Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

How do you define dialup systems and tell dialup systems from other systems? There is a database where ISPs can register the ranges they assign for dialup users. Isn't that for dynamic-IP dial-up only? -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking

Re: question towards freetype transition; improved library handling needed for all C/C++ packages

to avoid unnecessary direct linkage against libatk etc. (pulled in through libgtk2.0-dev's pkgconfig file), although since I added this after 0.4.8, the current official .debs have those unnecessary dependencies. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge

Re: ldd -u (Re: Solving recursive dependency disease in KDE-based packages)

been nice, although this happens to be trivially findable. For the record, it's the subject of URL:http://bugs.debian.org/340934. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let's keep

udev event completion order (was: Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting))

. Of course, adding some modules may trigger another round of events, causing more modules to be loaded, but this shouldn't be a problem - it should be just another batch of events to be buffered and processed after the current batch is complete. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds

Re: udev event completion order

the root device using some stable attribute, like label or UUID. That'd be stable and duplicatable, and I fully expect somebody to run into that sooner or later... [1] Heated discussion, anybody? ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Debian, | Northumberland

Re: stable aliases for CD drives

is, in itself, good. ONLY rules using %e (the /dev/cdrom-like aliases) are unreliable. I remember them being reliable. Sacrificing their reliability at the altar of boot speed (AIUI) wasn't really a good idea... [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

I demand that Benjamin Seidenberg may or may not have written... [snip] I read 120.000 as 120 dollars, I'm not used to the European '.' as the seperator, but the US ','. Hmm? You'd better file a bug against locales wrt en_GB, then ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds

Re: stable aliases for CD drives

I demand that Marco d'Itri may or may not have written... On Dec 29, Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember [%e etc.] being reliable. Sacrificing their reliability at the altar of boot speed (AIUI) wasn't really a good idea... No reliability will be sacrified, [...] That'd

Re: stable aliases for CD drives

* else which has some sort of sequential numbering as part of its device name. I've mentioned sound devices a few times; yes, that's more annoying than critical, but the cause (AIUI) is the same. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking

Re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265920

battery... :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Kill all extremists! Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Looking for a autotools/libtool expert: Unnecessarily linked libraries

=no) AC_MSG_RESULT([$ac_cv_ld_asneeded]) test x$ac_cv_ld_asneeded = xyes || LDFLAGS=$ac_SAVE_LDFLAGS (I've not looked at the package, though.) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Output *more

Re: For those who care about stable updates

I demand that Andreas Tille may or may not have written... On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Gustavo Franco wrote: What's wrong with us ? It is wrong that somebody who would like to work is stopped to do his work by others. You mean stopped from doing. (Common non-native mistake...) -- | Darren Salt

Re: For those who care about stable updates

be friends? If I were a crazier man I would say something like: The end is neigh! Careful. You might shout yourself horse. ;-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + At least 4000 million

Re: Bug#358003: ITP: ttf-dzongkha -- TrueType fonts for Dzongkha language

I demand that Adam Borowski may or may not have written... [snip] I don't believe that anyone can learn even an alphabet without knowing its name. I was going to say that you're wrong, but then it occurred to me that the first one that most of us learn is called the alphabet. ;-) -- | Darren

Re: Release Date Update

*really* lucky. Lets better hurry, freeze now, Were there less cloud cover here right now, probably. ;-) release by June, and go looney during Summertime! That's all, folks! -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

messages, which is empty (), the same as for bounce messages. That doesn't matter (much) wrt address/location checks... -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | Linux PC, Risc PC | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | No Wodniws here | Toon Army | demon co uk | Running

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

I've found that can use it. Hmm... another reason to keep it, then. [snip] For instance, what are some good replacements for magicfilter? apsfilter seems to work well. Or linuxconf? A text editor :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | Debian, | Northumberland

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

without any need to modify (m)any packages. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/ (PGP 2.6, GPG keys) 4 food groups: fast, frozen

