Re: Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:56:21AM +0100, Eric Valette wrote: > Russ Allbery writes: > > >For one specific example, it's become quite clear over the past year that > >systemd has achieved the same status as abortion debates in US politics. > >Not only is it clear that we will *never* stop arguing

Re: DAK Commands for Bikesheds

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 08:39:19PM +0200, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > On 23 September 2015 at 00:16, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > unzip ; strip ; touch ; grep ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount > > ; sleep > > Has anyone mentioned git? No, nor split. -- "If you're

Re: system upgrade by systemd

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 05:38:36AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz (2015-08-30): On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:42:13PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 27 août 2015 à 05:22 +0200, Michael Meskes a écrit : Besides, what causes the system

Re: system upgrade by systemd

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:42:13PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 27 août 2015 à 05:22 +0200, Michael Meskes a écrit : Besides, what causes the system to make those package downloads before? I may be behind a slow or expensive line and don't want any downloads performed at all.

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 08:00:52AM -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote: On Jul 15 2015, Bas Wijnen wij...@debian.org wrote: As Jakub was saying: just starting it up without even visiting a site yet will do a POST and a *few dozen* GET requests. Shouldn't it be waiting with its checks until it

Re: Bug#780155: ITP: baculum -- Baculum WebGUI tool for Bacula Community program

On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 10:13:31PM +0100, gani wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marcin Haba marcin.h...@bacula.pl * Package name: baculum Version : 7.0+git20150208 Upstream Author : Marcin Haba marcin.h...@bacula.pl * URL : http://www.bacula.org/

Re: Who gets an email when with bugreports [was: Re: Unauthorised activity surrounding tbb package]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 01:03:52AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 08:37 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: I'm going to put together a bit more firm of a proposal in the next few weeks, but I think that basically everything

Re: Bug#775456: ITP: sankore -- interactive whiteboard interface

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 04:41:22PM -0400, David Prévot wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Prévot taf...@debian.org * Package name: sankore Version : 2.5.1 Upstream Author : Nicolas Nenon nne...@alti.fr * URL : http://open-sankore.org/ *

Re: length of a package extended description

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 01:24:20PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2015-01-10 13:34:37 +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Nonsense, the format is trivial and stable. I've never seen that it was stable. A quick one-line-ish fix for this (requires a modern shell) is: apt-cache show

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:02:53AM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote: Dear Josselin, I have just noticed your blog post on planet.debian.org: https://np237.livejournal.com/34598.html I would like to ask you to resist the temptation of publishing similar posts. It makes fun of part of our

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:48:29PM +, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:05:13AM +0100, Bj??rn Mork wrote: m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Nov 17, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: This is what many still (retorically) wonder about: we the systemd

Re: Bug#768936: ITP: nufft -- Library implementing the Non-Uniform Fast Fourier Transform

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:21:33AM +, Ghislain Antony Vaillant wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ghislain Antony Vaillant ghisv...@gmail.com * Package name: nufft Version : 1.3.3 Upstream Author : Leslie Greengard greeng...@cims.nyu.edu * URL :

Re: Bug#767617: ITP: calculix-ccx -- CalculiX CrunchiX is a three dimensional structual Finite Element Solver

On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 03:10:03PM +0100, Wolfgang Fuetterer wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wolfgang Fuetterer deb...@wlf-online.de * Package name: calculix-ccx Version : 2.7 Upstream Author : Guido Dhondt guido.dho...@calculix.de * URL :

Re: Bug#766576: ITP: libatf -- Automated Test Framework (ATF) libraries

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 09:39:35PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Craig Rodrigues rodr...@freebsd.org * Package name: libatf Version : 0.21 Upstream Author : Julio Merino j...@julipedia.org * URL :

Re: peace of mind

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:09:57PM +0100, Robert Lemmen wrote: not as much as would be ideal, but I have been running it on one machine, adapted a few things that I run for starting, and trieid the monitoring/restart. but really, my main concerns are fueled by pages like this [0]. Am I

Re: Bug#762274: ITP: libx11-keybord-perl -- Keyboard support functions for X11

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 03:24:25PM +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de * Package name: libx11-keybord-perl ^^^ Is the misspelling of keyboard deliberate? If so sorry for the

