that it completes correctly, and have sent
a few test messages.
--
Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com
Vimes hated and despised the privileges of rank, but they had this to
be said for them: At least they meant that you could hate and despise
them in comfort.
--
omised
gpg: revocation comment: Compromised on the uid/gid remapping on alioth
perhaps.
Don Armstrong
--
Quite the contrary; they *love* collateral damage. If they can make
you miserable enough, maybe you'll stop using email entirely. Once
enough people do that, then there'll be no l
be mistaken.
> >
> > It is much, much worse. There is a picture of naked animal there.
>
> Ok, I'll bite: which file?
Hell, it's even worse. We distribute a picture with a naked animal
admonishing impressionable youngsters to imbibe!
Upstream doesn't even stoop
e prefered source form clause. Even putting some
> in non-free works fine.
They'd pretty much have to go into non-free, as I'd imagine most of
them wouldn't be able to satisfy DFSG 2 if they were unable to satisfy
the GPL's source code requirement.
Don Armstrong
--
When I w
exists, as this is the conservative
path. Let those with high powered council and a willingness to enter
into battle with the copyright holders do otherwise if they wish.
Don Armstrong
--
Three little words. (In decending order of importance.)
I
love
you
-- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvo
27;s visit to Kuwait
this month. When a National Guardsman asked why the Army had not
provided sufficient armor for his unit's vehicles, Rumsfeld said
"You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might
want or wish to have."
Don Armstrong
1: http://www
ion teeny perl modules. [You
probably should also let upstream know that they should consider
bundling these together on CPAN, or even distributing them as a single
module.]
Don Armstrong
--
If you wish to strive for peace of soul, then believe; if you wish to
be a devotee of truth,
hlist bug #47379 (yes,
an oldie but a goodie) against apt.
Don Armstrong
--
Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars
has to be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost
anything. And if they can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into
the
the
foo package would help me at least understand this line of
reasoning.[1] [Yes, I really have read almost all of the messages in
this thread, and I'm still having a hard time figuring out this line
of reasoning.]
Don Armstrong
1: It would also be useful if the specific cases where Depend
wish to be associated with religion, to implicitly approve
of it, by including programs designed to download and view it, or
including actual religious content?
Ah, ad hominem and unfounded assumptions, how I love thee!
Don Armstrong
--
It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means tha
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Don" == Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Don> 2. Should Debian publish content I disagree with which is
> Don> DFSG free?
>
> I really think we need to draw the line som
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005, Thomas Wana wrote:
> * Package name: xen
xen is already in unstable.
xen: (a Virtual Machine Monitor like User-Mode-Linux), section misc,
is extra. Version: 1.2-4.1 (sid), Packaged size: 657 kB, Installed
size: 716 kB
Don Armstrong
--
Frankly,
clone 242281 -1
reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
retitle -1 Please remove mush from the archive as we do not have permision to
distribute it
thanks
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Pawel Wiecek wrote:
> > On Dec 28, 2:03am, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > >
postfix
sendmail-bin
smail
ssmtp
xmail
zmailer
Don Armstrong
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But if I did...
It would be you.
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7;s not the point.
> I'm just wondering if it makes sense to have a full MTA installed by
> default.
It does if you want mail to be deliverable locally on a machine
without a network connection at all. It's really a personal decision,
and exim is probably a reasonable default.
Don
ry popular but are being actively maintained by a
maintainer who supposedly uses the package in question.[1]
Don Armstrong
1: Hell, I use and maintain a few packages that aren't too terribly
popular.
--
I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like
to run their o
ll we're doing is windmill tilting.
Don Armstrong
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by brute strength and ignorance.
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ge, I
may be able to track it down if it ever actually reached spohr.
Don Armstrong
--
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I
realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked
Him to forgive me.
-- Emo Philips.
http://www.donarmstrong.com
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Gregor Jasny wrote:
> >> Bastian Venthur schrieb:
> >> > Can somebody confirm that there is a problem with the BTS?
> >>
> >> I've got the same setup
n the fact that the number of subscribers won't
necessarily indicate the number of people who are interested in a bug
or its importance.]
Don Armstrong
--
Frankly, if ignoring inane opinions and noisy people and not flaming
them to crisp is bad behaviour, I have not yet achieved a state of
nirv
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Gregor Jasny wrote:
> Don Armstrong schrieb:
> > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Gregor Jasny wrote:
> >
> >>Bastian Venthur schrieb:
> >>
> >>>Can somebody confirm that there is a problem with the BTS?
