Re: description writing guide

2002-12-04 Thread Steve Greenland
) will not bother to attempt to figure out which periods end a sentence, and thus need extra spacing. OTOH a lot of people (IMO) would argue that the fixed-width two-space end of sentence is sufficiently ugly that we're better off without it. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill

Re: update alternatives priorities

2002-12-04 Thread Steve Greenland
each will use. 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: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-27 Thread Steve Greenland
?) Steve (another one) -- 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

Accepted cron 3.0pl1-73 (i386 source)

2002-11-09 Thread Steve Greenland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 18:14:45 -0600 Source: cron Binary: cron Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.0pl1-73 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dpkg should prompt re missing conffiles [was Re: When bind9 reinstalls, no db.root]

2002-08-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Aug-02, 09:48 (CDT), Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 21:40, Steve Greenland wrote: While I'll grant you that dangerous is probably not the correct adjective, the current behaviour is correct. Debian policy is that packages don't override admin

Re: When bind9 reinstalls, no db.root

2002-08-22 Thread Steve Greenland
dont they apply to missing conffiles, too? Because you only get that question if the distributed version of the conffile is changed also. 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: When bind9 reinstalls, no db.root

2002-08-21 Thread Steve Greenland
(1)). -- 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: When bind9 reinstalls, no db.root

2002-08-21 Thread Steve Greenland
, but the point is there: A missing cron.allow permits everybody to use crontab, while an empty cron.allow forbids use of crontab by anybody (except root, of course). Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Re: Bug#156407: ITP: free-java-sdk -- Complete Java SDK environment consising of free Java tools

2002-08-12 Thread Steve Greenland
it. Isn't that easy? I don't use xdm, and prefer rxvt to xterm, but I don't try to tell Branden what packages to put in the x-window-system 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

Re: Bug#156407: ITP: free-java-sdk -- Complete Java SDK environment consising of free Java tools

2002-08-12 Thread Steve Greenland
in jdk-free virtual is a violation of the Social Contract, as it puts an undue burden on the users. That seems to settle most discussions. 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: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Steve Greenland
On 11-Jan-02, 08:45 (CST), Stefan Hornburg (Racke) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, but it is really a bug that should be filed. The daemon will be killed by SAK otherwise (look at #92277 for further enlightenment). You can't, in general, close *all* open file descriptors. OPEN_MAX may not exist

Re: no space left on device: LVM, Gnus -- dpkg, apt-get ?

2002-01-08 Thread Steve Greenland
On 06-Jan-02, 01:51 (CST), Egon Willighagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I am facing the following problem (after making more space): - how can i determine which packages were updated yesterday? - how can i (semi)-automatically reinstall these packages? I see that it turned out that the

Re: VIM features

2002-01-06 Thread Steve Greenland
On 01-Jan-02, 18:06 (CST), Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, vim is higher precedence than nvi. Ack. That's no longer true. Sorry. Steve

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2002-01-06 Thread Steve Greenland
On 06-Jan-02, 04:55 (CST), Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to do this in a portable way so that it works on every system... No, the people who want modern code to run on their systems need to figure out how to support the standard. Why should every piece of code contain the

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2002-01-05 Thread Steve Greenland
that haven't been upgraded for over a decade. /rant Steve -- Steve Greenland

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2002-01-04 Thread Steve Greenland
On 31-Dec-01, 19:42 (CST), Ganesan R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing that puzzles me since this whole debate started. If you look at the declaration of ctype.h functions (isalpha family), they take a int as an argument. The reason the argument for these is int is a relic of the dark

Re: VIM features

2002-01-01 Thread Steve Greenland
On 01-Jan-02, 17:22 (CST), Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Caleb Shay wrote: However, as was pointed out below, vim is NOT the default vi when you install, Only true if you install nvi (or some other higher-precedence vi clone), which isn't required. (g)vim is the only vi-like

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2001-12-31 Thread Steve Greenland
On 31-Dec-01, 16:30 (CST), Peter Finderup Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31 Dec 2001, Colin Walters wrote: No, the C standard guarantees that a char is exactly a single byte; i.e. sizeof(char) == 1. I think he meant wider than one would think-character. A char didn't originally have

