Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-23 Thread Steve Greenland
your argument. The *VAST* majority of a libraries users are never going to look at the man pages for that library. People who need the man pages are going to have the -dev installed, or can easily install it. I don't see why upstreams needs this. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries? (and API docs too)

2007-04-23 Thread Steve Greenland
and/or devhelp etc. I'd remove the generated from the source code clause. Yes, many projects choose to do their docs that way. Some don't. Would these changes need a GR? No. Or submit these ideas to -policy and take from there? Yes. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Steve Greenland
with significant documentation, sure, a seperate -doc makes sense, just as we do now. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-22 Thread Steve Greenland
On 22-Apr-07, 16:22 (CDT), Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 16:14 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: On 22-Apr-07, 14:39 (CDT), Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to see all library source packages having a minimum of 4 binary packages required

Re: Linux/Debian documentation suggestion

2007-04-18 Thread Steve Greenland
On 17-Apr-07, 18:22 (CDT), The Fungi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:10:20PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: On 17-Apr-07, 13:25 (CDT), Glenn Moeller-Holst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *If I want or need command xxzz, which packages can give me that? You'll need

Re: Linux/Debian documentation suggestion

2007-04-18 Thread Steve Greenland
, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Linux/Debian documentation suggestion

2007-04-17 Thread Steve Greenland
requirements on it. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Bug#416397: ITP: haproxy -- fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy

2007-03-29 Thread Steve Greenland
harm than good - I haven't yet had to do this with http but have often done so with ssh and smtp. Logging and blocking can all be done at the proxy, though. No need to transfer the remote IP to the internal server. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making

Re: Bug#416397: ITP: haproxy -- fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy

2007-03-28 Thread Steve Greenland
. Any webservice that uses the (supposed) client IP for anything other than amusement value is broken, given NAT and client proxies. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over

Re: video codecs in HTML 5

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Greenland
will use, and we'll be screwed, again. If we (the Free Software community) can get Ogg-Theora listed as the base requirement (or recommendation), then we have a small chance of promoting a free codec for widespread use. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims

Re: State of the slimserver package.

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Greenland
that you're not going to update the packages, and point people to the upstream archive. Try to get this into Etch (should be okay with no functional changes.) Then pull from Etch+1. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system

Re: Where did Bacula 1.38.11-7+b1 come from?

2007-02-22 Thread Steve Greenland
Thing. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: /foo has been mounted xx times... check forced

2007-02-18 Thread Steve Greenland
for more details. Nifty. It would be nice if e2fsck(8) mentioned this... :-) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: P3 capabilities (was dselect memory use)

2007-02-15 Thread Steve Greenland
that the on-board graphics take over). Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: RFC: use readable $(cmd) syntax instead of unreadable `cmd`

2007-02-12 Thread Steve Greenland
On 11-Feb-07, 13:40 (CST), Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then you have a lot more problems than `` vs $(). Debian's (and pretty much everybody elses) /bin/sh is POSIX, and allows any valid POSIX construct. Solaris's /bin/sh is ancient

Re: RFC: use readable $(cmd) syntax instead of unreadable `cmd`

2007-02-11 Thread Steve Greenland
a lot more problems than `` vs $(). Debian's (and pretty much everybody elses) /bin/sh is POSIX, and allows any valid POSIX construct. Solaris's /bin/sh is ancient Bourne shell, and doesn't support a whole lot of stuff in common use. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates

Re: X and non-X packages (Re: Attempts at security)

2007-02-04 Thread Steve Greenland
at present are xlibs-dev (?), e2fsck, bash, busybox, dar, and two versions of zsh. We used to build -x and -nox versions of packages that supported it; it became a huge bloat and workload and we agreed to stop. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable

Re: Bug#409341: ITP: hgview -- Graphical viewer for distributed version content managment tools

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Greenland
besides mercurial? A quick glance at hgview.py implies otherwise. 3. In anycase, explicitly list the supported DSCM systems. Tools such as doesn't help the user. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Re: /var/www or /var/web

2007-01-20 Thread Steve Greenland
to modify DNS in addition to any other setup work. The nice thing about opinions is that everyone can have one. The nice thing about Debian defaults is that no one forces you to use them. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating

Re: Bug#407123: ITP: gpe-othello -- othello board game for GPE

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Greenland
On 16-Jan-07, 05:26 (CST), Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Description : othello board game for GPE (along with other GPE games, etc.) Why does this belong in Debian? Do Palm devices now run Debian? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making

Orphaning most of my packages

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Greenland
upstream, but finished, I think. Bug#392672: O: positron - synchronization manager for the Neuros Audio Computer Python. Probably dead after v1.1. Pierre Habouzit has NMU'd a version 1.1 upgrade and support for new python policy, see bug # 380895. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony

Re: Bug#385338: wish: dpkg-reconfigure localepurge to select when to run localepurge automatically

2006-08-30 Thread Steve Greenland
is easily achieved by removing /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-localepurge, right? Debconf is an appriate tool when there is no obvious correct answer, but for these 1% options, editing the config file is no burden. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating

Re: using long long and printf(%m) in debian

2006-08-19 Thread Steve Greenland
a problem in Debian GNU/* but you should tell upstream about questionable coding style and portability. The %m idiom is pretty widespread, actually, and not only a Glibc extension. But the strerror(errno) form is definitely superior for portability. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-18 Thread Steve Greenland
On 17-Aug-06, 23:33 (CDT), Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Steve Greenland] By autoconf related problems I mean things like it suddenly deciding it's running a cross compiler, or that stdlib.h is missing. A lot of this kind of stuff could be improved by simply SHOWING ME

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-17 Thread Steve Greenland
. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-17 Thread Steve Greenland
of this kind of stuff could be improved by simply SHOWING ME THE FSCKING ERROR MESSAGES, rather than just checking the return code and guessing. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-17 Thread Steve Greenland
; my argument is that it tends to lead to bad usage, widely propogated. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-17 Thread Steve Greenland
On 17-Aug-06, 09:06 (CDT), Gabor Gombas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, sw with custom build systems were always a pain: usually they had no idea how to build a shared lib on AIX, Neither does libtool. But I can usually easily change the Makefile to fix that problem; libtool is an

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-16 Thread Steve Greenland
On 16-Aug-06, 04:00 (CDT), Gabor Gombas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 02:26:29PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: And guess what? System tests are actually more reliable, especially when the user tells you what the system is. You can simply flip to compiling foo_linux.c

Re: autotools and programming style (was: Remove cdrtools)

2006-08-15 Thread Steve Greenland
On 14-Aug-06, 17:32 (CDT), Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag 14 August 2006 23:27 schrieb Steve Greenland: The *real* problem with the whole autotools disaster is that it promotes a braindead idea of how to achieve portability: a #ifdef branch for every different system

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-15 Thread Steve Greenland
On 14-Aug-06, 23:35 (CDT), Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland wrote: Um, this is the exact opposite of the philosophy promoted by Autoconf since at least version 2.0. Feature tests, not system tests. I can't speak to other autotools. Doesn't matter (feature tests

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-14 Thread Steve Greenland
) is very widespread. So is syphilis. That doesn't make it desirable. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-14 Thread Steve Greenland
], and nobody learned a damn thing. Steve [1] http://www.literateprogramming.com/ifdefs.pdf -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-27 Thread Steve Greenland
, per se. Reproducibly is what I mean. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-25 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Jul-06, 17:18 (CDT), Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland wrote: Sure, it allows some one to install foo-data without the program that uses it? So what? It's unlikely to happen by accident, and annoying to those doing it intentionally. (Just like those foo-docs

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-25 Thread Steve Greenland
On 25-Jul-06, 07:10 (CDT), Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't it be a better thing to fix the bug and have deterministic software? Dpkg isn't deterministic in the general case. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-25 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Jul-06, 17:32 (CDT), Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland wrote: This really seems like something that while they may, very occasionally, be required, are mostly unnecessary and often misused. Rather, I'd characterise it as a feature that is necessary for any general

Re: how to deal with packages depending on mysql-server

2006-07-25 Thread Steve Greenland
not perfect. For situations where a package requires a server that may be accessible remotely, consensus policy is that the burden of requiring the server be installed locally is larger than the burden of requiring the user to think. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-24 Thread Steve Greenland
, although they are mostly fixed, now.) This really seems like something that while they may, very occasionally, be required, are mostly unnecessary and often misused. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Re: Configuration file shadowed?

2006-07-21 Thread Steve Greenland
technically, but it fits conceptually. Anyway, the default value as specified by the package builder. -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-16 Thread Steve Greenland
'%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t' Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: severities of blocking bugs

2006-06-15 Thread Steve Greenland
priorities on others packages, but it screws up my todo list is not one of them. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Accepted nvi 1.79-24 (source i386)

2006-06-13 Thread Steve Greenland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:32:59 -0500 Source: nvi Binary: nvi Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.79-24 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted ee 1:1.4.2-6 (source i386)

2006-06-07 Thread Steve Greenland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 13:42:38 -0500 Source: ee Binary: ee Architecture: source i386 Version: 1:1.4.2-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-30 Thread Steve Greenland
occasionally. Then libtool is buggy[1] and needs to begin with #!/bin/bash or #!/bin/dash, and include the appropriate Depends. Steve [1] But you knew that. -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Accepted nvi 1.79-23 (source i386)

2006-05-26 Thread Steve Greenland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 18:06:04 -0500 Source: nvi Binary: nvi Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.79-23 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2006-04-10 Thread Steve Greenland
the kernel config? +1 for Amateur Radio Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#359345: ITP: dbdesigner -- DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment.

