A few Questions: Creating an arch indep pkg.

2008-07-11 Thread Brian
e there any well built packages that are similar? So I can copy their templates? - Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Avoiding system d

2014-05-10 Thread Brian
On Sat 10 May 2014 at 12:05:25 -0400, John wrote: > Thanks for practical help. I'm not looking for more flames. A couple of quotes from your mail: > "I find myself appalled at the rude and domineering attitudes of > almost all systemd's defenders." > "I don't trust them." You're not loo

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

2018-03-05 Thread Brian
l way, I thought I'd look at the first post in the first thread > referred to in the mail from Brian, which is about the fact that > desktop-configured wifi connections don't come up until someone logs in. You would have done better to have read further and, amongst other posts which

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

2018-03-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Mar 2018 at 15:01:03 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Brian writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > > The plain and simple fact is that a user who installs over a wireless > > link and does not have network-manager does not have an

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

2018-03-06 Thread Brian
fter five years and with no attempt to rectify the situation, I'm beginning to have sympathy with that view. (Yes, I know we are all volunteers). -- Brian. > - later install network-manager or wicd > - then expect the system to give you a gui prompt for new wifi > networks, rath

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

2018-03-10 Thread Brian
On Wed 07 Mar 2018 at 13:25:16 (+), Ian Jackson wrote: > > bw writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"): > > > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Brian wrote: > > > > One user calls it a "sick joke". After five years and with no attempt

Re: Request for feedback: systemd backport for jessie

2016-07-05 Thread Brian
On Tue 05 Jul 2016 at 20:46:07 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hi Mika, > > * Michael Prokop [2016-07-05 17:34 +0200]: > > > Hi, > > > > here at DebConf I've been working on a backport of systemd for jessie. > > > > If you're interested in all the new features, bugfixes and changes > > tha

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-23 Thread Brian May
ns parameter Chris> (in version 1 & 2) No, max_versions is not correct. It will only work if all my computers use the same distribution; if some computers use unstable while others use stable for example, then the stable version will get deleted after n revisions of the unstable version of the package. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Gergely Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It may sound a bit radical, but core points have been mentioned in the >> thread already. I suggest to do it in a more radical way: >> >> - unstable lockdown in the freeze >> - drop Testing and concentrate on work instead of wasting time on >>sync

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-23 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 03:52:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:33:24PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Gergely Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> It may sound a bit radical, but core points have been mentioned in the > > >

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-24 Thread Brian May
n. The other part comes from the fact apt-proxy 1.9.18 in unstable is probably v2. (As for why it is not in testing, see bug #267880 + others). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian M. Carlson) writes: > This is an intent to mass-file bugs as required per custom. > > Bugs will be filed: > > 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation Licensed-material; > 2) on packages in 1) that do not include the copyright or license of

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:42:57AM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > > On Nov 17, "Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > I'd say that it's not obvious at all how removing cru

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread Brian Nelson
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 09:15, Brian Nelson wrote: > >> > Through SPI's presence? >> >> Well, i didn't search _that_ long but couldn'

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread Brian May
s, then. -- Joe Wreschnig Joe> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If we did this, we would allow people to create CDs, if they desired, without the offending software. This would solve complaints along the lines of "I want to distribute Debian without accidently upsetting parents by distributing Adult software that is useless anyway...". -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-01 Thread Brian May
emoved the software). In much the same way I have seen people get upset when they discover commercially available Windows software comes with free erotic photos (sorry, I can't remember what software now), I think the same applies here. (Admittedly it is worse, IMHO, when it gets installed without your consent). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283751: ITP: fakepop -- fake pop3 server to warn users that only pop3-ssl is available

2004-12-01 Thread Brian May
sage to the user, users frequently (read: close-to-always) are unable to *read* error messages (in my experience) and will interpret the error as "invalid password" regardless of what was actually displayed in the message box. These people won't be able to tell technical support any more

