Re: Compiling software with same options

2013-01-27 Thread Emmet Hikory
this, and there are many variations you might find online. The simplest to document is to install the ubuntu-dev-tools package and run `mk-sbuild`, although this makes many assumptions about your environment and build preferences. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Compiling software with same options

2013-01-26 Thread Emmet Hikory
of this procedure may differ from that above due to differences between your local system and the pristine environments used by build management tools, so this may not be a complete test of how the patch would integrate if applied to the package generally. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Bug in libicu48-dev please update version 4.8.1.1-8 = 4.8.1.1-10

2012-12-17 Thread Emmet Hikory
-specific patch along with comprehensive test results documenting the impact, etc. as required by the SRU process. 0: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates 1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icu/+bug/1037588 -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: can't use apt-get command with ubuntu core

2012-12-04 Thread Emmet Hikory
why i got no root permission? Because the sudo package is not installed, so there is no interpretation of the sudo group meaning anything. While the adm group does grant the ability to access many files, it does not provide for any sort of root access. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel

Re: Prevent deletion of file when it is being copied

2012-09-27 Thread Emmet Hikory
. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Prevent deletion of file when it is being copied

2012-09-26 Thread Emmet Hikory
into the file transfer reference. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Specialized kernel/base system for VM's/VE's

2012-09-25 Thread Emmet Hikory
in your target environment with little or no modification. If the selection of modules in linux-virtual is insuffient for your target environment, the other modules are also available in the dependencies of the linux-image-extra-virtual package. 1: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/ -- Emmet

Re: Network Manager dependencies

2012-08-22 Thread Emmet Hikory
continue to advance, some other selection may make sense in the future, but even then I think we should continue to debate the tools in terms of how the system is expected to be used, rather than what hardware is present, or into which environment we expect that hardware to be placed. -- Emmet

Re: Introducing Products

2010-11-23 Thread Emmet Hikory
Tim Gardner wrote: On 11/22/2010 01:02 PM, Emmet Hikory wrote: Towards that end, each flavour team should consider which installation targets they wish to support, and identify a product manager who will be available as a contact for the release team to provide confirmation of the completion

Re: Triaging Bugs with Patches

2010-02-21 Thread Emmet Hikory
Search form). -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-06-14 Thread Emmet Hikory
. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

2009-05-14 Thread Emmet Hikory
a machine that's a close match to some user that is involved, and probably has use cases that match those that are involved. And of course the best way to make sure this is a perfect match is to be involved oneself. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-28 Thread Emmet Hikory
for documentation changes to meet the desired goals. 1: http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/04/announcing-ubuntu-gaming-team.html 2: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Games/ 3: http://wiki.debian.org/Games 4: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: Karmic Release Schedule

2009-03-05 Thread Emmet Hikory
to include completely new code between NewPackageProposalDeadline and FeatureFreeze. 1: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PartnerUploadDeadline 2: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseSchedule -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Doing something about signal:noise complaints

2009-01-23 Thread Emmet Hikory
(``-_-ยดยด) -- BUGabundo wrote: On Thursday 22 January 2009 16:27:42 Emmet Hikory wrote: * Point of contact for Ubuntu users to reach Ubuntu developers There are lots of reasons that users want to reach developers. For many of them, there are more specific fora. Bugs should be reported

Re: Doing something about signal:noise complaints

2009-01-22 Thread Emmet Hikory
have recently subscribed. 1: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss 2: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs 3: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ 4: https://lists.ubuntu.com 5: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Doing something about signal:noise complaints

2009-01-22 Thread Emmet Hikory
it. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Correct Process for Package Update Requests

2008-09-01 Thread Emmet Hikory
file, so automated identification of newer upstream versions cannot be performed, and to rely on either Debian or UEHS (1) in other cases. 1: http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/uehs/ -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Future of IA32 (Was: Intrepid compatibility with C3 CPUs #5212)

2008-08-31 Thread Emmet Hikory
discussions. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

2008-08-20 Thread Emmet Hikory
, prior to Warty Warthog), a solution may be easy to develop, or the bug may be trivially reproducible, but this awaits some developer having sufficient interest to fix the bug, regardless of the age of the bug. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Ruby on Rails support in Intrepid - call for reviewers and cheerleaders

2008-08-19 Thread Emmet Hikory
to use the gems from the repositories (as is done for perl, python and Java). -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Subversion update

2008-07-21 Thread Emmet Hikory
reduces duplicate work between groups who may not share communication channels. 1: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: Did we really release 8.04?

2008-07-07 Thread Emmet Hikory
with implications on other packages (e.g. python2.3) are safely removed. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Did we really release 8.04?

