Re: Bug#315903: ITP: evilfinder -- proves that any given subject is evil

2005-06-27 Thread Miles Bader
David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do we really need this in the archive? Can we not add this to another > package under games? Er, why? This sounds like a great utility, it seems silly and artificial to force it to be merged unless there's already a very similar package to which it woul

Re: Alioth Project Approved - and now?

2005-06-27 Thread Miles Bader
Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Hmmm, why SSH1 and even telnet and not SSH2? > > You misread: There is NO telnet. As for SSH2, it works fine, but SSH1 > doesn't work. Probably a typo . Does anyone still use ssh1? It seems quite common for it not to be supported these days... -

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-17 Thread Miles Bader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: >> Spamhaus's rather irresponsible behavior in the past[*] hasn't left a >> happy impression; have they cleaned up their act lately? > > Looks like you are confusing it with some other DNSBL. Hmmm, looking thought old email I think you're right -- it was "s

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-16 Thread Miles Bader
Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recomed using spamhaus SBL-XBL, or at least CBL (which is included in > SBL-XBL). Spamhaus's rather irresponsible behavior in the past[*] hasn't left a happy impression; have they cleaned up their act lately? [*] Extremely lax standards for listings,

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-16 Thread Miles Bader
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's painful about it? > > It stops a lot of viruses and spam, with no false positives. What's the > problem? "No false positives" seems a bit optimistic. One problem I've encountered in the past is big mail providers (like yahoo) who will send retr

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-14 Thread Miles Bader
Anthony Towns writes: > Uh, so why hasn't the option of renaming (or just dropping) GNU > Interactive Tools been discussed? Given it's nature (it's not a command-line tool), it seems that renaming the older executable/package to `git-shell' or something wouldn't be a huge burden on its users. -

Re: Why apt-get is not a proper software search engine

2005-06-12 Thread Miles Bader
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm still using apt-get rather than aptitude because apt-get seems subtly > but noticably faster. But I *am* using debfoster, which lets you get at > some similar information. Maybe popularity-contest should pay attention > to that as well? Yeah, aptitu

Re: Bug#312669: /sbin/ifconfig: Add ifconfig to user path

2005-06-12 Thread Miles Bader
astronut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree. The type of user who is likely to be using the ifconfig command > on a regular basis is the type of user who probably already has sbin in > their path. (Power user, sysadmin's nonprivleged account, etc.). Yes. The great majority of users don't want

Re: baz and tla

2005-06-07 Thread Miles Bader
"Benj. Mako Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Without going down a semantic rathole, I'm happy to disagree here. In > any case, it was meant more of a good-natured (if slightly vicious) > jab against a program I love and am very critical of. I apologize if > it came out wrong. Er, no problem. I

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

2005-06-07 Thread Miles Bader
"Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But the problem is that for this to work this way, you have to support > downgrades. With a more complex scheme supporting redowngrades (i.e. > upgrading and downgrading again when no user-made changes were done) > would be needed. > This has to be s

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

2005-06-07 Thread Miles Bader
Will Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Would you please contribute your suggestions (either improve bits at that >> > page or somewhere else) of how to improve things. Thanks. >> >> What makes you think I have any? > > A lack of familiarity with your posts? Not fair; asuffield is often needl

Re: baz and tla

2005-06-07 Thread Miles Bader
"Benj. Mako Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> IMHO, it's a bug if it doesn't work efficiently without specialized >> assistance from shell completions. > > Absolutely. The fact that such a workaround is essential is a sign of > serious problem. :) tla has those in force. :) Geez can you be a bi

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-06 Thread Miles Bader
Stephen Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The question was really this, if Ubuntu created a better bug tracking > program would Debian want to run the new software on the debian > servers thus replacing the current bug tracking programs? Is it better? What I've read about Malone has been pretty

Re: Dear Adrian Bunk, Please hold off a week or two

2005-05-30 Thread Miles Bader
Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (B> Actually I am glad somebody is working public visible on the release issues (B> and would not critisize him for that. (B (BPointing out a problem is nice, but doing so in an obnoxious manner (Bhurts. (B (B-Miles (B-- $B<+$i$r6u$K$7$F!"?4$r3+

