Re: Bug#338503: ITP: cvssuck -- inefficient cvs repository grabber using cvs command

2005-11-16 Thread Jon Dowland
at the source, I think that is exactly what it does, although I've only had a cursory glance. I did notice also that it's vulnerable to a symlink attach, suggest shelling out to mktemp at line #127 in your debian diff.gz. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-22 Thread Jon Dowland
in base. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-20 Thread Jon Dowland
was: a simple meta-package with the correct dependencies was all that was missing. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-20 Thread Jon Dowland
, however if the key was rotated that infrequently, the systems that perform the operation will have succumbed to a lot of bit-rot between invocations and the people doing it will be out of practise. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#351594: ITP: chocolate-doom -- Doom engine closely-compatible with vanilla doom

2006-02-05 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: chocolate-doom Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Simon Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.chocolate-doom.org/ * License : GPL Description : Doom engine closely

Bug#354732: ITP: omgifol -- python library for manipulating doom-style WAD files

2006-02-28 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: omgifol Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Fredrik Johansson * URL : http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~frejohl/doom.html * License : MIT-style Description : python library

Re: Bug#355488: ITP: bcpp -- C(++) beautifier

2006-03-06 Thread Jon Dowland
it is: so you have two options when facing such code a) use an editor which lets you customize the tab-stop b) use a tool such as bcpp to reformat the source -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-06 Thread Jon Dowland
moved to this week? Ah, fortunately, the FreeBSD gnome maintainers believe in documentation, so I found the answer there. For those of merely following the thread, rather than using bleeding-edge GNOME, could you share the secret? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#203498: ITP: decss -- utility for stripping CSS tags from an HTML page.

2003-08-01 Thread Jon Dowland
. If this does get packaged it'll certainly have a lot of bugs filed against it, so the maintainer needs to be aware that it may be more of a responsibility than just a political statement. -- Jon Dowland

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-06 Thread Jon Dowland
vendor to have supplied some information regarding where you may trip up from looking at conventional sources. Thus a large part of your difficulty can be attributed to them, rather than debian. -- Jon Dowland

a 'main' package from a non-free source

2004-11-05 Thread Jon Dowland
for non-free). The trouble is, the source package has the lot of them in it. So, I'd have to split the source package too. Are there any other packages where the source package is not 'pristine' but split in this fashion that I can look at? Thanks, -- Jon Dowland

UML packages for sarge: likelyhood of making it to stable

2005-02-10 Thread Jon Dowland
sorted out? Is an NMU a possibility? -- Jon Dowland Webteam University of Newcastle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to virtual-package-names-list.txt

2005-02-10 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.1.1 Severity: wishlist Hello, I am following the steps in virtual-package-names-list.txt[1] in order to add (or not add) the virtual package name 'x-display-manager' to the authorative list of virtual package names. The virtual package x-display-manager is

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

2006-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
that Ham Radio is not too descriptive for those outside the circle (myself included). However it is consistent with the terminology in the Linux kernel's config. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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

2006-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1144653527 past the epoch, Steve Greenland wrote: On 10-Apr-06, 04:17 (CDT), Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that Ham Radio is not too descriptive for those outside the circle (myself included). However it is consistent with the terminology in the Linux kernel's config

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-13 Thread Jon Dowland
for the window manager you go with, that way someone could mark your package, then change the window manager if they were so inclined. (Using Depends would mean changing the window manager could potentially remove the conflicting light-desktop package and all it's dependencies marked automatic). -- Jon

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-18 Thread Jon Dowland
is snip I have a similar problem with setting $EDITOR to something like vim -gf: some programs pass this through to the shell, others look for a binary named 'vim -gf' in $PATH. Which is the correct behaviour and where is that defined, if at all? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-18 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1144928811 past the epoch, Eduard Bloch wrote: As said, Gnome bloat. Use gqview or pornview. The latter has been orphaned[1]. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/316934 -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

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

2006-04-21 Thread Jon Dowland
, if it is referred to predominantly as Ham Radio in one locale and Amateur Radio in another, could we not accommodate both? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sources.list

2006-04-24 Thread Jon Dowland
://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ for info and archives. Secondly, your computer's date appears to be inaccurate: Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 05:24:27 +0430 If it were the 29th I would have been paid this month :) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-25 Thread Jon Dowland
advanced enough to go for manual package selection. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#365087: ITP: debcheck -- Checks whether dependencies of debian packages can be satisfied

2006-04-28 Thread Jon Dowland
I must say) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#366328: ITP: bsp -- nodes builder for doom-engine levels

2006-05-07 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: bsp Version : 5.1 Upstream Author : Colin Phipps cph at users.sourceforge.net * URL : http://doombsp.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : nodes builder

