Re: the new style mass tirage of bugs

2008-02-26 Thread Jon Dowland
drowning in bugs and everything seeems grim :-) -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

2008-01-30 Thread Jon Dowland
), or give instructions on how to do it manually. We're working on something along those lines in the games team (game-package); it's designed for building .deb files that satisfy dependencies from commercial game data (such as doom .wad files, quake .pak files, etc.) -- Jon Dowland

Re: Bug#463002: ITP: doomsday -- GPL licensed engine for classic doom, heretic, hexen and strife which provides updated 3d graphics and network gameplay

2008-01-29 Thread Jon Dowland
the unavailability of free game data would mean that would have to go into contrib. How are you planning on dicing up the binaries? -- Jon Dowland signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [rfc] mass-mod old ita/itp bugs back to rfa/rfp?

2008-01-28 Thread Jon Dowland
. As a non-DD with no fixed sponsor, It can often take me 2 months to get a package sponsored, let alone prepared. (on that note, I've just stuck an RFP up on -mentors[1] for a nice pidgin plugin if anyone is interested ;)) [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/01/msg00409.html -- Jon

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

2008-01-25 Thread Jon Dowland
to be used in packages in the archive? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#462027: ITP: libactiverecord-ruby -- library that ties database tables to classes in Ruby

2008-01-25 Thread Jon Dowland
though. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#462027: ITP: libactiverecord-ruby -- library that ties database tables to classes in Ruby

2008-01-24 Thread Jon Dowland
. Splitting these out from the rails package seems like the smarter way to go. As a complete third-party, I'd be mildly interested in having activerecord as a separate package from rails in it's entirety. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#460122: ITP: skippy-xd -- a full-screen X11 task/window switcher, similar to OSX Expose

2008-01-10 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: skippy-xd Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Hyriand [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://thegraveyard.org/skippy.php * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Re: ITP: skippy-xd -- a full-screen X11 task/window switcher, similar to OSX Expose

2008-01-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:55:25PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: * Package name: skippy-xd Version : 0.5.0 Work-in-progress packages are available from http://debian.halfcoded.net/. I still need to review the patches that are in the skippy package, and see which are applicable

Accepted prboom 2:2.4.7+dfsg-2 (source i386)

2007-12-21 Thread Jon Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:55:57 + Source: prboom Binary: prboom Architecture: source i386 Version: 2:2.4.7+dfsg-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Games Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Jon Dowland [EMAIL

Re: Bug#445866: ITP: perforce -- closed source revision control system

2007-10-11 Thread Jon Dowland
by archive sizes :-( -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-26 Thread Jon Dowland
if an upstream author of a package wishes to conceal their address, I think we should honour that. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-25 Thread Jon Dowland
to impose restrictions on the way people format the file, such as requiring un-munged email addresses (or even worse, formally specifying the munging method, although thankfully nobody has suggested that yet ;)) -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-25 Thread Jon Dowland
software. So far we haven't discussed munging addresses beyond human recognition, just sufficiently to impede work on machine-parsing the copyright file (which I have otherwise heard nothing about) as a by-product. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-25 Thread Jon Dowland
to be un-munged? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Jon Dowland
to do. Please do not hijack this thread to discuss (or fail to discuss) RFCs in particular when the topic is the kernel. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-31 Thread Jon Dowland
be useful. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-30 Thread Jon Dowland
linked version into the archive sounds like the correct solution. and there's precedent with the netscape communicator packages from the pre-mozilla days. These were statically linked against several things afaik, motif iirc. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-30 Thread Jon Dowland
these issues involves an average-to-expert degree of packaging expertise. I'd advise starting with a simpler program and looking at opera again when you have a bit more experience. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-23 Thread Jon Dowland
not said he will not accept patches for, just that they are low on his personal TODO list. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-17 Thread Jon Dowland
dislike the way that the debian menu is a sub-menu shoe-horned into the gnome and KDE menus. I'd like whatever eventual solution we come up with to present one root node. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-12 Thread Jon Dowland
got my timeframes wrong, there were a few successful attempts too. What's objectionable about people trying to find security flaws in your software, apart from their motivation for doing so? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Accepted pangzero 1.2-1 (source all)