Re: Debian as living system

2005-05-18 Thread Miles Bader
Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > debian-devel has acquired a reputation for being rather unfriendly and > intimidating place, but there's no need to perpetuate that. > Politeness doesn't take much more effort than being rude. I don't think one should judge debian-devel based on this thoug

Re: pine license

2005-05-11 Thread Miles Bader
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, there's nano -- and if you want the pine UI, most people recommend > mutt with a .muttrc that contains pine-style keybindings. > > At least that's what I used when switching from pine to mutt... Does that actually offer the "pine experience" thou

Re: pine license

2005-05-10 Thread Miles Bader
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We don't distribute it because we follow the letter of their > license which unfortunately doesn't match their intentions and even more > unfortunately they are not in a hurry to fix. But the authors of Pine > don't mind at all. They even have a pag

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-10 Thread Miles Bader
Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The only reason we don't have it is because of petty bickering and > politics between the FHS folks (several years ago). That seems a good description of the FHS in general... -Miles -- In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a p

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-09 Thread Miles Bader
Martin Waitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Should we change some of these to /usr/libexec? > > well, it would be against the FHS, I think. > > The BSDs use libexec but I don't really see a good reason why it exists. GNU project stuff also uses libexec (by default; I don't know if that location ge

Re: {Arch,OCaml,Python,Mono} Packages for Adoption

2005-04-27 Thread Miles Bader
Andreas Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> tla-tools > > I can take this one, if noone else wants it. If you do, could you update the debian package to the latest upstream version? Thanks, -Miles -- Next to fried food, the South has suffered most from oratory. -- Wa

Re: Bug#299771: ITP: ttf-antp -- Antykwa Poltawskiego font family

2005-03-22 Thread Miles Bader
Miros/law Baran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The font is included in the tetex-base package, along with other Type1 > GUST-sponsored fonts (Antykwa ToruÅska etc.) - I think such a package > will be redundant. Somebody shouldn't have to install tetex (tetex-base alone is 81MB) to get a ttf font!

Re: ClearLooks theme availability for Debian GNOME

2005-03-02 Thread Miles Bader
Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For the record it isn't going to be the default, but the engine itself > is a contender. So what are they gonna change (for the default)? -Miles -- P.S. All information contained in the above letter is false, for reasons of military security. --

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-20 Thread Miles Bader
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It's disheartening because while there seem to be other free ray-tracers >> out there with even better rendering quality than povray, I've not found >> one with anything like povray's wonderfully expressive input language -- >> most other projects seem

Re: Bug#295328: general: Help messages to stderr should be banned

2005-02-15 Thread Miles Bader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: >> I suppose I will start filing minor bugs against packages that do >> this. I'd like to hear other people's opinions, though. (It occurs >> to me that help output to stderr is arguably appropriate if an invalid >> option is given). Part of the problem i

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-13 Thread Miles Bader
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Curious; maybe the FAQ is wrong? It's been a while since I looked at it; maybe the maintainers, and thus attitudes, have changed (for the worse). Alternatively, perhaps the loudest mouths on the mailing list are not representative of the project's long-term

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-10 Thread Miles Bader
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:16:54 +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any reason to outright insult random software developers here > on a public mailinglist, where insults are offtopic anyway? (Hint: no). > Please refrain from doing so, not only is it against list policy

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-10 Thread Miles Bader
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It's in non-free: > > Thus not in Debian. Oh cool it's pedants' hour -Miles -- 97% of everything is grunge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-10 Thread Miles Bader
Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> That would be cool. At least one of the povray maintainers has a >> giant stick up his butt about Debian, something along the lines of >> "The version of povray in Debian stable is old, so DEBIAN SUX0RS IN >> EVERY IMAGINABLE WAY!@&* YARGH#(*!!! LOL!" >

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-09 Thread Miles Bader
Clément Stenac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm interested in maintainership of PovRay. > > I'm going to try to update the package to the latest upstream version > and to work on some of the bugs That would be cool. At least one of the povray maintainers has a giant stick up his butt about Debia

Re: Bug#293382: ITP: zen-cart -- simple SQL and php based e-commerce solution

2005-02-02 Thread Miles Bader
Maybe there needs to be an "Advertisement:" header in the package description... -Miles -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-10 Thread Miles Bader
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's impossible not to be rude on written media. What's a harmless joke > to one is an insult to another, and an attack to one's personality to a > third one. You can't expect everyone to be happy with everything you > might possibly write. Of course n

Re: rudeness in changelogs

2005-01-10 Thread Miles Bader
Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well... DJB was not trying to be specially nice Is DJB _capable_ of being nice?!? -Miles -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: murphy is listed on spamcop

2005-01-10 Thread Miles Bader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > It works as advertised, and the FAQ says that it should not be used to > block mail. Hmmm, I looked at the FAQ, and found this -- buried in the middle of a paragraph: "SpamCop encourages SCBL users to tag and divert email, rather than block it outright."