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-26 Thread Steve Greenland
On 25-Sep-01, 09:34 (CDT), Christian Kurz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01-09-25 Steve Greenland wrote: I am so tired of hearing things like this. Nobody is forcing anyone to do anything. We already force them to use 2.2 instead of still using 2.0. You want the functionality, you use

Re: lintian releases

2001-09-26 Thread Steve Greenland
OR bar OR baz) AND foo, which is the same as (bar OR baz) AND foo, right? If so, it should be flagged as an error. (Yes, the dependendcy resolver should reduce it correctly, but it should reduce foo, foo ( 2.0) to simply foo ( 2.0) as well.) Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PROPOSED: slight change to wnpp procedures

2001-09-26 Thread Steve Greenland
? So it's hardly any extra effort for the ftp maintainers, and it provides a public and consistent place to track the status of packages with problems. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mounts with fs type 'none'

2001-09-26 Thread Steve Greenland
bind location. Is this correct? Are there other types of mounts that lead to type=none in the output of 'mount'? Thanks, Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mounts with fs type 'none'

2001-09-26 Thread Steve Greenland
On 26-Sep-01, 18:31 (CDT), Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 06:15:34PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: I've a request to have checksecurity skip searching filesystems with type 'none' (not device 'none'). A brief check leads me to believe that these are result

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-25 Thread Steve Greenland
, not theirs. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-20 Thread Steve Greenland
, then they can and should go into a special archive. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread Steve Greenland
On 15-Sep-01, 09:14 (CDT), Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13-Sep-01, 18:37 (CDT), Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your scheme works, but at least tell the sys admin what is going on with a debconf note. If you don't want

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread Steve Greenland
On 15-Sep-01, 13:24 (CDT), Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 11:11:20AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: There is already a standard, reliable way of communicating package changes to the admin. Amazingly enough, it's called a changelog. I usually find them under

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On 13-Sep-01, 18:37 (CDT), Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debconf question: do you want a symlink. Please, no. The fact that debconf provides an easy, consistent way to interact with the user does not mean that every possible choice that a package makes needs to ask the user. If I

Re: Why isn't apt 0.5.4 moving to testing?

2001-09-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On 13-Sep-01, 17:50 (CDT), Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously Christian Leutloff wrote: Is it really necessary that the package must be able to be upgraded on every architecture!? That's the whole purpose of testing, keep the brokenness to a minimum. So now we have

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On 14-Sep-01, 10:18 (CDT), Steve M. Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Err, why not just test for the existence of directory /usr/lib/procmail-lib ? Is there an advantage to checking the package version instead? Because by the time the postinst runs, /usr/lib/procmail-lib is gone. If it's not

Re: Bug#112020: ITP: keychain -- An OpenSSH key manager

2001-09-13 Thread Steve Greenland
On 12-Sep-01, 19:08 (CDT), Cesar Mendoza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find the package useful and I'm also aware of the shortcomings of ssh-agent, but was your solution to cron job's that do rsync over ssh? and I don't think that pass phrase less keys is an option. Why not? Create a

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-13 Thread Steve Greenland
On 13-Sep-01, 10:27 (CDT), Elie Rosenblum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:53:49AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 10:51:04PM -0400, Elie Rosenblum wrote: Would turning /usr/lib/procmail-lib into a symlink to the appropriate location be acceptable?

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-05 Thread Steve Greenland
On 05-Sep-01, 16:35 (CDT), Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 05 Sep 2001, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: But tell me *one* thing: Why is it so hard to change a few lines and have the default be set to *off* and let whoever feels like it enable it?

Re: reopening ECN bugreport/netbase

2001-09-05 Thread Steve Greenland
On 05-Sep-01, 18:14 (CDT), Neil T. Spring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. A configuration option, when you know concensus on this list is that there will be none; and that the default will be on. No, I don't think that's the concensus. I agree that the kernel package can't change another

