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

2004-12-06 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 12:12:53PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > You're being offensive, you should not be included in Debian. Reading this one comment made this whole craptacular thread worth reading. - David Nusinow

Re: Where is your freedom of speech ? (Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor)

2004-12-08 Thread David Nusinow
stributing content to places like Iran. - David Nusinow ObRC: #280901

Re: Bug#293055: ITP: rails -- MCV ruby based framework geared for web application development

2005-02-01 Thread David Nusinow
end, and while it's not done I've made some considerable progress on it. If you'd like help or a comaintainer, let me know. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#293055: ITP: rails -- MCV ruby based framework geared for web application development

2005-02-01 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:32:31PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > David Nusinow wrote: > > >I worked on a package for this throughout the weekend, and while it's not > >done > >I've made some considerable progress on it. If you'd like help or a > >coma

Bug#295171: ITP: libformatr-ruby -- perl-like formats for ruby

2005-02-13 Thread David Nusinow
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libformatr-ruby Version : 1.09 Upstream Author : Paul Rubel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://formatr.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL or Ruby's othe

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

2005-03-14 Thread David Nusinow
porting problems? What about the heavy burden on the security team? The problems extend beyond the mirrors and the buildds. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread David Nusinow
> out for discussion and feedback first. I disagree. I dislike the cabalistic feel of this whole thing, but it's a step forward that needs to be taken, and I don't think anything would have moved otherwise. I trust this group of people to know what they're doing, since

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

2005-03-14 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:37:36PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, David Nusinow wrote: > > > What about the *massive* issues with releasing d-i due to syncing on all > > arch's? > > Yeah, and *after* these were solved, it was "oops, we still can't

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

2005-03-14 Thread David Nusinow
other. Agreed on the archive space, but I don't know what to do about that. One thing that we've seen lots of is people happy and willing to donate buildd's for their pet arch. I'd imagine those could be converted to package pool space and such. The bandwidth issue I have no

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

2005-03-14 Thread David Nusinow
n in sync with FCC > changes sounds impossible under this scheme; I disagree. I think the tools are all there to do it. There's no magic to running Debian, it's just a lot of manpower and lot of scripts. > it will drive the SCC archs away from debian so that they > have some

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

2005-03-14 Thread David Nusinow
ifferent hosts for each SCC) part of the plan in the email? I don't think anyone wants to break alioth further. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Supporting tier-2 (was Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3))

2005-03-14 Thread David Nusinow
n everyone benefits. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread David Nusinow
a huge waste of manpower, done seven times in a row. Hopefully not that huge, as the tools have already been written. Perhaps there can be a single package pool for all SCC/Tier-2 arches so it only has to be done once. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

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

2005-03-14 Thread David Nusinow
ready strained before Ubuntu existed. Our release team was struggling to get sarge out before Ubuntu existed. Our security team was already undermanned before Ubuntu existed. d-i was short on contributers and had a hard time releasing before Ubuntu existed. We have only ourselves to blame for where we

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

2005-03-14 Thread David Nusinow
ced on the people doing the actual work. Are you paying attention to what the Release Managers, D-I Lead, and FTP Masters are saying? Or are you just assuming that they're out to get you? > And keeping IA64 in the loop is just another joke from the release > team. It'd be interes

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

2005-03-15 Thread David Nusinow
ble Debian with all it entails. You're some piece of work. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-15 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:04:31AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:52:22 -0500, David Nusinow > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Sarge was already very late before Ubuntu existed. Our mirror network was > >already strained before Ubuntu existed. Our releas

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

2005-03-15 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:13:39PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:17:25 -0500, David Nusinow > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:04:31AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > >> From what is public visible, the security team has lost at l

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

2005-03-15 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:45:48PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For *years*, I've heard porters complain about ftpmaster and > > such. Well, now every port has the full ability to take matters in > > to their own h

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

2005-03-15 Thread David Nusinow
lems instead of just bitching. Oh, and do the work to implement it. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-15 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:55:57PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, David Nusinow wrote: > > > This does not preclude porters from making a stable release. In fact, all > > the talk I've heard assumes that they will (via the snapshot method). > > Anybody can do

