Re: State of developers-reference

2009-09-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 04:52:30PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 09/09/09 at 16:18 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 04:04:16PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > Choosing CC BY-SA would nicely conflict with our existing documentation, > > > like the Debian new mainta

Re: Cmap file are now free: List of package to move to main

2009-09-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 06:05:28PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES > wrote: > > > The following package that depends on cmap (according to licence file) may > > be > > moved to main: > > cmap-adobe-cns1 > > cmap-adobe-gb1 > > cmap-adobe-japan1 > > cma

Depends/Recommends?: Linux image packages going to depend on python

2009-11-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:00:21PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 16:43 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 28 2009, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:56:01 +0100 > > > Patrick Matthäi wrote: > > > > > >> Am 28.11.2009 18:52, schrieb Bastian Bla

Re: QA pages and epochs: problem?

2009-12-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 05:10:07PM +0100, Jens Peter Secher wrote: > Recently, it seems that the QA pages started ignoring the epoch in > changelog versions. Specifically > http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/haxe.html shows an ancient version > 20060912-2 as the version in sid, while it shows 1:2.4-3

Re: apt-get

2007-05-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:06:39AM +0100, Howard Young wrote: > Hello, > > I did not find a list for APT so am asking here. > > Is it possible to > apt-get remove package --andsuggestedpackages > and to do the opposite > apt-get install package --andsuggestedpackages > > using the original lists

Re: apt-get

2007-05-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:35:47PM +, The Fungi wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:32:40AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > [...] > > aptitude [...] does everything apt-get does... > [...] > > Well, analogies to 'apt-get source' and 'apt-get build-dep' were > still missing the last time I tried,

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

2007-06-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:40:21AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > > > I had an idea and still pondering on it. I wanted to do automatic > > > two-way synchronization with README.Debian and wiki.debian.org > > > > Excuse me - which existing wiki pages are synchronized with > > README

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

2007-06-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 10:56:25AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Any version of moinmoin can export version list by "info" and > obtain the old version in 3 ways: raw, print, recall. FYI: If ou just use curl or wget, robot reject happens. I used lines such as: elinks -source &q

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

2007-06-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 12:55:01PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 6/30/07, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 10:56:25AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> > Any version of moinmoin can export version list by "info" and >> > o

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

2007-07-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:45:41PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 03:16:11PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > > I think more packages, and the wiki itself, could benefit > > if this procedure could become a bit more standardised. > > Can someone upload an example of a wikipage, exp

debian-reference: question and review

2008-07-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I have updated "Debian Reference" (English) in unstable with major change in its contents: http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/index.html I have one question and generic request for review. * question What is the next release name after lenny? * generic request for review: De

Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I found some of my packages are offered as a part of Ubuntu archive. (Practically copied with minor adjustment.) That is good but I felt a bit strange since I needed to use my time to find it out. Then, I realized I am no better than the Ubuntu MOTU developers on how to deal with upstream as

Re: Standard way to disable services

2008-07-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 01:21:45PM +0200, Harald Braumann wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:27:27 +0200 > Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 02:11:26PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > >> Le samedi 26 juillet 2008 à 13:18 +0200, Harald Br

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:30:21PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I think we should encourage packager to contact upstream with simple > > "hello!" message and he (or myself) should be part of active upstream ML. > > When I had upstreams, I alw

Re: issues with aptitude dist-upgrade from etch to lenny

2008-08-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 02:16:58PM +0200, Henning Glawe wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 09:12:03PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > BTW, I think there must be something wrong with your description: > > /usr/bin/perl is in perl-base, and it certainly should find the modules > > in perl-base itself.

Re: Bug#481134: libpoppler does not use cmap files from xpdf-{japanese,...}, and fails to parse Japanese PDF files.

2008-08-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:26:53PM +0800, Deng Xiyue wrote: > 在 2008-08-22五的 07:51 -0700,Junichi Uekawa写道: > > 1. poppler was theoretically self-contained, poppler-data was REJECTed > > once and not yet part of non-free as of today. > > Which is now sitting in NEW queue again for approval[1]. IMH

Please hint poppler-data for lenny inclusion

2008-08-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 04:50:08PM +0800, Deng Xiyue wrote: > 在 2008-08-23六的 18:09 +1000,Hamish Moffatt写道: > > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 03:10:22PM +0800, Deng Xiyue wrote: > > > Ftp-masters, sorry to break the protocol, but due to the current > > > situation, it'll be very helpful if the popple

Re: Bug#481134: libpoppler does not use cmap files from xpdf-{japanese,...}, and fails to parse Japanese PDF files.

