Re: Mini-DebConf in Cambridge, UK - October 10-13 2024

2024-06-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 12:18:56PM +0200, somebody *claiming* to be Luna Jernberg wrote: Just to be 100% clear, that mail didn't come from Luna's normal gmail account but was instead spoofed and sent via emkei.cz, a "free online fake mailer". It's now blocked from

Re: what about Netplan?

2024-07-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
oo many to be >bothered to check between 10 and 999 commits. I understand what you're trying to say, but that's a disingenuous comparison. systemd is a massive (some would say *too* massive) project with fingers in many pies. How many of those people have touched *networking* bits? -

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
ult. It hasn't been AFAIK, no. d-i always asks, with the default being "no". -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

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

2004-12-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
end to pick up any random free software and add it to the distribution without considering whether it's actually useful or not... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess

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

2004-12-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
people seeing these messages will most likely have just attempted to log in using their normal username and password... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
er. The 2.6 kernel boots up with at least initramfs >accessable to it, and later initrd, if it needs a BLOB it should load >it from there. Agreed on this bit. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
ion moot. What annoys me is your constant >pounding on other people's credibility, especially since you don't ever >seem to accept anyone else's criticism of your credibility. That's just Suffield being an annoying prick, as usual. Common consenus is that he's generall

Re: Bug#289385: RFH: cdrtools -- searching co-maintainer for the package

2005-01-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
ary storage software for a living!), so I'll get back to you tomorrow. I've already written several patches for mkisofs and cdrecord over the years I've been using them, so I'm quite experienced with the code. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Bug#293561: ITP: player -- music player and organizer for GNOME

2005-02-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
orking with music database. > >(expect packages soon on http://mentors.debian.net/, we still need >libvisual to be packaged and uploaded.) Please use a less generic name. "player" alone means very little and is likely to cause confusion. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Bug#296279: ITP: tarp -- small script adding progress bar support for GNU tar

2005-02-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
Another Tiny Package in the archive for a 7KB perl wrapper script. If you find this useful, please ask the tar maintainer to include it in the tar package via a wishlist bug instead... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "C++ ate my sanity"

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

2005-02-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
ually slow them at all. Well, I'll say differently. I've produced the last several sets of woody point release CD and DVD images. Each arch produced takes time. Reducing the sets produced would make it much easier/faster to get this done. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

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

2005-02-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:17:39AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well, I'll say differently. I've produced the last several sets of >> woody point release CD and DVD images. Each arch produced takes >> tim

Re: Key management using a USB key

2005-03-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
only, which >allows me to safely remove it while still mounted; my trustdb and public >keyring are synchronized in other ways. Yep, exactly how I do it too. It works well - after all, you rarely (if ever) need to update the contents then. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

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

2005-03-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
ntenance work by central buildd admins. Note: I'm NOT attributing this to malice or incompetence - people need to sleep and have some semblance of a life outside Debian, after all! m68k has shown that a larger team of buildd admins and machines can work effectively, allowing the least power

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

2005-03-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
t have a net connection for popcon or downloading from mirrors so they don't show up in the figures. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Debian makes titles

2005-03-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
of debate going on there are likely to be substantial changes to >the it. Yes, it does now. Orlowski needed that bit explaining... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there mu

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

2005-03-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
e DDs who would vouch for the inclusion of >amd64 into Debian. There was a small crowd of them at FOSDEM. Yes, there were. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/ --

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

2005-03-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
up! *yawn* Ingo, please go away. I'm asking you nicely. Don't come back until you have something constructive to say - at the moment you're not helping anyone. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the CD team, 2005-03-16

2005-03-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
Sven Luther wrote: >On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:27:37AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Thus, for sarge, we plan to offer officially: >> >> * ISO images for business card and netinst CDs (for all architectures) >> * ISO images for normal install CDs (for all architec

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

2005-03-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
firewall, has no outside logins, and doesn't do >much besides building packages. > >That'd reduce DSA's work load, not sacrifice security, and still afford >some level of build activity even if the other system admins don't react >immediately. Yes,

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

2005-03-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
projects with much fewer users and also much >fewer developers, manage to release for more than 4 architecture? >*BSD come to mind... By having a much smaller set of software, mainly. The core BSDs are *tiny* compared to what we try to ship in Debian. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

