On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote:
> But, is it really worth the effort to go back and edit revision logs
> now ? And if I do so, will I disrupt merging any less than if I
> rebase ?
As soon as you edit commits, they'll get a new id, and thus you'll disrupt
merging.
The thing that you does
On 27/02/08 at 00:42 +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> Google are running their Summer of Code programme again this year[1],
> and if we want to take part again we need to apply between March 3rd
> and March 12th. If we're accepted as a mentoring organisation, then
> students will be a
On 2/24/08, Jurij Smakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I can confirm that there is some serious problem. I've tried to
> rebuild Erlang on SunBlade 1000 (which is Ultrasparc III) and I keep
> getting non-reproducible falures (two "Bus Errors" in different
> places, once aborted saying that the
On 2/26/08, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Consider a red octopus with its arms arranged in a "swirl".
Swirl?
http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/Cucumber_Swirl.jpg
http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/Swirl_by_greenvampire.jpg
http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/Red_Swirl_by_gemh.jpg
http://fixxxer
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I strongly agree, also because we already have a logo it
> would be nice if the new fancy logo would be related to the
> existing ones. I really like the genie in
> http://www.openpuppets.com/fondos/8c.png :)
Hey, I like
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:55:56PM +, Hector Oron wrote:
> 2008/2/25, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > What? You don't have a set of Toy Story Action Figures yet?
>
> As i see on news today, sudafrica has an openning to hunt elephants
> again because they have so much, but some
gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What I'd actually like to see, own and use is a sweat-shirt; wearing
> it in everday life would be a nice and easy way of promoting Debian.
http://clusty.com/search?query=host%3Acafepress.com+debian+sweatshirt>
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Patrick Winnertz wrote:
Since this patchset is quite new, I uploaded it for first testing to
experimental and I it would rock if someone would test it and report
errors to me :)
Displays only question marks in the ru_RU.KOI8-R locale. This regression is a
showstopper.
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote:
Timothy G Abbott writes ("Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System"):
All of the important problems with our dpkg-divert based configuration
package system that have been discussed in this forum are problems for any
configuration mechanism other than deb
Timothy G Abbott writes ("Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System"):
> All of the important problems with our dpkg-divert based configuration
> package system that have been discussed in this forum are problems for any
> configuration mechanism other than debconf preseeding. Debconf preseeding
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 22:02 +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:36:32AM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote:
> > What about a bug... Bugs are our "pets" : we take care of them.
>
> Oh god. No, please, everything but not a bug as mascot. You'll be unable
> to communicate to our us
Consider a red octopus with its arms arranged in a "swirl".
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote:
Tim Abbott writes ("Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System"):
applying dpkg-divert to configuration files.
Yikes.
At the moment, there are no choices for doing site configuration that are
general enough to change arbitrary configuration options a
William Pitcock dijo [Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:41:22PM -0600]:
> > In natural environments, you could hardly find animals living as far
> > apart as polar bears and penguins. A polar bear has to swim/walk close
> > to 15,000Km (as neither lives really on the poles, right?) to find a
> > decent pengu
Hi
On Thursday 21 February 2008 19:07, Noah Slater wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:44:00AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Sorry, this is precisely rationale I fight against. Just saying "if you
> > don't know what this is, you don't need this" defeats the purpose of
> > packages descripti
DN> don't have the time (or often the ability) to go back and
DN> reproduce the hundreds of bugs
Yes. Never mind the old bugs then. Just try to reproduce new bugs as
they come in, before they become old bugs.
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:56:40 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> > What about a bug... Bugs are our "pets" : we take care of them.
> I guess I just repeat myself when I question why we need to join the
> free software zoo. Is it hip? Are we hip? What's the gain? Why
> bother?
Ack.
> A fluffy pillow
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:41:22PM -0600, William Pitcock wrote:
> (Also, it's a bloody mascot, who cares if they don't /really/ live in
> the same locations. They live in the same /climate/ and that's good
> enough for most people.)
How about a leopard seal? They eat penguins :-|
http://www.flic
also sprach Patrick Schoenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.26.2239 +0100]:
> From a marketing point of view its a really great idea, because it
> betters the recognition of Debian.
From a marketing point of view, our swirl is already better than any
other mascot, except maybe Tux.
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:56:40AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Franklin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.26.0936 +0100]:
> > What about a bug... Bugs are our "pets" : we take care of them.
>
> I guess I just repeat myself when I question why we need to join the
> free softwar
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:09:46PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I will then merge mainline into my branch, do any conflict resolution
> necessary, and give it a quick test to make sure nothing seems to have
> been broken in the meantime. Then merging my branch back into
> mainline is, as you say,
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:20:55AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
>Fine. I have other arguments: it would make it "yet another FOSS
>project with an animal mascot".