2008-08-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:58:07AM -0700, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > From the user's perspective, we probably want some > kind of documentation, since nothing pulls in poppler-data; users > expect working evince but they will be broken on upgrade until they > install poppler-data. But current de

Re: disappointed ... APT HowTo removed from sid

2008-08-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 03:55:11PM +0200, Florian Rehnisch wrote: > Hi folks, > > I got the news that apt-howto* packages were removed from > sid (as they were from lenny before). Yes. Some basic apt features have been changed and apt-howto author admits it is not up-to-date. http://b

Bug#278246: marked as done (Cyrillic letters are displayed as double-width in most places)

2008-08-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I agree to close this... > 278246: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278246 > From: Paul Pogonyshev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Cyrillic letters are displayed as double-width in most places > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:09:51 +0300 > > Package: generic

RFH and RFA: [defoma needs work, probably, but is unlikely to go away]

2008-09-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
- Forwarded message from Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: defoma needs work, probably, but is unlikely to go away To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:29:15 +0200 Hi, Holger

Is this another headsup: lenny+1=squeeze

2008-09-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:01:21AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Mabye it would work if we'd add symbols to the current ncurses, rebuild > > everything, then introduce the new one with the new symbols? > > Unless we do this step /before/ the release of lenny, there will still be > issues on par

Re: debian package dependencies

2008-10-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, This should have been debian-user posting... This is not right list. On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:42:39PM +0200, Jan U. Hartmann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm maintaining the Debian Package for a network appliance. The Update > is executed via Webinterface. My problem is that I need an additional > pa

Re: system users

2008-11-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:49:12AM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Hi! > > ,[ http://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts ] > | A collision free way to name system accounts should really be mentioned > | in Debian policy to stop this uncontrolled growth of different methods. > `-

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:02:41PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 08:45:16PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:48:24AM +, Simon Huggins wrote: > > > I wonder how many DDs were ashamed to vote the titled "Reaffirm the > > > social contract" low

Re: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome

2009-01-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:02:21AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 07 Jan 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > > > I don't remember using sections in over 4 years of Debian usage, though > > > I had already used GNU/Linux for a few months before I switched to > > > Debian. But I doubt eve

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:52:43AM +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > When I'm locking at the BTS, I sometimes get the feeling it was either > designed a long time ago, or that it was designed by real hardcore > developers. Not that it isn't effective, as when you have learned the > whole system

RFH: Debiandoc SGML (debiandoc-sgml) and UTF-8 transition

2007-07-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, (Reply-To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org) This is call for help for DebianDOC SGML infrastructure update to cope with new UTF-8 environment for lenny. (Especially for PS and PDF output.) The volunteer should have some understandings on: * SGML * perl * POSIX shell * encoding (tradition

Re: UTF-8 man pages

2007-08-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 06:10:53PM +0100, David Given wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > [...] > > I would personally like to see this happen, but until it does we are > > limited (I believe) to the glyphs described in groff_char(7). I am > > not aware of any Japanese support at all except in spec

Re: Plans for gs-esp / gs-gpl / gs-afpl in lenny? -- cupsys?

2007-08-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Thanks for this good news. On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:09:05AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Hi everyone, > > recently ghostscript 8.60 was released [1] which is now available under > the GPL. > The features of ESP Ghostscript have been merged into Ghostscript GPL > and the upstream of gs-esp

Re: Plans for gs-esp / gs-gpl / gs-afpl in lenny?

2007-09-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:53:12PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:31:22AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > > > I cannot understand why transition like this one are done in Ubuntu rather > > than in Debian? > > If they were done directly in D

Re: Plans for gs-esp / gs-gpl / gs-afpl in lenny?