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Brian May
ldn't stop you from downloading illegal content, it would make it possible to distribute Debian legally in the given countries. Just a thought. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-02 Thread Brian May
it was intentional or not, however a number of students got to see it. According to the media, it was very distressing to concerned parents. If we want everybody to use Debian, including schools, then this is an important issue we cannot ignore. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread Brian May
because it's Andrew> primarily used as a vehicle for delivering porn. Not my point. My point was for somebody thinking along the lines: "I want to distribute Debian to this target audience but I don't want to risk upsetting anybody or risk getting arrested and I don't want to have to do it in secret". -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-05 Thread Brian May
now that it exists? I might be naive, but am somewhat skeptical... Also, to the best my knowledge the kernel doesn't contain any pictures of naked people either. I might be mistaken. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- (abusive?) erotic images in Debian

2004-12-05 Thread Brian May
ram from being configurable. If you really want the image of the naked woman, then you can download the image (from non-Debian website) and install it in the appropriate directory, and it could automatically be used instead. I think such a solution would kill off all the complaints I have seen so far... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-06 Thread Brian May
7;t mind or understand... I think the issue, for the general case (some cultures may be different), isn't so much "seeing the naked body is bad", rather, seeing pictures that present the body as a sex item is seen as bad. There is a fine line between the two, people will have different opinions. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Hot-Babe non-controversial images

2004-12-06 Thread Brian May
;-) An extra good reason not to overwork your poor overloaded CPU ;-). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-06 Thread Brian May
re them and it seems to work). There probably are better photos if you looked. While some photos are rather erotic (unfortunately), there are some very decent photos, too. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-06 Thread Brian May
be violating your Ron> ISP's AUP. So are you saying I should take my web pages of my naked dogs down? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: package rejection

2004-12-06 Thread Brian May
bset of Debian that doesn't {do,use,require,consume,kill,display,say,etc} XYZ. No - I am not volunteering. This also raises lots of issues, like how to do it with minimum fuss and who is legally responsible (if anybody) if mistakes occur. No - I am not volunteering here either. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-08 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:23:16PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:11:31AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > > > I used dselect a lot back in the day (I don't know, like up until 2000 > > or so?). It had a clunky but useable interface (though I fully > > understand how new

Re: Status of this ITP?

2004-12-08 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:26:00PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 11:30 -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > > On 08-Dec-04, 11:15 (CST), "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > Get off your ass. > > > > Ah. I see. Courtesy is not your strong point. > > His pa

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-10 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:38:10PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Friday 10 December 2004 15.35, Steve Langasek wrote: > > we don't exactly have a strong history of being able to pull off > > timely releases > > Did Debian even try? No, not since I've been around. > I didn't follow the woo

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-10 Thread Brian Nelson
Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:20:32PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Dec 09, Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I have been thinking about the blob problem for a while. I propose to >> > remove blobs from the driver, and store them as files in

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-10 Thread Brian Nelson
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 15:21 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >> Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:20:32PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> >> On Dec 09, Bruce Pere

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 09:41:47AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041210 19:55]: > > Yup. There's never been a sense of urgency. The RM's throw out release > > dates and goals every once in a while, but no one seems to take those >

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 03:49:48PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 11, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If it made any sense at all for a mainboard's BIOS to loaded by the > > Linux kernel at boot time with a non-free firmware blob, the curr

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 03:07:56PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As far as I'm concerned, distribution of the firmware is the > > manufacturer's realm. Whether the manufacturer distributes it on an > > E

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 08:11:31PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 11 d?cembre 2004 ? 11:00 -0800, Brian Nelson a ?crit : > > You are the only person I've seen express views similar to mine on > > debian-legal. All other participants argue for non-free-firmware-usi

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:50:44AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It's a completely inconsistent and arbitrary policy. > > It's hardly that. We distribute only free software, that's our rule. > The res

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 03:07:56PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> > As far as

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 03:36:07PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't think it's the case today, but I think that it will be soon. > > It's the way the world is going. > > Especially if we and others just give in and say "ok, that's fine." Act

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 05:49:26PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 02:23:16PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > While you have your pen and paper out, go ahead and write some hardware > > that a contrib device driver can use without needing firmware loadable &g

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:24:16PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > Tim Cutts wrote: > > >If Debian tries to be too rigid, we run a serious risk of consigning > >ourselves to history, because people just won't install Debian any > >more if it doesn't work out-of-the-box on most hardware - and the ti

