Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-18 Thread sean finney
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 01:25 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Not all of us are using window managers that grok .desktop
>  entries.  Indeed, I would think that instead of having gnome menus,
>  kde menus, and Debian menus, we should dump the first two before we
>  dump the latter, since the Debian menu is something that we control,
>  and is something that benefits _all_ Debian users, not just a subset.

though honestly, i think the "debian menu" is inferior to the "upstream
menu" layout found in kde/gnome from a user standpoint.  perhaps i'm not
the only one who finds the debian menu a little clunky, crufty and out
of date?  that's not to say i don't appreciate what it does.

ideally, there ought to be some kind of way to either
generate .menu/xpm-format files from .desktop files or vice versa (with
appropriate automagical section mapping).


sean


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Re: Rebirth of Status of Maintainer's packages and bugs and more

2007-01-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 09:25:00AM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> So, now my silly question follows, isn't there any way to get read-only
> access to at least BTS on some lower level (eg direct access to
> DB) to implement more efficient querying of the data?

There is the LDAP interface: http://people.debian.org/~aba/bts2ldap/

Cheers.

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Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-18 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Because as a Debian maintainer of gnome programs that work
>  even when you are not using gnome, you are not just supporting people
>  who use gnome, you are supporting _all_ Debian users.

 Yes, but if 90% of the users of these packages do not use the Debian
 menu it gets lower priority than the other tasks.  Beside, my remark is
 taken out of context: it was not meant to imply we should drop the
 Debian menu altogether as you imply, but as a criticism of the current
 technical problems of the Debian menu which makes it a maintenance
 burden.

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Generating the Debian menu from .desktop files?

2007-01-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all,

I have read some contradicting statements in the discussion about the
menu systems, and it is sometimes confusing. I will try to summarise:


* The GNOME menu is better because it is cleaner.

Although .desktop files apply to each menu system which are following
the FreeDesktop recommendations, we learned that entries can be removed
from the non-GNOME menu with "OnlyShowIn=GNOME". Actually, there is also
the possibility of using a "NotShowIn" field.

I co-maintain non-gnome packages, and created .desktop files or
ad[a|o]pted some from Ubuntu (1). Shall I "NotShowIn=GNOME" the
programs in these packages? This is a very serious question: if all
developpers who maintain a package with a menu file create a .desktop
file, there will not be a big difference between the GNOME and the
Debian menu anymore...

For the moment, as there no policy against adding a .desktop whenever it
is possible, and as it is helpful for at least one distribution based on
Debian, I systematically create a .desktop file, even if there is no
icon available, for instance.


* Icon format.

In some cases, I created icons, so I had the choice for the format. xpm
has a great advantage over png: when Debian is the upstream author,
adding binaries to a package is a pain which has to be managed through
uuencode in order to generate a .diff.gz. Being an ascii format, xpm
makes the things much easier. However, I would agree to swich to png if
somebody convinced me that there are good reasons for.

Actually, the next time I will create an icon, I will opt for the svg
format, and use imagemagick to convert it to xpm (or png) at build time,
at least for the menu file. Can every window manager using FreeDesktop
menus display SVG?


* .desktop as the future and Debian menu as the past.

First of all, it has been said that if the GNOME menu (or KDE, or
XFCE...) would not provide all available graphical programs, there would
need a non-command line mean to start them. Therefore, whatever the
technology behind, I agree that the Debian menu should be kept.

However, I also agree that it is boring and error-generating to maintain
menu entries in two separate files in separate formats. The .desktop
format has one great advantage: it supports internationalisation.
Therefore, I would welcome attempts to evolve the Debian menu system to
this format. Also, as Ubuntu volunteers are actively creating .desktop
files starting from the Debian menu files (at least for the science
pacakges), the transition should be fairly easy. I am not really good at
programming, so I will not voluteer to work on the evolution of the menu
system. But if it happens, I do volunteer to help for the transition.

Have a nice day,

(1) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/NoDesktopFile

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Re: X-Debbugs- headers

2007-01-18 Thread Luca Capello
Hi Don!

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:37:13 +0100, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Luca Capello wrote:
>> Never tested, but FWIU in the page I linked [1], you can use the
>> pseudo-headers [2]. So, again, never tested, something like the
>> following should do the work:
>> =
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: ITP foo -- a bar viewer
>> 
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
> This is incorrect. You need to use
>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Thank you for the correction.

> You can use any of the X-Debbugs-... headers in the psuedoheaders,
> but they must be prefixed with X-Debbugs-. The converse is not true.

So a question arises: which are the other X-Debbugs-... headers?  The
reportbug manual mentions only X-Debbugs-CC, while /etc/reportbug.conf
contains a commented line for X-Debbugs-No-Ack.