Re: Bug#366328: ITP: bsp -- nodes builder for doom-engine levels

2006-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
be less inclined to rename the binary, the orig.tar.gz, the documentation, etc., unless (given this explanation) you still suggest it necessary. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#366328: ITP: bsp -- nodes builder for doom-engine levels

2006-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
for pointing it out. I shall contact the packager to determine whether he has any ambition for glbsp to enter main. Yours, -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread Jon Dowland
, which I don't think is a good idea: http://popcon.debian.org/main/editors/by_inst -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1148048910 past the epoch, Jon Dowland wrote: Interesting idea, but by my reckoning that would make ed the default editor for most people, which I don't think is a good idea: http://popcon.debian.org/main/editors/by_inst Eek. Of course if you go by vote, then vim or nvi trump ed

Re: alternatives and priorities

2006-05-19 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1148053588 past the epoch, Wouter Verhelst wrote: That's not an issue. First, ed doesn't install an alternatives for editor. Ah. Of course :) Sheepish, -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-06-07 Thread Jon Dowland
at the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich.) One reason: wdm (really wings) has no keyboard-shortcut support. You are forced to use a mouse to operate it. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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

2006-06-17 Thread Jon Dowland
Tools/Utilities/Accessories... Could you give an example of what would belong there? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-31 Thread Jon Dowland
interested in helping out here, if possible. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-31 Thread Jon Dowland
about. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-03 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1154609291 past the epoch, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote: snip procmail solution I use something similar, but I generate procmailrc and muttrc snippets from a master file of mailing lists using m4 and some scripts. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-03 Thread Jon Dowland
reckon, and that skillset is going to be more useful and applicable in other contexts as well. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pan in Sid

2006-08-08 Thread Jon Dowland
on that thread (root msg id [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to understand the rationale of the decision and then take it up with the maintainer if you still disagree. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-14 Thread Jon Dowland
(with the latter being the existing TODOlist) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away (revised)

2005-07-14 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:55:48PM +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suggest having __two__ lists: a wishlist and a worklist (with the latter being the existing TODOlist) A decent idea, since items can be moved back and forth as needed. I've

Re: unreproducable bugs

2005-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
their creativity, hinder their intellect, and prevent the development of a consistent style! I'm pretty sure I've come across this as a guideline in the maintainer docs, if not as a hard-and-fast rule. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: debian mentors ubuntu

2005-07-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:07:13AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: It's rather pathetic that the Debian mentors site doesn't run the operating system that's the reason for its existence. It depends on the reasoning behind the OS choice. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint

Re: lsb-base

2005-07-19 Thread Jon Dowland
, and makes the boot procedure generally look tidier. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: about voting for bugs

2005-07-20 Thread Jon Dowland
/05/27#voting, where I discover that attempts to leverage voting etc. on the mozilla bts amount to nothing. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

popcon (was Re: about voting for bugs)

2005-07-20 Thread Jon Dowland
? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian mentors ubuntu

2005-07-20 Thread Jon Dowland
. As another poster has mentioned, there may have been very valid reasons for choosing Ubuntu above Debian for the primary purpose of the machine. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: about voting for bugs

2005-07-20 Thread Jon Dowland
that the mozilla BTS people agree with. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: popcon (was Re: about voting for bugs)

2005-07-20 Thread Jon Dowland
was released, but that is life. :/ Indeed. Cheers, -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-07-21 Thread Jon Dowland
++ or an alternative written in Perl? (On the other hand, which of the two programs would you expect to be available sooner?) I think you are expecting people to say C++, and on the other hand, Perl: However, I think perl for both :-) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint

doomsday not DFSG (was Re: ITP: doomsday - greatly improved engine to play doom, doom2, heretic and hexen)

2005-07-22 Thread Jon Dowland
. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: doomsday not DFSG (was Re: ITP: doomsday - greatly improved engine to play doom, doom2, heretic and hexen)

2005-07-22 Thread Jon Dowland
is affected. I'll have to take your word for it on the engine, but surely raven code is in the heretic plugin? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: doomsday not DFSG (was Re: ITP: doomsday - greatly improved engine to play doom, doom2, heretic and hexen)

2005-07-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 10:00:21PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: I gather you mean the wiki/forum for the doomsday project and not Debian. I'm suitably out of touch that I wasn't aware doomsday was available for GNU/Linux natively, yet - I suppose this is what the ITP process is for. 'Hijack

Re: ITP: darkplaces - greatly improved engine for original quake1

2005-07-23 Thread Jon Dowland
. = -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: doomsday not DFSG (was Re: ITP: doomsday - greatly improved engine to play doom, doom2, heretic and hexen)

2005-07-23 Thread Jon Dowland
over the years) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: http://torrents.debian.org -- idea

2005-07-25 Thread Jon Dowland
a valuable service, converted to a .org subdomain. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#320067: ITP: vamps -- Vamps evaporates DVD compliant MPEG2 program streams by selectively copying audio and subpicture tracks and by re-quantizing the embedded elementary video stream.