2007-09-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:31:22AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > I cannot understand why transition like this one are done in Ubuntu rather > than in Debian? > If they were done directly in Debian, ubuntu could benefit from the result > as well since they synchronize their repositories regul

Re: Plans for gs-esp / gs-gpl / gs-afpl in lenny?

2007-09-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:53:12PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:31:22AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > > > I cannot understand why transition like this one are done in Ubuntu rather > > than in Debian? > > If they were done directly in D

Re: Plans for gs-esp / gs-gpl / gs-afpl in lenny?

2007-09-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 01:32:44PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Hello Osamu, > > thank you very much for your reply! > > Osamu Aoki schrieb: >> Latest news here. >> >> http://www.mhatta.org/blog/ >> >> He is planning and working on its new rele

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-09-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I think one technical solution which seems o be good to one person may not be good one for others. You must think realistic solution which do not affect others in any negative way and possibly give more benefits than just solving your own corner case problem. On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:03:05

MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, After seeing recent post(*) on the default MTA issue, I did some research and experiment on MTAs. They are summarized at: http://wiki.debian.org/DefaultMTA Also good review was found at: http://shearer.org/MTA_Comparison Although both exim4 and postfix daemons are negligibly small ones on

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
comment as below On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:36:06AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After seeing recent post(*) on the default MTA issue, I did some > > research and experiment on MTAs. They are summarized at: > > http://wiki.debian.org/De

Re: Bug#451799: new evince cannot display Japanese characters correctly

2007-12-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 01:22:49PM +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > However I don't think there is anything copyrightable in these files; > > they only contain series of numbers that describe the mappings. Do you > > people think it could be suitable for main? > > (Please follow-up on -legal only for

Re: Please don't list available translations in the package description

2007-12-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:10:35PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:40:43PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Leo costela Antunes said: > > > Enrico Zini wrote: > > > > I'm thinking of filing bugs, but I'd like to get some feedback here > >

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#411639: x11-common: There should be a way to set per-user environment variables which last the whole X session]

2007-12-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 10:29:33AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > Hi everyone, > >I'd appreciate some brief commentary on this bug from people who are > more aware of the minutia of shells and so forth than I am. Is this really > accurate, or is there a way that the submitter and myself are una

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 03:18:51PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > I prefer to allocate such host names in a real domain, and give them just > > TXT > > records or 127.0.1.1 A records in some weird cases where I can't trust the > > box to not do idiotic things like go to the D

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2010-01-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 10:29:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:33:44PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > Using .local in own environments sadly clashes with the (I think now > > installed by default) mDNS namespace for locally-resolvable hostnames. > > But it somehow make

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2010-01-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 10:06:01PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 10:29:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:33:44PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > Using .local in own environments sadly clashes with the (I think now

Re: Flag images - technical solution

2010-02-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, > On 17/02/2010 19:15, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On the other hand, one application will want 16x10 icons, another one > > 24x15, another one may have some effects applied on the flags to better > > fit the UI design, etc. > > > > So while applications amy be using flags already, are they really

Double dependency problem with ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, etc.

2010-02-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Since lintian complains about missing ${misc:Depends}, people are adding it to Depends: in debian/control. This is good thing but there could be complication. One example is http://bugs.debian.org/548282 This is causing double dependencies and creating uninstallable set of packages in some

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:37:17AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2010-03-03, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > This is where I disagree. When a checksum algorithm is compromised (and > > MD5 *is* compromised), things only ever get worse, not better. Indeed, > > MD5 preimage attacks are pretty hard *tod

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 03:06:20AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hello world, > > wou...@celtic:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ ls *md5sums|wc -l > 2340 > wou...@celtic:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ ls *sums|wc -l > 2340 > wou...@celtic:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ dpkg -l|sed -e'1,/=/d'|wc -l > 2483 Here on my syst

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 02:25:44PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > True but debsums can address these issues by system administrator > > touch-ups as documented in manpage using: > > > > * /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90debsums (debsums >

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:18:30AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Niels Thykier wrote: > > That being said, I would (as it is now) actually prefer that it was > > just a helper tool that from a VCS could derive a source package of > > existing format. That would probabl