Thus, I (erroneously) thought that Package: & Co. were available also
as X-Debbugs-..., which seems to not be the case.  As English isn't my
mother language, is it me or the section at [1] isn't so clear?
Especially the last sentence:

  Finally, if your MUA doesn't allow you to edit the headers, you can
  set the various X-Debbugs- headers in the pseudo-headers.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting#miscpseudoheaders


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Bug#407442: general: few free disk detection

2007-01-18 Thread Jean-Michel
Package: general
Severity: wishlist

On a filesystem which might fragment on low disk space(such as
ext2/ext3), 
might be the system should detect this condition, and inform, in some
way, the root, and the user who tries to write on this disk, or the user
which has moste data on this disk, that unusefull files should be
removed.


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  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
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Bug#407446: general: automatic mount network share in filesystem.

2007-01-18 Thread Jean-Michel
Package: general
Severity: wishlist


samba network share might be automagically mouted in file system.

share partage on computer machine from domain domaine, with user utilisateur 
shoud be
available in filesystem throw:

/network/samba/domaine/machine/utilisateur/partage/SomeFoldersFromRemoteComputer

In the same way that processes are available with /proc.

The only technical issue I see is when to provide password, and how to
store them.

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Re: Archive signing key for 2007?

2007-01-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:51:21PM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote:
> I thought that the 2007 key was (based on [1]) supposed to be available
> early in January and available in the debian-archive-keyring package. Which
> doesn't seem to be the case.

The key we'll be using (and indeed are already using) is available as:

http://ftp-master.debian.org/archive-key-4.0.asc

It's expected to be valid until sometime after lenny is released.

If you've upgraded a testing/unstable system in the past month or two,
you'll find that key has been automatically added to your apt key list,
after being verified by the normal trust path for upgraded packages --
namely the current archive key you've been using, then the sha1sum of
the Packages file and finally the md5sum of the apt package containing
the updated key.

Debian developers can obtain the key from merkel over ssh, by looking
in /srv/ftp.debian.org/web/archive-key-4.0.asc. The key id is 6070D3A1
which can be obtained from the key servers with signatures from both me
and Steve Langasek.

Cheers,
aj



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Bug#407442: general: few free disk detection

2007-01-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Jean-Michel wrote:

> Package: general
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> On a filesystem which might fragment on low disk space(such as
> ext2/ext3), 
> might be the system should detect this condition, and inform, in some
> way, the root, and the user who tries to write on this disk, or the user
> which has moste data on this disk, that unusefull files should be
> removed.

There are already disk quotas for that, and the system admin is free
to use them or not. Are you trying to imply that disk quotas should be
mandatory?

Please be more specific, not just about the feature you have in mind
(which I still don't fully understand), but also about why do you
think lack of such feature is a bug.

[ While doing so, please remember that this is Unix, not Windows ].


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Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> I'm not sure if the smaller size that LZMA allows is worth it if it then
> takes a lot longer to unpack files

Unfortunately, that is already the case today. I have a local mirror via
gigabit as I build multiple livecd images on a daily basis.

For the KDE flavour, this takes less than two minutes for downloading
the packages, but about 5 minutes for unpacking them. This is done on a
reasonable fast i386 machine (3.2ghz, 1gb ram, two 250gb barracudas in
raid0). Now, if we change from gzip to a slower algorithm, the unpack
part will take even more time for this :/

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Re: Generating the Debian menu from .desktop files?

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070118 14:28]:
> However, I also agree that it is boring and error-generating to maintain
> menu entries in two separate files in separate formats. The .desktop
> format has one great advantage: it supports internationalisation.

Which the Debian menu support since before freedesktop even started to
exist. (It was a bit limited as it was written in the thought to
generate seperate menus for each language and only later get the support
to put them all in one file easily as it is needed to generate .desktop
file, but that is quite old stuff, too).

Same by the way with not showing some entries in some programs. On
the one hand it allows to add new types for stuff only applicable to
special menus (like fvwm-modules only to be shown in fvwm and so on).
And also supports to mark some entries to not show up in some programs.
KDE for example used this to not show entries in the Debian menu that
already were in their special menu. Don't know what they currently do.
I personally do install neither Gnome nor KDE nowadays and let users
only choose between the working solutions. Gnome and KDE got so broken
by design and "not-invented-here, there must be an inferior solution we
can choose" that it just got too much hassle support it.