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

2005-03-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
Toni wrote: > >On Wed, 16.03.2005 at 15:23:42 +, Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I wrote: >> >Btw, why, or how, do other projects with much fewer users and also much >> >fewer developers, manage to release for more than 4 architecture? >>

Re: How to join a team

2005-03-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
If more people want to come and help get CDs and DVDs done, please dive in. Some of the effort is centralised so far (like creating the official images), but we'd love to share that out when possible. And of course there's always more work in testing... :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
However, part of the point of the N+1 specification is for redundancy/resiliency... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm afraid I'll miss my stop" -- Vivek Dasm

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

2005-03-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Steve, Steve Langasek wrote: >On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:41:59AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> >- the release architecture must have N+1 buildds where N is the number >> > required to keep up with the volume of uploaded packages > >> >- the value of N

Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
an agree with other distros and the LSB on what we call a new 64-bit PowerPC, that seems like a no-brainer to me... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship

Re: iyonix [was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting]

2005-03-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
d in Debian >supporting their hardware. It'd be more useful getting the existing offered hardware up and running before asking for more. We have several arm boxes waiting to be used... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: status of vore?

2005-11-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
er chroots on auric, but this may be dependent on another >sparc buildd being brought on-line (and one is in the works) so that auric >isn't doing double-duty as a porter machine and buildd. I have an Ultra 30 available for devel/test if it'll help. Mail

Re: Experiment: poll on "switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?"

2005-12-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
/when/if we can drop 2.4 kernels then we should get some space back. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Apology for MIA, Retiring, RFA: x-symbol, xmix, oneko

2006-01-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
7;s time I move on. > >I'm truly sorry that I have neglected my packages for so long. > >I'd like to offer these three packages for adoption: x-symbol, xmix, >and oneko. I'll happily take xmix, as I use it myself... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#354174: RFH: nas -- The Network Audio System

2006-02-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
gs with another person and sponsor uploads where necessary. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#354176: RFH: cvs -- Concurrent Versions System

2006-02-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
/or sponsor uploads where necessary. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pur

Re: Apache server-side includes questions

1997-05-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >What's the Right Way(tm) to include the output of a perl script into a web >page? Why not just use Works for me... -- Steve McIntyre, CURS Secretary, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use Debian GNU/Linux - upgrade your Wind

Ultralib (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
bably the sound driver you should >be using! It looks extremely good, but I never tried it here with my gus >(no time :|) I'm using it here without problems - _far_ better than the OSS GUS support for most things. I've even volunteered to Debianise it, but it'll take some time

New 1.3 installation report

1997-06-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
g with DNS services for college and bootp/tftp services for the printers; it all worked out of the box. Congratulations everyone! -- Steve McIntyre, CURS Secretary, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Whenever you eat, chew" "Can't keep

Re: Bug#20914: seyon package copyright (fwd)

1998-05-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
modify the source as long as the modified source is not distributed. == I'm happy that we can work with this license, as we distribute diffs. Thomas thinks otherwise. Thoughts? -- Steve McIntyre, CURS CCE, Cambridg

Re: Bug#20914: seyon package copyright (fwd)

1998-05-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
an-policy/archive/debian-policy-2.4.1.0/ch2.html#s2.1.1 OK, I guess I'd better try and contact the author... I'll report any progress back here... -- Steve McIntyre, CURS CCE, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/>My home page "

Re: NM queue and groups

2005-01-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
7;s probably true, but that >doesn't make you to the master of the interpretation of the SC. Ssh. The great Suffield has spoken... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but i

Re: Dear Adrian Bunk, Please hold off a week or two

2005-05-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
live. > >And you're not just providing constructive feedback. You're also picking >personal fights with the release team and speculating wildly and as >negatively as possible about their motives. Please stop. It's obnoxious, >abusive, and unhelpful. Seconded. --

Re: Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD image problem

2005-06-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
ackage on the 3rd source DVD. That _does_ mean that vendors only need to worry about supplying the 3rd DVD if they're shipping ia64 binary CDs/DVDs. It will also matter for the (unofficial) amd64 images, but there will be other amd64-specific sources needed too in that case and I'm still loo

Re: AMD64 CDs and DVDs released

2005-06-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
ly AMD64 is unofficial (apart for the use of uppercase) ? >Did not the security team and the SRM just agreed to support it ? >Is it not sufficient for the official label ? Security.d.o may have been promised, but sarge/amd64 will not be hosted within the official archive - Debian did n

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
dusa:~$ locate kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb /mirror/debian-security/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb And I see jvw has already mentioned that you have some files listed that were in woody-p-u

Re: Debian Installer etch beta 3 released

2006-08-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
linked to from >> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > >True, but none are available for the DVD images. Oops, that'll be a bug then. I'll investigate. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Into the distance, a ribbon

Re: Debian Installer etch beta 3 released

2006-08-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
ready produced, just not linked from the page at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/. Check out http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta3/$arch/bt-dvd -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Installer etch beta 3 released

2006-08-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Frans Pop writes: > >On Monday 14 August 2006 14:43, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> The DVD torrents are already produced, just not linked from the page >> at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/. Check out > >I've committed a change to the d-i page that adds all

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
warned people that they need at least the first 2 CDs (or the first DVD) to get a full selection of the available tasks. As time goes on and each desktop env adds more bloat^Wfeatures, it becomes more and more difficult to get them to fit on CD#1. Frans reminds me that we're about to regain

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Manoj wrote: > >As per policy, I am raising a balloon about ths issue; I think > if we ship vacation, finger, and sharutils, we can also ship > mandatory acess controls in the standard distribution :) Sounds like a good plan to me... -- Steve McIntyre, C

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
en >setting MAILTO in a crontab. Ditto tools like ssh, where @ is assumed to be a separator between local part and machine name. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Help] Please compile clustalw on architectures ia64, mips, mipsel, s390 and m68k

2006-10-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
do ia64 tonight when I get that machine up and running again. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site..." -- Simon Booth -- T

Re: List of packages with problems wrt release

2006-12-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Hi, > >Here is a list (sorted by maintainer email) of packages: >- that have RC bugs >- that are in unstable, but not in testing > >(U) means "Uploader". > >Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > motifnls

Advice: managing inetd entries for cvs

2006-12-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
I missed anything screamingly obvious here? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
>>to this mail - note the Reply-To to the debian-cd list. > >Do you plan to use the live-package to build the live cds or some new >code into debian-cd ? If you're going to pick live-package i submitted >a patch to Daniel that would permit use a tasksel based

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
ame boot sector, but it's really not likely. >(Does weird iron contain strange quarks in its nuclei?) *grin* -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Please follow the Reply-To: and head over to debian-cd if you want to discuss this further... ] On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:04:54PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Bad news I'm afraid. I've worked through the mkisofs boot code again, >and I get: > >alpha:Writing

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 12:57:44PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >Steve McIntyre dijo [Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:04:54PM +]: >> Bad news I'm afraid. I've worked through the mkisofs boot code again, >> and I get: >> (...) >> I'm looking further to see if it&#

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 08:32:28PM +, Thiemo Seufer wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >[snip] >> mips >> >> jealously scribbles all over the first 512 bytes > >I figure that's a DVH "Disk Volume Header" as used on SGI machines. Yup, exactly.

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
Eduard Block wrote: >#include >* Steve McIntyre [Wed, Dec 20 2006, 06:29:04PM]: > >> Gnome vs. KDE vs. XFCE >> == >> >> The KDE and XFCE variants of CD#1 are now being produced to give more >> choice to people for initial installation.

Re: Laptop support: acpi-support

2006-05-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
support with Matthew for Ubuntu, and has just joined our NM queue to help work on exactly this kind of thing. I've copied him for information... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "I suspect most samba developers are already technically in

Re: Please revoke your signatures from MartinKraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
s discussion may well be interesting to you, but has wandered well away from the original topic and has *nothing* to do with Debian development. Please take it to private mail if you feel you need to continue... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "C++

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
these days, as well as the machine I carry around with music etc. on it. The less I use up space on the -doc packages I have installed, the more music/data files I have space for on the disk... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "...In the UNIX w

Re: RunDinstallHourly

2005-01-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
ries or similar >solutions. It's a variant of the «release often, release early» >principle. > >The downside of doing this is the extra load on the autobuilder >network, so Debian might not want to do it because of that. It might affect the mirrors, too...

Re: RunDinstallHourly

2005-01-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
Matt Zimmerman wrote: >On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:54:34PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> > >> >The downside of doing this is the extra load on the autobuilder >> >network, so Debian might not want to do it because of that. >> &g

Bug#290829: ITP: libupnp -- Intel Universal Plug And Play SDK for Linux

2005-01-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
runtime libraries; see libupnp-dev for the headers needed for developing programs using libupnp. libupnp is required for another package I'm ITPing - wmaloader. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Can't keep my eyes from the circling s

Bug#290832: ITP: wmaloader -- firmware downloader for Linksys WMA11B media adapter

2005-01-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
l Free Software), it's possible to run a WMA11B media adapter to play audio from your network without needing any proprietary software installed. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's actually quite entertaining to watch ag129 prop his

Potato r2 ChangeLog issues

2001-01-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
e_1.1.17-3.deb dists/potato/non-free/binary-powerpc/graphics/libgd-perl_1.18-2.1.deb -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cab

Bug#200332: O: netpbm -- Graphics conversion tools

2003-07-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
tpbm, but I wouldn't want to see people pick it up expecting an easy job. We might even be better off dropping the whole package completely, but for the fact that it has quite a lot of dependents. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "It

Re: Debian Birthday in Netcraft

2003-08-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
:-) No. From http://news.netcraft.com/archives/about_netcraft.html: ... Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England. ... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you rem

Re: Which CD is a package on?

2005-07-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
> >Right now it's possible only by looking jigdo files.=20 > >Online browser/search engine is on my TODO list :/ I'm going to look into automatically producing list files as part of the CD build process... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAI

Re: Bug#315945: seyon does not work when gnome-terminal is installed

2005-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Forwarded to -devel for discussion ] On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 02:30:16PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 01:54:32PM +0200, Simon K?gstr?m wrote: >>Package: seyon >>Version: 2.20c-16 >>Severity: grave >>Justification: renders package unusable &g

Re: packages still setting /usr/doc link

2005-08-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
Joey Hess wrote: > >Please fix your packages. Filing bugs on nearly 500 packages is >something I'd prefer not to do, but it might come to that. We've been >working on this transition for 5 or 6 years now, and it's about time to >finish it. >Steve McIntyre &

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
Joey Hess wrote: ... >Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cvs > nas > seyon New versions of all three uploaded tonight to fix this... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Because heaters aren't purple!

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: debimg - debian-cd in Python

2008-02-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
source disks, >architectures other than i386 and amd64, gpg signing, etc. Cool! Sounds like you've made a good start already. Be prepared for a lot more work to follow, though - there's a *lot* of work involved, possibly more than you realise. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
s >> > own VCS format. (or are there other packages, too?) >> >> $ apt-cache showsrc rcs | grep Vcs >> Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/rfrancoise/rcs.git >> Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/users/rfrancoise/rcs.git > &

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
ts we should choose. I'm happy that we picked a very good set. There was scope to have made different selections here and there, but the 9 that we chose all succeeded: they all met their goals. I'm not greatly convinced by your arguments that DDs and DMs should automatically be barred f

What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
all's good. 4. ??? - what else would be a sane option? Suggestions/comments/complaints - please let us know what you'd prefer. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] There's no sensation to compare with this Suspended animation, A state of bl

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ /me sets the Reply-To: to debian-cd again... ] AJ wrote: >On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:59:52PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> 2 small CDs per arch (business card, netinst) >> ~30 CDs per arch for a full CD set >> ~4 DVDs per arch for a full DVD set >> (tot

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
that it might allow lots of our normal archive mirrors to become CD ISO mirrors or torrent seeders. But I got distracted from it quite a while back... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
still needs significant work to boost performance. I've been a little distracted lately, but I should get back to it... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

2008-03-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
; files as root means you mess with system directories, right? > >Yes, that's what I mean: what's wrong with making rm -i the default >behaviour? We could do that by simply patching coreutils. Christ, no. If you want Fedora you know where to find it. -- Steve McIntyre, Cam

Re: Bug#484009: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
ages and tools are available to allow you to maintain it for yourself. We've made it abundantly clear over the years why our version of testing exists and how it's going to be managed. End of story. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] <

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

2009-08-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
ally, I think the last thing we need is a GR on this front right now. There's still discussion going on and plenty of scope for interested people to make their feelings known. We don't need the overhead of a GR at all that I can see. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
people to help raise the quality of what we have. Working on the core teams is a great way to do that. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Is there anybody out there? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

2009-09-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
gt;not remove them). I'm still unconvinced by /srv personally - we've strived for years in Debian to make things work as much as possible straight from initial installation, yet now we're expected to deliberately leave services unconfigured. I don't think this is progress for most

Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
erver (<< 2.5.2) Filename: pool/main/n/nexuiz-data/nexuiz-data_2.5.2-1_all.deb Size: 793400238 ... If you ever want this to be available on Debian CDs, you're going to have to do something about the size. For now, I'm going to blacklist this package altogether. --

Re: Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:21:21PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >On Friday 20 November 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> If you ever want this to be available on Debian CDs, you're going to >> have to do something about the size. For now, I'm going to blacklist >> this pac

Re: nexuiz-data does not fit on a single CD

2009-11-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:00:18PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >Package: nexuiz-data >Version: 2.5.2-1 >Severity: serious > >Any reason for not reporting this as a proper bug? Doing that with this >post. True, should have done that too. Thanks. :-) -- Steve McInt

Re: Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 05:01:07PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >On Friday 20 November 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> For now, I've added a cutoff of 300,000,000 bytes as a maximum package >> size for adding to CDs. That means that the following 3 packages will >> be dropped

Re: Ridiculously large packages

2009-11-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:18:54PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 05:01:07PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >>On Friday 20 November 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> For now, I've added a cutoff of 300,000,000 bytes as a maximum package >>> size for ad

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
this problem. Every now and again I'll skim to see if anybody needs help with CDs or jigdo or whatever, but the sheer amount of OT dross is a great discouragement to that. I know it's very likely that I'll miss questions I could be answering when I *do* hav

Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?

2007-06-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
ry rapid drive failure. Even worse, this is often provoked in groups such that RAID setups can still fail due to multiple failures. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Jus

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
ainers don't have to guess why their packages mysteriously aren't being built... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#494043: ITP: ozymandns -- An experimental DNS server and miscellaneous DNS tools

2008-08-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
ld often crash, drop connections or chew lots of CPU for no apparent reason. Unless things have improved substantially since, I would recommend strongly against adding these to the archive. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "We're the technic

Re: Bug#494043: ITP: ozymandns -- An experimental DNS server and miscellaneous DNS tools

2008-08-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
hat I use now and it's much more reliable. >I tend to favor it for experimentation as it's packaged in sid >already, is actively maintained, and has support for using the NULL >RR type allowing much more data to fit in a "downstream" response. Cool. :-) -- Steve McInty

Re: tools/ and dftp on mirrors

2008-08-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
images as they're not versioned. I'll stop adding the files onto the CDs in the daily/weekly images shortly when the build machine is back up. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that

Terminal emulators and command line arguments (again!)

2008-10-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
ndard set of options, and have each package provide a wrapper script as necessary to support those options. Thoughts? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Terminal emulators and command line arguments (again!)

2008-10-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
Sune wrote: >On 2008-10-12, Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 3. Write a wrapper script to deal with each possible terminal program >> and map from a standard set of options to the specific options for >> that program. >> >> Ideal

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-10-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
kernel (I will >bake cookies anyway) > * Julien Danjou (fr) for not fixing the glibc on s390 > * Dominic Hargreaves (li) for letting the maintainer fix #501427 Dom's actually in the UK, ignore the .li email address. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: Summarizing the choices

2008-11-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
shipping Dell servers seem to be using the same hardware too. That's already bitten me at my day job, where we have lots of them. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it

Re: For those who care about lesbians reloaded (Was: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount)

2008-11-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
tever >gets posted to -news, -anounce and -devel-announce", like it or not) by >making us look like jerks or sexists and whatnot. And because of that I've asked the listmasters to block him from posting to d-d-a. Let's stop the discussion now, please. I'm sure

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
>voting period? I'm fairly certain there wasn't one. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site..." -- Simon Booth

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