On Wed,24.Mar.10, 21:29:47, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> I don't know the english translation for "klingt irgendwie steif".
"Sounds too formal?". I think you are assuming "you" to be less formal
than it actually is[1].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You
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Andrei
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On Fri,22.Jan.10, 10:11:45, Ben Finney wrote:
> Charles Plessy writes:
> > sometimes degrades our relations with Upstream, and I have not yet
> > seen a user thanking us for doing this.
>
> I've often expressly, and in public, thanked the specific people who put
> forth efforts to ensure free so
On Tue,24.Nov.09, 15:26:33, Jon Dowland wrote:
> What I would like to see is something like the following.
> I've no idea whether it is achievable technically, but I'd
> be interested to know what others thought.
>
> * the display manager gets the first VT. If there is no
> display manager conf
On Sun,15.Nov.09, 07:13:39, Christian Perrier wrote:
>
> Not considering the technical backgorund (which is of course an easy
> stance), it could be really interesting to have *by default* the
> default X session on tty1, when a display manager is used, and
> something like 2 other console session
On Thu,10.Sep.09, 09:32:55, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
>
> Just my view, I try to remember to Cc the reporter, but I'd much
> rather prefer being subscribed to bugs as I report them.
Or maybe make it possible to subscribe by just replying to the ACK mail.
Regards,
Andrei
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On Wed,26.Aug.09, 01:56:35, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> +A patch created by the the Debian maintainer John Doe, which got
^^^
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Andrei
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On Mon,29.Jun.09, 22:53:53, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> @@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ The set of fields ends on the first empty line.
> Free-form comments follow and be used for any other information that
^^
I'm not a native speaker, but this doesn't sound very well.
Regards,
On Mon,18.May.09, 09:45:31, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> To make a choice, I’d say we should have a look at security and memory
> usage.
Maybe also startup speed?
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Andrei
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On Wed,29.Apr.09, 14:27:45, Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that Ben Finney may or may not have written...
>
> [snip]
> > If someone writes a message to a list, but doesn't arrange to read messages
> > from that list, I don't think we can expect software to automatically
> > figure out that they wou
On Wed,29.Apr.09, 10:22:50, Brian May wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:19:04AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> > How Mutt is able to detect all mailing lists? The fields in the headers
> > only allow to detect the current mailing list.
>
> You can define what are mailing lists using the "lists"
On Tue,28.Apr.09, 20:56:57, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Also, can you tell us where to write comments related to NEW uploads in plain
> English, so that it can be documented in the Developers Reference? I think
> that
> debian/copyright it not the best place for this, and apparently README.source
>
On Tue,28.Apr.09, 03:09:52, Noah Slater wrote:
> > Many of the more popular MUAs on your list have this command
>
> Can you name any others apart from mutt that come with this by default?
Reply in Claws-Mail (and Sylpheed) does the right thing by default
(Reply-to-List if it detects a list, Re
On Thu,02.Apr.09, 13:12:25, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 06:05:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > I think that renaming and/or removing the init script symlinks is the
> > > Right Thing To Do, but the tools we have for doing this are awful. I
> > > think it would be a g
On Sat,17.Jan.09, 01:05:47, Kjeldgaard Morten wrote:
> On 16/01/2009, at 18.27, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>
>> Did you think about thousands of computers having 'private ips' with
>> some nat translation and/or local proxie? (I'm thinking of computer
>> labs, companies, etc. not just the odd home
On Mon,17.Nov.08, 08:13:55, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Let's just say, hypothetically speaking, that I'm the developer of a
> GUI package manager for Debian. It would be nice (where by nice I mean
> *really UBERCOOL*) if, whenever users see a list of packages, they could
> see a little thumbnail
On Mi,12.nov.08, 10:37:33, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> there are some bugs open against the release notes to which
> nobody wrote a patch so far. This is your opportunity to help
> Debian and become famous!
...
