Bug#886927: ITP: tlog -- Terminal I/O recording and playback package.

2018-01-11 Thread Will Rouesnel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Will Rouesnel * Package name: tlog Version : 3 Upstream Author : Nikolai Kondrashov * URL : http://scribery.github.io/tlog/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Terminal I/O recording and playback

Keysigning at Linaro Connect US (Burlingame, 15 - 19th September 2014)

2014-09-01 Thread Will Newton
Hi all, Due to the recent changes in keyring policy I need to get some signatures on my 4096bit key. I'm going to be attending Linaro Connect next month where I hope there should be a few DDs who I can either track down individually in the hallways or if anyone else is in the same situation as me

Content marketing infographic

2014-05-07 Thread Will M.
? Would you be interested in publishing it on your site? I’ll share your post across our social media accounts and promote it free of charge; it will be substantial. Best, Will -- Will Moyer Blogpros.com Content creation and blog management

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useful

2012-05-25 Thread Will Daniels
Ts'o wrote: So what? If you write to a normal file system, it goes into the page cache, which is pretty much the same as writing into tmpfs. In both cases if you have swap configured, the data will get pushed to disk; That's not at all the same, the page cache is more temporary, it's

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-04-04 Thread Will Set
Goswin von Brederlow Sun, April 3, 2011 5:17:06 PM > Philipp Kern writes: > >> On 2011-04-03, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> OTOH, do you really want to type >>> "apt-get install package-with-policy-compliant-utterly-long-silly-name"? >>> There's a point when package name lengths become problemati

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-26 Thread Will
6, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:32:49 -0400, Will wrote: >>Additionally, an HTTP interface to reportbug would be a good idea. >>Many new users find it difficult or unnecessary to set up an MTA when >>they first install, so allowing to

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-25 Thread Will
5, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 19:32, Will wrote: >> Additionally, an HTTP interface to reportbug would be a good idea. > > are you (and all the others asking for this) willing to help developing one? > >> Many

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-25 Thread Will
ce code. But a lot of the time, they just don't wanna be bothered to set up exim. -- -Will Orr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aa

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-21 Thread Will
ry and meet every single use case out there. Granted my opinion really doesn't count in the long run, but I choose Debian stable for servers because of its stability. Testing and unstable just don't cut it for servers in my book. -- -Will Orr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-21 Thread Will
ince them, then you need a web prensentation or a >> presentation at all, who makes the idea of debian clear: save costs through >> the work of a community , development will be guaranteed in the future, use >> of real standards, more power for less money, no license problems an

Re: packages being essential but having stuff in /usr/?!

2010-07-16 Thread Will
].d/, to improve single user mode and increase concurrency >> during boot. > mhh,.. ok... I see :) > > > Cheers, > Chris. > -- -Will Orr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinh3ykdncjbezq-5tbzlskiw9i1encmynx0f...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Upstream Tracker

2010-07-15 Thread Will
a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c3d9b07.1000...@ispras.ru > > This service looks excellent! Definitely spread the word about it, and thanks for providing such a service. PS I posted it on the linux Redd

Re: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-15 Thread Will
such that it doesn't require that library. However, that's a decision for the aptitude team to make, since I have no idea how heavily it relies on that package, or what portions of the program depend on that library. I'd be glad to donate some of my time if the aptitude team wanted it th

Bug#572016: ITP: liboauth-ruby -- A ruby library for implementing both OAuth clients and servers in

2010-02-28 Thread Will Daniels
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Will Daniels * Package name: liboauth-ruby Version : 0.3.6 Upstream Author : Pelle Braendgaard * URL : http://oauth.rubyforge.org * License : MIT Programming Lang: Ruby Description : The OAuth Ruby Library This

dbopen(3) manpage, but no library implements it?

