Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-11-16 Thread Travis Crump
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 16 novembre 2009 à 13:55 +0100, Harald Braumann a écrit : Just because it is a tradition doesn’t mean it’s the correct way. So far I haven't seen any argument as to why it shouldn't be the correct way. It’s broken because: * there are race

Re: Possible mass bug filing: non-doc packages recommending doc packages

2009-05-10 Thread Travis Crump
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 02:58:56PM -0700, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org was heard to say: I think that lintian warning is the right way to do it. I don't -- I think there are too many false positives for a lintian warning given the thread. I also think this is

Re: Possible mass bug filing: non-doc packages recommending doc packages

2009-05-10 Thread Travis Crump
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 06:14:34PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: If the documentation is something designed to be viewed in a web browser and the user has broadband, it is arguably easier to find it on the web. Even knowing precisely where it is[/usr/share

Re: Non-DD's in debian-legal

2006-06-05 Thread Travis Crump
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Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-26 Thread Travis Crump
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Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Travis Crump
Nicolas François wrote: On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:03:37PM +, Simon Huggins wrote: On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:44:38PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Marc Haber [Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:40:45 +0100]: Experience with adduser shows that no-one besides the maintainers themselves and their closest

Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-02 Thread Travis Crump
Mike Hommey wrote: Hi As you may or may not know, I'm currently working on packaging xulrunner, which is ought to be the central point for all future mozilla technology, meaning that at more or less long term, all mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, etc.) will be built on top of it.

Re: Status of libpng transition

2005-10-24 Thread Travis Crump
Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, I wonder, when latest wxwindows2.4 packages will be moved to testing. If I look at http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?excuse=wxwindows2.4 it is a valid candidate and the dependency from libpng should be fine as well

Re: Everyone go test aptitude 0.3.4!

2005-10-01 Thread Travis Crump
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 05:48:14PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: I've just uploaded aptitude 0.3.4 to experimental. This is basically a release candidate for 0.4 -- if no nasty bugs crop up, it will be uploaded as 0.4 in unstable once the translators catch up

Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1

2004-10-28 Thread Travis Crump
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 19:53 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: paddy wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:28:14AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:02:02PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: 5)== User specific configuration files for applications are stored in the user's

Re: Anyone interested in libical?

2003-10-13 Thread Travis Crump
Simon Richter wrote: Hi, Is anyone interested in adopting libical? It has been orphaned for 193 days (#187030). I wouldn't mind removing it, but mozilla build-depends on it (perhaps this can be changed, tho?). Mozilla builds fine without libical. What does happen, then? Will it still be able

Re: installer for non-free packages in contrib

2003-09-08 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: ? I think that's a minimal specification for a correct installer package which does its work by creating Debian packages; unless you think that it's better for the installer package to spit out a .deb somewhere which you then have to install separately, which seems to me like a

Re: [debian-devel] Status of mICQ code audit

2003-04-25 Thread Travis Crump
Gerfried Fuchs wrote: * Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-04-23 03:30]: If someone missed a meeting because a program they installed out of Debian had a time bomb in it, they would be justified in questioning their use of Debian, not just the application. No. They would be justified in

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-19 Thread Travis Crump
Marcel Weber wrote: Hans, I hope that the removal of these credits was a mistake and that they're going to be included in future releases of testing. ReiserFS is a really fine piece of software and anyone who helped with it's development should have the right to be credited if he or she wants

Re: apt_preferences man page

2002-12-09 Thread Travis Crump
Thomas Hood wrote: If a target release has been specified, then APT uses the following algorithm to set the priorities of the instances of a package. Assign: priority 100 to the instance of a package that is already installed (if