Re: proposal: dhcpcd-base as standard DHCP client starting with Trixie

2023-06-22 Thread Jim Popovitch
rk/interfaces.d/, and /etc/netplan/whatever.yaml. Will dhcpcd-base provision an IP address for a one interface and not interfere with any existing interfaces or routes (e.g. bridged interfaces, static VPN routes, containers, etc.) -Jim P.

Bug#1035883: Close out this report, please

2023-06-13 Thread Jim Anderson
I have looked at my other debian computers and the TMOUT setting works on them. I'm not sure why TMOUT does not work on my one computer, but it is not worth the effort to try to debug this issue for one system. Please consider this issue closed. Jim A.

Bug#1035883: general: TMOUT and autologout are set to 3600, but logout occurs much earlier

2023-05-10 Thread Jim Anderson
. Jim Anderson -- System Information: Distributor ID: Bunsenlabs Description:BunsenLabs GNU/Linux 10.5 (Lithium) Release:10.5 Codename: buster Architecture: x86_64 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-23-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8

Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-12 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 16:14 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Jim Popovitch writes ("Re: should Debian add itself to > https://python3statement.org ?"): > > On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 16:01 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Drew Parsons writes ("should Debian add itself to

Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-12 Thread Jim Popovitch
Python2 to keep Python3 only. > > That statement is a *pledge* to drop support for python2 by the end of > 2020. FWIW, that proposed ending date is 2020-01-01, ~110 days from now. -Jim P.

Re: [OT] /etc/machine-id "must not be exposed in untrusted environments"

2019-08-08 Thread Jim Popovitch
> > This ID uniquely identifies the host. It should be considered > "confidential", and must not be exposed in untrusted environments, in > particular on the network. > > Why is the file mode 0666? Does it need to be non-root readable? Mine is 0444, so that Chrome can read it. /s -Jim P.

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-08 Thread Jim Popovitch
hink "out of sight, out of mind" comes into play here. -Jim P.

Re: scratch buildds

2019-06-15 Thread Jim Popovitch
ips(el?), but I doubt its widely supported. > >Am I missing something? > Gitlab CI uses docker containers. At least that's been my experience with it. -Jim P.

Re: Debian, so ugly and unwieldy!

2019-06-07 Thread Jim Popovitch
only limited lighting. Is there any data on that? My experience is different, and I expect it mirrors the experience of a vast number of office workers and students. I do think a healthy discussion is good for Debian UI efforts. -Jim P.

Re: Stalls due to insufficient randomness in cloud images

2019-06-03 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 12:44 +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 01:09:29PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > d-i is using haveged now, and that's working well AFAICS. > > are you sure? #923675 is still open... I'm curious, what about #923675 concerns you? -Jim P.

Re: Running "mobius actioncam/dashcam" on debian "officially" - Creation of a necessary official debian-package?

2018-08-23 Thread Jim Popovitch
change that I had to make to mine was to flip the video because my cam mounts from the top, behind the center mirror. -Jim P.

Bug#748556: SOLVED - System will now SHUTDOWN when asked

2014-05-28 Thread Jim Cobley
OK - no input on this thread but after a couple of days of intermittent searching and fiddling we got there - we shouldn't have had to but there we go. Problems shown above with gdm3 and lightdm were actually fixed with 2 or 3 more switches between gdm3 and lightdm with reboots - that was all

Bug#748556: Desktop Environment

2014-05-20 Thread Jim Cobley
Gnome / lightdm gdm3 is installed (also re-installed) but not quite sure what is going on as cannot switch. root@jupiter2:~# dpkg-reconfigure lightdm [ ok ] Reloading system message bus config...done. ERROR: /lib/systemd/system/gdm3.service is the selected default display manager but does

Bug#645723: Fixed!

2011-10-20 Thread Jimbo Jim
Sudo su, users-admin fixed it. How did i lose sudo in first place?

Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-22 Thread Jim
Grammostola Rosea, Hi. I took the suggestion of one of the replies to your original post and read about debian pure blends, and at first I thought demudi was a pure blend; it's listed as one of the projects but is not actually a pure blend, which I guess means they might have updated apps and

Re: RFH: cheese

2009-02-27 Thread jim . sublette
I have a laptop with a webcam and would be willing to assist. What version would i need to run. I am currently using lenny. I am willing to upgrade to a newer version. What documents would I need to familiarize myself with to be able to assist. I am not a Debian Developer. But I am a UNIX

Re: Warnings on shutdown (Debian Etch and Kernel 2.6.22.9)

2007-10-25 Thread Jim Paris
Renato S. Yamane wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Renato S. Yamane wrote: Jim Paris wrote: For Debian, I don't think there are any complete solutions yet. The related bug is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426224 I think that we can fix this if someone can answer this: $ man

Re: Warnings on shutdown (Debian Etch and Kernel 2.6.22.9)

2007-10-23 Thread Jim Paris
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Re: 64-bit transition deadline (Re: Etch in the hands of the Stable Release Managers)

2007-04-09 Thread Jim Crilly
in the not too distant future. We'll surely have that for lenny. :-) Much as I tend to be optimistic, I am not so sure about that. I tend to agree although I would love to be wrong. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-19 Thread Jim Crilly
On 12/19/06 11:52:50AM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 06:36:49PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: I would agree, when I did an install of etch a few weeks ago the use of allow-hotplug caused the network to come up later in the boot process and caused problems with syslog-ng

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-18 Thread Jim Crilly
it fails completely, this is probably a bug in syslog-ng but it's definitely been exacerbated by the default ifupdown configuration in etch. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about Depends: bash

2006-11-25 Thread Jim Crilly
between 10 and 20 shells going at once. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about Depends: bash

2006-11-19 Thread Jim Crilly
: ?) Tell your users not to do that. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#391686: ITP: ipw3945-daemon -- Binary userspace regulatory daemon for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG cards

2006-10-10 Thread Jim Crilly
in the package. That's good, I had forgotten that you can change the ownership/permissions of files on sysfs. I'm just a little surprised that no one but the OpenBSD guys care enough to figure out what the daemon does and work out a free solution. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#391686: ITP: ipw3945-daemon -- Binary userspace regulatory daemon for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG cards

2006-10-09 Thread Jim Crilly
On 10/09/06 08:38:46AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: Jim Crilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Intel's daemon isn't as bad as the Atheros HAL or nVidia's blob Could you please elaborat on that? why is ath_hal.ko or nvidia.ko worse than intel's daemon? The only real difference

Re: Bug#391686: ITP: ipw3945-daemon -- Binary userspace regulatory daemon for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG cards

2006-10-08 Thread Jim Crilly
wouldn't it make sense for someone to 'fix' the GPL'd driver to not require the daemon? Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#391686: ITP: ipw3945-daemon -- Binary userspace regulatory daemon for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG cards

2006-10-08 Thread Jim Crilly
On 10/09/06 12:11:28AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Jim Crilly said: Most people are willing to deal with firmware since they don't run on the host CPU but only on the card that they're controlling. Intel's daemon isn't as bad as the Atheros HAL or nVidia's blob

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-26 Thread Jim Crilly
care what the default choice was. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Crilly
I never compared the contents of the discs but I would assume that they update the kernels with each update release. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Status of inetd for etch

2006-08-15 Thread Jim Crilly
work on making this possible too or not, I can't say. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-13 Thread Jim Crilly
a scripting language since it fails to meet at least the 'variable usage requires sigils' criteria. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted barcode 0.98-2 (source i386)

2006-04-24 Thread Jim Westveer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:15:47 +0100 Source: barcode Binary: barcode Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.98-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Jim Westveer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Jim Westveer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-21 Thread Jim Crilly
introducing persistent interface names, to write rules which reflect the current names no matter what configured them. But won't that miss any devices that aren't in the system right at that moment, such as PCMCIA/USB wifi cards? Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: 4GB address space