> >>
> >>I&#x
tistic
Description : A POE component that provides non-blocking ident lookups
POE::Component::Client::Ident is a POE component that provides
non-blocking Ident lookup services to other POE components and
sessions.
[This module is needed for the new version of
libpoe-component-irc-perl]
Don Arm
posibilities
therein.
If you send in 10 pulltabs, you can accheive the rank of "Proven
Debian Contributor". Operators are standing by.
Don Armstrong
--
THERE IS NO GRAVITY THE WORLD SUCKS
-- Vietnam War Penquin Lighter
http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/clippings/vietnam_there_is_no_gravit
. Of
> course it should be easy to unsubscribe.
See #37078 et al.
Don Armstrong
--
In all matters of government, the correct answer is usually: "Do
nothing"
-- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p428
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signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
it, then killfile them if they
persist.
I, for one, am far more interested in the message than the way which
the message is conveyed.
Don Armstrong
--
Miracles had become relative common-places since the advent of
entheogens; it now took very unusual circumstances to attract public
attention to
exception or modification or suspension
> of the DFSG.
The issue here devolves into a question of interpretation; if we can
decide to interpret the Foundation Documents in any way we want simply
by a majority vote, the requirement to have changes to them meet a 3:1
majority becomes rather p
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Sam Morris wrote:
> AFAIK Linux only supports eight loopback mounts at a time. This
> won't be a problem once FUSE becomes more widespread.
The default is 8; by seting the max_loop kernel option, you can
increase this to 256.
Don Armstrong
--
"You have ma
at the other clauses in the PHP
license which are problematic shouldn't be dealt with as well...]
Don Armstrong
--
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing
that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot
possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns
ne ack.
I've gone ahead and fixed this, and it shouldn't pose any further
problems.
If anyone else has issues with the BTS, please file bugs against the
bugs.debian.org pseudopackage (or the debbugs package) as appropriate.
Don Armstrong
1: It said X-Debian-PR-Packag instead. Since
;Send a report that this bug log contains spam."
Blars Blarson will then (when he has time) review your report, and
clean up the spam and/or modify the filters if necessary.
Don Armstrong
--
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
-- Aesop
http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzl
, and
> therefore the command may fail even if the directory is empty.
>
> rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/local/lib/foo || true
So you're suggesting that it's better to fail silently instead of
failing loudly?
Don Armstrong
--
"There are two major products that c
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> >> Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > Correct, so one would put in foo.postrm:
> >> >
> >
icates that a bug cannot be closed/fixed/addressed until the bugs
that it is blocked by are closed.
See #342938 et al. for more information about the documentation bug.
Don Armstrong
--
I now know how retro SCOs OSes are. Riotous, riotous stuff. How they
had the ya-yas to declare Linux an infan
It'll still close it. [scripts/process.in, which is the part that
deals with messages to -done currently doesn't know anything about
blocking.]
Don Armstrong
--
I now know how retro SCOs OSes are. Riotous, riotous stuff. How they
had the ya-yas to declare Linux an infant OS in need of th
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Marc Haber wrote:
> Is this documented somewhere? Pinning is such a powerful tool, and
> nobody seems to really understand it.
See apt_preferences(5) [specifically the "APT's Default Priority
Assignments" section.]
Don Armstrong
--
Cheop's Law:
d fewer packages that don't
follow the recommendation of Policy 9.3.3.2.[1]
If you find such a package, please file a wishlist bug against it
requesting that the follow the recommendation of Policy not to call
the init scripts directly.
Don Armstrong
1: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-p
The three examples that I
picked at random all use invoke-rc.d. [Two of which because they use
debhelper to do the invoking.]
Don Armstrong
--
"A one-question geek test. If you get the joke, you're a geek: Seen on
a California license plate on a VW Beetle: 'FEATURE'...&q
similar as a last resort.
Otherwise, all you're doing is abusing the BTS, no matter how correct
your actual appraisal of the severity bug is.
Don Armstrong
1: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=300765&msg=13
2: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=300765&msg=14
f the package precludes it from being included in a release
(IE, unresolved RC bugs) the package will continue being released on
the assumption that the maintainer actually knows better than any one
else if people are really using the package.
Don Armstrong
--
Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Don Armstrong dijo [Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:17:26PM -0700]:
> > Until Adam Conrad decides that it shouldn't be in the archive, or
> > the bugginess of the package precludes it from being included in a
> > release (IE, unresolved
t some
future date when sarge releases[2] just isn't going to do anything for
me.