2008-03-03 Thread Will Lowe
ode to the DB- >open() stuff in libdb4*-dev? Will -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Politeness was: woody removed from mirrors

2007-01-08 Thread Will Lowe
Oh, and ... archive.debian.org doesn't seem to be rsync-enabled. Is there anyplace that has woody and *does* support rsync? On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:48:13PM -0800, Will Lowe wrote: > It looks like Woody has moved to the archives: > > http://archive.debian.org/dists/woody/ >

Re: Politeness was: woody removed from mirrors

2007-01-08 Thread Will Lowe
least 1997, so nobody better start lecturing me about release cycles. (even if I'm a slacker who's mostly disappeared). :) -- Will -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TrueType fonts packages maintenance team proposal

2006-02-20 Thread Will Newton
On Monday 20 February 2006 06:40, Christian Perrier wrote: > The project could also include the maintenance of font-related tools, > such as fontforge or defoma (which seems mostly abandoned, but > probably requires solid knowledge or Perl and cryptic > programming...:-)). As several people have

Bug#351821: RFA: freetype -- FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files

2006-02-07 Thread Will Newton
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the freetype package. Due to a new job I haven't had any time to work on FreeType in the last few months. As such I would like someone to adopt it. A team would probably be best, there's lots of difficult issues with this package and it requ

Re: State of gcc 2.95 use in Debian unstable

2005-11-16 Thread Will Newton
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 12:05, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > Device driver development for embedded systems? There are embedded > > systems, including x86-based, that run kernels which fail to compile with > > gcc >= 3.x. > > In that case you likely need as well an older binutils version, which >

Re: shared library -dev package naming proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Will Newton
On Thursday 14 July 2005 17:14, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > The current recommendation I'm trying to give is: > > Package: libXXX-dev > Conflicts: libXXX-dev > Provides: libXXX-dev > > > Thus, it won't contradict with your requirement to > be able to just build-depend on libXXX-dev. I may be wron

Re: G++ transition page revived

2005-07-12 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 21:27, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > Hi. > > As many of you might remember, back in 2003 Matthew Wilcox created > an overview page for the last g++ transition from 2.95 to 3.2/3.3. > You can still find it at > http://people.debian.org/~willy/gcc-transition/ (but the log file >

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-17 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 17 June 2005 17:08, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > The Mozilla Foundation explicitely gave us that right (or at least they > are ready to give us this right because they trust us). Of course the > right is revocable ... but that doesn't matter. When they decide to stop > granting us this right

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 17 June 2005 12:10, Sam Watkins wrote: > some of these packages are useful and interesting, and I feel they > should not be removed from unstable at least. perhaps they could be > moved to a different section which is not necessarily stabilized for > release. http://archive.debian.org/

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 17 June 2005 13:40, Andreas Tille wrote: > > It's only compilable in its current state with g++-2.95 (regarding > > compilers in Debian stable). There is a single error when compiling with > > g++-3.4 which I am unable to fix (as I don't know the STL at all). > > Thanks for investigating

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread Will Newton
icepref -- Yet another configuration tool for IceWM [#227077] > > * Orphaned 520 days ago > > * Package orphaned > 360 days ago. > > I use both of these and would like to adopt them. I will upload next > week (via Anibal). These two also use pygtk 1.2 which is rather o

Re: Planning a libglade to libglade2 transition

2005-06-15 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 23:09, Roger Leigh wrote: > > I would be very thankful for links to aprorpiate search-and-replace > > expressions or compatibility functions. Once I was searching for > > this kind of stuff I failed. > > I don't have any links I'm afraid. I only learnt GTK+ 2.0, and never

Re: C++ ABI change -- freezing unstable for new C++ library packages

2005-06-10 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 10 June 2005 15:27, Colin Watson wrote: > > I'm in the process of adopting a package (freetype2) that builds a udeb. > > Would updating this package now require manual intervention from the > > release team? > > Yes, for the moment getting that into testing requires release-team > approv

Re: C++ ABI change -- freezing unstable for new C++ library packages

2005-06-10 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 10 June 2005 05:59, Steve Langasek wrote: > We're leaning towards possibly keeping udeb-generating packages frozen > during etch still because they require manual intervention for syncing > udebs into testing; this means separating the source packages that create > udebs (which as a clas

freetype package

2005-06-09 Thread Will Newton
This package hasn't had a maintainer upload in 12 months. It is currently at version 2.1.7 whilst upstream is in the process of releasing 2.1.10. These new releases include some quite critical bugfixes and visual improvements. Is this package being actively maintained? I volunteer to help out w

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

2005-06-07 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 20:16, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > 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? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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