Bug#576080: general: missing ftp://ftp.upload.debian.org/pub/UploadQueue/README

2010-03-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: general Severity: normal We have moved UploadQueue to: ftp://ftp.upload.debian.org/pub/UploadQueue/ But new URL is missing ftp://ftp.upload.debian.org/pub/UploadQueue/README Thus poliy document has missing link. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-04-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:01:31AM -0400, James Vega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:47:28PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:18:30AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Niels Thykier wrote: > > >

Re: debian/watch problem due to http://code.google.com download page's link format change

2010-05-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 05:16:08PM +0800, Asias He wrote: > Hi, All > > Recently, code.google.com changed the download page link format. > As a result, the old debian/watch file in packages whose upstream source code > hosted on code.google.com did work anymore. > > Take the ibus project for

Re: Too much disruptive NMUs

2010-05-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 06:23:25PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 2010 09:32:02 -0700 > tony mancill wrote: > > > I sponsored the upload of a number of Jari's fixes. You state that > > they were disruptive, but I'm wondering to whom. The uploads were to > > delayed queues and

Re: Too much disruptive NMUs

2010-05-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 07:33:48PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 24/05/10 at 01:15 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Really, issue is "Debian does not have reasonable rule for hijacking or > > automatic orphaning". > > I fully agree. There are many package

Bug#587258: ITP: im-config -- Input method configuration framework

2010-06-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki * Package name: im-config Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Osami Aoki * URL : http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/im-config.git * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: POSIX shell Description : Input

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

2010-07-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:29:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:59:56AM -0400, Will wrote: > > aptitude is the preferred package management tool, so I'm thinking > > that the priority of libboost-iostreams should be upgraded [1][2]. > > > [1] > > http://www.debia

Re: udev: chown of /dev/ppp

2010-07-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 09:45:52PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Normal users, which are allowed to dial out, should be added to group > "dialout" by root. Device /dev/ppp should be set to 660, and owner > root:dialout. You should read: /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.html dialou

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:49:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:56:23AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > After years and years of waiting for packages to register their > > documents with doc-base, and filing individual bugs with some (not all > > -- I am not jid

Re: recovering from compromised keys

2010-09-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 03:13:06PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: ... > By policy, we use full-disk encryption at my workplace (where full-disk > really means "except the bootloader and /boot"). For a 2-year-old recipe for > it, which I believe still mostly works with grub2, see > http://smcv.pseudor

History ...: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Let's not reinvent the "wheel" :-) (Let's use old "wheel" group in line with current documentations.) On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 09:44:41PM +0200, Arthur de Jong wrote: > On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 16:48 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > If we decide to reject 'admin', I think we should use sudo. I fi

Re: History ...: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
2010 at 18:05:45 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > (Let's use old "wheel" group in line with current documentations.) > > That's not in line with wheel's historical use, though... historically > wheel meant "may run su(8) at all". Everyone on a GNU sys

Bug#604474: general: Network-Manager-Applet 0.8.1 shows "disconnected",, but connection working

2010-11-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:52:14PM +0100, jones.79 wrote: > /etc/network/interfaces: > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > Ok, if this is the intended behaviour of Network Manager (0.8.1), > but it is misleading. How so ... Have you read /usr/share/doc/network-manager/README.Debia

Re: List of FTBFS in Ubuntu -- sbuild resolver issue???

2010-12-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 08:43:23AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Osamu Aoki >debian-reference I checked http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu_ftbfs.cgi and I am intrigued. Build log seems to indicate it failed to build. http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~lucas/ubuntu-nbs/32/

Re: New user and group name for inadyn package

2010-12-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:05:05AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Marc Haber] > > Many Debian-Packages use Debian-packagename as an account name to > > avoid naming clashes. This is disputed though, so you may choose > > differently. I'd name the account Debian-inadyn and live with the > >

Re: apt-diff: a tool to diff filesystem content against APT

2010-12-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:52:28PM -0800, Tristan Schmelcher wrote: > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Goswin von Brederlow > wrote: > > Tristan Schmelcher writes: > >>> how does it deal with configurations generated in postinstall? > I find debsums to be too basic for my needs. apt-diff is

