Re: AucTeX

1998-01-08 Thread Britton
On 7 Jan 1998, Davide G. M. Salvetti wrote: > AucTeX is listed as orphaned in wnpp; I'm willing to take over its > maintenance if nobody objects. I think this might be because teTeX has now replaced AucTeX as the Debian TeX/LaTeX distribution of choice. Of course TeX/LaTeX is so darn complicate

Re: AucTeX

1998-01-11 Thread Britton
.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key > http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 Britton -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Britton
Pardon my paranoia, but even if it was worth making all the changes they are talking about (which are pretty extensive), I'd want to see anything coming from the NSA audited carefully before being included. Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." On F

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Britton
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > from the secret journal of Britton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Pardon my paranoia, but even if it was worth making all the changes they > > are talking about (which are pretty extensive), I'd want to see anything >

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2003-08-25 Thread Britton
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Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-21 Thread Britton
ess to the community is questionable. Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Hans Reiser wrote: > It is really a question of, do you respect the authors? > > Stallman never imagined that anyone in the free softw

reactivating my debian developer account

2005-11-21 Thread Britton Kerin
I would like to reactivate my debian developer account. Ive been MIA for a while unfortunately, but have now rearranged my life so I have time to program for fun again. Is there a standard procedure for doing this that someone can point me to? Thanks, Britton Kerin -- Britton Kerin [EMAIL

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Britton Kerin
best served by our dumping the packages. If we had a way to flag such packages 'deprecated' or 'very-buggy-your-on-your-own-if-you-try-this-one' (obviously we'd have to think of some better names :) it would prevent new users from being misled into trying the package w

returning emeritus developer, no response from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-01-25 Thread Britton Kerin
I send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] over a week ago, as described here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/02/msg3.html so far not even a response telling me I'm in a queue. Is the procedure described above still the right one? Thanks, Britton -- Britton Kerin [

helix player package for debian?

2006-02-08 Thread Britton Kerin
is anyone working on packaging helix player? I'd like to see RealPlayer packaged also, though it would have to go in non-free of course. I saw an old resolved RFP for helix, but searching in synaptic doesn't show up any matches for helix. Britton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: helix player package for debian?

2006-02-08 Thread Britton Kerin
I thought I saw some stuff on their web page about helix being GPL now. Not so? Britton On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:14:39 +0100, "Daniel Baumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Britton Kerin wrote: > > is anyone working on packaging helix player? I'd like to see > >

Re: Eiffel.

2006-04-13 Thread Britton Kerin
and the OpenGL wrappers they presumably do? If people make a fork to add ++, break, and continue, and everyone uses them, will B. Meyer finally become slightly less uptight and embrace them as well? :) Britton On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:48:22 +0200, "Daniel Baumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

status of application for reinstatement of my developer account

2006-07-23 Thread Britton Kerin
reinstated? It gets a bit irritating to be totally ignored after taking the time to answer all the questions on the reinstatement test. If random volunteers aren't worth bothering with thats fine, but don't ask them to spend their time and then ignore them. Sincerely, Britton Kerin

Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile

2018-01-03 Thread Britton Kerin
r that there are derivative distros that resist systemd and encourage debian to *allow* them, assuming people are willing to do the work. *Not* allowing this is the politics-driven position. Britton

Bug#886238: marked as done (Please introduce official nosystemd build profile)

2018-01-06 Thread Britton Kerin
the > list masters to block you from ever posting again if this behaviour > continues. > > As I don't think anything new will come up, I'm closing this bug report. > Don't reopen it, this might just expedite your fate. Yeah no more debian for me in future. That last comment is priceless. Britton

Bug#886493: general: debian should support nosystemd build profile

2018-01-06 Thread Britton Kerin
Package: general Severity: normal If debian is remotely serious about keeping non-systmed use an option, is should support a nosystemd build profile. There's no other real way to guarantee that packages don't use it. Sure they don't *have* to link against it, but in practice many will and this i

trying to use wireless not from gnome... what's the incantation?

2016-05-22 Thread Britton Kerin
Got a new laptop after 10 years of excellent stable ancient debian, and my wireless works from gnome, and only from gnome. Unfortunately I find that gnome3 is not for me. I've been trying dwm. No combination of nmcli ifconfig iw ip rfkill unblock wpa_supplicant /etc/network/interfaces etc. that

Re: trying to use wireless not from gnome... what's the incantation?

2016-05-24 Thread Britton Kerin
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > On May 22 2016, Britton Kerin wrote: >> Got a new laptop after 10 years of excellent stable ancient debian, >> and my wireless works from gnome, and only from gnome. Unfortunately >> I find that gnome3 is not for me.

Re: trying to use wireless not from gnome... what's the incantation?

2016-05-26 Thread Britton Kerin
7 DHCPOFFER from 192.168.43.1 DHCPACK from 192.168.43.1 bound to 192.168.43.103 -- renewal in 1698 seconds. root@debian:/home/bkerin# ping www.google.com PING www.google.com (216.58.194.164) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from sfo07s13-in-f4.1e100.net (216.58.194.164): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=105 ms Britton

thoughts on systemd, network-manager, dbus, packagekit, gnome etc.

2016-05-26 Thread Britton Kerin
ugh. E.g. I have no idea how debian even handles the udev issue for sysvinit systems, and at the moment I can't afford to break a bunch of stuff finding out. debian should not sell itself short and imagine that this new stack is better than all the infrastructure it built up over the years for doing mostly the same stuff. Britton

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

2016-06-07 Thread Britton Kerin
On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 01:56:08PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: >> On my old debian system I could ping as a normal user. The ping >> binary had the suid bit set. Now I get: >> >> $ ping www.google.com &g