Don Armstrong
1: I'd argue that anyone who doesn't actually want to support (or at
least help support) their package with security fixes, etc. in stable
probably should already have such a bug fi
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> Scribit Don Armstrong dies 04/04/2005 hora 01:09:
> > Otherwise, all you're doing is abusing the BTS, no matter how correct
> > your actual appraisal of the severity bug is.
>
> Downgrading a bug that is a clear violation of t
ms that programs
do.]
{I'm too lazy to dig up the references to this right now, esp. since
people.debian.org/~terpstra is broken, but search -vote around the
time that the SC modification GR was being debated, specifically for
my conversations with Anthony Towns.}
Don Armstrong
--
It has al
copyright statement of a work distributed
in Debian should be DFSG Free. [I'd argue additionally that these
random licenses have no business being distributed in Debian at all,
even if they were DFSG Free, but that's a separate matter.]
Don Armstrong
--
Our days are precious, but we gla
l seriously consider comments of Debian on
> licence problems.
So we should not worry at all about licensing issues? How would Qt
have been relicensed then?[2][3]
> What do you win by moving things to non-free?
We make the separation between which works are free, and which works
are not free
s
especially insane when there are already reasonable methods for having
multiple versions of things installed when that is a reasonable thing
to do. (Think libfoo2, autoconf2.13 or similar.)
Don Armstrong
--
"For those who understand, no explanation is necessary.
For those w
(echo "false" >/etc/X11/default-display-manager or similar) then
telinit 3; or whatever.
> Yes, most people with Debian experience could work around this but
> it's way beyond most desktop users that don't know what init.d is.
These people probably won't be ab
ed in a manner consistent
with trademark law[2] would have to be expunged from the work, which
is quite a bit different than merely chaging the name of the work.
Don Armstrong
1: As I'm sure you're aware, it's primarily a nod to TeX et al. and a
compromise so TeX could be distributed.
2: E
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Eric Dorland wrote:
> * Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > All of MoFo trademarks that were not being used in a manner
> > consistent with trademark law[2] would have to be expunged from
> > the work,
>
> What trademarks are you refer
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Eric Dorland wrote:
> * Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > > * Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > > All of MoFo trademarks that were not being used in a manner
> > > &
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Eric Dorland wrote:
> Well I don't think DFSG #4 says the rename has to be easy, it just
> has to be possible.
Yes. However, the last sentence in DFSG #4 only talks about renaming,
not being forced to change content.
Don Armstrong
--
Build a fire for a man,
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Eric Dorland wrote:
> * Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > the last sentence in DFSG #4 only talks about renaming, not being
> > forced to change content.
>
> If I change the name of my program, I also change all references to
> that name in
checking, it does not support
scp;[1] yet, since it's GPLed, adding that support shouldn't be too
terribly difficult if someone actually wants it.]
Don Armstrong
1: This was actually the only reason I still had ssh1 support when I
had a collection of macintoshes running something beside
S during this time, I
currently have a mirror that lags between 15-30 minutes behind
bugs.debian.org which you can feel free to use:
http://bugs.donarmstrong.com
[It supports all the usual redirects (like b.d.o/bugnum), but since I
use it for debugging patches to the bts it may not be 100% relia
to be implemented. It should be updated
accordingly, but that by itself is no reason not to use them.
Don Armstrong
--
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
http://www.donarmstr
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Don Armstrong:
> > Assuming there's a box available that can handle it, HyperEstraier is
> > pretty easy to set up and configure to do this sort of thing...
>
> According to what I've heard, it tries to fit the whol
onflict between pbuilder and dpkg-buildpackage?
It means that your upstream is having issues; configure should be +x
in the orig.tar.gz.
Since it's not, you can either "sh ./configure;" or chmod +x, then
./configure in debian/rules. I'd suggest the first, because the second
will give
you
see on the surface via the mailing lists really is a small microcosm
of what is going on. Real work rarely happens in MUAs; it happens in
editors and on the command line.
Don Armstrong
--
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very
easy to govern. It demands no soc
direct to send it to the appropriate server, so this can
happen seamlessly.
If you also give me an idea of where the index.*.db files are being
downloaded from, I can put an HTTP redirect to them as well so no code
changes are required when we do switch over.