2008-07-07 Thread Emmet Hikory
of a fix being available somewhere, and the better chance we have of a relatively small number of bugs. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Any way to know what the package has been obsoleted by?

2008-06-16 Thread Emmet Hikory
element is a true replacement for the original. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Should default keyboard be based on location?

2008-05-28 Thread Emmet Hikory
)). 1: http://www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/english/infoguides/selling/selling.html -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: madwifi-source

2008-02-21 Thread Emmet Hikory
of the duplicated sources in individual -source packages were removed. 1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/module-assistant/+bug/136852 -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: Miro (Re: New Programs for Hardy?)

2008-02-08 Thread Emmet Hikory
it in the past and its quite interesting. ... It certainly sounds like the sort of 'killer app' that would attract people to Ubuntu. If Miro can't be added to Hardy, would it be possible for Hardy+1? Miro is available in Ubuntu 7.10, and Miro 1.0 is currently in the hardy repositories. -- Emmet

Re: Automatically sync new packages until feature freeze

2008-01-21 Thread Emmet Hikory
). -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Strawman: Change the Ubuntu Release Cycle

2007-12-31 Thread Emmet Hikory
it, as many issues are only exposed with combinations of software installed, rather than in a single package. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Strawman: Change the Ubuntu Release Cycle

2007-12-30 Thread Emmet Hikory
. Those who cannot due to organisational issues related to very large deployments rely on the LTS releases remaining feature-compatible over the existing lifecycle, and would not be well served by the change. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Changing dpkg-deb default compression from gzip to lzma for Hardy

2007-12-17 Thread Emmet Hikory
/benchmarks 2: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/dpkg-lzma 3: http://www.squashfs-lzma.org/ -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Q: Reason for partitioning scheme?

2007-12-13 Thread Emmet Hikory
sync, and may well result in a long boot time for fsck due the the filesystems being in an inconsistant state. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Our best foot forward

2007-11-14 Thread Emmet Hikory
to documentation. If users are required to manually execute scripts to accomplish goals they do not understand, this only adds an additional layer of indirection, for which additional documentation may be required. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-10 Thread Emmet Hikory
of a new change causing additional bugs. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-10 Thread Emmet Hikory
for Ubuntu packages). If getdeb packages are installed, the getdeb comments and getdeb bugtracker are the appropriate support mechanisms, rather than the Ubuntu IRC channels, forums, mailing lists, or bugtracker. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Release candidates in main

2007-11-09 Thread Emmet Hikory
be worth attempting to encourage users to trust software distributed from Ubuntu-signed repositories, with knowledge that this software includes an additional set of patches beyond those available upstream, specifically targeting stability and security. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: A Wine-like compatibility layer to run Mac OS X programs on Linux?

2007-11-08 Thread Emmet Hikory
-on-linux.sourceforge.net/ 2: http://basilisk.cebix.net/ 3: http://www.gnustep.org/ 4: http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/ -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-08 Thread Emmet Hikory
of the developers for repeated review of an incomplete patch). -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Ubuntu development - joining...

2007-11-03 Thread Emmet Hikory
team, as many of your bugs seem to be related to the default end-user experience, which this team follows closely. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu

Re: cn.archive.ubuntu.com severely outdated

2007-10-10 Thread Emmet Hikory
of packages, adding a more frequently updated mirror as a secondary source is a possible local solution, such that most packages are taken from the local archive, and out-of-date packages are taken from a more updated (but less close) archive. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: understanding broken package

2007-10-07 Thread Emmet Hikory
file based package management tool which is dependencies aware (I mean installed packages dependency)? gdebi will install files, after checking dependencies (and even check the archives, and download the necessary dependencies). -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu

Re: Package Installation behavior

2007-08-13 Thread Emmet Hikory
available (1) is targeted for users of sbuild, but the basic process is not so different when preparing disposable chroots for use with schroot -c dist. 1: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SbuildLVMHowto -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: MOTU meeting in 4 hours!

2007-06-29 Thread Emmet Hikory
available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Meetings/2007-06-30. -- Emmet HIKORY -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Applicability of DebianMaintainerField spec to packages not sourced from Debian

2007-06-11 Thread Emmet Hikory
On 6/11/07, William Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emmet Hikory wrote: ... Default Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers or Ubuntu MOTU Developers, as appropriate They should be the default, but more specific maintainers like MOTU Science or MOTU Media (or a specific person) could be used

Re: xmms into universe?

2007-05-27 Thread Emmet Hikory
On 5/28/07, Jan Claeys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Gtk1 XMMS has been ported to Gtk2 under the name beep-media-player. Some time ago the beep-media-player people started a new project (BMPx), but the classic BMP was forked to become the Audacious project, which is essentially the latest