What about "a Foss project with a non-animal mascot"?
And for an non-animal mascot I'd like to suggest "The perfect
spiral" [¹].
[¹]
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:36:32AM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote:
> What about a bug... Bugs are our "pets" : we take care of them.
Oh god. No, please, everything but not a bug as mascot. You'll be unable
to communicate to our users that we _care_ for bugs. It will bring the
reputation to Debian, tha
Hector Oron wrote:
> 2008/2/25, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > What? You don't have a set of Toy Story Action Figures yet?
>
> Is not there an elephant on Toy Story Action Figures?
>
> As the huge amount of packages, architectures, documentations,
> translations, mail lists, ...
Timothy G Abbott writes ("Debian Configuration Packaging System"):
> applying dpkg-divert to configuration files.
Yikes.
Tim Abbott writes ("Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System"):
> I'll note that we wrap our dpkg-divert calls with a bunch of
> error-handling code that we found quite impo
On 25/02/2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> What you want him to do is using:
>
> git rebase -i
Probably with -p.
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On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 21:19 +0100, Harald Braumann wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:45:05 +0100
> "Miriam Ruiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 2008/2/26, David Given <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'd really rather see something nicer than an ant as a mascot. :)
>
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:45:05 +0100
"Miriam Ruiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/2/26, David Given <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> >
> > > I'd really rather see something nicer than an ant as a mascot. :)
> >
> > How about a cockroach? Beautifully engineered, indestructable, and
Pierre Habouzit writes ("Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg
maintenance)"):
> Well, what you want him to do then is not rebasing onto master,
> because that won't change that a single bit. And indeed I agree this
> history is a complete mess, and an SCM abuse.
>
> What you w
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes ("Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in
dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)"):
> Given that many of us work on the kernel, some of us are both upstream and
> downstream in git, and therefore know *both* sides of the troubles and
> advantages of git rebase quite well...
Well, now after I worked it out, you can have a look at my drafts at
https://disc.alice-dsl.net . to log in use username "aura_urlaub" and
password "public". its an ant and an ant-eater as first ideas.
nic
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2008/2/25, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> What? You don't have a set of Toy Story Action Figures yet?
As i see on news today, sudafrica has an openning to hunt elephants
again because they have so much, but some time ago there where on risk
of extintion.
Is not there an elephant on
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I think that such a field would be meaningful only to sort upon it,
> and go looking for sorting of multiple valued fields seems to be
> looking for trouble to me.
Since tags don't sort, they segregate, you just choose based on the
first one that ma
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Frank K??ster wrote:
[...]
3) Scripts that are not marked as conffiles but which cannot be
configured in any way other than by modifying the script.
If those scripts live below /etc, they definitely should be marked as
conffiles. If they live elsewhere, no package should
Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg
maintenance)"):
> It starts with two very big commits touching almost all files
> and is followed by many small commits which have ubuntu changelog entries
> as commit log (and thus the "summary line" is useless).
> It a
Hey!
Since upstream of mc rejects the current utf8 patchset which is used by
several distributions and this patchset is to be honest, indeed not very
good, I decided to switch to a new patchset, which was posted on the
mc-devel list last year.
One of the upstream authors took a look on this pa
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 12:21 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> In natural environments, you could hardly find animals living as far
> apart as polar bears and penguins. A polar bear has to swim/walk close
> to 15,000Km (as neither lives really on the poles, right?) to find a
> decent penguin.
"to find a
Hi!
* Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080226 05:09]:
> Great idea. Please check: http://wiki.debian.org/FortunesDebianHints
>
> and get started! I am new to wiki, so improve my formatting too :)
You might want to "subscribe" to that wiki page, so you'll get notified
via email, when someone m
Pierre Habouzit writes ("Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg
maintenance)"):
> Raphael is wrong to ask you to rebase, he's _really_ wrong about that,
> but *you* also are wrong to ask him to pull (aka fetch + merge). The
> usual way is that _you_ merge the current state of dpkg
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Heh, start a bit earlier (think Ruby)... Educate maintainers to
release proper .tar.gz, not braindead .gem packages containing the
equivalent to an orig.tar.gz (but created due to a nice
don't-ask-me-why-that's-not-properly-implemented bug in December 31,
Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog dijo [Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:33:26PM +0100]:
> > For an idea of a mascot, maybe you could try some sort of bear. When I
> > created the logo of my company [1], I tried to select an animal that could
> > remind me the strength of Debian and I selected the bear:
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 19:21 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> While bug reports are certainly important input, lame and stupid bug
> reports are not.