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

2005-03-15 Thread David Nusinow
in that email. It definitely clarifies things. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-17 Thread David Nusinow
nced such that when a hint is carried out by the RM's, a notification mail is sent out to a subscriber list notifying them of the hint. This would allow for multiple subtestings to choose wheter or not they want to do the same thing. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-18 Thread David Nusinow
s is still an issue. Joey Hess's mails have indicated very clearly that it's difficult to get an installer release out even when all arches are already supported. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Licenses for DebConf6 [was: Re: DebConf6: Call For Papers]

2005-11-13 Thread David Nusinow
ee license for the papers to be acceptable. That they are mandating this is acceptible and is to be encouraged for an event connected with Debian. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-13 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:13:31PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> > Debconf requires non-exclusive publication rights to papers, > >> > presentations, and any additional handouts or audio/visual materials

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 2

2005-11-21 Thread David Nusinow
rimental, and is slated to be removed in the next upload of Xorg to unstable, be it 6.8 or 6.9. If this really is an important issue, I can do a 6.8 upload to unstable within 24 hours. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and the desktop

2005-12-12 Thread David Nusinow
y "Yep, that's Debian". Check out the windowmaker package. It has (or had as of a few years ago) a beautiful Debian theme complete with a very nice wallpaper. Creating similar themes for other window managers and desktop environments would be great. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread David Nusinow
roject rather than their little package feifdom. It might help overcome the sense that key people aren't communicating, as well as provide more easy avenues for NM's to get involved that don't simply involve packaging some crap little script from freshmeat. - David Nusinow [0] A Debian

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread David Nusinow
meone can take ownership of a package within the team) but also a cohesiveness and a known set of people to turn to when you're in need. It's pretty simple to found such a team too. All it takes is some interested people and an alioth project. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-05 Thread David Nusinow
g 6.9 while it was in experimental. Not enough to catch all the bugs by any means, but I got at least some feedback. Then again, Xorg is special in that people with newer hardware often need the updates. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is mesa actually maintained?

2006-01-06 Thread David Nusinow
at the buglist. I'm not really all that thrilled about the possibility of becoming the mesa maintainer, but right now it looks like my only option if I want to move on modular xorg. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-06 Thread David Nusinow
p from scratch. If you want it in Debian, get hacking. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cooperating With Canonical Employees

2006-01-09 Thread David Nusinow
tions, soliciting advice politely, and rolling up your sleeves and getting some work done. Free software on the scale that Debian exists is fundamentally a social activity, and if you want it to work you have to make an effort on the human level. All this crap about launchpad, arch vs svn, and ot

Re: Is mesa actually maintained?

2006-01-10 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 11:25:17AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:26:33AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > Hello! This is one of 5 RC bugs, apparently with no maintainer response. > > Apparently the list which is listed as the maintainer is rej

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-12 Thread David Nusinow
on this kind of personal level. I don't really buy in to their whole "giving back to Debian" thing (because they didn't really "give back" xorg, I had to take it after they made it for themselves) but they do present a great opportunity for us to establish these kinds of working relationships. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:35:18PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > However, on the other hand feel free to create a "common maintained > packages team" that adopts such packages :) Isn't that pretty much what the qa team does? - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Dissection of an Ubuntu PR message

2006-01-13 Thread David Nusinow
your employer gives back to Debian? - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-13 Thread David Nusinow
at keep many users from using Debian." From the sound of this thread everyone would welcome what's on that page with open arms. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-14 Thread David Nusinow
o idea how, but I do know that I'm still looking to close the gap in certain differences between our X packages and Knoppix's for instance. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-14 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:53:51PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 05:49:40PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > > I don't buy this. The impression that just about everyone has of this > > didn't come from nowhere. > > Not from nowhere, no. The

Re: gerris FTBFS bug has not been fixed for 300 days

2006-01-16 Thread David Nusinow
g an NMU for one of his other packages, and I can NMU gerris sometime over the next few days with your patch in his report. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gerris FTBFS bug has not been fixed for 300 days

2006-01-16 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:42:54PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:25:58AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > Hi all > > Please let me know if there is other appropriate mailing list to > > report this problem. I am looking at the package

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-17 Thread David Nusinow
care about a topic please don't waste all of our time while you browbeat your opposition (and in this case, fellow Debian developer) in to the ground. Some of us who do care might want to see something positive come out of this long and painful thread. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread David Nusinow
community for making a similar mistake. That said, I don't really understand why it's Ok for Ubuntu to do this but not us. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:18:48PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:58:20PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > > That said, I don't really understand why it's Ok for Ubuntu to do this but > > not us. > > Ubuntu never installs python-minimal wi

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-19 Thread David Nusinow
'm also confused and genuinely curious... you guys use the minimal package during bootstrapping or something and then by the end of the installation process you will necessarily have the full python somehow. Is this correct? - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is mesa actually maintained?

