Hello and request for sponsor (DomainKeys packages)

2006-06-17 Thread Magnus Holmgren
? So, what do you think, and is anyone willing to sponsor these tiny packages? -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpqTORqornu4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#378046: ITP: libmail-dkim-perl -- Create and verify DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) signatures

2006-07-12 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libmail-dkim-perl Version : 0.18 Upstream Author : Jason Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://jason.long.name/ * License : Same as Perl Programming Lang: Perl

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-17 Thread Magnus Holmgren
some mechanism in place to detect such a case when or if it happens? Deal with it when people complain. Also, this kind of information can be shared so that not every mail admin has to find it out himself by users complaining. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-17 Thread Magnus Holmgren
/SBL, are high-quality enough that you can outright reject. Others, like SpamCop, are likely to include some of the bigger names from time to time. DUL lists might be good candidates. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-17 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 17 July 2006 23:27, Thomas Bushnell BSG took the opportunity to write: Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Deal with it when people complain. Also, this kind of information can be shared so that not every mail admin has to find it out himself by users complaining. Are you

Re: Bug#378863: ITP: libcsoap1-dev -- library in C for SOAP network protocol (SOAP is a form of RPC) development

2006-07-19 Thread Magnus Holmgren
one which builds both the library and the development files. BTW, isn't the version number of the latest stable release 1.0.4? -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpVJmwKfkud8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-02 Thread Magnus Holmgren
don't have a separate follow-up command either (for everyone's information, Mutt has one - press L to reply to list). IMHO, the best policy still is not to CC the author unless he asks for it. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-03 Thread Magnus Holmgren
to let mutt know anything manually. It seems to use List-Post. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpxsFMYUD0Je.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Code of Conduct on the Debian mailinglists

2006-08-04 Thread Magnus Holmgren
straightening things out could help. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpQQ7nWGwdKx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Code of Conduct on the Debian mailinglists

2006-08-04 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Friday 04 August 2006 09:57, Wouter Verhelst took the opportunity to say: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 08:21:28AM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: In short, it's a mess. Lots of improvements can be made, to MUAs, MLMs, as well as MTAs. An RFC straightening things out could help. ... Or we could

Re: simultaneous installation lib and lib-mpi

2009-04-26 Thread Magnus Holmgren
builds the Heimdal module packages. Currently I don't think there is any other solution to this problem, and solving it for real would require rather serious changes to how packages are built, but it might still be meaningful to bring it up on -devel, which I've done now. -- Magnus Holmgren

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s

2009-05-09 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On tisdagen den 28 april 2009, Noah Slater wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:04:05PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Many of the more popular MUAs on your list have this command already, Can you name any others apart from mutt that come with this by default? Kmail is one. -- Magnus Holmgren

Re: Notes from keyring-maint; end of the world not predicted

2009-05-20 Thread Magnus Holmgren
--cert-digest-algo SHA256 or something? Also, does gpg have an option to make it output the hash algorithms of key (ID) signatures? I can't seem to find one. -- Magnus Holmgrenholmg...@debian.org Debian Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: maybe ITP of lib DomainKeys

2009-08-13 Thread Magnus Holmgren
in Debian? I created a package some years ago, but abandoned the ITP. See http://bugs.debian.org/352653 for reasons. -- Magnus Holmgrenholmg...@debian.org Debian Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Configurable debian/control debian/rules

2009-08-15 Thread Magnus Holmgren
, to allow one source package to generate more than one binary package by linking against each of a number of mutually conflicting libraries (libkrb5 and heimdal, to name a real example). But that would require quite big changes. -- Magnus Holmgrenholmg...@debian.org Debian Developer

Re: ries to be rebooted

2009-08-15 Thread Magnus Holmgren
that can be applied in other contexts as well. -- Magnus Holmgrenholmg...@debian.org Debian Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#543150: ITP: pdkim -- cryptographically identify the sender of email

2009-08-22 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Magnus Holmgren holmg...@debian.org * Package name: pdkim Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Tom Kistner t...@duncanthrax.net * URL : http://duncanthrax.net/pdkim/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Re: Bug#543150: ITP: pdkim -- cryptographically identify the sender of email

2009-08-23 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On lördagen den 22 augusti 2009, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: Magnus Holmgren holmg...@debian.org writes: * Self-contained, no dependencies (except libc), thanks to code included from the PolarSSL project. From a Debian perspective, that's a policy violation, not a feature! Please arrange

Re: Bug#543150: ITP: pdkim -- cryptographically identify the sender of email

2009-08-29 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On måndagen den 24 augusti 2009, Andreas Metzler wrote: On 2009-08-23 Magnus Holmgren holmg...@debian.org wrote: On lördagen den 22 augusti 2009, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: Magnus Holmgren holmg...@debian.org writes: * Self-contained, no dependencies (except libc), thanks to code included

Re: do not upload stuff re mysql / octave / ...-transition

2009-09-01 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On tisdagen den 1 september 2009, Andreas Barth wrote: Hi, currently there is the large mysql / octave / hdf* / nattle / ...-transition going on which includes about 170 source package changes and about 120 binary changes (recompilations) for every arch. nattle? -- Magnus Holmgren

No suitable doc-base section for SSH software documentation?