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 08:02:28PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:42:23PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Contrib exists for software dependencies. This is not a software > > dependency issue. There is no direct relationship between firmware and > >

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >>> Architectural plans for a house, shipped in a Debian package, are >>> software. >> >> I'm stunned. So an

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:07:31AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >> No, a definition of "software" was never decided upon. The vote was >> about removing the word "software" in certain places from the DFSG, >

Re: handling bugs of udev

2005-01-04 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Nico" == Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nico> i think this should be created be default, but thats the Nico> decision of the maintainer. Looking at the script, I was under the impression it is created by default. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ndiswrapper should be in contrib

2005-01-06 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:42:07AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Package: ndiswrapper > Severity: serious > Tags: sarge, sid > > Hi, > > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:58:56PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > > Apparently the dickhead maintainer of ndiswrapper-source ha

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

2005-01-06 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:50:59PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:15:53 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:58:56PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > >> Apparently the dickhead maintainer of ndiswrapper-source has just gone > >> into his shell and

Re: Bug#292666: ITP: autoreply -- A safe, rate-limited auto-responder

2005-01-31 Thread Brian May
Chris> * URL : http://www.nemeton.com.au/sw/autoreply/ Chris> * License : BSD Chris> Description : A safe, rate-limited autoresponder Chris> Autoreply is a simple autoresponder useful for replying to Chris> email upon receipt. May I suggest that

Re: Bug#292572: ITP: praat -- program for speech analysis and synthesis

2005-01-31 Thread Brian May
nly part that means anything is "you can redistribute". No rights to modify, implies non-DFSG. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-02-03 Thread Brian May
art, whether digital images, digital video, writing, etc. I really think we need to draw the line somewhere. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removing problemes with deluser

2005-02-07 Thread Brian May
e it will check the home directory for obvious directories that it shouldn't delete. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#294240: ITP: python-tz -- Python version of the Olson timezone database

2005-02-08 Thread Brian Sutherland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-tz Version : 2005a Upstream Author : Stuart Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pytz.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD like Description : Python version of the Olson timezone database python-tz

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-10 Thread Brian May
bout this a while ago on debian-devel and was told (IIRC) that a major rewrite was happening in order to make Povray DFSG compliant. Is this still the case? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-10 Thread Brian May
You obviously need to run "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" on your car more often. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#294491: RFA: povray -- Persistence of vision raytracer

2005-02-13 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: One question: Brian> I asked about this a while ago on debian-devel and was told Brian> (IIRC) that a major rewrite was happening in order to make Brian> Povray DFSG compliant. Bri

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-13 Thread Brian May
Cut twice, measure once. Ron> Google it! Loose it! Notes: [1] I was debating putting a smiley face here, but then remembered some recent court cases... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-13 Thread Brian May
ile). Its a bit more Goswin> complex algorithm but works even better than rsyncable Goswin> files and rsync. zsync looks suspiciously like it might have similar patent issues which killed the rproxy project. Then again I am no expert; Please tell me I am wrong... -- Brian May <[EMAIL

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-14 Thread Brian May
However, based on Robert's response it would appear that patent issues have been considered for zsync and considered OK. I would speculate this is because information is pre-calculated at the server and stored in *.zsync files. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Bug#295430: ITP: cpufrequtils -- Tools to access to the Linux kernel cpufreq subsystem

2005-02-16 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 02:24:34PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Javier Setoain wrote: > >* Package name: cpufrequtils > > Version : 0.2-pre1 > > Upstream Author : Dominik Brodowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >* URL : http://www.example.org/ > >* License : GPL > > Des

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-17 Thread Brian May
g users. I consider that a bug. If something like this is different, then not only should Debian supplied documentation reflect the change, but a list of differences should appear in README.Debian. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Our chances of actually releasing one day could only increase if we >> dropped arches such as mipsel, s390, m68k, ... and concentrated on >> those that actually mattered: i386, powerpc, amd64 -- an

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-21 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:33:35AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > But a total of eleven is insane. > > It is sometimes hard to get them all to work, yes. > > It also vastly increases the quality of the Free Software in our >

