Re: Debian website git repo in Salsa (Bug #845297)

2018-06-06 Thread Don Armstrong
pages is feasible. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of

Re: rss debian- news anfd debian- security in french

2018-03-14 Thread Don Armstrong
an Accept-Language: fr header, and Debian is replying with the content in french. For example, compare: GET -H 'Accept-Language: en' https://www.debian.org/News/news with GET -H 'Accept-Language: fr' https://www.debian.org/News/news -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.co

Re: bad certificate for 'security' subdomain on debian.org

2017-12-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 16 Dec 2017, Philip Mundhenk wrote: > I may be wrong, but I believe you have a bad certificate on the > "security" subdomain of debian.org. security.debian.org is a round-robin mirror which does not serve traffic using https. -- Don Armstrong

Re: CANNOT download the new debian! 404!

2017-01-17 Thread Don Armstrong
didn't work.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

Re: ok for applying my patches about bugs search forms?

2016-06-29 Thread Don Armstrong
r me. Yes, that's what I was talking about; didn't realize that wasn't what you were referring to. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com "Ban cryptography! Yes. Let's also ban pencils, pens and paper, since criminals can use them to draw plans of the joint they

Re: Should we mark #388141 as jessie-ignore?

2015-02-12 Thread Don Armstrong
in psuedo packages jessie-ignore; they're ignored for the purpose of releasing jessie anyway. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com He wore trifocals. There was stratigraphy even in his glasses. -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p364 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: error on Debian web page -- AGAIN (or STILL ?)

2014-10-25 Thread Don Armstrong
. If - the submitter included a Package line listing a package with a known - maintainer the maintainer will get a copy too. + the Package line contains a package which has a known + maintainer, the maintainer will get a copy too. Though this is probably clearer. -- Don Armstrong http

Re: error on Debian web page

2014-10-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 09 Oct 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 08 Oct 2014, Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote: It would be helpful if the 'Developer' page would mention the required pseudo-header line(s) and/or refer the reader to the 'Reporting' page. Probably the latter is the best thing. I'll patch

Re: error on Debian web page

2014-10-09 Thread Don Armstrong
. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com A Democracy lead by politicians and political parties, fails. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Summary from the debian www/wiki BoF at DC14

2014-09-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Tomas Pospisek wrote: Am 17.09.2014 00:16, schrieb Don Armstrong: On Mon, 15 Sep 2014, Stéphane Blondon wrote: I'm interested to migrate from CVS to whatever DVCS. Git is the most used today so it's probably the best choice: - more help for beginner - advanced user

Re: Summary from the debian www/wiki BoF at DC14

2014-09-17 Thread Don Armstrong
?] 1: Using submodules would cause more trouble then it's worth, because you couldn't have a single commit span the entire website; you'd have to break it into individual commits. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com The whole modern world has divided itself

Re: Summary from the debian www/wiki BoF at DC14

2014-09-16 Thread Don Armstrong
to git; I've done some of the initial work here, but there's still a lot more to do. [And I've got way too many other things on my plate right now to even think about it.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I

Bug#722906: New users can't verify downloads correctly

2013-09-14 Thread Don Armstrong
have to verify the key IDs via the web of trust. 1: Unless you're proposing that people check the authenticity of the SSL certificates too against a known set of fingerprints, which brings you right back to the same bootstrapping problem. -- Don Armstrong http

Bug#713001: Lack of proper escaping in http://www.debian.org/mirror/submit [Re: Vulnerability]

2013-06-21 Thread Don Armstrong
was successfully injected on the webpage. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I always thought violence didn't solve anything until one day it did. -- a softer world #470 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=470 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www

Bug#713001: Lack of proper escaping in http://www.debian.org/mirror/submit [Re: Vulnerability]

2013-06-21 Thread Don Armstrong
patch fixes this problem. As a side note, could we please put the code for the scripts running on cgi.debian.org into a publicly accessible VCS repository (ideally git) on git.debian.org or similar? -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Clint why the hell does kernel

