On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
I'm working on new package for FUSE[1]. Sad to come clean, but I screwed
previous package(s) up. There are plenty of bugs wrt debconf questions and
actions after them. There is also request[2] to simplify or even remove
questions at all.
Now
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
use nameif.
This has been suggested before but AIUI nameif has problems/limitations
renaming eth0.
Well, you just cant use existing names (this could be fixed, however i am
not sure if this is needed)
It
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Dec 19, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there some reason we should be unable to provide a smooth upgrade path
for users of sarge? Having your network devices scramble themselves on
reboot is a Big Deal, whether or not it's in the release
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Steve Greenland wrote:
On 20-Dec-05, 09:56 (CST), Gabor Gombas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:57:08AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
[1] Dark blue on black. Need I say more?
The reality is that visibility of color combinations is heavily
dependent on
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Henning Makholm wrote:
Scripsit Gabor Gombas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now, if your terminal pretends to be xterm but does not use the color
scheme of xterm, how should vim know that?
You can't.
real console: TERM='linux'
xterm: TERM='xterm'
gnome-terminal: TERM='xterm'
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:45:29PM -0500, Eric Cooper wrote:
I saw today that the python-minimal package in unstable is tagged as
Essential (and currently pulls in python2.3). According to policy,
this is supposed to happen only after discussion on
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Michael Banck wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:28:07PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Anthony Towns wrote:
I've changed the override to Priority: standard; I can't say I'm remotely
impressed by how this has been handled.
Could this be stopped, please
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote:
Well, maybe the people who mislabeled the everything is software vote
as an editorial change and deceived many other developers should have
tought about this.
There are two different definitions of the word software:
1. something that can be represented
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
Can you explain that?
Either the '{' and '}' are one indentation level down or the same indentation
level.
Hah! Not in GNU.
The GNU coding standards want you to indent '{' and '}' x/2 spaces, while
the code inside is indented x. So, the result is:
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
su, 2006-03-26 kello 04:11 -0600, Peter Samuelson kirjoitti:
OTOH, if you have no idea what language or what country the font
pertains to, why would you want that font?
It is not inconceivable that one could stumble on a document from
Bhutan, and
On Wed, 14 May 2003, Chris Leishman wrote:
On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 10:02 PM, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
There is no shortage of opinions about what we should do, but there
is unlikely to be any action until an I arises who actually does
the work.
This has been discussed over and over
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On Monday 02 June 2003 04:09, Luiz Rafael Culik Guimaraes wrote:
How to start debian direct on console mode,
Eh? I thought Debian always started in console mode unless you both
installed
xdm (or the gnome/kde equivalent) and enabled it.
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Bill Allombert wrote:
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:51:07AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
- drop the i386 support
What we have not yet decided is whether we drop i386 support for C++
packages or for all packages. If we choose the former, the mini-i386
will just need to
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Stephen Stafford wrote:
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:25:52PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
What about perusing the INT 6 idea, and going all the way up to i686?
While I support the removal of 386 support, I absolutely and strenuously
object to going to 686. 686 isn't all
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, John Goerzen wrote:
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:28:02PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
Note that my idea was about patching the kernel that so the newer opcodes
would be emulated in software. Everything would still work even on a 386,
just slower -- and the speed
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Branden Robinson wrote:
Hmm... I'm not sure about this as the last time I used assembler was
in the times of real mode DOS, but there is a yet another option:
we can patch the kernel so when an invalid opcode occurs, whatever
instruction was at CS:EIP gets emulated
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:49:10PM +0100, Esteban Manchado Vel?zquez wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:57:40PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
Now, if one removes or purges, say, KDE to install an unofficial
version... would (s)he loose all his
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Thomas Smith wrote:
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 05:53 PM, I wrote:
I strongly believe that this is an overreaction. Christian is willing
to work with us to bring the package up to date, so there is no reason
not to accept this. I suggest that someone (I could do
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Richard Braakman wrote:
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 05:12:35PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Ava Driscoll wrote:
I do not appreciate the following showing up:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200306/msg01662.html
That email was
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, George Danchev wrote:
Why not? It's a package. We modify it as we need to in order to provide
functionality and satisfy the needs of our users. I'm perfectly willing
to bet that more of our users are interested in a functional ipsec stack
than are interested in the
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: kbtin
Version : 1.0.5
Upstream Author : Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://kbtin.sourceforge.net
* License : GPL
Sponsor : Wanted
Package : http://kbtin.sf.net/debian
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.09.28.0510 +0200]:
For example, the grsecurity patch has had a history of conflicts
with various patches in the Debian kernel source. Most of those
patches that caused conflicts were in fact essential
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Miles Bader wrote:
BTW, another point is that the original layout is a fairly unique part
of rogue culture, and shipping with it turned off seems a bit like using
graphical tiles by default, or having emacs start up in wordpad-
compatibility mode -- one can perhaps
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Mark Brown wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:15:00AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
Well, one problem I see with that immediately is that 'k' when
number_pad is enabled means kick; if number_pad is off it means go up.