2006-01-22 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:18:18PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > I've got an NMU prepared and sitting in the XSF svn repo[0]. Almost all the > work was done by Daniel Stone, so I mainly had to add the appropriate bug > closers in the changelog. > > This NMU will depend on a n

Pre-Depends for Xorg 7.0

2006-01-22 Thread David Nusinow
translate just fine to Debian. I'll be uploading packages to experimental shortly to test for this, although I don't recommend anyone use it outside of a chroot until we have a more or less complete X suite available in experimental. If you have any questions or comments, please feel fr

Re: Pre-Depends for Xorg 7.0

2006-01-22 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:15:23AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > David Nusinow wrote: > >One of the changes happening for Xorg 7.0 is that it will finally become > > FHS compliant. > > FWIW, the FHS 2.1 specifies /usr/X11R6 in section 4.1. I can't see > anything FHS-

Re: Pre-Depends for Xorg 7.0

2006-01-23 Thread David Nusinow
/usr/bin/X11 is still a symlink to . (or rather ../bin), so anything installing to /usr/bin/X11 will actually install to /usr/bin. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pre-Depends for Xorg 7.0

2006-01-23 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:54:54PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Right. The everything that you'd expect to go in to /usr/bin and > > /usr/lib will install there, at least as far as Xorg goes. An example of > > th

Re: Pre-Depends for Xorg 7.0

2006-01-23 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:32:33AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:48:24AM -0500, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Right. The everything that you'd expect to go in to /usr/bin and /usr/lib > > will install there, at least as fa

Re: Pre-Depends for Xorg 7.0

2006-01-23 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:48:33AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > David Nusinow wrote: > > Right. The everything that you'd expect to go in to /usr/bin and /usr/lib > > will install there, at least as far as Xorg goes. An example of that is > > that the new xterm package i

Re: Pre-Depends for Xorg 7.0

2006-01-23 Thread David Nusinow
boring, and I > wouldn't recommend it if you can avoid it. Apparently upstream has made an imake configuration that will basically do the right thing and install binaries to /usr/bin and so forth. I'll be sure to enable this in our build. Hopefully that'll take care of this issue. -

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-23 Thread David Nusinow
tle tribe) and I look forward to more of the same. Maybe the next time you start trying to do some real work for Debian rather than troll -project you'll find this out for yourself. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-26 Thread David Nusinow
edge to reduce this problem in my own work, rather than write it in the language I would have chosen had I been first to the site. While perl has its share of problems, it's not that bad and refusing to work in it is a little absurd. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#352151: ITP: compiz -- OpenGL window and compositing manager

2006-02-09 Thread David Nusinow
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: compiz Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : David Reveman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.freedesktop.org * License : GPL or MIT/X11 Description : O

Bug#352153: ITP: xserver-xgl -- OpenGL Backed X Server

2006-02-09 Thread David Nusinow
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xserver-xgl Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : X.Org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.freedesktop.org * License : MIT/X Description : OpenGL Bac

Bug#352155: ITP: xephyr -- X server that outputs to a window on a pre-existing X display

2006-02-09 Thread David Nusinow
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xephyr Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : X.Org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.freedesktop.org * License : MIT/X Description : X server that

Bug#352156: ITP: glxcompmgr -- OpenGL compositing manager

2006-02-09 Thread David Nusinow
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: glxcompmgr Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : X.Org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.freedesktop.org * License : MIT/X Description : OpenGL composi

Re: Pre-Depends for Xorg 7.0

2006-02-19 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:32:33AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:48:24AM -0500, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Right. The everything that you'd expect to go in to /usr/bin and /usr/lib > > will install there, at least as fa

Bug#353941: ITP: xserver-xair -- X Server Featuring Accelerated Indirect Rendering

2006-02-21 Thread David Nusinow
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xserver-xair Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : X.org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.freedesktop.org * License : MIT/X Description : X Serv

