Re: Crazy Idea: debian developer conference

1999-09-17 Thread Anthony Towns
like it'd be as exotic and fun... Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results

Re: Bug o' the week

1999-09-16 Thread Anthony Towns
the BTS database twice a day anyway. FWIW, I'd like to see all these nifty reporting things integrated into debbugs itself sooner or later, rather than continually adding other scripts to do essentially the same scanning. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au

Re: /opt/ again (was Re: FreeBSD-like approach for Debian? [was:

1999-09-15 Thread Anthony Towns
stopping uploads to unstable while there are RC bugs, we might like to try stopping posts to -devel. -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's

Re: /opt/ again (was Re: FreeBSD-like approach for Debian? [was:

1999-09-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 12:23:24PM +0200, Anders Arnholm wrote: Anthony Towns wrote: beacus some pepole in the Debian comunity does not have tha same problems... STOP WRITING TO -devel AND START **DOING** SOMETHING ABOUT IT * The day I get my key sigh by a developer and I get

Re: FreeBSD-like approach for Debian? [was: Re: Deficiencies in Debian]

1999-09-15 Thread Anthony Towns
. It's got us to being among the very best distributions on just about every level, and it's managing to keep us there, too. Cheers, aj, wondering at what point he should killfile the naysayers instead of trying to refute them -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-21 Thread Anthony Towns
-- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``There's nothing worse than people with a clue. They're always disagreeing with you.'' -- Andrew Over

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 03:01:12PM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 12:50:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: That seems... the wrong way around. see comments below ;P Perhaps I should expand on that. The `Unix way' (yes, you can stop reading this paragraph here

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg IN IDL! :)

1999-05-20 Thread Anthony Towns
before decending to our baser instincts to argue about what language it should be implemented in :) Speaking of baser instincts, Rationale Rose isn't free software, is it? Are there any nice (or even not-nice) OO design tools that are? Apart from xfig, I mean. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Anthony Towns
) { return 1; }; int id(double d) { return 2; }; cout id(1); // 1 cout id(1.0);// 2 Cheers, aj, who isn't sure this is particularly relevant to debian-devel anymore. -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-19 Thread Anthony Towns
will pursue it, and let the chips fall where they may. Good luck, FWIW. I've no doubt you'll need it. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``There's nothing worse than people

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 10:03:12AM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: On 20 May, Anthony Towns wrote: One alternative that's probably worth considering is improving libdpkg, so that Apt and friends can make use of dpkg that way, and provide their own front ends however they see fit. I don't

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-13 Thread Anthony Towns
-- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``There's nothing worse than people with a clue. They're always disagreeing with you.'' -- Andrew Over

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-13 Thread Anthony Towns
, please send a mail to the -ipv6 list so we know when things are ready to be mashed into potato. -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``There's nothing worse than people with a clue

Re: Debian coding style?

1999-05-09 Thread Anthony Towns
. The litprog FAQ goes into more detail. The noweb home page, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~nr/noweb/ is probably a good starting point. Cheers, aj, who likes litprog in theory, but still hasn't gotten much practice at it. -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

1999-05-09 Thread Anthony Towns
. IMHO, etc. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``Smart, sexy, single. Pick any two (you can't have all three).'' -- RFC 1925, paraphrased: a guide to networking in the '90s

Re: DFSG v2 Draft #5

1999-01-25 Thread Anthony Towns
.'' Are there any licenses that can't just say ``if you make some modifications, just leave the license as is. if you _really_ care, you can also do such-and-such...'' ? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail

Re: Revision 4 of DFSG

1999-01-20 Thread Anthony Towns
uncertain about this clause, and what effect it would have on CD vendors and stuff. What do people think of the wording now? Does it still suck, or is it getting there, or...? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save

Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-20 Thread Anthony Towns
] http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-policy-9805/msg00174.html -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls

Re: agreeing with the DFSG (was Re: non-free -- non-dfsg)

1999-01-19 Thread Anthony Towns
read every piece of mail on every list. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation

Re: LSB?

1999-01-19 Thread Anthony Towns
, specifying kernel locations, netstat, mount/umount, fdisk, setserial, ...and whatever happened to specifying things like update-rc.d, update-inetd, and so on? Or was that the LSC or something? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone

Re: Comments on Debian packages and installation

1999-01-18 Thread Anthony Towns
you're all insane and enhances is clearly and obviously the Wrong Thing, I can't see any reason why it would /actually/ be any worse than any other way of doing it. Which I guess is my cue to say... Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak

Re: apt and hamm

1998-06-14 Thread Anthony Towns
managed to get it partly done before we'd expected or hoped, I think we should recommend it as the upgrade method, and include it in the base2_0.tgz in place of dpkg-ftp. [Not that I'd know, mind] Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 09:04:59AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: As bad form as it may be to follow up to my own post... And once again... :) I've talked to Igor, somewhat appropriately, on IRC [irc.debian.org, #debian], and have modified my draft somewhat in response to that. Since there haven't

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-09 Thread Anthony Towns
As bad form as it may be to follow up to my own post... On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 05:22:46AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: I wonder if we'd like to make a press release about this? I spoke to David privately a little, and he's inclined more toward a simple release, whereas, as usual, I'm inclined

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-08 Thread Anthony Towns
, but I thought I'd ask here as well. In particular, David are you happy for this to happen? Cheers, aj, who wonders if SPI are willing to shell out for a beer or two for things like this, and who thinks they should be. :) -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I

Re: Debian Re-organization proposals (was: Re: so what?)

1998-06-04 Thread Anthony Towns
. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``It's not a vision, or a fear. It's just a thought.'' pgpJlug5yiwer.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Two package proposals

1998-05-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 04:50:48PM +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote: 2. cons: alternative to make. Likewise. Is there some more information about this somewhere? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself

Re: cruft : great program ! everyone should use it !

1998-04-27 Thread Anthony Towns
'^l' | awk '{ print /dev/ $2 }' fi --- If you copy that into /etc/cruft/explain/dev, it will override the dev explanation thingy that's distributed with cruft, without messing with .deb'ed files, btw. Just FYI. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't

Re: policy suggestion (seeking discussion)

1998-04-27 Thread Anthony Towns
. Apparently they'll still be text though. (yay! :) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``It's not a vision, or a fear. It's just a thought.'' pgpQ00wId8Rud.pgp Description: PGP

Re: consistency check

1998-04-25 Thread Anthony Towns
-- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``It's not a vision, or a fear. It's just a thought.'' pgpIgdAzhtTQ7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /tmp exploits

1998-04-20 Thread Anthony Towns
/tmp or /var/tmp, not in subdirectories, right? (otherwise using mkdir /tmp/prog.$$ instead of just /tmp/prog.$$ doesn't fix the /tmp security holes). This also would make most uses of tar and similar in /tmp and /var/tmp work okay, I believe. Yes? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Is this a bug in libc6?

1998-04-11 Thread Anthony Towns
); which is defined as harmless), but at the very least the manpages need to be changed to reflect the actual behaviour here. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``It's not a vision

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