2007-07-12 Thread Jon Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:03:54 +0100 Source: pangzero Binary: pangzero Architecture: source all Version: 1.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Games Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-10 Thread Jon Dowland
it, via a dependency chain with GTK 1.x or something similar, I don't have a great deal of sympathy. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: unmass -- extract game archive files

2007-07-10 Thread Jon Dowland
I'm just forwarding this ITP to the debian games team list, as it should be of interest to us :-) : On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:04:39AM +0200, Gürkan Sengün wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: unmass Version : 0.9 Upstream Author: Mirex [EMAIL

Re: Intend to orphan pscan.

2007-07-02 Thread Jon Dowland
consideration, not system-level. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: synchronizing README.Debian with wiki.debian.org

2007-07-02 Thread Jon Dowland
but haven't had time to run moinmoin output through docbook processor nor setup this other wiki to play yet... I might try again tonight. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I don't understand Debian

2007-06-25 Thread Jon Dowland
is for development. debian-user would be the appropriate list in this case. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: synchronizing README.Debian with wiki.debian.org

2007-06-20 Thread Jon Dowland
is a great idea. Unfortunately I think we need to be very clear about the licence under which w.d.o material falls. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#420605: ITP: gaim-rhythmbox -- gaim plugin to display rhythmbox's currently playing song

2007-04-23 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: gaim-rhythmbox Version : 2.0beta5 Upstream Author : Jon Oberheide [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://jon.oberheide.org/projects/gaim-rhythmbox/ * License : GPL-2 Programming

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-08 Thread Jon Dowland
pages for debian-user. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-05 Thread Jon Dowland
such a mail would distract you from? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-05 Thread Jon Dowland
to that thread, arrogantly explaining to us how bad we suck, snip Even if you do think it's a crazy idea you should not be angered or offended by the suggestion and debate of such an idea. That's what an open operating system should encourage. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-05 Thread Jon Dowland
it not make sense to file an RFH bug to that effect? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to get dpkg-deb to ignore hidden/backup files + why extra control file?

2007-02-13 Thread Jon Dowland
. It's a suite of tools for managing debian packages in SVN. It mimicks dpkg-buildpackage (which you might also want to look at, come to think of it) but ignores .svn directories. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Bug#409563: ITP: thinkfinger -- library and utility for the SGS Thomson Microelectronics fingerprint reader

2007-02-08 Thread Jon Dowland
against this? Can I reverse the question and ask why *not* a separate binary package? Is it just to the additional difficulty with initial packaging? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrade Experiences (27 Sarges - Etch, and counting)

2007-02-05 Thread Jon Dowland
that path. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted wallpaper-tray 0.4.6-5 (source i386)

2007-02-05 Thread Jon Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:25:26 + Source: wallpaper-tray Binary: wallpaper-tray Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.4.6-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Jon Dowland [EMAIL

Re: ~ SIS is searching for a Solaris / Web Administrator for a Contract Opportunity in San Francisco, CA ~

2007-01-20 Thread Jon Dowland
filtering them. Besides, most Web/Unix sysadmins I know use windows on their desktops anyway. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Icons and instructions for the FreeDesktop menu.