What is lame and stupid to us may not be lame and stupid to the average
user. Just because you find no value in a particular report (or set of
repor
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:54:18PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> Le Tuesday 26 February 2008 14:41:41 Nico Golde, vous avez écrit :
> > > Fine. I have other arguments: it would make it "yet another FOSS
> > > project with an animal mascot".
> >
> > I strongly agree, also because we already have a
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Andreas Tille dijo [Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:02:31PM +0100]:
> Well, in fact it is helpful if you teach upstream to organise releases
> that way that watchfiles would work. This is not only in the interest
> of Debian but for the whole FLOSS community so other interested users
> will be able to tra
Raphael Hertzog dijo [Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:33:26PM +0100]:
> For an idea of a mascot, maybe you could try some sort of bear. When I
> created the logo of my company [1], I tried to select an animal that could
> remind me the strength of Debian and I selected the bear:
> - walks usually slowly bu
Le mardi 26 février 2008 à 18:56 +0100, Marc Haber a écrit :
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:20:37 +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >Indeed, but jidanni is not a contributor.
>
> He contributes a lot of Bug Reports which is important input.
While bug reports are certainly important
* Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-26 12:00:25 +0100]:
> Yes, it would be less flexible, but what meaning has a priority field
> with multiple values? I think that such a field would be meaningful only
> to sort upon it, and go looking for sorting of multiple valued fields
> seems t
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:20:37 +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Le vendredi 22 février 2008 à 02:10 +0900, Paul Wise a écrit :
>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > OTOH, maybe you're just too incompetent for that.
>>
>> Insultin
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:58:06 +0100, "Bernhard R. Link"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>While jidanni's bugs are often hard to read and some might be plain
>stupid, I got many valuables bugs about hard to spot bugs or broken
>documentation. I think in the large picture he did more to improve
>Debian tha
Quoting Lars Wirzenius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I'm not advocating stuffed animals for Debian mascots. I'm fine with a
> pillow, a tie, and a tutu.
I proposed Lars Wirzenius wearing nothing but a tie and a tutu, and
holding a pillow with a swirl on it, as the official Debian mascot.
signature.
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> [Sam Hocevar]
> > Development news
> >
> >
> >Last month Petter Reinholdtsen (pere) gave some news about his
> > project of improving the init system [3]. This is almost as simple as
> > adding LSB headers to your init scrip
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:04:10 -0500, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:56:49AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> No, it does not. If branch A has pi = 2.34567; and branch B has pi =
>> 3.14159;
>>
>> No matter how much quilting you do you cannot reconcile the
>>
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:11:16 -0500, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 09:31:10PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:34:55 +1100, Ben Finney
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>> > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >> David Nusinow
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:07:10PM +, Roger Leigh wrote:
> I stopped providing static libraries in all my library packages quite a
> while back. No one used them, and they were just needless bloat. I
> can't say I would be upset if we dropped all the static libraries from
> the entire archiv
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:26:30PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> What are the constrained environments where you think static linking
> would be useful? I'm developing embedded systems and I prefer shared
> libraries - unless you have only one application using a particular
> library then you wil
Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
> As usual Windows sets the hardware clock to local time. To compensate
> for this I have UTC=no in /etc/default/rcS as specified.
There is another file that may need to be changed: /etc/adjtime
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Timothy G Abbott wrote:
> There are really two problems with debconf in our system. The first is
> that debconf asks questions which our configuration package system will
> override. Using 'DEBCONF_PRIORITY=critical apt-get install' limits them,
> but some packages we configure prompt for informa
Le mardi 26 février 2008 à 13:10 +, Jon Dowland a écrit :
> If you are unable to manage with the quantity
> of bugs coming in, that's because *more people are needed*,
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[Sam Hocevar]
> Development news
>
>
>Last month Petter Reinholdtsen (pere) gave some news about his
> project of improving the init system [3]. This is almost as simple as
> adding LSB headers to your init scripts, and work is advancing towards
> this goal, though not as quic
also sprach Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.26.1454 +0100]:
> Now that I think about it, I think that a "care bear" with a debian logo on
> it's belly would even be better than a marmot :-D
Oh, then I vote for teletubbies.
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:53:31PM +0100, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
> I am running a dual boot system with Windows XP and Debian just
> upgraded to unstable installed.
>
> As usual Windows sets the hardware clock to local time. To compensate
> for this I have UTC=no in /etc/default/rcS as sp
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Martín Ferrari wrote:
Of course, we have luck, because CPAN (99% of our packages come from
there, and we have only 4 unsolvable watch problems) is pretty
well-behaving and consistent, compared to other upstreams. But chances
are that watchfiles can be useful for the majority
Le Tuesday 26 February 2008 14:41:41 Nico Golde, vous avez écrit :
> > Fine. I have other arguments: it would make it "yet another FOSS
> > project with an animal mascot".