Current Roadblocks to transitioning from CVS to git

2013-05-15 Thread Don Armstrong
that with the preservation of history; I'm certain that there are other sections of the website which would also benefit from git's ability to reorganize easily. 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2012/09/msg00016.html -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com life's

Re: Inclusion in the Debian consultant list

2012-11-13 Thread Don Armstrong
is certainly needed, but using the BTS doesn't preclude additional automation being added at any point in the future. Furthermore, we don't have to use the BTS forever. If someone gets around to making a better system, we can switch. Don Armstrong -- She was alot like starbucks. IE, generic

Re: Inclusion in the Debian consultant list

2012-11-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 08 nov 12, 15:00:53, Don Armstrong wrote: Better to just file a bug in the BTS and do all of this there with a form. It can even use the current www.debian.org pseudopackage with an appropriate usertag so it gets filtered out

Re: Inclusion in the Debian consultant list

2012-11-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Luca Capello wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:23:52 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 08 nov 12, 15:00:53, Don Armstrong wrote: Better to just file a bug in the BTS and do all of this there with a form. It can even use the current www.debian.org pseudopackage

Re: Inclusion in the Debian consultant list

2012-11-08 Thread Don Armstrong
Your rates. URL http://www.example.com; /p will pretty much do it, and should make it pretty dang easy to add new consultants. Don Armstrong -- If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. -- Steven Wright http://www.donarmstrong.com http

Re: Current status of switching to something besides CVS?

2012-09-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, David Prévot wrote: Le 29/08/2012 14:02, Don Armstrong a écrit : Are there any projects underway currently to switch to something besides CVS? No current work that I'm aware of. [Is there a massive todo list of things that actually need to be done to make

Current status of switching to something besides CVS?

2012-08-29 Thread Don Armstrong
Are there any projects underway currently to switch to something besides CVS? [Is there a massive todo list of things that actually need to be done to make that happen?] Don Armstrong -- [Panama, 1989. The U.S. government called it Operation Just Cause.] I think they misspelled this. Shouldn't

Bug#683616: www.debian.org: Please document usage of usertags on bugs pages

2012-08-29 Thread Don Armstrong
to the bugs.debian.org pseudopackage. http://bugs.debian.org/351746#69 Yeah, this really just needs someone to sit down and actually write the documentation, unfortunately. It's on my todo list. Don Armstrong -- Of course, there are cases where only a rare individual will have the vision

Re: jidgo files

2012-07-22 Thread Don Armstrong
... http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/#how and http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/downloadingyourfirstimage.html explain the process with examples. If it's too difficult (for example, you're running an OS which doesn't have trivial jigdo support), you can download an iso instead. Don Armstrong

Re: Bug reporting help has error about X-Debbugs-CC

2012-07-08 Thread Don Armstrong
...@cosmic.edu header should be replaced by pseudo-header X-Debbugs-Cc: is a real header. It is also allowed to be a pseudoheader for clients which are unable to actually edit their own outgoing headers. Don Armstrong -- Live and learn or die and teach by example -- a softer world #625 http

Re: Make tidy happy

2012-03-24 Thread Don Armstrong
names, and tidy is unhappy with them. This sure sounds like a bug in tidy; the titles are proper UTF8, and there's nothing wrong with them. Don Armstrong -- A kiss was mysterious and powerful, fragile and invincible. Like any spark, a kiss might fizzle into nothing or consume an entire forest

Re: Make tidy happy

2012-03-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, David Prévot wrote: Le 24/03/2012 18:17, Don Armstrong a écrit : On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Holger Wansing wrote: we have a bunk of tidy errors these days. It comes down to this two bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656266 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi

Visible results from sponsor funds [Re: Finding sponsors for Debian]

2012-03-12 Thread Don Armstrong
for comment. Don Armstrong -- He was wrong. Nature abhors dimensional abnormalities, and seals them neatly away so that they don't upset people. Nature, in fact, abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. -- Terry Pratchet

