Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal

2023-06-26 Thread Olaf Titz
> > Oh, wait! No, I'm wrong, CNFS actually does something smart and encodes > > the header in ASCII when writing it to disk. > > > > Okay, phew, this isn't going to be nearly as bad as I had thought. > > Good news. It would be great if you could add relevant info to the wiki page: > https://wiki.d

Re: Help needed talking to upstream browser developers about Debian SSO

2015-10-15 Thread Olaf Titz
> From what I've gathered, they want to deprecate storing private keys > without associated certificates, which would be really bad. There is an > audited infrastructure for key generation and storage, including > smartcard support, and adding a requirement that keys may only be added > together wi

Re: Bug#801837: ITP: yank -- interactively select and yank terminal output to stdout or xsel

2015-10-15 Thread Olaf Titz
> Well, that `emboss` tool clearly appears to be lame in its approach: > it should provide a single CLI tool called `emboss` which would have > those "yank" et al as its subcommands so that anyone could do something > like `emboss yank ...` etc. > > I'd say this should be reported as a bug upstrea

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-17 Thread Olaf Titz
> The primary (and AFAIR only) cause of no sound with PulseAudio that I > have encountered is that it doesnt know whether you want to hear sound > over the HDMI output or over the jack. Both appear to the system as two > different devices. So PA just selects one (I havent investigated how it >

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-28 Thread Olaf Titz
> Aeh, are you sure? I think you missed my point. I'm not involved with > any init system, nor a Debian developer, yet by developing some random > app and having it depend on a specific init system, I could (according > to you) make that init system unsuitable for Debian? You would surely make _yo

Re: node-like file conflicts

2012-08-07 Thread Olaf Titz
> guess: nvram-wakeup sgt-puzzles That's an awfully generic name for a program which gets run exactly once per motherboard to figure out some hardware configuration :-( Not knowing the game I would recommend renaming the nvram-wakeup thingy. Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ..

Re: Bug#666715: ITP: dedupdedup -- find duplicate programs for finding duplicate files

2012-04-02 Thread Olaf Titz
> > * Package name: dedupdedup > > Is it recommended to sing the name of this package in a Frank Sinatra > impression? In fact when I first read that I automatically read "dedupdedupdedup". But apparently the last part has been deduplicated already ;-) Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Bug#666715: ITP: dedupdedup -- find duplicate programs for finding duplicate files

2012-04-02 Thread Olaf Titz
> > Though I guess we could support both, and define an interchange format > > for exchanging data between our two systems. > > Is there not a risk that they would dedupe each other ? Not to mention the risk which any program which finds programs with generalized duplicate-finder function inflicts

Re: bug#10363: /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts symlink affects df(1) output for

2011-12-29 Thread Olaf Titz
> So this is a special case of a general problem with no easy solution: What > should df do when 2 filesystems are mounted at the same location? It can't > easily give correct information for both of them, since the later mount > obscures the earlier mount from view. It is a special case of an eve

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-20 Thread Olaf Titz
> > Why on earth would anyone want to run the Windows version of a native > > Linux app under a Windows emulation under Linux? :-) > > Because they're a developer of that app and they want to test the Windows > port before releasing? Okay, that's a bit of a corner case ;-) but nonetheless valid.

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-20 Thread Olaf Titz
> The difference is that antiword is a tool for the user. The user will > have doc files to use with antiword, e.g. send by mail. The antiword > program on its own provides the user with the ability to view his/her > word files. It does not depend on the existance of such a file on the > system to

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-18 Thread Olaf Titz
> > First, I couldn't find any reference to a "GPLed NDIS driver" in > > ndiswrapper's > > website, like Michael Poole asserts: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/01/msg00381.html > > > > I assume he was talking about the CIPE driver; it's linked right from > the main ndiswrapper