> #491000 release-notes: Romanian translation is mixed with English
I filled this one b
On Wed,29.Oct.08, 22:11:27, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> I am not realy sure, 50.000 customers would accept hardware which cost
> 45 US$ instead of 40 US$ because there are 2-3 OSS frickler which want
> access to the source because they want to fix something.
>
> Do you would give the FIXES bac
On Mon,20.Oct.08, 00:51:03, s. keeling wrote:
> Just curious, but why 2 & 3? Why isn't 1 considered the simplest
> solution? xterm is ca. 300k. What Seyon users can't afford 300k disk
> space or its RSS?
>
> vi's installed on every *nix box on the planet. Why shouldn't xterm
> be on every X
On Fri,19.Sep.08, 23:57:54, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Afaics I have the following options.
> 1.) Do nothing and simply document this fact in README.Debian, telling
> the admin that he can safely delete this files if he no longer needs them.
I would have rather suggested NEWS.Debian if apt-listchan
On Tue,09.Sep.08, 15:53:16, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
[...]
> README.Debian contains notes about important changes that made in
> Debian's variant of package for a long time of package' lifecycle.
> NEWS.Debian is especially good for upgrading. Changelog is for
> developers and geek users as it
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 16:36:39, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> My point is that I don't have the impression that Debian Developers want
> to have an LP account activated at all, so IMO it doesn't really matter
> if the account is activated implicitly via some (authenticated) action
> or exlicitly by click
On Sun,13.Jul.08, 11:45:46, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If I remember correctly, we adopted the rX way of versioning to appease
> > CD-ROM vendors: they did not like us releasing X.Y+1 as a stable update
> > since that meant their X.Y boxes looked out of
On Sat,12.Jul.08, 06:12:33, Joe Smith wrote:
> However, if the security updates come from trusted security mirrors rather
> than
> a general mirror, that attack would fail too. So with the exception of Sid or
> Testing users that do not use the testing-security system to receive security
> updat
On Tue,08.Jul.08, 10:48:18, ruben wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Ruben Pollan Bella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> * Package name: tudu
> Version : 0.3
> Upstream Author : Ruben Pollan Bella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://cauterized.net/~meskio/t
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 05:52:19PM +0200, Ulrik Haugen wrote:
> As you can see readahead actually increase the boot time for me in
> both cases so I uninstalled that package.
I get 28 seconds with or without readahead (Thinkpad R50e, P4 1.6GHz,
512 RAM).
Regards,
Andrei
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On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 02:40:47PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
[...]
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 I filed #474964 against linux-2.6:
> Loads pcspkr and others even if explicitely excluded in modprobe.conf
[...]
> If anybody would confirm that this problem might belong to module-init-tools
> I would vol
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 06:32:10PM +0800, Andrew Lee wrote:
[...]
> - Fast, rund well even on older machines produced in 1999
[...]
> - Suitable for old machines(old Pentium II CPU is enough).
Maybe you could merge those two lines?
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Andrei
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:35:28AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:33:12 +0200, Andrei Popescu
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:51:14PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> >> I uploaded ELinks 0.12~20080127-2 a few da
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:51:14PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I uploaded ELinks 0.12~20080127-2 a few days ago to experimental. If
> you happen to use ELinks, please test this and report any bugs etc. that
> you may find. If you don't use ELinks, now is probably a good time to
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:35:08PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote:
> > - If your located continent has Debian Mirror, return this mirror
> > site IP address.
>
> I don't think this is a good logic for many situations.
> For instance: Brazil is in South America, but it doesn't have good links
>
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 02:44:20AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > If you really need to do this, you will need to divert the configuration
> > files with dpkg-divert. However, you really don't want to do this.
> > Rather than managing configuration files with a package, you really want
>
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 11:52:32PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > But isn't ftp.debian.org the Prime Mirror?
>
> No, it isn't. It's _a_ primary mirror [...]
