Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped
On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 05:50:23PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 09:18:03AM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > You can't put a : in a filename on a FAT filesystem. > > Interestingly enough, you *can* put a : in a filename on an NTFS > filesystem, if you do it with ntfs-3g. Windows won't like it, though. > Yes, I found that out the hard way ;-) AFAIK you can do that with anything that skips the Win32 subsystem as it's the only place where the check is enforced (for backward compatibility). You can also read it back. Maybe you can do that even via Win32 using an UNC path. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: policy §9.6: .desktop vs .menu
On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 01:17:49AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Thanks to well-designed wording of the new change in Policy §9.6, I must > applaud this solution for matching the requirement: > > > diff -Nru terminal.app-0.9.8.1/debian/changelog > terminal.app-0.9.9/debian/changelog > --- terminal.app-0.9.8.1/debian/changelog 2017-05-03 09:49:30.0 > +0200 > +++ terminal.app-0.9.9/debian/changelog 2017-08-07 11:34:42.0 +0200 > @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ > +terminal.app (0.9.9-1) unstable; urgency=medium > + > + * New upstream version. > + * Bump standards version to 4.0.0. > + * Bump debhelper version to 10. > + * Drop desktop file, fixes lintian warning. Good, good. And if you RoM the package all warnings will disappear. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 04:41:15PM -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > Btw, we've had DebConf Chairs too and nobody complained. > Well, that probably just means that they were pretty comfortable, so no > one had reason to complain. See also https://youtu.be/Nf_Y4MbUCLY?t=381 -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Tắm bé sơ sinh như thế nào là đúng?
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 03:51:40PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Nếu nội dung email không hiển thị hoàn chỉnh, vui lòng nhấn > > [SPAM URL] vào đây để đọc phiên bản web I'm using Liberation Mono without AA and this line renders better with AA, unlike usual English and Russian words I see. I guess that's because the font contains manually rendered bitmaps for the latter scripts? I hope this is not offtopic here. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Bug#798714: debian-policy: Please explicitly recommend punctuation between the year, month and day components of date based version numbers
On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 08:19:12PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > «3. oktober 2015», where the «.» isn't a separator, it's punctuation to > convert the 3 into an ordinal number. Like 0L signifies that 0 is a long? :) -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: cdimage?? What should we call it?
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:05:08PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: - get.debian.org Too slangy and ambiguous. Make it obtain.debian.org... embrace.debian.org ! Should we reserve extinguish.debian.org? -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 04:49:52PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: I have a half-written series to make it cope with lettered, rather than numbered, options. Would it be worth my while finishing that off (in my CFT) ? I think that would probably be helpful, yes! Not only in the case where we get more than 9 options on the ballot, but I also think it would help clarify some of the voting options when you're ranking options. If we get a GR with more than 9 options, we need to change the *process*, not Devotee. Didn't you get your Debian®-Powered Maths and Logic Enhancing Brain Module™ yet? -- WBR, wRAR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-curiosa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141112052357.ga5...@belkar.wrar.name
Re: GR proposal: jessie+1 == zurg
On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 10:48:48PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: Dear Debian Developers, The Release Team has inconsiderately decided that the codename of Debian 9 will be Stretch[0]. This is very disappointing, and clearly does not meet expectations of the rest of the project. Therefore I am forced to propose the following GR: The Debian Project decides that the codename for Debian 9 shall be Zurg. I'm still curious about effect of a passed GR changing the codename of Debian *8*. -- WBR, wRAR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-curiosa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141110093945.gb13...@belkar.wrar.name
Re: Debian default desktop environment
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 09:06:38PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: We should change the default desktop environment with each release And the default init system, too! We need to change both to rra. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: Digital signature