2007-01-17 Thread Jon Dowland
every luck in purging it from existence. There are non-KDE and non-GNOME users to cater for. A unified menu scheme across all menu-carrying applications (and not the lip-service which is paid to it atm with the Debian sub-menus in KDE and GNOME) is a worthy goal. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Accepted prboom 2:2.4.6+dfsg-1 (source i386)

2007-01-02 Thread Jon Dowland
-By: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: prboom - clone of the legendary first person shooter Doom Closes: 404826 Changes: prboom (2:2.4.6+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=high . * Remove ID-copyright material from prboom.wad Closes: #404826 Files: 7ab2f6e08874850f278cc7fc26a5de81 839

Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-24 Thread Jon Dowland
the shell re-implement netcat to be a violation of do one thing and do it well. I've never came across a script on debian or elsewhere that required this functionality enabled. Indeed I'm horrified to find this feature enabled on RHEL boxes. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 08:25:27AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/24/06 06:06, Jon Dowland wrote: I think that having the shell re-implement netcat to be a violation of do one thing and do it well. Hmmm. A large, complicated shell like bash broke that stricture long ago, no? Absolutely

Accepted prboom 2:2.4.6-1 (source i386)

2006-11-08 Thread Jon Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:59:52 +0100 Source: prboom Binary: prboom Architecture: source i386 Version: 2:2.4.6-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Games Team pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Jon

Re: Bug#396648: ITP: rt73 -- Linux device driver for Ralink RT73 a/b/g WLAN Card

2006-11-02 Thread Jon Dowland
they indicated if they are planning on fixing this? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#395364: ITP: wadc -- programming environment for creating doom levels

2006-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: wadc Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Wouter van Oortmerssen w v o A T g m x D O T n e t * URL : http://strlen.com/wadc/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Java Description

Re: Getting package build dependencies

2006-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 01:48:45PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: As to your real problem. I was playing around with building dummy packages (src-pkg) on the fly from the Sources file that depends on all Build-Depends. Me too! The idea was that you would 'aptitude install src-foo' to

Accepted doom-package 15 (source all)

2006-10-14 Thread Jon Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:07:31 +0100 Source: doom-package Binary: doom-package Architecture: source all Version: 15 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Games Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Jon Dowland [EMAIL

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-10 Thread Jon Dowland
sean finney wrote: funny, i'd have said the ultimate solution was finding a way to make the users learn about looking at README.Debian :) I think users can be forgiven not reading every README.Debian in packages which are installed by default. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org

Re: Debian Women Wiki

2006-10-04 Thread Jon Dowland
be made so! But Marga is not obliged to have done so from the start. Indeed, highlighting the ease with which someone can public something on the wiki vs. the traditional method seems like a positive step towards improving documentation, by highlighting current defects. -- Jon Dowland

Re: Debian Women Wiki

2006-10-04 Thread Jon Dowland
be made so! But Marga is not obliged to have done so from the start. Indeed, highlighting the ease with which someone can public something on the wiki vs. the traditional method seems like a positive step towards improving documentation, by highlighting current defects. -- Jon Dowland

Re: The config script in Debconf

2006-10-04 Thread Jon Dowland
but the first you may not. Secondly, the question may be cached. Try running dpkg-reconfigure your package name. You can add a -p argument to dpkg-reconfigure to force your debconf priority (eg. -p high to see only high questions). Default is 'low'. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Simpleminded members better than abusive members

2006-10-03 Thread Jon Dowland
appropriate than the one that was received in the BTS. Insulting the reporter achieves nothing. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-09-29 Thread Jon Dowland
Then perhaps that's a suitably trivial program to bundle with menu, and perhaps extend the menu spec so that you can specify This is an X program but I want console output displayed and preserved on termination? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Debian Women Wiki

2006-09-29 Thread Jon Dowland
Sylvain Beucler wrote: Or to put it the other way, why isn't the developer's reference a wiki? :) I think it's more likely to evolve that way. Just as a side note, I am very interested in the possibilities of wiki software being used to collaboratively develop more structure documentation

Re: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-09-29 Thread Jon Dowland
the suggestion to support this sort-of task within the menu system itself? Eg. by perhaps adding a different argument to the menu syntax. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Free flash player for your browser

2006-09-29 Thread Jon Dowland
Jonas Meurer wrote: I don't use any acceleration at all. I run the mga matrox Xserver, which doesn't support any kind of 3d acceleration. (my graphics controller is a Matrox MGA G400) At this point it would be useful to see your Xorg.conf (but not to the list, perhaps better to the bug)