Re: Finishing the FHS transition

2001-05-06 Thread Steve Greenland
an ammendent that clarifies reality, so that Adrian doesn't get mislead again :-). Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-05-04 Thread Steve Greenland
the S*exim links will produce the desired affect. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-02 Thread Steve Greenland
is, in fact, intended only for the local admin. Puzzled by the Neither :), Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread Steve Greenland
. Rather the opposite. Oh, I don't know if it's an ugly hack. Well, one reason it's ugly is that your -remove tasks will show up in the Task Selection dialog that runs before the initial install. I expect that many new users would be rather confused... Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-28 Thread Steve Greenland
of libraries or not. apt-get install foo shows all the new packages it's going to install before doing anything, giving you plenty of time to stop it. What's the big deal? Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I

Re: simple g++-3.0 problem

2001-04-28 Thread Steve Greenland
systems, so maybe that doesn't apply here.) Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Curious e-mails from yucom.be

2001-04-26 Thread Steve Greenland
is the same; it just went to yucom.be, who held it for a 4 days and then respewed it back to me at master. Any ideas what's going on? Or how I can make it stop? Thanks, Steve PS Notice that I refrained from making any snide comments about crappy Microsoft mail servers. -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL

Re: Gnome bug 94684

2001-04-26 Thread Steve Greenland
it upstream and marking it as such in the BTS. Our user's have every right to expect this. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-26 Thread Steve Greenland
kernel competency. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-24 Thread Steve Greenland
unmaintained for so long that one person is effectively the full-time maintainer via NMUs, then they need to adopt the package. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-23 Thread Steve Greenland
procedure (attempted to contact maintainer, filed diff in BTS, etc.), this might be a legitimate counter-argument. Given that the bugs being fixed weren't RC, to introduce a new bugs (and not even subtle ones) seems particulary ill-advised. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-05 Thread Steve Greenland
breaks *personal* replies. Sorry that wasn't clear. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: our broken man package

2001-01-05 Thread Steve Greenland
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Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Steve Greenland
, as it originated from elm. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: [Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-03 Thread Steve Greenland
the original submitter for more info, I get ignored (and eventually close the bug). Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Steve Greenland
extra effort to send a message to several hundred (thousand?) people is a good thing. The other thinks that any possible words they utter deserve viewing by those same hundreds (thousands?) of people. One can probably discern from my description which side I'm on. :-)) Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-09-01 Thread Steve Greenland
that should be listed everywhere that that build-depends is mentioned. /rant Why are people determined to make information so hard to find? Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-09-01 Thread Steve Greenland
is not represented buy build-essentials, then I think there's something wrong. Note that I'm *not* saying Build-Depends is a bad thing: the porters do a incredible job, and anything that makes their lives easier is worth doing. But we ought to also minimize the cost to the other developers. Steve -- Steve

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-01 Thread Steve Greenland
. That to me says Debian has permission to re-distribute our modified version, but that people who recieve it from us do not, unless they too ask permission (We do expect and appreciate...). Non-free. If she had written just We appreciate... I'd be comfortable putting it in free. Steve -- Steve

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-09-01 Thread Steve Greenland
On 01-Sep-00, 12:10 (CDT), Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Steve Greenland wrote: I think I miswrote earlier: I wrote build-essentials when I should have written Build-Depends. And I'd wager that the vast majority of the Debian developers have no need at all

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-09-01 Thread Steve Greenland
On 01-Sep-00, 15:04 (CDT), Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Steve Greenland wrote: Those people would be equally well served by a note or check at the beginning of the debian/rules file; we didn't need policy and a new control file headers

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-08-31 Thread Steve Greenland
argument. I think *if* a package needs a specific version of debhelper it would be fine to put it into the build-depends list. I also think it's reasonable to say the current version of debhelper is build-essential. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-08-30 Thread Steve Greenland
it, just that packages my assume that the tool is present. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-08-30 Thread Steve Greenland
to worry about compiler and libc versions as well, so you might as well build everything. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-08-30 Thread Steve Greenland
On 30-Aug-00, 12:51 (CDT), Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2830T112651-0500, Steve Greenland wrote: That's pretty much the definition (or at least the *use*) of Build-Essential: packages that may be assumed to be present, so that they need not be listed in Build

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-08-30 Thread Steve Greenland
On 30-Aug-00, 15:08 (CDT), Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously Steve Greenland wrote: It is not unreasonable to assume that the latest-and-greatest version of all the build-essential packages will be installed. I wonder what world you are living in. It is in reality