Re: Bug#353941: ITP: xserver-xair -- X Server Featuring Accelerated Indirect Rendering

2006-02-21 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:53:30PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: xserver-xair > Version : 1.0.1 > Upstream Author : X.org <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: supporting navigation mouse buttons in Debian

2006-03-12 Thread David Nusinow
issue. Please note that the usual way to do this is by filing a wishlist bug against the package, and I'd appreciate it if you use this mechanism so I can keep track of it easily. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-25 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:02:31PM +, Will Newton wrote: > 1. File a wishlist big against dosage if one does not already exist. 1a. Submit a patch so that you can be certain you get what you want. > 2. Get on with your life. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

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

2005-03-20 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:05:15AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:06:15PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:43:26PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > [1] The installer might be a point, but since all sarge architectures > > &

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

2005-03-20 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:06:23PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > David Nusinow wrote: > > You know, you keep saying this and I have a really hard time > > believing it, although I don't follow the kernel list so please > > enlighten me if I'm wrong. > > The p

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

2005-03-22 Thread David Nusinow
e baby to the > debian-boot people to handle as usual. > > Hope this clarifies things a bit. Thanks Sven, it certaintly does. It's much appreciated. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-26 Thread David Nusinow
ackwards from "we want this stuff to be in main, freedoms or not"? > > > Well, I would start with "we want this stuff in main" and work from > > there; > > See? There you go. I have a hard time believing that this is a fundamentally wrong approach to ta

Bug#304509: ITP: libcmd-ruby -- library for building line-oriented command interpreters in Ruby

2005-04-13 Thread David Nusinow
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcmd-ruby Version : 0.7.2 Upstream Author : Marcel Molina Jr. <http://vernix.org/marcel/> * URL : http://code.vernix.org/cmd/ * License : MIT Description

Re: mplayer 1.0pre7

2005-04-25 Thread David Nusinow
blasting through the queue so fast) - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release update: editorial changes to the testing propagation scripts

2005-05-04 Thread David Nusinow
y in the Netherlands, "De beste stuurlui staan > aan wal", "The best boatsmen are standing on shore": it's easy to > complain while not bearing any responsibility, rather than actually > doing the job Very well said Jeroen. - David Nusinow -- To

Re: debian sarge is 3.2 or 4 ?

2005-05-06 Thread David Nusinow
ll references just as they are about to > >print. > > Their fault for releasing a book about unreleased software which is > bound to be outdated the day that sarge will actually release. A lot of users request just such a book. It's been years since we had one, and it's been

Re: Debian AMD64 Archive Move

2005-05-10 Thread David Nusinow
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:34:57AM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote: Stop acting like such a spoiled child. You want non-free for amd64? Host it yourself until it gets moved officially. Don't like it? You've qualified for a full refund on your purchase. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-04 Thread David Nusinow
play politics forever though, and at a certain point there needs to be some more coherent statement of policy (if just for practical purposes) than what we've seen so far. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: C++ ABI change for etch -- freeze unstable for all C++ libs with changed or new sonames

2005-06-05 Thread David Nusinow
g MFT appropriately. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: C++ ABI change for etch -- freeze unstable for all C++ libs with changed or new sonames

2005-06-05 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 02:35:10PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > David Nusinow writes: > > No. There are a number of people who are in charge of important technical > > decisions who have no more association with Canonical than you or I > > do. I'm sure if you stop rant

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-06 Thread David Nusinow
the debian project will switch to the new software > > so ubuntu can stop running an independent bug tracker? > > I think that's pretty unlikely, personally ... Would it be of a lot of benefit to us if it could be done? I'd personally rather not have Debian's BTS be t

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-09 Thread David Nusinow
Org, in the future. I share Daniel's ambition to have up to date X packages in Debian, and I plan to work to make this a reality so that we don't have these kinds of discussions in the future. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a more thorny relationship between Debian and Ubuntu

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-09 Thread David Nusinow
27;t have that many people working on it, so you guys can't be everywhere at once, but having Daniel helping from one side and Branden from the other has been enormously beneficial to this X newbie in getting these packages moving. The fact that it's a personal touch from each, rather than just an automated BTS mail, really does go a long way, and I'm enormously grateful for it. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X.org l10n (was: Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?)

