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This is just a suggestion/idea, and if it's stupid, feel free to flame me.
Why not develop some sort of apt-build based net install that allows the user
to download source archives and optimize the packages to the architecture etc.
specified in the
Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> About 8 packages in non-free are in the process of being removed
> entirely from both testing and unstable. After this happens, the
> difference in the number of non-free packages between slink and sid
> will be +1.
That probably doesn't count the on
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:47:48AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:24:34AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > After verifying the signature on the data, the receiver does some sanity
> > > checks. One of the checks is doing an md5sum over the entire file
>
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Brian May wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:43:28AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > This could me especially amusing if the first, delayed email was:
> >
> > cd /tmp
> >
> > And the second was:
> >
> > rm -rf *
> >
> > (Dumb contrived example, but you get the idea.)
>
> I th
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:32:22AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> That's why I suggest using either a challenge/response authentification
> (if the mail is lost, you have to ask for a new challenge and the
> previous mail won't be accepted if it is delayed), or one-time passwords
> (every time yo
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:43:28AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> This could me especially amusing if the first, delayed email was:
>
> cd /tmp
>
> And the second was:
>
> rm -rf *
>
> (Dumb contrived example, but you get the idea.)
I think the lesson here is that grunt is not a transparent
rep
John Goerzen wrote:
> Grunt doesn't preserve any notion of a session
It doesn't need to: the unix filesystem already does. I said that was a
contrived example, but I'm sure you will find some real ones eventually.
Slightly less contrived:
1. notice that oops, the cd burning script will do someth
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Bullshit. Making noise about spelling errors is extremely unpolite
> (with few exceptions). Making fun this way is a sign of personal
> problems. Doing this again and again, even trying to make this look as
> a harmles 'joke' shows the critical level. Ple
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:59:32AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Making noise about spelling errors is extremely unpolite
> (with few exceptions).
> Please go away, learn something about tolerancy and come back when you can
> discuss sanely.
Interesting conflicting viewpoints.
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reassign 170336 linux-wlan-ng
retitle 170336 linux-wlan-ng: Can't (re)build it for my own kernel
thanks
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:32:46AM +0100, Xavier MAILLARD wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: linux-wlan-ng
> Version :
> Upstream Author : Name <[E
#include
* Branden Robinson [Fri, Nov 22 2002, 03:50:08PM]:
> > > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:20:04AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > > > > (1) Why are you blatently insulting people on the lists??
> > > >
> > > > Why are you blatanly misspelling "blatant"?
> >
> >
> > Ah
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:05:43AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> There is already a bug filed about this: #170292. The maintainer replies:
>
> "gphoto2 2.1.0 is not compatible with the new libexif in debian/sid.
> gphoto2 2.1.1 will be out soon, the package is ready.
> I will upload gphoto2 2.1.1
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: linux-wlan-ng
Version :
Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.some.org/
* License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
Description : Can't (re)build it for my own kernel
,
| Hi, atte
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:13:00PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-22 21:52]:
> > Since satie.d.o has been destroyed, where does this leave the NM process?
>
> I tried adding all applicants again. I have probably missed some, but
> most should be the
* Mateusz Papiernik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-22 23:23]:
> > http://nm.debian.org/amstatus.php?&user=me%40andrew.net.au Just like
> that's not working, it tells "You should not be here!!" :)
Sorry, http://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=me%40andrew.net.au
> But I entered nm.debian.org, and
Please respect my Mail-Followup-To: header.
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:07:26PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> 36GB disks? Why buy 36GB disks when you can buy big ones? See, the
> problem here is that things are in such frequent motion, that what seemed
> like a big disk once is now small.
> Tasks and skills has been checked (my package is rust), and there was
> AM report for me too, so I'm only waiting for DAM approval.
...
http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2002/debian-newmaint-200209/msg00021.htm
l
and there it is :)
M.
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 17:07, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Say I have 6 36GB disks which cost me $100 apiece (USD600 / 216GB USD2.78
> > per gigabyte). Naturally, I put them in a RAID-5 array, for 180GB usable
> > space. Now we're at $3.33/GB, not
> http://nm.debian.org/amstatus.php?&user=me%40andrew.net.au Just like
that's not working, it tells "You should not be here!!" :)
But I entered nm.debian.org, and put my email adres in the editbox. Of course,
my status is quite ok, but ... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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* Oliver Kurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-22 16:48]:
> I believe a web mirror would not help at all. There were php
> scripts, and databases, and these _cannot_ (hopefully) be mirrored.
