Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-03 Thread Michael Goetze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/03/2013 08:15 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: http://cut.debian.net/ Isn't this (more or less) what you are asking for? Isn't this (more or less) dead? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment:

Re: Bug#615056: ITP: wolf4sdl -- SDL-Port of Wolfenstein 3-D and Spear of Destiny

2011-03-05 Thread Michael Goetze
Hi, On 02/25/2011 12:19 PM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: The upstream license is unfortunately non-free, but allows for distribution, so it should be fine for Debian's non-free section. Please find a copy of debian/copyright attached. If people are interested, I'd like to maintain the package

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-13 Thread Michael Goetze
On 02/07/2011 12:10 AM, Svante Signell wrote: On 2011-02-03, Joerg Jaspertjo...@ganneff.de wrote: * get rid of hurd (or discuss this) Why? GNU/Hurd has made vast improvements during last year. Even the Debian installer is functional. Now, with support for VMs like qemu, xen and virtualbox,

Re: Bug#589342: ITP: sieve -- Extension that implements the ManageSieve protocol

2010-07-19 Thread Michael Goetze
Hi, On 07/16/2010 09:44 PM, fladischermich...@fladi.at wrote: * Package name: sieve Version : 0.1.9 Upstream Author : Thomas Schmidschmid-tho...@gmx.net * URL : http://sieve.mozdev.org/ * License : AGPLv3 Programming Lang: JavaScript, XUL Description

Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-11-14 Thread Michael Goetze
Hi, * Does upstart make things like dynamic allocation of VTs possible? Upstart doesn't do anything special WRT to VTs. You can constantly respawn a getty on /dev/tty3, or you can constantly respawn openvt getty, or you can run a script once saying assign me a VT and then

Re: percentage of popcon submitters

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Goetze
Hi, I know it is not possible to _know_ the real percentage of uses which submit popcon stats of all users. But I want to ask for guesses, because more oppinions do likely improve the result. My current guess is between 1/3 and 2/3. What do you think? before wild speculations ensues, you

Re: percentage of popcon submitters

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Goetze
James Vega wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:55 PM, markus schnalke mei...@marmaro.de wrote: I want to know the percentage of installed machines that submit popcon data. That requires knowing the number of computers that have Debian installed which, as has been discussed various times in the

Re: Override changes standard - optional

2009-01-02 Thread Michael Goetze
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: In Debian Edu, we concluded that more packages than the Debian Standard packages are needed in all installations, and install these packages by default for any profile: ... nscd ... I think that's a bad idea. It can cause some confusion when people make config

Re: Override changes standard - optional

2009-01-02 Thread Michael Goetze
Russ Allbery wrote: I think the following are borderline: hdparm iftop iotop ncftp nmap strace They're useful tools, many of which I use, but I'm not sure they're so useful to warrant installing them on every system by default. You can generally install them when you need them, [...]