2009-09-01 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Is doc-base lacking a section for SSH clients/servers and other remote control software? Sure, you can transfer files and monitor other computers using SSH, but that's not all you can do. -- Magnus Holmgrenholmg...@debian.org Debian Developer signature.asc Description

Re: May one use ~rc1 within versions although older lintians are complaining?

2007-03-15 Thread Magnus Holmgren
. Gunnar might be thinking of Mail-Followup-To or setting Reply-To to the list yourself, but the fact is that it isn't well-defined how to setup the mail header to express all your preferences for replies and followups. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list

DomainKeys obsolete, abandoning ITPs

2007-03-16 Thread Magnus Holmgren
of libdomainkeys unclear, Etch frozen, and additionally libmail-dkim-perl including support for DomainKeys, I suggest that these two WNPP bugs be closed. -- Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpGUAyWLfeVZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Call for testers: reportbug-ng

2007-03-19 Thread Magnus Holmgren
?). -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail is better for Scrabble (50 point bonus for clearing your rack) -- Dave Evans pgpgEYnWGQuLZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

debhelper and debconf: package and protocol versions

2007-03-21 Thread Magnus Holmgren
(dh_installdebconf: Should try to figure out the debconf version needed).) -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpC5AkB1jxN2.pgp Description: PGP signature

ITA/RFS: libspf2 -- Sender Policy Framework library, written in C

2007-03-23 Thread Magnus Holmgren
-Version to 3.7.2 without changes. * Apply 20_spf_dns_include_std_headers.patch: Include arpa/nameser.h and netdb.h from spf_dns.h instead of defining the constants needed unless certain HAVE_ macros are defined (Closes: #405885). -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ITA/RFS: libspf2 -- Sender Policy Framework library, written in C

2007-03-23 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Friday 23 March 2007 20:53, Mike Hommey wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 08:23:38PM +0100, Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) Have not taken a look at the package, but does the short description Description: Sender Policy Framework library, written in C really have to say

Poll: Anybody using debpool?

2007-03-27 Thread Magnus Holmgren
else has an interest in this package and could think of cooperating with me. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpLI9SIFNf5l.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Poll: Anybody using debpool?

2007-03-27 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 01:42, Daniel Leidert wrote: Am Dienstag, den 27.03.2007, 23:41 +0100 schrieb Magnus Holmgren: DebPool is a Debian package archiver written in Perl by Joel Aelwyn [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Like mini-dinstall it's a lightweight replacement for the real deal that manages

Re: Poll: Anybody using debpool?

2007-03-30 Thread Magnus Holmgren
-debpool or debpool-2g. Or anything that is better. :-) I just wanted to make clear that no one is stealing debpool or anything. Discussion can then continue on an associated mailing list. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks

Changelogs for unofficial packages

2007-03-31 Thread Magnus Holmgren
currently, is that correct?) -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpCoTtdoWjDC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#417261: dch: please use dates in UTC

2007-04-02 Thread Magnus Holmgren
it that way because that adds some personal touch about the place the upload was made from. Also, using UTC-only destroys information, which is generally a Bad Thing, IMHO. Recalculating the timestamp to UTC or your own time zone isn't that hard, and can be done programmatically. -- Magnus

Re: Poll: Anybody using debpool?

2007-04-03 Thread Magnus Holmgren
of choice and think that any number of alternatives can be made available for the user to choose from. * Did you get the init script to work? start-stop-daemon --stop --exec /usr/bin/debpool shouldn't work, since /proc/(pid)/exe points to /usr/bin/perl. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Poll: Anybody using debpool?

2007-04-06 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Thursday 05 April 2007 23:04, Andreas Fester wrote: Magnus Holmgren wrote: [...] * You've indented the main loop in bin/debpool. While I think that's how it should be, I also think it's best to undo it until we have merged all contributions. Sure. I did this to make the main loop more

Re: Poll: Anybody using debpool?