2005-06-02 Thread Will Newton
On Thursday 02 June 2005 06:40, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > If Debian treated our upstreams this way, I'd be suprised if we ever got > > any patches accepted upstream. > > Debian does, in fact, treat most of its upstreams precisely this way. > Debian publishes a large portion of its changes primaril

Re: proficiency-level tag for debian packages

2005-05-31 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 20:07, Rich Walker wrote: > Even within these categories there is some need for finer grain. > > For example, groupware clients are mostly "easy, end-user, corporate" > groupware servers are mostly "impossible, sysadmin, corporate, server" If you are installing a groupware

Re: proficiency-level tag for debian packages

2005-05-31 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 19:55, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > This would be rather arbitrary and probably be liable to cause > > disagreements. > > Not much more so than with the priorities for the alternatives system. > > I find this quite an interesting idea, really. Alternatives are down a fairly na

Re: proficiency-level tag for debian packages

2005-05-31 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 19:06, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: > El Martes 31 Mayo 2005 19:41, Mark Edgington escribió: > > Pardon me if this has already been discussed, but I wonder if there > > should be a tag in debian packages indicating the a minimum proficiency > > level that a user should hav

Re: Some packages up for adoption

2005-05-19 Thread Will Newton
by François-Denis Gonthier. > > > 5. wings3d -- Awesome 3-D modelling software (written > > > in Erlang) > > > 6. libsdl-erlang -- SDL binding for Erlang. I will take these if no-one else is interested.

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-11 Thread Will Newton
three times, to follow the symlinks. > > This is a real inefficiency. That is a possibility, it does sound sub-optimal. However, if you optimise before measuring there is no guarantee things will get any faster. Is reading the directory taking an appreciable amount of time compared to say, doing

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-11 Thread Will Newton
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 17:21, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > BUt according to Christoph Hellwig, the ext3 which is the default is > used without directory indexing, which returns you to O(n). You have yet to present any numbers which show there is a problem here. Can we please discuss real world

Re: Another load of typos

2005-03-17 Thread Will Newton
On Thursday 17 March 2005 03:16, Florian Zumbiehl wrote: > ... and probably not for (that is, not unless you tell me otherwise): > > HPGL > > HTML > > HTTPS Traditionally I think these would use "an". Even if you pronounce "h" as "haich" rather than "aich" as another poster pointed out, many wor

Re: SCC proposal (was: Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-15 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:59, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > My main gripe with the proposal, as it currently stands, is that it > provides a solution for problems that haven't been discussed in detail, > without much space for improvements. I agree. I think there is a spectrum of measures that could

Re: UK Meetings

2005-03-07 Thread Will Newton
On Monday 07 March 2005 23:38, Ben Hill wrote: > Are there any UK meetings / keysignings for Debian Developers (and > others :-) )? Try the debian-uk list: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/debian-uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Cross-compiling and dist-cc

2005-02-22 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 14:01, John Hasler wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > And a hell of a lot of work. You can't just create checksums of the > > resulting binaries and compare those; it's not as if any difference > > between the two compiled binaries would constitute an error... > > The i

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-25 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 25 Jan 2005 14:59, Ron Johnson wrote: > You have the option to *not* install them on your machine. John > Ashcroft is not holding a gun to your head making you install it. > > I want to have more options than just to do or do not install > dosage. What's wrong with that? 1. File a wi

Re: removed start links are back after upgrade

2005-01-12 Thread Will Lowe
.d is a handy one-liner. -- thanks, Will -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removed start links are back after upgrade

2005-01-12 Thread Will Lowe
admins can do what they think they're doing when they use "remove". -- thanks, Will -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MPEG in general Was: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2005-01-08 Thread Will Newton
re all going wrong. [1] You will have to know how MPEG-2 decoding is performed to argue this point.