Re: systemd, again

On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 02:02:33PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: On the other hand, a non-GNOME wheezy user SHALL not be upgraded to systemd, true. That is contadicted by: https://lists.debian.org/20140907151102.go21...@smurf.noris.de -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 12:18:08PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Zack Weinberg: I think this strategy is positively _necessary_ in order to ensure that systems currently running Wheezy can safely be upgraded to Jessie. There are simply too many wacky configurations out there; it

Re: Bug#756669: ITP: kalendas -- Calculations of calendar and Julian Date

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 05:10:40PM -0500, Mike Molina wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Owner: Miguel Molina mmolina.unphys...@gmail.com * Package name: kalendas Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Miguel Molina

Re: Bug#756172: ITP: ssh-cron -- cron-like job scheduler than handles ssh key passphrases

On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 09:05:37PM -0700, tony mancill wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: tony mancill tmanc...@debian.org * Package name: ssh-cron Version : 0.91.01 Upstream Author : * URL : * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C++

Re: Bug#755285: marked as done (general: Black screen on resume after suspend)

On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 08:25:05PM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote: because it is duplicate and not because it is missing information. It may be clear for may that dupe means duplicate, but this is not clear for every body especially that in French this means stupid. Considering the language is

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 08:40:29PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2014, at 19:28, Russ Allbery wrote: Ondřej Surý ond...@sury.org writes: On Mon, Jul 14, 2014, at 18:25, Jakub Wilk wrote: Food for thought: Which fields take up most space in Packages.xz[0]? I am

Re: Proposal to avoid executable naming conflicts (was: Bug#753704: ITP: amap -- Next-generation scanning tool for pentesters)

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 11:31:12AM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: Since Debian package names must already be unique, we ought to be able to leverage that to avoid having to fight over which package gets to claim which binary name. What about making it into a user's install-time decision, rather

Re: thanks messages on mailing lists/bug reports

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 03:41:50PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:45:21 +0200 Sven Bartscher sven.bartsc...@weltraumschlangen.de wrote: Greetings everyone, I recently started contributing to debian. Before that, most of my writing with people I don't know

Re: Sources licensed under PHP License and not being PHP are not distributable

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 08:57:43PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: I'd recommend that we safeguard our users against 'PHP' licensing problems the same way I protect myself against a meteorite hitting me on my way to work tomorrow, and for roughly the same reasons. Because there is nothing you

Re: Bug#750546: ITP: sluice -- rate limiting data piping tool

On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 11:39:42AM +0100, Colin Ian King wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Colin Ian King colin.k...@canonical.com * Package name: sluice Version : 0.01.00 Upstream Author : Colin King colin.k...@canonical.com * URL :

Re: Bug#749099: ITP: conv -- Simple ASCII,binary,decimal,hex converter

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:53:15PM -0300, Marcio de Souza Olivera wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marcio de Souza Olivera m.desouz...@gmail.com * Package name: conv Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Xfuw89 leonid.x...@gmail.com * URL :

Re: Bug#747920: ITP: libdatabase-dumptruck -- document-oriented interface to a SQLite database

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:56:34AM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Perl Group pkg-perl-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: libdatabase-dumptruck Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Lubomir Rintel lkund...@v3.sk * URL

Re: Why Debian

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:43:29AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: I love democracy, where everyone has a say and have a chance to make the changes they want rather than depending on someone. Just remember that Democracy is where 13 lions and 5 sheep vote for what to have for dinner. :( -- If

Re: Debian default desktop environment

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 09:27:00PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: previously on this list Jakub Wilk contributed: * Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org, 2014-04-04, 23:22: - Media player: mplayer (on libcaca, of course) With its 4 RC bugs, it doesn't look like mplayer is going to be part of

Re: Debian default desktop environment

On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 08:18:41AM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 14:16:15 Undefined User wrote: The problem is that right now Debian project is changing its default desktop environment, and I think that this is not a good move. Of course, it all depends on where the

Re: Debian default desktop environment

[Please don't top post on this mailing list.] On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 10:03:46AM -0300, Undefined User wrote: Well, it's almost impossible to avoid personal judgments on this matter. This involves personal taste. But when talking about new users or not-that-advanced users, I'm really

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 06:31:12PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 07:18:30PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: [0] Can we haz a release name? Sure. It's Debian 8.0, zurg. [0] Neil [0] Note: may be a lie. Umm, Debian 9.0? -- If you're not careful, the

