Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated

2011-05-24 Thread Drake Wilson
is a web form for users to submit bugs. Just to link this to a Place of Community Patterns: you and some of the others seem to be describing a PricklyHedge. http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/PricklyHedge Ian. --- Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian x86 32-bits built for i586 !?

2011-05-15 Thread Drake Wilson
| clflush size: 32 So it does have TSC, CMPXCHG8, and CMOV support. I'm not sure where that places it exactly on the ix86 processor chart; supposedly those are the main architectural differences that can actually break things compiled for i586? --- Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-02 Thread Drake Wilson
of these are local system services rather than major applications on their own.) --- Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110303015038.ga11

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread Drake Wilson
it once. --- Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110112012933.ga3...@drache.begriffli.ch

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread Drake Wilson
upstream and user, request that the user take control of the upstream bug to streamline the rest of the flow. N could be 1 or 2, for instance. --- Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Bug#581434: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-15 Thread Drake Wilson
sid. I kind of doubt testing numeric ID equivalence between those two namespaces is a good idea. --- Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-10 Thread Drake Wilson
dangerous than having to chmod files after the fact. Conversely, setting default ACLs is one of the first things I do when setting up collaboration directories. --- Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Drake Wilson
that I seek an informative discussion, not a holy war. Yet I see practical issues being raised, and responses mainly accusing them of completely misunderstanding and shallow thinking. --- Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: renaming scripts provided by upstream

2008-12-12 Thread Drake Wilson
programs to comply with the Debian naming scheme creates new problems: Not being well-acquainted with this bit, I can't comment very well on what Debian policy would say, but wouldn't using the upstream name plus a non-extensioned symlink solve several of these cases? Ansgar --- Drake Wilson

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread Drake Wilson
://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnome-games/gnome-games_2.22.3-3/gnome-games.copyright Miry --- Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-23 Thread Drake Wilson
of working around this might involve storing the caption as metadata, or storing the screenshot with decorations and then storing the rectangle corresponding to the client area as metadata. --- Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-23 Thread Drake Wilson
Quoth Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 2008-07-24 00:33:01 +0200: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:53:14AM -0500, Drake Wilson wrote: One data point: a screenshot with no window decorations loses a small amount of information, primarily the caption used for the window. Interesting ways

Re: Bug#490805: ITP: txtreader -- text reader, mainly used for reading text originally novels

2008-07-18 Thread Drake Wilson
of original novels I would more expect text viewer, originally used for reading novels. text viewer, mainly used for reading text seems fairly redundant to me. --- Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unifont - consensus on dependencies

2008-06-22 Thread Drake Wilson
, so it wouldn't be considered experimental to remove a BDF font. Depending on how large the files are, I wonder whether a split package (from the same source package) with one package containing TrueType fonts and the other containing PCF fonts would be reasonable. Just a thought. --- Drake

Re: unifont - consensus on dependencies

2008-06-22 Thread Drake Wilson
in the _source_ size if you reduce it to only the information needed to build the TrueType fonts, or is most of the information shared? I would tend to imagine the latter for a package of this nature. Paul Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key ID: E6E6E390 --- Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bug#487317: perl-modules: File::Path::rmtree sets symlink target permissions to 0777

2008-06-21 Thread Drake Wilson
permissions on files that exist in Debian packages would be another improvement (I searched the Web for an existing program that does that, but didn't find anything). --- Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#487317: perl-modules: File::Path::rmtree sets symlink target permissions to 0777

2008-06-21 Thread Drake Wilson
) = 0 brk(0x6acf10) = 0x6acf10 brk(0x6ad000) = 0x6ad000 exit_group(-1) = ? Process 16730 detached --- Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact