Re: Dropping testing (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

I demand that Adrian Bunk may or may not have written... On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:29:28AM +, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Adrian Bunk may or may not have written... [snip] And without testing, all these transition problems wouldn't exist. And without testing, there are those who

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

. Desktop ARM-based machines: URL:http://www.iyonix.com/ Will run Debian: URL:http://www.iyonix.com/linux.html [snip] I'm speaking only for myself; please, cure my naivety. The above links should help :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

don't think that there's any need to *guess*... ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.linux.html You will spend the rest

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

I demand that Anthony Towns may or may not have written... Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Anthony Towns may or may not have written... Put them behind a firewall on a trusted LAN, use them to develop software for arm chips, and then just follow unstable or run non-security-supported

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

I demand that Bill Gatliff may or may not have written... Not my preference to jump in the middle of something, but... It's not my preference to be Cc'd, particularly when I'd set the Mail-Followup-To header accordingly... :-\ [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | d youmustbejoking,demon

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

? Back-porting to sarge using tools in sarge? -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk Say NO to UK ID cards | http

Re: Bits from the DAMs ( Co)

I demand that Ritesh Raj Sarraf may or may not have written... April Fool! Presumably self-referential for top-posting and quoting the whole text... [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk

Re: How to find out why a package was removed from testing?

if somebody will sponsor it, preferably uploading it to some suitable DELAYED queue. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | We've got Shearer, you haven't A man who turns green has

Re: How to find out why a package was removed from testing?

I demand that Andreas Barth may or may not have written... [snip] perhaps replacing maintainers with bugs is a good idea). I'm not so sure. What do the bugs know about package maintenance? ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking

Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

early 2005, yet the date is 1/28/2005 == 1/4/2007 - hmm, it must be a future April Fool... ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk

Bug#305106: gxine: 0.4.3 available (fixes RC bug)

Package: gxine Version: 0.4.1-1 gxine 0.4.3 contains fixes for several bugs, most of which are not in the Debian BTS; most importantly, I believe that it fixes the RC bug (no. 289412). I'd quite like this to be in sarge. Siggi, are you too busy to upload it? -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

dont need to care, since one or two mirrors can easyly hold a stable archive and serve it. Two or three, with sufficient geographical separation? -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co

Re: packages missing from sarge

still safe to assume that the maintainer doesn't have enough time to prepare and upload the package.) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Say NO to software patents Be happy

Re: Linux / Debian / Ubuntu

/technology/1478157.stm. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/ (PGP 2.6, GPG keys) Many receive advice, few profit by it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Linux / Debian / Ubuntu

I demand that Stephen Birch may or may not have written... Darren Salt([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 21:49: For those who've missed the first three broadcasts today, there's one more at 01:05 GMT; also see URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/1478157.stm. Why on earth does the BBC

Re: Canonical and Debian

the election, added (Benjamin Mako Hill) And for the record, the extent of my cabalistic work so far has been limited to editorial, ahem, *grammatical* changes to a couple DPL reports. ;) You mean a couple _of_ DPL reports. ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge

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

driver territory. (No lockup problems, though - at least, not that I recall...) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let's keep the pound sterling He is no lawyer who cannot

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

+ netboot then. An install on a Risc PC can be done without any removable installation media, although it's possible that the newer or less common Ethernet cards aren't supported. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS

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

] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Say NO to software patents Academy: A modern school where football is taught. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: TODO for etch ?

etc. should recommend adjtimex? -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let's keep the pound sterling You will be travelling and coming into a fortune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: TODO for etch ?

