Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-12 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
[ ⏰ 11/11/2015 23:28 ] [ ✎ Jeroen Dekkers ] > Documentation should be put in /usr/share/doc, not in /etc. I always > find it annoying to have to review lots of comment changes in > configuration files during upgrades instead of simply the options that > actually changed. With big config files it

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-11 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
[ ⏰ 11/11/2015 18:14 ] [ ✎ Marc Haber ] > Once and for all we're doing _SOMETHING_ right, let's keep it that > way. I do not agree that we are doing something exactly right. I would like /etc to only contain what I changed (as a sysadmin), and nothing else ; AND I would like to be warned if

Re: Bug#777643: general: possibly, some keyboard layouts should use U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR instead of U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT

2015-02-12 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
[ ⏰ 12/02/2015 06:15 ] [ ✎ Nikolaus Rath ] How dare you write ... instead of the proper … :-P I'm curious, how do you type that in conviently? I hope it's not copying and pasting from a template file, and remembering (and/or finding out) the X11 Compose sequence seems cumbersome too. Best,

Re: apache2 issues

2014-07-29 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
[ ⏰ 29/07/2014 07:55 ] [ ✎ Wouter Verhelst ] Op dinsdag 29 juli 2014 10:51:45 schreef Brian May: So ideally I only want to depend on libapache2-mod-wsgi if apache2 is installed, but this is not possible. Sure it is. Depends: apache2 | libapache2-mod-wsgi, apache2 | httpd is perfectly

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
/sbin/shutdown ? (and they need to be able to shutdown their own machine, power is not free). This is simply a long-standing bug in Linux that you got used to (or got used to its workarounds), but as a solution now exists, the status quo is threatened. Sincerely, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
[ ⏰ 26/06/2014 15:34 ] [ ✎ Thorsten Glaser ] Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: So that students can do eg ssh mybuddymachine /sbin/shutdown ? (and they need to be able to shutdown their own machine, power is not free). Why do people always think that a proposal will automatically exclude all

Re: Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]

2014-05-15 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
be done: reassign to emacs23 (which obviously will never fix it), or just close it? Sincerely, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Ghostscript licensing changed to AGPL

2014-05-07 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
, for example), the AGPL will contaminate texlive, whereas the GPL did not. Do you see what changed there? Sincerely, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Point 1 of Social Contract

2014-05-04 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
, as shown by [GR2004-2], this is not the opinion of the project. [GR2004-2]: http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_002 Sincerely, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Point 1 of Social Contract

2014-05-04 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
software. Is that what you meant by we shouldn't support proprietary software creaters? Because providing them our wonderful distribution is supporting them. Sincerely, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
management interface is your friend. Sincerely, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-21 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Le 2014-02-21 09:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : On 02/21/2014 09:29 AM, Mario Lang wrote: I am sorry, both are not an option for me, since alsamixer is a ncurses program, and pavucontrol apparently requires $DISPLAY to be set. I guess that explains why the accessibility community has

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-18 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-18 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
(the debian package) or another package (incompatible with pulseaudio; either the debian packaging or the program). Sincerely -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-17 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Le 2014-02-17 16:00, Thomas Goirand a écrit : On 02/17/2014 04:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Well. You can't blame PulseAudio if you have an .asoundrc in your home directory which configures your sound card incorrectly. Oh !!! Now I do remember why my pulseaudio system works. It's

Re: Bug#738839: ITP: mps -- Poor Man's Spotify - Search and stream music

2014-02-14 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
(even if gender specific). I would be much more worried about trademark dispute with spotify, but as said elsewhere, the description was already changed to remove this reference anyway. Sincerely, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
(and a date), this is not useful. Sincerely, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-16 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
and not in a recent emacs? Sincerely, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#727833: ITP: node-bytes -- Byte string parser and formatter - Node.js module

2013-11-02 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
understand this may be part of something bigger, but: 1. This is a bad habit 2. This is bad code 3. Seriously, one package for _18_ lines of code? Sincerely, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
else. Sincerely, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-02 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
to continue the work on this library, albeit as a sponsoree or something (I am not a DD nor a DM). The git tree was not made public, but I can provide all of my work. Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: default MTA