Re: murphy is listed on spamcop

2005-01-04 Thread Miles Bader
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you have any serious point to make then it can be made without > reference to such people. However all your messages recently have > been ad-hominem attacks, trying to compare me to Rumsfeld and now > claiming that I have a "problem with reality". Um

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-14 Thread Miles Bader
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The other problem with aptitude is touted as a design feature: it tends > to be all-or-nothing. Either you use it always or you don't (automatic > removal thingie). This becomes a problem when multiple persons use > different interfaces for

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-12 Thread Miles Bader
Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you don't like dselect and don't fall in one of the cases I have > mentioned, then we have a problem. Ok, I'll be more explicit: I don't like dselect, and I don't fall into any of your cases. dselect is perhaps not as completely awful as some peopl

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-09 Thread Miles Bader
Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've always thought that people who say they hate dselect (or, worse, > that dselect is crap) fall into one of the following cases: > > (a) allergic to text-mode interfaces > (b) type or click without thinking > (c) haven't used it for more than 5 yea

Re: murphy is listed on spamcop

2004-12-08 Thread Miles Bader
paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In which case, is there something fundamentally broken about the spamcop > system ? Or is there some technically insoluble problem here ? It seems to be more that they just don't really give a crap: (1) they trust users, (2) users are stupid, and (3) there's

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-08 Thread Miles Bader
Gergely Korodi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From time to time I give a try to aptitude and synaptic, but always recoil > in horror. I don't know what the fuss is about aptitude, IMHO it's way > more complicated to use than dselect, and less clear as well. Amazing I used dselect a lot back

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-24 Thread Miles Bader
"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > IMHO it's somewhat silly to "stop the experiment now" and drop >> > testing. Although there are problems with testing, there *are* >> > well-known positives of having it. >> >> All the known positives are outweighted by the negative issues as

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-07 Thread Miles Bader
Jeff Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So do we. The names for GNUstep-based programs ARE unique -- no other free > software is using (or, to my knowledge, has ever used) those names, and the > names that "conflict" are named as they are for descriptiveness and for > compatibility (Terminal,

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-06 Thread Miles Bader
Jeff Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Many "gnustep" apps OTOH, use absurdly generic names, and I can only >> conclude that the developers do not think about mixed systems at all. > > I disagree in the first case, and you are incorrect in the second. What can I say? You claim this, but th

Re: ITP: cddb.bundle -- CDDB Bundle for GNUstep

2004-10-05 Thread Miles Bader
Jeff Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For me, I don't want GNUstep in the names of my programs because I am not > connected to GNUstep and don't want to be. It is just a couple of libraries > that I use to write my apps -- you wouldn't put "GTK+" in the name of your > apps, would you? Most

Re: Bug#259400: How to a user can add menu entry for GNOME ?

2004-10-05 Thread Miles Bader
Marc Dequènes (Duck) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, if i'm not dead for GNOME 2.10, custom Debian menu is gonna die, as > it is a bunch of unbrowseable nightmare stuff. That seems a tad overwrought. I usually prefer the debian menu because it's much more complete than the gnome menu, and ofte

Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3

2003-12-11 Thread Miles Bader
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I guess that makes sense, if you interpret it as meaning something like > > `Hard work is the partner of success' -- which sort of works with `apt' > > too (partner of apt?). > > I don't think that derivation is correct. The `fu' really has no > meaning

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-10 Thread Miles Bader
Cameron Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I seem to recall reading a number of complaints /from users/ in the BTS, > requesting .desktop files precisely because they are i18nalised. Others > have suggested expanding the current Debian menu definition to handle > i18n. That, to me, sounds like

Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3

2003-12-10 Thread Miles Bader
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm afraid that although the character `fu' has many meanings, but > style or technique isn't one of them. Hmmm, you seem to be right, I was confused. :-( I don't have a chinese dictionary, but my Japanese dictionary lists a japanese version of kung-fu `ka

Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3 (was: Re: Building Debian Completely From Source)

2003-12-09 Thread Miles Bader
George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > p.s. why Apt-Fu ? Is that 'APT Kung-Fu' or what ? Hmm, after apt-src, > apt-build, and similar 'build that debian source package' tools, I've been > expecting for 'apt-too' ;-) FWIW, the `fu' in kung-fu means something like style or technique, so apt

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-04 Thread Miles Bader
Sebastien Bacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure that's a good idea. I'm using Gnome and I'd like to keep a > simple applications' menu, not having hundred entries like in my > debian's menu. Having too many entries in a menu is an usability problem > imho (it's very annoying to search a

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (II)

2003-11-19 Thread Miles Bader
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One question to ask is "is this useful fonts?" If not, we have totally > different ground to remove this package based on uselessness :-) Are there any other good-looking japanese TTF fonts in debian? I ttf-kochi-{gothic,mincho} and I remember every other

Re: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?

2003-10-19 Thread Miles Bader
Adam Borowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Call me a wimp wimp > The problem lies not in the basic four directions (hjkl), but in the > completely mad diagonals. They're plain unnatural and cumbersome to > use I _completely_ disagree -- I find the rogue diagonals astonishly smooth and natural

Re: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?

2003-10-17 Thread Miles Bader
BTW, another point is that the original layout is a fairly unique part of rogue culture, and shipping with it turned off seems a bit like using graphical tiles by default, or having emacs start up in wordpad- compatibility mode -- one can perhaps understand the appeal for the rawest of newbies, but

Re: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?

2003-10-17 Thread Miles Bader
I definitely prefer hjkl -- the huge amount of extra hand movement required by the number-pad layout is downright painful. [and I'm a longtime emacs user!] -miles -- Occam's razor split hairs so well, I bought the whole argument!

Re: autoconf and setting prefix

2003-09-09 Thread Miles Bader
Oliver Kurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Specifying prefix on the make command line should work and not try to > > install to /usr (though he appears to be using it incorrectly so > > probably won't get what he wants). > > Using prefix is dangerous, because it may be compiled into the code or

Re: autoconf and setting prefix

2003-09-08 Thread Miles Bader
James Michael Greenhalgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > (cd build && $(MAKE) install prefix=$(CURDIR)/debian/gcc4arm/usr) > > Dunno about 'prefix=' ... I've always used 'DESTDIR='? Specifying prefix on the make command line should work and not try to install to /usr (though he appears to be usin

Re: Debian Weekly News - August 19th, 2003

2003-08-21 Thread Miles Bader
Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Jerome demonstrated a clear understanding of the Social >Contract and the Debian Free Software Guidelines." > > Perhaps you would care to re-read the Social Contract and DFSG? Your > understanding seems to have wavered. It's off to

Re: stack protection

2003-08-21 Thread Miles Bader
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:41:16PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > Indeed, it's looking likely that GregKH's `udev' will replace devfs > > sometime in the future. > > Dare I ask the obvious question: what is udev? Why is it better then > devfs? It's mostly in user-space, lighter-weight, and more conf

Re: stack protection

2003-08-21 Thread Miles Bader
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Devfs is getting less support now, it might not be the best time to start > depending on it. Indeed, it's looking likely that GregKH's `udev' will replace devfs sometime in the future. [It was amusing to see Christoph Hellwig's recent patch on the lkml

Re: Bug#200355: ITP: csound -- incredibly powerful and versatile software synthesis program

2003-07-08 Thread Miles Bader
Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Description : incredibly powerful and versatile software synthesis > > program > >Mmmh, you really should get rid of the "incredibly powerful and > versatile" part. Every program is incredibly powerful and versatile. Actually I think that descri

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-07-01 Thread Miles Bader
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then they have no business using awk. ??? Awk is very friendly (friendlier than perl anyway). -Miles -- 自らを空にして、心を開く時、道は開かれる

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-07-01 Thread Miles Bader
Mathieu Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It proves that the user interface of gawk is more friendly, nothing > more. Yeah; the thing about mawk is that it's a great little program, fairly robust and wicked fast -- much faster than gawk for things I do -- but the last time I checked, it hadn't re