Re: Learning dpkg/apt

2000-08-20 Thread Steve Greenland
On 19-Aug-00, 18:56 (CDT), Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for things like querying (dpkg -s and such) install dlocate it solves that problem the Right Way. (unfortunatly it got removed from potato for less then critical bugs) man apt-cache. (Assuming you're using apt-get either

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Steve Greenland
On 18-Aug-00, 06:26 (CDT), Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Supporting this, there's some Apt changes in CVS that'll let people choose a few packages from one distribution and leave the rest from another. To whoever implemented this feature: ThankyouThankyouThankyou -- it's

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-17 Thread Steve Greenland
On 16-Aug-00, 23:43 (CDT), Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:48:11PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: What trouble is that? I don't consider having to type /sbin/traceroute or add /sbin to my path trouble. Obviously you haven't typed the actual path

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-17 Thread Steve Greenland
On 16-Aug-00, 02:11 (CDT), Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Belive it or not, I know how to safely manage temp files and protect sensitive information with unix permissions. I know you do, Joey, but my concern is that since the permission violation occurs in the backend, when the backend

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Steve Greenland
On 15-Aug-00, 17:12 (CDT), Eray Ozkural [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was confused by not having ifconfig in my user path. On this machine, there's only a dial-up net connection, and it has some small connectivity problems. I need to check whether the line's really up. I found myself going

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Steve Greenland
On 16-Aug-00, 12:31 (CDT), Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blindly following your fiat declarations about traceroute are getting us into trouble now. What trouble is that? I don't consider having to type /sbin/traceroute or add /sbin to my path trouble. The constitution clearly

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-15 Thread Steve Greenland
On 15-Aug-00, 02:54 (CDT), Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As another example though, look at heimdal-kdc, which needs to ask for the password, which must be kept as secure as possible. Which reminds me, what sort of security is enabled in debconf? Can any user read the values from the

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-15 Thread Steve Greenland
On 15-Aug-00, 14:35 (CDT), paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it considered difficult for individual users adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to their path if they wish to? Because stating that it is difficult is seen as an valid argument by those who wish sbin would go away. The fact that it is

Re: ITP: sather-elisp

2000-08-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On 11-Aug-00, 19:04 (CDT), Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debview - Emacs mode for viewing Debian packages (And I, for one, would not object to debview being folded into dpkg.) As a vi user, I would. Why? Oh, I see, because it depends on (x

NMU of debianutils (was: Re: (Bug horizon) Problem bugs)

2000-04-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On 30-Mar-00, 13:01 (CST), Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30-Mar-00, 05:43 (CST), Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: debianutils (debian/main). Maintainer: Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] 59121 run-parts hangs during /etc/cron.daily runs There's a reasonable

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Steve Greenland
installation + $100 to set up the DNS (no, not register a domain, *just* to configure the DNS). (And yes, they want the $100 installation even though I already have everything set up and all they would have to do is allocate the IP addresses.) Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC

Re: (Bug horizon) Problem bugs

2000-03-30 Thread Steve Greenland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 59121 run-parts hangs during /etc/cron.daily runs There's a reasonable looking explanation and patch associated with this bug. Guy, would you like me to do an NMU? Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Steve Greenland
that his opponents devolve into name calling and obscenity. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: first draft aptitude howto

2000-03-29 Thread Steve Greenland
this confusing. It seems to imply that I have to hit + twice to install a package and - twice to remove it. Very weird. What's wrong with '=' (keep the same)? -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

ITP: ddclient (dyndns.org IP address updater)

2000-03-28 Thread Steve Greenland
the control file: Source: ddclient Section: net Priority: extra Maintainer: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Standards-Version: 3.1.1 Package: ddclient Architecture: all Depends: perl5, debconf Description: Update dynamic IP address at DynDNS.org A perl based client to update your dynamic IP

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

2000-03-27 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Mar-00, 03:15 (CST), BugScan reporter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: nvi (debian/main) Maintainer: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] 61035 nvi munches database dump Fixed and in potato. -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-24 Thread Steve Greenland
*Plus reports v 8.1.5) with the latest patches (as of a month ago) on a potato box with no obvious problems, I don't have any compatibility libs installed. steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Mar-00, 03:22 (CST), Peter Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because that's what xterms do (by default) on every other single X implementation ever done? (Ok, that's probably an exageration...but not completely misleading, either