2006-02-28 Thread Jim Crilly
Yes it's possible and there have been patches posted on lkml that do that, but it incurrs a performance hit and it's usually easier just to get a 64-bit machine these days. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted slsc 0.2.3-9 (source i386)

2005-12-30 Thread Jim Mintha
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:25:06 +0100 Source: slsc Binary: slsc Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.2.3-9 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Jim Mintha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Jim Mintha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-29 Thread Jim Crilly
no choice. I still support a tmpfs /run, but not because it gives the admin any particular control. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

so we walked

2005-06-30 Thread Jim Wilkins
is not an issue at this time. Confirm your details on our secure form to ensure our records are accurate and we will be in touch within a few days via the method of your choice. http://www.lendxu-now.com/index.php?refid=windsor --Jim Wilkins Financial Advisor - eLMR Inc. Did this reach you in error

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-22 Thread Jim Crilly
is to be chosen it should be safer one. If you know the service well enough to configure it you probably also know how to disable the xinetd instance and enable the init script. manoj Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: even among theatre

2005-06-11 Thread Jim Guy
://www.funding-live.com/index.php?refid=windsor We look forward to helping you secure your future. --Jim Guy Financial Analyst - LRA Inc. Did this reach you in error? please let us know so you won't recieve again: http://www.funding-live.com/r.php -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

2005-03-11 Thread Jim Gettys
. - Jim On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 13:20 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: On Fre, 11 Mr 2005, Drew Parsons wrote: Xprint works perfectly fine out of the box. There are several bug reports, some of them I have contributed to, but I guess some of them are filed against mozilla and not xprint

I/O hardware, control of external transistors

2005-03-02 Thread jim stockford
features (in the kernel, or device drivers, or external commands, or some package for some language such as perl or python or some C libraries...) give us control over logic levels of pins, and which pins (serial RS-232, parallel, what?). Anybody got experience with this stuff? jim [EMAIL

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-21 Thread Jim Gettys
. - Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-21 Thread Jim Gettys
to the C standard - Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-09 Thread Jim Gettys
UNIX's disunity was a major aid to Microsoft. Repeating that history would not be good. - Jim On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 10:53 -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: William Ballard wrote: What makes you think you'll be any more successful than when the Unix Consortium tried to do

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread Jim Penny
of the term. 19th Century. http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Daemon.html Jim Penny

Re: How to depend on Japanese fonts?

2003-12-15 Thread Jim Gettys
16 months ago. It does represent a major architectural shift in X; the reasons for it are outlined in our Usenix paper. - Jim On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 19:52, Cameron Patrick wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:20:41PM -0800, Jim Gettys wrote: | This is a fundamental

Re: How to depend on Japanese fonts?

2003-12-14 Thread Jim Gettys
. This is the Xft2/fontconfig stuff deploying. This is a fundamental change in X architecture, which has been underway for over 18 months. - Jim On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 11:34, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 02:14:05PM +1100, Ben Burton wrote: Is there a simple

ITA: animals -- Traditional AI animal guessing engine using a binary tree DB

2003-12-10 Thread Jim Lynch
Subject says it all. -Jim -- Jam sessions community web site: http://jam.sessionsnet.org

Re: using freedesktop.org libs

2003-11-11 Thread Jim Gettys
? - Jim Gettys On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:46, Michel Dnzer wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 13:11, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:14:30AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: I found this idea very interesting. I think that the debian project should take more advantage

Re: rice doc status

2003-11-07 Thread Jim Penny
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:55:25 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if you are virused, or if your sender has been spoofed, or what. Anyway, you might want to look into this. You appear to be spewing odd word documents people you don't know. Jim Penny -Original Message

Re: Removing python-pygresql and libpqpp packages

2003-10-10 Thread Jim Penny
merged into pygresql. Jim Penny This is not strictly orphaning, more infanticide. I'm not sure conventional orphaning fits, since the source package is not being orphaned. The PostgreSQL python interface (python-pygresql) has been separated upstream into its own source tree. Since

Re: 2.5/2.6 IPsec stack should live in a kernel-patch!