2006-03-28 Thread Steve Greenland
it supports. Is it really mysql only? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: library for imap (client)

2006-03-20 Thread Steve Greenland
On 18-Mar-06, 08:49 (CST), Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I am starting a new project and want to know, if someone know the existence if an imapclient library for C programing? Michelle, please meet http://www.google.com. Google, meet Michelle. Steve -- Steve Greenland

Re: automatically install -dev packages

2006-03-20 Thread Steve Greenland
explicitly want, and let the dependency system pull in anything they need. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-18 Thread Steve Greenland
. What the heck? Are you implying that would be a suitable well-formed patch suitable for inclusion? Or did I miss some sarcasm? You missed the sarcasm. I understood Daniel's point to be that just because a patch is syntatically correct doesn't mean that it will (or should) be applied. Steve -- Steve

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-16 Thread Steve Greenland
and repetitiously is being a childish asshole, but YMMV. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread Steve Greenland
have the occasional outbreak, but I'm trying hard, and mostly getting better. I think. In and of itself, it wouldn't be reason to expell you, because there are several others around here who suffer similarly. But it doesn't make it easier for people to defend you. Steve -- Steve Greenland

Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On 13-Mar-06, 15:27 (CST), Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not if the relevant header hasn't been included. No #include string.h, no compiler messing with strdup(). You are misinformed. First, note that strdup() is not in the standard C

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-14 Thread Steve Greenland
an announcement and asking for help. -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Re: Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Greenland
not with a compiler in hosted mode. In this mode, the compiler is allowed to have any knowledge about the standard library builtin. Not if the relevant header hasn't been included. No #include string.h, no compiler messing with strdup(). Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims

Re: Re: Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Greenland
to fix, and they're all potential bugs. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#354831: ITP: bfc -- Brainfuck compiler

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Greenland
is completely determined by personal opinion). So, to reiterate: if you're serious about packaging 'bfc', I certainly don't object. Just be prepared for the occasional whining from the SPO. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system

Re: Bug#355030: ITP: ultimate-othello -- classic othello game with nice graphics

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On 02-Mar-06, 15:01 (CST), Jari Aalto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ultimate othello game with aqua-friendly graphics, full cocoa interface and animations. And how is that relevant to a Debian GNU/Linux user? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making

Re: Bug#354831: ITP: bfc -- Brainfuck compiler

2006-03-01 Thread Steve Greenland
the particular words. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Bug#354831: ITP: bfc -- Brainfuck compiler

2006-03-01 Thread Steve Greenland
have no objection to the ITP. [2] Countering that is that the package is named bfc rather than brainfuck, so maybe I'm being unfair, and it's not a deliberate attempt to rile people. -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus

Re: {SPAM} Question about GFDL licensed works

2006-02-13 Thread Steve Greenland
not been able to do so. I think that makes it pretty clear that using notes from RMS to bypass this license term is unlikely to work. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over

Re: devscripts help: new script name?

2006-02-13 Thread Steve Greenland
, the subscription is open ended. Remember, developer scripts presumably are used by the reasonably clued. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Greenland
most commonly seen in ancient software that doesn't include all of the right headers for functions like getopt(). Right. And in such cases it's trivial to fix, which makes it easier to browse the build log for real errors. There's really no excuse for letting these bugs live. Steve -- Steve

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Greenland
^Wdiscussion, you will be asked to leave. Steve, hoping the smiley (and appreciation) is obvious. -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2006-01-06 Thread Steve Greenland
* for one particular alternative, and are perfectly happy with the all the others. This is really a corner case, and while one should provide for corner cases, one probably shouldn't design around corner cases. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2006-01-06 Thread Steve Greenland
On 06-Jan-06, 08:28 (CST), paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 07:43:07AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: Then the whole update-alternatives priority system is made pointless. s/pointless/better/ How? If you provide the ability to determine alternative selection based

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2006-01-04 Thread Steve Greenland
On 04-Jan-06, 05:08 (CST), paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time to add a policy-alternatives hook to update-alternatives ?? Huh? If the admin manually sets an alternative with with update-alternatives, it won't be overridden by a package install. What more does she need? Steve -- Steve

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2006-01-04 Thread Steve Greenland
On 03-Jan-06, 19:30 (CST), Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:58:49AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: Such behaviour is pretty much standard alternative handling: the default install is the lowest priority, and the optional variants have higher priorities

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2006-01-03 Thread Steve Greenland
On 03-Jan-06, 00:46 (CST), Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:47:05AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: If you agree with the change, do Stefano and I need to do anything other than swap vi alternative priorities and swap important-optional priorities? Why