Of course, we could disable k for kick and use ^D; but in
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Lukas Geyer wrote:
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's trivial to reconfigure it in nethack's option screen, just like any
other option. I'm not sure why this one should be special.
hjkl is extremely newbie-unfriendly.
Arrows require the player to manually turn
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Andrea Glorioso wrote:
t == Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
t One of the flavors linked to on
t http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-nonprofit/ is www.demudi.org
t --
t which is running IIS on Windows 2000!
A little update.
www.demudi.org now (wait for
On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Option 3 Steve McIntyre
Option 4 Anthony Towns
Take a look at these numbers:
Option 3 Reached quorum: 344 47.0531614240744
Option 4 Reached quorum: 339 47.0531614240744
Option 3 passes Majority. 6.491 (344/53) 1
Option 4 passes
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
Really? I get spam addressed to ftp, cyrus (the Cyrus IMAP system),
postfix, apache, daemon, etc etc all the time. Those are very common
user names, and (even better for the spammers) their mail is typically
aliased to a group of people. They're
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Gabor Gombas wrote:
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:12:58AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
Result: programs run after ifrename (like ifupdown...) will get the old
name.
So what? The user deliberately asked for it. Also it seems easy to write
an udev rule to replace
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
gustavo halperin dijo [Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:40:42PM +0300]:
I think that we have a problem when the common library between XFree and
/usr/lib are update in /usr/lib.
I assume that you're installing XFree86 4.5 by yourself, since it wasn't
packaged
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What about oldstable while it is supported?
IMHO, would be good to have a way to check the bugs affecting each
release, so in the current interface we might have a link for:
Filter bugs affecting:
-
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Package name : dnscruft
Version : 0.20060508-1
* URL : file://home/kilobyte/dnscruft/
Initial packages : http://angband.pl/debian/dnscruft/
Apt : deb[-src] http://angband.pl
On Tue, 9 May 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
Martin Wuertele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about compressing all generated pdf with eg pdftk instead of gzip?
That would save on space without troubling potential readers.
Most PDF files in Debian are already compressed; at least those
which are
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:49:26PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
On the other hand, if we continue that thought process we could end up
with all headers and libraries in /usr/share/, which is absurd.
Why? This is exactly what's beautiful, especially if EVERYTHING ends up in
/usr/share/ at one day,
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:17:02PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Out of curiousity, what happens when someone tries to login and /usr is
unavailable? If the shell is set to something in /bin, it will still be
used. What is the default action when the user's shell is not available?
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 07:58:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:21 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
The point is that they could if the wanted to. And if they did, it
would work for _all_ programs, not just particular perl scripts that
happen to use some obscure perl
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:18:46AM +0200, Michal Čihař wrote:
There are anyway users using dash as /bin/sh right now and broken
packages are bugged, so switching default should not reveal any new bug
The policy says:
# If a script requires non-POSIX features from the shell interpreter, the
#
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 05:27:23PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote:
During some tests I've performed, I've found that making the init
scripts run with dash as default shell instead of bash makes the boot
time a 10% faster (6 seconds in a 60 second boot).
This speed-up is not limited to
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 12:37:36PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
Our Architecture: field is about the arches that Debian itself supports.
If the meaning was broad as you describe, would we have to make sure our
packages build on MS DOS?
I'll agree with Josselin here: Debian is a GNU
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:29:42AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:18:19PM +0200, Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote:
IMHO, pari-gp-c or pari-gp2c could be better than 'gp2c' to avoid
this namespace pollution, at your option.