Are you sure? It's not even listed in the mirrors list [1].
[1] http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
Regards,
Andrei
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On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 06:55:01PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> I've also uploaded mlocate to experimental now (needs NEW processing).
Great, I'll give it a spin :) If you want more testing you could post an
appropriate message to d-u.
Regards,
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:05:25AM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> Opera could offer an apt reporitory for the .deb, much like skype is doing
> it.
But they do already:
grep opera /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera unstable non-free
Regards,
Andrei
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:55:36PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> The only metadata available seems to be the Content-type field of the
> header in the original po file, but I can't see how to enforce it for
> the temporary file...
I'm not sure if this helps, but when I have to work with ISO-885
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:22:59AM +0200, David Lopez Zajara (Er_Maqui) wrote:
> Personally i'm an xmms user, and now, with this, i have tested other
> options. Audacious isn't an option at all. Yes, we have the same
> winamp-style, and can read winamp & xmms skins, too. But, it's newer and
> doe
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:07:03PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> Me too ;) But look: I am maintaining the poor console player moc.
> I wnat to provide it with actual interfaces.
What do you mean by poor? It's a great player. Thanks for maintaining!
Regards,
Andrei (happy moc user)
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On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:04:01AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:02:21AM +0300, Andrei Popescu a écrit :
> >
> > IMHO forcing people to take off-topic discussions out
>
> By the way, isn't debian-devel an off-topic place for this discussio
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:36:14PM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> Why should Debian developers spend the time setting up infrastructure
> for lists or IRC channels that, by definition even, have nothing to do
> with the Debian project? If the people who enjoy holding these
Compared to the cur
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:03:44PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) writes:
>
> > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> >
> >> Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic
> >> discussi
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 05:44:18PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> On ma, 2007-05-21 at 20:08 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > The description for -curiosa does not suggest it to be appropiate for
> > the kind of off-topic discussions going on on -user.
>
> Your conclusio
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:26:31PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
> They don't have to take it away from the Debian lists... They can always
> discuss on debian-curiosa if they so desire. Just don't let the
> off-topic discussions pollute the other lists.
The description for -curiosa does not s
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:51:17PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) writes:
>
> > IMHO forcing people to take off-topic discussions out of the forum
> > (read Debian community) is not good. Debian is based on volunteers
> > and for some cont
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic
> discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for
> "off-topic" messages. For the messages to be "social lubricant", they
> need to be *interspersed* with the
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:26:59AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> If you want to be off topic yet marginally related to Debian, use
> -curiosa. If it has nothing to do with Debian at all, pick from the
> multitude of fora where it would be on topic.
[qoute Joey Hess]
To be clear, I am not sugges
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:41:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> [4] FWIW, forums.debian.net has an offtopic section that actually
> seems to be used appropriately, without bothering the technical
> discissions in other sections.
Debian seems to have a policy of not hosting -offtopic lists[1]. Can
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:13:59PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > I don't know how much this helps, but wouldn't it be good to more
> > actively *recommend* the posters to subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Something like a monthly reminder sent over all lists or similar.
>
> Next spammers wil
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:13:59PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > I don't know how much this helps, but wouldn't it be good to more
> > actively *recommend* the posters to subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Something like a monthly reminder sent over all lists or similar.
>
> Next spammers wil
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:01:36PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> I belive that a rate of 0.1% is quite an acceptable rate, but we
> permanently try to lower that.
I don't know how much this helps, but wouldn't it be good to more
actively *recommend* the posters to subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECT
"cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> So maybe asking for help on debian-kde, where there's people around
> who might be convinced to pitch in a little time and effort once or
> twice would be more productive. I'm thinking something along the
> lines of:
This might hav
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:29:46 +0900
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 06:55:14PM -0500, Theodore Tso a écrit :
> >
> > It's not a great idea to do this indefinitely, and it's a matter of
> > whether or not you trust the person in front of the machine not to
> > be
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