Re: MPEG in general Was: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2005-01-08 Thread Will Newton
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 12:56, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > > > It's all encumbered with patents. Encoders *and* decoders. > > > > Encoders only, not decoders. Decoders for anything probably cannot be > > patented. > > Really? AFAIR every producent of mobile mp3 player had to pay patent > gr

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-06 Thread Will Lowe
thanks, Will

Re: GtkMozEmbed with Firefox not Mozilla

2005-01-06 Thread Will Lowe
s partially responsible for insanely long release cycles. -- thanks, Will

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Will Newton
n't going to want to support more firmware versions than they > have to. 4. Even if they are free to open the firmware, they will likely not be able to supply the tools with which to build it. You're back in contrib. It is also worth noting that some devices that have large compl

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-10 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 10 Dec 2004 16:07, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Have you taken a look at what hot-babe actually looks like? I suspect > you haven't. I don't think it will "offend" anyone. I have looked at it. And I don't think it is an acceptable thing to ship as part

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-10 Thread Will Newton
that this is going to be something more and more people will have to deal with in the years to come. Do you see why it seems like Debian is more of a political talking shop that a team trying to develop an operating system? I don't want to start a flame war and I will probably not

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-10 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 10 Dec 2004 15:13, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It is. if we want people in Arabia to be able to possess Debian > > disks. > > The solution to censorious regimes is not to say, "well, ok, we'll > censor ourselves so you don't even have to bother

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-07 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 07 Dec 2004 20:26, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > I don't think this holds. Censoring is editing for ideological > > reasons, which is a subset of editing. It has nothing to do with who > > does it. A censor is a third party, and editor is a third party, at > > least in literary terms. > >

Re: Debian package selection depending on user location/belief/society(was bug #283578 hot-babe (AGAIN :-)))

2004-12-07 Thread Will Newton
ran or Saudi Arabia have? I can not and will not learn all the laws > of every country on Earth, and the project can not survive if we have > to meet all of them. This whole thread is a waste of space looking for > a problem. If there is a demonstrable law being broken by a cartoon, > then

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-06 Thread Will Newton
On Monday 06 Dec 2004 10:01, Andrew Suffield wrote: > The difference being that editing is a choice made by the person doing > the work, while censorship is a choice made by an otherwise unrelated > person in the same organisation. > > Editing would be if the maintainer decided to remove the > pac

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-06 Thread Will Newton
On Monday 06 Dec 2004 06:54, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Stupidly enough, you have committed the idiotic mistake of > assuming that everyone holds to your premises, that firstly, > tolerating intolerance is somehow a good thing -- why should it be is > beyond me. Oh, this is about intolerance i

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-03 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 03 Dec 2004 00:11, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Umm, the linux kernel, the purity tests, and the offensive > fortunes are not G rated, so can't be given to minors without > parental consent. I guess that makes it illegal in the united > states. You can't distribute text with the word "

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-03 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 03 Dec 2004 09:49, Joerg Wendland wrote: > Will Newton, on 2004-12-02, 19:57, you wrote: > > On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 07:35, Neil McGovern wrote: > > > Ok, Yes, if push comes to shove, I'll be happy to stand trial for the > > > inclusion of hot-babe in ma

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-03 Thread Will Newton
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 20:48, Adam Majer wrote: > China would *appear* to be one, > > http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/01/28/china.bibles/ > http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=28012002-054849-9679r If you follow the links you'll find they refer to a man charged with involvement

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread Will Newton
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 07:50, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > No. We are talking about "distributing" hot-babe. Debian never has > > and probably never will distribute "teh Intarnet". We cannot stop > > people doing anything with Debian that is within license

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread Will Newton
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 07:48, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Who gets to decide for each case? Usually it is the person who > does the work who makes the decision -- the packager, in this > case. The only way to override that is call in the tech ctte -- but > this is not a technical issue. Yup, a

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Will Newton
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 00:00, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > It seems to me this is the sensible solution. When we could not > > export crypto from the US for legal reasons we created non-US. Now I > > think it is as significant an issue to distribute items such as > > hot-babe. > > Cool, we legiti

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Will Newton
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 04:43, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No, that doesn't work. There's some base level of stuff that's so > > unlawful we don't include it because it would cut off far too much of > > the userbase (or cause them to commit illegal act

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Will Newton
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 09:27, David Weinehall wrote: > > So far so sarcastic. IMO if it can be demonstrated that distributing > > something is illegal we should think about not distributing it. > > And, as demonstrated elsewhere in the thread, whoops goes > bible-kjv-text. I know of no country w

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Will Newton
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 07:35, Neil McGovern wrote: > Ok, Yes, if push comes to shove, I'll be happy to stand trial for the > inclusion of hot-babe in main. I can't see how that choice is yours to make.

