Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Jérôme Marant
Roland Mas wrote: Hi all, Hello, As some of you probably know, some people are in the process of installing a Sourceforge site on a Debian machine. It will consist of a slightly patched version of the 2.6 branch of the Debian package "sourceforge", with a few scripts to help integration with

Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Roland Mas
Hi all, As some of you probably know, some people are in the process of installing a Sourceforge site on a Debian machine. It will consist of a slightly patched version of the 2.6 branch of the Debian package "sourceforge", with a few scripts to help integration with existing infrastructure (

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:58:25PM -0800, Jon Kent wrote: > > --- Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No, it doesn't. It shows that the most frequently > > viewed distribution pages > > on distrowatch.com are: > > I did say they were not great figures, just > interesting, but I expe

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:05:25PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Just waiting for Debian/VAX... ahem... I have a couple of 100+ MHz machines available for autobuilding when ready.. A 4000/600 and a 4000/700 from memory. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:00:19AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > I might argue, in the case of APIs, that it is more a case of "If you don't > have time to do it right, how will you ever have time to do it over" - it > becomes *very* hard to un-entrench bad API choices, a lot of the time. You might a

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Nov 27, Colin Walters wrote: > > Maybe, although GNOME System Tools is perl-based, so I'm not entirely > > sure it's a good idea from a dependency standpoint. > > True enough. I just wonder if there's a way you could somehow reuse > some of the nice work they've done, like the root password pr

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Michael Cardenas wrote: > Are there plans to create a debian-desktop list? This group sure does > have a lot of traffic, and as an official subproject, they should have > their own list. I guess the Debian-Desktop people asked for those list. Moreover a mailing list for Debia

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-27 00:21]: > We've started the translation of debconf templates some weeks ago. Good to see that those are coordinated now, too. > If you are a package maintainer, you can obtain a package-related > file from > http://ddtp.debian.org/debconf/

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Michael Bramer wrote: > But IMHO the best should be, if some dh_-script download the last > translations from some web site. comments about this? Not bad. But I often build packages while beeing off-line ... (Sorry for my previous mail. I should check debian-devel before rep

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:05:31AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * "Joel Baker" > > | > (I can think of one trivial example--devfs makes it really easy to tell > | > which disks are available to the partitioning program. Can you describe > | > a simple method to do that, which is guaranteed to

Re: PostgreSQL 7.3 about to be released

2002-11-27 Thread Stephen Birch
Sorry - I guess this is probably a newbie question. This posting says the new PostgreSQL pre-release was uploaded to "experimental". Is that the same as uploading to "unstable" or is there another area beyond stable, testing, and unstable? Steve On Tuesday 26 November 2002 10:21 pm, Oliver El

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Michael Bramer wrote: > We've started the translation of debconf templates some weeks ago. > See http://ddtp.debian.org/debconf/gnuplot/ddts-stat.png Great. > If you are a package maintainer, you can obtain a package-related > file from > http://ddtp.debian.org/debc

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Michael Bramer
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:41:34AM +0100, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 05:54:21PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > We've started the translation of debconf templates some weeks ago. > > > See http://ddtp.debian.org/debconf/gnuplot/ddts-stat.png > > It seem

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Michael Bramer
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 05:54:21PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:21:28AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: > > You can download translated template files from > > http://ddtp.debian.org/debconf/template_unstable/$PACKAGE (like > > http://ddtp.debian.org/debconf/template

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* "Joel Baker" | > (I can think of one trivial example--devfs makes it really easy to tell | > which disks are available to the partitioning program. Can you describe | > a simple method to do that, which is guaranteed to work on any kernel? | > Likewise, can you describe a kernel-independent way

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-27 Thread Colin Walters
[ Could you please not CC me? ] On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 22:05, John Goerzen wrote: > Are you comparing released version to released version? (Debian stable to > NetBSD -STABLE?) If so, I stand corrected. Yes. > In any case, we surely have come a long way. Definitely!

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 22:36, Chris Lawrence wrote: > The module should be: > /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/gtk-2.0/bonobo/activationmodule.so > > It seems to be in the python2.2-gnome2 package, at least on my system. Hm, I seem to be suffering from the breakage in #169035. > Maybe, although

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