2003-10-01 Thread Jim Penny
your voice be heard! i'm interested only in the debian kernel without 2.5/2.6 IPsec. in my mind this should be vanilla kernel + debian fixes. But 2.5/2.6 include IPSEC in the vanilla kernel! Jim Penny

Re: music sheet

2003-09-08 Thread Jim Penny
notion that debian is a good place to get the music! Jim Penny

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Jim Penny
the adventurer, and probably no idea of whether anything is worth picking up and risking the possibility of a curse. Jim Penny who has in past lives spent far too many hours playing nethack

Re: Bug#203498: ITP: decss -- utility for stripping CSS tags from an HTML page.

2003-07-30 Thread Jim Penny
has a file names deCSS on their system. This is an attempt to make such a filename so common that these letters are pointless, and possibly evidence of illegal activity. Jim Penny

Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-03 Thread Jim Penny
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 22:25:26 +0200 Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Penny wrote: Now, this breakage happens to be somewhat benign, in that without configuration, it does not function at all. But it is also somewhat difficult to test for many uses. Further, when

Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-02 Thread Jim Penny
system fails to start, the failure is completely silent. This adds to the problems. Jim Penny -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer

Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-02 Thread Jim Penny
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:57:01 -0500 Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:50:29AM -0400, Jim Penny wrote: On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 20:40:02 -0500 Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:12:22PM +0200, Julien LEMOINE wrote: I

Re: ximiam connector

2003-06-29 Thread Jim Mintha
. (or I'd be in trouble). Jim -- Jim Mintha Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Work: +31 20 525-4919 Informatiseringscentrum Home: +31 20 662-3892 University of Amsterdam Debian GNU

Re: Bug#198665: ITP: pmk -- The pmk project aims to be an alternative to GNU/autoconf (configure scripts).

2003-06-24 Thread Jim Penny
. Perhaps: A tool to configure software (GNU Autoconf also has this purpose) Jim Penny

Re: Bug#183858: assign, reassign, close bug without even telling why

2003-05-25 Thread Jim Meyering
Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=183858 Given the information I previously provided, I do not even understand how it's possible to think that the bug 183858 is a kernel issue. The problem is that the kernel provides no way to get the

Re: curl, testing and gcc-3.2 (?) (was Re: Debian curl package depends on gcc-3.2?)

2003-04-15 Thread Jim Penny
libraries are strongly backwards compatible. When it does become a problem, it can be terrible for a few weeks. Lots of packages need to be rebuilt. Unstable becomes, well, unstable. Then things get back to the normal level of chaos. Jim Penny Note: I don't have a suggestion for a better

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-10 Thread Jim Penny
to reverse engineer the Unicode data files, much less the ancillary algorithms. That is, a 32 bit search space with at least 36 properties to be discovered per data point is whopping big. Jim Penny

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-06 Thread Jim Penny
?rev=1.17content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Both show that these projects (at least) are mechanically deriving their internal unicode tables from UnicodeData.txt. Jim Penny

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-03 Thread Jim Penny
names, or are they maintained in a separate table? How do you use the name programmatically if you don't know the language they are in? I did some googling, but could not find the French trasnlation files. Is there an URL? Jim Penny

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-03 Thread Jim Penny
be in debian main? In other words, does the program require ... non-free packages or packages which are not in our archive at all for ... execution? Jim Penny

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread Jim Penny
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 11:06:12AM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:35:25PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: I think you are missing the points here. First of all, DFSG applied to the standard does not want to change the standard, but wants all to be able

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread Jim Penny
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 11:10:09AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021130 18:43]: Huh? If I change the text of the standard, I have changed the standard! For example, if I have : 0332;COMBINING LOW LINE;Mn;220;NSM;N;NON-SPACING UNDERSCORE and change

