Re: nano

2007-02-07 Thread Colin Watson
* The Compromís pel País Valencià release. * New upstream release. - fixes a segfault and several memleaks. Looks reasonable. I've synced this; thanks. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: seeding ubuntu-serverguide

2007-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
it with Fabio once and he recommended that I ask for it to be seeded. Can someone take care of that please? Sure - done. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Ubiquity usability study

2007-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
that's done, LVM and RAID would be possible too ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: The latest nightly cdimages / ISO's are above 710 megs

2007-09-17 Thread Colin Watson
. They tend not to get noticed by the people who actually reduce the CD size again, and they just hang around until somebody remembers to close them. Furthermore, we don't need bugs about this as it's automatically a release blocker for CDs to be oversized. -- Colin Watson

Re: update-db cron job: solving a long-standing issue

2007-09-17 Thread Colin Watson
) standard Unix tools like man and locate. If you're working with a variety of different systems then this sort of thing is a real pain. Can we not come up with a way to generate the locate database from tracker instead? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: grub 2 for latest release in hardy

2007-11-26 Thread Colin Watson
special bugs about merging new versions from Debian, unless you're doing the work and providing a package that somebody can check and upload. Merging new versions from Debian is an automatic part of the beginning of every Ubuntu release cycle. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Hardy Alpha 1 released

2007-12-06 Thread Colin Watson
- they were even in main.) See e.g.: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2004-October/000419.html We never supported installation with 2.4, though, and we dropped it entirely in Ubuntu 5.04. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu

Re: Kickseed, Kickstart, Preseed

2007-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:54:52AM -0800, MJang wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:43 +, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:30:23PM +, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:43:34PM -0800, MJang wrote: Wondering where Ubuntu is going w/r/t automated

Re: Will PulseAudio be in Hardy? (Re: New Programs for Hardy?)

2007-12-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:36:18AM +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote: I think PulseAudio can save every user great amount of trouble regarding sound issues, and bad bad esd. I hope PulseAudio get included in Hardy as default. It already is. -- Colin Watson

Re: Securely downloading Ubuntu

2008-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
/3F272F5B 2007-11-09 uid Ubuntu Archive Master Signing Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Ubuntu QA presents: Hardy platform bug list

2008-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
is already targetted at Hardy so is already on another one of our lists. However, it wouldn't hurt for somebody with suitable hardware to provide a patch. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] My 5 today: #51774 (openssh), #195988 (linux), #177623 (ubiquity

Re: Zsync for ubuntu isos.

2008-03-03 Thread Colin Watson
?) No, I'm afraid not; they're just for information. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
for that is the bug description, and shortly after you sent your mail I completed local testing of some workarounds and edited the bug description to document these. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: What is terranova?

2008-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
of the Ubuntu team involved in the cleanup process. I don't think it's productive to point fingers, as there were various failings involved. We're doing a full analysis of the incident and I expect that we'll make some changes as a result. Thanks, -- Colin Watson

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
never break spectacularly, while also serving as a demonstration of various problems in our processes. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Graphical Installer bootloader

2008-04-14 Thread Colin Watson
it again in the future. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Debimg for Ubuntu Intrepid Alternate Disks?

2008-04-24 Thread Colin Watson
to shift over to anything else too. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: A note for translators regarding bootloader message

2008-04-24 Thread Colin Watson
-theme-ubuntu, please. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: i18n in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS - great work! ( current status)

2008-04-24 Thread Colin Watson
, and didn't notice any notes at any point of time. When should the note come up? This wasn't actually fully implemented in time for 8.04, because the installer also needs to be changed to display this note when appropriate. I hope we can do this for 8.04.1. -- Colin Watson

Re: SPARC architecture moved to ports.ubuntu.com for 8.04 and beyond

2008-04-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 06:52:20PM -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Michael R. Head [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin Watson wrote: A similar reminder goes for PowerPC users, since this architecture was moved to ports.ubuntu.com in a previous Ubuntu release

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

2008-04-24 Thread Colin Watson
to this. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Debimg for Ubuntu Intrepid Alternate Disks?

