Re: ITP: penguin command

2000-09-04 Thread David Starner
distributable but the author does not want it to be changed. Is there any license that conforms to DFSG but does not allow modification of code (=artwork in this case) ? Huh? No, definetly not. Such would, without question, go against the spirt and the letter of the DFSG. -- David Starner - [EMAIL

Re: libgd1 vs. libgd1g

2000-09-04 Thread David Starner
? It should be a recompile. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org It was starting to rain on the night that they cried forever, It was blinding with snow on the night that they screamed goodbye. - Dio, Rock and Roll Children -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-03 Thread David Starner
to standard. Speed reasons - gzip is significantly faster than bzip2, which matters for old ix86 (x=3,4) and m68k machines which run Debian. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.net.dhis.org It was starting to rain on the night that they cried forever, It was blinding with snow

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-03 Thread David Starner
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:06:34PM +0600, Sergey I. Golod wrote: David Starner wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 03:15:10PM +0600, Sergey I. Golod wrote: Hello. Why apt/dpkg doesn't use bzip2 for Packages file? -rw-r--r--1 root root 749427 Sep 3 00:56 Packages.bz2

Re: RFC: moving packages to project/orphaned

2000-09-03 Thread David Starner
it, or sponsor me (I am in new-maintainers now.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http/ftp: dvdeug.dhis.org It was starting to rain on the night that they cried forever, It was blinding with snow on the night that they screamed goodbye. - Dio, Rock and Roll Children -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Machine-specific optimizations

2000-08-31 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 05:34:01PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: So, is there any plan to use them (like recompiling the package on the user's machine)? Yes, that is the plan. No, there is no other plan. (Why can't we have cool undying threads like, I don't know, katanas?) -- David

Re: Pgcc in Deb

2000-04-03 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 11:35:08AM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote: On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 20:28:41 David Starner wrote: Um, that's not what I've heard. Since optimizing for the Pentium will sometimes pessimize the Pentium (Pro, II, III), and the speedup from most programs is not that great

Re: [PROPOSAL] update-binfmts - manages the binfmt_misc kernel module

2000-04-02 Thread David Starner
of admins may not like the arbitrary enabling of executable formats in the kernel. This is true especially in its experimental phase (sort of like debconf is now.) -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what

Re: Pgcc in Deb

2000-04-02 Thread David Starner
trouble. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU

Re: Paradise

2000-03-29 Thread David Starner
(Debian Free Software Guidelines) compliant license and it's packaged right, someone should be willing to do that. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor

Re: ITP: cmatrix

2000-03-26 Thread David Starner
of PGP output --] GnuPG bug or local configuration problem? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU

Re: ITP: cmatrix

2000-03-26 Thread David Starner
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:08:10AM -0600, David Starner wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:32:13PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: Did this message mess with GnuPG on any one else's system? I had to kill gpg (1.0.1-2) to get mutt to continue, and then I got [-- PGP output follows --] ... Good

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000

2000-03-20 Thread David Starner
on your side. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 3, 2000

2000-03-09 Thread David Starner
the sources and make a new packages... If you look in woody, you'll find this version of fetchmail. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU

Re: better RSYNC mirroring , for .debs and others

2000-03-09 Thread David Starner
, then you have a problem. I don't see how this fits with what you're saying. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are. -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU

Re: Scary bugs

2000-01-28 Thread David Starner
than 2G) does it matter that we can only set a quota of 4G? Users may use multiple files to hit the quota... Still, it's an inconvienance, not a critical failure. If it can't be fixed quickly, document it and move on for now. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wish to strive for peace

Re: Can I have a package with no real name of upstream maintainer?

1999-09-29 Thread David Starner
by a name, e.g. Phillip Hands, which no one would know wasn't real until everything was over. David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Useless packages (was Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb)

1999-09-28 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 11:43:50AM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: David Starner writes: Instead of each developer chose what packages are and aren't useful to them, why don't we look at the popularity contest? A simple, bias-free way of seperating programs on to the CD's, by actual use

Re: mtools

1999-09-28 Thread David Starner
in the program, it's just something you don't like. David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Useless packages (was Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb)

1999-09-25 Thread David Starner
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 07:28:57AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Instead of each developer chose what packages are and aren't useful to them, why don't we look at the popularity contest? A simple, bias-free way of seperating programs on to the CD's

Re: Useless packages (was Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb)

1999-09-25 Thread David Starner
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 08:18:04PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 02:51:36AM -0500, David Starner wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 07:28:57AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Instead of each developer chose what packages are and aren't

Useless packages (was Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb)

1999-09-24 Thread David Starner
, why don't we look at the popularity contest? A simple, bias-free way of seperating programs on to the CD's, by actual use. That is what it was made for. David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: history (Was Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer)

1999-09-17 Thread David Starner
is a bad idea - just for saftey's sake, I'd give it a directory where it has complete control of the contents.) Alternatively, is there any other, er, `in bits' way that the upgrade can be done? Check available space, download one bunch of files, install, delete the .debs, interate. David Starner

Re: history (Was Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer)

1999-09-17 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:30:37AM -0500, David Starner wrote: one apt-run - nothing in the cache, slink - potato. /tmp is usually on the / partition, which probably has less space than anything (and on many installs ends up on the / partition - at least that's how I

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-26 Thread David Starner
Sven LUTHER wrote: Every Unix system is distributed with a working vi, and most people know how to use vi. So finding a non standard editor on the base system is not so nice, and can cause lots of confusions. and ae is a lot confusing, and don't behave Read the instructions on the top of

Re: Netscape under unstable...

1999-05-22 Thread David Starner
Branden Robinson wrote: Alternatively, if egcs 2.95 is out and packaged before I release -5 (probably next week), that may have the fix. Not likely. GCC 2.95 (formerly EGCS 1.2) just made a stable branch and is complete code freeze. The first of July is the target release date (all

Re: Netscape under unstable...

1999-05-21 Thread David Starner
Branden Robinson wrote: There is apparently an egcs optimization bug that miscompiles a few object files that are included in the X libraries. Could you just compile those object files with optimization off? Alternatively, if egcs 2.95 is out and packaged before I release -5 (probably next

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-19 Thread David Starner
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: Polymorphism is such an obvious pillar of structured programming that I can't understand how anybody could live without it. Polymorphism is not a pillar of structured programming languages. The major structured programming languages - the Algols, Pascal, C,

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-01-31 Thread David Starner
the copyright file. Being more or less error-proof, it seems to call for a simple NMU. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dullard: someone who, wanting a piece of information, takes down the appropriate volume of the encyclopedia, looks up the item they need, and then puts the volume away without

Re: Call for mascot! :-) -- flying pigs

1999-01-31 Thread David Starner
of the answer as postulate. (Atheism over here, which holds that we are merely an evolutionary step from the primates, and are soulless animals oursleves.) As further argument would be fruitless and off topic, I will respond no further on list. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dullard: someone

Re: GTK oops?

1999-01-31 Thread David Starner
) the maintainer realized this after he uploaded and uploaded a new and correct .13. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dullard: someone who, wanting a piece of information, takes down the appropriate volume of the encyclopedia, looks up the item they need, and then puts the volume away without reading

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