Re: Visible results from sponsor funds [Re: Finding sponsors for Debian]

2012-03-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Arno Töll wrote: Actually, $boss asked me the other day how to support Debian better as he wasn't very convinced about usefulness of money donations to Debian as he didn't get much feedback about that, other than a tax

Re: Bug#650999: http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical has terrible handling of bugs filed against source packages

2012-01-20 Thread Don Armstrong
-source/bugscan/ Don Armstrong -- [T]he question of whether Machines Can Think, [...] is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra The threats to computing science http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#648595: Debian Security Audit Team status

2011-11-18 Thread Don Armstrong
Is anything under http://www.debian.org/security/audit/ still relevant? [I'm asking because of #648595.] Alternatively, is there a contact list which should be used instead of the shellcode list? Don Armstrong -- She was alot like starbucks. IE, generic and expensive. -- hugh macleod http

Re: Bug#563030: Possible with some JavaScript

2011-06-24 Thread Don Armstrong
properly handle # if it gets url encoded, which is why 'db #123456' works just fine. [Or http://bugs.debian.org/%23123456 ] Don Armstrong -- Who is thinking this? I am. -- Greg Egan _Diaspora_ p38 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#187064: Error accessing bug search page

2011-05-28 Thread Don Armstrong
search in the BTS ? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi/search.cgi is the actual url. It is temporarily out of order and will be fixed as soon as I have a chance to fix it. Don Armstrong -- a friend will help you move a best friend will help you move bodies but if you have to move your best friend's body

Re: CVS webwml/english/consultants

2010-07-22 Thread Don Armstrong
as CVS is, it's still a VCS after all.) Don Armstrong -- Herodotus says, Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. -- Mark Twain _A Horse's Tail_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu

Re: CVS webwml/english/consultants

2010-07-21 Thread Don Armstrong
.] Don Armstrong -- The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game. -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §11 http

Re: required info

2010-07-18 Thread Don Armstrong
, not for answering end-uesr questions. Don Armstrong -- Build a fire for a man, an he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. -- Jules Bean http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ

Re: Etch Nonsense why Scrub Etch from the net?

2010-04-16 Thread Don Armstrong
, it will end up being removed from the full mirrors, and will end up on archive.debian.org (as all previous releases have), but that's not the csae yet. You shouldn't run etch, because it doesn't have security support, but we certainly can't stop you from doing so. Don Armstrong -- You could say

Re: getting Debian

2010-02-22 Thread Don Armstrong
a listed vendor in Uzbekistan.] http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/#kz (a vendor in Kazakhstan) may work, as may a few others. Don Armstrong -- I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like to run their own business. I know men that would make my wife a better husband than I am

Re: XSS vulnerability in debian.org

2010-01-05 Thread Don Armstrong
vulnerability. The URL to verify this vulnerability (with an XSS popup) is: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=%27%27;exclude=subject%3A% 22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%27xss%27%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E Thanks for the report; this has been fixed. Don Armstrong -- PowerPoint

Re: Debian's ucblogo package

2009-11-21 Thread Don Armstrong
maintainer for ucblogo, could someone please inform the proper maintainer? Please file a wishlist bug against ucblogo requesting that the new upstream version be packaged. You can do this using reportbug (in the reportbug package.) Don Armstrong -- PowerPoint is symptomatic of a certain type

Re: Request Debian CD(or)DVD

2009-11-13 Thread Don Armstrong
on www.debian.org, and has little to do with the creation of CDs or responding to user requests.] Don Armstrong -- She was alot like starbucks. IE, generic and expensive. -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch3.htm http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu

Potential www redesign at www.deb.at

2009-10-06 Thread Don Armstrong
Rhonda and Kalle have been doing work to make Kalle's proposal reality, which you can view at http://www.deb.at. Presumably they'll fill us in on more details soon. Don Armstrong -- Information wants to be free to kill again. -- Red Robot http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1372 http

Re: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?REQ: W e are chanching?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q ? our web address?=

2009-09-30 Thread Don Armstrong
links. Even more amusing is its content: $ GET www.chileedu.com html head /head body iframe src=http://www.uchile.cl?; width=100% height=100% frameborder=0 scrolling=auto/iframe/body /html Don Armstrong -- Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien a ajouter, mais

Bug#540925: www.debian.org: web interface for bug needs specific error if package

2009-08-10 Thread Don Armstrong
. Don Armstrong -- A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. -- Bill Vaughan http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#351746: Include usertag explanation on http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control

2009-08-05 Thread Don Armstrong
webpage which documents usertags and (hopefully!) starts on documenting user-categories 2) adds links from server-request and server-control to the page tag the bug patch, and remind me if I forget to apply it within a week, I'll see that it gets applied and the bug gets closed. Don Armstrong

Bug#351746: Include usertag explanation on http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control

2009-08-05 Thread Don Armstrong
it becomes available, or the slides for it right now) for some more information about why this is the case. Don Armstrong -- Herodotus says, Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. -- Mark Twain _A Horse's

Re: [RFC] status indication for DebianBugs links on the [wiki|websites]

2009-07-27 Thread Don Armstrong
it on client side using a javascript? Doesn't matter to me; do whatever is easiest and fastest first, then consider doing whatever is more technically correct. Can we meet at 4pm? Anytime between 1400-1730, and 1800-1900 is ok. Don Armstrong -- PowerPoint is symptomatic of a certain type

Re: Build errors in Bugs/server-control.wml

2009-07-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Frans Pop wrote: Your recent changes in this page are causing quite a few validation errors: http://www-master.debian.org/build-logs/validate/en Could you have a look? Yeah, was just missing three closing tags and should be better now. Don Armstrong -- Our days

Re: Will somebody please help me unsibscribe

2009-07-02 Thread Don Armstrong
to be sent to your address. Please follow the instructions in it to complete the unsubscription process. Don Armstrong -- This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic -- Terry Pratchett http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: debian OS

2009-06-12 Thread Don Armstrong
. The project itself doesn't sell or ship CDs or DVDs. Don Armstrong -- Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going If in their place we find a thing more precious growing A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting A child whom we are teaching, a booklet we are writing -- Frederick

Re: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ outdated?

2009-05-19 Thread Don Armstrong
still use smartlist. Would you mind checking that page for correctness and send us a patch / update it yourself? It looks fine to me. Don Armstrong -- It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might be wrong -- Chris Torek http://www.donarmstrong.com http

Bug#526613: wiki.debian.org: offensive icon

2009-05-03 Thread Don Armstrong
of a tipi used in the manner it is used would be considered a negative stereotype of the peoples of the Great Plains, especially as no claim is made regarding the nature of the community behind those pages. Don Armstrong -- Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has

Re: About consultants page management: email and other compulsory fields

2009-04-30 Thread Don Armstrong
say that at least name|company and email are compulsory? It actually says that an email address is compulsory, as is a country, and if a web link is provided, it must list information on the consulting services provided. Don Armstrong -- I learned really early the difference between knowing

Re: About consultants page management: email and other compulsory fields

2009-04-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: Il giorno gio, 30/04/2009 alle 13.09 -0700, Don Armstrong ha scritto: [...] There should be a publicly available e-mail address that the consultant can be contacted at (and responds to e-mail sent to it within four weeks). If the consultant

Re: language settings

2009-04-28 Thread Don Armstrong
browser doesn't allow you to alter it for specific requests, then ask for patches to enable it (or write or install add-ons which allow it.) If this is just for debbuging: wget -O- --header='Accept-Language: de' http://www.debian.org will do what you want. Don Armstrong -- A Bill of Rights

Re: Emails in bug reports

2009-04-27 Thread Don Armstrong
mail address publicly available is problematic, don't tell anyone your e-mail address. Don Armstrong -- If you wish to strive for peace of soul, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu

Re: Bugette at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/

2009-04-26 Thread Don Armstrong
that style sheet to just that section of the page, but I didn't know it when I changed it. [If someone does, or finds out, changing that would be great, or telling me what to do otherwise is fine.] Don Armstrong -- Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do

Re: Installing Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1

2009-04-15 Thread Don Armstrong
. If there's something more that needs to be changed, let me (or someone else know.) James: the links will be fixed by the next time the pages are generated; thanks for reporting the problem. Don Armstrong -- Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going If in their place we find a thing more

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Don Armstrong
a good idea, but there would still need to be logic to detect which mirrors had actually managed to get up to date... and that bit is probably a bit complicated. Don Armstrong -- It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands

Re: Colombia is not on the list of country

2009-02-05 Thread Don Armstrong
. I don't think anyone plans on slighting the Debian users in Colombia (or any other country, regardless of the size of the Debian community within it). If there is a place where Colombia isn't mentioned and should be, we'd almost certainly be glad to fix that problem. Don Armstrong -- When bad

Re: Bugs/index

2008-08-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Josip Rodin wrote: I'll convert the new text to po tags, because otherwise that's a whole lot of HTML copypasting for translators to do, it's unnecessarily error-prone. Thanks! That's what I should have done at the beginning, but I blame my lack of wml experience. Don

Re: Bugs/index

2008-08-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Nicolas Bertolissio wrote: Le jeudi 14 août 2008, Don Armstrong écrivit : The select bugs fields are the search fields. It's probably suboptimal as far as documenting goes, so suggestions for improvements are solicited. But there is only one select bugs, so I still

Re: Bugs/index

2008-08-15 Thread Don Armstrong
meaning to bring that up... Don, do you understand what you did there? :) All of the po tags there are useless now, so yes, I knew that I killed them all off. Don Armstrong -- If you have the slightest bit of intellectual integrity you cannot support the government. -- anonymous http

Re: Bugs/index

2008-08-14 Thread Don Armstrong
and I don't know what value can be specified (package name, bug number, other ?). A number; it selects the n newest bugs. Don Armstrong -- THERE IS NO GRAVITY THE WORLD SUCKS -- Vietnam War Penquin Lighter http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/clippings/vietnam_there_is_no_gravity.jpg http

Bug#489027: wrong command in mail servers' reference card

2008-07-02 Thread Don Armstrong
to the fact that other things can go there. The full and complete documentation for that command is in http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#thanks anyway; the refcard probably should be changed to just list one and link directly there. Don Armstrong -- Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself

Re: two whitespaces after full stop are correct in english !!

2008-06-30 Thread Don Armstrong
XHTML conformance: It was decided that new documents should be XHTML conform (http://www.debian.org/devel/website/desc) as it increase readability of the source. Using or not using XHTML doesn't change the collapsing of spaces. Don Armstrong -- I learned really early the difference between

Re: two whitespaces after full stop are correct in english !!

2008-06-29 Thread Don Armstrong
in two spaces is just a waste of time, and changing it from one to two or two to one, doubly so. Don Armstrong 1: There's also no consensus that two spaces after a period is right for monospaced fonts either: it's a matter of personal preference. -- EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN

Re: Hebrew Translation for Debian About Page

2008-06-18 Thread Don Armstrong
, but occasionally use the latter when the former is awkward. Only in lapses of style do I use gendered pronouns when the gender is indeterminate. Don Armstrong -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where

Re: Our Disturbing Experience

2008-05-27 Thread Don Armstrong
with your desire to avoid deep-linking to your website, it seems apparent that this issue has been resolved. leader@ Cc'ed to advise him of this fact. Don Armstrong -- No amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free [...] You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill

Re: hello, I have a question

2008-04-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Jaime Hablutzel Egoavil wrote: Hello, I have a question, are the disc images for authorized cd vendors different to the cd image available for download... I say it because I've seen that they receive hicgh quality images. There's no difference. Don Armstrong -- I shall