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:17:52AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de): On 02/15/2014 09:22 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: So, before doing so: will that be helpful? I think most people simply don't configure PulseAudio

Re: Need advice on building a package

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:06:10PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: This mailinglist is, after all, a list about developing Debian. If your interest is only in *using* Debian e.g. for own package development, then our debian-user lists are more appropriate for that:

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 04:18:50PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 03:51:33PM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: Well if a bug can be solved by killing the buggy process and getting better functionality than when the process is running is certainly a very very bad bug! As

Re: Bug#737563: ITP: telegram-cli -- Command-line interface for Telegram

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 08:52:41PM +, Cleto Martín wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Cleto Martín cl...@debian.org * Package name: telegram-cli Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Vitaly Valtman * URL : https://github.com/vysheng/tg * License

Re: Bug#736826: ITP: tea4cups -- The Swiss Army's knife of advanced CUPS administrators

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:02:55AM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de * Package name: tea4cups Version : 3.13~alpha1+svn3565 Upstream Author : Jerome Alet a...@librelogiciel.com * URL

Re: openrc: Updated patches making openrc work properly on Debian GNU/Hurd

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 03:29:28AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jan 25, Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com wrote: Whatever you have decided about Linux only, this is relevant information. Debian is about versatility in the Unix/Posix way, not any No, it's not. Next. Does the NEXT OS

Re: Bug#736604: ITP: r10k -- Smarter Puppet deployment, powered by killer robots

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 03:04:33PM +0100, Sebastien Badia wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastien Badia s...@sebian.fr * Package name: r10k Version : 1.1.2 Upstream Author : Adrien Thebo g...@somethingsinistral.net * URL :

Re: Debian Developers team in Launchpad

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:08:06AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 08:17:16AM +0900, Tae Wong wrote: Tagliamonte: Your native language is Korean and if you'll need to post questions about Debian in Korean language. I will not buy this record, it is scratched. SCNR

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:00:42PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: at this point, I would like to point at a very important part of the revised code of conduct that Wouter is proposing: Assume good faith. On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Adam Borowski wrote:

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

[Please don't top post on this mailing list!] On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 06:45:02PM +0200, Zlatan Todoric wrote: And just bashing GNOME DE for systemd and GNOME Classic is not good enough point because probably the largest user base of Debian user use GNOME. That is because it is installed by

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 09:28:04PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On 13/10/13 19:47, Niels Thykier wrote: (Not sure of the origins of the rime; I remember it being used in V from Vendetta though.) As a Brit I guess I'm as surprised by people not knowing this as some US folks are when I

Re: Bug#719211: ITP: lnav -- nurses-based log file viewer

On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 11:44:11AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Salvatore Bonaccorso car...@debian.org * Package name: lnav Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Timothy Stack timothyshanest...@gmail.com * URL :

Re: Bug#718791: ITP: mikutter -- Simple, powerful and moeful twitter client

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:35:01PM +0900, HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai) wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai) d...@debian.org * Package name: mikutter Version : 0.2.2.1318 Upstream Author : Toshiaki Asai * URL :

Re: Missing makefile

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:53:33AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: And compiling kernel modules is off-topic for debian-user. It should, however, be on-topic here. Correct, but you are more likely to be directed to debian-mentors. Try there. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have

Pulseaudio (was ... Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports)

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:44:21AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: My most recent experience with PulseAudio came when I noticed that WoW (run through Wine) was producing crackling, stuttering sound again; this was during the late months before the wheezy release. I tried half-a-dozen things,

Re: Bug#706160: general: it should be easier for ordinary developers to work with Debian packages

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 03:04:52PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:20:53PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: dh_make -f ../foo-1.tar.gz dpkg-buildpackage I think one valid point the OP makes which each of these suggestions — in isolation — seem to miss, is

Re: so long, and thanks for all the fish

On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 01:55:24AM +0100, Aneurin Price wrote: On 4 April 2013 18:28, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: There is apparently no mode of argument, or style of communications, which is capable of penetrating the Debian bureaucracy. It is impervious, even to patches which have

Re: Debian bugs #800000 and #1000000 contest

On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 05:16:06PM +, Neil Williams wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 08:23:57 -0800 Tyler MacDonald ty...@macdonald.name wrote: An obscure french DD. Wow, what a way to describe a person. Did that person kill your pet squirrel or something? :-) Christian is referring to