2008-04-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:50:14PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 24.04.2008, 20:45 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: Somebody would have to replace this with germinate, or else merge the appropriate code from debimg into germinate; it's not a good idea to diverge different

Re: SPARC architecture moved to ports.ubuntu.com for 8.04 and beyond

2008-04-25 Thread Colin Watson
enabled Apache's mod_speling. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default

2008-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
this option in Ubiquity as a response to the common wish of using a separate /home file system; it just wasn't exactly the response that had originally been asked for! However, I think it will cause many fewer problems than a separate /home would. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default

2008-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
on installation; I think we should focus on that use case rather than on the suggested *implementation* of multiple partitions. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default

2008-05-14 Thread Colin Watson
of it were from an old installation and bits of it were from a new one. /home, /srv, /root, /usr/local, /var/local, and in general any unrecognised parts of the file system are retained. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default

2008-05-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:05:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:57:58AM +0200, David Prieto wrote: Hi Colin, I presume that you did not instruct the installer to format the old /home partition? (If you did, then why?) Actually yes, and I never realised how

Re: Should default keyboard be based on location?

2008-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
it) select French as their installation language? I appreciate that you didn't, but it does seem like a good heuristic. And, after all, it's only a default. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Overlap in installing packages

2008-07-01 Thread Colin Watson
do this. However, it sounds like the original poster was trying to install the packages with dpkg, in which case you need to supply all the .deb files at once. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Call upon The Great Spirit of 'Ubuntu'...

2008-08-26 Thread Colin Watson
him a possibility to ask questions or address/discuss the issue. It would be best if he could do so in person rather than through a proxy. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Intrepid compatibility with C3 CPUs #5212

2008-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
, until nspluginwrapper came along relatively recently, and there are others), many people still prefer to use a 32-bit installation even if their system is able to run 64-bit code. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Intrepid compatibility with C3 CPUs #5212

2008-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 08:18:18AM +0100, Sam Tygier wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 01:49:27AM -0400, M G wrote: Subject: Intrepid compatibility with C3 CPUs #5212 Are you referring to a particular bug here? https://launchpad.net/bugs/5212 is something quite different

Re: Bugs introduced in GCC?

2008-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
down to a single version, it should be relatively easy to track down. As a miscompilation of simple code, I think this would merit an update to 8.04. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Bugs introduced in GCC?

2008-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
for this particular bug is uncontroversial. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Ubuntu install options

2008-09-23 Thread Colin Watson
. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Gtk+ problems with recent API change of GtkAdjustment

2008-09-23 Thread Colin Watson
Ubuntu developers * Open to all to subscribe, posting moderated for non-subscribers -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Thoughts about EXT4 optional in Jaunty Development questions about Plymouth

2009-01-08 Thread Colin Watson
, is there a possibility that it can be included as optional ? A use request/bugreport is filed at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/197311 ext4 will be available as a partitioning option as of tomorrow's daily builds. -- Colin Watson [cjwat

Re: Thoughts about EXT4 optional in Jaunty Development questions about Plymouth

2009-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 02:40:51PM -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote: Colin Watson wrote: ext4 will be available as a partitioning option as of tomorrow's daily builds. I'm looking forward to this. I've been looking forward to ext4 for years. I could do an install from scratch, but I'm hoping

Re: Problem with patched grub1 ext4

2009-01-13 Thread Colin Watson
on it for 9.04. Please do file a bug with as much detail as you can. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
was the fact that Ubuntu made an effort to service the best interests of the userbase, even if it meant including non-free content (sometimes in an optional repository). Indeed - but only when we believe that we can do so legally. Regards, -- Colin Watson

