Fwd: the planet is gone...

2006-07-12 Thread Steve
I have always liked Demons (UK ISP) status which is linked to the motd on their gateway. If you type "finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]" you get the current status of their systems. Simple perl cgi which also does a web page. If there is interest (and nothing already exists) I will code something along

Re: Looking for a co-maintainer for adduser

2003-10-05 Thread steve
ng programs to go away is simplistic and unrealistic. Sure in some languages like Java there aren't going to be pointer problems, but other avenues of attack are just as likely; insecure use of temporary files, symlink attacks, signal attacks and etc. Steve -- # Debian Security Audit P

Re: Mini-DebConf in Cambridge, UK - October 10-13 2024

2024-06-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 12:18:56PM +0200, somebody *claiming* to be Luna Jernberg wrote: Just to be 100% clear, that mail didn't come from Luna's normal gmail account but was instead spoofed and sent via emkei.cz, a "free online fake mailer". It's now blocked from

Re: what about Netplan?

2024-07-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
oo many to be >bothered to check between 10 and 999 commits. I understand what you're trying to say, but that's a disingenuous comparison. systemd is a massive (some would say *too* massive) project with fingers in many pies. How many of those people have touched *networking* bits? -

Re: what about Netplan?

2024-07-15 Thread Steve Langasek
n both Debian and Ubuntu - to my consternation as a member of the Ubuntu Release Team, since that increases the number of flavor images we have to manage releases of ;) - Canonical has not discontinued its development of lxd. I think the larger Free Software community pol

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
ult. It hasn't been AFAIK, no. d-i always asks, with the default being "no". -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-23 Thread Steve Langasek
things significantly slower. By saying that it makes a negligible difference, he *did* deny that it makes things significantly slower. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:35:11PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Nonetheless, you won't deny it makes things significantly slower. >> By saying that it makes a negligible difference, he *did* deny that it makes >>

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-23 Thread Steve Langasek
rting the bug, because she was trying to ensure the bug report would be useful/was hoping the bug was fixed without any need to file a bug report. Yes, filing bug reports on testing is not often useful (except during a freeze), but that's not the same as it not being useful to have users running testing. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
11 archs to be set up for it, the practical, visible impact *today* on testing is the same; it just means that the "tomorrow" when we can use t-p-u for its intended purpose is likely a little closer. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
delaying > sarge. Do tell me if I'm mistaken about that, but please don't flame > too hard; I'm not casting aspersions on KDE or g++/libstdc++, just > recording an impression.) While getting KDE updates into testing has been a significant task in the past, I'm

Re: Drop testing

2004-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
without the impetus of the freeze, we would be even farther from release than we are today. So where in the above three-stage freeze process would you put this sequence of discouragingly-hard-to-fix sequence of RC bugs, and what would their impact be on the actual freeze timeline (both its starting point and its duration)? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: software updates file in /usr -- policy bug?

2004-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
t; > Lastly, the policy promises that /usr can be read-only and > > guarantees software to be fully functional. > Now, where is the possible policy bug? It isn't a policy bug at all; it's a case of a package that's violating policy. (apt-spy, if the thread parent is no longer apparent.) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Problem with dpkg on alpha ?

2004-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
p://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=mozilla-firefox&ver=0.99%2B1.0RC1-2&arch=alpha&file=log > > http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=cxref&ver=1.6-3&arch=alpha > > http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=fribidi&ver=0.10.4-6&arch=alpha&file=log -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Why sysklog uses its own logrotate and not logrotate script

2004-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
e no business complaining about the state of another maintainer's package. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Steve Kemp
ave a vote and agree to leave such documentation issues until after Sarge's release? Here's the result I'm thinking of: http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_004 Steve --

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

2004-12-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
end to pick up any random free software and add it to the distribution without considering whether it's actually useful or not... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess

Re: Bug#283751: ITP: fakepop -- fake pop3 server to warn users that only pop3-ssl is available

2004-12-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
people seeing these messages will most likely have just attempted to log in using their normal username and password... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor

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

2004-12-01 Thread Steve Greenland
edit for the anti-slavery movement, you have to blame it for the slavers as well. Which just shows what others in this thread have said: religion is often used to justify whatever behaviour/belief the individual wants to justify. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to b

Re: [OT] God knows what [was Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor]

2004-12-01 Thread Steve Greenland
butchery? > > You could. However there is no sign of a repeat of that now so it's less of > an issue. Are you claiming that there are NOT, at this time, plenty of people killing random innocents, and waving the Islamic Crescent to justify it? Steve -- Steve Greenland The

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

2004-12-02 Thread Steve Greenland
ce and rational thought, is much more offensive and harmful to society that than a cartoon nipple. I've not previously objected to the inclusion of the Bible because I think that censorship is even worse. But if we, Debian, are going to go down that path, then that would be the first thing on my list.