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread Jim Penny
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 07:30:57PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:16:07AM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 11:06:12AM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote: There are all sorts of reasons why you might wish to create derivative works based on the standard

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-12-02 Thread Jim Penny
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:43:42AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, where in the Unicode license does it give you permission to create derivative works? The license does say Information can be extracted from these files Oh, and you have

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-30 Thread Jim Penny
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:37:41AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021128 03:35]: So, according to Branden, international standards are supposed to allow debian the right to modify them and to distribute the modified versions. Absent said permission, which

Re: DAM approval wait time?

2002-11-28 Thread Jim Lynch
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:58:38 +1100 Andrew Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:21:40PM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote: A bit hypocritical of you pointing out that I was participating in my own thread late. Not at all. The thread I refer to is the now-very-large Are we

Re: DAM approval wait time?

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Lynch
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 22:52:16 +1100 Andrew Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 08:01:26AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote: But what are you actually going to -do-? If I recall correctly, you've said on IRC that you aren't or don't want to be a coder (correct me if I'm wrong

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Penny
. Yet, unicode is supposed to be the canonical character encoding scheme for debian. Does this mean every unicode text editor belongs in contrib (depends on something non-free)? What an interesting anecdote! Jim Penny

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Penny
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:53:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:23:51PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: I see no problem with this license as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. There is no permission granted to make modifications (and distribute

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Penny
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:34:20PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Wednesday 27 November 2002 02:03, Roland Mas wrote: Current candidates include: hey how about something much less cryptic like forge. Nothing worse than having to guess what woman's name some silly coder named the

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-26 Thread Jim Lynch
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:30:30 +1100 Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:48:15AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote: But I have performed many debian installs with the boot floppy setup, and I found that it still suffers from problems. One problem faced by all dists

Re: DAM approval wait time?

2002-11-25 Thread Jim Lynch
But what are you actually going to -do-? If I recall correctly, you've said on IRC that you aren't or don't want to be a coder (correct me if I'm wrong), and a previous attempt on your part to become a developer left NM with the question of what you intended to do crossed with what you had the

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-25 Thread Jim Lynch
for users who understand what's going on; perhaps debian ports representing optimized arches will benefit from gentoo's work. Other than that, gentoo is simply linux plus userland with BSD-like ports [quoted, because this is different from a debian port.] My pennys worth Jon -Jim

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-25 Thread Jim Lynch
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:07:07 +0100 Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #include hallo.h * Jim Lynch [Mon, Nov 25 2002, 09:54:10AM]: What we need to accept is there is a (percieved??) problem, or problems, with Debian as it stands today, these being (mainly) Hard to install

Re: Sound card problem

2002-11-22 Thread Jim Lynch
Not enough info in your question, and the list you should post to (!after! reading README in kernel source dir, and kernel howto, and man make-kpkg after installing kernel-package) is debian-user@lists.debian.org On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:19:27 +0600 chanka perera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-22 Thread Jim Lynch
experience with that particular person, and seeing that he seems to like stirring things up and watching the result. He's done it before, and is doing it now: notice he hasn't participated in the discussion he started? -Jim

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-22 Thread Jim Lynch
slackware and redhat). So, I contend here with you because there's nothing wrong with debian's build system. In fact, the build depends introduced in woody probably make debian a better choice. Here, you have a -build- system that enjoys debian's stability. That's not easy to beat... -Mark -Jim

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-21 Thread Jim Lynch
. Please provide support for this statement... stability is not subjective; are you saying debian crashes more often? -Jim (no need to CC: me; I'm subscribed)