Re: required vs recommended -was Re: apt-get vs Aptitude

2008-04-16 Thread Don Armstrong
[ Discussing Recommends: vs. Depends: is rather off topic for this list, so I won't respond beyond this message on this list. ] On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC apt-get will install recommends by default

Re: apt-get vs Aptitude

2008-04-15 Thread Don Armstrong
::Recommends-Important appropriately. If a package has recommends which are set incorrectly, file a bug against that package. Don Armstrong -- If I had a letter, sealed it in a locked vault and hid the vault somewhere in New York. Then told you to read the letter, thats not security, thats

Re: Bug#324492: Any chance of reclasifying this?

2008-03-28 Thread Don Armstrong
be changed to pay attention to the distribution selected, which would be a feature enhancement. That's pretty much up to the PDO administrators, since I don't have a huge opinion about it either way. Don Armstrong -- The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other invention

Re: apt-get vs Aptitude

2008-03-20 Thread Don Armstrong
, can handle queuing actions, has an ncurses interface, can show changelogs, can report bugs, can slice, can dice, can use the kitchen sink... 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

Re: apt-get vs Aptitude

2008-03-20 Thread Don Armstrong
-ceche policy when it's the right tool is fine. Don Armstrong -- Guns Don't Kill People. *I* Kill People. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get vs Aptitude

2008-03-19 Thread Don Armstrong
. Don Armstrong -- No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white. -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: apt-get vs Aptitude

2008-03-19 Thread Don Armstrong
the policy is one of them. [I don't know if aptitude will ever add a feature to show this itself, but it doesn't really need to.] Don Armstrong -- The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can

Bug#468765: # of supported packages (was Re: Is oldstable security support duration something to be proud of?)

2008-03-11 Thread Don Armstrong
to this issue here. Don Armstrong 1: Perhaps the closest thing to a compromise would be some members of the Debian project but that seems rather silly. -- This can't be happening to me. I've got tenure. -- James Hynes _Publish and Perish_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu

Bug#468765: # of supported packages (was Re: Is oldstable security support duration something to be proud of?)

2008-03-10 Thread Don Armstrong
not be changed, and I don't believe any further argument is going to convince those of us who do feel proud that we should feel ashamed about it. Don Armstrong -- No amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free [...] You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him

Bug#468765: # of supported packages (was Re: Is oldstable security support duration something to be proud of?)

2008-03-10 Thread Don Armstrong
to be false and force a change. Don Armstrong 1: There's also the question of whether or not historical announcements should be altered after they've been sent, but that's secondary. -- Facts are the refuge of people unwilling to reassess what they hold to be True. http://www.donarmstrong.com

Re: GNU-art porn pop-up adds

2008-02-21 Thread Don Armstrong
. I couldn't see any of this on http://gnuart.onshore.com/, actually. (The site doesn't have any javascript at all that I can detect.) Don Armstrong -- I never until now realized that the primary job of any emoticon is to say excuse me, that didn't make any sense. ;-P -- Cory Doctorow http

Re: html syntax error in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=375127 and some other pages

2008-02-10 Thread Don Armstrong
it as one ;) Yeah, this bug is fixed in my code, and will be fixed on the BTS shortly. Don Armstrong -- I'd never hurt another living thing. But if I did... It would be you. -- Chris Bishop http://www.chrisbishop.com/her/archives/her69.html http://www.donarmstrong.com http

Re: debian livcd

2007-12-28 Thread Don Armstrong
, contact your credit card company (or whatever you used to send payment). Finally, you can tell us about which vendor it was so we can verify your story and possibly remove them from our list of vendors (if they are in fact listed.) Don Armstrong -- Do not handicap your children by making

Re: Section Common glitches in the (un)subscription process

2007-12-21 Thread Don Armstrong
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 22 01:38:14 2003 That's the envelope from, and it may be encoded as something like Return-Path: or similar if you're not using mbox. (Hopefully your MTA/MDA/MUA doesn't just discard it.) [It's definetly sent out that way by lists.debian.org.] Don Armstrong