2007-04-07 Thread Magnus Holmgren
see what the admins say. What the package should be called can be decided later. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpOsH7Rb1Nr6.pgp Description: PGP signature

DebPool project started on Alioth

2007-04-08 Thread Magnus Holmgren
at http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debpool-devel or by sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpXRCHs0cSic.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Intent to take over: tilda

2007-04-16 Thread Magnus Holmgren
, Zak Elep intended to adopt it, but didn't follow through. So it's an ITA hijack, like myself did with sa-exim some time ago. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpAGX4B1qCMD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Package file names

2007-04-18 Thread Magnus Holmgren
and Sources files that apt downloads. So as long as name collisions can be avoided (for example in simple repositories holding just one version and architecture of a package at a time), the file name technically shouldn't matter, should it? -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Using dpkg-statoverride

2007-04-18 Thread Magnus Holmgren
is upgraded. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.9 -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpcUKFMrobgk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Planned DebPool features

2007-04-21 Thread Magnus Holmgren
are currently resurrecting the old debpool somewhere in the page. Having two pages, one more user oriented and one more developer oriented, might perhaps be reasonable? But I agree that one of the pages should be renamed, if only to make capitalization consistent. -- Magnus Holmgren

svn-buildpackage etc., mergeWithUpstream, and dpatch/quilt/cdbs again

2007-05-16 Thread Magnus Holmgren
of both worlds. Maybe some of this is already possible? -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpUUCyXgLchh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: svn-buildpackage etc., mergeWithUpstream, and dpatch/quilt/cdbs again

2007-05-16 Thread Magnus Holmgren
else has to use stgit too to get all the benefits, right? -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpce1QkD9DWi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: svn-buildpackage etc., mergeWithUpstream, and dpatch/quilt/cdbs again

2007-05-17 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 14:52, Marcus Better wrote: Magnus Holmgren wrote: Now, how do you combine these? Several people have thought: The VCS can handle the changesets. Putting patches under VCS is silly! I fully agree. Unfortunately Subversion doesn't make it easy for you. You can keep

Source package taking over removed package's place in the namespace

2007-05-31 Thread Magnus Holmgren
in oldstable. Question: Can the second source package take the first source package's (less awkward) name, or does it have to wait until oldstable is archived? Concrete example: lsh/lsh-utils (see bug 340354). -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail

Re: Source package taking over removed package's place in the namespace

2007-05-31 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Thursday 31 May 2007 14:32, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Magnus Holmgren wrote, Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:04 PM Situation: Two source packages collide in the namespace. The second one gets rather awkward name. Later, the first package dies and is removed from unstable, testing, and (after

Plugin API/ABI versions

2007-06-01 Thread Magnus Holmgren
to be referenced comes to mind. What else, if symbols aren't versioned? -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpCQBuAd0W6k.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Plugin API/ABI versions

2007-06-03 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Saturday 02 June 2007 14:58, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 18:03 +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: Many applications allow their functionality to be extended by means of plugins, often in the form of libraries that the application dlopen()s. Usually the application provides

Re: dh_installman problems

2007-06-10 Thread Magnus Holmgren
to tell dh_installman which manpages to install in which package, then dh_installman looks at the .TH lines of those manpages and determines what sections to put them in. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpJdzAt5Vfdg.pgp

Transitional packages

2007-06-10 Thread Magnus Holmgren
packages or other cases where no real functionality is lost by not immediately upgrading? I'm not talking about a situation where a main package changes its dependency on the old package name to the new package name, thereby causing the transition to take place. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Magnus Holmgren
but this needs to be done everywhere. Have something accurate. I'm in favour! (But are you requesting that aptitude use SI prefixes correctly, or that it use IEC (binary) prefixes? -- Magnus Holmgren pgpaVIzYUqkyh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 11 June 2007 18:53, Miles Bader wrote: shirish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It isn't just ubuntu or debian but this needs to be done everywhere. No it doesn't. The SI binary prefixes are an abomination. Why - besides pronunciation? -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Magnus Holmgren
. If everybody waits for somebody else to change first, then no change can ever happen. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail is better for Scrabble (50 point bonus for clearing your

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 11 June 2007 15:07, shirish wrote: Ugh, The second example I wanted to give was of libburnia http://libburnia-project.org/changeset/877 . Sorry Uh, tell them that kiB should be KiB. Don't ask me why. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 11 June 2007 21:25, Joey Hess wrote: Magnus Holmgren wrote: You seem to fancy the K-is-1024--k-is-1000 convention No, I hate that convention. K and k should only ever refer to 1024. In that case you're just sloppy. Prefixes and symbols for units are case sensitive. -- Magnus

