Re: Lustre File System Support?

2003-12-17 Thread Matthew A. Nicholson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:28:57 -0800 (PST), Nick Pavlica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All, I'm trying to find a distribution that would be willing to add Lustre file system support (it requires a kernel patch). If this group is interested, then I may be able to gather some resources to help add th

Re: Bug#224232: ITP: yahoo2mbox -- retrieve and store Yahoo! Groups messages

2003-12-17 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:59:33AM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:15:59PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > > > * Package name: yahoo2mbox > > Version : 0.15 > > Upstream Author : Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:12:21AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > I think you trimmed away content that was crucial for understanding the > parts you did quote, but whatever. If you need reptition or > elaboration, I'll provide it. Please do. I fo

Re: Bug#224081: ITP: ttf-tamil-fonts -- Free TrueType fonts for the Tamil language

2003-12-17 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:08:17PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > > > * Package name: ttf-tamil-fonts > > Version : 1.0.0 > > Upstream Author : The Tamil Linux Project > > * URL

Re: Lustre File System Support?

2003-12-17 Thread Joerg Wendland
Nick, *, Nick Pavlica, on 2003-12-17, 16:28, you wrote: > I'm trying to find a distribution that would be > willing to add Lustre file system support (it requires > a kernel patch). If this group is interested, then I > may be able to gather some resources to help add the > support. It has rec

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Nunya
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:07:44PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:03:00PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:44:58PM -0800, Nunya Who wrote: > > Oh, its our good friend Tom Ballard. Maybe you could get back to working > on Debian and stop trolling

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Joel Baker
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 03:05:46PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 14:39, Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Imagining it? I suppose it's possible that I've hallucinated the > > stated positions of the Catholic, Luthern, Episopalian, Baptist, and > > Mormon authorities (the

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:03:00PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:44:58PM -0800, Nunya Who wrote: Oh, its our good friend Tom Ballard. Maybe you could get back to working on Debian and stop trolling now? -- gram signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 14:39, Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Imagining it? I suppose it's possible that I've hallucinated the > stated positions of the Catholic, Luthern, Episopalian, Baptist, and > Mormon authorities (the latter not technically being considered a sect [...] > Since you have

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:44:58PM -0800, Nunya Who wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:59:38PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > He did not say that all Christians are religious fanatics. > > > > Godwin. > > Copout. Yes, it is too bad he is copping (sp) out on discussing all sorts of things immed

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 14:43, Nunya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:39:07PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > Fair treatment is exactly what I'm claiming is being denied me, by the > > large religious voting block formed by adherents of the above-listed > > religions, which form a s

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Nunya
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:39:07PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > Fair treatment is exactly what I'm claiming is being denied me, by the > large religious voting block formed by adherents of the above-listed > religions, which form a significantly more than majority share of the > population of the

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Nunya
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:35:54AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > | You are totally rationalizing. > > *sigh* From Branden's original post where he mentioned the names: > > > We might use names from Christian demonology (since the BSD mascot > > is the cute and devilish "daemon"), with the firs

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 07:25:11PM -0800, Nunya wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 07:56:41PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > For the record, however, if you consider saying that the lifestyle or > > beliefs of someone you don't agree with are sufficient to condemn them to > > an eternity of suffering a

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:32:41AM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: | On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 01:16, Nunya wrote: | | > Face it. You're practicing hate speech. You're not better than what | > you hate. | > | Ya know, I've always wondered something when people say things like | this... | | If I

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:49:06AM -0800, Nunya wrote: | > | I don't believe in magical beings. I *do* believe some humans | > | intentionally set out to hurt other humans. Branden's beliefs and | > | sneering disdain for some of his fellow humans is quite clear. | > | > ... and in some cases

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Nunya
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 07:56:41PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > For the record, however, if you consider saying that the lifestyle or > beliefs of someone you don't agree with are sufficient to condemn them to > an eternity of suffering as hate speech (and I generally do), I'm on the > catching end o

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 01:16, Nunya wrote: > Face it. You're practicing hate speech. You're not better than what > you hate. > Ya know, I've always wondered something when people say things like this... If I say "I hate Adolf Hitler and his cabinet", is that practising hate speech? Scott --

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:16:18PM -0800, Nunya wrote: > > I wasn't thinking of you, but let's take a quote of yours and see which > of these statements is most applicable: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200312/msg01512.html: > "(religious fanatics - the one group tha

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 00:21, Nunya wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:02:03PM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote: > > And way out from Right Field... > > http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-ridicule.html > > go back and count the # of "christians are stupid" statements > substitute any r

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Kevin Kreamer
[I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] On Dec 17, 2003, at 10:20, Branden Robinson wrote: Given that we're going to be saddled with with a comprehension problem anyway, I say we abandon the effort to be descriptive in the product name. I proposed having a correlation between the first letter of the

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Nunya
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:59:38PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > He did not say that all Christians are religious fanatics. > > Godwin. Copout.