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

2004-12-02 Thread Steve Greenland
ild how to be safe and sane in his sex life? Fantastic. (Not that I think hot-babe is particularly educational. I'm just sad that so many American adults are so scared of the human body that they find a silly cartoon threatening.) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates c

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

2004-12-02 Thread Steve Greenland
third issue of the New Yorker. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

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

2004-12-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On 02-Dec-04, 02:35 (CST), Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note the "lewd exhibition of the genitals". Note the word "genitals". Now look again at the cartoon in hot-babe. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be maki

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

2004-12-02 Thread Steve Greenland
as "it ate my file when I entered the ':wq' command", which would be offensive, I agree. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

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

2004-12-02 Thread Steve Greenland
n CD of all things) and install it without your permission." Okay, I give up: which argument are promoting? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

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

2004-12-02 Thread Steve Greenland
or "silly, possibly amusing for a short while", the other "kind of stupid".) Amazingly, not all women believe that any depiction of the naked human body is automatically pornography and offensive. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making

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

2004-12-02 Thread Steve Langasek
and the Vishnu texts (name > > escapes me at the moment) should all be in there too. > > They're all equally true or equally false. > Why? Why should one not be true and the others false? Why > can't there really be one true religion? Because he's an idiot. Can

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

2004-12-03 Thread Steve Greenland
erotic", not "pornography". "Nitpickers R Us", Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Re: Finding an improved release process.

2004-12-04 Thread Steve Langasek
ndows XP", so clearly *some* users are impressed; and considering even the most fervent Debian advocates have always regarded the installer as a weakness, I think that's saying something... -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Greenland
or distribute the package, just that we don't care to make it available as an official Debian package from our servers. This is not a subtle difference. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

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

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Greenland
On 05-Dec-04, 09:07 (CST), Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 08:45:56AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > > On 05-Dec-04, 04:55 (CST), James Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > There's no excuse for cens

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

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Langasek
ase don't tell me that just providing > them is not the same as using them: they are only provided to be used > this way! Reality check: *there are no photographs of women in this thread*. ObRC: 282347 -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
e packages attempting to fill this niche, *then* it makes sense to start talking about other options (filing bug reports, submitting patches, or writing/ITPing a replacement). And sure, language choice can make a difference in the install size in embedded systems and thus count as a "deficiency

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

2004-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
oon drawings of naked breasts are illegal in any jurisdiction where Debian wouldn't already have serious problems. What it *should* be about is moving towards a consensus, *together with the maintainer*[1], about what we want Debian to be. And contrary to much of the rhetoric in this thread, i

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
ld not > say the same with respect to the "squat reversed esh". > However, this is just my view. Mmm-hmm. > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Your opinion about which charset to use for Debian files would carry more weight with me if you had enough experience with

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:04:56PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 06:53:42PM -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > But yes, non-ASCII Latin-1 chars should not be given special status over > > the national chars found in other lan

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

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
t distribute a package in main as part of our CD images, we shouldn't be distributing it from the mirrors either. ObRC: #245810 -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
nicode; standardizing on > > Latin-1 makes no sense in a global project. > True. Look, Steve: mild abuse aside, I agree with you > in every particular. Nevertheless, I would respectfully > suggest that your criticism underscores my point, which > regards the monstrous increase in co

Re: Status of this ITP?