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

2006-09-27 Thread Jon Dowland
at the tasksel choices and interpret that as if you had installed it yourself via aptitude (that is, mark any dependencies as automatically installed). -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian cares more about documents than people

2006-09-21 Thread Jon Dowland
2.6.18. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted freedoom 0.5-1 (source all)

2006-09-15 Thread Jon Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:55:18 +0100 Source: freedoom Binary: freedoom Architecture: source all Version: 0.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Games Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted deutex 4.4.902-10 (source amd64)

2006-09-12 Thread Jon Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:51:24 +0100 Source: deutex Binary: deutex Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.4.902-10 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Games Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
will stop it working. Personally I think the DS team have enough work making sure security updates are a smooth process for packages *in the OS*: being expected to test random-external-package-x on top of that is asking too much. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Time to rethink ifupdown

2006-08-20 Thread Jon Dowland
: base, meaning that it shall be frozen [2] and that redevelopment will have to target etch+1. [1] http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ [2] (Or already is? it was to be Next week as of Aug 8 according to the last release update to d-d-a) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org

Accepted prboom 2:2.4.5-1 (source i386)

2006-08-15 Thread Jon Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:42:53 +0100 Source: prboom Binary: prboom Architecture: source i386 Version: 2:2.4.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Games Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: VMware packaging

2006-08-14 Thread Jon Dowland
other are doing, as some common packaging functionality might be possible. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#382531: ITP: furl -- a small utility for displaying the HTTP headers returned by Web servers

2006-08-14 Thread Jon Dowland
$(readlink -f $(which HEAD)) -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14K 2005-02-14 00:35 /usr/bin/lwp-request ~$ HEAD -S alcopop.org HEAD http://alcopop.org -- 302 Moved Temporarily HEAD http://alcopop.org/log/ -- 200 OK Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:15:41 GMT ... -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-12 Thread Jon Dowland
, as it can create makefiles for MS compilers (I know, its not important to this list and also not to me, but it seems to be important for Joerg). I'd consider that points /against/ it's favour. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Pan in Sid

2006-08-08 Thread Jon Dowland
on that thread (root msg id [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to understand the rationale of the decision and then take it up with the maintainer if you still disagree. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-03 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1154609291 past the epoch, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote: snip procmail solution I use something similar, but I generate procmailrc and muttrc snippets from a master file of mailing lists using m4 and some scripts. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-03 Thread Jon Dowland
reckon, and that skillset is going to be more useful and applicable in other contexts as well. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-31 Thread Jon Dowland
interested in helping out here, if possible. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-31 Thread Jon Dowland
about. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-06-17 Thread Jon Dowland
Tools/Utilities/Accessories... Could you give an example of what would belong there? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-06-07 Thread Jon Dowland
at the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich.) One reason: wdm (really wings) has no keyboard-shortcut support. You are forced to use a mouse to operate it. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread Jon Dowland
, which I don't think is a good idea: http://popcon.debian.org/main/editors/by_inst -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1148048910 past the epoch, Jon Dowland wrote: Interesting idea, but by my reckoning that would make ed the default editor for most people, which I don't think is a good idea: http://popcon.debian.org/main/editors/by_inst Eek. Of course if you go by vote, then vim or nvi trump ed

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1148053588 past the epoch, Wouter Verhelst wrote: That's not an issue. First, ed doesn't install an alternatives for editor. Ah. Of course :) Sheepish, -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Bug#366328: ITP: bsp -- nodes builder for doom-engine levels

2006-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
be less inclined to rename the binary, the orig.tar.gz, the documentation, etc., unless (given this explanation) you still suggest it necessary. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#366328: ITP: bsp -- nodes builder for doom-engine levels

2006-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
for pointing it out. I shall contact the packager to determine whether he has any ambition for glbsp to enter main. Yours, -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#366328: ITP: bsp -- nodes builder for doom-engine levels