Lustre File System Support?

2003-12-17 Thread Nick Pavlica
All, I'm trying to find a distribution that would be willing to add Lustre file system support (it requires a kernel patch). If this group is interested, then I may be able to gather some resources to help add the support. It has recently reached production status(1.0), and would be a valuable

Re: Bug#224286: ITP: dday -- D-Day Normandy, the original Quake2 WWII modification of First Person Shooters.

2003-12-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
Alejandro Arrieta Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > * Package name: dday > Version : 4.1.0 > Upstream Author : ViperSoft Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.planetquake.com/dday/ > * License : (GPL) > Description

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:16, Nunya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:00:41PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > I wasn't thinking of you, but let's take a quote of yours and see which > of these statements is most applicable: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-20

Re: experimental codename: scud?

2003-12-17 Thread Matthew A. Nicholson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:56:21 +0100, GCS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:56:30AM +0100, Toens Bueker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hamish Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not on the list, just follow DWN. Just a thought, > but naming something after a missile seems odd. Qu

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Nunya
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:19:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I believe that if you cared to do the research on Usenet and mailing list > debates of this kind, my statement above is defensible as fact on rigorous > statistical grounds. But I don't care enough to do the work to prove that > to

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Nunya
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:00:41PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:21:40PM -0800, Nunya wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:02:03PM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote: > > > And way out from Right Field... > > > > http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-ridicule.html > >

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Nunya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:12:56PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Because Christians are the people who primarily take offense at this >> sort of thing in the context that we were discussing in this portion of >> the thread. > That's another opinion expressed as

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:21:40PM -0800, Nunya wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:02:03PM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote: > > And way out from Right Field... > > http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-ridicule.html > > go back and count the # of "christians are stupid" statements > subs

Which machine is best to build documentation package?

2003-12-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
My package "Debian Reference" is large source files and it uses many TeX and SGML tools. Can anyone tell me which machine I should use to build and upload package. Since SSH upload has been disabled, it looks very slow and unreliable to upload. (Does dupload uses -C ? Somehow, I felt faster.)

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Nunya
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:02:03PM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote: > And way out from Right Field... http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-ridicule.html go back and count the # of "christians are stupid" statements substitute any racial or ethnic group for christians see how the statemen

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Chad Walstrom
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:42:27AM -0800, Nunya wrote: > > IOW, lighten up, people. Otherwise, we'll be referring to Debian > > GNU/That Which Shall Not Be Named... > > Nah, bullshit. I've heard enough racists use that kind of reasoning. > "It's no big deal." Face it, you have to respect peop

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:22:07PM -0800, Nunya wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:04:03PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > > the fact that "the original guys said it's a daemon, explicitly not a > > > Christian demon" and here's you're saying "yes it is." :-) > > > > Er, no. I'm not. I'm saying tha

Re: experimental codename: scud?

2003-12-17 Thread GCS
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:56:30AM +0100, Toens Bueker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hamish Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not on the list, just follow DWN. Just a thought, > > but naming something after a missile seems odd. > > Question is, after what the missile was named ... If I

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Nunya
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:04:03PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > the fact that "the original guys said it's a daemon, explicitly not a > > Christian demon" and here's you're saying "yes it is." :-) > > Er, no. I'm not. I'm saying that Christian demons are derived from Greek > daemons; that isn't t

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Nathan Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you wanted Greek names, there are plenty of obscure nymphs, satyrs, > centaurs, etc. to choose from. Since the Greeks classified them as > neither evil spirits nor deities, many of them would qualify as daemons > in the classical sense. We could als

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:54:28PM -0500, Stephen Depooter wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 12:26, Chad Walstrom wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:42:28PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Well, just for the record, i personnally would prefer we don't use > > > demon name for keyword if possible. >

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:21:24AM -0800, Nunya wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:41:12AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > > > "The Christian concept of a demon is a corruption (as it were) of the Greek > > concept of daemon" > > Basically, no arguments with what you said, except I find inconsisten

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:26:10AM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:42:28PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, just for the record, i personnally would prefer we don't use > > demon name for keyword if possible. > > Forgive me for the gratuitous Harry Potter reference, but