Re: HyperEstraier bug search engine has broken Package: links

2007-12-18 Thread Don Armstrong
/~don/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=kernel-package I'm just going to drop in a perl there redirects to the appropriate place once I get a chance. Thanks for noticing this. Don Armstrong -- Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come. -- Tussman's Law http://www.donarmstrong.com

Re: displaying email adresses

2007-12-13 Thread Don Armstrong
personally haven't had time to implement one, though. Don Armstrong -- Democracy is more dangerous than fire. Fire can't vote itself immune to water. -- Michael Z. Williamson http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: displaying email adresses

2007-12-13 Thread Don Armstrong
/cgi-bin/search.cgi Don Armstrong -- The trouble with you, Ibid he said, is that you think you're the biggest bloody authority on everything -- Terry Pratchet _Pyramids_ p146 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu

Re: displaying email adresses

2007-12-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: Call me lazy, but it is two clicks away compared to just pasting the error message in the Google search box which is the default on the browsers distributed by Debian. [...] Google has already indexed mirrors of the BTS. Don Armstrong

Re: displaying email adresses

2007-12-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Santiago Vila wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Don Armstrong wrote: If humans can read it, spammers can too. That's inaccurate. You are missing rule #3: Spammers are stupid. Spammers will only read what they can read by mechanical means. And what parts of everything

Re: displaying email adresses

2007-12-11 Thread Don Armstrong
et al. Don Armstrong -- I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: proposal: WWW BTS control page - alhabetical command listing

2007-12-07 Thread Don Armstrong
, and an enternity would separate it and clone.] I don't object to changes in ordering which would improve it, but alphabetical ordering is not an improvement. Don Armstrong -- The trouble with you, Ibid he said, is that you think you're the biggest bloody authority on everything -- Terry Pratchet

Re: XSS vulnerability on bugs.debian.org

2007-11-12 Thread Don Armstrong
. I'll deal with this shortly. 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. -- W. Somerset Maugham http://www.donarmstrong.com http

Re: XSS vulnerability on bugs.debian.org

2007-11-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, T-Ping T-Ping wrote: I saw that someone named Fugitif had found an XSS vulnerability on bugs.debian.org that is still unpatched. Here is an example XSS for this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg

context diff in commit messages [Re: html tags fixing in english only VS l10n on www.debian.org]

2007-10-18 Thread Don Armstrong
changelog messages more useful for me, at least.] Don Armstrong -- He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little begun to fascinate him

Bug#446099: clarify /Bugs/reporting

2007-10-10 Thread Don Armstrong
, these commands only apply when you're not using reportbug; mentioning it here is useless. 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.com http

Bug#446099: clarify /Bugs/reporting

2007-10-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.10.10.2105 +0100]: These were split out this way because using reportbug is the recommended way, and the instructions below do not apply in the normal case if you're using reportbug. I found

Re: Why, oh why, will bugs.debian.org not accept an update to my BT

2007-10-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: Content-Description: Undelivered Message From: Peder Chr. Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: nvidia-glxfailstoinstall ^^ This isn't going to work. Don Armstrong -- There is no such thing as social

Re: [SPAM]Re: business contacts

2007-09-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: Is it possible to make the list posting allowed only if subscribed? It is possible, but it's not something that will be done, as lots of people who are not subscribed need to contact people here. Don Armstrong -- I'm a rational being--of a sort

Re: [SPAM]Re: business contacts

2007-09-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: I noticed a lot of spam going through? It's nothing compared to the amounts that we block, but we're always working on getting better. Does this list allow posting if not subscribed? Yes. Don Armstrong [Your random listmaster] -- Fate

What tools are VCS specific [Re: Switching from CVS to something else]

2007-08-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, MJ Ray wrote: Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was talked about in http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2007/04/msg00150.html; it seemed to me that the consensus was SVN, but whatever way we decide to go, someone needs to fix the tools to do it before

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