And just to repeat myself over the years: Please do not abuse the
term userfriendlyness to solicit solutions only fitting to some
hypothetical users. If you do not want people confused about different
programs for the same task, don't install the other programs. And if
there are different programs needed by different users, make all of them
visible. The only thing confusing people more than too many programs for
a task in my experience are different menus in different environment so
one pal/colleaque suggesting the one sm/wm and another pal/colleaque
showing them some program in their wm and they cannot find it in their
account, though it is the same computer...

Hochachtungsvoll,
  Bernhard R. Link


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Bug#407446: general: automatic mount network share in filesystem.

2007-01-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Jean-Michel wrote:

> Package: general
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> samba network share might be automagically mouted in file system.
> 
> share partage on computer machine from domain domaine, with user utilisateur 
> shoud be
> available in filesystem throw:
> 
> /network/samba/domaine/machine/utilisateur/partage/SomeFoldersFromRemoteComputer
> 
> In the same way that processes are available with /proc.
> 
> The only technical issue I see is when to provide password, and how to
> store them.

If you are the only user in your machine, why don't you just use
/etc/fstab for that?

Or are you suggesting that the system should "guess" (by way of unknown magic)
every shared folder on every computer for every user in /etc/passwd?

[ Remember again that this is Unix, a multiuser operating system ].


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Re: Bugs in default GNOME etch?

2007-01-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 04:42:21PM -0800, Jeff Carr wrote:
> On 01/16/07 20:22, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> > Thus their goal is to help win market share, 
> 
> That's an important goal.

How about we don't care about the crap that is "market share", but only
about the things that really matter, such as "is it useful"?

If "it takes some getting used to, but after that it's much more useful
than what most people use" is what Debian gets known by, then I'm quite
sure our "market share" will start rising, too.

Yes, market share is useful to some extent, since at the very least it
helps in getting more interesting brains working on our system. But if
"market share" gets in the way of quality, then "market share" can go
where the sun don't shine.

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Re: Archive signing key for 2007?

2007-01-18 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote:
> The key we'll be using (and indeed are already using) is available as:
> 
>   http://ftp-master.debian.org/archive-key-4.0.asc
> 
> It's expected to be valid until sometime after lenny is released.

I feel that we've been pretty miserable at communicating this stuff to
our developers and our users. While I knew about the etch key (hard to
miss it, given the ugly behavior it caused in apt when the archive was
signed with it, before it reached debian-archive-keyring), it wasn't at
all clear that it would be used to sign anything other than etch.

I've tried to update http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt to reflect what
you've said.

I'm still not clear what will happen to the still existing yearly signing
key though. It's hard to predict what will happen if we reach
2007-02-07 and 2D230C5F expires. I think that due to #400526, it will at
least break debmirror. If we're phasing out the yearly signing key, we
should be sure to stop signing the archive with it, before it expires.
Obviously, if we're not phasing it out, we have a rapidly shrinking
window to create the 2007 key.

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Re: Archive signing key for 2007?

2007-01-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
Anthony Towns  writes:

> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:51:21PM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a 
> wrote:
>> I thought that the 2007 key was (based on [1]) supposed to be available
>> early in January and available in the debian-archive-keyring package. Which
>> doesn't seem to be the case.
>
> The key we'll be using (and indeed are already using) is available as:
>
>   http://ftp-master.debian.org/archive-key-4.0.asc
>
> It's expected to be valid until sometime after lenny is released.
>
> If you've upgraded a testing/unstable system in the past month or two,
> you'll find that key has been automatically added to your apt key list,
> after being verified by the normal trust path for upgraded packages --
> namely the current archive key you've been using, then the sha1sum of
> the Packages file and finally the md5sum of the apt package containing
> the updated key.

Interesting -- are there any formal procedures for the official
signing key?  I mean, how is the key generated, where is it stored,
who has access to it, is it on an online machine etc?

I think describing this would be useful, as a case-study of how to
manage an important key on a best-effort basis.

/Simon


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Re: Archive signing key for 2007?

2007-01-18 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 01:55:06AM +1100, Anthony Towns wrote:
> The key we'll be using (and indeed are already using) is available as:
> 
>   http://ftp-master.debian.org/archive-key-4.0.asc

Thanks for the info. Maybe I've missed something, but I though there was
going to be one key per year (indeed, that's what I documented in the
Securing Debian Manual [1]) :

"The Debian archive signing key is available at
http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc (replace 2006 with current
year)."

Using a different naming convention from last year is certainly confusing.
Why the 4.0? Because of etch?  Could it be possible to properly define what
naming convention will be used so that users can have a guideline where to
download the latest key from? It might be necessary for users that are do not
have the latest version of debian-archive-keyring installed, find issues
when upgrading and have to take manual steps to include the latest
key.

