Re: A suggestion

2008-04-02 Thread Anibal Avelar
> It is not just people new to Debian/Linux who get that > impression. I think testing is perfectly fine for a desktop system. Totally I agree. Testing is fine for a personal Desktop machine. > > If Debian wants to issue stronger warnings for those using Testing on > > the desktop,

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:29:30 +0900, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Le Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:44:56AM +1300, Chris Bannister a écrit : >> >> Unfortunately, many people new to Debian/Linux get the impression >> that testing is perfectly suitable for a desktop system. > Maybe because t

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:44:56AM +1300, Chris Bannister a écrit : > > Unfortunately, many people new to Debian/Linux get the impression that > testing is perfectly suitable for a desktop system. Maybe because they have read Debian's website? "things should not break as badly as in unstable or

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-02 Thread Joe Smith
"Michael Biebl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess Joss is right here. triggers tell you *if* something has changed >(in a subdirectory), but not *what*. Remember, that we have to call gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/$subdir for the directory that has c

Bug#474050: RFP: jaxer -- headless iceweasel

2008-04-02 Thread OuoU
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: jaxer Version : 0.9.6 Upstream Author : Aptana * URL or Web page : http://www.aptana.com/jaxer/download * License : GPL Description : iceweasel headless A headless web browser is important for running JS applications o

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

2008-04-02 Thread Julien Lavergne
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:27:23 -0500 William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 15:15 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > 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 c

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-02 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Mittwoch 02 April 2008 schrieb Chris Bannister: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:16:48PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:38:36 -0300 > > > > Joel Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think that the testing or above releases may be suitable for the > > > desktop of a EXP

Re: Bug#474036: ITP: xnetcardconfig -- tool to configure your network cards using an easy wizard

2008-04-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 11:05:46PM +0200, Philippe Coval wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Philippe Coval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: xnetcardconfig > Version : 0.2.1 > Upstream Author : Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : htt

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

2008-04-02 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Mittwoch 02 April 2008 schrieb Mike Bird: > On Wed April 2 2008 01:52:39 Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:24:43AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > The results are a bit misleading, because they compare the absolute > > > gain. > > > > It's the absolute size savings that cou

Bug#474036: ITP: xnetcardconfig -- tool to configure your network cards using an easy wizard

2008-04-02 Thread Philippe Coval
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philippe Coval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xnetcardconfig Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Ruby Descriptio

Bug#474034: ITP: gpxe -- PXE network bootloader for x86 PCs

2008-04-02 Thread Jan Lübbe
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jan Lübbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpxe Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Michael Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and the Etherboot Project * URL : http://www.etherboot.org * License : GPL Pro

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

2008-04-02 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 15:15 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > 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. Mugshot has always been at mugshot.org; not mugshot.com. So the ITP c

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

2008-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/02/08 13:04, Julien Lavergne wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > --- Please fill out the fields below. --- > >Package name: desktop-data-model > Version: 1.2.2 > Upstream Aut

dm-crypt and boot process

2008-04-02 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, I've been very happy that the Etch installer supports dm-crypt out of the box. This is a wonderfully nice feature. Here's my gripe: it gets in the way of unattended boots. Let's say that you have /home as a separate encrypted filesystem on a given machine. You want the machine to be abl

Re: file path length in .deb package.

2008-04-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 08:43:47PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Could you *please* give me the bug number, If you can't find a relevant bug you should report a new one (anyone can do so). See: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting for instructions on how to do this manually or ther

Re: file path length in .deb package.

2008-04-02 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 17:46 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > After reading the documentation of 'man deb' I cannot see any > > reference to any arbitrary length for filename in a deb package. F

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Joey Hess writes ("triggers wishlist"): > Things I want to see use triggers, in approximate priority order: One thing I forgot to say yesterday: If you do the triggerisation by modifying some dh_foobar-called script called update-foobar, then you do not need to introduce a dependency on the trigg

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

2008-04-02 Thread Julien Lavergne
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: desktop-data-model Version: 1.2.2 Upstream Author: Mugshot Developers URL: http://developer.mugshot.com License: LGPL 2+ Descript

file path length in .deb package.

2008-04-02 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, After reading the documentation of 'man deb' I cannot see any reference to any arbitrary length for filename in a deb package. For instance I have filepath (including sub directories) that reach ~100 characters. the tar format completely support that, but I am having some weird issue o

Re: Bug#473998: ITP: debian-faq -- The Debian FAQ

2008-04-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 02/04/2008, Joost van Baal wrote: > In this package you will find the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ, which gives > frequently asked questions (with their answers!) about the Debian > distribution Debian GNU/Linux and others) and about the Debian project. ^ mi

Bug#473998: ITP: debian-faq -- The Debian FAQ

2008-04-02 Thread Joost van Baal
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joost van Baal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: debian-faq Version : 3.1.6 Upstream Author : Ray Dassen, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino, Susan G. Kleinmann, Josip Rodin, Sven Rudolph, Chuck Stickelman, Santiago Vila e.a. * URL :

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-02 Thread Norbert Preining
Sorry for answering s late, but I am on VAC for another 2 weeks. On Di, 01 Apr 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: > update-initramfs is important, yes. It's very tedious and gets run > several times in some upgrade runs. I did the adaptation for this in The Debian TeX would need - for what ever you a

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

2008-04-02 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed April 2 2008 01:52:39 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:24:43AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > The results are a bit misleading, because they compare the absolute > > gain. > > It's the absolute size savings that counts - that's what's going to have > the biggest impact on

Bug#473984: ITP: synce-kpm -- KDE device manager for Windows Mobile devices

2008-04-02 Thread Jonny Lamb
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonny Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: synce-kpm Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Guido Diepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://synce.org/ * License : GPL Description

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:16:48PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:38:36 -0300 > Joel Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think that the testing or above releases may be suitable for the > > desktop of a EXPERT linux user. I need a stable release because my > > desktop

Bug#206187: very CheapPrice Bacheelor, MasteerMBA, and Doctoraate dip1omas ira s0fb7

2008-04-02 Thread Dona Escobar
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Bug#107862: very CheapPrice Bacheelor, MasteerMBA, and Doctoraate dip1omas teifuod c163c

2008-04-02 Thread Ethel K. Beach
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Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-04-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (Please don't cc: me, I'm subscribed.) On Wednesday 02 April 2008 01:20, Michael Biebl wrote: > Holger Levsen schrieb: > > Did you file those bugs? Is there a usertag for them? > > I tried to collect the information at http://wiki.debian.org/Rsyslog and > started filing the important bugs [1]

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
On mer, 2008-04-02 at 05:48 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > On mar, 2008-04-01 at 23:27 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:22:58PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >>> Actually, for icons, I’d say that a package shipping a theme should > >>> install

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

2008-04-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 02/04/08 at 01:52 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:24:43AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > So of course besides OOo on there we also find the kernel packages. We > > > wouldn't have to use lzma for the kernels though, if that would raise the > > > minimum memory requ

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

2008-04-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:24:43AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > So of course besides OOo on there we also find the kernel packages. We > > wouldn't have to use lzma for the kernels though, if that would raise the > > minimum memory requirements for servers, or lzma could be selectively > > ena

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

2008-04-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/04/08 at 23:49 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 01:42:32PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > > On the more general issue of lzma-compresses packages, I find a 34MB > > RAM requirement quite hefty for general purpose use; that is, unless > > we restrict lzma compression

Bug#107862: All the latest brands available here

2008-04-02 Thread Roan ortega
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