I demand that Andrew Suffield may or may not have written... On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:22:08PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Florian Weimer may or may not have written... * Olaf van der Spek: You should set the clock using NTP *before* starting any daemons. Most daemons don't use

xine-lib transition: packages must depend on libxine1-x or libxine1-console, as needed

) kdemultimedia (U) (Also xine-plugin, but I've handled that.) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + RIPA NOTICE: NO CONSENT GIVEN FOR INTERCEPTION OF MESSAGE TRANSMISSION Don't comment bad

Re: xine-lib transition: packages must depend on libxine1-x or libxine1-console, as needed

I demand that Sandro Tosi may or may not have written... On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 17:44, Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk wrote: Debian Python Modules Team python-modules-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org   pyxine ... Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org   pyxine (U) We only build-dep

Re: Standardizing use of kernel hook scripts

that there usage of that option has decreased. I make use of it fairly regularly; its next use here will probably be to build kernel 2.6.29.1. I normally use the kernel-image target, but I sometimes have use for the kernel-headers target. (And I'm still not using grub.) [snip] -- | Darren Salt

Re: Standardizing use of kernel hook scripts

I demand that Frans Pop may or may not have written... Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Manoj Srivastava may or may not have written... On Wed, Apr 01 2009, Frans Pop wrote: But is anyone still using it? Is there any current reason to support it I think that there are Debian users who use

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

it should be kept. AOL. I for one use it, and intend to continue using it. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Output less CO2 = avoid massive flooding.TIME IS RUNNING OUT *FAST

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

... :-| -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Burn less waste. Use less packaging. Waste less. USE FEWER RESOURCES. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

fine as it is. If I see something which affects me, I'll at least have a look at it; no guarantees, though, since there's a lot of stuff here with which I'm not familiar. Alternatively, we can just leave it and let it become another XMMS. I don't like this solution very much. /AOL. -- | Darren

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

found to provide some worthwhile benefit, that draft would seem to need to be revisited. Oh, and RFC5322 obsoletes RFC2822. :-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Buy local produce. Try

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

themselves (by subscribing to the list), or they will need to rely on people manually doing what the mailing list could do for them (sending replies individually to them). It does still leave some people having to do that, but that's unavoidable. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

* the uncommon case by adding/replacing (abusing) Reply-To? Anyway, reply-to-list is a followup function (or, at least, it is such in all news/mail software which I've used with mailing lists). [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux

Re: Possible mass bug filing: non-doc packages recommending doc packages

I demand that Travis Crump may or may not have written... [snip] Popcon suggests only 8% of users are on dial-up [based on package ppp and 'votes'] Use of ppp does not imply use of dial-up. -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Toon | Debian GNU/Linux | or ds

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

after squeeze is released? Or did you mean will have been available? -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html I've used Basic so

Re: Bug#519941: Remove Policy permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/root${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:}$LD_LIBRARY_PATH} exec /usr/lib/root/$(basename $0) $@ [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | Army | + RIPA NOTICE: NO CONSENT GIVEN

Bug#538389: ITP: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk * Package name: rfkill Version : 0.1-4-g9429740 Upstream Authors: Johannes Berg, Marcel Holtmann, Tim Gardner * URL : http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

crap in diffs. I normally let the update-po target at them before committing. That sorts out any formatting oddness and catches any breakage (and I've seen one or two broken files sent by translators). [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS

Re: EM64T announcement and Linus (was Re: Compiling Debs on AMD vs. Intel and 32bit vs. 64bit)

invention Would you have any reference to this? http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/2/21/110 -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Let's keep the pound sterling Everything should be transparent

Re: video codecs in HTML 5

- we'd quite likely just continue to use whatever plugins we're currently using. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Use more efficient products. Use less. BE MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT

Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch

the system boots. If the function number part of the PCI address is different for each of the card's interfaces and is consistent across reboots, you can use that. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk

Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch

: for example, ipw3945 uses the 'eth' namespace, whereas iwlwifi uses 'wlan' and 'wmaster'. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Travel less. Share transport more. PRODUCE LESS

Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?