Re: cdrtools vs cdrkit: flogging the dead horse

2009-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:08:30PM +, Odysseus Flappington wrote: Colin Watson wrote: The reason it's not in non-free (i.e. multiverse, in Ubuntu), is that distributing it is currently believed to be a contravention of the copyright interests of the owners of the elements licensed under

Re: Memtest86

2009-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
for them to get their hands on it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Joining upstream bash-completion team (was: Re: Ubuntu bash-completion 20060301-4ubuntu3)

2009-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
easier for Ubuntu folks! ;) I definitely appreciated this when making a change recently! (You have a bug report about it with a bzr bundle attached.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Doing something about signal:noise complaints

2009-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
] is (in the web survey) a drop-down from which you can select several different options indicating different degrees of confidence. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: [rfc] Jaunty experience and SSDs...

2009-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
imagine it will vary from device to device. Are you willing to do this work? If you'd like to work with me or other installer developers on IRC, #ubuntu-installer is open. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: a ubuntu-audio mailing list?

2009-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
to a separate list. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Doing something about signal:noise complaints

2009-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:16:45AM -0500, Martin Owens wrote: Hello Colin, On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 13:40 +, Colin Watson wrote: [Please preserve quoting attributions in your replies; it makes things awfully confusing when you remove them. I've restored them here.] How much should

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-08 Thread Colin Watson
metadata in those packages to indicate whether they provide something reasonably complete. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: IPV6 causes slow internet access

2009-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
get this out for testing before spending too long trying to fix it. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: Installation fails and the corresponding bug report

2009-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
to an existing ubiquity bug; it's actually quite difficult for users to tell whether they're experiencing the same cause of problem as somebody else. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Request for gparted to be bumped to current in Jaunty for ext4 support.

2009-02-22 Thread Colin Watson
to be at least optional (if not default) We've already decided that it will be optional in Jaunty (and indeed it already is, with the exception of gparted) and probably default in Jaunty+1 based on testing. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu

Re: Installation fails and the corresponding bug report

2009-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:15:37AM +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: Colin Watson ha scritto: In future please file a new bug rather than doing that. It makes our lives much more difficult when people tag along to an existing ubiquity bug; it's actually quite difficult for users to tell

Re: Installation fails and the corresponding bug report

2009-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
in this strange way and produced the following output, I think. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu

Re: Is it possible to avoid the automatic import of source packages into Karmic?

2009-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
of Debian source packages in Karmic? I can provide the list of the source packages to block[1]. Yes. Please file a bug (either without a source package, or on a randomly selected one of those source packages in Ubuntu), subscribe the ubuntu-archive team, and give us the list. -- Colin Watson

Re: GRUB 2 now default for new installations

2009-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
Not unless you have fixed the ability to hibernate to a swap file... It's part of the spec. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: gparted, ubiquity and other packages left behind by karmic a2 installer

2009-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
be useful on its own. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Provide a GUI option in the installer to enable popcon

2009-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
are due to an installer bug ... -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: why not scim 1.4.9?

2009-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:05:54AM +0700, Lê Quốc Tuấn wrote: scim 1.4.9 has released in 2009/4/19 but why ubuntu not include it? No particular reason; it's on the to-be-merged list (https://merges.ubuntu.com/main.html), it's just that nobody's got round to it yet. Siegfried-Angel? -- Colin

Re: gparted, ubiquity and other packages left behind by karmic a2 installer

2009-06-26 Thread Colin Watson
, specifically bug 385995. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: That upstart Upstart

2009-06-29 Thread Colin Watson
be better documented, but rather that if you're searching for documentation because you want to write Upstart jobs and use them in production rather than because you want to help with development, you may be on the wrong track just now.) Regards, -- Colin Watson

Re: gparted, ubiquity and other packages left behind by karmic a2 installer

2009-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
it anyway. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Developer Membership Board public meeting about approval process

2009-10-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:57:23PM -0700, Karen Palen wrote: Sorry to ask a truly dumb noob question, but what IRC network has #ubuntu-meeting? It's on irc.freenode.net, along with other Ubuntu channels. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com

Re: Overriding binaries in Debian Source 3 (quilt)

2010-09-11 Thread Colin Watson
request to have this installed (would be easier once it's in lucid-updates, but this can be leapfrogged if need be). I think I'd recommend the latter so that we don't have too much stuff sloshing around only in internal archives. I'm happy to sign it off if need be. -- Colin Watson

Re: The new installer.

2010-09-11 Thread Colin Watson
if you're using the GTK installer frontend or kubuntu-restricted-extras if you're using the KDE installer frontend. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: SSH and the Ubuntu Server

2010-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
preseeding too much, and it requires work from admins each time they bump to a new Ubuntu release. Many of those admins turn up on #ubuntu-installer and ask for help. The load is not insignificant. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel

Re: SSH and the Ubuntu Server

2010-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
several years back, we've burned all the necessary code with fire and enjoyed it. Please don't make me go back to that. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: SSH and the Ubuntu Server

2010-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
-proposal would be to see how things work out with the openssh-server task at the top of tasksel's menu, as it now is in Natty. We haven't given that enough time (there hasn't even been a milestone containing it yet!) to see how it works out for server users. -- Colin Watson

Re: SSH and the Ubuntu Server

2010-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:08:47AM -0600, Robbie Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 16:04 +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:49:38AM -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote: I think this screen is a good idea if in fact tasksel is moved to after the first boot. We used

Re: SSH and the Ubuntu Server

2010-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:34:58PM -0600, Robbie Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 16:22 +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:08:47AM -0600, Robbie Williamson wrote: What if the Server team maintained the 2nd stage? Then we'd be making life easier for you, right

Re: Where is the chooser chooser?

2011-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
a cog icon next to my name in the greeter. Clicking that presents me with a drop-down menu of available sessions. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: subject [Bug 844965] Re: Ubuntu Classic session selection missing from unity-greeter.

2011-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
, but not on anything to do with the desktop. I'm quite happy using Unity, although mainly because it gives me an extra line or two in maximised terminal windows. :-) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Correct package to file bug against for the text installer

2011-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
. Is that a bug with the CD build, the cdromupgrade program, with apt or with a back-end program? Start with the debian-installer package in Ubuntu. We'll reassign on from there as necessary. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Cleaning up the users and locking down the shells in /etc/passwd

2011-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:03:55AM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:12:24AM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com wrote: I'm afraid

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
down, so I would go again for autosyncing from testing, and letting developers manually sync from unstable at will. Now that this is by and large a self-service, this should work even better than in lucid. I agree. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com

Re: Fwd: [Ironpython-users] IronPython Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2

2011-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
? as it was in Beta 1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dlr-languages/+bug/831402 If somebody gets this fixed in Debian, I think we could still just about reintroduce this. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
restricted than restricted; I think in this case we should think of restricted as having its dictionary meaning, rather than identifying it with the (arguably misnamed) component. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 03:41:31PM -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: On 10/10/2011 03:31 PM, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 03:03:13PM -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: ubuntu-restricted-extras Most of the stuff in ubuntu-restricted-extras is either not restricted or in partner now

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-P

2011-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 04:44:19AM -0400, Martin Owens wrote: I didn't think Debian had issues with GPL libs though, that's new to me. It doesn't. There's at least one in the base system. The gstreamer good/bad/ugly split is determined by upstream, not by Debian. -- Colin Watson

Re: Ubuntu Alternate Remastering

2011-11-30 Thread Colin Watson
, I'd say that something broke the Priority fields when regenerating the Packages file. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Ubuntu should move all binaries to /usr/bin/

2011-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
no good reason for Firefox to require the full path to an executable to open a resource seems like an excellent one. It should rarely be necessary to care about the full path to an executable at all, never mind attempting to consolidate them all into one directory. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: apt does not update directory permissions