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-01 Thread Will Newton
n. No. We are talking about "distributing" hot-babe. Debian never has and probably never will distribute "teh Intarnet". We cannot stop people doing anything with Debian that is within license terms once it is installed, but we can be held responsible for what we distribute. &

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-01 Thread Will Newton
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 22:44, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > These nebulous authorities also frown upon various other > things, depending on your jurisdiction -- games of chance, the > bible, games promoting violence, texts promoting freedom .. > > Descending to the lowest common denominator shal

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread Will Newton
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 21:30, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > There are a number of locations where gambling is illegal, as > are all games of chance. That's "gambling" as in "wagering a stake on a game of cards" not gambling as in "playing cards".

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread Will Newton
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 21:35, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Right. We should not have games like quake, doom, or > nethack,. since they promoite murder and mayhem and eating of > corpses. So far so sarcastic. IMO if it can be demonstrated that distributing something is illegal we should think a

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread Will Newton
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 11:15, Ron Johnson wrote: > Well, guess what? I live in the American South, and I'd like to > give away disks to young geeks and wannabees without having to > worry about whether his/her parents or teacher would wig out. Subjective. Legal issues are one thing, subjectiv

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread Will Newton
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 17:12, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > We need to discuss this point and find a technical way of solving the > > first. > > erotic.debian.org It seems to me this is the sensible solution. When we could not export crypto from the US for legal reasons we created non-US. Now I

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-07 Thread Will Lowe
ebase, it's hard to make any valuable claims about the resulting product if the "backport" changes more than a few lines of code. -- thanks, Will

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-07 Thread Will Lowe
the stable version -- but I'd argue that the resulting binary is not much like the original "stable" one. -- thanks, Will

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-16 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 17:21, Joel Baker wrote: > Point #4: For at least the one proposed name ('Nienna'), it is, in fact, > representable (properly) in US/ASCII. Even the rest are all representable > in a clearly identifiable degenerate form (that is, no worse than many > Europeans already have t

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-16 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 01:44, Joel Baker wrote: > Appropriate? As much as any of the Valar would be; he's certainly on the > list. But since we know of at least 4 active ports, one name isn't going to > be enough... I would hope whatever name chosen is pronounceable, spellable, reasonably short

Re: Why you are wrong [Was: On linux kernel packaging issue]

2003-11-11 Thread Will Newton
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 19:54, Andrew Suffield wrote: > We refuse to accept it blindly because it's wrong. There have been > cases when architecture-specific optimisations have made programs run > slower (recently the instruction ordering for that via i686 chip > comes to mind); GCC gets it wrong fr

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-04 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 05:47, Greg Stark wrote: > to list the available revisions then explicitly > > apt-get install libc6:2.3.2-8 > > Actually this wouldn't really have helped my friend at all because he was > unlucky enough that the *first* version of libc6 from unstable that he saw > happened

Re: postrm::downgrade?

2003-07-02 Thread Will Newton
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 08:18, Niall Young wrote: > How about a postrm::downgrade hook to reverse any changes made in the > new version's preinst::upgrade so that when the old version's > preinst::upgrade is applied you're not left with a potential mix of > configuration? It would be cool if:

Debian job board?

2003-07-01 Thread Will Newton
Is there any place where someone could advertise jobs that would be suitable for Debian developers?

Re: why do we care about configuration files?

2003-04-22 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 18 April 2003 16:15, Colin Walters wrote: > Perhaps I've been overly strong with the rhetoric. Let me give two > realistic scenarios where this "manage foo with debconf?" fails. Also the scenario: 3) Guy who has to install lots of boxes that aren't desktops I have to arrange for the i

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-16 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 16 Apr 2002 4:04 am, Lasse Karkkainen wrote: > Well, it seems that you almost need 4.2.0 for Woody anyway, if it is > going to work with any recent hardware (unless you are aiming for > servers only). Or are you going to hack 4.2.0 display drivers into 4.1.0? As it happens 4.2.0 seems

Re: please upgrade libxslt package to 1.0.15

2002-04-10 Thread Will Newton
ive. Now it should be possible to package newer versions, but beware that libxml2 currently has an RC bug so libxslt will be blocked until that is fixed. I'm not sure if Nicholas reads this list, I had no success contacting him previously. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Request for NMU: sidplay-base