Good catch, I will consider this option. gp2c
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:42:03PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On 23 May 2006, Goswin von Brederlow stated:
To me it sounds like you are. You provide a shared object file in a
public place so other people can link their binaries against
it. What else is a shared library? Does it matter
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:20:14PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
Even the guy at 7-Eleven has the big book of north american ID cards with
pictures and descriptions of what makes a real one for when they encounter an
ID that they've never seen before. Surely Debian can do as well as the guy
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:29:34PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
* gnulib
(easy pickings; need to package new Upstream from CVS, every month or so)
I ported quite a lot of C software between IRIX/SunOS/AIX/Linux, so
I'll take it.
* tcng
(some clean-up required)
I have some idea about
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:57:18PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 13:02, Adam Borowski wrote:
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:20:14PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
Even the guy at 7-Eleven has the big book of north american ID cards with
pictures and descriptions of what makes
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 06:51:54PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
In my ideal world, this is what it would look like:
Starting RAID devices ...
/dev/md0 has been started with 3 drives.
/dev/md1 has been started with 3 drives.
/dev/md2 assembled from 2 drives - need all 3 to start it
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:36:15AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Adam Borowski wrote:
The friend muttered something about Ubuntu being as flaky as
Windows, then rebooted and started the installation anew...
This is not an Ubuntu mailing list. It's pretty annoying to require all
us d-i
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 10:24:45PM +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
One of the terrible effect of software patents is that nobody knows if
his program infringe some of them in some country. And, as you said, i
think it's impossible to be completely patent-free as things stand now.
However,
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:02:23AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just as /etc/bashrc is not hidden, whereas ~/.bashrc is, *why*
should any *system* files be hidden?
IMO dotfiles are a historical artifact which we are stuck with. If we
were just starting
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:38:52PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
* Jari Aalto+usenet [Thu, Jun 15 2006, 01:31:49PM]:
x-word-processor
x-spreadsheet
x-file-manager
x-archiver
x-media-player or x-video-player
x-media-editor
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 01:56:21PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote:
for mentors.debian.net I would like to find a perfect (TM) regular
expression to split the Version: line of a control file into:
- epoch
- upstream version
- Debian package revision
My current attempt is:
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:17:27AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
If package maintainer wants to build it faster on their own machine, I
would imagine that checking for an environment variable (DEB_MAKE_OPTS
or something, perhaps?) and using that would be the way to go. By
default, build
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:06:26AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Adam Borowski wrote:
Let's allow maintainers to use make -jX according to their common
sense, requiring obeying an env variable to opt out.
Why not just have some ENV variable (CONCURRENCY_LEVEL?) which
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:38:51PM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:31:54AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
On the other hand, making builds significantly faster is not
something that you can shake a stick at. Typically make -jX is faster
even on uniprocessor, and I
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:38:51PM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
I don't think it's good to define an opt-out variable (*_NON_PARALLEL).
Think positive! So, it would be better to define DEB_MAKE_PARALLEL, but even
better it would be to use something existing: CONCURRENCY_LEVEL as Don
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:22:35PM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:37:37PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
The benefits on UP are small (~10%), but except for huge working
sets, non-negative. And the maintainer knows if the package handles
huge chunks at once
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:42:07PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
SMP buildd systems currently run multiple instances of buildd at
the same time, rather than expecting a package to specify make -j
itself. Having three packages that specify 'make -j 4' on a
multiprocessor buildd host that
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:50:50PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
ke, 2006-06-28 kello 18:43 +0200, Adam Borowski kirjoitti:
What do you think about going with Don Armstrong's suggestion
($CONCURRENCY_LEVEL), while handling the default (no env var) my
way (decent memory = parallel, little
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:26:15AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Still, the buildd admin has no way to estimate how much a sub-process
of a package is going to use, the maintainer has at least a rough
idea. Since the maintainer's action
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 08:41:33AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:22:48AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
The same can't be said for upstream makefiles though. Many sources
don't build with -j option.
