Re: adept for Debian?

2005-10-19 Thread Joe Smith
"Miles Bader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: adept is a package manager for KDE developed by Peter Rockai on top of the libapt-front library[1]. It supports debtags natively, it's the first application based on libapt-front,

Re: [Fwd: major problem with gnome-games dependency]

2005-10-11 Thread Joe Smith
"Frans Pop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 11 October 2005 21:34, Daniel Burrows wrote: No, because people like to turn off the installation of recommendations Or yes, because it offers more flexibility to people who have a basic idea of what they ar

Re: Bug#331528: ITP: debinstaller -- a graphical frontend for installing local .deb packages

2005-10-06 Thread Joe Smith
"Eduard Bloch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] would it not be simpler to have have apt just ask dpkg what the dependencies of the passed .deb are and then install the dependencies (and their dependecies) and then just pass the deb directly to dpkg? Hehe, it wa

Re: Bug#331528: ITP: debinstaller -- a graphical frontend for installing local .deb packages

2005-10-05 Thread Joe Smith
I wonder why nobody did implement that feature before. I imagine (without knowing much about APT's internals), the pseudocode would look like that: - install command gets the list - if the package does not exist in the cache and the given string is a file, then: - read the metadata of this pa

Re: Bug#330239: ITP: hibernate -- a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java

2005-09-26 Thread Joe Smith
"martin f krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please choose a different name You should really have suggested something. I'm not sure, but perhaps 'hibernate-java' migh work. Sounds like a java port of the current hibernate utility though. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Bug#329955: ITP: biloba -- A 2-4 players strategic game

2005-09-25 Thread Joe Smith
"Thomas Petazzoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The rules in english are understandable. I would suggest the following changes though: Use 'capture' instead of take when refering to taking an oppenent's pawn. Change 'do a take' to 'capture'. Change 'taken out o

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-24 Thread Joe Smith
"Mark Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In an ideal world dynamic services would have a range of ports reserved for them. We're quite a way away from an ideal world here. There are ports for that. All ports above 49151 are designated for local (i.e. client) or

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Joe Smith
"Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The same is true for other RPC servers. It's the libc that restricts the port numbers (look at glibc-2.3.5/sunrpc/bindrsvprt.c, currently, it seems it's port = (PID % 424) + 600). And, as I've said,

Re: Fw: Bug#328053: configure on install problem: cannot add user while name_regex don't match username "sympa"

2005-09-13 Thread Joe Smith
- Original Message - From: "Henning Makholm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.devel.general Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 6:41 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Bug#328053: configure on install problem: cannot add user while name_regex don't match username "sympa" Scripsit

GPL 2 Revision 3

2005-09-12 Thread Joe Smith
Have we updated the GPL in debian with the FSF new address? As the address is for informational purposes the change is legally a no-op, and should be performed for convince. (Unless of course somebody objects to effectively changing a non-normative part of their license.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: To Linux or not to Linux

2005-09-02 Thread Joe Smith
parse error. 1. Yavor Doganov says something. 2. Wouter Verhelst: Yeah. _We_ know. 3. Yavor Doganov: Is suddenly "sad" that Wouter (seems to) agree(s). WTF? I assume that by 'preching to the choir' Wouter meant: the people you are trying to convince already believe in what you are saying.

Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-23 Thread Joe Smith
"Pierre Habouzit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Human error, or poluted chroot/compilation env is more likely to happen on the developper machine than in a buildd. Maybe this has already been discussed once, but I think that binary uploaded packages (except the b

Re: How coldplug works

2005-08-22 Thread Joe Smith
Ok, I know just about nothing about this. I currently have 2.6 kernel, hotplug, and udev. If I replace hotplug with coldplug, everything should still work barring unexpected bugs? (Once the archive is updated of course, so that udev does not require hotplug, and coldplug is actually included)

Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-22 Thread Joe Smith
By the way, i386 does not make the cut according to the vancouver prospect due to the number of buildds required. So are we left with 0 archs in etch? :) That will certainly speed up the release. LOL. Release NOW! Release now, damnit! I think it will be our fastest and smoothest release ever.

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-22 Thread Joe Smith
T free. If it is not free, it has failed. -- If Debian is not free, it has failed. - Joe Smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-22 Thread Joe Smith
"Peter 'p2' De Schrijver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think you misunderstood me here. The limit is a upper limit, not a lower limit. Perhaps i'm wrong but let me pull up the original message. ... - the release architecture must have N+1 buildds where N is

Re: Bug#324179: ITP: quake3 -- a famous first person shooter by ID-Software

2005-08-20 Thread Joe Smith
Wait, if a reliable upstream wrt timely security fixes is a recommendation or requirement, we might have to get of a *fair* share of the archive... and that's not only the unmaintained software! Well i meant both security and other updates. In the case where no better upstream exists, it is a

Re: Bug#324179: ITP: quake3 -- a famous first person shooter by ID-Software

2005-08-20 Thread Joe Smith
Also you need to have a more reliable upstream. ID is not suitable as they will not release security updates, fixes, etc in a timely manner.I would very strongy advise against5 being the upstream yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Bug#324179: ITP: quake3 -- a famous first person shooter by ID-Software

2005-08-20 Thread Joe Smith
"Bastian Venthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: quake3 Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : ID-Software * URL : http://www.idsoftware.com/ * License

Re: Bug#322762: /usr/doc still exists (transition tracking bug)

2005-08-13 Thread Joe Smith
I'm sure it will be documented, however it is a new feature and they have not had time to update the doumentation. In fact they probably wanted to leave it undocumented temporarally allowing those who knew about it to make sure it was working before making it publicly known. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Bug#322762: /usr/doc still exists (transition tracking bug)

2005-08-13 Thread Joe Smith
block 1234 with 1235 1236 --http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2005/08/12?seemore=y#2005-08-12-postdc5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Joe Smith
Basically this is a postscript file that is used more or less as a shared library. It is debians policy to have shared libraies used by more thasn one debian program to be seperated out into its own package, and linked against. That is the goal of this. Terry is mainly asking if packaging this as

Re: not starting daemons at boot: ln -s disabled

2005-08-08 Thread Joe Smith
Dan Jacobson wrote: One way of having some daemons not start at boot (e.g., if we only use our printer once a year) is to remove certain /etc/rc?.d/ links. Hmmm, does init respect policy-rc.d? If so, it'd be fairly easy to do it that way... How many rc.d managers are in Debian anyway? p

Re: RFC: allow new upstream into stable when it's the only way tofix security issues.

2005-08-02 Thread Joe Smith
How about if it meets the folowing critieria: 1. it has been in testing for 10 days (been in sid at least 20 days) 2. the version is sid is the same as in testing (the maintainer has not found problems in the ten days since it entered testing) 3. and has no RC bugs (no rc bugs reported in the te

Re: Why target Debian developers with Windows worms?

2005-06-11 Thread Joe Smith
What is interesting is that this worm will not send to addresses that contain: berkeley bugs bsd fsf. gnu kernel linux mozilla unix the.bat root sendmail listserv So it looks like the worm tries to avoid open source or free software sites. The worm contains may other no-sends, in categogories l

Re: cogito no longer conflicts with git or cgvg

2005-06-11 Thread Joe Smith
The upstream folks are planning to split cogito and git into two separate packages. I requested (and they seemed to agree) that they change the package name from git to something else before then. Hopefully they'll see the light and try to play nice with the rest of the world. Hmm... It look

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