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:13:03PM -0500, Nathan Hawkins wrote: > > If we're really worried about this, we can always use the names of the > Dwarves in the Hobbit. Most (all?) of those names are from Icelandic > sags, IIRC. So is Gandalf. All of them. I suppose they even have enough of the right

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Nathan Hawkins
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:09:37AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:54:15AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > [I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:00:21PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > > Even so, I'm amenable to anyone who can come up with names w

Bug#223772: Antwort: Re: Bug#223772: general: no md5sums for many packages (e.g. bc)

2003-12-17 Thread werner . thoeni
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 16.12.2003 19:15:43: now it is getting clearer. we are talking about different things. I'm talking about the md5sums files in the directory /var/lib/dpkg/info. You talk about the md5 sum of the whole package (MD5sum). so what I like to say is,

Bug#223772: Antwort: Re: Bug#223772: general: no md5sums for many packages (e.g. bc)

2003-12-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am > 16.12.2003 19:15:43: > now it is getting clearer. we are talking about different things. > I'm talking about the md5sums files in the directory > /var/lib/dpkg/info. You talk about the md5 sum of the whole package >

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Stephen Depooter
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 12:26, Chad Walstrom wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:42:28PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, just for the record, i personnally would prefer we don't use > > demon name for keyword if possible. > > Forgive me for the gratuitous Harry Potter reference, but "fear of a >

Re: Bug#224081: ITP: ttf-tamil-fonts -- Free TrueType fonts for the Tamil language

2003-12-17 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > I made a package called ttf-indic as part of my (rather neglected) > Debian-IN project. It contains a couple of Tamil fonts. Is there an > overlap with your package? > > If you would like to help get Debian-IN off the ground it would great. > > Oops

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Nunya
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:26:10AM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:42:28PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, just for the record, i personnally would prefer we don't use > > demon name for keyword if possible. > > Forgive me for the gratuitous Harry Potter reference, but

[OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Chad Walstrom
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:42:28PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, just for the record, i personnally would prefer we don't use > demon name for keyword if possible. Forgive me for the gratuitous Harry Potter reference, but "fear of a name increases fear for the thing itself." ;-p IOW, lighten

Re: Bug#224081: ITP: ttf-tamil-fonts -- Free TrueType fonts for the Tamil language

2003-12-17 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: ttf-tamil-fonts > Version : 1.0.0 > Upstream Author : The Tamil Linux Project > * URL : http://www.tamilinux.org/ > * License : GPL > Description : Free

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > And, pray tell, why is that? Hindu mythology had demons far > longer than Christianity (indeed, probably longer than any of the > faiths of the descendents of Abraham). If you are refering to Asuras, demon isn't quite the right word. They a

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Joel Baker wrote: > Besides, using Tolkien names is a long geek tradition. > And that's what's wrong with it. The association of geeks and Tolkien is such a cliche[1] Same goes for Pratchett (not to mention he is rather overrated in my opinion.) No if you're going to go w

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Nunya
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:41:12AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > "The Christian concept of a demon is a corruption (as it were) of the Greek > concept of daemon" Basically, no arguments with what you said, except I find inconsistent the fact that "the original guys said it's a daemon, explicitly

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Nunya
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:38:45AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:53:18AM -0800, Nunya wrote: > > | I don't believe in magical beings. I *do* believe some humans > | intentionally set out to hurt other humans. Branden's beliefs and > | sneering disdain for some of h

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:53:18AM -0800, Nunya wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:31:17AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > > > Somehow, I don't think Branden will mind being told his dislike of > > "parochial religious fundamentalists" is showing. I suspect he'd be proud > > of it. But you'll see fo

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:53:18AM -0800, Nunya wrote: | I don't believe in magical beings. I *do* believe some humans | intentionally set out to hurt other humans. Branden's beliefs and | sneering disdain for some of his fellow humans is quite clear. ... and in some cases justified. | Pleas

Re: Complaint

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:58:21PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:37:34AM +1100, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project > Leader wrote: > > > > - As http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-week-big.png shows, there > > > are some archs already have a working wanna-build acce

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:33:48PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:24:04AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > | > Demons are evil, > | > | Demons don't exist. Consequently, their moral value is undefinable. > > I claim that their moral value /is/ definable in the cont

Bug#224286: ITP: dday -- D-Day Normandy, the original Quake2 WWII modification of First Person Shooters.