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Greenland
ktop.org package by now in > debian. If you're going to CC debian-devel, at least have the courtesy to mention what the hell you're babbling about, instead of forcing us to go look up the bug number. > Get off your ass. Ah. I see. Courtesy is not your strong point. Steve -- Steve G

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
the names of core system libraries serve the technical goal of providing better *compatibility* between distros? Indeed, how could this be anything other than a gratuitous change? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
with the technical specifics of what's really at issue here? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer > >On Wed, 08 Dec 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > > >>How in the world does changing the names of core system libraries serve > >>the >

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-10 Thread Steve Langasek
rhaps you meant to post it to one of the many easy-to-find DFSG flamewars in Debian's recent history, instead of to a thread discussing LCC's significance to Debian. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer [1] http://linux.about.com/b/a/129063.htm signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Processed: Fixed in NMU of tetex-base 2.0.2c-2.1

2004-12-10 Thread Steve Langasek
diffs from NMUs be posted to the BTS has been explicit for a very long time. It is the responsibility of the NMUer to ensure that the diffs are delivered to the maintainer for inspection via the BTS. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Langasek
;. Um, what's the concrete use case for a cross-distro standard network configuration interface? These are starting to sound like ISVs I don't *want* touching my Debian systems... -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Pre-Depends on emacs21? Re: cedet-common: breaks other packages in batch mode

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Langasek
mon's startup code; but I haven't dug into it far enough to say for sure. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#285234: ITP: unlzx -- unarchiver for *.lzx archives

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Kemp
elds in reportbug's > ITP template? Is there some way to make it more clear, or are people > just lazy? Maybe patching reportbug to complain if an ITP doesn't have some of its fields changed from the defaults would be a good idea? Steve --

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Kemp
tc/bash.bashrc. Steve --

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
er. The 2.6 kernel boots up with at least initramfs >accessable to it, and later initrd, if it needs a BLOB it should load >it from there. Agreed on this bit. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-12 Thread Steve Greenland
to say it wasn't learnable, and I used it from initial release: It was way better than having to download stuff by hand. But I sure wouldn't recommend it to a new user. Which, of course, isn't to say that it should be removed. I was surprised by how many people still use it; I hop

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:07:12PM -0500, Ian Murdock wrote: > On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 03:49 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:39:55PM -0500, Ian Murdock wrote: > > > You've just described the way the LSB has done it for years, which thus > >

Re: Bug#285625: ITP: expocity -- An enanced Window Manager based on metacity

2004-12-14 Thread Steve Kemp
ages] http://cxhome.ath.cx/debian/skippy/ It works nicely with my IceWM environment, and I'd love to see it uploaded... Steve -- # Debian Administration Tips www.debian-administration.org [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2004/12/msg00135.html

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-15 Thread Steve Langasek
n't* we provide the LCC binaries in the same fashion as the current lsb package -- as a compatibility layer on top of the existing Debian system? This sidesteps the problem of losing certification over small divergences that significantly impact our other ports and is a much more tractable goal, while still giving us a target to aim for with our base system. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: installing a source tree?

2004-12-15 Thread Steve Kemp
the name of the software you're trying to build? > I'm creating/documenting a quick Debian_Hints file at: > http://insecurity.org/ll3i11_j0n35/Debian_Hints Have you read many of the fine Debian manuals? There's a lot of good stuff linked to from: http://www.debian.org/doc/ Steve --

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
ion moot. What annoys me is your constant >pounding on other people's credibility, especially since you don't ever >seem to accept anyone else's criticism of your credibility. That's just Suffield being an annoying prick, as usual. Common consenus is that he's generall

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-15 Thread Steve Langasek
Not standardizing the toolchain used to build a set of standardized binaries would seem to leave the LCC open to a repeat of the gcc-2.96 fiasco, however... -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-12-16 Thread Steve Greenland
a specific user for that forum application, with the minimum of rights needed for that application (e.g. SELECT and UPDATE) in a single specific database. You're talking about a DB *admin* password. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable

Re: Problems to upload

2004-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
plib.py", line 214, in getresp > raise error_perm, resp > ftplib.error_perm: 553 Could not create file. > When trying manual ftp I found out that dosbox_0.63-2.dsc was put to master > but with zero bytes and I'm not allowed to remove this file. See the dcut command (or the README file in UploadQueue) for information on how to remove broken files from the ftp server. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?