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-21 Thread Jim Lynch
with the best of em. Debian is political because we have a lot of political units (aka PEOPLE) who are acting as developers. I don't think Gentoo has as many developers as we do. You can partially blame Andrew Suffield's presence as a developer on me: I advocated him. -Jim

errno=4294936306, Debian 2.2, vacation 3.2.3, Postfix 1.1.3, Sasl 1.5.27

2002-08-28 Thread Jim Weller
of vacation I *was* using, but this one is kapoot. The only things that I can see having changed related to this setup are 1) libdb3 2) vacation Here's my story. I have a user named jim that can send and recieve mail via smtp(postfix)/pop(pop3d) from any old mail client. It works fine

Re: errno=4294936306, Debian 2.2, vacation 3.2.3, Postfix 1.1.3, Sasl 1.5.27

2002-08-28 Thread Jim Weller
Sean, Thank you for taking the time to look at my problem. Can you add/change to \jim, /pathto/strace -o /tmp/vacation.err /usr/bin/vacation jim That is a GREAT idea. I changed it to the below and ran 'vacation -I

Re: errno=4294936306, Debian 2.2, vacation 3.2.3, Postfix 1.1.3, Sasl 1.5.27

2002-08-28 Thread Jim Weller
was burdened by my email. Back to stressing out about normal things, Jim Weller PS Hail open source PS2 Try it by hand before you trust your web app ;)

Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?

2002-08-14 Thread Jim Penny
the debian developer should be taking care of. There has been dicussion of removing python1.5. But this is because there are very few packages left that depend on it. Debian does not historically remove packages easily or without thought. Jim Penny Laura Creighton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?

2002-08-14 Thread Jim Penny
will be issued some time later this year. But Zope 2.5, one the more popular applications, requires 2.1.3. Can we be more aggressive in changing default versions than Zope? Jim Penny I don't expect 2.3 to reach maturity until mid 2003. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org

Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?

2002-08-14 Thread Jim Penny
defenseless things for a hobby! 2.2 is available in woody already. Invoke it using /usr/bin/python2.2. BTW: is the PIAT consortium going to offer any DSFG free software? Jim Penny

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2002-01-04 Thread Jim Meyering
for STDC_HEADERS and HAVE_ISASCII. You get those by using these autoconf macros: AC_HEADER_STDC AC_CHECK_FUNCS(isascii) Be careful when choosing between ISDIGIT and ISDIGIT_LOCALE. Jim #include config.h #include ctype.h /* [someone :-)] writes: ... Some

Postgres and non-us

2001-05-08 Thread Jim Penny
PostgreSQL now has a dependency on openssl/ssl.h in a fundamental header file, postgresql/libpq-fe.h. Does this mean that every piece of software which requires this header file to compile will also have to be migrated to nonus? Jim Penny

Re: New list request

2001-04-24 Thread Jim Lynch
Daniel Stone, You need to update your people skills. Given your present arrogance and attitude, maybe you shouldn't be a debian maint. Why should you be trusted? -Jim

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Jim Penny
the answer to my questions. These are: 1) how do I boot from a non-IDE root disk? 2) How do I control what goes into initrd in a more reasonable way than nothing/most/all. (and what does most do, anyway?). Jim Penny

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Jim Lynch
Date:Thu, 04 Jan 2001 11:06:43 +1100 To: Jim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Erik Hollensbe [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-devel@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From:Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long) On Wed, Jan

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Jim Lynch
that happens a lot, is both packages were uploaded, but one didn't make it that day; looking in incoming might reveal what you're looking for. -Jim

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Jim Lynch
to -pay- me to take the support load for a limited period of time, I'll open the door, for a limited period of time. I'm a volunteer there, you already know what a volunteer is if you have anything at all to do with debian. -Jim

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Jim Lynch
Date:03 Jan 2001 15:23:09 +0100 To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org From:Peter Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long) Jim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you want to advocate the use of unstable software, please be my guest

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Jim Lynch
://peter.makholm.net/ Xyzzy: Nothing happens! In-Reply-To: Jim Lynch's message of Wed, 03 Jan 2001 08:03:02 -0800 Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Resent-Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-devel

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