2013-06-17 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
remarke that there is libasound2 in there, too. I can see why notifications (and not desktop notifications) are useful on a headless server. Much less for sound. Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
complicated init scripts is probably quite small. And the init scripts won't suddenly deteriorate. And I suspect that all suspicious cases will receive bugs, and then patches, and that maintainers will integrate these patches. Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description

Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant Was: mount point gets (deleted) / unable to unmount

2013-06-06 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
have no idea. Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- 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/51b0a8b5.9010...@free.fr

Re: default MTA

2013-06-02 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Le 31/05/2013 13:10, Marc Haber a écrit : On Fri, 31 May 2013 08:41:56 +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq jcduba...@free.fr wrote: Le 30/05/2013 18:29, Marc Haber a écrit : On Thu, 30 May 2013 13:56:02 +0200, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: Seems the solutions are very focussed

Re: default MTA

2013-05-31 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
mailers in Debian to read root's local mail by default. I know how to redirect root's mail elsewhere, thank you for not making another mail account to check. Sincerly, -- -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-19 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Le 16/05/2013 08:43, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : On 2013-05-15 20:27:09 +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: No. Your server comes unconfigured, you do configure it while the other is still working, and then you stop the service on the first, finish syncing the mailboxes, switch the MX record

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-15 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
not understanding the basics or misanswering a debconf question to have non-functional servers and not being aware of it. I am definitely in the camp of you install a service, you get a working, minimal, safe configuration. Sincerly, -- -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description

Re: Bug#705850: ITP: gti -- Animates a car and launches git if you type gti by mistake

2013-04-21 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
of git, an ASCII animation of a car driving by appears, and then git is run. Please merge that with sl? -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Git packaging workflow discussion on planet.d.o

2013-04-04 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
) on having a good workflow for this (I ended up tagging myself the upstream tree). Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- 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: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
. Don't forget vim-addon-manager! Don't forget package.el for emacs! -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: GFDL in main

2012-12-01 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
distribution (even though spotting these one year ago would have made things simpler). Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-19 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
management, I discovered that many files under /etc are not conffiles (and not in dpkg managed-files) because of this rule. And this means that automatic management is hard, because they are generated by scripts, and as such, not easy to store, compare to default, etc. Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-19 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 19/09/2012 17:52, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 12-09-19 at 05:27pm, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Jean-Christophe Dubacq And this means that automatic management is hard, because they are generated by scripts, and as such, not easy to store, compare to default, etc. «default» doesn't

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-12 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
, and this has been discussed this summer already. Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#687103: ITP: maps -- OpenStreetMap client for the GNOME Desktop

2012-09-10 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
in the future. Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#687103: ITP: maps -- OpenStreetMap client for the GNOME Desktop

2012-09-09 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
' be a good name? gnome-maps ? Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#687103: ITP: maps -- OpenStreetMap client for the GNOME Desktop

2012-09-09 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 09/09/2012 20:26, Alessio Treglia wrote: On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Jean-Christophe Dubacq jcduba...@free.fr wrote: gnome-maps ? I'd avoid gnome-maps, as upstream != GNOME I am not a specialist, but it looks to me like p gnome-inm-forecast - the Spanish weather

Re: Bug#687103: ITP: maps -- OpenStreetMap client for the GNOME Desktop

2012-09-09 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 09/09/2012 20:48, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: I am not a specialist, but it looks to me that p gnome-inm-forecast - the Spanish weather forecast applet for the GNOME Desktop whose homepage is http://kutxa.homeunix.org/trac/gnome-inm-forecast is official gnome either

Re: emacs23 and/or emacs24 in Wheezy?

2012-07-25 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
corrupted files several times without noticing the problem because of this bug. And it is fixed in emacs24. And AucTeX does not work with emacs24. Even following some indications in the bug reports I didn't succeed in having it work, so I uninstalled it. Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
not fixd. Cannot be so complicated, right? As a comparison point, when I use xdg-open or gnome-open, the Gnome PDF viewer is launched. When I use see, xpdf is launched (okular not installed). Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-11 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
component of Gnome). I may be wrong. Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-16 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 16/06/2012 03:43, Serge wrote: 2012/6/15 Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: This is often seen as not a good move to have a user-writable directory on the system partition(s), since this provides for easy DOS DoS like what? /tmp on disk have a 5% safety limit available for system, user can

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-14 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 15/06/2012 03:11, Serge wrote: 2012/6/13 Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: Why do people repeat that tmpfs is easy to resize? Yes, you need about 3 commands to resize tmpfs, but you need 0 (zero!) commands to resize /tmp on disk, because it's large by default and you don't need to resize

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-13 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
this provides for easy DOS (even involuntary; I know of people daily working with 30GB files, and this easily fills the / partition). -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq (beating a dead horse) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Starting services automatically after install

2012-06-04 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
is rarely useful, so the default configuration is not to listen on localhost only. Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: /tmp on multi-FS set-ups, or: block users from using /tmp?