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 11 June 2007 21:41, Joey Hess wrote: Alex Queiroz wrote: On 6/11/07, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I hate that convention. K and k should only ever refer to 1024. Like in kg or km? This thread is about units of data. kbit? kbit/s? kB/s? -- Magnus Holmgren

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Magnus Holmgren
. There is a comment: /* This 1024 vs 1000 stuff is just plain evil */ None of these put a space between the number and the unit, as is proper, but that I don't think can be reasonably expected. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Magnus Holmgren
prefixes have to be rejected for not being a perfect solution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_solution_fallacy I don't like those Special Interest units in all situations ;) SI units aren't special. They are universal. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Magnus Holmgren
bytes, before people started to use it as if to mean 1024. There is confusion; hard drive manufacturers' advertising material is not the only place where kilobyte != 2^10 bytes. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 08:44, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 08:36:39AM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: That's an argument that's been heard before but it's *wrong*. SI prefixes *are* used with non-SI units without losing their normal meaning and there is no reason why

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Magnus Holmgren
. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpEKOaSzboZ9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 08:54, Miles Bader wrote: Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No it doesn't. The SI binary prefixes are an abomination. Why - besides pronunciation? Well among other things, the end result of this whole mess will likely be to _increase_ confusion, rather

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Magnus Holmgren
the change (e.g. in a legend). So, just because some developers *might* do things wrong, that doesn't mean it will surely happen. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgp8O7rhl7WEV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Magnus Holmgren
the whole kibibyte crap has much of a leg to stand on, regardless whether a self-imposed Academie Anglaise says. I get 59 500 hits for kibibyte and 1.5 million hits for kilobyte. That's about 4%, not 0.3%. In fact, it's sufficiently widespread to earn a place in dictionaries, IMHO. -- Magnus

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Magnus Holmgren
exactly as a decimal fraction in Kibyte, because 0.1 Kibyte is a non-integral number of bytes). Hence, having two sets of prefixes to choose from depending on what fits best is the best option. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 15:36, Adam Borowski wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 02:36:55PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: On Tuesday 12 June 2007 14:09, Adam Borowski wrote: English linguistic is a descriptive science -- what is correct and what is not depends on what people use. This stays

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 15:46, Magnus Holmgren wrote: On Tuesday 12 June 2007 14:57, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Josselin Mouette may or may not have written... [snip] When I use a computer program, I don't want to wonder whether it uses precise units or approximate ones

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Magnus Holmgren
just a matter of getting used to them. Do you have anything to add that hasn't already been said? -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpSvfcE221IF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 19:57, Joey Hess wrote: I had generally assumed that most programmers were reaonsable and used powers of 2, but this thread is certianly changing my mind about *that*. It's not that unreasonable. Humans generally count in base 10 - computers count in base 2. -- Magnus

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Magnus Holmgren
against IEC prefixes. On the contrary, it may well be a prime example of a confusion that wouldn't have happened if the IEC prefixes had been adopted by then. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpQnKqXRd0XO.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Magnus Holmgren
the public. Good. Let's then teach the public that borrowing well-defined SI prefixes and giving them a different meaning in some situations was a bad idea, and that an adequate solution exists. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-16 Thread Magnus Holmgren
instead be lat. _Mus_ for the genus or _Mus musculus_ for the species known as the common house mouse). -- Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-19 Thread Magnus Holmgren
irrelevant though, since most of the time 1 GB is correct, 1 GiB is also correct. Again, this is an extreme example. A more average case might be 3.2 GB, which is *not* a substitute for 3.2 GiB. Do you not agree that rounding can be done to more than one significant digit? -- Magnus Holmgren

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-19 Thread Magnus Holmgren
the commonly used ones we all know and love. An appeal to emotions, once again. -- Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-23 Thread Magnus Holmgren
the BOINC client automatically downloads the right executable. -- Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-14 Thread Magnus Holmgren
there, and leave the level of the relatively few other entries the same, or maybe in some cases increased by one. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpjZhQH0G5DU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-18 Thread Magnus Holmgren
directly; there is no need to convert them into .menu files first (and really no reason to convert .menu to .desktop either). -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail is better

Re: Bug#433812: ITP: pssh -- Parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools

2007-07-19 Thread Magnus Holmgren
hundreds of machines spread around the world. Um, but what does it *do*? Answer: http://www.theether.org/pssh/docs/0.2.3/pssh-HOWTO.html#AEN38 -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail

Re: RFH: Removals - outstanding bugs need to be analysed

2007-07-20 Thread Magnus Holmgren
. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail is better for Scrabble (50 point bonus for clearing your rack) -- Dave Evans pgpbFaTSRYi4I.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFH: Removals - outstanding bugs need to be analysed