I demand that Miriam Ruiz may or may not have written... [snip] Compression time would be 10 times more (1000% the time it takes now). No; either that's 1100%, or you mean 10 times as much. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

I demand that Neil Williams may or may not have written... [snip] Upstream are using SourceForge or Berlios, not Alioth. Upstream don't use dh_strip or debhelper And, of course, upstream is not a Debian package maintainer. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr

Re: Bug#427297: ITP: sturmbahnfahrer -- simulated obstacle course for automobiles

English. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Output *more* particulate pollutants. BUFFER AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING. If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by statistics

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

you only have to say kibibyte when you need to be precise. If I need to disambiguate, I'll say either real kilobyte or something like marketroids' kilobyte. And as for the next step up, well, gigabytes is a given, and it's tempting to say giblets... -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

bytes, no more and no less. :-þ -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html We'll get along fine as soon as you realise that I'm God!

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

level in my customised Xfce menu; for me, your proposal would increase the depth by one level for all but Apps. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Generate power using sun, wind

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

I demand that Magnus Holmgren may or may not have written... On Friday 13 July 2007 23:30, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Bastian Venthur may or may not have written... [snip] It would be a major improvement if we would move the Apps section to the root of the tree and sort the remaining

Re: New Debian Menu Apps/Tools

] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Let's keep the pound sterling Life shouldn't be an endless repetition of stale successes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Simplify installation of non-free? (was: Debian on the Desktop - plans for Lenny?)

with the non-free firmware. The firmwares are not part of the drivers, please do not taint the reputation of perfectly free drivers. You want iwl3945. Newer firmware is needed, but you can throw away that user-space daemon. :-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington

Re: Simplify installation of non-free?

I demand that Manoj Srivastava may or may not have written... On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:56:24 +0100, Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You want iwl3945. Newer firmware is needed, but you can throw away that user-space daemon. :-) __ apt-cache search iwl3945 __ The firmware, at least

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

(maybe the most popular) screenshot directly from the result page? Good idea. 110x80 would be a nice size for the thumbnails. I think it would be better to try to keep a 4:3 ratio. I disagree; the aspect ratio of the screenshot would be correct. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds

Re: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

readable. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Buy less and make it last longer. INDUSTRY CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING. The pen is mightier than the pencil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

/. (Muhahaha.) [snip] Thanks, AOL. (Now where did I put that popcorn...) [1] I might be exaggerating. Slightly. Just a smidgeon. Hardly worth mentioning at all, really. [2] Actually, I'm not sure that I *want* a better word there. [3] He wishes. (Allegedly.) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

an Electric Monk. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Travel less. Share transport more. PRODUCE LESS CARBON DIOXIDE. I am Eliza of Borg. How does assimilation make you feel

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

an argument? Can't have that. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | again representing | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | myself, not Debian | Army | + Burn less waste. Use less packaging. Waste less. USE FEWER RESOURCES. Look under the sofa cushion; you

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

. There's a good argument there for having them belong to two sections, but that's why debtags exists. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

that that's mentioned in other follow-ups). You also want totem* and kaffeine*. *-dbg packages could go in their own section(s) (debug, or libdebug appdebug?); otherwise, I think that they should remain with (the bulk of) the packages for which they provide debug data. [snip] -- | Darren Salt

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

? -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Lobby friends, family, business, government.WE'RE KILLING THE PLANET. Windows 98. Eats RAM and HD space for breakfast. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

strawman...? But even there, I'd still say that program Z from source X and library Y is a derived work of both X and Y and that in no way does that make Y a derived work of X or Z. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

to the contrary? Schillix, for example? :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Buy less and make it last longer. INDUSTRY CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING. cdrkit is not the pure blessèd

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

[Mail-Followup-To set again. I note that the last one was ignored...] I demand that Joerg Schilling may or may not have written... Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk wrote: In order to create a derived work, you need to add own code of a sufficient creation level. The simple act

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

I demand that Michael Banck may or may not have written... On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 03:33:57PM +, Darren Salt wrote: Strange, then, that Eben Moglen's opinion, quoted in this very thread, should refer explicitly to the C library and otherwise only to *system* libraries. You're

