Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread jeremiah foster
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:25 +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Thomas Bushnell writes: No, I think it's because Ubuntu doesn't cooperate well with Debian, while pretending to cooperate. Could you be more explicit? I know there has been concern about Ubuntu amongst debian

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-12 Thread jeremiah foster
Can't Canonical devote resources to better Ubuntu's contribution to debian? This seems like a reasonable request since Canonical crows about how they are the number one linux distro and they have excellent support, but surely the reliability of their product rests upon the reliability of

Re: lintian-like tools in teams / early lintian stories

2009-07-21 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Jul 20, 2009, at 20:44, martin f krafft wrote: Hey folks, As part of my research[0], I have two questions: Do you know any tools or teams using tools that, like lintian, automatically check packages (or whatever it is that the team is working on) and thereby helps to maintain a common

Re: Debian Packaging Handbook project

2007-08-19 Thread Jeremiah Foster
in documentation and with a bit of free time, I will try to contribute as much as possible. Regards, Jeremiah Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Key fingerprint = 9616 2AD3 3AE0 502C BD75 65ED BDC3 0D44 2F5A E672 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume make-up discount

2008-11-24 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 24, 2008, at 5:13 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: - The use of the word chick in reference to females. Chick is a slightly derogatory, condescending common usage (slang) expression for a young woman. So linuxchix.org is a slightly derogatory, condescending domain name for young women

ITP: autodie -- Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope

2008-12-08 Thread Jeremiah Foster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jeremiah C. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libautodie-perl Version : 1.997 Upstream Author : Paul Jamieson Fenwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~pjf/autodie-1.997/lib/autodie.pm * License :

ITP: IPC::System::Simple -- Run commands simply, with detailed diagnostics

2008-12-08 Thread Jeremiah Foster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jeremiah C. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libipc-system-simple-perl Version : 0.16 Upstream Author : Paul Jamieson Fenwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-18 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Dec 18, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote: Manoj Srivastava (2008-12-17 17:02 -0600) wrote: If there is sufficient support, we could also scrap the current vote, change our ballot, add options to it, or something, and restart the vote, but that would need a strong grass roots

Re: problems with the concept of unstable - testing

2008-12-18 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:52 PM, Noah Slater wrote: To be honest, I'd prefer if Bastian applied his skills to helping a project I'm not a member of. I am not going to comment on his behaviour, your comments may very well be justified. But I do think it would do the project some good if we

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-04 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Mar 4, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes: makes libc a derived work of the program hello world? Jörg Please do read all of the mail and try to follow each step. And if you have a counter argument please first

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-06 Thread Jeremiah Foster
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Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-07 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Sep 7, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Edward Welbourne wrote: Please consider to maintain and/or co-maintain some free packages for the distribution and become a DD. I have asked my boss whether we can treat the time I'd need for this as my training budget allocation; I'll see how that goes ;-) And

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-13 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Sep 13, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Karl Goetz wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 20:45 +0200, Roland Mas wrote: John Kelly, 2007-09-12 18:33:12 + : Again, if Debian's highly esteemed social contract is for the benefit of users, then why not let users vote? We do, actually. Those users who do

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-09-25 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Sep 22, 2007, at 8:18 PM, Peter Eckersley wrote: On Sep 22, Marco D'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 22, Peter Eckersley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This means, in practice, that many sites will be able to track Debian users by their User-Agent, even if (say) the user is blocking cookies

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-09-25 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Sep 23, 2007, at 1:39 AM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 11150 March 1977, Peter Eckersley wrote: This is highly debateable. There may be tens or thousands of users of the same package visiting a web site. I've seen reports from very large sites indicating that User-Agent strings are almost as

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-10-04 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Oct 1, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Surely packages.debian.org is not a good example of a site with generally few Debian users. The scenario seems more likely to me on small non-technical sites that only a few Debian unstable users are likely to visit.