2005-06-10 Thread David Nusinow
ork here also. That would definitely be nice. I consider the leaps we've made in translations with sarge to be one of the best improvements in Debian since woody, and I'd like to see more of it. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X.Org transition and xlibs-static-* issues

2005-07-02 Thread David Nusinow
ting your packages if you prefer. - David Nusinow [0] http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/patches/ [1] http://people.ubuntu.com/~daniels/xlibs-static-dev.txt [2] Add "deb http://people.debian.org/~dnusinow/xorg ./" to your sources.list. The sources are also available in this archive

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread David Nusinow
th your name by it! Let's use this page to show people what's actually happening in Debian, so they don't have to trawl through a zillion bug reports, mailing lists, and irc channels just to hear what we plan to do. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-07-31 Thread David Nusinow
r and debootstrap are considered absolutely critical for serious work. In terms of failed tools, yada seems to generate a lot of dislike. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-08-02 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:08:06PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > > On Aug 01, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Also, pbuilder and debootstrap are considered absolutely critical for > >

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-08-02 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:44:19PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.01.0005 +0100]: > > Subversion, in conjunction with alioth, has risen dramatically in > > Debian to accomodate team-based maintainance. There are of

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-08-02 Thread David Nusinow
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:56:44PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * David Nusinow [Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:37:23 +]: > > > (I'm seriously > > interested in setting up git.debian.org for XSF work, for example*), > > > * If anyone else is interested in this, contact

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-09 Thread David Nusinow
loyed in Debian. Admittedly, I do few NMU's though, so I could be missing things. But I did investigate a large number of patch systems for use with xorg and they all had this in common. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#382994: ITP: rebase -- The restriction enzyme database, from New England Biolabs

2006-08-14 Thread David Nusinow
somewhere in your distribution, that's fine." First off, I'm excited about this package. But does this actually allow for modification and redistribution? By "use the data however they'd like", does that include modification, or is it just reading the data? - David

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

2006-08-14 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:28:58PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 02 Aug 2006, David Nusinow wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:56:44PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > > * David Nusinow [Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:37:23 +]: > > > > > > > (I'

Re: Bug#382994: ITP: rebase -- The restriction enzyme database, from New England Biolabs

2006-08-15 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:39:36PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:44:59PM +0000, David Nusinow a écrit : > > > > First off, I'm excited about this package. But does this actually allow for > > modification and redistribution? By "u

Re: glibc and UNACCEPTs

2006-08-22 Thread David Nusinow
is what I'd consider the appropriate fix. Just do another upload straight away and you don't even need to bother an ftpmaster. It's what I would have done if I'd been awake. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: glibc and UNACCEPTs

2006-08-22 Thread David Nusinow
he upload of > xorg-server (xserver-xorg-core) 1:1.1.1-3, accidentally uploaded to > unstable instead of experimental. An easy enough mistake, it's only > one little field in a changelog file. Crap. Sorry everyone. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-26 Thread David Nusinow
Even if we don't autodetect and download the non-free X drivers, Debian will support people's video cards on newer hardware when it's released. This, along with providing SATA support out of the box, should go a long way towards solving this issue in the short term. - David Nusinow

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-27 Thread David Nusinow
e. Deferring to Ubuntu for this work is the worst sort of defeatist nonsense and I will not to bow to it. I like collaborating with the Ubuntu people, but I refuse to compromise my own work or Debian as a project just so that they can excel. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

2006-09-24 Thread David Nusinow
ll probably end up following the same pattern as is decided for libc. I'd rather not diverge, especially if the solution used for libc is the correct one. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making SELinux standard for etch

2006-10-08 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 05:35:32PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > As shipped, the Debian kernel images have SELinux compiled in, > but disabled, a command line parameter is required to turn SELinux > on. When SELinux is turned on (by enabling it in grub), the default > policy setting a

Re: Orphaning most of my packages

2006-10-13 Thread David Nusinow
worked better for me than positron since day 1, and it does continue to see updates. It'd be nice to have NDBM packaged for Debian and in the archive (though not critical, since jar files are easy enough to deal with) if someone with java skillz is interested. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBS

Re: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-17 Thread David Nusinow
on mechanisms so that this doesn't happen. One of my target goals is to work on this post-etch, and happily upstream is working hard on it as well. If people want to help with this issue, please follow up to debian-x. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

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