Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent
23.12.2007 pisze Kalle Kivimaa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why was it removed from Debian GNU/Linux in the first place!? It's never been in Debian. The source package is in non-free, as the license didn't permit binary distribution. See e.g. http://packages.debian.org/etch/qmail-src for some explanation. Ah, but it's been there, once. I remember that my first Debian installation included in the default setup all the accounts used by qmail (if not the qmail itself). Jubal (...am I using Debian that long?) -- [ Miroslaw L Baran | jabber id: baran-at-hell-pl | key-id: FC494FC4 | 0101010 ] If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly. -- Ashleigh Brilliant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: State of gcc 2.95 use in Debian unstable
16.11.2005 pisze Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Debian is staffed by volunteers who do this because they want to. I, for one, appreciate very, very much what they do for me. quote Writing/maintaining software is providing a service (even when it's free). You need to listen to your customers if you want to learn what features they need and thereby improve your product. Of course, the customer isn't _always_ right, and often they suggest specific implementations which don't fit into the grand scheme, but it's the input of ideas which is important. Even if they seem at first to be wrong, I've found it's always worth thinking about them, even if you ultimate modify or reject them. This is all IMHO, of course. --Philip Hazel on exim-users@exim.org /quote Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, http://hell.pl/baran/tek/, alchemy pany! ] [ The Answer ] ''It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: does gs needs to depend on gsfonts, or could it use ttf fonts maybe?
25.07.2005 pisze Miernik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): These can be matched with the 12 DejaVu TTF fonts: No, they cannot be matched. DejaVu fonts do not provide exactly the same metrics as the standard PS fonts. Anyways, what's your problem with these standard Type1 fonts? Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] Ninety percent of everything is bullshit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: multiarch?
8.07.2005 pisze Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): If everything in main can be ported to pure64 there is little need for multiarch on amd64. There's not only main, you know. Sometimes you need to run other applications and the ability to run these makes the difference between using the Debian distribution or something else. I rather prefer to have homogenous Debian environment on my Linux machines. Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] Famous last words: You will be Told about it Tomorrow. Go Home and Prepare Thyself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems
17.06.2005 pisze Peter Samuelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I think you'd best come up with a better line of argument. The S in DFSG does not stand for copyright, it stands for software. Software usually contains copyrighted code, and sometimes it also contains trademarked names or images. You can argue that the DFSG does not apply to trademark restrictions, but I hope you have a better reason than S stands for Copyright. You could also, as a courtesy to other readers, lay before us the stunningly obvious proof that a free software that elects to use trademarks automagically transmutates into non-free state. Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] Any system that depends on reliability is unreliable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems
15.06.2005 pisze Eric Dorland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): You're free to make /any/ modifications to firefox, as long as you either rename it to something else or get permission to call it firefox. Doesn't sound non-free to me. Please explain to me why it's alright to get special permission to use a trademark but not ok for a software license? Perhaps just because this particular trademark license does not make the software in question any less free? Jubal PS. If you're that much convinced that you're right, why did you ask for public comments anyways? -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: And now for something completely different... etch!
9.06.2005 pisze Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | Again, do not mess with cultures you do not understand. | Do you have real examples? IRC. An example is the current irssi in Debian which doesn't do recoding between different locales. (And that is needed, since IRC doesn't have a charset concept and there are still loads and loads of users out there with clients which interpret everything as Latin1.) s/Latin1/any 8-bit encoding from the iso-8859-* range/ Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] Say the secret word and the duck is yours. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Canonical and Debian
6.06.2005 pisze Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): You're forgetting that some people like Marco d'Itri believe the best OS ever should integrate the latest and fullest set of non-free crap we can find, and not that it should include all architectures we can reasonably support. Don't you think, that you're just a little bit too paranoid and dishonest even for a debian-devel? Uncontrolled paranoia could be definitely bad for you other personalities, you could just try to be more nice to them. Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you! --Ambassador Londo Mollari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?