Don Armstrong
--
An elephant: A m
r b.d.o; I don't remember if a redirect on a POST
will work properly, but hopefully it will. [It will take until apache
is reloaded on spohr for it to take effect, though.]
Don Armstrong
--
"People selling drug paraphernalia ... are as much a part of drug
trafficking as silencers are a part
rm the user of things is really not ideal.
README.Debian, NEWS.Debian, and low priority debconf notes when
appropriate are much, much better.
Don Armstrong
--
I shall require that [a scientific system's] logical form shall be
such that it can be singled out, by means of emperical tests, in a
idn't propose how to fix,
> just a piece of information for users how to find out how to do what
> they actually wanted to do.
So have a note in exim4's debconf which tells the users that, and only
display the note if DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE=1 or $1='reconfigure'.
Don
rg/wmaker|grep -i -A 1 unstable
* [14]unstable (x11): NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X
0.92.0-5.3: alpha amd64 arm hppa hurd-i386 i386 ia64 kfreebsd-i386
(The BTS actually has it right)
Don Armstrong
--
If you find it impossible to believe that the universe didn't have a
cr
, not the same thing.
It's great! We can use this to have endless flamewars over which
iceweasel we are in fact distributing. I think a combination of this,
and a few more firmware and DPL recal GRs will enable me to cut back
on my heating costs this winter!
Don Armstrong (Your flamemaster general)
ackage is not
fit for release.
Otherwise, when the RMs have clarified the release policy (as they
have just done), then we should go back to fixing bugs instead of
arguing about whether or not the bugs are really all that bad or not.
Don Armstrong
--
Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte no
which do have such identifiable characterestics already
have them in place; messages sent to nnn-done@ and nnn@ have no such
requirements, though.
In general, just clicking on the report spam links are good enough; in
cases like this where large amounts of spam have been crafted which
beat the ext
;in theory" be working now.
Usertag: fooblehtag
should set the fooblehtag of the user sending the mail.
Don Armstrong
--
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its
freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it
values more, it will lose that, too
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061021 09:54]:
> > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > > Please hold off on filing them for a few days, so I can add
> > > > usertag-on-submit support to debbugs,
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Don Armstrong]
> > Well, once I wake up a bit, you'll be able to go:
> >
> > Package: foopkg
> > User: username
> > Usertags: fooblehtag,bartag
> >
> > [But it won't work for setting multi
n the
other package being unpacked. Since there is no way to specify this
kind of dependency, Depends: is as close as you can get.
Don Armstrong
--
It has always been Debian's philosophy in the past to stick to what
makes sense, regardless of what crack the rest of the universe is
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> >> [Ian Jackson]
> >> > The only argument I've heard against circular dependencies as a
> >> > general rul
rs have
to hop through decreases the likelihood of them actually reporting
spam.
Decreasing the score at which we ignore messages is trivial, but it
means increasing the number of false positives. [And because
backscatter is bad, these will be messages which just "disappear",
unless some (
false positives.
[And yes, messages sent by scripts or people who haven't learned to
jump through the right hoops are clearly false positives.]
Don Armstrong
--
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very
easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not
On Sun, 05 Nov 2006, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 03:43:06PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Thu, 02 Nov 2006, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> > > a) for mails to -close or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to prevent a
> > >sp
s that it even asks
whether to use the local smtp server in the "novice" case.]
Don Armstrong
--
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you. If you don't
bet, you can't win.
-- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p240
http://www.donarmstrong.co
e bts knows about it, it shows up as "in other
> versions" or something.
You should be hard pressed to be able to actually install packages
before the BTS has learned about the version unless you're filing bugs
on packages which you've built yourself. [Far more likely that
ew;found=amavisd-new%2F1%3A2.3.3-2;fixed=1%3A2.3.3-2
makes it pretty clear precisely what is happening there.
Don Armstrong
--
Tell me something interesting about yourself.
Lie if you have to.
-- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/archives/batch20.php
http://www.donarmstrong.com
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 03:50:46AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > When using "bts show package" or going to
> > > "http://bugs.debian.org/package"; we get that be
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 03:50:46AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > When using "bts show package" or going to
> > > "http://bugs.debian.org/package"; we ge
ng
ls: testing: Permission denied
$ sudo chmod 750 testing;
$ cat testing/hello
cat: testing/hello: Permission denied
Any questions?
Don Armstrong
--
America was far better suited to be the World's Movie Star. The
world's tequila-addled pro-league bowler. The world's acerbic bi-
e that none
> of the files in his home directory are world-readable.
