allow for redirects.
e.g. if someone is looking for screenshots for, say, mozilla, then you
can tell them to go to the iceape page instead.
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On 25 Nov 2006 10:02:14 +0200, Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On 23 Nov 2006 22:40:01 +0200, Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> said:
>>
>> > My point. If there is explicit "Depends:
y, but I don't understand what you're trying to do here. Can you
please explain what dependencies have to do with wishlist bugreports?
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On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:00:45 -0500, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:49:01 -0400, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
>> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:46:23 -0500, Manoj Srivastava
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...]
>>>
eality).
I also would prefer if the first mapping wasn't fuzzy. But it sounds to
me like the release team is reading it as being a fuzzy mapping
(AFAICT), in which case I would suggest making it more clear that the
mapping is fuzzy.
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n the ...
and for policy:
These classifications are roughly equivalent to the bug severities
serious (for must or required directive violations), minor, normal or
important (for should or recommended directive violations) and
wishlist (for optional items). [2] However, this is not a direc
Ms decide on a freeze
date, and make special exceptions for packages that are stuck in NEW, if
they choose, rather than to keep pushing back the freeze.
Of course, depending on when the actual freeze occurs, and how quickly
NEW is processed (which seems to be going more quickly now), this point
il Sept. 17.
NMUs for my packages are welcome for RC bugs, but please try to
coordinate with me first (I will still have some email access), since I
have a few packages that have already been sent to sponsors for
uploading.
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am not aware of any that don't rely on GNUstep, but that use
GNUstep features when present.
There seems to be only a handful of dockapps that use ".app", though, so
if you see a package that says ".app", chances are that it's a GNUstep
program. And nearly all GNUs
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:29:37 -0500, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 01:19:47PM -0600, Hubert Chan wrote:
>> On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:26:12 + (UTC), "Sam Morris"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
[...]
>> > How do othe
l RHEL 4 on such a machine?
By downloading pre-compiled kernel modules (usually from the hardware
vendor, or from another vendor that ships the same hardware).
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wrong way and for this reason
> added the OS exception, but the GPL does allow to link a
> GPLd project against libraries under other licenses.
He's specifically talking about the so-called "operating system
exception" in the GPL v2, and what the GPL v3 refers to
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:25:52 +0200, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> No, but the combined work (A+B) (i.e. a binary produced by linking
>> module A with module B) is a "work based on" A, and hence (A+B) mus
ce this would not be "mere aggregation".
You brought up the question of Cygwin in a previous message, but that is
covered by the exception given in the second-last paragraph of section 3.
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2 [1]. Substrings composed of digits are
compared numerically, and so 09 == 9. (This is done to ensure that 10 >
9, for example.)
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version
So I guess your only real option is to use an epoch.
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we choose
to publish that information.
(Of course, I think that you should always be allowed to NMU by
following the procedures that we already have.)
> That will help to avoid some confusion, when people are in doubt wrt
> "to NMU or not to NMU".
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:40:54 -0300, "Gustavo Franco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 7/31/06, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:00:21 +, "Gustavo Franco"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>> [...]
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:00:21 +, "Gustavo Franco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
[...]
> The packages that aren't under group maintenance and will never be,
> needs more not so strict NMU rules.
Why?
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intain, I may welcome
co-maintainers as well, depending on the package -- for some packages,
the overhead of co-maintenance is greater than any benefit that we might
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thing, except that package A happens to be named the same as the virtual
package.) But this doesn't give any reason for why package A needs to
conflict with itself.
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libgnustep-gui0.10
Fixed in my own local repository. Waiting for the next upstream release
before uploading (to avoid having to rebuild all GNUstep packages
twice).
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ve a package that builds fine in my sid pbuilder on my 128MB box, but
it eats memory like crazy in my sarge pbuilder on the same box, AFAIK
mostly due to the older compiler.)
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On Mon, 29 May 2006 21:29:34 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unknown) said:
> * ufraw (need to package new Upstream; easy)
I can take this if nobody else wants it.
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On Wed, 10 May 2006 14:24:58 -0400, James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:41:56PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote:
>> alsaplayer-common contains the main alsaplayer binary
>> (/usr/bin/alsaplayer), which does not function without an
>> alsaplayer-
On Wed, 10 May 2006 09:04:14 -0400, James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:32:53AM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote:
>> Hmm... alsaplayer-common Depends: on "alsaplayer-alsa |
>> alsaplayer-output" and "alsaplayer-gtk | alsaplayer-interface
tep packages this week.)
> Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>alsaplayer-alsa
>alsaplayer-common
>alsaplayer-gtk
Hmm... alsaplayer-common Depends: on "alsaplayer-alsa |
alsaplayer-output" and "alsaplayer-gtk | alsaplayer-interface". Is this
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 101
which results in packages that I installed from experimental
automatically tracking experimental, while all the other packages track
sid. I don't quite understand exactly why it works...
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Testing has libc6 2.3.6-3. Is it safe to assume that any 2.3.6 version
will have the correct time zone information?
Thanks
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mpiler along with the
original unmodified source.
Unless you have a separate process in your brain that scans the
document, applies the addenda, and then ships the result to the rest of
your brain...
(P.S. How did this discussion end up in -devel? It isn't "Discussion
abo
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: popplerkit.framework
Version : svn snapshot
Upstream Author : Stefan Kleine Stegemann
* URL or Web page : http://download.gna.org/gsimageapps/PopplerKit
* License : GPL
Description : GNUstep framework for accessing PDF
/Solaris end
> users. It's the GNU/Solaris end users who have been stolen from.
> I'll give up now. Is that dead horse I smell? :)
I don't know, but maybe we should keep beating it until the smell goes
away. :)
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mode is
> quite horrible (silent failure to print anything).
This could possibly be fixed by having programs fall back on a hardcoded
/tmp if $TMP is not writable. And/or by having init scripts clean up
their environment.
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eatedly pointed out, this will not help with
getting dpkg dual-licensed, since several dpkg copyright holders
probably do not want that.
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Debian port.
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>>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Adrian> On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:58:52AM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote:
>> ... In fact, I've never looked at the gcc documentation other than
>> to look up machine-specific options and optim
bscure things.
In fact, the GR last year [1] showed that most DDs think that non-free
still contains useful software; not just obscure stuff.
[1] http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_002
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do. Better to make a config file that says
which system to configure. Or just configure all of them.
Besides, everyone should be using CUPS anyways, right? ;-)
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: asymptote
Version : 0.53
Upstream Author : Andy Hammerlindl, John Bowman, Tom Prince
* URL or Web page : http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
Description : script-based vector graphics language inspired by
ints] some information
about the specified file system, [checks] if error flags in the
superblock are set and [does] some light-weight checks." So it may be
"safe" now to have it set to run fsck on bootup. This is from
reiserfsprogs with Debian version 1:3.6.11-1 (from unstable)
nother difference with fsck.ext{2,3}. This is a minor
A> bug, but annoying (it wastes time).
fsck shouldn't be automatically run for ReiserFS partitions. In
/etc/fstab, make sure that the lines for your reiserfs partitions have
'0' as the last number, rather than a '1'
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