Accepted ctwm 3.5.2-6 (i386 source)

2002-10-02 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:44:22 -0500 Source: ctwm Binary: ctwm Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.5.2-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted twofish 0.3-1 (i386 source)

2002-09-30 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:24:30 -0500 Source: twofish Binary: libtwofish-dev Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL

Accepted python-parted 0.11 (i386 source)

2002-09-17 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:32:32 -0500 Source: python-parted Binary: python-parted Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.11 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Progeny Debian Packaging Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden

Accepted xfm 1.4.3-3 (i386 source)

2002-09-06 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:19:08 -0500 Source: xfm Binary: xfm Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.4.3-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted debsigs 0.1.13 (all source)

2002-09-05 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 12:54:15 -0500 Source: debsigs Binary: debsigs Architecture: source all Version: 0.1.13 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL

Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

2002-08-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 12:15:48AM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 14:36, Branden Robinson wrote: I think it would be fair to tar mpg321 with the brush of non-free when ^un? Yes. that clearly wasn't your intent when you wrote it. Having a giant

Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

2002-08-30 Thread Branden Robinson
according to the Republican Party, I think. *FREE SPEECH* for *FOREIGNERS*!?!??? WHAT KIND OF GODLESS HEATHEN COMMONIST[sic] CRAP IS THIS? -- G. Branden Robinson| Exercise your freedom of religion. Debian GNU/Linux | Set fire to a church of your [EMAIL

Re: Please compile treetool on alpha, arm, hppa, ia64, powerpc and s390

2002-08-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:15:19PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:59:36AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: unfortunately treetool is non-free because there is neigther a license nor any upstream author available. Uh

Re: graphical installer?

2002-08-30 Thread Branden Robinson
a successful PowerPC install performed, though it was clunky and partitioning could not be done. -- G. Branden Robinson|To Republicans, limited government Debian GNU/Linux |means not assisting people they [EMAIL PROTECTED] |would sooner see

Re: Please compile treetool on alpha, arm, hppa, ia64, powerpc and s390

2002-08-29 Thread Branden Robinson
clarification of this. -- G. Branden Robinson|America is at that awkward stage. Debian GNU/Linux |It's too late to work within the [EMAIL PROTECTED] |system, but too early to shoot the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |bastards

Re: Is this still valid?

2002-08-29 Thread Branden Robinson
, not-be-used-as-a-stick-to-beat-maintainers-with and policy-reigns-supreme-and-violating-a-must-or-must-not-directive-means- your-package-is-obscenely-broken-and-should-be-removed-from-the- distribution. -- G. Branden Robinson| Never underestimate the power of Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Accepted vim 6.1.165-1 (i386 source)

2002-08-27 Thread Branden Robinson
defibrillator CLEAR! thump AGAIN! CLEAR! thump blee.. Why, God, why? -- G. Branden Robinson|I'm sorry if the following sounds Debian GNU/Linux |combative and excessively personal, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted debsigs 0.1.11 (all source)

2002-08-26 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 23:13:29 -0500 Source: debsigs Binary: debsigs Architecture: source all Version: 0.1.11 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL

Re: How to get rid of non-free packers?

2002-08-23 Thread Branden Robinson
that they play for free. /me grins, ducks, runs, and watches that one go over the heads of everyone outside the U.S. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Music is the brandy of the damned. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- George Bernard Shaw http

Re: [OT] MES-2 [Was: Re: Linux Fonts]

2002-08-19 Thread Branden Robinson
characters for the beginning). Just out of interest, what is MES-2? http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/mes-2-rationale.html -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Cogitationis poenam nemo meretur. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://people.debian.org

Re: chroot administration

2002-08-17 Thread Branden Robinson
down the toilet. -- G. Branden Robinson|The first thing the communists do Debian GNU/Linux |when they take over a country is to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |outlaw cockfighting. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |-- Oklahoma State Senator

Re: HELP - Screen is flooded with DHCP messages.

2002-08-17 Thread Branden Robinson
of drivel setting; e.g.: echo 4 /proc/sys/kernel/printk -- G. Branden Robinson| There's nothing an agnostic can't Debian GNU/Linux | do if he doesn't know whether he [EMAIL PROTECTED] | believes in it or not. http://people.debian.org

Re: debian-security-announce and bugtraq

2002-08-17 Thread Branden Robinson
about this. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | If existence exists, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | why create a creator? http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpc4HeaPG3Wl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Technical Committee: decision on #119517?

2002-04-19 Thread Branden Robinson
such a request. Thanks for your attention. -- G. Branden Robinson|It was a typical net.exercise -- a Debian GNU/Linux |screaming mob pounding on a greasy [EMAIL PROTECTED] |spot on the pavement, where used to http://people.debian.org/~branden

Re: Technical Committee: decision on #119517?

2002-04-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Jochen Voss wrote: Hallo? On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:20:32AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Over six months ago, on 2001-11-14, [...] Huh? At what time do you live? That's ISO 8601 date format. However, s/six months/five months/, sorry. Maybe

Re: PGI installer [Was: Re: Why XFree86 4.2 Isn't in Woody]

2002-04-17 Thread Branden Robinson
once you've had a chance to evaluate it. Thanks a lot for giving PGI a look! -- G. Branden Robinson| If God had intended for man to go Debian GNU/Linux | about naked, we would have been [EMAIL PROTECTED] | born that way. http

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-17 Thread Branden Robinson
in the apology business, you could tell me who this Brandon person is that you're talking about, and what the heck he's doing with my X packages. I think he owes me an explanation. ;-) -- G. Branden Robinson| When dogma enters the brain, all Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Why XFree86 4.2 Isn't in Woody

2002-04-17 Thread Branden Robinson
XaaNo options as documented in XF86Config-4(5). -- G. Branden Robinson|Any man who does not realize that Debian GNU/Linux |he is half an animal is only half a [EMAIL PROTECTED] |man. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |-- Thornton

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:16:52PM -0700, David D. W. Downey wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:20:00PM -0500, Scott Dier wrote: * Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020417 14:29]: this Brandon person is that you're talking about, and what the heck Don't worry, I also had a lapse

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:27:17PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *Evil* twin? You mean one of us isn't? He's bck. I didn't go anywhere. Nowhere in my platform did I claim I wasn't evil. ;-) -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 06:20:24PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: Overfiend this is the New Overfiend, preacher of Love and Tolerance I see your irony detector is as non-functional as ever... :) -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Please do not look

Why XFree86 4.2 Isn't in Woody

2002-04-16 Thread Branden Robinson
, IBM Thinkpad T21 users, etc.) Both projects are important to me. -- G. Branden Robinson|I've made up my mind. Don't try to Debian GNU/Linux |confuse me with the facts. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Indiana Senator Earl Landgrebe http

Re: Bug#142705: pgi default configuration WIPES OUT whole filesystems without asking!!!

2002-04-14 Thread Branden Robinson
. -- G. Branden Robinson|The first thing the communists do Debian GNU/Linux |when they take over a country is to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |outlaw cockfighting. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |-- Oklahoma State Senator John Monks

Re: pgi default configuration WIPES OUT whole filesystems without asking!!!

2002-04-13 Thread Branden Robinson
for most of the stuff :-) I'm working on it; you can expect 0.9.6.2 today. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Music is the brandy of the damned. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- George Bernard Shaw http://people.debian.org/~branden

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-12 Thread Branden Robinson
.) There's more information about PGI at http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/. -- G. Branden Robinson| One man's magic is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | engineering. Supernatural is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | null word. http://people.debian.org

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-10 Thread Branden Robinson
to point to, at least not in one's native tongue. What's the canonical modern English translation of the _Canterbury Tales_?) -- G. Branden Robinson| Why do we have to hide from the Debian GNU/Linux | police, Daddy? [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-10 Thread Branden Robinson
-applying the license, and failed to rebut any of the points made in response to his message (and not only by me). -- G. Branden Robinson| I came, I saw, she conquered. Debian GNU/Linux | The original Latin seems to have [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-09 Thread Branden Robinson
reject this premise entirely. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200112/msg00250.html -- G. Branden Robinson|One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux |belly laugh. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Robert Heinlein http

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-09 Thread Branden Robinson
writings and discoveries; (Emphasis added.) What a tragedy that the value of all works published before 1926 has been irrevocably lost because we're not protecting them anymore. -- G. Branden Robinson| There is no gravity in space. Debian GNU/Linux | Then how

Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-09 Thread Branden Robinson
-- G. Branden Robinson|Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny Debian GNU/Linux |that reading it will cause an [EMAIL PROTECTED] |aneurysm. This is not that .sig. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpxh5H8syNv8.pgp Description: PGP

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
/2002/debian-legal-200202/msg00112.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200202/msg00137.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200202/msg00195.html People who want to opine about licensing issues really, really should subscribe to -legal. -- G. Branden

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
To Have. -- G. Branden Robinson| I came, I saw, she conquered. Debian GNU/Linux | The original Latin seems to have [EMAIL PROTECTED] | been garbled. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein pgpjr49WCG9hF.pgp

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
to resolve such a basic policy dispute. I have a personal opinion, but I really expect that there won't be many people moving between the above camps. The present discussion should really be taking place on debian-legal. -- G. Branden Robinson| Why do we have

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
myself to such nonsense. If this is the kind of logic you're going to try to bring to -legal, perhaps the list is better off without your participation. -- G. Branden Robinson|I have a truly elegant proof of the Debian GNU/Linux |above, but it is too long

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 02:50:21PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: A work licensed under GNU FDL, version 1.1, which consists entirely of Invariant Sections either has no license or is wholly unmodifiable. Most people on debian-legal agree that this renders the work DFSG-free

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
... More than that. You're starting out about a month and a half late: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200110/msg00096.html -- G. Branden Robinson| The software said it required Debian GNU/Linux | Windows 3.1 or better, so I [EMAIL

Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
, it is worth noting that even the BSD license doesn't allow unrestricted editing of source files: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Your point? -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: Bug#141686: xbase: name clash with old XFree86 package

2002-04-07 Thread Branden Robinson
this, too. Very convenient for the maintainer of this new xbase package, I will see all his bug reports. :-P FWIW, I no longer ship any package called xbase post-woody. However I agree that this package should change its name. -- G. Branden Robinson|Somewhere, there is a .sig so

[bdale@gag.com: Bug#141688: FTBFS: config.sub/guess out of date]

2002-04-07 Thread Branden Robinson
the config.sub/guess files are out of date. See the autotools-dev package for a good solution. Bdale - End forwarded message - -- G. Branden Robinson| The only way to get rid of a Debian GNU/Linux | temptation is to yield to it. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-07 Thread Branden Robinson
of the license options are exercised. Read the archives of debian-legal for supporting references. -- G. Branden Robinson|One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux |belly laugh. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Robert Heinlein http

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-07 Thread Branden Robinson
, but documents with small, off-topic parts are. There was no such consensus. -- G. Branden Robinson| You live and learn. Debian GNU/Linux | Or you don't live long. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein http

Re: xfree86 unbuildable on ppc

2002-04-04 Thread Branden Robinson
to get this fix implemented in the proper place? I don't want to keep my kludge (patch #65) around any longer than I have to. -- G. Branden Robinson|America is at that awkward stage. Debian GNU/Linux |It's too late to work within the [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: xfree86 unbuildable on ppc

2002-04-04 Thread Branden Robinson
in the proper place? I'm here. :) Great, thanks a lot. Let's haul the discussion over to -x. -- G. Branden Robinson| To stay young requires unceasing Debian GNU/Linux | cultivation of the ability to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | unlearn old

Re: xfree86 unbuildable on ppc

2002-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
things. My package is at their mercy. As I understand it, however, the real blame lies with the guys on the linux-kernel list. We wouldn't have this problem if the kernel headers were the same regardless of what modules you decide to compile. -- G. Branden Robinson|You can have

Re: xfree86 unbuildable on ppc

2002-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:34:26PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Apparently, if the Linux kernel driver guys renumber some ioctls, the right thing is for everybody's apps to break instantly. Err, brainfart -- scratch that point. Obviously this happens no matter where they're defined, because

Re: xfree86 unbuildable on ppc

2002-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
such things doesn't mean they exist. Is this a side-effect of some sort of real men don't program in userspace dogma? -- G. Branden Robinson| Measure with micrometer, Debian GNU/Linux | mark with chalk, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: xfree86 unbuildable on ppc

2002-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
the hell. It needs to be more than just #defines for the AGP and DRM interfaces. Whole data structures are shuttled around. -- G. Branden Robinson|I've made up my mind. Don't try to Debian GNU/Linux |confuse me with the facts. [EMAIL PROTECTED

WARNING: xmkmf/imake broken in xutils 4.1.0-12

2002-01-12 Thread Branden Robinson
this directory, or uses it). Unfortunately, only half of the moving took place. I'll roll new packages ASAP. -- G. Branden Robinson| I had thought very carefully about Debian GNU/Linux | comitting hara-kiri over this, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I

Re: Should I rename scalable-cyrfonts?