Right, that's just what I said :p It's the upstream and the
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 06:17:20PM -0400, Jason Spiro wrote:
* Package name: openwatcom
* License : Sybase Open Watcom Public License 1.0 (it is
OSI-approved)
Oops... it looks like OSI smoked something especially bad this time,
I'm afraid. This license looks like someone took his
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 01:10:34AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the moment you use openwatcom to compile any work-related piece of
software (thus not Personal Use), you need to make the source of
openwatcom publicly available for 12 months.
What
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 01:36:12AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
use, like, for example, compile a piece of software. You don't
need to distribute openwatcom to anyone to fall within this clause.
Ok, but it still needs to be modified. Are you
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:57:50AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Additionally, it puzzles me how you think a maintainer will be able to
accurately predict how much RAM a certain build is going to use. There
are so many variables, that I think anything but 'this is the fastest
way to build it
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:38:30PM +0200, Uwe A. P. Würdinger wrote:
James Westby schrieb:
An estimate of the pacakages that generate a certificate in postinst
(lets hope there are none that include them in the package) I tried:
$ grep-available -FDepends openssl -sPackage -n | sort
Well
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:23:00PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:04:14PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:57:50AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Additionally, it puzzles me how you think a maintainer will be able to
accurately predict how
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 08:57:54AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
Kevin Bube wrote:
What about switching to dvdrtools? I think this project was
started to solve the frequently recurring arguments about the
licensing and the device adressing scheme cdrtools use.
dvdrtools are currently in
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:28:49PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
Updating with pdiffs took one minute nine seconds while downloading a
completely new set of list files took eight seconds.
Test environment was quite unfair though (an old machine with an 1200
MHz CPU and a single, slow disk on an
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 03:34:59PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Err, AIUI, ruby gems are a way to automatically install extras to a
running ruby environment, much in the same way that the CPAN module is
used for Perl.
I fail to see why this would be completely useless on smaller
BCONCURRENCY_LEVEL appropiately; to 1 if you want
to disable any parallelism altogether.
=head1 SEE ALSO
Lmake(1)
=head1 AUTHOR
Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=cut
#Leaving no output would lead to bare -j, that is, -j INFINITY.
sub die_1($)
{
print 1\n unless -t STDOUT;
die concurrenct-helper
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 02:18:19PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
For example, the pike blurb could be summarised with something like:
Pike is an interpreted, object-oriented, dynamic programming language
with a syntax similar to C. To learn more about pike, see the package
pike7.6 or
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:57:45PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
On Monday 10 July 2006 02:17, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote:
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:02:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Another problem is with hosts that do not accept a message from an MTA
unless that MTA is willing
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Package name: vtgamma
Upstream Author : myself
* URL : http://angband.pl/viewvc/vtgamma/trunk/
* License : Public Domain
Description : gamma correction for Linux console
This tool can apply
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:46:51PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote:
Joerg clearly stands that:
1) Makefiles != scripts or at least it is unclear whether Makefiles may
be called scripts:
GPL §3 requires the scripts for compilation to be provided but
as a first note, it is unclear whether
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 10:55:32PM +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
I will upload ~20 source packages in the next few weeks, adding
support for more architectures to each package. So I'm really looking
for a general solution and not one that only applies to asis.
Why aren't those packages
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 10:11:41AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 13:14 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
I will drop the version from the description and add cpio to the
suggests.
I added the suggestion to the description because I guess that .tar.gz
will be the most
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 10:42:22PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said:
And finally, if we don't care about standards conformance, I have said
that a good second-best is to document exactly what our requirements
are, rather than burying them in
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Package name: chameleon-cursor-theme [1]
Version : 0.5-1
Upstream Author : Giuseppe Benigno ebengio (at) gmail.com
* URL :
http://www.{gnome,kde,xfce[2]}-look.org/content/show.php?content=38459
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 04:41:37PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060726 13:18]:
But, for example, foo -Depends- foo-data is not usually an example
of a silly dependency.
Actually, there is no reason why
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:03:13AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
pe, 2006-07-28 kello 00:03 +0100, James Westby kirjoitti:
* Make it easier for package maintainers
- One extra dh_ call and maybe one more file in debian/
How badly is this tied to debhelper? Any chance of designing it
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 01:01:56PM +0200, oliver wrote:
At Saturday 29 July 2006 22:15 wrote Henning Makholm:
Scripsit Oliver Korff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description : computer chess engine, calculates chess moves
We seem to have several such engines already. Could the description
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:45:46PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
Full IPv6 support
=
There has been some confusion about the Etch release goal about IPv6. Our
understanding of that release goal is that all network applications should be
able to work with both IPv4 and IPv6.
