RE: Test & Keep an Apple Apple iPad! - Details Inside

2010-07-04 Thread New Tech Promo
If you been kicking around the idea of getting an iPad here is something to take advantage of. The ipad is flying off the shelf and apple is having trouble keeping up with demand. And here is your chance to get one for free! They are now looking for feedback from users to begin updating firmware

Bug#588106: ITP: sugar-physics-activity -- A physical world simulator and playground for Sugar

2010-07-04 Thread Luke Faraone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luke Faraone * Package name: sugar-physics-activity Version : 4 Upstream Author : Alex Levenson and Brian Jordan * URL : http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Physics * License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: Python Desc

Bug#588105: ITP: python-elements -- python-box2d wrapper

2010-07-04 Thread Luke Faraone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luke Faraone * Package name: python-elements Version : 0.13+svn230 Upstream Author : The Elements Team, * URL : http://elements.linuxuser.at/ * License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : python-bo

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-07-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:08:36 +0200 Mike Hommey wrote: > > Disadvantages of maintaining the status quo: > > - part way through the release, security support will end and many > > users won't even notice (unless they're subscribed to > > debian-security); leaving a lot of the Debian user base vul

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-04 Thread Scott Kitterman
"Norbert Preining" wrote: >On Sa, 03 Jul 2010, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> No. It is ignorant anti-religious bigotry. Please take your prejudices >> elsewhere, they are quite unrelated to Debian development. > >Sorry .. please? Either stop insulting fellow people here, or bring >arguments, but

Re: Essentiality of Bash

2010-07-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le dimanche 04 juillet 2010 à 16:04 +0200, Magnus Holmgren a écrit : >> > Yes. A possible solution would be to introduce a new type of dependency. >> > I’m not sure the number of impacted packages justifies the amount of >> > work. >> >> Just introduce the new, loo

Re: Advanced Startup/Shutdown with Multilayered Block Devices and Related Issues

2010-07-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes: > Hi. > > I do not see how a event based initsystem would us actually help (but > perhaps I just don't understand it well enough). > I mean an event would be something like "mount root-fs" but then it > would be still completely open, on what to actually do fo

[DRAFT v2] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-07-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
I think this incorporates all the comments and corrections for the previous version. Please send follow-ups to debian-kernel, and subscribe to it if you haven't already done so. Ben. --- 0. The arguments given to all kernel hook scripts are the kernel ABI version (the string that uname -r report

Re: Essentiality of Bash

2010-07-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 04 juillet 2010 à 16:04 +0200, Magnus Holmgren a écrit : > > Yes. A possible solution would be to introduce a new type of dependency. > > I’m not sure the number of impacted packages justifies the amount of > > work. > > Just introduce the new, looser type of dependency; all the packag

Re: Essentiality of Bash

2010-07-04 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On tisdagen den 29 juni 2010, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 27 juin 2010 à 14:27 +0200, Marc Haber a écrit : > > The problem is that we don't properly distinguish between "foo needs > > bar during installation or foo's installation will fail" and "foo > > needs bar to be installed or foo wi

Bug#588054: ITP: loopdub -- Software for live audio loop manipulation.

2010-07-04 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stephen Sinclair * Package name: loopdub Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Stephen Sinclair * URL : http://loopdub.sf.net/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Software for live audio loop manipula

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-04 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 20:54:21 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > ... stop insulting ... > ... the rubbish you wrote ... Hmm, very good, well done. > ... or I will call for an ostracism ... That should be entertaining -- go for it! ;-) (at least it might be more fun than this thread has become, or

Re: Build

2010-07-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Pontus Andersson wrote: > Hi, I wonder what program is used to build the Debian install CD and if it's > built from an installed dist. Follow the links: http://www.debian.org/ http://www.debian.org/CD/ http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/ http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#d

Re: ftp-master/release move

2010-07-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> This affects all archive processing/handling, currently it is all turned >> off. We will inform you when it is back to normal, right now we expect >> this to happen on Sunday. > As a little update: > It looks pretty good and we already did a manual dinstall run. > We did not push the mirrors, t

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-04 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sa, 03 Jul 2010, Scott Kitterman wrote: > No. It is ignorant anti-religious bigotry. Please take your prejudices > elsewhere, they are quite unrelated to Debian development. Sorry .. please? Either stop insulting fellow people here, or bring arguments, but the rubbish you wrote is as much as

Build

2010-07-04 Thread Pontus Andersson
Hi, I wonder what program is used to build the Debian install CD and if it's built from an installed dist. /Thanks