Re: apt-diff: a tool to diff filesystem content against APT

2010-12-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:06:45AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:52:28PM -0800, Tristan Schmelcher wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Goswin von Brederlow > > wrote: > > > Tristan Schmelcher writes: > > >>> h

Re: apt-diff: a tool to diff filesystem content against APT

2010-12-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
HI, On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:02:44PM -0800, Tristan Schmelcher wrote: > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Goswin von Brederlow > wrote: > > Osamu Aoki writes: > > > >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:06:45AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>

Re: Directories named after packages

2011-01-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 02:54:38PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Many of the bits of the policy manual, and informal practice, suggest > naming directories after your package. > ... > In general, the principle should be that where to look in the > filesystem for something should not depend on h

Re: Directories named after packages

2011-01-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:44:43AM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: > On 10/01/2011 22:52, Frank Küster wrote: > > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > >> 3. Historic/Upstream choice (?): /usr/share/doc/texmf > >>(Several TeX packages uses this.) > > >

Re: maintainer ignores bug

2011-02-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:45:46AM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:52:02 +0200 Dmitry Baryshev wrote: > > > Hello guys. > > > > I've filed a bug on reportbug, but its maintainer ignores it, No maintainer did not ignore it. He responded reasonably. > and continues

Re: maintainer ignores bug

2011-02-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 07:41:18PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Osamu Aoki , 2011-02-27, 02:50: > >>>I've filed a bug on reportbug, but its maintainer ignores it, > > > >No maintainer did not ignore it. He responded reasonably. > > He did not. D

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 08:10:01PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 08:56:46PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Vi, 04 mar 11, 19:29:36, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > > Except in a workstation place. ... > > If you have trouble un-installing avahi-daemon from those syste

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-03-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:40:41PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Marcin Owsiany writes: > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:29:57PM +, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > >> How are others doing it? > > > > Thanks for all the responses (I never expected to start such a big > > discussion - it mu

Re: language-chooser: Language order shouldn't be alphabetical

2003-10-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 05:02:50PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:18:46PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña > wrote: > > From my point of view, languagechooser should base its ordering in a very > > simple metric > > Alphabetic on eighter the locale or the officia

Re: language-chooser: Language order shouldn't be alphabetical

2003-10-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 12:35:24PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 06:04:32PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > 2. Debian (official) should ship language chooser with: > > * Priority order list: C > > List C (en_US) as top and the rest

Re: faster boot

2003-10-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:08:11AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 02:44, Russell Coker wrote: > > Surely if a daemon takes a long time before it detaches from it's terminal > > and > > "goes daemon", then you can have a parent process put it in the background > > and direct it

Re: Bug#220401: ITP: linux-experimental -- Linux 2.4 kernel [EXPERIMENTAL PACKAGE]

2003-11-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi Robert, On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:23:35PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:26:26AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > > * Package name: linux-experimental > > > > I really don't care either way, but would you consider using > > kernel-linux-whatever instead?

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (II)

2003-11-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:20:21AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 04:30:26PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Kenshi Muto wrote: > > > At Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:59:24 +0100, > > > Martin Schulze wrote: > > > > Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 > > > > =

Nice multilingual environment with Debian menu

2003-12-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, We all know how to set up localized environment through shell environment variables. There is even helper packages language-env. (Or KDE etc can be started with locale set by kdm.) But I never liked them since I get locked into a single locale. So how can we elegantly set multilingual envir

Re: Nice multilingual environment with Debian menu

2003-12-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:21:25PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 12:43, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > * UTF-8 console with English locale > > * UTF-8 console with Japanese locale > > Why are these different? Try "man man", "ls -l" or &

Re: How to depend on Japanese fonts?

2003-12-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 02:14:05PM +1100, Ben Burton wrote: > > Hi. I have a question in relation to #216440 (kiten requires Japanese > fonts): > > Is there a simple or recommended way of making a package depend on > Japanese fonts? > > The only solutions I can see are to either: > > 1) pick a

Re: Nice multilingual environment with Debian menu

2003-12-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:24:54AM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: > I suffer from the same problem, too. I'm using chinese, english and > german. However, the problem does not get fixed by changing the locale > all the time... this should not be done anyways. Yes. > IMHO the local setting should re

BTS (Normal and Important)

2003-12-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I know BTS maintainer is working :-) I feel it. On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:19:04AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:05:44AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > > How quickly is a change of maintainer supposed to propagate to the BTS? ... > In the meantime, I've rsynced the

Which machine is best to build documentation package?