Re: multiarchitecture binaries - technical obstacles?

exactly? *I* don't have a s/390 at home to produce such packages. And I'm sure people don't want to wait for all buildds even for unstable... Not to mention download times. Here I am, stuck with a 56K modem... -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland

Re: why do we care about configuration files?

that... 5) Said user happens finds your message and some followups, and agrees that you were probably too tired to think straight... ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Oh

Re: stop the manage with debconf madness

become Something Useful), that looks like look, things are heading in the right direction again. Maybe you were too quick to criticise Matt and to distance yourself? -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon

Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

your repositories are safe. One other small change: s/loose/lose/. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | This space reserved for future expansion Nothing is as temporary

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

I demand that Nathan Paul Simons may or may not have also sent directly to me despite my not having requested this... On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 08:28, Darren Salt wrote: Hmm. They're conffiles (not sure why, given that they're all binaries); have you tried 2.4 with the 2.3 drums files? I believe

Re: i386 compatibility libstdc++

in dropping i386 in favour of i486+? - Integrated math coprocessor ( why does libc still check for its availability? ) [...] 486SX. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk

Re: i386 compatibility libstdc++

I demand that Bart Trojanowski may or may not have CCed to me WITHOUT MY ASKING FOR THAT... * Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030426 10:26]: I demand that José Luis Tallón may or may not have written... At 19:55 26/04/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 09:41:14AM +0200, Andreas

Re: i386 compatibility libstdc++

? :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let's keep the pound sterling Hugh of Borg: Resistance is futile. I will assimilate you.

Re: Bug marked as done messages to-be-MIMEified?

Package: doogie developers' brains, surely. Cc: $ ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | We've got Shearer, you haven't The more general the title of a course

Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!

). No argument there either from me, so long as the bug being closed is about there being a new upstream version, and the uploaded package is that or a newer version. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk

Re: no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

there. That and/or search the list archive. But having a build date in the (processed) package control file would mean that the information, or at least a snapshot of it, is available off-line as well. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland

Re: Packages: an average 66321 bytes per line of description

I demand that Dan Jacobson may or may not have written... I was hoping that maintainers of multi-megabyte packages would do the package justice by giving an adequate description. I have here a 20K package. Should it have a 1/3-line description? ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington

Re: NEWS.Debian support is here

, and Matt plans to later let it be configured to only display news, if the user wants (more useful for stable users). Kick ASS. What has that poor donkey done to you to deserve such a kicking? ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking

Re: ITA: yadex -- WAD file editor for doom-style WADs

...) I've packaged it, changed changelog, and closed the remaining bug (#138072). 1.6.0? If not, now's as good a time as any :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | I

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

I demand that Stephen Frost may or may not have written... [snip] and a consensus reached which approves of the application and it's needs. ? Almost: s/'// :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

uid and be run setuid. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | I don't ask for much, just untold riches... The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

') are generally not very useful. How about acts as an SMTP client, acts as an SMTP server, queues mail for local delivery or for forwarding to another server? Or /something/ like that... -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

I demand that Eduard Bloch may or may not have written... [snip] PS: a hot day or what? If you call 20°C hot, then yes, it has been a hot day ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

. Just out of interest, what are your assumptions wrt costs associated with downloading? -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/ (PGP 2.6

Re: About NM and Next Release

portability: it's in ARM assembly language... ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.linux.html Celeron: Could Everyone Leave

Re: d-i using kexec

Linux. In the MBR, there's no loader program to worry about ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.linux.html Do not speak

Re: Which 2.6 kernel for Sarge on a Via C3?

I demand that Ron Johnson may or may not have written... [snip] But really, does the kernel use MMX? Here, at least: linux/arch/i386/lib/memcpy.c -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk

Re: LCC and blobs

if *all* of the hardware with which it works requires a firmware upload in order to be useful. [1] Go on, use gxine. ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk Say NO to UK ID

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

thumb (the 8-bit ARM instructions). No. THUMB is a 16-bit instruction set. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk Say NO to UK ID cards

Re: LCC and blobs

I demand that Josh Triplett may or may not have written... [snip] This criteria covers These criteria cover, surely - unless you mean criterion :-\ -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk

Re: LCC and blobs

admin. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | We've got Shearer, you haven't Since you're going to die anyway, can we use you as a shield?