2006-05-07 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: bsp Version : 5.1 Upstream Author : Colin Phipps cph at users.sourceforge.net * URL : http://doombsp.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : nodes builder

Re: Bug#365087: ITP: debcheck -- Checks whether dependencies of debian packages can be satisfied

2006-04-28 Thread Jon Dowland
I must say) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-25 Thread Jon Dowland
advanced enough to go for manual package selection. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sources.list

2006-04-24 Thread Jon Dowland
://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ for info and archives. Secondly, your computer's date appears to be inaccurate: Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 05:24:27 +0430 If it were the 29th I would have been paid this month :) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-21 Thread Jon Dowland
, if it is referred to predominantly as Ham Radio in one locale and Amateur Radio in another, could we not accommodate both? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-18 Thread Jon Dowland
is snip I have a similar problem with setting $EDITOR to something like vim -gf: some programs pass this through to the shell, others look for a binary named 'vim -gf' in $PATH. Which is the correct behaviour and where is that defined, if at all? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-18 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1144928811 past the epoch, Eduard Bloch wrote: As said, Gnome bloat. Use gqview or pornview. The latter has been orphaned[1]. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/316934 -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-13 Thread Jon Dowland
for the window manager you go with, that way someone could mark your package, then change the window manager if they were so inclined. (Using Depends would mean changing the window manager could potentially remove the conflicting light-desktop package and all it's dependencies marked automatic). -- Jon

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
that Ham Radio is not too descriptive for those outside the circle (myself included). However it is consistent with the terminology in the Linux kernel's config. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1144653527 past the epoch, Steve Greenland wrote: On 10-Apr-06, 04:17 (CDT), Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that Ham Radio is not too descriptive for those outside the circle (myself included). However it is consistent with the terminology in the Linux kernel's config

Re: Bug#355488: ITP: bcpp -- C(++) beautifier

2006-03-06 Thread Jon Dowland
it is: so you have two options when facing such code a) use an editor which lets you customize the tab-stop b) use a tool such as bcpp to reformat the source -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-06 Thread Jon Dowland
moved to this week? Ah, fortunately, the FreeBSD gnome maintainers believe in documentation, so I found the answer there. For those of merely following the thread, rather than using bleeding-edge GNOME, could you share the secret? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#354732: ITP: omgifol -- python library for manipulating doom-style WAD files

2006-02-28 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: omgifol Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Fredrik Johansson * URL : http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~frejohl/doom.html * License : MIT-style Description : python library

Bug#351594: ITP: chocolate-doom -- Doom engine closely-compatible with vanilla doom

2006-02-05 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: chocolate-doom Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Simon Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.chocolate-doom.org/ * License : GPL Description : Doom engine closely

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-20 Thread Jon Dowland
was: a simple meta-package with the correct dependencies was all that was missing. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-20 Thread Jon Dowland
, however if the key was rotated that infrequently, the systems that perform the operation will have succumbed to a lot of bit-rot between invocations and the people doing it will be out of practise. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-22 Thread Jon Dowland
in base. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#338503: ITP: cvssuck -- inefficient cvs repository grabber using cvs command

2005-11-16 Thread Jon Dowland
at the source, I think that is exactly what it does, although I've only had a cursory glance. I did notice also that it's vulnerable to a symlink attach, suggest shelling out to mktemp at line #127 in your debian diff.gz. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: getting unstable lintian linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Jon Dowland
as a rule, and I think on it's own it is a good idea, as I often forget to make sure I'm in an unstable system when building packages. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: per-user temp directories by default?

2005-11-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:00:48PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: With tempdir in users home all applications like for example gpg write temporary files to this location which ends up unencrypted on a disk ...alongside the private keys in ~/.gnupg? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name

Re: Bug#195948: Bug#335173: ITP: dspam -- Highly accurate andfaststatistical spam filter

2005-10-25 Thread Jon Dowland
is the advantage of closing-and-adjusting-submitter vs. just merging the bugs anyway? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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