2007-07-20 Thread Magnus Holmgren
and annotate the bugs appropriately. It can happen that a dead package chooses to walk the earth again, can't it (not in these cases, but in some)? -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpBBPUGBkAGR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFH: Removals - outstanding bugs need to be analysed

2007-07-20 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Friday 20 July 2007 12:19, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote: It would be nice, I think, if the BTS would automatically notice when a package has been removed from unstable and annotate the bugs appropriately. It actually already does this; see http

Re: update-inetd don't update xinetd.conf

2007-07-23 Thread Magnus Holmgren
://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg01265.html -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpbA7JJO5e22.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: update-inetd don't update xinetd.conf

2007-07-24 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 23 July 2007 18:47, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jul 23, Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Packages containing servers that can be started from inetd should all provide an xinetd configuration file in /etc/xinetd.d. They will instantly work with Way too much work, and better

Re: stupid dependencies on update-inetd

2007-07-29 Thread Magnus Holmgren
from their own update-inetd, to facilitate switching from one inet-superserver to another. On the other hand, perhaps that should be the administrator's decision: If they don't ever want to use inetd they shouldn't have to have update-inetd installed. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: stupid dependencies on update-inetd

2007-07-29 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Sunday 29 July 2007 16:22, Magnus Holmgren wrote: But: AFAIU, /etc/inetd.conf is now owned by any package, because it's used Just to make myself clear: s/now/not/ -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) Exim is better

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-02 Thread Magnus Holmgren
you can configure your software the way you want it. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpTwiADkSS75.pgp Description: PGP signature

Arch-independent parts of binary modules of interpreted languages

2007-08-09 Thread Magnus Holmgren
. There the files are separated, with symlinks from /usr/lib/pikeversion to the corresponding location under /usr/share/pikeversion. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail is better

Bug#504134: ITP: ssvnc -- Enhanced TightVNC viewer with SSL/SSH tunnel helper

2008-10-31 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: ssvnc Version : 1.0.20 Upstream Author : Karl J. Runge [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ssvnc.html * License : GPL 2 Programming Lang: C, Shell

Game servers in /usr/games or /usr/sbin

2008-11-29 Thread Magnus Holmgren
mentions this explicitly, possibly because there are very few such executables. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#440911: ITP: policyd-spf-fs -- Postfix policy server for SPF checking

2007-09-05 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: policyd-spf-fs Version : 0+svn21 Upstream Author : Matthias Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.freestone.net/software/policyd-spf-fs/ * License : LGPL 2.1

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-09 Thread Magnus Holmgren
* get no say in that matter. On the other hand, Opera isn't asked to make their browser free software _for Debian_, but for their users. Debian is not an end, but a means. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) Exim is better

dh_install vs. dh_movefiles

2007-09-25 Thread Magnus Holmgren
on the packages in the correct order if using deliberately overlapping lists.) I also note that dh_movefiles might do globbing in a different way and that it doesn't actually move files (it copies and then removes the original) -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list

Re: Changing name of source package

2007-09-27 Thread Magnus Holmgren
. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Cleaning out useless debian/changelog entries

2007-10-01 Thread Magnus Holmgren
deleting those which don't correspond to an actual upload to Debian. Would that be acceptable, or is debian/changelog _strictly_ prepend-only? -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Cleaning out useless debian/changelog entries

2007-10-02 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On tisdagen den 2 oktober 2007, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:47:16PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: I'm taking over a package (pike7.6) that up to when it was orphaned got an automated changelog entry each time the upstream build number was incremented. Hence debian

dpkg-substvars

2007-10-06 Thread Magnus Holmgren
to use substitution variables in package names. But if we forget about variable package names, wouldn't dpkg-substvars be a good idea? -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: New field in binary stanza

2007-12-28 Thread Magnus Holmgren
in the same manner). -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2008-01-27 Thread Magnus Holmgren
consistently use /usr/share/doc/dpatch/examples/dpatch/01_config.dpatch.gz, do you do that too? -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail is better for Scrabble (50 point bonus

Re: How to deal with bugs from removed packages?

2008-01-27 Thread Magnus Holmgren
better)? -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail is better for Scrabble (50 point bonus for clearing your rack) -- Dave Evans signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-03-01 Thread Magnus Holmgren
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Re: Standard to indicate repacking in version numbers?

2008-03-20 Thread Magnus Holmgren
? Remember that hyphens are allowed in upstream versions. Since hyphens are generally used to separate upstream from downstream, it would more clearly indicate that the -dfsg* suffix is not really part of upstream's version number. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED

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