2002-04-08 Thread Will Newton
On Saturday 06 Apr 2002 7:35 pm, Will Newton wrote: > Quite simple fixes: > > - Fixes build on hppa and quite possibly others. > - Bump version number to replace older packages correctly. (RC bug) > - Fix a minor bug in the description. > > Packages and di

Re: ilisp debian package

2002-04-07 Thread Will Newton
On Sunday 07 Apr 2002 3:20 pm, David Starner wrote: > Why? Considering how close to the release we are, and how easy it is, > why not do it now? It certainly won't interfer with the maintainer > closing them. OK, done. I just don't want to step on anyone's toes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: ilisp debian package

2002-04-07 Thread Will Newton
On Sunday 07 Apr 2002 2:44 pm, Josip Rodin wrote: > Since you're not a maintainer, you shouldn't close them. However, you can > tag them "fixed", by sending 'tag fixed' commands to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, if Craig hasn't done it by the end of today I

Re: ilisp debian package

2002-04-07 Thread Will Newton
On Saturday 06 Apr 2002 4:16 pm, Will Newton wrote: I have still not had any response to this. Can anyone tell me the correct procedure for getting these bugs closed? The changelog looks like this: ilisp (5.11.1-7) unstable; urgency=low * well 125744 was fixed, but I put the files in the

Request for NMU: sidplay-base

2002-04-06 Thread Will Newton
Quite simple fixes: - Fixes build on hppa and quite possibly others. - Bump version number to replace older packages correctly. (RC bug) - Fix a minor bug in the description. Packages and diff are here: http://www.misconception.org.uk/will/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

ilisp debian package

2002-04-06 Thread Will Newton
(I have CCd to debian-devel in case you are on holiday or otherwise indisposed to close these) ilisp is being removed from woody because of a bug that is fixed but not closed. According to your changelog the following bugs are fixed, but are not closed: 125744 140049 138669 137011 98132 12885

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Will Newton
On Saturday 06 Apr 2002 3:42 pm, Will Newton wrote: > > ilisp > ilisp is in fact fixed, it's just the bug has not been closed yet due to a typo in the changelog. I'll email the maintainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Will Newton
On Saturday 06 Apr 2002 1:24 pm, Anthony Towns wrote: > velocity werken.xpathantlr These are all pretty much bug free (antlr has a couple of wishlist bugs) but a jikes bug is keeping them out of testing. Does anyone who knows jikes have any idea if this can be fixed soon, or is it a bi

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-13 Thread Will Lowe
thanks, Will

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-11 Thread Will Lowe
an.org/~lowe/aptwatcher) and each box will mail you when you need to do something to it. -- thanks, Will

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-04-30 Thread Will Lowe
lhost only, or not listen on Sure, don't run the daemon at all. When you install exim, "rm /etc/init.d/rc?.d/S*exim" and it won't start. Local processes will be able to send mail via the /usr/sbin/sendmail link, and there's a cronjob in /etc/cron.d/exim that'll try to cl

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-04-30 Thread Will Lowe
probably safe to say that running Debian without an MTA is "unsupported". Will

Re: updating of /etc/rc?.d

2001-04-26 Thread Will Lowe
> That's a good hack, but I still think update-rc.d should support it > directly. I was surprised to see portmap restarted after an ugrade when > I'd previously done "update-rc.d -f remove portmap". That was my feeling, that most users would probably wonder why it was started again.

Re: updating of /etc/rc?.d

2001-04-24 Thread Will Lowe
> if you leave at least one symlink in at least one runlevel, even if > its a K link in runlevel 0 or 6 update-rc.d will refuse to add any new > links. policy requires the use of update-rc.d so packages can't add > any links so long as you leave at least one. if you find a pa

Re: Location of chroot environments (was: chroot bind?)

2001-04-23 Thread Will Lowe
> This will probably clash with a non-chrooted bind on the same machine. > I don't like it. Hmm, why would you have both?

Re: Location of chroot environments (was: chroot bind?)

2001-04-23 Thread Will Lowe
> >I just put it in /var/secure-bind. > > I tend to put play chroots under my home directory, and chroots for > production daemons under /var/chroot. > > A pity that the FHS doesn't comment on that. How about /var/lib/bind/chroot?

Re: (Bug horizon) Problem bugs

2000-03-30 Thread Will Lowe
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