A web mirror would be _very_ helpful. The PHP scripts were in CVS
(still are ;) but the database is gone. We
* Teófilo Ruiz Suárez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-22 15:06]:
> I was in the "Waiting for AM" step, and I don't know what will happen
> with me and the others in the same step, 20 last time I checked (the day
> before the fire).
>
> Is anybody working on it?
Those "waiting for AM" have been resto
* Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-22 21:52]:
> Since satie.d.o has been destroyed, where does this leave the NM process?
I tried adding all applicants again. I have probably missed some, but
most should be there again. Your application can be reviewed at
http://nm.debian.org/amstatus
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Say I have 6 36GB disks which cost me $100 apiece (USD600 / 216GB USD2.78
> per gigabyte). Naturally, I put them in a RAID-5 array, for 180GB usable
> space. Now we're at $3.33/GB, not counting filesystem overhead. This is a
> realistic server config
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:39:31PM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings! Been waiting for over a week for 'valid candidate' package
> maxima to get into testing. Has this process been suspended?
It depends on newer glibc on some architectures, so don't hold your
breath.
--
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:40:39PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Nice, (btw, this is documented in man apt_preferences) but how do you know
> there is a new version available in experemental from apt-cache?
apt-cache policy
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:03:40AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Roberto Suarez Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Nov/21, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> >
> > > Current cost of hard disk is something between $1.00 and $1.50 per
> > > gigabyte.
> >
> > I may be wrong, but I ass
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:23:09PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > > (1) Why are you blatently insulting people on the lists??
> >
> > Why are you blatanly misspelling "blatant"?
>
> Best example for the difference between you and most other "top"
> developers - stupid personal attacks when runni
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:54, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > When I'm doing such package chang-over's it's generally just arranged
> > through private mail and the rest of the world learns about it through
> > the changelog.
> >
> > IMHO an arranged take-over like that requires no special announcements.
Greetings! Been waiting for over a week for 'valid candidate' package
maxima to get into testing. Has this process been suspended?
Take care,
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==
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:15:12PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> We'd need perhaps three different m68k varieties (two more than now),
> one more Sparc, one more alpha, no more powerpc IIUC, no more arm, one
> more mips, one more HPPA (or two?), no more ia64 or s390. So that's
> nine more
> "AT" == Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AT> To make it clear: I'm not in fear of a separate distribution.
AT> Everybody is free to do so. But in my opinion you could reach
AT> your goal more straightforeward if you do not.
I'd like to clarify a confusion introduced by
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:35:19PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:23:09PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > #include
> > * Branden Robinson [Fri, Nov 22 2002, 10:34:21AM]:
> > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:20:04AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > > > (1) Why are you blatently insulti
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> Richard Braakman wrote:
>
> > We're not _removing_ anything, we're providing an integrated system.
>
> in this cotext, it seems that upstream galeon _includes_ those
> bookmarks (redhat, slackware, et al). to _remove_ those bookmarks is a
> _remov
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:18:23PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> [...]
many thinks for help.
Bye
Thorsten
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Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include
> * Branden Robinson [Fri, Nov 22 2002, 10:34:21AM]:
> > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:20:04AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > > (1) Why are you blatently insulting people on the lists??
> >
> > Why are you blatanly misspelling "blatant"?
>
> Best example for the differ
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:23:09PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include
> * Branden Robinson [Fri, Nov 22 2002, 10:34:21AM]:
> > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:20:04AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > > (1) Why are you blatently insulting people on the lists??
> >
> > Why are you blatanly misspelling "b
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 12:56, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:00:29AM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
> >Exactly how much longer are we going to leave bonobo-activation
> > managled in sid? Certainly if there is no traction upstream on
> > resolving this issue we should at least regre
#include
* Branden Robinson [Fri, Nov 22 2002, 10:34:21AM]:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:20:04AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > (1) Why are you blatently insulting people on the lists??
>
> Why are you blatanly misspelling "blatant"?