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-07-01 Thread Miles Bader
David B Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A fair numbe rof those apps you probably want were implemented in Debian > before GNU made their own versions - install-info(8) is one of the ones > most often griped about. Careful... mentioning this issue invariably seems to generate all kind of bile

Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-07-01 Thread Miles Bader
Lukas Geyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am not really sure that "email" satisfies this criterion. Maintaining > non-free packages is a hassle, it might be easier to write a free > replacement in the time saved by messing around with non-free packages > and getting special Debian redistribution

Re: [VAC] June 9 - August 30 [UPDATE]

2003-07-01 Thread Miles Bader
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The contract they gave me assigns copyright to any computer code I > write this summer to NASA; since it's only for 2.5 months, I didn't > bother making a fuss about it. I understand your not making a fuss, but I think an offhand gripe or two to your ma

Re: Packages file under version control

2003-06-03 Thread Miles Bader
Cameron Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suspect that for anyone running unstable the Packages.gz and > Sources.gz files will be the tip of the iceberg. > > For anyone running stable, the Packages.gz files rarely change and so > apt-get update will not normally bother to download them again

Re: Packages file under version control

2003-06-03 Thread Miles Bader
David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fetching Packages.gz over modem is a pain in the arse. Having it > only rsync the changes would be so nice. Exactly. I use `testing' via a slow modem link, and I'd like to update frequently, to keep individual updates as small as possible (testing do

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-06-03 Thread Miles Bader
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Not saying you're a nationalist, Manoj.) Even worse, you're comparing him to Ayn Rand! -Miles -- "I distrust a research person who is always obviously busy on a task." --Robert Frosch, VP, GM Research

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-26 Thread Miles Bader
"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this is entirely off topic for -devel, let's move it to -politics or > -curiosa or somewhere else more appropriate. But you just _had_ to get your bitter little rant in first, huh? -Miles -- Ich bin ein Virus. Mach' mit und kopiere mich in Dei

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-22 Thread Miles Bader
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And I know of approixmatly zero Americans who have reason to boycott > Canada. Er, well. I doubt there's a government in existance that hasn't done something objectionable enough to piss off a foreigner somewhere (e.g., recent european attempts to export t

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-22 Thread Miles Bader
Hi Greg, Now that you've got this release out, have you given any thought to the message I sent earlier about merging gdb server versions? Here it is again in case you've forgotten: Hi, The current version of gdbserver in uClinux-dist only works on the m68k. In my v850-specific version of uCli

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-22 Thread Miles Bader
Simon Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please don't hold the conference in the U.S. I am a Canadian > who has not stepped foot on American soil since your government declared > it was at war. You mean the iraq war? What's the point? How is avoiding the U.S. going to help anything, regard

Re: Firebird 0.6

2003-05-22 Thread Miles Bader
Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So unless you have a better reason > then PCness, I'll use either as the mood strikes me :) To be accurate, I don't think this is an example of PCness, but rather of PR-speak, the same sort of thing that goes into press releases (though I mean `public rel

Re: Firebird 0.6

2003-05-19 Thread Miles Bader
Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've uploaded mozilla-firebird_0.6-1 to my personal apt > repository at http://people.debian.org/~eric/debian/. Looks good, but why the long binary name? Wouldn't just `firebird' be nicer? Thanks, -Miles -- Come now, if we were really planning to harm

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from "vacation". (MIA?)]

2003-05-19 Thread Miles Bader
"Matt Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sending HTML emails its a general comment on people usage of the Internet. > If you can limit yourself to contacts who are technical enough to understand > the arguments why you don't like it then you can maintain the pretence that > it doesn't exist. Those

Re: Bug#188307: ITP: gpdf -- GNOME pdf viewer

2003-04-09 Thread Miles Bader
Filip Van Raemdonck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gpdf is just one binary, and some GNOME specific support files. > the interface, font rasterizing and rendering canvas are all changed to > use GNOME facilities. Looking forward to it then -- xpdf is a pretty good program, but its font rasterizing

Re: description writing guide

2002-12-05 Thread Miles Bader
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In standard typography, it is to have extra space after a period ending > a sentence. For fixed-width fonts, this often shows up as two spaces, > as is fairly ugly. Of course, that's simply an opinion, and depends a lot on exactly _which_ fixed fonts