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-21 Thread Brian Nelson
Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:13 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:33:35AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> > On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> > > But a total o

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-21 Thread Brian Nelson
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Brian Nelson writes: >>> That's an overstatement. Simply having two architectures (i386 and ppc) >>> would be enough to reveal nearly all portability b

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-21 Thread Brian Nelson
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson debian.org> writes: >> And for the more obscure architectures, virtually all of the testing >> comes from the build of the package. How many people out there are >> actually using e.g. KDE on mi

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-22 Thread Brian Nelson
"Thaddeus H. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Not private. Reply on-list if you wish.] > >> However, I do think that not including amd64 (while keeping mips and >> friends) in the sarge release due to mirroring problems is ridiculous. > > Amen, brother. > >> ... packages are uploaded too fre

travel to DC/Baltimore-area March 13-20 / keysigning?

2005-02-26 Thread Brian Russo
Anyone in the DC-area want to meet for keysigning March 13 - 20th? I'll be there for work, but will have some free time. Please cc replies or just mail directly - bri -- Recursivity. Call back if it happens again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-27 Thread Brian May
lean target Christoph> anyway, so it doesn't hurt to move instead of copying Christoph> it. A benefit of moving files, rather then copying, is that you get to see at a glance what files your package left behind and missed in debian/tmp (e.g. if upstream adds new files to the packages b

Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-02-27 Thread Brian May
essage). So what appears to be to separate messages contained in mbox format in mutt can be interpreted as only one message by formail (see bug #295604 for example). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] maildir

2005-02-28 Thread Brian May
o far exclusively uses mbox files. Sure, these are implementation issues that could be solved, but currently mbox wins. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Proposal] Upgrade newraff hardware

2005-03-15 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:05:13AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Hello Debian developers, > > It had come several times that one major problem is the load of > wanna-build connection on newraff, and the time and memory it take > to run the testing scripts. > > Debian certainly has enough goodwi

Re: Security support for tier-2

2005-03-15 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:37:22PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Henning Makholm wrote: > > >> Nothing's going to prevent porters from adding stable-security (or > >> whatever) to their autobuilders, > > > > True - for as long as they do not try to upload the result to the > > Debian archi

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Can we *please* ban Ingo from d-d? He's been a huge pain in the ass on this list for months now, has absolutely nothing constructive to contribute, and is actively trying to subvert the project. On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:09:47PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:34:16P

Re: *seconded* Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:26:58PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > Hello > > As most people in this threas have expressed lot of bad feelings about > this. I must tell that I think this proposal is a good step toward > quicker releases etc. > > With the clarifications (see the new thread) I must sa

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:15:46 +0100, Romain Francoise > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Can we *please* ban Ingo from d-d? He's been a huge pain in the ass on >>

Re: apt-proxy

2005-11-13 Thread Brian May
tunately, as I seem to be running behind with my own packages, I don't think I can spare time to help with other packages at this point in time. I am glad to hear though that it is still being worked on. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-proxy

2005-11-13 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eric> I wrote approx for exactly this purpose. It's now in Eric> testing. Is a back port available for sarge? If not, how feasible would it be to create on? Does it depend on anything n

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-13 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russ> Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * Find out what is required to keep AFS support working >> (assuming I don't already have it). Russ> Well, what so

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-13 Thread Brian May
ing duplicate symbols or using a version that is incompatible. * Upload Heimdal. * Rebuild above packages. * If packages don't rebuild then it may be because it requires krb4 support => drop krb4 support (cyrus-sasl?), or entire package (arla?). * Drop kerberos4kth. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Rich Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-14 18:46:50]: >> Hold on - does this mean I will or won't be able to do >> apt-get install debconf6-doc > > you will, and most likely it will be 100% complete. if someone > packages it. Uhhh, why would

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Rich Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> * Rich Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-14 18:46:50]: >>>> Hold on - does this mean I wil

Re: State of gcc 2.95 use in Debian unstable

2005-11-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > while preparing an upload of gcc-2.95 which fixes its worst problems > I wondered how many users of it are actually left. 9 packages in > unstable still declare a build dependency on gcc-2.95 or g++-2.95, > this makes it IMHO a plausible release goal to

Re: RFC: drop kerberos4-support?

