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Description:
alsa-base - ALSA sound driver common files
alsa-headers - ALSA sound driver header files
alsa-source - ALSA sound driver source
Closes: 247109 251678 253347
Changes:
alsa-driver (1.0.5a-1) unstable; urgency=low
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* New upstream release
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format from master.debian.org[2]).
Specifically, those messages which are typically entitled as questions for
the candidates and those messages which start threads.
Thanks,
David B. Harris
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/debian-vote-200403/threads.html
[2] master.debian.org
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libasound2 - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (libraries)
libasound2-dev - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (development)
libasound2-doc - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (developer's documentation)
libasound2
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Description:
libasound2 - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (libraries)
libasound2-dev - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (development)
libasound2-doc - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (developer's documentation)
libasound2
-By: David B. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
alsa-base - ALSA sound driver common files
alsa-headers - ALSA sound driver header files
alsa-source - ALSA sound driver source
Closes: 233752 233974 234225 234233
Changes:
alsa-driver (1.0.3-1) unstable; urgency=high
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* New upstream
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Description:
alsa-base - ALSA sound driver common files
alsa-headers - ALSA sound driver header files
alsa-source - ALSA sound driver source
Closes: 232942
Changes:
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.
* David B. Harris:
- Brown paper bag
-By: David B Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
alsa-base - ALSA sound driver common files
alsa-headers - ALSA sound driver header files
alsa-source - ALSA sound driver source
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.
* Update debconf cardlist:
- Add usb-usx2y (Tascam
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On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 03:18:53 +
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Langasek wrote:
But an ssh key on removable media is not vulnerable to keysniffing
alone, where a password is.
If such behaviour becomes common, the keysniffers will simply copy
anything that looks like an SSH
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:38:25 -0500
Joe Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:37, David B Harris wrote:
I've also yet to see anybody post their IP address, userid, and
password for their publicly-accessible servers to a public mailing list
:)
I have. root, even.
http
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:49:20 -0600
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First of all. This is obviously not a Debian project (since it is not
operating within the Debian framework.) I don't see why this then
necessitates over a dozen threads on debian-devel -- AND why it gets to
call itself
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:12:52 -0500
Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have discussed this sub-project extensively at Voxel, and we are
willing to commit to seeing this idea through - in a manner that allows
the Debian community to benefit from resources that we put into it. We
are
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:45:35 -0800
Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am still negotiating with the large industry group that approached me
about this project. When the price tag is north of $1M, it takes time.
If that works out, they would fund 3-5 engineers full-time, plus myself
and
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 06:27:12 +1100
Zenaan Harkness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any thoughts on that? Anybody from HP or IBM here want to weigh in?
My primary thought wrt making money from Free Software - make as much as
we possibly can - at least that's my goal, so that I can provide for
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:53:02 -0800
Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you still on good terms with some people at HP?
Yes. Has anyone discussed this with Bdale?
He hasn't participated in the thread yet.
I wouldn't mind getting paid well for the work
I do, but that's a rarity. (Why
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libasound2 - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (libraries)
libasound2-dev - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (development)
libasound2-doc - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (developer's documentation)
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:18:00 +0100
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uid 31 is reserved forever (speaking as the base-passwd maintainer), but
new installations of postgresql should have a uid in the system range,
namely 100-999, as created by 'adduser --system'. See the changelog for
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 00:02:47 -0400
Joe Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David B Harris wrote:
As much as you may dislike it, people care about toolkit. I don't
understand the witch-hunt to remove references to such things.
Short description is a limited resource. By all means, put GTK
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 01:44:57 -0400
David B Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Obviously if the short description is too long, something needs to go -
and in that case, certainly not mentioning the toolkit is reasonable.
However, in this particular case (gtk/gnome client for masqdialer
server
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 21:04:23 -0400
Joe Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Description : gtk/gnome client for masqdialer server
How about client for masqdialer?
From the freshmeat description:
GMasqdialer provides a GNOME/GTK client for the Masqdialer system. The
Which is it, GTK
On 05 Oct 2003 13:13:55 +0200
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is no point for me working on those bugs if the patches will
just rod in the bts or be thrown out so as not to differ from
upstream. As I said before I won't work on the debian package again
without an assurance
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:11:37 +1000
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, this is driving me bananas. I go to download the latest
unstable packages, only to find that apt-get update
has just retrieved a cached copy of the Packages file that
(in some cases) can be a month old.
I've seen
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On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 21:55:07 -0400
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This clause has a direct effect on all users,
restricting the use of e.g. encrypted filesystems.
That's a new one on me. I don't think the GFDL restricts
the use of encrypted filesystems.
I have mentioned
Sorry folks, I CC'd: -devel instead of -legal. God I hate Reply-To:s :)
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:03:59 -0400
David B Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 21:55:07 -0400
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This clause has a direct effect on all users,
restricting
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 05:42:06 +0800
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bdale ... I announced a group subscription to lwn.net for Debian
Bdale developers, sponsored by HP...
Debian may be seen as supporting non-disclosure conditions /
protected proprietary information / trade secrets / etc.