2011-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
so safely. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Thinking about adding a Twitter stream to the Ubuntu install slideshow

2012-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
with the Canonical sysadmins about the practicalities of this? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu

Re: Ugly GRUB menu entries

2012-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
these; you're welcome to file them against Ubuntu branding for the moment: http://launchpad.net/ubuntu-branding/+filebug?field.title=Grub:+streamline+boot+entries No need for a layer of indirection; the correct package is grub2 in Ubuntu. -- Colin Watson

Re: Thinking about adding a Twitter stream to the Ubuntu install slideshow

2012-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 01:37:20PM -0800, Dane Mutters wrote: Colin Watson wrote: Given our scale, I'd say that the neighbourly thing to do is for Ubuntu installs to only touch Ubuntu network resources. However, that isn't to say that an Ubuntu service couldn't deal with fetching a set

Re: Thinking about adding a Twitter stream to the Ubuntu install slideshow

2012-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
source of bugs in a component that already has more than enough of them. Fetching something from the network and rendering it as part of the slideshow is much easier (although that doesn't mean I'm volunteering to do it). -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com

Re: Thinking about adding a Twitter stream to the Ubuntu ....

2012-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
it is to install packages. I rather expect that this is still true even if you count updates. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: multiarch pulling in i386 packages

2012-02-02 Thread Colin Watson
with precise, but it would be better to aim for this. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Installing 12.04 on non-pae hardware

2012-02-11 Thread Colin Watson
visible. Of course, you can always upgrade from a previous release too. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: Bulid dedicated kernels.

2012-02-11 Thread Colin Watson
of different kernel builds is costly in various ways, and maintaining one for each laptop range would be entirely unsustainable. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Lucid - Precise trouble with do-release-upgrade

2012-02-12 Thread Colin Watson
for a bug report. Please file it using 'ubuntu-bug update-manager' as described; that should automatically attach enough information to let us reproduce it. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Canonical can add a new services.

2012-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
this kind of thing for its customers. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Precise libapt-pkg update problem

2012-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
/cache/apt/archives/libapt-pkg4.12_0.8.16~exp12ubuntu6_i386.deb https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/924628 Steve said in our team meeting yesterday that he was actively working on this, so expect an update soon. -- Colin Watson [cjwat

Re: [rjo...@redhat.com: Re: Suggestions on building VM disks from scratch]

2012-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 10:13:26PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: Here's another nasty bug and some pointers from the developers to how to fix it. Thanks. I've requested a sync of febootstrap from unstable to fix this. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com

Re: server went unbootable

2012-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
free to file a bug about that. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: How to install Precise without getting screwed?

2012-04-08 Thread Colin Watson
into a corner-case bug, but in general there's a symlink there for backward-compatibility. I had an unfortunate 10.04 LTS system go unbootable The switch to /run was in 11.10. via the FHS accepted and everything but ubuntu� /var/run. http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/RunDirectory#FAQ -- Colin

Re: grub2 and Previous Linux versions submenu

2012-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
; then -echo submenu \Previous Linux versions\ { -in_submenu=: - fi done - -if $in_submenu; then - echo } -fi -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: ld changed linking behaviour in precise?

2012-04-18 Thread Colin Watson
? Yes, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/ReleaseNotes#GCC_4.6_Toolchain ... but not compared to precise a few days ago, as Christoph said. As far as I know, --as-needed has been in place for the lifetime of precise. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com

Re: Recent OpenSSL update that breaks cloudfront and rubygems.org?

2012-04-20 Thread Colin Watson
upstream). Since I'm about to be diving head-first into release chaos, I strongly encourage anyone who can to try to figure out a fix that doesn't cause connection to the other sites we just fixed to regress! -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel

Re: Linux (or Ubuntu specific) tools to measure number of page faults

2012-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 10:04:47PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: Note that you need to explicitly specify /usr/bin/time to prevent the shell builtin time command from being used, which is more limited. Or 'command time'. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com

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