2002-01-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 02:12:48AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: scalable-cyrfonts - scalable-fonts This sounds too generic. scalable-cyrfonts-x11 - scalable-fonts-x11 This one should be xfonts-scalable-cyrillic or something like that. I concur with Josip. -- G. Branden Robinson

WARNING: xmkmf/imake broken in xutils 4.1.0-12

2002-01-11 Thread Branden Robinson
this directory, or uses it). Unfortunately, only half of the moving took place. I'll roll new packages ASAP. Unfortunately there is no way I can make dinstall today. -- G. Branden Robinson| I had thought very carefully about Debian GNU/Linux | comitting hara-kiri

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Branden Robinson
added Status: OR flags to read messages. -- G. Branden Robinson| Communism is just one step on the Debian GNU/Linux | long road from capitalism to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | capitalism. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Russian saying

Re: Call for translation for locales package

2002-01-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:04:40PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: Description: Quel locale devrait être utilisé par défaut par votre système ? De nombreux paquets de Debian utilisent locale pour WRONG! Never wrap the first line of the description. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:54:16PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: You can now get POSIX online for free... URL? -- G. Branden Robinson|I have a truly elegant proof of the Debian GNU/Linux |above, but it is too long to fit [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2002-01-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:12:01PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: ... In fact, I would consider it acceptable in general to move everything in contrib to main as long as it each package was forced to be priority extra until it was suitable

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:39:31PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: BTW: is there any particular reason why the sequences differ between console and X? Yes. XFree86 and console-{tools,data} have completely different upstreams. -- G. Branden Robinson| The key to being

Re: BitKeeper

2002-01-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:13:13PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: OK, perhaps the relicensing rule is not non-free; I'm less sure of that. I don't think it's obvious from a casual reading of the DFSG that such a requirement is non-free, but perhaps it should be. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:12:25PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: BTW: is there any particular reason why the sequences differ between console and X? Yes. XFree86 and console-{tools,data} have completely different upstreams. And of course a little consistency

Re: Preparing a Proposal: 3 DD needed for every NEW package

2001-12-30 Thread Branden Robinson
inflating the value of Q. See the Debian Constitution. -- G. Branden Robinson| The only way to get rid of a Debian GNU/Linux | temptation is to yield to it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Oscar Wilde http://people.debian.org/~branden

Re: Preparing a Proposal: 3 DD needed for every NEW package

2001-12-30 Thread Branden Robinson
do any harm anyway, and he might become active again). See Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. -- G. Branden Robinson| You could wire up a dead rat to a Debian GNU/Linux | DIMM socket and the PC BIOS memory [EMAIL PROTECTED] | test would

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-27 Thread Branden Robinson
. :) -- G. Branden Robinson| If God had intended for man to go Debian GNU/Linux | about naked, we would have been [EMAIL PROTECTED] | born that way. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpFcN49o4dT5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] Re: why does xlibs-pic exist?

2001-12-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:02:26PM -0500, Paul Duncan wrote: * Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snipped] THIS IS BECAUSE YOU REFUSE TO READ. Press the little button below tab and above left shift before sending any more messages. ;) It might surprise you, but I have

FAQ: How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-generated XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file?

2001-12-26 Thread Branden Robinson
should be defined in the debconf section of the file, but the identifier in the monitor section may be different, depending on what dexconf wrote to the file. -- G. Branden Robinson| The key to being a Southern Debian GNU/Linux | Baptist: It ain't

Re: closed bug reports

2001-12-25 Thread Branden Robinson
productive. -- G. Branden Robinson| Communism is just one step on the Debian GNU/Linux | long road from capitalism to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | capitalism. http://www.deadbeast.net/~branden/ | -- Russian saying pgpI2wl8j5JCT.pgp Description