Best example for the difference between you and most other "top"
"H. S. Teoh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > > Damnit, only last? ;)
>> >
>> > Drop out one of the names, and click on Large Set. Bang, Wichert shows up
>> > as #3 :-)
>> >
>> >
>> Uhm, with all the names and clicking Large Set, you will find also Bill Gates
>> in the list :)
> [snip]
>
> Unsu
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 01:22:42PM -0500, Mako Hill wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:28:05AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Sorry, correction: total liquid assets. SPI "owns" some hardware in the
> > U.S. on behalf of Debian (like the machine that is auric.debian.org),
> > but an exhaustive
My best friend went to Gentoo and came back to Debian. That should say
something
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:05:44PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
> > No, it's not. Low end disks are cheap. High end disks still aren't.
> > Bandwidth still isn't. Especially when you're spending donated
> > resources rather than your own.
>
> Odd, then, that Debian has turned down resource donation
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:28:05AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Sorry, correction: total liquid assets. SPI "owns" some hardware in the
> U.S. on behalf of Debian (like the machine that is auric.debian.org),
> but an exhaustive inventory has not been done.
>
> We, uh, might want to do that so
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 03:28:50AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> This subthread doesn't seem to have much to do with Debian development
> anymore, or, at least I couldn't find anything technical in that mail.
> Maybe take it off-list, if you feel it's worth saying?
I am finished with him for now;
Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Which will perhaps (enough space in the case?) solve the problem for
> debian's own servers, but not for the mirrors. I know of 3 of them
> only in .at.
We already have mirrors that don't hold all the archs. This is a
perfectly fine thing to do.
Roberto Suarez Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Nov/21, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
>
> > Current cost of hard disk is something between $1.00 and $1.50 per
> > gigabyte.
>
> I may be wrong, but I assume you're talking IDE here. And, IMHO, IDE
> disks are not the best thing for a medi
> Why not http://www.debian.org/devel, under "Projects"?
You're right! D-I is (I think?) official, and important project, and it
should have homepage in debian.org, not in "something people" on
people.d.o. Am I right?
--
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Sounds like a Windows problem, try calling Mic
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 06:16:11PM +0200, Samuli Suonpaa wrote:
> Are you aware of the fact that EVMS will not be included in Linux kernel?
Are you aware of the fact that EVMS is being adapted to work with
device-mapper instead of the EVMS kernel runtime?
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:07, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > I just hand over the readseq package to Michael Schmitz. He is obviousely
> > much more competent to maintain the package than me. We agreed not to
> > go the bureocratic orphan and adopt. The next upload will just come from
> > Michael.
>
>
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 01:29:57AM -0800, Michael Cardenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> In response to all the emails on debian-boot saying "how can I
> help?", "what needs to be done" and "where do I start?", tollef and I
> put together a simple home page for the debian-installer proje
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:56:21PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Anthony Towns
> | On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:54:29AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> | > Because I'd like to Debian be installable with much fewer questions,
> | Do you realise what that means? It means: I want everyone to en
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 06:32:41PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
Why so formal?
We haven't met our bureaucracy quota for the month. I hope that everyone
will do his part.
Mike Stone
Jim Lynch wrote:
>
> (small point on kde 3.1 final existing before announcement disposed of:
> it won't be "final" until it's "announced". by definition. also, there
> may be current reasons why the announcement has not been made.)
unless Gentoo is refering to a CVS tag
i see a difference betwee
* Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021122 12:24]:
> > "In addition Portage supports the concept of SLOTs. In the development of
> > Gentoo Linux its developers often found that we needed to have multiple
> > versions of certain packages (such as libraries) installed to satisfy the
> > demands of
>>"Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Matt> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:46:44PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> >>"Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Matt> I read quite well, thank you. Such personal attacks would not seem to
fit
Matt> with your lofty philo
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:07, Andreas Tille wrote:
> I just hand over the readseq package to Michael Schmitz. He is obviousely
> much more competent to maintain the package than me. We agreed not to
> go the bureocratic orphan and adopt. The next upload will just come from
> Michael.
Why so formal
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:18:12AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> "Maybe you're dumb. Ha-ha. Ha-ha."
This subthread doesn't seem to have much to do with Debian development
anymore, or, at least I couldn't find anything technical in that mail.
Maybe take it off-list, if you feel it's worth saying
In response to all the emails on debian-boot saying "how can I
help?", "what needs to be done" and "where do I start?", tollef and I
put together a simple home page for the debian-installer project.
It can be found here:
http://people.debian.org/~mbc/di.html
Feel free to direct people here. We
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:05:44PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
Odd, then, that Debian has turned down resource donations in the past.
How is that relevant? Not all donations are immediately required.
Accepting donations for which there is no immediate need incurs overhead
and isn't sensible.
Mike Sto
> No, it's not. Low end disks are cheap. High end disks still aren't.
> Bandwidth still isn't. Especially when you're spending donated
> resources rather than your own.
Odd, then, that Debian has turned down resource donations in the past.
> Why do they need to coexist with the other implementation? They could
> simply conflict.
They shouldn't.
> "Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Branden> /me wanders off, laughing maniacally and regressing to
Branden> childhood Saturday nights watching PBS...
Did you call your dog K-9 and and build a phone booth out of cardboard
boxes too?
--
Stephen
You will be a l
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:09:26PM +0100, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> P.S.: this discussion lead me to a question: is it possible that we do not
> have any kind of backup for thing like that? I mean: even something like cvs
> offers a kind of backup, periodical dump of the db and such
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-22 14:54]:
>>> I didn't follow the discussion entirely, but at least at the beginning
>>> people weren't sure there was a backup of the database. Please correct
>>> me if I'm wrong.
>> Never underestimate the
On Friday 22 November 2002 10:46, Emile van Bergen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:10:31PM +0100, Yven Leist wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 November 2002 16:28, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > Well, the dismal failure of that one is noted.
> >
> > Just for the record, I actually found it quite
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> EVMS support has been added.. I played with it a little, but it was
> broken because it was compiled with readline support, while no
> readline libraries were in the archive. I've just played around with
> it a bit more, and it looks like it needs some
Mathias Klein wrote:
> just to let you know:
>
> +++cut+++
> :# apt-get install gphoto2
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:47:46PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> PGP signatures have a signature ID and a date that are ment to be used to
> prevent against replay attacks. I forget the exact details but there is a
> gpg mode that prints it out. The db.debian.org gateways all make use of
> it.
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:25:54PM +0100, Mathias Klein wrote:
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> gphoto2: Depends: libexif5 but it is not installable
> +++cut+++
>
> Shouldn't gphoto2 depend on libexif7 ?
You should file a bug rather than mailing debian-devel. Fortu
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:38:36PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:10:39PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > > Never underestimate the power of Google's cache. :-)
> >
> > Google's cache was unfortunately out of date, too. So, while we
> > haven't lost everything, we
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Sorry, correction: total liquid assets. SPI "owns" some hardware in the
> U.S. on behalf of Debian (like the machine that is auric.debian.org),
> but an exhaustive inventory has not been done.
>
> We, uh, might want to do that someday, say for insura
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:24:34AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > After verifying the signature on the data, the receiver does some sanity
> > checks. One of the checks is doing an md5sum over the entire file
> > (remember, this i
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:56:52AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> Then no, you don't. It was probably a mistake to ever attempt to
> codify the list of virtual packages in policy. Agreement amoung the
> people involved is sufficient.
I disagree. The nature of the agreement needs to be documented
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:20:10PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:16:50PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > If you mean that these Build-Depend on pure virtual packages, then they
> > should be changed.
>
> Why? Pure virtual dependencies are not incorrect. I am surprise
> The AM, FrontDesk and everyone that reads debian-newmaint. :)
> DAM stage is (more or less) easy to recover.
Thank God ;P
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:10:39PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > Never underestimate the power of Google's cache. :-)
>
> Google's cache was unfortunately out of date, too. So, while we
> haven't lost everything, we have certainly lost the last few
> months/weeks. I will post an announcemen
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:25:26AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote:
> Specific example is xfree86-4.x: Branden would not start the work on
> that before woody had a stable version of the xfree that was stable at
> the time; he wouldn't have had the time. Once woody was released (which
> implied a stable X w
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:20:04AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote:
> (1) Why are you blatently insulting people on the lists??
Why are you blatanly misspelling "blatant"?
--
G. Branden Robinson|Kissing girls is a goodness. It is
Debian GNU/Linux |a growing clo
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:52:13PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> Since satie.d.o has been destroyed, where does this leave the NM
> process?
The real question is, will anything change in NM for those who've
already waited over 6 months for DAM approval. = P
11 and still counting...
Yours sincer
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:33:10PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> But, assuming a price of approx. US$128 for a 120GB IDE drive, yes,
> Debian could afford two of these at a drain of less than 1% of its total
> assets.
Sorry, correction: total liquid assets. SPI "owns" some hardware in the
U.S.