Re: Mplayer not running with user privileges

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 03:47:27PM +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote: 2012/12/7 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com This is list is for development of Debian, your question should be posted on debian-user instead (or one of the debian-user-language lists). This makes me think that the right

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:40:41PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: the discussion that systemd is a bad design because it uses the same configuration file syntax as Windows ini files or XDG .desktop files, adding the statement that these are too difficult to parse. If you are refering

Re: Canonical pushes upstart into user session - systemd developer complains

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:43:07PM +0200, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote: Hello! Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez has written on Saturday, 24 November, at 19:20: FYI, Yet another episode of the Linux init drama: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Specs/RaringUpstartUserSessions

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 01:20:42PM -0600, Kevin Toppins wrote: I do not want to fight with you. I do not want to silence you. I do not want to _force_ you to think a certain way. But I would be pleased if you would be willing to try a different way of thinking. Me too, please read:

Re: Introducing codesearch.debian.net, a regexp code search engine

On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 07:05:43PM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: Hi, I hereby announce a new Debian project: Debian Code Search. [...] You can use the search engine at http://codesearch.debian.net/ Here are a few sample queries: •

Re: Bug#687103: ITP: maps -- OpenStreetMap client for the GNOME Desktop

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:28:16AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 06:45:42AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Luca Capello l...@pca.it [2012.09.09.2029 +0200]: Or, if this is tightened to OSM, 'gnome-osm-maps'. except the 'm' on osm is already a map, so maybe

Re: Package changelog should contain, well, a log of changes

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 08:46:22AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:24:44AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 12-07-13 at 08:39pm, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk (13/07/2012): Please proofread your changelog before releasing a packaging, and

Re: Package changelog should contain, well, a log of changes

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 07:14:56AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2012-07-13, Craig Small csm...@debian.org wrote: On 12-07-13 at 08:39pm, Cyril Brulebois wrote: SNCR, KiBi. It should of been package not packaging. I got that bit. Still, I'm not sure what Stevie Nicks Concert Reviews

Re: Concerns and Challenges of Squeeze and Ongoing Elements

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 12:10:18AM -0400, John L. Males wrote: Modified Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 (squeeze) Planning, Upgrade, Modifications from Highly modified ^^^ Debian 4.x Etch ^^^ And you upgraded to Lenny, then Squeeze

Re: Improving our response to duplicate packages in Debian

On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 08:24:27AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: Has anyone quantized the % of tasks that a DD/DM does that are outside of their pet projects? Meaning, once they get their itch scratched, how far outside of their main reason for joining Debian, do they explore? Would it be useful

Re: Bug#508725: ITP:pmwiki -- easy of use wiki-based system

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:16:37PM -0500, Cristian Paul Peñaranda Rojas wrote: X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package: pmwiki Severity: wishlist Owner: cristian paul peñaranda rojas kristian.p...@gmail.com * Package name : pmwiki Version : 2.2.0 Upstream

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume make-up discount

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:41:13PM +0100, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: Il giorno dom, 23/11/2008 alle 15.17 -0600, Manoj Srivastava ha scritto: On Sun, Nov 23 2008, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: Yes (I'd find it funny). That's what humour is. hen you are a retrograde, beetle

[OT] Ignorance is no defence. (was ... Re: Leverage in licensing discussions)

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:28:16PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Josselin Mouette wrote: Being in favor of open-sourcing firmwares (including those controlling critical security devices in cars) does not mean being in favor of letting anyone ship their own version. In such cases, there

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 07:48:21PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: =2E.. hence, given that Lenny hasn't been release yet, when are we gonna make another one? :) Let's make it a Beer Sprint. The winners receive a package with the local brew from the people who

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 01:02:30PM -0500, Ean Schuessler wrote: Its a lot like exercise. Its not convenient and its not easy but in the long run its a good idea. Nice pun! :) -- Chris. == I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you

Re: Bug#490805: ITP: txtreader -- text reader, mainly used for reading text originally novels

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:23:27PM +0800, LI Daobing wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: txtreader Version : 0.4.4 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.minisrc.com/?q=taxonomy/term/2 *

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:49:50PM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: Have you ever heard the fable concerning a father, a son and a donkey? In a nutshell, first, nobody rides down the road on the donkey, and instead lead him with a rope. People criticized them for doing so, e.g. why not let the

Re: Debian's eboard package

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 04:07:55PM +0200, Patrik Fimml wrote: Hi, the latest eboard package in unstable is version 1.0.3-1. It is rather unusable, because it keeps crashing frequently (#452686). Meanwhile, upstream has moved on to version 1.1.1, released three months ago. I have tried to

Re: What about use xml for descriptions of packages?