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:56:01PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
The inetd daemon installed by default:
etch: openbsd-inetd | netkit-inetd
sarge: netkit-inetd
woody: netkit-inetd (netkit-base, split from netbase)
potato: (in netbase)
slink: (in netbase)
Users
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:29:48AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Aug 10, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Some inetds automatically listen on v6, whereas others need it
I call them broken. I believe that administrators do not expect that
services are exposed to IPv6 connections unless
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:34:39AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Aug 11, Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why, for the love of Cthulhu, does netbase depend on inetd in the first
place? Let's see:
Historical reasons.
Now, let's see what depends on *-inetd:
Under the current rules
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 08:30:45AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.11.0012 +0100]:
1.) Wait for a 0.10 release. I think my users wouldn't be happy ;-)
Why not continue to current versioning scheme until 0.10 is out to
avoid the epoch?
Yeah
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 07:17:43AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
. is not special as far as version numbers are concerned. It's not
a separator, for instance, and 1. is a valid version number (which
is equal to 1.0).
Uhm, where does the 0 come from? This is grossly unintuitive, and I would
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 09:47:33AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.11.0931 +0100]:
And another bug: 2a.0 is _lesser_ than 2.0! This works as
documented, but is totally against lexicography, expectations and
common sense.
I'll shoot
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Erast Benson wrote:
Let me enlighten you in regards of CDDL benefits. The great thing about
CDDL is that it is file based. So, all files which are licensed under
CDDL-terms works exactly as GPL does. i.e. any change made by anybody
(including propriatery distributors) *must*
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Matthew Garrett wrote:
Debian scales fine on non-glibc ports. It doesn't do so well on non-GPL
compatible ports. These are very much not the same thing.
In fact, Debian and GPL software in general work just fine on non-GPL
compatible platforms. I use and distribute (even
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
I don't think the suggestion was to make TMP=~/tmp, but TMP=/tmp/$USER,
where /tmp/$USER is owned by the user in question and is inaccessible to
others.
It would be a lot better to use TMP=/tmp/users/$USER, as user names are
pretty likely to clash
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Package name: ttf-antp
Version : 0.51
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
Miros/law Baran [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
The font is included in the tetex-base package, along with other Type1
GUST-sponsored fonts (Antykwa Toru?ska etc.) - I think such a package
will be redundant.
Well, tetex-base only has the afm and pfb
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 09:57:13AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:07:29PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
Every relevant Linux distribution requires udev, and so do many
important features of Debian systems. Anything not compatible with udev
is a toy which wastes space
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:14:53PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Mar 20, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote:
trouble for embedded or limited ones. I don't do embedded personally so I
have no idea how udev fares there, but I can tell you that vservers and udev
don't go well together
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 01:03:32PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Mar 20, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote:
They have their specific needs, and the last time I checked, udev couldn't
fulfill them. You need just /dev/{null,zero,full,random,urandom,tty,ptmx}
and the links to /proc
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 02:37:44PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Mar 20, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote:
You keep missing the point. udev matters in the host system, not in each
context.
Do you mean the original point of this thread, about ifrename (which indeed
can't be used
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:03:27PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
the question: Shall a service started once its installed or not?
The current state of affairs is that some packages start after beeing
installed, some don't, because they don't have a reasonable default
configuration and some
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 05:00:57PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
Philipp Kern wrote:
I also found svn to be not Ctrl-C-able at time. I don't know if that
applies
to other signals too but if so I can imagine quite some hanging processes
on a server.
Ack - I know this problem too well.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:14:15AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
Roger Leigh schrieb:
If you run a current unstable system, with a default (empty)
xorg.conf this disables C-A-Fn and C-A-Bksp to switch to a
virtual terminal or kill a dead X server. I noticed that if you
C-A-Bksp
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 02:07:05AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote:
You think the average user doesn't care about getting 50% faster boot
speeds?
I don't get why you people keep repeating that it's only about faster boots.
All shell scripts receive a speed boost.
--
1KB // Microsoft
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