2003-12-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
My package "Debian Reference" is large source files and it uses many TeX and SGML tools. Can anyone tell me which machine I should use to build and upload package. Since SSH upload has been disabled, it looks very slow and unreliable to upload. (Does dupload uses -C ? Somehow, I felt faster.)

Debian m17n method under X with UTF-8

2004-10-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
ja_JP.UTF-8 .) Osamu PS: aptitude seems to ignore CJK locales now. So the menu change for aptitude may not be have been needed. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brussels Belgium, GPG-key: A8061F32 .'&#x

Re: Debian m17n method under X with UTF-8

2004-10-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:50:18AM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: > On Saturday 16 October 2004 07:34, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > How are you making Debian into UTF-8 and multilingual/multi-locale > > system while switching between normal gnome and Xfce? So far, I did > >

Bug#276995: ITP: m17n-env -- Set up multilingual X environment

2004-10-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: m17n-env Version : 0.0.1-10 Upstream Author : Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://people.debian.org/~osamu/package/ License : GPL 2.0 + Description : Set up multilingual X environment

Bug#276997: ITP: scim-imengine-uim -- UIM IM engine module for SCIM

2004-10-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
loader) -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~

debiandoc-sgml issues (html being lynx/links unfriendly)

2002-04-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
created with known problematic version (1.1.59). Sincerely Osamu -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D

Re: debiandoc-sgml issues (html being lynx/links unfriendly)

2002-04-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Kon'nichiwa Umekawa-san (Hi, Mr. Umekawa), On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 03:42:17PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > > Since there seems to be another new debiandoc-sgml coming, it may take > > few more days before

Re: HELP - Screen is flooded with DHCP messages.

2002-08-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
d/klogd KLOGD="-k /boot/System.map-$(uname -r) -c 3" I wonder why this script does not create /etc/default/klogd like other init script. Although it is conffile, I do not like editing it directly for this trivial configuration. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^

Re: How to get rid of non-free packers?

2002-08-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
orical > reason makes difficult to change their license. It looks like Arai-san [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to be most active. http://ns103.net/~arai is his URL He has new autoconf version. It looks to me people are treating almost like public domain as long as New sources are available to genera

Re: How to get rid of non-free packers?

2002-08-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:50:58PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Mon, 26 Aug 2002 00:23:30 -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > It looks like Arai-san [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to be most active. > > http://ns103.net/~arai is his URL > > > > He has new autoconf version. >

Re: Bug#170472: info: top Info pages of different packages wildly differ

2002-11-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
send the file to me or Javier, we will add it. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developer

Re: Need other languafes then english, german and french

2002-12-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
s for 'fs_ IR', 'ar_SY' und 'ar_MA'. > > I get a very funny screen... ;-)) ... > The most important thing is mc... If issue is mc, why not start mc with "-a" option. It let mc use only ascii codes to draw frame etc. Good luck -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~

Re: What should go into "How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format"?

2002-12-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
aybe it'd be > better to create directories such as /usr/bin//, > /usr/lib/ and so on. I'm not too sure about this, > though. Any ideas? What about /opt/? -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ITP: ttf-japanese-kandata

2001-04-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
> document were not remained yet. Mr. wakaba said "I think there is no > problem because I(wakaba) and Mr.UCHIDA remake a lot of glyphs and > nobody point out the problem up to now. But I can't guarantee it." -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~

Re: Policy proposal: 'local-foo' for system-specific init.d fil

2002-04-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
to find. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-customizing.html#s-custombootscripts Problem with FAQ is it is old. (Potato release days contents) Policy to prefixed scripts is nice. FAQ needs to be updated if so. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D

Re: Release Process Information on http://www.debian.org/ correct?

2002-04-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
in kernel-image-2.4.x-yz packages, some non-essential drivers (http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D

Re: PGI installer [Was: Re: Why XFree86 4.2 Isn't in Woody]

2002-04-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
ian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/users-guide.en.txt -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D

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