2005-07-27 Thread Jon Dowland
for the description to be useful using command line tools such as dpkg, apt-cache search, etc. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#320067: ITP: vamps -- Vamps evaporates DVD compliant MPEG2 program streams by selectively copying audio and subpicture tracks and by re-quantizing the embedded elementary video stream.

2005-07-27 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:13:01AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: Hi, sorry to be picky, but I think the short description is too long. Oh, plenty of other people have picked up on this, sorry for the redundant message. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238

Bug#322473: ITP: deutex -- composition tool for doom-style WAD files

2005-08-10 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: deutex Version : 4.4.0 Upstream Author : André Majorel [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/deutex/ * License : GNU/GPL Version 2 Description

Re: New appearance of bugs on BTS web pages

2005-08-13 Thread Jon Dowland
necessary for some of the improvements that could be made. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-15 Thread Jon Dowland
the team. I do not agree that this is always the case. I think that sometimes, a bug which doesn't look like fun to debug or fix can be passed over in team maintenance situations, as no one person is responsible for the package (oh, someone else in the team will pick this one up...) -- Jon Dowland

Re: RFC: allow new upstream into stable when it's the only way to fix security issues.

2005-08-15 Thread Jon Dowland
many could then push our agenda? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remove ruby1.6

2005-08-15 Thread Jon Dowland
totally broken in 1.8. I think updating code from 1.6 to 1.8 is a very non-trivial task, it appears a lot has changed. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for August 19, 2005

2005-08-19 Thread Jon Dowland
object to receiving them from a different list (maybe just plain -devel). -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#323923: ITP: base -- Basic Analysis and Security Engine

2005-08-19 Thread Jon Dowland
packages, or base-config. I suggest base-security-engine, even though it's quite verbose and the latter two words redundant after the acronym. `base-engine' is better than just base, but similarly could be mistaken for something else important. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name

Re: Bug#324179: ITP: quake3 -- a famous first person shooter by ID-Software

2005-08-22 Thread Jon Dowland
-data package which is very good, as the engine itself isn't going to be much use without data, then ITPing that too. Also, that implies this is going into contrib, not main. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-22 Thread Jon Dowland
this - keep it up! :) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH] Simple parallellized boot sequence (and a plea for LSB complience)

2005-08-24 Thread Jon Dowland
. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removing /etc/hotplug.d/ support

2005-08-25 Thread Jon Dowland
to rename /proc to /sys and gradually move the process stuff back over :) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#323227: new list: debian-planet to distribute planet.debian.org postings; archive to enable searching

2005-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
the front page. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: To Linux or not to Linux

2005-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
such case, where it describes the project not the release. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#323227: new list: debian-planet to distribute planet.debian.org postings; archive to enable searching

2005-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:47:43PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:51:12AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: What would really be useful, for more than just debian, would be for the aggregator software to be extended to archive posts which it rotates off the front page

Re: Work-needing packages report for Sep 2, 2005

2005-09-02 Thread Jon Dowland
the instructions at http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-orphaning. This has resulted in invalid entries in the quoted list, one for each word in the subjects above. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Work-needing packages report for Sep 2, 2005

2005-09-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:49:32AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Yes, those are the titles of those bugs *now*, after I noticed the problem in the list. Check the original bug titles as submitted. :) Ah, I see. Thanks for pointing this out! -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name

Re: migrating wiki content from twiki (w.d.net) to moinmoin (w.d.org)

2005-09-05 Thread Jon Dowland
the official domain, and I haven't seen any discussion about moin-moin either. Could you please point me at the relevant discussion so I can play catch-up? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: migrating wiki content from twiki (w.d.net) to moinmoin (w.d.org)

2005-09-05 Thread Jon Dowland
? On the mediawiki front, I finally (as promised) setup a mediawiki installation for debian-people to play with, to evaluate it. It's up at http://wiki.debianflame.org/. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#326813: ITP: doom-data -- Installer for doom data files

2005-09-05 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: doom-data Version : 1 Upstream Author : Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://jon.dowland.name/code/doom/doom-data/ * License : GPL Description : Installer

a desperate request for licence metadata (was Re: migrating wiki content from twiki (w.d.net) to moinmoin (w.d.org))

2005-09-06 Thread Jon Dowland
willing to invest time to find out but I'd need to know people were interested and supportive :) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#326945: ITP: shorten -- tool for fast compression of waveform files