This is what umask is for.
Don Armstrong
--
Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they
have exhausted all other possibilities.
-– W. Churchill
http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
dered (by me, anyway), see #376594
and my responses.
As a final note, using usertags to handle this sort of situtation is
quite easy:
user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
usertag 400693 notabug
thanks
Don Armstrong
--
"I'm a rational being--of a sort--rational enough, at least, to see the
symptoms o
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006, Marc Haber wrote:
> Has blocking been documented since I looked for the last time?
Blocking has been documented for quite some time:
revision 1.54
date: 2006-07-13 15:14:12 -0700; author: joeyh; state: Exp; lines: +7 -0
document block/unblock
Don Armstrong
--
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 00:30:40 -0800, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Mon, 04 Dec 2006, Marc Haber wrote:
> >Blocking has been documented for quite some time:
> >
> >revision 1.54
> >date: 2006-07-13 15:1
or the reporter to see it, use the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] user.
Don Armstrong
--
[Panama, 1989. The U.S. government called it "Operation Just Cause".]
I think they misspelled this. Shouldn't it be "Operation Just 'Cause"?
-- TekPolitik http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:51:26 -0800, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >$ GET http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control|grep block
> >block bugnumber by bug
> >...
> > Note that the fix for the first bug is b
ly,
None.
> and what's the behavioral difference between being blocked and not?
Besides the display above, there is no difference.
This all may change at some point in the future, but since that's the
way it works now, the documentation is pretty complete.
Don Armstrong
--
&
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Marc Haber wrote:
> Bug blocking only being a specialized kind of tagging is a total
> surprise for me. And I suspect that I am not the only one.
Since it's confusing to you, you're the best person to submit patches.
Don Armstrong
--
Taxes are not levied
useful.
[As far as removing them on close, what would probably be most useful
is to indicate that the blocker has been closed in the blockee's list,
and that it's no longer blocked if it all of the blockers are closed.]
Don Armstrong
--
Grimble left his mother in the food store and w
t by reopening bugs when they appear to have been closed in error,
or tagging bugs to assist maintainers in classifying their bugs of
course. Just don't use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for bug ping-pong.]
Don Armstrong
1: There's also the "Don Armstrong reported it, so you damn well beter
f
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 03:05:35AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > If you're doing this, you better have already written (or gotten
> > someone else to write) the patch to fix whatever bug you want
> > reopened and fixed; othe
capriciously either,[1] but it is the
maintainer's right to do so. [I don't think there's much that can be
done if a maintainer wants to be an ass short of hijacking their
packages... thankfully, that's a course of action which I don't have
to contemplate.]
Don Armstr
irectories to /dev/null in dpkg, but I personally don't
have time to code that nor a desire to disappear.]
Don Armstrong
--
S: Make me a sandwich
B: What? Make it yourself.
S: sudo make me a sandwich
B: Okay.
-- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c149.html
http://www.donarmstrong.com htt
purpose?
Granted, if the upgrade was split and basefile's postinst ran before
the other packages, the final cleanup would take another upgrade to go
into effect... but it would avoid mucking with files that don't belong
to basefiles.
Don Armstrong
--
There are two types of people in thi
ized (whatever language that means changing
them into) then the system wide locale should not be set to that
language.
It's trivial to change the language to C if that's a problem.
Don Armstrong
--
"A one-question geek test. If you get the joke, you're a geek: Seen on
a Ca
do it?
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1: I suppose it may be conside
nly need common-lisp-controller, not
clisp itself, unless the code in question will only work with clisp,
not any of the other common lisp implementations. [Someone else who is
more familiar with lisp will have to answer this aspect, though.]
Don Armstrong
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean t
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Torsten Marek wrote:
> >> - eog
> >
> > As said, Gnome bloat. Use gqview or pornview.
>
> Well, don't take pornview or you'll soon have a bug report about
> politically incorrect package names;-)
Try feh. Much, much more powerfu
ore than 50
command line options, that may be the case... but it definetly gets
rid of the bloat present in other image viewers. [This is probably YA
case of the desktop task recommending software that few of us actually
use.]
Don Armstrong
--
"A one-question geek test. If you get the joke,
ld be usefull to keep it
> until the buggy version is available in the archive, what do others
> think?
Archiving is currently disabled until the exact mechanism of its
operation with versioning is worked out; presumably it will only
archive bugs which no longer affect any version in the ar
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