2003-12-17 Thread Alejandro Arrieta Rios
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: dday Version : 4.1.0 Upstream Author : ViperSoft Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.planetquake.com/dday/ * License : (GPL) Description : D-Day Normandy, the original Quake2 WWII modification of Fi

Re: Bug#223772: general: no md5sums for many packages (e.g. bc)

2003-12-17 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 20:15, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: --cut-- > > i don't understand your comment above. why is the md5sums file useless > > and space wasting especially in terms of security? until now, I was of > > the opinion, that the md5sum gives me the guarantee that a debian package

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Nunya
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:31:17AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > Somehow, I don't think Branden will mind being told his dislike of > "parochial religious fundamentalists" is showing. I suspect he'd be proud > of it. But you'll see for yourself, soon enough. I don't believe in magical beings. I *

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:17:03AM -0800, Nunya wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:31:53AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:23:39PM -0800, Nunya wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:12:56PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > Because Christians are the people who pri

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:08:44AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:54:09AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > No, it's probably antipathy for the Free Software Foundation driving > > this more than anything else. > > > > Maybe they'd prefer Debian GNU/KLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:12:21AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I think you didn't bother to read any of the parts of my message that > > you didn't quote. > > I did. But I trimmed away those that were not necessary for the reader > to be remind

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Branden Robinson in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I like Branden's proposition very much. (Other than the proposed > > Pratchett names.) > > The Pratchett names weren't my suggestion; if they're adopted, then I > cannot claim the credit for proposing them. I know, I just didn't want to quote from t

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:10:24AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > [I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:15:04AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > Actually, given that I'm a long-time and deep-seated Tolkien geek, I rather > > like the notion of using the Valar - they're

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:24:34PM -0600, Paul Baker wrote: > On Dec 13, 2003, at 3:27 PM, Branden Robinson wrote: > >Thus: > > > >Debian FreeBSD -> Debian Forneus (BSD) > >Debian NetBSD -> Debian Naberius (BSD) > >Debian OpenBSD ->

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Nunya
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:31:53AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:23:39PM -0800, Nunya wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:12:56PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Because Christians are the people who primarily take offense at this sort > > > of thing in the context

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:06:47AM -0800, Nunya wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:42:48AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:02:44 -0500, Nathan Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > > > > Your proposal would change that. I oppose it, and I would oppose it > > > just

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:15:04AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > Actually, given that I'm a long-time and deep-seated Tolkien geek, I rather > like the notion of using the Valar - they're fictional, and Tolkien's work > isn't yet out from under copyright, but they

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:54:15AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > [I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:00:21PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > Even so, I'm amenable to anyone who can come up with names which are less > > loaded to random fundamentalists, if possible;

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:01:49AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > Branden's second proposal of using something from Pratchett did have a > nice ring to it, [...] That wasn't my proposal; it was made by Roland Mas in Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. -- G. Br

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:37:44PM -0500, Nathan Hawkins wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:53:15PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I doubt you'd have known they were names from Christian demonology if I > > hadn't told you. I didn't propse that we use bet

Re: Bug#224232: ITP: yahoo2mbox -- retrieve and store Yahoo! Groups messages

2003-12-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:15:59PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: yahoo2mbox > Version : 0.15 > Upstream Author : Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/yahoo2mbox.html >

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: > Catholics compared to their Protestant brethren. I should think if > anyone were taught demonology these days, it would be kids in Catholic I knew all about demons around that age, and I'm not even a religious person. Doom taught me everything I ne

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:00:21PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > Even so, I'm amenable to anyone who can come up with names which are less > loaded to random fundamentalists, if possible; of course, most of the > sources on daemons say that they are, as a rule, wi

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:41:50AM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > I consider myself educated, and I've never heard of any demons in school > where we had 13 years of religious (catholic) education. I can > definitely say that I'm not offended, and I doubt that

Need a m68k root access to close this bug [was: Re: Debian Bugs information: logs for Bug#70144]

2003-12-17 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Javier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:31:24 +0100): > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Patch for this (stupid) bug > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > tags 70144 patch > thanks > > This is a bug that has been open for over 3 and a half years, easy to > fix (patch attached) and deserves a

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:42:47PM -0800, Nunya wrote: > I hope I'm attributing correctly. > > My philosophy of good and evil is private and irrelevant -- but this > conversation has made me uncomfortable. I'm killfiling it but -- I'm > uncomfortable. Could you take it elsewhere? If you've ki

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] [We're back off-topic for -legal.] On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:33:17PM -0500, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have little patience for superstitious beliefs, and less still for > > people who claim to be defending