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Description:
libasound2 - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (libraries)
libasound2-dev - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (development)
libasound2-doc - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (developer's documentation)
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 11:47:06 +0100
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Harris has expressed an interest in this job, and I've talked to
him about it on IRC, so if he still wants it he's welcome. If anyone
else is interested, then contact me: a small team would be a good idea
anyway.
(That's a really long recipient list - does this need only go to
reiserfs-list@namesys.com and [EMAIL PROTECTED])
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:45:09 +0400
Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it now prints two random credits rather than all of them, and credits
for the developers are in place.
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:31:51 +0200
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For sarge we have two options for the default MTA in base:
a. replace exim with exim4
b. no MTA installed by default, add a MTA task
So do we want there to be a MTA by default?
I would opt for a) personally. Exim has
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:11:13 +0200
Sebastian Rittau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:36:22PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote:
General
Debian
1 project
10 architectures
100 countries
1000 maintainers
1 packages
10 bug fixed
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 22:48:48 +1200
Nick Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le mar 08/07/2003 ? 01:15, Matt Zimmerman a ?crit :
All that's missing is an automatic debconf notice entry for each NEWS
item.
That wud be
On Sun Jul 06, 04:58pm -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 04:31:22PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 07:13:23PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
Would this work just as well?
[example without distribution and urgency]
It would work just as
On 03 Jul 2003 23:45:56 -0500
Joe Wreschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 15:19, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
Cameron Patrick wrote:
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:36:48PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
| Well, once you folks have come up with a definition of software, you
| be
On 03 Jul 2003 13:00:47 +0200
Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña]
(For those who are not aware of this issue, please read #92810)
There seem to be someone believing that standard documents should be
treated as software. Standards are not
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:17:57 +0200
Karsten Merker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think ports to other kernels are generally worthwhile in and of
themselves, simply for cleaning up the codebase and getting rid of
unportable stuff.
It's just plain old healthy is all. The previous comment
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:53:56 -0600
Joel Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No it doesn't. I've yet to even hear of an architecture that NetBSD runs
on but which Linux doesn't. They just have a different definition of
architecture than us. (ie: our hppa may be three or four arches to
the NetBSD
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 07:57:55 +0800
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gentlemen, after I installed Debian GNU/Linux, I found I had to take
extra steps to get the GNU version of a program installed, as some
other leading brand alternative was in its stead.
So what is the single command to
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:04:54 -0500
Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And not only 80386 needs this - There is the Sparc64 port which would
also benefit from this (http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/#64bit). If we
had support for subarchtectures, not only would the ix86 mess be able to
be
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:12:04 +1000 (EST)
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Capable of handling, yes, but then, so is cat. g Once delivered, though,
there's no way of getting it back out again unless you're running something
like courier or similar.
Or Mutt, or a halfdozen other MUAs.
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:02:39 +0200
Vincent Zweije [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dodging with symlinks is not really a solution, as all the files will
actually still be in the wrong places.
I believe he meant installing them to the proper locations, and then
making symlinks from there to the big
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:46:48 +1000 (EST)
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now I'm wondering about it even more. IMHO `maildirmake' is _very_
necessary for any mail and as it seems to be only a 2-line-shell-script
why it isn't included
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:27:48 -0300
Gustavo Noronha Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As for my own suggestion, I would say - fix the package. The diff.gz
exists for a reason. If you're incapable of fixing it, find somebody who
can (and hopefully get them to show you how they did it).
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On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 15:33:29 +0100
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since we're using bug tags for such specific things now wouldn't it make
sense to add per architecture tags so one can search via
http://bugs.debian.org/tag:hppa
for hppa related issues (not that there are any of
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On 24 May 2003 15:40:08 +0900
Masato Taruishi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, the main point of this package is to create a local ad-hoc package
which can coexist with its official package. Escpecially, I can manage
my temporary on-going improvement to some debian package as a debian
package. I
On Sat, 24 May 2003 10:19:38 +0200
Enrico Zini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.debian.org/devel/, Projects section:
* Debian Web Pages
[...]
* Alioth: Debian GForge
Certainly seems that they're listed.
The Debian Usability Research seems to be missing:
On Fri, 23 May 2003 11:58:45 -0300
Gustavo Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Why Debian Desktop subproject is on official website
and many others[1] aren't? The Debian Desktop is a good
initiative, but there are many others that are being
excluded from the website.I've some ideas:
-
On Fri, 23 May 2003 17:33:58 -0700
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Debconf is about Debian developers trying to meet other devels and users.
Its about trying to make us a stronger organization. Its about hacking and
all of the other reasons we love Debian.
Treating it like a
On Sat Apr 26, 07:36pm +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
* The /etc/init.d/ scripts would need to add need otherscript (and
sometimes provide something). As I think it is a very bad idea to edit
these scripts in our post-install (and try to reedit them in
pre-remove)) one would have to file bugs
On Wed Apr 23, 09:35pm +0200, Wilmer van der Gaast wrote:
Bug 183186 seems to be stopping irss-text 0.8.6 from entering Sarge, but
IMHO the bug is not quite release critical. Botti is just a small part
of irssi, not used by 90% of the package users (at least, I think so).
