requirements regarding 'priorities'

2004-10-19 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Hi all, I am sponsoring a future maintainer whose package 'movixmaker-2' has its official priority set to "optional". This package depends on libconfig-inifiles-perl, of which the priority is "extra". OTOH, the policy states (section 2.5): "Packages must not depend on packages with lower priorit

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
>> My 0.02 ¤ (2 ¢) > If you're going to try to use the euro, you should be posting as > "iso-8859-15", not "iso-8859-1". Sorry. My mailer is not set correctly. (this is intentional, but for something not related to this discussion). Actually I set it back to -1 because some mail servers are direc

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> I know that Debian is a volunteer organization. After all I'm in the > middle of the NM process ;-) I only want to ask people (or at least > European people) if someone is doing something, or thinks that something > must be done. What I don't want to do is to start fixing those things by > hand,

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

2001-05-09 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> es_ES ISO-8859-1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 Since ISO-8859-15 is basicall ISO-8859-1+euro+some other characters. Why is the "@euro" needed ? Wolfgang

Re: Two debconf issues

2001-05-03 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> It might happen if there was a good reason, but nobody has suggested one yet. > I doubt there is one. I have one. It's that dependency on perl makes owners of 486 machines die of an heart-attack whenever an installation task has to occur... Wolfgang

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

2001-05-02 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> Here it is. thanks > FYI, `plala' is one of major ISP (also means contain many bad guys) > in Japan. > -- > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Received: from master.debian.org (master.debian.org [216.234.231.5]) > by orochi

debian-devel@lists.debian.org

2001-05-02 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> $B!z!z!z!z!z!z!z!!(BJust in Mail $B!z!z!z!z!z!z!z(B > $B>pJsDs6!4k6HL>(B : G-Spot.com Is someone taking care of trying to avoid this kind of spam. For example, by filling reports about open-relays to orbs.org ? W.

Bug#95890: ITP: gfax -- the GNU HaliFAX Sender

2001-04-30 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Package: wnpp Version: 0.4.2-1 Severity: wishlist Licence: GNU General Public License version 2 This program is the GNU HaliFAX project's sender. It is able to send ps data and tiff fax files through HylaFAX(tm) systems as well as any other G3/G4-encoded TIFF fax file. Besides this, the package i

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-04-30 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> As always, that would be true if they weren't installed by default. The > current method requires too much prior knowledge. This could be put as a question whenever someone installs Debian GNU/Linux. Something like "Do you want to enable the installed server software by default. Beware that this

Re: ITP ghfaxviewer

2001-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Hi, (I think the confirmation request for list subscription is buggy, I thought I actually was subscribed to this list since yesterday...) Why I sent the bug report to this list ? Because in the french version of the developer reference (/usr/share/doc/developers-reference), it is written: "Su

ITP: ghfaxviewer - the GNU HaliFAX Viewer

2001-04-27 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Package: ghfaxviewer Version: 0.21.1-1 Severity: wishlist Licence is GNU General Public License version 2 This program is the GNU HaliFAX project's viewer. It is able to display fax files output by the HylaFAX(tm) system as well as any other G3/G4-encoded TIFF fax file. The range of suppor