31.05.2005 pisze Stephen Birch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Still looks more like a fork than a derivative . or a spoon :-) ``The question is: who cares?''. Or, better: does it really matter, what name will be used? Are you perchance a free software taxonomist? Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education. -- Mark Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#299771: ITP: ttf-antp -- Antykwa Poltawskiego font family
16.03.2005 pisze Adam Borowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * Package name: ttf-antp Version : 0.51 Upstream Author : Bogus?aw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk * URL : http://www.janusz.nowacki.strefa.pl/poltawski-e.html * License : GPL Description : Antykwa Poltawskiego font family Long desc : This font was designed by Adam Poltawski in 1923-28 as a result of his research on readability of letter forms. Even though this typeface is pretty dated now, and the readability of screen fonts obeys different rules than it does on paper, this font still beats Bitstream-Vera when applied to large blocks of text. Packages: http://angband.pl/debian/ The font is included in the tetex-base package, along with other Type1 GUST-sponsored fonts (Antykwa Toruska etc.) - I think such a package will be redundant. Best regards, Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] Those of you who think you know everything are annoying those of us who do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware
11.03.2005 pisze Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an unbootable system after kernel-image updates, because the kernel image packages just reinsert root=/dev/hda? into grub's menu.lst. Any idea how to solve this problem? ...by using partition labels in fstab? Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] ''When in doubt, tell the truth.'' -- Mark Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serious kernel problems on new i386 hardware
11.03.2005 pisze Joerg Friedrich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Miros/law Baran schrieb am Freitag, 11. Mrz 2005 um 12:55:09 +0100: 11.03.2005 pisze Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an unbootable system after kernel-image updates, because the kernel image packages just reinsert root=/dev/hda? into grub's menu.lst. Any idea how to solve this problem? ...by using partition labels in fstab? Is there any solution for swap partitions since they do not support labels, AFAIK. The mkswap version from unstable (util-linux version 2.12p-2) supports labels, the sarge one (util-linux 2.12-10) does not. Well, that's a pity. Best regards, Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] ''He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes...'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor
5.12.2004 pisze William Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:28:14PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: might want, and put it on non-us since it is illegal to distribute such things in the USA (and unlike the possibility of offending people's sensibilities, THIS is a real issue as things stand). While at it, we They have had quite a few major busts of child pornographers in Europe and also Asia. Europe doesn't tolerate *everything*. But it tolerates poorly-drawn cartoons without pornographic content. [Which is the case of the original hot-babe pictures - they are so poorly drawn, that they're hardly erotic.] It looks like some discutants here cannot just tolerate such atrocities and found necessary to compel Debian to ban such a disgusting machismo. Or such a disgusting child-spoiling nudity. I'd like to dedicate http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2004112605020534 to them. The interesting part is, how easily some of us resort to the plain, old censorship in the name of greater good. And how independent it is from being conservative or liberal [in the original meaning of these words]. sincerely yours, Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] Weiner's Law of Libraries: There are no answers, only cross references.
Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor
6.12.2004 pisze Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] Also, to the best my knowledge the kernel doesn't contain any pictures of naked people either. I might be mistaken. It is much, much worse. There is a picture of naked animal there. Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] ,,Freund, es ist auch genug. Im Fall du mehr willst lesen, so geh und werde selbst die Schrift und selbst das Wesen.'' (Angelus Silesius)
Re: Bug#156503: microsoft changed its policy, msttcorefonts broken
15.08.2002 pisze Ben Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Can someone explain what is the problem with switching to Type1 altogether? Portability. Portability and the quality of the Type1 rasterizer in X, I'd say. Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. -- Mark Twain
Re: A language by any other name
27.09.2001 pisze Bill Wohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): If a multi-billion dollar company whose employees have all learned British English decide that their documentation should be in American English, that's saying something. That's saying nothing. Debian IS NOT multi-billion dollar company. It has no employees and has no possibility to enforce anything. Many Debian developers (especially non-native English speakers) use another common English dialect, i.e. Bad English (this is e.c. my case). Is it saying anything? best regards, Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] LIBRA (Sep. 23 to Oct. 22) Your desire for justice and truth will be overshadowed by your desire for filthy lucre and a decent meal. Be gracious and polite. Someone is watching you, so stop staring like that.
Re: How many people need locales?
3.09.2001 pisze Radovan Garabik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): but you have to realize one thing: they are not doing it because of locale. They are doing it because they want to tell their applications to pass 8-bit characters unaffected. A quite elegant _theory_. Rather untrue. Falsified by me. Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr 19) You are the pioneer type and hold most people in contempt. You are quick tempered, impatient, and scornful of advice. You are not very nice.
Re: How many people need locales?
3.09.2001 pisze Radovan Garabik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): well, ok, that would work, but the point is that locale is bloated and most people use just a few parts of it, parts that could be achieved by other ways. Locales have two big advantages: they exist and they are quite consistent. best regards, Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert AI ] [ 0101010 is ] [ BOF2510053411, makabra.knm.org.pl/~baran/, alchemy pany ] [ The Answer ] Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill.