Re: Bug#126409 acknowledged by developer (bug submitter smoking

2001-12-25 Thread Branden Robinson
-- G. Branden Robinson|There is no housing shortage in Debian GNU/Linux |Lincoln today -- just a rumor that [EMAIL PROTECTED] |is put about by people who have http://www.deadbeast.net/~branden/ |nowhere to live.-- G. L. Murfin

Re: sdl-image1.2 fixed

2001-12-25 Thread Branden Robinson
from my NMU. See bug #125928, which had already been filed before you went on your little crusade. You'll note there's also a diff in the logs of that bug from me that fixes the library. [snip] The rest of your mail was bogus conclusions drawn from your bogus premises. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: one last comment

2001-12-25 Thread Branden Robinson
. -- G. Branden Robinson| When I die I want to go peacefully Debian GNU/Linux | in my sleep like my ol' Grand [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Dad...not screaming in terror like http://www.deadbeast.net/~branden/ | his passengers. pgpXk6YM9B13v.pgp

Re: WARNING: Jack Howarth is an agent of destruction

2001-12-25 Thread Branden Robinson
/debian-devel-200110/msg00353.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200111/msg00028.html AGAIN, THE PROBLEM WAS WELL-KNOWN LONG BEFORE YOU PRANCED IN HERE WITH YOUR BAD ATTITUDE. -- G. Branden Robinson| There's nothing an agnostic can't Debian GNU/Linux

Re: why does xlibs-pic exist?

2001-12-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 11:43:18AM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: After a number of rants from Branden I rather confused now as to why xlibs-pic exists at all. THIS IS BECAUSE YOU REFUSE TO READ. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200111/msg00028.html -- G. Branden

Re: libsdl-image1.2

2001-12-25 Thread Branden Robinson
. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Please do not look directly into [EMAIL PROTECTED] | laser with remaining eye. http://people.debian.org/~branden

Re: one last comment

2001-12-25 Thread Branden Robinson
again. All mail from you is spam. -- G. Branden Robinson|There is no housing shortage in Debian GNU/Linux |Lincoln today -- just a rumor that [EMAIL PROTECTED] |is put about by people who have http://www.deadbeast.net/~branden

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 11:50:11AM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: I'm willing to accept the quake2-engine in non-us as long as it is Eh? non-us? Did the Supreme Court just uphold COPA and declare Quake2 harmful to minors or something? -- G. Branden Robinson| The software

Re: Flamewars Why pedantic spelling is good.

2001-12-22 Thread Branden Robinson
mail messages. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | kernel panic -- causal failure [EMAIL PROTECTED] | universe will now reboot http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgp1UEdVT0fWp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread Branden Robinson
such an engine as Priority extra until Free game levels were packaged for Debian, so that Debian's many non-programming users would not get their hopes up at being able to play the game in Debian as distributed. -- G. Branden Robinson|You can have my PGP passphrase when Debian

Re: Flamewars Why pedantic spelling is good.

2001-12-22 Thread Branden Robinson
. It's just that correctness in detail, while not insignificant in conversational contexts, is far less important than it is in formal documentation. -- G. Branden Robinson|Men use thought only to justify Debian GNU/Linux |their wrong doings, and speech only

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread Branden Robinson
be it... -- G. Branden Robinson| To be is to do -- Plato Debian GNU/Linux | To do is to be -- Aristotle [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do be do be do -- Sinatra http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpa2XW71wsNL.pgp Description: PGP

Re: PROPOSED: slight change to wnpp procedures

2001-09-27 Thread Branden Robinson
. Well, clearly after making a version of the package that fixes the bug, the next step is to get it into the archive, and responsibility for that is with ftpmaster, so let's reassign the bug to ftp.debian.org ...typically does not. -- G. Branden Robinson| To stay young

Re: PROPOSED: slight change to wnpp procedures

2001-09-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:38:46PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit Well, the bug could be reassigned to wnpp,ftp.debian.org. That should work with the current BTS without changing anything. I think it should be kept to wnpp

Re: PROPOSED: slight change to wnpp procedures

2001-09-27 Thread Branden Robinson
in a tool like debrelease. -- G. Branden Robinson| Exercise your freedom of religion. Debian GNU/Linux | Set fire to a church of your [EMAIL PROTECTED] | choice. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpnK6Q063LcB.pgp Description: PGP