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-10-04 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Oct 4, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Mark Brown wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:41:51AM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote: This is most likely apocryphal. If there is any truth in the above link, it has been blown way out of proportion. Nobody gets arrested for using lynx, which is what that link

Re: Automatic retrieval of information from qa.debian.org

2007-10-04 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Oct 4, 2007, at 5:59 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 04 Oct 2007, David Paleino wrote: Or should I do some hacky thing with PHP? (caching info, when an user arrives see if the cache is too old, update the cache, show it) That's up to you. But cron is probably better. :-) Well,

Re: Report on the Debian pkg-perl group presence at YAPC::EU 2007

2007-10-05 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Oct 5, 2007, at 9:36 AM, Jos I. Boumans wrote: On Oct 3, 2007, at 5:59 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: CPANPLUS will be the main CPAN infrastructure starting with Perl 5.10 (due Real Soon Now). This has major implications for our group, specially for dh-make-perl, as we are probably duplicating work

RE: libFOO-BAR naming convention

2007-11-23 Thread Jeremiah Foster
Hello, I vaguely recall seeing a recommendation for library packages for a particular language to follow libFOO-BAR naming convention in Debian, where FOO is the name of a library, and BAR is an arbitrary common suffix (thus, liberror-perl, or libsqlite-ocaml.)

libFOO-BAR naming convention

2007-11-23 Thread Jeremiah Foster
Hello, I vaguely recall seeing a recommendation for library packages for a particular language to follow libFOO-BAR naming convention in Debian, where FOO is the name of a library, and BAR is an arbitrary common suffix (thus, liberror-perl, or libsqlite-ocaml.)

Re: Does anyone care about LSB on arm?

2011-06-01 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: In my experience anyone distributing binaries actually picks a small set of distros and builds for those explicitly, rather than relying on the

Re: zendframework package with or without bin package

2009-09-22 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Sep 23, 2009, at 1:22, Raphael Geissert wrote: Frank Habermann wrote: I also want to rename the package to libphp-zendframework. biased answer: ugh, why? That reminds me some of the libfoo-bar-moo-invent-something-else-here packages we have in the archive. One possible answer to why?

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-02 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Dec 2, 2009, at 10:26, Sandro Tosi wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:17, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: This (and other) rant are a signal we should create a TEAM around any fundamental packages in Debian, and python MUST NOT be and

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-29 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Dec 29, 2009, at 8:46, Vincent Bernat wrote: OoO En ce doux début de matinée du mardi 29 décembre 2009, vers 08:34, je disais: Details in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316099. I do wonder, however, why the system hostname has to appear in /etc/hosts at all?

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Dec 31, 2009, at 15:04, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2009-12-31 14:10:46 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 02:02:36PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: POSIX says: Have we resolved where the canonical hostname is going to reside or does reside? Debian's policy manual[0] states

ITP: libclass-perl -- Alias for __PACKAGE__

2010-01-24 Thread Jeremiah Foster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jeremiah C. Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com * Package name: libclass-perl Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : Michael G. Schwern mschw...@cpan.org * URL : http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/CLASS/CLASS.html * License : GPL

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-11 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Jun 11, 2010, at 10:17, Andreas Marschke wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 00:58 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:01:27 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: My 2nd suggestion is coming from the Maemo platform (the OS behind the Nokia n900 that is Debian based). In Maemo, there is

Re: mentors.debian.net runs the debexpo code now

2011-08-17 Thread Jeremiah Foster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Aug 17, 2011, at 12:14, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 07:03:03AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Thanks to huge work by Johnny Lamb, Christoph Haas, Jan Dittberner, Kalle Söderman, Serafeim Zanikolas, David Paleino, and Paul

Accepted libcdk-perl 4.9.10-2 (source i386)

2007-08-14 Thread Jeremiah Foster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:39:04 + Source: libcdk-perl Binary: libcdk-perl Architecture: source i386 Version: 4.9.10-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Perl Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Jeremiah Foster

Accepted libemail-simple-perl 2.003-1 (source all)

2007-08-14 Thread Jeremiah Foster
-By: Jeremiah Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libemail-simple-perl - Simple parsing of RFC2822 message format and headers Changes: libemail-simple-perl (2.003-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New upstream release * Added myself to uploaders Files: bb1659b163ee2bc8beb66cf4322929e4 1096 perl