2005-11-16 Thread Brian May
krb524 working with Heimdal. I had to insert enable-524 = true in /var/lib/heimdal-kdc/kdc.conf (the man page for kdc lead me to believe this was the default). and add: [login] enable-524 = true in /etc/krb5.conf -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-22 Thread Brian May
pass SMTP level SPAM controls, but taken to the extreme, you would have to also do this to every server that forwards you email (perhaps even every mailing list server?). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread Brian May
ges never uploaded to Debian, maybe not). * others I am too lazy to think of. Matthew> I've never seen dpkg-sig mentioned before, only debsigs, Matthew> so I'm not familiar with the tool itself, but the concept Matthew> is one that needs a lot more exposure. I would

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Marc" == Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marc> Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I've never seen dpkg-sig mentioned before, only debsigs, >>> so I'm not familiar with

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-25 Thread Brian May
es on to trace SPAM (which have no cryptographic signature). I also believe that the threat of somebody being tricked into installing a Trojan package is a very real possibility, and we should do everything we can do to aid our users prevent this from happening. Notes: [1] Assuming you have a car,

Re: Heimdal autotools dramas

2005-11-25 Thread Brian May
glob$U.lo and glob$U.o. I asked upstream Heimdal and got no response. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. PS. Source code is Heimdal in Debian experimental. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Heimdal autotools dramas

2005-11-26 Thread Brian May
ail on the heimdal-discuss list... I sent the message to heimdal-bugs. Maybe heimdal-discuss would be more appropriate? Unfortunately, my laptop computer is throwing one of its "I will not power on unless you remove my power source and batteries for several days" tantrum, so I can't dou

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Brian Nelson
Anthony Towns writes: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:27:10PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:52:31PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> > >I also see the keyring's been updated earlier this week, including >> > >both a replacement key for Horms from late last month, and Chi

Re: something strange with rsh/ssh + bash/tcsh is happening. Please advise

2005-12-29 Thread Brian May
able this implicit shell, either with ssh or rsh? I really don't like it. I would rather each parameter be passed straight to the remote executable via exec without being parsed by sh first. Then, if I want to use the shell, I can say so. I don't like this business of the command line b

Re: something strange with rsh/ssh + bash/tcsh is happening. Please advise

2006-01-01 Thread Brian May
y, the shell isn't required, no splitting of the parameters is required, and this makes the script more secure. Unfortunately, it seems the same methods have yet to come to rsh/ssh, etc. Hmmm. I think sudo supports it though: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo 'id; echo hi' sudo: id; echo hi: comma

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Jan 04, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Not to mention that 2.6.15 requires a newer udev. Who knows what other newer >> things newer kernels might require. > OTOH, old kernel are buggy and out of date wrt modern hardware, and we > lack the

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-04 Thread Brian Nelson
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le mercredi 04 janvier 2006 à 14:21 +0100, Marco d'Itri a écrit : >> On Jan 04, "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > udev has broken my system -- completely (as in: can't boot and/or log in) >> > -- >> > _seven_ distinct times s

Re: Debian Games Team

2006-01-13 Thread Brian Powell
I also would be interested in getting involved in this project. I believe there is much room to grow in the area of gaming, and since I am an avid gamer myself using both "Free" and "Non-Free" games on my Debian systems I would love to help out where I can. Regards, Brian Powe

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1/18/06, Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > As pointed out several times, the source package in the ubuntu archive >> > is NOT different to the source package in the debian archive. The >> > binary package have been rebuilt in an differ

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-01-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Christopher Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:09, Adeodato Simó wrote: >> However, I'm pretty sure that more than one Developer thinks the >> proper interpretation would be: >> >> (b) this amendment overrules debian-legal's assessment that certain >>

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-01-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Christopher Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 19 January 2006 20:39, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Christopher Martin wrote: >> > No, because as I wrote the whole point of the amendment is to make >> > officially acceptable the interpretation of the license which view

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-01-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I completely agree, and hereby question whether the secretary is capable >> of being impartial in this case given his personal interests[1] in this >> issue. >

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-01-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>> I completely agree, and

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