2012-05-26 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
variable $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. (http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html) I think these two definitions cover what most users (i.e. *human* users) would use /tmp for. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-05-25 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
. For normal users, shouldn't the applications use ~/.cache/ or whatever the xdg vars point to? -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 11/05/2012 08:47, Vincent Bernat wrote: OoO Pendant le journal télévisé du jeudi 10 mai 2012, vers 20:29, Jean-Christophe Dubacq jean-christophe.dub...@ens-lyon.org disait : I do not know about trivially merging changes in the etc-overrides-lib model, but in the current model, I am

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
how to restore them. I find your attitude assumes users always have the knowledge and the time to investigate everything. This is not the reality. Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 11/05/2012 19:03, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 05/12/2012 12:22 AM, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: I find your attitude assumes users always have the knowledge and the time to investigate everything. This is not the reality. Sincerly, Not at all. Anyone without the knowledge

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-10 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
was changed by you and what was changed upstream. Obviously this is not a problem for Red Hat since they do not support upgrades between major releases. There are cases where file in /etc overrides only the directives present in /etc and not the rest. I prefer this way. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-10 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
reconsider, but currently, I prefer the etc-overrides-lib-only-where-present as superior to the current state. Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-10 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 10/05/2012 21:12, Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2012, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: I do not know about trivially merging changes in the etc-overrides-lib model, but in the current model, I am presented with the dpkg prompt about conffiles for some programs where I added (or changed

Re: usefulness of ITPs (Re: mosh ITP not done, just package name taken over)

2012-03-27 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
debian/control and send the ITP? I can write that! -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#662080: ITP: hadori -- Hardlinks identical files

2012-03-07 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
lake of boiling vinegar). Options for considering mtime and modes discriminant are a plus (one day, I'll write this myself, if this is not reinventing something). If anyone happens to see such a beast, please tell me :) -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq jcduba...@free.fr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#662080: ITP: hadori -- Hardlinks identical files

2012-03-07 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Le mercredi 07 mars 2012 à 18:46 +0100, martin f krafft a écrit : also sprach Jean-Christophe Dubacq jcduba...@free.fr [2012.03.07.1825 +0100]: I, for one, would like a program that (starting from some paths on same harddrive), would find all identical files (not considering mtime

Re: Source package without a binary

2012-01-05 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
contains one file (the test suite log, maybe?). This way, anyone could check that the test suite was passed by the version of ghc being compiled by installing the binary package. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: packages with hook interfaces and no documented hook policy

2011-01-17 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 08:19:01PM +, Neil Williams wrote: Huh? I use unattended-upgrades on my laptop as a way to keep it updated without having to create the cron job myself. But I don't expect it to force itself to run at times where I want to the laptop to sleep. Use cron-apt

Re: packages with hook interfaces and no documented hook policy

2011-01-17 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
| for enabling unattended upgrades. I do understand that and of course I know it does not work. I was merely suggesting that the conflict with pm-utils was not the answer. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-07 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
too many alternatives to make the packaging effort worth the time. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- 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/4c860dbe.4090...@free.fr

Re: Recent changes in dpkg

2010-05-27 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
, they're not unheard of. There is also the /usr/doc = /usr/share/doc transition. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- 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/4bfec9b1.7080

Re: bindv6only again

2010-05-08 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
/sysctl.d/ to override the current /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf setting, and disable net.ipv6.bindv6only = 1 when sun-java6 is installed. :) Happy hacking, What if it is just installed from the tarball? -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: bindv6only again

2010-05-08 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 09/05/2010 01:45, Clint Adams wrote: On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 12:16:10AM +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: What if it is just installed from the tarball? Then that person is still using buggy, non-free software. Which should not prevent this person from running it, especially when all

Re: Binary package names for mozilla plugins [Was: Bits from the Mozilla Extension Packaging Team]

2010-04-26 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
if you've a choice among these two the latter is preferable. Cheers. If this is so, then browserplugin-* should content everyone. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#577087: ITP: spim -- MIPS R2000/R3000 emulator

2010-04-09 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jean-Christophe Dubacq jcduba...@free.fr Owner: Jean-Christophe Dubacq jcduba...@free.fr This package previously existed in Debian/non-free, but was removed due to lack of maintainership and being non-free. Since I use this for teaching

Re: Best practices for development workstations

2010-03-31 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
and such. Sincerly -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- 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/20100331090029.ga9...@oberon.tenebreuse.org

Re: e2fsprogs not esential anymore?

2010-03-16 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
). Example is mktemp and diff which are (according to the tool I use for upgrade) regularly proposed for deinstallation and then proposed for reinstallation. Not that it is a big problem, tough. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums

2010-03-09 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 09/03/2010 14:24, Bernhard R. Link wrote: It it's that straight forward, please help with the cruft package. Last time I looked (several years ago) it was severly limited by that problem (there not being a way to know which files should be there and which not). I personally think

Re: md5sums files

2010-03-06 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
conffiles and it's a real mess to check whether a conffile is really obsolete (can be removed) or is now managed by postinst (or ucf). Some conffiles left behind can have side-effects (usually not important ones). -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Bug#555743: dpkg-gencontrol: add support for Description:-s in the Source package stanza

2010-03-02 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 02/03/2010 14:04, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Tue, 02 Mar 2010, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 01:03:57PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: The substvars approach sounds good to me. I think I'd use it quite a lot, specially in libraries. That, however, does not solve

Re: Downgrading a package to get it into upcoming release

2010-02-16 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
. If not, then you should use epochs: upload MongoDB 1:1.2 to unstable, and MongoDB 1:1.3 to experimental. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- 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: Is tabular data in binary format acceptable for Debian ?

2010-01-20 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
neural network. There are files with raw weights. It is possible to retrain on build the program, but it would take a very long time, and the resulting network wouldn't even be the same. What is the source in this case? I do not see what editing means in this context. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

2009-12-21 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
brasero (real package) is meant to be installed. *That* would be reasonable, and would not interfere with what the packagers do. And you could get somepackagemanager undummy brasero and somepackagemanager dummylist, which would be a must. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
... Is there somewhere a list of how to fix? Something simple so that maintainers may do the right things as soon as a package is FTBFS? -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Debconf and PackageKit

2009-10-02 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
expect some information. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Ben Finney a écrit : Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org writes: Yes, I know the L command, but thanks for pointing it out! My argument is that I have to remember to use when I am replying to the Debian lists, which as you can see, doesn't happen very often. No, the point of a ‘reply to

Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main

2008-12-01 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Marco d'Itri a écrit : On Dec 01, Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But anyway, and knowing this is not an Ubuntu list... Does anybody know why on Earth is Acroread popular? Why isn't a PDF regularly I need it to view some large/complex PDF files with reasonable performace. Developers

Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main

2008-12-01 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Marco d'Itri a écrit : On Dec 01, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried evince? For some reason, it used to be faster than the other free viewers (including xpdf itself). Yes. Nowadays it's better indeed: after freezing the UI for 30 seconds while the CPU spins at full

Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?

2008-06-13 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Lennart Sorensen a écrit : On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:15:59AM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Thanks, you hinted me to discover it: $ aptitude why banshee synaptic p banshee Recommends brasero p brasero Recommends gnome-mount p gnome-mount Dependslibeel2-2.20 p

snapshot.debian.net missing october

2007-12-08 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
I did not see it mentioned elsewhere, but is it normal that october 2007 is missing from snapshot.debian.net ? http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/10/ is empty for me... -- JCD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-16 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Phillip Susi a écrit : Christof Krüger wrote: Unfortunately, computer designers, technicians etc. are not living in an isolated world (well.. maybe some of them). No one wants to forbid the computer people to use base 2 numbers. They are just asked to write KiB instead of KB if they mean base

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:41:27PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:08 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:25:13PM +, Evgeni Golov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:42:08 -0300 Paulo Marcondes wrote:

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 05:14:18PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: Magnus Holmgren wrote: I'm in favour! (But are you requesting that aptitude use SI prefixes correctly, or that it use IEC (binary) prefixes? I think we should go for the binary prefixes. Users will be confused when they

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-06-03 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
You're *not* giving up the right not to distribute any source, because you can always refrain from distributing the corresponding binaries and have no obligation to provide source. You're *not* giving up the right to distribute binaries without distributing the corresponding source,

Re: 64-bit transition deadline (Re: Etch in the hands of the Stable Release Managers)

2007-04-10 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:00:08AM -0700, Sean Perry wrote: I haven't seen much Debian in the last 6 years in the commercial world. RH rules that roost. If people have chosen closed source, then they likely are also paying for an enterprise edition of their free OS too. Linux == Redhat

Re: 64-bit transition deadline (Re: Etch in the hands of the Stable Release Managers)

2007-04-10 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:40:27AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 4/10/07, Jean-Christophe Dubacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:00:08AM -0700, Sean Perry wrote: I haven't seen much Debian in the last 6 years in the commercial world. RH rules that roost

Re: 64-bit transition deadline (Re: Etch in the hands of the Stable Release Managers)

2007-04-10 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:36:06PM +0100, Luis Matos wrote: Ter, 2007-04-10 às 08:28 -0600, Warren Turkal escreveu: On Tuesday 10 April 2007 07:43, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: I may have exaggerated by saying 20 years, but I will not settle for less than 10. And we need those anyway to

Re: debhelper and debconf: package and protocol versions

2007-03-21 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:09:06PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:13:18PM +0100, Magnus Holmgren wrote: dh_installdebconf adds a fixed dependency on debconf (= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 to ${misc:Depends} if debconf is actually needed. But judging from the changelog

Re: edit patches in dpkg configuration file dialog

2007-03-07 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
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Re: localisation in system wide daemons

2007-01-16 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Le 16 janv. 07 à 20:13, Don Armstrong a écrit : This peoples will ask you for help and send all the logfiles maybe in arabic, hindu or africaan. So you ask them to translate or rerun the program with an appropriate locale. Being able to speak all of the languages that Debian is in isn't a

Re: bash features (Re: Question about Depends: bash)

2006-11-22 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:12:14AM +, Oleg Verych wrote: On 2006-11-21, Ian Jackson wrote: Oleg Verych writes (Re: Question about Depends: bash): o `arrays' bashizm - tmp=$@ ; set -- $ARRAY ; use_array $@ ; set -- $tmp This is another piece of bad advice: this approach is buggy if

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-05 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Le 5 nov. 06 à 14:49, sean finney a écrit : On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 14:04 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: The file does not get executed as expected, but the browser wants to download it (which might be a security issue). Then it is likely that you don't have php installed. *or* that php is

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-02 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 07:20:12PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:32:39PM +0100, Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've just upgraded #393913 from minor to important. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393913 Somebody just mailed

Re: How do I rebuild alternative symlinks?

2006-10-26 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 02:30:09PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: I found a way to do it, but I think the solution was less than ideal: Install Debarnacle from CPAN (isn't even in debian...) Supposing /etc/alternatives is correct, I have a script to do that: for i in

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-25 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 01:48:02AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: So certain bugs can be marked $STABLE-ignore to allow transient rc issues to be ignored for a release and will become no-ops after release. Are you suggesting that each package can have a related list of non-transient bugs that should

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 6

2006-10-25 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 07:01:22AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: install time are indeed buggy, but I see no indication that the jihad against circular dependencies is making any such distinctions. It that's the case, I'm not sure this is the best way to make the point. I'm actually

Re: Update: status of inetd

2006-08-30 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 12:58:27PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 28, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Split out update-inetd from netbase into a new inetd package. No, because e.g. xinetd needs a totally different update-inetd program. It's simpler if each inetd package will ship

Re: Configuration file shadowed?

2006-07-21 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Le 21 juil. 06 à 18:23, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : While it is true any file can be changed to change behaviour for TeX (like things can be changed in /usr/include/foo.h to change behaviour of a -dev package), any file with a name *.cnf is meant to be a configuration file, and must,

[Meta] Encodage UTF-8 dans la liste debian-french

2006-04-07 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Les mails encodés en UTF-8 diffusés sur la liste sont incorrectement encodés. Ça se voit en particulier avec certains lecteurs. En effet, un même message est attaché à chaque message: -- Pensez à lire la FAQ de la liste avant de poser une question : http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianFrench Pensez

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