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:24:04AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: | > Demons are evil, | | Demons don't exist. Consequently, their moral value is undefinable. I claim that their moral value /is/ definable in the context of a particular mythology even if they don't exist. In the case of the Chr

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:23:39PM -0800, Nunya wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:12:56PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Because Christians are the people who primarily take offense at this sort > > of thing in the context that we were discussing in this portion of the > > thread. > > That's ano

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:19:47PM -0800, Nunya wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:29:15PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > And, pray tell, why is that? Hindu mythology had demons far > > longer than Christianity (indeed, probably longer than any of the > > faiths of the descendents of Ab

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:20:32AM -0800, Nunya wrote: > [...] a comic which by the way is being made into a movie with Keanu > Reeves (it's being filmed as we speak). > http://www.insanerantings.com/hell/movie/ [Heaven is oppressive, > right-wingers are malevolent, world saved by the paganists/hel

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:59:57AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > Or read Stephen Brust's _To Reign in Hell_, which posits an alternative > explanation of the creation of the world, the nature and causes of the > conflict between the angels under Yahweh and those under Satan, and the > origin of humank

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:03:00PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [I am not subscribed to debian -bsd.] > > > > What would be unacceptable about it, and why is it only a "borderline" > > case? What would push it over the borderline? > > Demons are

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:00:56PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:11:20AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > Unfortunately, my experience with the topic tends to indicate that the > > same folks who care are very likely to consider there mer

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 02:49:39PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:03:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > [I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] > > > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:21:30PM +0100, Rol

Bug#224234: ITP: clientcookie -- Python module for automating HTTP Cookie management

2003-12-17 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: clientcookie Version : 0.4.9 Upstream Author : Noah Spurrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pexpect * License : Python Software Foundation License Description : Python module for

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Piefel
Am 16.12.03 um 17:34:45 schrieb Will Newton: > It is worth noting that any project name may also be used for associated > domain names, file names etc., so ASCII is nice. Irrelevant with the advent of domain names containing arbitrary Unicode characters. Besides, as was said, there are easily ide

Re: experimental codename: scud?

2003-12-17 Thread Toens Bueker
Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not on the list, just follow DWN. Just a thought, > > > but naming something after a missile seems odd. > > > > Question is, after what the missile was named ... > > Extract from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud: > > "Scud is the NATO repo

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread David Weinehall
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:10:32AM -0800, Nunya wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:24:49AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:06:47AM -0800, Nunya wrote: > > [snip] > > > I think this is what my momma meant when she told me to avoid 3 subjects > > > in general conversati

Re: experimental codename: scud?

2003-12-17 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 11:56, Toens Bueker wrote: > Hamish Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not on the list, just follow DWN. Just a thought, > > but naming something after a missile seems odd. > > Question is, after what the missile was named ... Extract from http://en.wikipedia.org/w

Bug#223772: general: no md5sums for many packages (e.g. bc)

2003-12-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > goswin, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > Subject: general: no md5sums for many packages (e.g. bc) > > > Package: general > > > Version: N/A; reported 2003-12-12 > > > Severity: normal > > > Tags: security > > > > Every package has a md5sum in the Package file. >

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Nunya
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:24:49AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:06:47AM -0800, Nunya wrote: > [snip] > > I think this is what my momma meant when she told me to avoid 3 subjects > > in general conversation: politics, sex, religion. > > Yeah, let's avoid conversation

Bug#224232: ITP: yahoo2mbox -- retrieve and store Yahoo! Groups messages

2003-12-17 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: yahoo2mbox Version : 0.15 Upstream Author : Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/yahoo2mbox.html * License : Public Domain Description : retrieve and store Yahoo! Gr

Re: experimental codename: scud?

2003-12-17 Thread Toens Bueker
Hamish Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not on the list, just follow DWN. Just a thought, > but naming something after a missile seems odd. Question is, after what the missile was named ... by Töns -- There is no safe distance.

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:06:47AM -0800, Nunya wrote: [snip] > I think this is what my momma meant when she told me to avoid 3 subjects > in general conversation: politics, sex, religion. Yeah, let's avoid conversation altogether, or only talk about the weather... [snip] /David -- /) David

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experimental codename: scud?

2003-12-17 Thread Hamish Harvey
I'm not on the list, just follow DWN. Just a thought, but naming something after a missile seems odd. Hamish

Re: BTS (Normal and Important) -- more issues?

2003-12-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:32:01PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:22:57PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Fixed now. > > earlier today i submitted a bug against an orphaned package in wnpp, > and haven't yet recieved a reply. normally the replies come back pretty > quick (l

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