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:29:56AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: What's an extra few MB plus parsing overhead when everyone has 250GB HDDs, multi-core 64-bit CPUs and 2+GB RAM? Huh?. Why commit good machines to the landfill? -- Chris. == One, with God, is always a majority, but many a

Re: A suggestion

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 11:31:44PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: Am Mittwoch 02 April 2008 schrieb Chris Bannister: On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:16:48PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:38:36 -0300 Joel Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that the testing

Re: A suggestion

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:29:30AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:44:56AM +1300, Chris Bannister a écrit : Unfortunately, many people new to Debian/Linux get the impression that testing is perfectly suitable for a desktop system. Maybe because they have read

Re: A suggestion

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:13:59AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:55:40AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen a écrit : Given how much uproar there is about Microsoft's desire to retire Windows XP while many people would rather stick with it that go to Vista, perhaps the

Re: A suggestion

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:16:48PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:38:36 -0300 Joel Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that the testing or above releases may be suitable for the desktop of a EXPERT linux user. I need a stable release because my desktop must

Re: Bug#457424: ITP: yougrabber -- download simultaneously several videos from youtube.com

On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 12:04:06PM +0100, root wrote: Humourous or risqué? -- Chris. ==

Re: Bug#440823: ITP: kelbt -- backtracking LR parser

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:24:18PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: Which CASCON paper? I don't think you should mention this in the description. The description is meant for a user to decide if he wants to install this package or not. You shouldn't make a user follow So after reading the

Re: Bug#428256: ITP: ffrenzy -- Multiplayer platform with dwarfs fighting with/for food

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:41:43AM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul van Tilburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: ffrenzy Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Authors: Bas Kloet [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Luijten [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 05:39:54PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: The frontends imho just need a clear way of showing which packages are going to be installed because of a Depends and which because of a Recommends, so it would be easier to de-select a recommended package. Otherwise there would

Re: Reasons for recommends and suggests

On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:08:16AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: Now as for the need for re-classification of 'recommends' to say 'suggests' to trim (mega|giga)bytes from the basic install sounds like a neat idea and a way to help with that is to have the maintainer have a simple file that explains

Re: Bug#413735: ITP: mdk2 -- Destructive 802.11 wireless network hacking tool

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:56:52AM +0200, Debian Oracle wrote: On ti, 2007-03-06 at 15:31 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: mdk2 is a tool designed to crash 802.11 wireless network. ... What's the non-black hat purpose of this tool? [..] You owe the Debian Oracle a patch to icedove to warn

Re: woody removed from mirrors

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 06:15:28PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: Debian is not updating packages in Woody, its now oldstable. Debian now has support for Sarge and will still support Sarge when Etch is released but when Lenny is near release Sarge will stop being supported like Woody is now (this is

Re: [desktop] ¿Dead?

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 11:55:23PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:14:26PM -0400, Janez Rabzelj Zappone wrote: Hi, the project is dead? No, this is not an ex-project. It is sleeping! Not unlike the Norwegian blue parrot! Cheers, Kev Which was because of a particulary

Re: Packet radio and foul language

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:41:09PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:43:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Manners/politeness is social lubricant. It makes society run smoother and less violently. I'm pretty sure that people who always take the path of least

Re: bits from the release team

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:43:28PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Jan 04, Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention that 2.6.15 requires a newer udev. Who knows what other newer things newer kernels might require. OTOH, old kernel

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:21:41PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:11:32AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I read all of your points as criticisms of Linux. That is disappointing. Why is criticism disappointing? The goals of Linux and the Linux Perhaps he meant that

Re: Canonical and Debian

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:50:31PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:52:08PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: accusing people of being members of a Canonical-controlled cabal when they do you the courtesy of

Re: New Nokia device is Debian-based?

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:47:50AM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:21:46AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: Florian Weimer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-06 09:32: * Stephen Birch: Wow Nokia just became my new favourite company. To put things into