2005-09-06 Thread Jon Dowland
/ ^^^ I think this should be changed. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#324179: ITP: quake3 -- a famous first person shooter by ID-Software

2005-09-07 Thread Jon Dowland
me a lot here. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: time seen at top of /var/log/boot

2005-10-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:01:52AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: No its not my BIOS time. It appears to be a timezone 4 timezones east of New Zealand, GMT+16, i.e., out of this world. How about on your machine? I don't have a /var/log/boot, sorry. How do I get one? -- Jon Dowland http

Re: Bug#195948: Bug#335173: ITP: dspam -- Highly accurate andfaststatistical spam filter

2005-10-25 Thread Jon Dowland
is the advantage of closing-and-adjusting-submitter vs. just merging the bugs anyway? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: per-user temp directories by default?

2005-11-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:00:48PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: With tempdir in users home all applications like for example gpg write temporary files to this location which ends up unencrypted on a disk ...alongside the private keys in ~/.gnupg? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name

Re: getting unstable lintian linda into stable

2005-11-11 Thread Jon Dowland
as a rule, and I think on it's own it is a good idea, as I often forget to make sure I'm in an unstable system when building packages. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TODO for etch ?

2005-06-19 Thread Jon Dowland
services being started. If that accounted for the majority of speed-up, maybe it alone, and not a fragile parallel boot process too, would be sufficient for most people in need of a more efficient boot. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: GCC version change / C++ ABI change

2005-07-04 Thread Jon Dowland
the risk of introducing problems for no gain. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ PGP fingerprint: 7032F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: User and groups justification (was Re: group nvram)

2009-03-20 Thread Jon Dowland
for an example of how to specify an explicit license for a new page (and the linked http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/LicencingTerms for context and history) -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Debian is switching to EGLIBC

2009-05-07 Thread Jon Dowland
have discussed this already :D No, clearly. But perhaps an email for every Priority: required package or otherwise major-impact package which is rebasing to a different upstream, if only to say that this is really just applying a patch, no need to panic. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]

2009-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
are not notifications. If the notification mechanism used by cron and smartctl and many other daemons (that is, a local MTA) needs to be replaced, let us at least replace it with a notification system. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Grub on CF card

2009-05-18 Thread Jon Dowland
queries. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-03 Thread Jon Dowland
-Reviewed)? It has a better granularity including timezone support, is output by GNU date(1) easily with the -R argument and is already in use for email Date: headers and Debian .changes files amongst others. -- Jon Dowland Index: dep3.mdwn

Re: The wider implications of stuffing the NEW queue with issues it was not designed for.

2009-07-20 Thread Jon Dowland
was to bodge the existing valid copyright lines to match the test's regex. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-24 Thread Jon Dowland
or other systems too. I suppose a system could be put together that stored all of the patch review data inside of itself. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Considering the removal of ntpdate

2009-07-24 Thread Jon Dowland
clock) in terms of rdate and mark it as deprecated - For Squeeze+1: just drop it At some point, sqwalk on STDERR on invocation about its deprecated-ness? or is that a step too far? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: State of developers-reference

2009-09-09 Thread Jon Dowland
be blocked on sorting out the wiki.d.o content licensing. -- Jon Dowland signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-05 Thread Jon Dowland
such a mail would distract you from? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-05 Thread Jon Dowland
to that thread, arrogantly explaining to us how bad we suck, snip Even if you do think it's a crazy idea you should not be angered or offended by the suggestion and debate of such an idea. That's what an open operating system should encourage. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-05 Thread Jon Dowland
it not make sense to file an RFH bug to that effect? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-03-08 Thread Jon Dowland
pages for debian-user. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#420605: ITP: gaim-rhythmbox -- gaim plugin to display rhythmbox's currently playing song

2007-04-23 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: gaim-rhythmbox Version : 2.0beta5 Upstream Author : Jon Oberheide [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://jon.oberheide.org/projects/gaim-rhythmbox/ * License : GPL-2 Programming

Re: synchronizing README.Debian with wiki.debian.org

2007-06-20 Thread Jon Dowland
is a great idea. Unfortunately I think we need to be very clear about the licence under which w.d.o material falls. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I don't understand Debian

2007-06-25 Thread Jon Dowland
is for development. debian-user would be the appropriate list in this case. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intend to orphan pscan.

2007-07-02 Thread Jon Dowland
consideration, not system-level. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: synchronizing README.Debian with wiki.debian.org

2007-07-02 Thread Jon Dowland
but haven't had time to run moinmoin output through docbook processor nor setup this other wiki to play yet... I might try again tonight. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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