2004-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
feedback, I'll continue to assume my current approach is ok... -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: The LCC is a bad idea, but that doesn't mean the LSB doesn't have any issues

2004-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
time in all kinds of situations (think Red Hat RHEL support vs. Fedora, or even users reporting bugs to the Debian BTS about backported packages), and is perfectly valid under the DFSG -- even if we don't want to be put in this situation by ISVs. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
Vs' argument against having to test their software on multiple slightly-incompatible distros again? ;-) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Removing obsolete configuration files?

2005-01-02 Thread Steve Greenland
fact that they're obsoleted via a debconf note (of appropriate > priority), and in the README or Changelog.Debian. Where the "appropriate priority" is "none". Putting it in the Debian NEWS files is sufficient. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gat

Re: dependancy issues

2005-01-02 Thread Steve Greenland
cy; aptitude, for example. This can be disconcerting. It means you need to go in and (re-)select all the smaller meta-packages, etc. that you actually want to keep. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims t

Re: murphy is listed on spamcop

2005-01-02 Thread Steve Langasek
ill achieve your > > goals. > There is no comparison between killing people and bouncing email. Whatever > point you were trying to make is lost. The thread is over. Maybe the real point here is that no one has come up with a spam control solution yet that involves killing sp

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-02 Thread Steve Greenland
basic 2.6 upgrade (mostly getting my head around it, and converting from usbmgr). Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Re: For people more knowledgeable about buildds...

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Langasek
t (out of curiosity). http://buildd.debian.org/stats/?arch=ia64&state=Needs-Build Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Greenland
ould change) we will get slower and slower as we get bigger and bigger. Steve [1] Okay, just in case you don't: http://www.ubuntu.com/, http://www.progeny.com -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Langasek
s over the years to keeping this project running, or should I plan to killfile this one as well? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RunDinstallHourly

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Langasek
otherwise push bits of testing improvements back by 24 hours at a time. This has already directly contributed to getting KDE 3.3 into testing as soon as we did -- if the dip in the sarge RC bug count is any indication, this looks like a step in the right direction. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:30:32AM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:59:29PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Please note that year 2005 has come to an end and > > > the year 2005 is now - even in my mail address! > > Does the new a

Re: RunDinstallHourly

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:16:44PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: > On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:04:37 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Twice daily seems more reasonable to me than hourly; > Why? If you run it only twice daily, then the developers who are awake at > one run will probably b

Re: build problem on mips{,el}

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
mips* do not use fakeroot as the root command when building, because fakeroot does not work on these architectures. Instead they must use sudo, which means that directories or files created in the clean target will not be writable by the build target. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programme

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
for all to see. Hmm, I would've thought that after 5 months of the Same Old Story, anyone reading d-d-a would know what the preconditions are for freezing sarge. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
we aren't learning from our mistakes, and it's questionable whether any amount of strategizing will put is in a position to do time-based releases. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#288769: ITP: cedilla -- ascii to postscript renderer

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
cters or > non-latin scripts properly, cedilla was written with this requirement > in mind from the start. I think you want to say "plaintext to postscript renderer" here, since clearly text that contains non-ascii characters is not ascii. ;) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Experimental gaim_1.1.1-2 for Alpha

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
archive; but if this had not been the case, you might have found yourself blamed for whatever bugs this build introduced. In any case, perhaps this particular build should have been a binary-only upload to experimental, to join the i386 build already there? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Experimental gaim_1.1.1-2 for Alpha

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:47:57PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-05 15:12]: > >> Be careful: in general, you should *not* sign changes files for > >> packages

Re: Experimental gaim_1.1.1-2 for Alpha

2005-01-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:55:14PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:47:57PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > >> Does it also apply to signing .dsc's? > > The archive scripts won&#

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-07 Thread Steve Langasek
release of sarge, that'd be fine; but I think most people would like to see etch be an improvement over sarge in more respects than just hardware driver count, and we have to be realistic that this means a period of heavy changes followed by a period to stabilize everything again. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: rudeness in changelogs

2005-01-08 Thread Steve Greenland
ems. These would be the same students who didn't even have the minimum decency to attempt to notify the upstream authors before publishing the bugs? I think taking a dig at them in the changelog is the *least* anyone should do. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates

Re: rudeness in changelogs

2005-01-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 06:44:24PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > > Imagining myself as a student in this class: I complete the requested > > assignment, with luck make an A, only to have the prof post it to the > > internet and then be insulted by perfect strangers as they use