Re: new build system

2002-11-28 Thread Miles Bader
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > your upstream's Makefile isn't properly > coded to keep other flags like -I around when CFLAGS is set. > > the real solution is to fix the Makefile so that this works. Human users will also appreciate such a fix... -Miles -- `Life is a boundless sea o

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-25 Thread Miles Bader
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:05:51PM -0500, Matthew C. Tedder wrote: > > ...whines... > > *plonk* Whoa, the first intelligent post in this thread! -Miles -- Next to fried food, the South has suffered most from oratory. -- Walter

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-21 Thread Miles Bader
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Well, see, now Manoj would say that none at all were funny. What > >statistical conclusions am I to derive from that? > > That you're not as funny as you think you are? Still, he is often very funny (and on target), and to be honest, I think he's quit

Re: DMA, ide-scsi, devfs by default

2002-08-27 Thread Miles Bader
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What's especially cool is that it hardwires the British (or Australian, > > in this case, I guess) spelling of `disc' as part of the UI > > The idea that devfs hardwires anything seems to be very popular. It is > also completely wrong. You can use th

Re: DMA, ide-scsi, devfs by default

2002-08-26 Thread Miles Bader
Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But if it is reliable i would recommend using it. It makes lot of things > much easier and probably is much more intuitive for beginners as well. > (just thinking of /dev/discs/disc0/part1 and /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 ) What's especially cool is that it hardw

Re: Path modification

2001-01-09 Thread Miles Bader
Jon Eisenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently filed a bug report (80092) against the nmh package regarding > the location of its program files. It installs files into /usr/bin/mh, > which isn't in the path, making running the program difficult until the > reason is found. > > A suggestio

Re: big Packages.gz file

2001-01-09 Thread Miles Bader
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the real problem with the large package files? They take a long > time to download, but so do emacs and other bloatware. Yeah, but how often do you download emacs? The packages file gets downloaded _every single time_ you do an update, and for

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Miles Bader
Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS: Why not change the Solaris version to be compatible with the > widely used linux version? I'm sure there are more people and tools > out there for linux using -I then there are for solaris. One point the maintainer has made on the gnu mailing list

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Miles Bader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown) writes: > I guess YOUR mailreader is "too old or disfunctional to be worth > discussing" > > I did not request you to Cc me. > But you replied to the list AND me. Because that is the most useful action for mail followups in the absence of other information. If yo

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Miles Bader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown) writes: > As opposed to the current scheme, which also requires "annoying manual > editing of addresses" to reply to the list, if your mailreader does the > reasonable thing and assumes you want to reply to the original sender of > the message, in liu of a reply-to

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Miles Bader
Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which reminds me, why doesn't this list just set: > reply-to: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Because it's completely wrong. Doing so takes the choice of who to reply to (the sender or the list) out of the hands of the reader [at least without annoying man

Re: Close list

2000-12-23 Thread Miles Bader
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now maybe if we were using the RBL, DUL, and RSS lists... :-) > GNU mailing lists (supposedly) use RBL, but in a mode where `spam' isn't deleted, but rather just gets a header added saying `this message is considered suspicious'. That allows indivi

Re: Close list

2000-12-22 Thread Miles Bader
"Carl B. Constantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yo ppl, it's not hard to archive a closed list, most list software supports > archive directly. Sheesh! You make it sound like it's the end of the world > for crying out loud. Give me a break! I was complaining about not being able to post to the

Re: Close list

2000-12-22 Thread Miles Bader
"Carl B. Constantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm getting tired of getting spam through mail lists I subscribe to > that have an open post policy. Can we please close the debian-devel > and other such lists that "should" be closed. I don't think trademark > domains is doing anything for deb

Re: "GNU/Linux" vs. "Linux"

2000-03-31 Thread Miles Bader
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok folks, why is Debian called "GNU/Linux" instead of simply "Linux"? To annoy all the uptight "Linux" fanboys. Duh. Cheers, -Miles -- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-23 Thread Miles Bader
Jacob Kuntz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i think this tread started with someone wanting the sbin directories in the > normal user's path by default. i see your point that moving those binaries > would break a lot of scripts. i don't think appending to the default path > would break anything. anyo

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