Re: LCC and blobs

I demand that Glenn Maynard may or may not have written... On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:42:07PM +, Darren Salt wrote: Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] That would, however, cover firmware and wind up sending X to contrib. So maybe

Re: murphy is listed on spamcop

mail server. Thus, Rumsfeld's words are applicable here, as Thomas want to do. No. I think that his words were about a badly equipped army (relatively speaking), not a bad, equipped army... [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

. ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | I don't ask for much, just untold riches... rm -rf /

Re: LCC and blobs

I demand that Glenn Maynard may or may not have written... On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:48:12AM +, Darren Salt wrote: [fetching firmware on finding hardware which needs it: wget or packaged?] Fetch every time and fetch once. That looks like a difference to me... How could fetch every time

Re: LCC and blobs

I demand that Glenn Maynard may or may not have written... On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:22:20PM +, Darren Salt wrote: On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:48:12AM +, Darren Salt wrote: [fetching firmware on finding hardware which needs it: wget or packaged?] Fetch every time and fetch once

Re: what is /.udev for ?

think that the message is very clear. I also say s/remove/unmount and remove/. [1] There's a RISC OS *command remove which will delete a file... -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon

Re: [Fwd: False Representation at Google.com]

... ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Oh, sarge too... As the dyslexic Jedi said, Sith happens.

Re: Bug#215103: ITP: gmasqdialer -- gtk/gnome client for masqdialer server

libraries are installed, but still work without them. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Oh, sarge too... A misguided platypus will lay its eggs in your shorts.

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

one. That doesn't really happen that often to libc6 so he had particularly bad luck there. Perhaps it should be the default that, when installing from unstable, the package files for testing are also fetched...? -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

I demand that Greg Stark may or may not have written... Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I demand that Greg Stark may or may not have written... What does that mean? It's (more or less) from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The bit in question concerns two philosophers who

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

I demand that Matt Zimmerman may or may not have written... On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 05:20:18PM +, Darren Salt wrote: I keep some around. I'd prefer better management of this, though: ATM all that I can do (with apt-get/aptitude) is remove all older versions or purge the cache. I use

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

I demand that Greg Stark may or may not have written... Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, no need to Cc: me - or did Gnus not notice the Mail-Followup-To header? Uhm. What Mail-Followup-To header? I didn't receive one on this message, perhaps it's stripped by the mail server

Re: Why you are wrong [Was: On linux kernel packaging issue]

unroll, and thereby have faster code, because of more efficient parallization. Converting some multiplies to shifts (or shift plus some other arithmetic), or arranging that one of the source registers normally contains the lower value, can also help. (At least, on ARM...) -- | Darren Salt

Re: Tabs v.s. spaces (was Re: Programming first steps.)

I demand that Steve Lamb may or may not have written... [snip] if foo bar else baz fi gdr -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let's keep the pound sterling

Re: Tabs v.s. spaces

wondering if Duff's Device is implementable in Python... -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | This space reserved for future expansion I can't reach the brakes on this piano!

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security [Was: Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call]

any :-) Some of us have to *buy* them before we can spend them ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Oh, sarge too... This was the most unkind cut of all.

Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3

which endianness is in use in the string. (ICBW, of course.) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/ (PGP 2.6, GPG keys) You plan

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

packages; cleaning out old packages immediately before update or after an upgrade (or at least after the new versions are cached) seem to be the best options and should still allow the maximum improvement. The mirrors replication could really benefit from that though. Seems likely... -- | Darren

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

files. I wouldn't like to rely on the admin not having modified any of the package's files (/etc aside). Yes, this shouldn't happen, but it does :-) Of course, if you're running md5sums on all of the package's files, this can be caught... [snip] -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds

Re: Bug#366328: ITP: bsp -- nodes builder for doom-engine levels

such as EDGE (which depends on the library component of glbsp). Note that I have packages for etch and sid, too :-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Output less CO2 = avoid massive

Re: multiarch status update

that the newer one will have to include the changelog from the older one and, therefore, must have a higher version number. Otherwise, which binNMU changelog entry you get is a matter of chance, and entries may even be lost in later uploads. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr

Re: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?

. [...] Maybe... just installing the build-depends with any necessary marking as automatically installed would be good enough - possibly regardless of whether they're explicitly mentioned as build-dependencies? -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux

Re: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?

I demand that Goswin von Brederlow may or may not have written... Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I demand that Matthias Julius may or may not have written... [snip] I think a more elegant solution would be if aptitude had a command to install build-depends. AOL. It could attach

Bug#368221: ITP: glbsp -- nodes builder for Doom engine level files (has GL support)

://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.sid.html -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Output less CO2 = avoid massive flooding.TIME IS RUNNING OUT *FAST*. You might have mail

Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

if you discount an old student card or two. -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Travel less. Share transport more. PRODUCE LESS CARBON DIOXIDE. An int64_t time ago just

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

packages [4]; they are: [4] http://people.debian.org/~tbm/logs/pointer/ Here is a list of maintainers and their packages which exhibit such warnings: [snip] Darren Salt libjsw 1:1.5.5-1 Will look at - hmm, 1.5.6 is available... [snip] Siggi Langauf xine-lib 1.1.1-1.1 The warnings for src

Re: Hidden files

I demand that Henning Makholm may or may not have written... [snip] But I don't think I have ever used ls from an interactive shell _without_ the -a flag. I use -A rather than -a - it filters out . and ... -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

I demand that Goswin von Brederlow may or may not have written... [snip] But other sources pass a pointer as int and there you loose 32 valuable bits and get a segfault when the int is used as pointer again. [...] And here's me thinking that you lose them. :-) -- | Darren Salt| linux

Re: Centralized darcs

should be a comedian. Actually, yes, it *should* be easy: debian/rules patch. Bwahahaha, as they say. :-) -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + At least 4000 million too many people

Re: Centralized darcs

I demand that Matthew Palmer may or may not have written... On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 01:52:09PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Matthew Palmer may or may not have written... I've given up on this thread, but I just have to say one thing: On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:38:39AM +0300, George

Re: What config file for a .pm perl module ?

/think/ that what's happening is that all parenthesised expressions in the regexp are being assigned to @host, whether defined (matched) or not. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Linux PC, Risc PC | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | No Wodniws here | demon co uk

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

I demand that Colin Walters may or may not have written... [snip] No, the C standard guarantees that a char is exactly a single byte; i.e. sizeof(char) == 1. Yes, but who's to say that a byte is 8 bits wide? :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Linux PC, Risc PC

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

**o character appears at 0x80 in RISC OS 4's Latin* character sets. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Linux PC, Risc PC | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | No Wodniws here | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let's keep the pound sterling Bother, said Pooh, as he

Re: Sponsor for gkrellm-newsticker

It looks as if both logjam and gkrellm-newsticker have it wrong, *but* I think that it'd be easier to use the Provides option. (For some reason, packages.d.o doesn't seem to want to return 'came' in the package search results...) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Linux PC

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

I demand that Anthony Towns may or may not have written... [snip] I'm becoming increasingly confident in woody's release readiness. So, to go out on a limb: Debian 3.0 (codenamed woody) will release on May 1st, 2002. Oh good. What will it be releasing? :-) -- | Darren Salt | nr

Re: Debian Animation ;)

-through) http://www.fachschaften.uni-muenchen.de/~erich/debian/woody.avi xanim says that DIVX(44495658) is unsupported. :-\ -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Linux PC, Risc PC | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | No Wodniws here | demon co uk | Toon Army

