL/Lua is an implementation of Lua as a loadable procedural language for PostgreSQL

2008-07-07 Thread Ron Johnson
as first-class values, and coroutines for non-preemptive threading. The similar Ruby deb-src package name is postgresql-plruby. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread Ron Johnson
why should it only have one boot loader? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhWNnIACgkQS9HxQb37XmdjQACghOfpn0VHd4bTToJmCM2XCaBx Sv8AoLQ

Re: What should postrm purge actually do?

2008-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
C would be helpful, though. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis., Mr. Spock -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: Handling of removed packages

2008-05-29 Thread Ron Johnson
expect to install Priority: optional packages to get a list of things that are not supported anymore by their distribution. Why not? IOW, why shouldn't normal users be expected to expend a little effort to maintain their system? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I must acknowledge, once

Re: Mouse configuration during installation needs improvement

2008-05-29 Thread Ron Johnson
. I, for one, use it a lot. But even Amen. This is Debian, not Ubuntu. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis., Mr. Spock -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: Mouse configuration during installation needs improvement

2008-05-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/29/08 11:25, Frans Pop wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/29/08 09:35, Stephen Powell wrote: I'm not sure how one would know that most people don't use the console. I, for one, use it a lot. But even I work mainly in consoles too but I

Re: What about use xml for descriptions of packages?

2008-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
few MB plus parsing overhead when everyone has 250GB HDDs, multi-core 64-bit CPUs and 2+GB RAM? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA ESPN makes baseball players better. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIOWnUS9HxQb37XmcRAssUAJ4w+nYc

Re: What about use xml for descriptions of packages?

2008-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/08 08:34, David Paleino wrote: On Sun, 25 May 2008 08:29:56 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: What's an extra few MB plus parsing overhead when everyone has 250GB HDDs, multi-core 64-bit CPUs and 2+GB RAM? Well, and what about !i386, !amd64

Re: What about use xml for descriptions of packages?

2008-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/08 13:03, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:29:56AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: What's an extra few MB plus parsing overhead when everyone has 250GB HDDs, multi-core 64-bit CPUs and 2+GB RAM? Huh?. Why commit good

Re: Bug#482913: ITP: daptup -- see changes in new upgradeable lists after aptitude update

2008-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
upgradeable packages. How is this different from apt-show-versions? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA ESPN makes baseball players better. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIOgfbS9HxQb37XmcRAr9qAJ4l4yKkZlTFiEHnPSAav+tHcgOizQCdGVqf

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
(more than once, I've seen a one-off script or program morph-expand into an important and much larger app) or the OS it will run on in the future, it's always good to clean up after yourself. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA ESPN makes baseball players better. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/21/08 20:08, Andreas Bombe wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:43:19AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/20/08 23:11, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: even though it's just a command line utility. Who knows what

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
just a command line utility. Who knows what weird, unexpected side effects there might be from running such an app within a tight bash loop. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA ESPN makes baseball players better. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: Bug#479206: ITP: libcurses-ui-poe-perl -- A subclass makes Curses::UI POE Friendly

2008-05-03 Thread Ron Johnson
the scenes for things like networking clients, without Curses::UI breaking your programs' functionality. I think you duplicated some sentences in the long description. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU

Re: Bug#478783: ITP: sequel -- Lightweight database access toolkit for Ruby

2008-05-01 Thread Ron Johnson
was the predecessor to SQL? Probably too late, though, since the project already exists... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIGXbUS9HxQb37XmcRApHjAKDRJWRL5Gut8BJmKqDhSJvUBj6IlACfavzP RIVKmKBO5qZ/lPHh6AQ7T3U

Re: debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-backports-keyring in official debian repository?

2008-04-07 Thread Ron Johnson
that you've got to add every other unofficial archive keyring, even though that archive's owner screams that's not fair!. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH+m6SS9HxQb37XmcRAlAyAJsEpZ7lo5n93H/zv

Re: debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-backports-keyring in official debian repository?

2008-04-07 Thread Ron Johnson
should be adequate. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH+m70S9HxQb37XmcRAgQrAKCITFv/IibuTTtjBBw3BvimIqpHLwCggn7u AH/wpg/+1MvgXYkrzcGjhUU= =y+xL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-backports-keyring in official debian repository?

2008-04-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/07/08 15:34, Luk Claes wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/07/08 13:20, Luk Claes wrote: Peter Jordan wrote: Luk Claes, 04/07/08 20:05: Peter Jordan wrote: Hi, Hi why are the keyrings of debian-multimedia.org and debian backports

Re: Bug#474016: ITP: desktop-data-model -- a library for Mugshot and Online-Desktop

2008-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
: Mugshot Developers URL: http://developer.mugshot.com That doesn't appear to be a valid address, It redirects to http://www.mugshot.com/ which seems to be just a bunch of links to scam and valid commercial web sites. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery

Re: Bug#473096: ITP: witty -- C++ web framework and application server

2008-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
'^wt$'|wc -l 0 The above is just data and not a desire to affect the package name either way. It is a very interesting project so I am happy you are adding it. Still, though, two-character package names should *not* be encouraged. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery

The real reason DDs go MIA

2008-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://xkcd.com/306/ - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH7bSjS9HxQb37XmcRAthWAKC0imm21+kfUuD3YxR1EI2SRUZLIACePZx0 mDVXd35W6Akh8brvYaE7nhU= =Us99

Re: BitTorrent and ISP interference

2008-03-20 Thread Ron Johnson
would be much easier if Tbird and gmail had Reply To List. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH4orjS9HxQb37XmcRAo1EAKDF+xn8CJulmOkcU4noiv970UvNWwCfewQ+ XPcR/lGR03g

Re: BitTorrent and ISP interference

2008-03-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/20/08 11:18, Milan P. Stanic wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:03:47AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/20/08 10:46, brian m. carlson wrote: I think it's a good idea. I'm not a DD, but I don't appreciate getting dupe messages from the list

Re: Blueray software, was: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 23:38, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:16:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/17/08 04:47, Philip Charles wrote: [snip] worrying about. Even then bluray disc(s) will take up about the same space as a CD set

Re: Bug#471443: ITP: gnome-hdaps-applet -- HDAPS system applet for GNOME 2

2008-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
: http://www.dresco.co.uk/hdaps/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : HDAPS system applet for GNOME 2 This applet shows status of hard disk protection for ThinkPad laptops. Please add a definition of HDAPS to the long description. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr

Re: Blueray software, was: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 04:47, Philip Charles wrote: [snip] worrying about. Even then bluray disc(s) will take up about the same space as a CD set. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Working with women is a pain in the a**. My wife -BEGIN PGP

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
... it is perfectly reasonable for a distro to say, We can not be all things to all people, so some limits have to be set, and some users/DDs will be disappointed. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA (Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them into big productions. Pitr

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/08 10:14, David Nusinow wrote: On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 09:43:56AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/08 06:51, David Nusinow wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:02:39PM -0600, William Pitcock

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