(Maybe it should be
On Mon Apr 21, 10:05am -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
On 19-Apr-03, 11:44 (CDT), David B Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From debconf-devel(8): low: Very trivial items that have defaults that
will work in the vast majority of cases; oinly control freaks see
these.
If you have
On Sat Apr 19, 11:18am -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
On 19-Apr-03, 06:47 (CDT), Steve Kowalik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 7:22 pm, Saturday, April 19 2003, Denis Barbier mumbled:
I do not understand exactly what is good and bad use of debconf.
For instance all questions asked by the
On Fri Apr 18, 11:15am -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
Perhaps I've been overly strong with the rhetoric. Let me give two
realistic scenarios where this manage foo with debconf? fails.
I like your two real-world examples, and I'd like to present a third.
3) Impatient but advanced user
Somebody
Apologies for starting a new thread, I accidentally replied to Colin
privately, and instead of re-writing the email, I simply forwarded it.
Bad clal :)
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On Fri Apr 18, 12:54pm -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On 18 Apr 2003 11:55:09 -0400,
Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
So, opinions? Yeah, it's kind of gross. But the way things are
now is far worse.
As long as /etc/conffiles/managed, /etc/conffiles/unmanaged,
and
On Fri Apr 18, 05:28pm -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
1) Package has a configuration file which can (optionally) be
managed
debconf/postinst
This is already the way things are now; a package doesn't have to do
anything special to create configuration files in its postinst.
Yeah, I was
On Fri Apr 18, 07:06pm -0400, David B Harris wrote:
I'm thinking in the may I upgrade your configuration file? question,
have the options I mentioned before (no, yes, always-no).
How's that sound? It's unobtrusive, only adding a third option. We
ensure that /etc/conffiles
On Fri Apr 18, 06:37pm -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
If you use ucf like mechanisms, and you acpet the first
debconf generated file, then you will never be asked to over write
your file -- since the md5sum of the installed file shall match the
previous maintainer version. Bingo, we
On Sat Apr 19, 10:22am +1000, Brian May wrote:
Any ideas?
Share an initscript between them, if that's possible?
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On Fri Apr 11, 11:47am +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
* Package name: exim-mysql
Version : 3.36
I already packaged with one (exim compiled with mysql and tls support).
I needed it personally, with the provided debian exim package a
recompile is necessary to use a mysql backend.
On Fri Apr 11, 02:25pm +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
http://pkg-exim4.alioth.debian.org/
Ack, sorry, I didn't realise you guys were uploading to experimental now
:)
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On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 11:51:03 +0100
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is a bad practice to repeat the package name as the first word in
the long description.
Why is that again?
Also the URL does not belong into the description but should be
placed in the debian/copyright file
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:13:57 +0100
Michael Piefel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Line breaks already aren't preserved, and there already exist a very
specific set of rules for that. Look into your documentation, and have
a look at dselect.
I already have example applications which don't preserve them
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:59:09 +0100
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a good search interface in our package interface UIs (good search !=
search by words).
... as opposed to searching based on the contents of people's minds? :)
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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 12:55:35 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sami Haahtinen) wrote:
In the past the only thing that stopped me from doing a build of my
own from the sources was that debian missed libical.. and now that
there appears to be libical-dev, i can't see any reason why not
package it..
Yes,
On 04 Dec 2002 12:55:50 -0500
Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://people.debian.org/~walters/descriptions.html
Thanks.
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On 04 Dec 2002 12:55:50 -0500
Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://people.debian.org/~walters/descriptions.html
I do have some differences of opinion, though. It's sad, but there are a
getting to be a fairly large number of DDs who are attention grabbers.
Just a few days ago, I saw a
On 04 Dec 2002 19:19:38 +
Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In correct English grammar and typography the space after a full stop
(period in Merkin) is supposed to be a wider space then that between
words and after commas and suchlike.
Ahh, allright, so there's still reason to
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:33:35 -0800
Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't see any reason why package descriptions shouldn't be presented
in variable-width fonts. The right margin might look a bit ragged
(assuming the program preserves line breaks, which is probably a good
idea to avoid
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Version: 0.19.0-1
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Urgency: low
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On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 23:27:33 +1300
Nick Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Given the ISO mirroring situation? Care to elucidate?
There being an order of magnitude more package mirrors than ISO mirrors.
Completely ignoring the web site organisation, mind you, it's been
common for a long time for
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:06:40 -0500
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem with the net installs isos is mainly that they are
unofficial and there are several varying cd's produced by different
folks, and of varying quality (though quality is overall good; I've
used them happily in the
Hey there :)
I'm starting a new thread about people switching to other distributions.
Why? Because I'd rather we start first with an information-gathering
thread.
I'm shortly going to relate my first-hand knowledge of why people have
switched from Debian, to Gentoo. Everybody else who has any
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:58:51 -0500
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The comparison is only fair with organizations that *want* you do do
so(so not redhat, probably not openbsd, or mandrake, or others whose
principal developers try to sell cds).
Strictly speaking, given the ISO mirroring
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