Re: Bug#289385: RFH: cdrtools -- searching co-maintainer for the package

2005-01-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
ary storage software for a living!), so I'll get back to you tomorrow. I've already written several patches for mkisofs and cdrecord over the years I've been using them, so I'm quite experienced with the code. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Why does Debian distributed firmware not need to be Depends: upon? [was Re: LCC and blobs]

2005-01-10 Thread Steve Langasek
are could exist". We either have free firmware for use with the device, or we don't. If we don't, then the driver won't work for our users without additional effort, and we should be honest about that. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Steve Kemp
many closed code assumes only x86. Using Debian in that context is an interesting way of making the point that there are more chips in the world than x86 and ppc.) Steve -- # The Debian Security Audit Project. http://www.debian.org/security/audit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:06:14PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: > Beyond that I think the other poster was right, really there > should be more focus on linking statically, packing in an open > format such as .tar.gz not .rpm and miminal links to the kernel > or OS. With the proviso

Re: Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-02 Thread Steve Greenland
al scripts checked and fixed, etc. etc. etc. Best Practical makes new bugfix releases to older versions, so they obviously don't expect everybody to upgrade all at once. RT is not an application. RT is a framework. It's quite reasonable to have multiple versions of that framework availabl

Re: Release update: kde3.3, upload targets, kernels, infrastructure

2005-02-02 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Goto, On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:54:54PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:30:57 -0800, > Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:19:36PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > > > I upgraded a Woody box last week to Sarge's glibc/apt/dpkg/

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Steve Langasek
're trying to get the RC bug count down in preparation of a release. Show me that there are enough people working on release-critical issues for sarge, which requires no imprimatur from the DPL, before you start throwing packages that have never even been tested by their maintainer at us faster than we already get them. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

ITP: libecw -- Library for Enhanced Compressed Wavelet(ECW) and JPEG 2000 image I/O

2005-02-03 Thread Steve Halasz
For some reason this ITP didn't get cc'd to debian devel, so here it is: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=293346 Regards, Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Steve Langasek
at reducing this problem are to disallow all binary uploads from maintainers, to get FTBFS errors detected and filed sooner after packages are uploaded, or to cut down on the number of utterly broken packages that are getting uploaded in the first place. I'm not suggesting that ftpmasters are deli

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-03 Thread Steve Langasek
c build failures; I think expecting maintainers to tag packages as being testing-worthy would just make it harder to get needed package fixes to get into testing. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-04 Thread Steve Langasek
presume that we wouldn't have told people about it via debian-devel-announce, y'know? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#293561: ITP: player -- music player and organizer for GNOME

2005-02-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
orking with music database. > >(expect packages soon on http://mentors.debian.net/, we still need >libvisual to be packaged and uploaded.) Please use a less generic name. "player" alone means very little and is likely to cause confusion. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-05 Thread Steve Greenland
qually acceptable. I think it might be reasonable to accept leading digits when there is at least one non-digit in the name. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the

Re: Bug#294084: ITP: life -- Linux Instrumentation for Enterprise - a set of WBEM management providers from Novell

2005-02-08 Thread Steve Greenland
no released files, no nothing. The CVS tree hasn't been modified in months. Is this really something that can be usefully packaged? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take o

Re: Bug#294084: ITP: life -- Linux Instrumentation for Enterprise - a set of WBEM management providers from Novell

2005-02-09 Thread Steve Greenland
. If you intend to package it eventually, then there's no need to do anything except perhaps add a note about the current state of "not quite ready for packaging, working on it". The "rollback" mechanism is to simply close the report. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-09 Thread Steve Greenland
ve a fs mounted, df won't show it either. Is it lying then, too? Df et. al. show all the mounted filesystems. If the same filesystem is mounted twice, then it shows it twice. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Li

Re: execturing libc

2005-02-09 Thread Steve Langasek
ivial on a system where users have access to perl. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-10 Thread Steve Greenland
drive one. I looked under the hood, and there were all these messy wires every where. I didn't like the way it looked, so I cut them all out. Now my car won't start." It's the *same* *thing*. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a

Re: /etc under svk

2005-02-11 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 06:36:04PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > And a question: where do we collect this kind of tips? wiki.debian.net debian-administration.org debianplanet.org debianhelp.org And any page that's accessible to google! Steve -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

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