Quoting Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl):
> Hell yeah. I have a completely opposite view: if a piece of software hasn't
> been packaged, it's most likely because it is crap -- otherwise someone
> would bother to do the work. And, usually upstream developers know how to
> deal with the
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 10:32:29 +0100
Adam Borowski wrote:
> And, usually upstream
> developers know how to deal with the particular problem their
> software is made for, but have no idea how to integrate it with the
> rest of the system.
The preceding sentence exactly
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 11:32:32PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> My concern is mostly that you're giving _generally_ bad advice that is
> likely to bite people if/when they keep applying it, and apply it to
> software more interdependent with the rest of the system. If you merely
> said 'Hey, I do
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 09:41:46 +0100, Arnt wrote in message
<20171029094146.5b8f8508@d44>:
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 23:32:32 -0700, Rick wrote in message
> <20171029063232.gd30...@linuxmafia.com>:
>
> > Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com):
> >
> > > I don't know how to do the
On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 23:32:32 -0700, Rick wrote in message
<20171029063232.gd30...@linuxmafia.com>:
> Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com):
>
> > I don't know how to do the preceding, and I'm forever prioritizing
> > other things above learning it.
>
> Well, if you have a spare hour
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com):
> I don't know how to do the preceding, and I'm forever prioritizing
> other things above learning it.
Well, if you have a spare hour some time, try debhelper[1] or
CheckInstall[2]. You might be surprised.
(Above and below, for the sake of
On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 20:24:41 -0700
Rick Moen wrote:
[snip the thank-you for originating VimOutliner and noting that I'm no
longer involved in the project]
>
> During that period, it would have been a fine and good thing (if you
> felt like it) for you to produce a .deb and
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com):
> I'm the originator and 2 year maintainer of the VimOutliner project.
> The Debian package substituted a double backslash \\ for the double
> comma ,, command prefix. When I said that the double comma was
> selected for speed purposes and that
>
>
> I have no interest in half-way fixing Debian's broken packages, but
> I'll be glad to help create an excellent DeVUan package that respects
> what the software's author was trying to accomplish (but without any
> new directories off the root). If the new Devuan runit package work out
> as
Hi all,
A couple days ago I volunteered to be one of a two person team to bring
a good, high quality runit package to DeVUan. The package would be
capable of using runit as a simple process supervisor, or assuming all
init responsibilities. I would consult the creator of runit so our
package
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