Re: Debian Animation ;)

I demand that tony mancill may or may not have written... On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Darren Salt wrote: xanim says that DIVX(44495658) is unsupported. :-\ FYI, aviplay (in the avifile-player package) plays the animation just fine. Bug 141319 (no dependency on libavifile0.6) bit... but yes, it's

Re: Antigen found =*.pif file

that does not belong to the author(s) of the message. Why is it that your attention is directed at the From header instead of the lack of a Sender header? -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Linux PC, Risc PC | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | No Wodniws here

Re: lack of libbz2 bindings [Was: Packages.bz2, ...]

package from testing or, possibly, unstable. [1] As opposed to after sarge releases. [2] On humanbrain-linux, if you're wondering. ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | Linux PC, Risc PC | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | No Wodniws here | Toon Army | demon co uk

Re: Ask yourself some questions

I'm going insane rather than laughing at a good joke. :) Talking to the monitor can't help that too much either... Has it ever answered? -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | Linux PC, Risc PC | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | No Wodniws here | Toon Army | demon

Re: (Re)Build problem with g++ 4.0

function. Not in this case: pthread_exit has the noreturn attribute, so gcc/g++ won't complain. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let's keep the pound sterling Is tomorrow *ever

Re: Question about kill(1)

) or a serial or network console. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk Say NO to UK ID cards | http://www.no2id.net/ Your work

Re: What is going on with udev?

I demand that Goswin von Brederlow may or may not have written... [snip] I would have suggested using kernel-hurt-image ^ Ouch. ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk

Re: New appearance of bugs on BTS web pages

fail to recognise it. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Kill all extremists! I'd like to, but I'm trying to be less popular. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

usage of BUGS for this. A few packages differ here, using different names: groff-base (BUG-REPORT) and apsfilter (HOWTO-BUGREPORTS). [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk

Re: To Linux or not to Linux

also have to rename packages that use the term Linux in a non-descriptive way (linuxsampler, linuxtrade, and probably a few more). leenookssampler, leenookstrade etc.? :-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS

Re: [libsmjs-dev]: Missing files

.) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | I don't ask for much, just untold riches... The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#329833: BTS fixed tag: RC-buggy packages may end up in testing due to NMU

and these bugs were tagged by 'katie' as fixed on 9 Sept, 13:47 -0700. Later, 0.4.1-1 made its way into testing. It looks like this simple tagging as fixed is insufficient (version information is needed) or is occurring too early. -- | Darren Salt| nr. Ashington, | RISC OS, | [EMAIL

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge,| Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Retrocomputing: a PC card in a Risc PC Would it help if I got out and pushed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: pbuilder help (bug 334877)

, not compiling C code. :( A uuencoded tarball of the generated files would appear to be useful here. (You'll probably want tar's -m option when unpacking.) Or have you already tried this? [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

I demand that Gabor Gombas may or may not have written... On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:15:28AM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: I can see potential problems with that last part regarding upstream developers whose software happens to depend on packages for which pkg-config support remains Debian

/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib etc. in various packages [bug 336698]

libgtk2.0-0-dbg Takuo KITAME [EMAIL PROTECTED] libnautilus-extension1-dbg nautilus-dbg -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge,| youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http

Re: apt-proxy

testing another piece of Debian software. ARgghh! /why Using apt-cacher... # pbuilder update Wait for a few seconds, press Ctrl-Z # nano /var/cache/pbuilder/build/*/etc/apt/sources.list # fg Where's the problem? :-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | sarge

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

is somebody with an Iyonix URL:http://www.iyonix.com/ or some other XScale-based machine to step forward... [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Retrocomputing: a PC card

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

an installation from unstable over a dial-up connection isn't /quite/ what I want...) [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk

Re: about Nybbles : how to keep all those archs releasable complying with the Vancouver Project

to replace this Risc PC... -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/ (PGP 2.6, GPG keys) The Boy Scouts have adult leadership. The Coast Guard

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