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:01:05PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | Good idea. We should add an 'apt-cache alternatives packagename' as
> | well.
>
> I've seen many «we should add X», while few people seem to actually do
> what they suggest.
right, because we're brainstorming here :) if this we
Hello,
just to let you know:
+++cut+++
:# apt-get install gphoto2
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages hav
Mateusz Papiernik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I hope you're right... I was waiting for DAM approval, and now
> only my AM, perhaps, know what to do...
The AM, FrontDesk and everyone that reads debian-newmaint. :)
DAM stage is (more or less) easy to recover.
--
bye Joerg
A.D. 1517:
Martin Luth
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:46:44PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Matt> I read quite well, thank you. Such personal attacks would not seem to
> fit
> Matt> with your lofty philosophy of elevating social norms.
>
> Then the only
H. S. Teoh wrote:
> "Real men don't take backups. They put their source on a public FTP-server
> and let the world mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
So let's hope that somebody mirrored it... I hope a public HTTP-server
is alright, too.
--
Roland Bauerschmidt
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-22 14:54]:
> > I didn't follow the discussion entirely, but at least at the beginning
> > people weren't sure there was a backup of the database. Please correct
> > me if I'm wrong.
>
> Never underestimate the power of Google's cache. :-)
Google's cache
> "Real men don't take backups. They put their source on a public
> FTP-server and let the world mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
ya, of course. But I thought, that nm.debian.org wasn't mirrored :-/
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Sounds like a Windows problem, try calling Microsoft support
Hey everyone,
Could someone please be kind enough to sponsor Film Gimp for
me? I've already got 5 packages under my belt and been waiting for DAM
approval for 11 months now, so I do know what I'm doing half the time
= ). The packages are as Lintian and Linda clean as possible, with the
exce
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:54:29AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> One way to explicitly turn them on --- which would not bug users who
> don't want it --- would be to install a package. The package could work
> similar to apt-listchanges.
oh yeah, i just remembered, check out the vrms packag
* Anthony DeRobertis
| The installer must already have the user set up his sources.list. The
| old boot-floppies asks a question about the use of non-free software;
This has nothing to do with boot-floppies. It is apt-setup, which is
run from base-config. boot-floppies/d-i is what gets run bef
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:54:29AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> Because I'd like to Debian be installable with much fewer questions,
> and asking about if the user wants dialogs warning them of non-free is
> not needed to install the system.
and i guess that's where we disagree. if i want
* Anthony Towns
| On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:54:29AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
| > Because I'd like to Debian be installable with much fewer questions,
|
| Do you realise what that means? It means: I want everyone to end up with
| the same system.
Actually not. It means «it should be p
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:54:17PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
[snip]
> Never underestimate the power of Google's cache. :-)
[snip]
"Real men don't take backups. They put their source on a public FTP-server
and let the world mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
;-)
T
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:09:26PM +0100, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> P.S.: this discussion lead me to a question: is it possible that we do
> not have any kind of backup for thing like that? I mean: even
> something like cvs offers a kind of backup, periodical dump of the db
> and such
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:24:58PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:04:29PM +0100, Luca - De Whiskey's - De
> Vitis wrote:
> > The web site is only a nice fornt-end for the applicants to know
> > something about you place in the queue and the ste you passed.
>
> I guess the
> I just hand over the readseq package to Michael Schmitz. He is obviousely
> much more competent to maintain the package than me. We agreed not to
Meaning I've used it a lot, including local modifications and such. And I
have a moderate interest in keeping that package around.
> go the bureocr
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> Hello, I am one of the people involved in Free(b)soft (and Free(b)deb)
> project. Thank you for your comments. I would like to clarify some
> details. The goal of Free(b)deb project is not a separate distribution.
To make it clear: I'm not in fear of a
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:54:29AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> Because I'd like to Debian be installable with much fewer questions,
Do you realise what that means? It means: I want everyone to end up with
the same system.
Which either means, "I'm not interested in having Debian support al
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:43:28AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> This is interesting. I've been planning to add play-by-mail support to
> my mooix moo, but have held off because I didn't want to tackle doing it
> securely. But if I can just use grunt and it turns out to be secure..
> that'd be sweet. I
Andreas Tille wrote:
Sorry, I do not have the time to cooperate with any further project.
I will do all the best to make Debian the best distribution for all
purposes I could think off. That's why I tried to convince other
projects which tried to build a Debian based distribution for a
special fie
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