Regards

Javier


[1]
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch7.en.html#s-check-releases

> 
> It's expected to be valid until sometime after lenny is released.
> 
> If you've upgraded a testing/unstable system in the past month or two,
> you'll find that key has been automatically added to your apt key list,
> after being verified by the normal trust path for upgraded packages --
> namely the current archive key you've been using, then the sha1sum of
> the Packages file and finally the md5sum of the apt package containing
> the updated key.
> 
> Debian developers can obtain the key from merkel over ssh, by looking
> in /srv/ftp.debian.org/web/archive-key-4.0.asc. The key id is 6070D3A1
> which can be obtained from the key servers with signatures from both me
> and Steve Langasek.
> 
> Cheers,
> aj
> 




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Bug#407468: ITP: cwiid -- Linux interface to the Wiimote

2007-01-18 Thread Romain Beauxis
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


* Package name: cwiid
  Version : 0.3.51
  Upstream Author : L. Donnie Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.wiili.org/index.php/CWiid
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : Linux interface to the Wiimote

CWiid is a Linux interface to the Wiimote written in C. The goal of this
project is to develop a working userspace driver along with various
applications implementing event drivers, multiple wiimote connectivity,
gesture recognition, and other Wiimote-based functionality.

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  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
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Re: Bug#407468: ITP: cwiid -- Linux interface to the Wiimote

2007-01-18 Thread Julien Cristau
Hi,

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 18:57:41 +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote:

> CWiid is a Linux interface to the Wiimote written in C.

is there any reason this needs to be mentioned in the package
description?  I'd think most users don't care, and those who do can use
debtags to find out.

Cheers,
Julien


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Re: Bug#407468: ITP: cwiid -- Linux interface to the Wiimote

2007-01-18 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le jeudi 18 janvier 2007 19:21, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> Hi,

Hi !

> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 18:57:41 +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> > CWiid is a Linux interface to the Wiimote written in C.
>
> is there any reason this needs to be mentioned in the package
> description?  I'd think most users don't care, and those who do can use
> debtags to find out.

No at all, simply I was too lazy to change the website description, but I'll 
do it for the package obviously !


Romain
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Re: Archive signing key for 2007?

2007-01-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Anthony Towns:

> The key we'll be using (and indeed are already using) is available as:
>
>   http://ftp-master.debian.org/archive-key-4.0.asc
>
> It's expected to be valid until sometime after lenny is released.

Thanks a lot for stopping the yearly key rollover madness.


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Re: Icons and instructions for the FreeDesktop menu.

2007-01-18 Thread Yavor Doganov
Jeff Carr wrote:
> On 01/17/07 00:22, Loïc Minier wrote:
> 
> > The Debian menu system is completely useless to me, and I expect to
> > most GNOME and KDE users.
> 
> You've hit the nail on the head. That whole thing came about from
> earlier times. I wish you every luck in purging it from existence.

But you both forget that there are GNOME users who use apps without a
.desktop entry and the only way to start them is through the Debian
menu.  Opening a terminal just horrifies them.  All my colleagues are
such users.



Bug#407483: ITP: gpe-mininet -- network connectivity monitor for GPE

2007-01-18 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: gpe-mininet
  Version : 0.7
  Upstream Author : Jean Tourrilhes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download/source/
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : network connectivity monitor for GPE

 Network connection checking panel applet for the
 GPE Palmtop Environment. 

-- System Information:
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  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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Bug#407488: ITP: gpe-screenshot -- screenshot application for GPE

2007-01-18 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: gpe-screenshot
  Version : 0.4
  Upstream Author : Rene Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download/source/
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : screenshot application for GPE

Capture screenshots within the GPE Palmtop Environment.


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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
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Re: localisation in system wide daemons

2007-01-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 
> Hindu is an adjective that describes someone whose faith is
>  hinduism. It is not a language.
> 
> manoj

And, according to Merriam-Webster[1], a native or inhabitant from India.

[1] http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=hindoo

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Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 19 January 2007 02:19, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For the KDE flavour, this takes less than two minutes for downloading
> the packages, but about 5 minutes for unpacking them. This is done on a
> reasonable fast i386 machine (3.2ghz, 1gb ram, two 250gb barracudas in
> raid0). Now, if we change from gzip to a slower algorithm, the unpack
> part will take even more time for this :/

Last time I checked the gzip source had no assembler optimisation for systems 
other than i386.  So if your 3.2GHz machine (which obviously would be a P4 at 
least not an i386) is running the AMD64 instruction set then you could 
probably improve performance by running the 32bit binary.

A compression algorithm that is more complex (slower) than the gzip algorithm 
but which is implemented in 64bit assembler might compare well with the 
current gzip performance for modern machines.

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