Re: PROPOSED: slight change to wnpp procedures

2001-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:59:14PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:35:32PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: You are not going to harass us into special casing you. I wouldn't dream of it, hence the proposal in this thread. Uh, and you figure making people mail the BTS

Re: Questions regarding the Security Secretary Position

2001-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
; Joey's just worried that too many people can get a hold of his token. :) -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | // // // / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] | EI 'AANIIGOO 'AHOOT'E http://people.debian.org/~branden

Re: MUAs and Locking Was: Re: PROPOSED: slight change to wnpp procedures

2001-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
don't want to dirty my hands with it. -- G. Branden Robinson| If you have the slightest bit of Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual integrity you cannot [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support the government. http://people.debian.org/~branden

Re: PROPOSED: slight change to wnpp procedures

2001-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
understand it.) But it's one more step to the procedure, and I guess it will add to the confusion / manual mistakes. That could be a risk. Does it outweigh the benefits? -- G. Branden Robinson|The first thing the communists do Debian GNU/Linux |when

Re: PROPOSED: slight change to wnpp procedures

2001-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
a bad idea to assign a bug to more than one package, but this might be one of those cases where it makes sense. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | If ignorance is bliss, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is omniscience hell? http

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-25 Thread Branden Robinson
than 256 codepoints). The moral? Don't claim to not care about such things as character set encodings if you actually do care. If you want ISO 8859-1, ask for it. -- G. Branden Robinson| Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 06:16:37PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: Perhaps the packages could do something about it. This is certainly FAQ material. Yeah, hence the fact that my message to Dale quoted from my own FAQ, available in xfree86-common. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-25 Thread Branden Robinson
$DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE) != $THIS_DISPLAY_MANAGER ]; then + rm $DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE + fi message Please be sure to run \dpkg-reconfigure $RET\. -- G. Branden Robinson| Why do we have to hide from the Debian GNU/Linux

PROPOSED: slight change to wnpp procedures

2001-09-25 Thread Branden Robinson
to be accepted into Debian, and the FTP admins have not explained why. Disadvantages: I can't think of any. Comments? WNPP guys, what do you think? -- G. Branden Robinson|I just wanted to see what it looked Debian GNU/Linux |like in a spotlight. [EMAIL

Re: PROPOSED: slight change to wnpp procedures

2001-09-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 02:57:50AM +0100, James Troup wrote: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently the package is never to be accepted into Debian, Err, no, I never said that. Exhibit 1: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=113360msg=11repeatmerged=yes From

Re: PROPOSED: slight change to wnpp procedures

2001-09-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 04:22:19AM +0100, James Troup wrote: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tags 113360 wontfix severity 113360 wishlist thanks Which means since you won't leave the bug closed, I'll mark it wontfix instead. That doesn't alter my statement

Re: [Q]: GNU inetutils and debian inetutils not in sync??

2001-09-24 Thread Branden Robinson
with the code (new features etc). Of course the package is GPL'ed (just like sysklogd is GPL'ed, although it is forked from the BSD code), but that is not the motivation. Stop combatting hysteria with the facts. Don't you know that's not how this Project is supposed to work? -- G. Branden

Re: default font resolution in X Windows

2001-09-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:22:00PM +0200, Matthias Berse wrote: meaning it should be changed back?! Anyway my main concern about the font resolution is that many programs break, because they expect the fonts being 75dpi. File bugs against those programs. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: default font resolution in X Windows

2001-09-20 Thread Branden Robinson
of 17 and larger monitors, and the fact that the dpi's actually in use are closer to 100dpi than 75dpi these days. It's not 1990 anymore. -- G. Branden Robinson|The errors of great men are Debian GNU/Linux |venerable because they are more [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-19 Thread Branden Robinson
, like the Shetlands and the Isle of Man. Now, I'll let some Brit come along and tell us all how I've got all that 100% wrong. :) -- G. Branden Robinson|You can have my PGP passphrase when Debian GNU/Linux |you pry it from my cold, dead [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: default font resolution in X Windows

2001-09-18 Thread Branden Robinson
questions asked while configuring X, so why not one more? Because debconf is not a registry. The files that need to be edited are conffiles and debconf cannot touch them, per Debian policy. -- G. Branden Robinson| The greatest productive force is Debian GNU/Linux

Re: neat mutt bug.

2001-09-17 Thread Branden Robinson
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