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2006-01-02 Thread Steve Greenland
-optional priorities? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-27 Thread Steve Greenland
Sorry for the lateness of this; Newtonmas and all... On 22-Dec-05, 12:33 (CST), Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 05:41:45PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: vim-tiny depends on the 200k-ish vim-common too, so nvi seems about half the total size of a vim

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Steve Greenland
, they seem to be figuring it out on their own. If you have some particular packages in mind, go offer to help. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-21 Thread Steve Greenland
with base? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-20 Thread Steve Greenland
On 19-Dec-05, 18:06 (CST), Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd still like to know what Steve Greenland thinks of this, since he maintains nvi. I think that if the maintainers of vim and nvi agree to swap the one that is in base, that's their perogative to do now since the thread hasn't

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-20 Thread Steve Greenland
. Need I say more? -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-20 Thread Steve Greenland
On 20-Dec-05, 09:56 (CST), Gabor Gombas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:57:08AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: [1] Dark blue on black. Need I say more? That's not vim's fault: $ echo $TERM xterm But this is gnome-terminal, and _not_ xterm. xterm used

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-20 Thread Steve Greenland
might make sense. Do you have any other suggestion in addition to the two proposed to make vim more vi compatible? Nope, now that you've corrected my mistake about syntax highlighting being on by default. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-20 Thread Steve Greenland
On 20-Dec-05, 12:26 (CST), Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that there are really enough distinct colors to complicated syntax highlighting that works with a variety of backgrounds and lighting. ... are NOT really enough distinct colors to DO complicated syntax

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-20 Thread Steve Greenland
. (Not meant sarcastically, it's quite possible that you do see that combo better than I do.) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Bug#343662: fsck errors halting boot after upgrade]

2005-12-20 Thread Steve Greenland
`, right? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Spliting packages between pkg and pkg-data

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Greenland
rules that should be followed: [*snip* good rules} 5) Of course move /usr/share/pkg to pkg-data. Why? If I install foo, I really expect it's shared data to be in /usr/share/foo. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system

Re: Spliting packages between pkg and pkg-data

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Greenland
. Apparently not... Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-15 Thread Steve Greenland
. Whether or not the original upload included a binary does not change that. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#338382: ITP: python-formencode -- FormEncode is a validation and form generation package.

2005-11-10 Thread Steve Greenland
. (http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundationLicenseFaq). It does go on to say how to modify the PSF license, which is mostly 's/PSF/Your Organization/g'. This may be what has been done for formencode. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-27 Thread Steve Greenland
expanding into a second disk block. Untidy, I'll grant you, but bloat seems excessive. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-10-27 Thread Steve Greenland
with a 8080-based embedded system that reads /etc/password from paper tape.) Where people run into problems with the linear search is with 10K user accounts, which is irrelevant to what we're discussing. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable

Re: changing default ping

2005-10-25 Thread Steve Greenland
-- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: changing default ping (was Re: what to do with iputils (ping, etc)

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
the package. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-06 Thread Steve Greenland
'localhost', which has been common practice for oh, what, 20+ years? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-06 Thread Steve Greenland
go about arbitrarily changing them. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Accepted aptitude 0.3.4-1 (source all i386)

2005-10-02 Thread Steve Greenland
by doing it. :-/ This is not really a larger problem, but just a problem in sudo. Not really: sudo -H aptitude Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-09-23 Thread Steve Greenland
, in the global scheme of things. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Accepted jargon 4.0.0-5 (source all)

2005-09-03 Thread Steve Greenland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 16:13:44 -0500 Source: jargon Binary: jargon Architecture: source all Version: 4.0.0-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#323076: ITP: dealer -- bridge hand generator

2005-08-16 Thread Steve Greenland
On 14-Aug-05, 11:09 (CDT), Christoph Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * License : Public domain with some files GPLv2+ Doesn't that effectively reduce to GPLv2+? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus

Re: please fix your RC bugs

2005-08-12 Thread Steve Greenland
swaths of infrastructure to satisfy the whims of 0.01% of my users. I sometimes think that Debian could do little more of that... Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over

Re: please fix your RC bugs

2005-08-11 Thread Steve Greenland
and 2.5) machine has /usr/xpg4/bin/sh installed. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-07 Thread Steve Greenland
On 06-Aug-05, 17:42 (CDT), Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, what exactly is the problem kernel-image-x.y.z providing a kernel image for *bsd or hurd or whatever on the matching platform? Bug reports. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims

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

2005-08-06 Thread Steve Greenland
tampering one has done in /etc/rc?.d/ mv S20foo s20foo Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: What is going on with udev?

2005-08-04 Thread Steve Greenland
On 04-Aug-05, 05:09 (CDT), Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland wrote: I know what the rationale is: to avoid offending the *BSD and Hurd users, because, ya know, they have kernels too. And if we were starting from scratch, I'd be all for it. But at this point, it's just

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