Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-26 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Morning .. 

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:04:54PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>And not only 80386 needs this - There is the Sparc64 port which would
>also benefit from this (http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/#64bit). If we
>had support for subarchtectures, not only would the ix86 mess be able to
>be split in many flavors (i.e. strict 386, 486 and up, 686, or whatever
>you fancy). And I am sure this can somehow help maintain the non-Linux
>ports - NetBSD gives us the potential to bring Debian to _many_ new
>platforms. 

In my opinion, this would be the right way. Sure, this is a lot of work,
but we, if we splitt the arches up into suparches, we will be able to
use optimization for eg. 586/686 or on PowerPC altivec for G4 and so on.
And, of course, we can keep the support 80386.

Regards
    Jan
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Re: debian packages for openoffice 1.1beta?

2003-07-11 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi .. 

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:02:46PM +0530, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote:
> Are there any .debs available for openoffice 1.1 beta? Has nyone made
>them?
>package list in unstable/editors has openoffice 1.0.3 only.

Have a look at experimantel ... ;)

Jan

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Re: bugs.debian.org: ChangeLog closes handling should be changed

2002-08-29 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi .. 


On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 05:45:29PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 08:48:31AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>>  What we need is a change here: Bugs should just be closed in unstable.
>> How to do this?  They should be rather be tagged  than be closed
>> by an upload to unstable.  Not unconditionally, of course.  The version
>> of the bugreport should be compared with the version currently in
>> testing.  Some sort of algorithm not too complex but able to handle most
>> of the cases shouldn't be too hard to do (yes, I volunteer to help
>> there).
>Then bugs will me marked as sarge, even though they might be bugs
>specific to unstable.
>
>It would be much better to remove the sid tag when it gets uploaded
>to unstable, turn off the sarge tag when it goes into testing, and
>turn of the woody tag if it is lucky enough to get into stable.

I agree, this could solve the problem, Alfie explained ... 

Regards
Jan
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Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-16 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 02:57:52PM +0300, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 06:03:47AM +0300, Lasse Karkkainen wrote:
>> Someone said that X is a difficult package to maintain and that there
>> is nothing wrong if PACKAGING it takes 3+ months. People have managed
>> to install it from sources in matter of HOURS (well, that didn't work
>> for me, dunno why).
>Man, I am seriously thinking about putting this quote to my archive of
>best laughs ever :)

*save* into my collection of fortunes :)

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