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Mar-00, 10:19 (CST), Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I wonder if the preference for light-on-dark vs dark-on-light depends on ambient light conditions?) I usually like to work in a relatively dark room. I think I'm nocturnal or something (looks at clock

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-23 Thread Steve Greenland
, and the expectation that a user who finds value in use of traceroute or ifconfig or whatever is also a user who is capable of modifying their path. sg -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-23 Thread Steve Greenland
) of blue to something lighter, then fine, do it. But I strongly believe that you won't get anywhere near that much agreement.) Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-22 Thread Steve Greenland
default configs.) If you're setting up a default color scheme for an app, the basic rule is to use light colored text on dark backgrounds, and dark colored text on light backgrounds. The only other thing you need to know is that neither red nor blue are light colors. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL

Re: apt-get cron job

2000-03-22 Thread Steve Greenland
than apt-move (YMMV), and has the advantage (to me, at least) that it's order-independent and completely transparent (it doesn't matter what order which machines access the cache, one always gets the freshest stuff, and doesn't double-download anything.) Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread Steve Greenland
a dir FWIW, I e-mailed Tom on Monday offering help, and he replied that he had the RC stuff under control. sg -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-20 Thread Steve Greenland
to the space key? You're right: the defaults should cater to the new user, but there's no reason to deliberatly aggravate the experienced user. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: Less interactive upgrades.

2000-03-18 Thread Steve Greenland
On 16-Mar-00, 21:33 (CST), Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I said though, I am not messing with any of this until potato is released. Oh, absolutely. However, Wichert wrote woody+2, which seemed excessive (at current rate of release, that's about 2003.) -- Steve

Re: Less interactive upgrades.

2000-03-17 Thread Steve Greenland
a point? Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-16 Thread Steve Greenland
you fucking misrepresent my position and twist what i said in such a reprehensible manner? Why not? You do it to everybody else. In the meantime, plonk! Cheers, sg -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-15 Thread Steve Greenland
or to be bug-free. it means that it has been tested reasonably thoroughly and that as far as we can tell, it works as an integrated system on a wide variety of machines. caveat emptor. That's a hell of lot stronger promise than could completely hose your system. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-14 Thread Steve Greenland
*before* the default directories. I don't have an opinion about where the X stuff should go, but the above argument is completely bogus FUD. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Steve Greenland
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Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Steve Greenland
is not making us reach our technical goals. Let's see, we're going to release potato (I *hope*) before kernel 2.4.0 is released, but we're outdated. Hmmm. Somehow, I just don't get it. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe

Re: console-apt

2000-03-10 Thread Steve Greenland
interface to adding/removing packages either :). But the config files are not necessarily added by install. However, the description of remove in the apt-get man page could be more explicit. -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe

vim/nvi priority Re: moving mutt to standard priority

1999-10-06 Thread Steve Greenland
that (and I don't forsee it happening, after various other x should be the standard y flamefests), I think things should stay as they are. (In the Standard vs. Optional debate, that is. I suspect the update-alternatives priority for vim should be looked at.) Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dhcpcd procedure

1999-10-02 Thread Steve Greenland
that *doesn't* need to perform the special action. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: Problem with the latest potato update

1999-09-30 Thread Steve Greenland
affecting one package to completely break it (if, in fact, it does -- I haven't tried it). It should just ignore the affected package(s). Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: a question about BTS severities

1999-09-28 Thread Steve Greenland
a package unusable by just one person in an odd sitution. On the other hand, I think all security and data loss bugs are grave, even if only a few people can trigger them. I agree with this conceptually, but again, it doesn't seem like that big a deal to me. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL

Re: Status of new packages in Incoming?

1999-09-27 Thread Steve Greenland
interface to the archive, which might be a good thing anyway; just against allowing widespread access to the archive. -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

Re: Hosed system during package build

1999-09-19 Thread Steve Greenland
On 17-Sep-99, 04:35 (CDT), J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 20:26:15 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: I saw much talk about fakeroot not working with the new glibc, much talk about it being difficult to fix, and no talk about it being fixed. Actually

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-19 Thread Steve Greenland
way be better? -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)

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