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

without reading the GPL before. http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.comp.os.linux/msg/e1f32622f567ef1d End of discussion, as far as I'm concerned. I'm saying no more. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | Absolutely *NOT*| Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

.hee70xnryzq1zocn%joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | representing | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | self only | + RIPA NOTICE: NO CONSENT GIVEN FOR INTERCEPTION OF MESSAGE TRANSMISSION I know what I wrote yesterday. Note to whom

Re: Bug#519003: ITP: xca -- x509 Certification Authority management tool based on QT4

imagine that being enough for some... -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Burn less waste. Use less packaging. Waste less. USE FEWER RESOURCES. The soul would have no rainbow had

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

does tar --help. Nevertheless, it will write to $TAPE. (I've just checked this with 1.16.1-1.) Perhaps dpkg-buildpackage should unset TAPE...? -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

Wirzenius, and you can send me e-mail by taking my initials and putting them in front of the at sign and iki.fi after it. But is that LIW or liw or Liw or...? :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk

Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

I demand that Ron Johnson may or may not have written... [snip] What would be much more useful (still simple, but with much more data) is a world-wide hash table of countries and states/provinces. Are you equating states with provinces there? If so, think again... :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt

Re: Associating suffixes, programs and icons with MIME.

I demand that Charles Plessy may or may not have written... [snip] $needs_cache = 1 if -f and (/\.png$/ or /\.svg$/ or /\.jpg$/ or /\.xpm$/); Why not this? $needs_cache = 1 if -f and /\.(png|svg|jpg|xpm)$/; -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS

Re: Problems with xine ?

(judging by the fact that the spaces aren't encoded as %20). This is the second such report that I've seen, and it's been reported in the KDE bug tracker as http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155491. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

carry on shipping .orig.tar.gz and .diff.gz, and use debcheckout if you need the history. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project - input needed)

, but the changes since 1.1.9.1 don't amount to much). ... or 10.4MB for current xine-lib-deb. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Travel less. Share transport more. PRODUCE

Bug#466866: O: libjsw -- joystick library

says that oxine needs libjsw 1.56; jscalibrator should be ported to GTK+2 sometime. This follows up discussion in -games: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2008/01/msg00247.html -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

) ears sounds a bit weird. It sounds weird to me too, at least without s/breath to/breathe to/ :-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Kill all extremists! I'm no stranger, just

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

on occasion, I have aliased 'rm' to 'rm -i', so it will ask unless I pass '-f' along. You have another option, \rm, which will always give you unaliased rm. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk

Re: Service stopping in prerm considered harmful

, an initscript MUST NOT FAIL to stop an already stopped service. How is it supposed to do that? The service isn't running, so can't be stopped, therefore the script (if called to stop it) can only fail to stop it... ITYM must not fail if the service is already stopped. [snip] -- | Darren Salt

Re: triggers wishlist

priority order: [snip] - insserv/update-rc.d Looks like a possible candidate too (without knowing much about triggers). Updating xine-lib front ends' desktop files at install time or when installing or removing some libxine{1,2}-*. (Bug 472870, should anybody be interested.) -- | Darren Salt

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

in libxine-dev, for example, started using pkg-config; Depends is correct since everything which needs xine-lib uses xine-config (or at least I've not seen any which don't). [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

. Then there are the times when I find it useful to run debian/rules build or something similar... -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + At least 4000 million too many people. POPULATION LEVEL IS UNSUSTAINABLE

Re: Misc development news (#6) (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt)

$(if $(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)),0,2) That looks reasonable to me. However, care should be taken to avoid ending up with cdbs-buildpackage ;-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

that. I'm not seeing any problems with it, but then the installed kernels are all locally built and don't use init{rd,ramfs}. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Buy local produce. Try

Re: Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

using netconsole to log to another computer. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Burn less waste. Use less packaging. Waste less. USE FEWER RESOURCES. You will survive

Re: Kernel

module is built into the kernel image or (I assume) is loaded early enough. -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Toon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | back! | + Lobby friends, family, business, government.WE'RE KILLING

Re: Conditional Recommends

them, well, I don't want to know: again, no obvious way to get properly-attributed diffs. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | _ ASCII ribbon | using Debian | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | ( ) campaign against | GNU/Linux| ,demon,co,uk|| X

Re: Conditional Recommends

I demand that Scott Kitterman may or may not have written... On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 08:17:51 AM Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Carsten Hey may or may not have written... [snip] The third example with indirections would have advantages if one l10n package contains the translations

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

I demand that Bernd Zeimetz may or may not have written... [snip] Please provide a proper gitweb instance or at least a proxy at that url to the anonscm gitweb instanace. I'm still seeing directory listings instead of the expected repository pages for /hg/xine-lib/*... [snip] -- | Darren

Re: ITP: mercurial-buildpackage (for those who care about Mercurial)

properly integrated into the VCS; and where the VCS has its own patch queue management, that should be preferred. Sure, but I do not know how to do that at the moment. :-) See above (probably). :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian

rfkill (was: Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?)

. True, as we EeePC owners know quite well :-) -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | Army | + http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/ http://tlasd.wordpress.com/ Lettuce prey fur

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

. The question is who will step forward and propose the removal? Not me, given that I use, and plan to continue using, it... -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | Army | + http

Re: enabling software rendering in libxine

closed the connection -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | Army | + Vermin Media. It's not nothing to hide but you're invading my privacy. He is always right who suspects that he makes

Re: Bug#564285: ITP: openmolar -- dental practice management software

I demand that David Paleino may or may not have written... [snip] * Package name: openmolar [snip] Description : dental practice management software Well, a long description is yet to come :) You'll be filling it in later? -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

CONFIG_ITCO_VENDOR_SUPPORT=y): options iTCO_wdt vendorsupport=901 [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | Army | + This comment has been censored. I'd like to, but my mother would never let me hear

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

free mem is available. The OOM killer can be disabled for precious processes by writting the string -17 to “/proc/pid/oom_adj”. That sounds to me like a good thing to do by default. -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

, that ceases to be a problem. [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | Army | + This comment has been censored. I'd like to, but I promised to help a friend fold road maps

Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

I demand that Josselin Mouette may or may not have written... Le lundi 15 février 2010 à 13:40 +, Darren Salt a écrit : [snip] The layout sucks: a good menu is hard to do because it must not be too deep (too many clicks/movements to reach an application) nor too crowded (too many

Re: Changes in dpkg Pre-Depends

probably be looking for one with an Atom N450, which is 64-bit. (Also, N450+NM10 uses less power than N270+ICH7M.) -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | Army | + It's 1984. Tact

Re: Remove cdrtools

. even for pure C projects. This is a libtool bug. I'm using the following workaround for gxine (due to the browser plugin): m4_undefine([AC_PROG_CXX]) m4_defun([AC_PROG_CXX],[]) m4_undefine([AC_PROG_F77]) m4_defun([AC_PROG_F77],[]) before invoking any A[CM]*LIBTOOL*. -- | Darren Salt

Re: On including 64-bit libs in 32-bit packages (see #344104)

I demand that Hendrik Sattler may or may not have written... [snip] 64bit kernels are not available in the i386 archive. That makes the 64bit libs rather useless, doesn't it? No - you could be using a locally-built 64-bit kernel. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr

Re: Status of IPW3945 (Was: IPW3945)

:-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Let's keep the pound sterling Exam is a four-letter word for torture... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

when the list address Just Works and extra configuration is required for the newsgroup. Of course, if you're using mail software which doesn't know about Followup-To or has separate mail and news followup commands, this isn't a problem... [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds

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