>
> I strongly agree, also because we already have a logo it
> would be nice if the new fancy logo would be related to the
> ex
I am running a dual boot system with Windows XP and Debian just
upgraded to unstable installed.
As usual Windows sets the hardware clock to local time. To compensate
for this I have UTC=no in /etc/default/rcS as specified.
However this setting seems to be ignored. Debian seems to always think
tha
2008/2/26, David Given <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Lars Wirzenius wrote:
>
> > I'd really rather see something nicer than an ant as a mascot. :)
>
> How about a cockroach? Beautifully engineered, indestructable, and
> they're *everywhere*...
No thanks, I preferred the Weasel idea to this :P
Miry
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* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-26 12:26]:
> also sprach Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.26.1018 +0100]:
> > I don't think a stuff Tux belittles Linux. I don't think a stuffed
> > animal would belittle Debian.
>
> Fine. I have other arguments: it would make it "yet a
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> also sprach Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.26.1018 +0100]:
>> I don't think a stuff Tux belittles Linux. I don't think a stuffed
>> animal would belittle Debian.
> Fine. I have other arguments: it would make it "yet another FOSS
> project w
Lars Wirzenius wrote:
[...]
I'd really rather see something nicer than an ant as a mascot. :)
How about a cockroach? Beautifully engineered, indestructable, and
they're *everywhere*...
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Steve Gran wrote:
>This one time, at band camp, Aaron M. Ucko said:
>> [migrating to -curiosa]
>>
>> Julian Andres Klode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > BTW, I think that hg is now the only VCS package which is not maintained
>> > in its
>> > own VCS format. (or are there other packages, too
Hi Jon,
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Jon Dowland
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is it worth investing much effort into debugging watch file
> issues?
In my experience, yes. I can cite the example of the perl group: 679
packages group maintained. You'll guess that there's no way in earth a
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 04:19:14PM +0100, Rene Engelhard
wrote:
> If you give me some time and a co-maintainer at hand...
>
> I am barely keeping up with *new* bugreports and updating
> the packages, keeping them buildable, backporting fixes
> from upstream etc.
You are demonstrating another fair
Is it worth investing much effort into debugging watch file
issues?
In my experience, watchfiles are seldom useful. There was
the whole problem with getting at HTTPS URLs; the
sourceforge workarounds (that broke); etc. One of the
packages I maintain (deutex) does not have the latest
upstream vers
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Edward Allcutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:05:46AM +, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > This one time, at band camp, Aaron M. Ucko said:
>
> > > Julian Andres Klode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > BTW, I think that hg is now the on
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:03:06PM +, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Petter Reinholdtsen said:
> > [Stephen Gran]
> > > I really hope that's not true. There are many useful use cases for
> > > static linking when you're building for constrained or otherwise not
> > > quite
Hello Raphael,
Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>jed (U)
This is a SVN snapshot. There's no release of it. I fail to see how to
point to a changelog file in a SVN repository. How should I handle this
situation?
Bye, Jörg.
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This one time, at band camp, Petter Reinholdtsen said:
> [Stephen Gran]
> > I really hope that's not true. There are many useful use cases for
> > static linking when you're building for constrained or otherwise not
> > quite sane environments that IMHO we should continue to support.
> > Since in
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> And what if somebody will try to link statically?
Your -config binary should gain a --static flag to distinguish between
the two uses.
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Conventionally, library -dev packages do depend on other -dev packages that
> they require for static linking; and certainly, tools like pkg-config and
> libtool (and other home-grown foo-config scripts) tend to encourage this
> behavior. Nowadays, wit
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 06:02:59AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> For many users of other bug tracking systems such as bugzilla, the
> meaning of priority vs severity is totally unclear. I don't think that
> it would be a good idea to impose such a thing to all packages by
> default.
Well, you don
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:58:49AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> It almost sounds like you want a user setable severity-like field.
> That could be implemented, but the problem is that it's far less
> flexible than usertags because it would only have a single value.
(Note that I did not ask for th
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On ti, 2008-02-26 at 10:20 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.26.1018 +0100]:
> > I don't think a stuff Tux belittles Linux. I don't think a stuffed
> > animal would belittle Debian.
>
> Fine. I have other arguments: it would make it "yet anothe
also sprach Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.26.1018 +0100]:
> I don't think a stuff Tux belittles Linux. I don't think a stuffed
> animal would belittle Debian.
Fine. I have other arguments: it would make it "yet another FOSS
project with an animal mascot".
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On ti, 2008-02-26 at 10:15 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.26.1007 +0100]:
> > > A fluff animal, on the other hand, is for kids. Debian is not.
> >
> > Debian is for everyone, kids included!
>
> Yes. What I meant to say was: a stuffed animal mig
also sprach Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.26.1007 +0100]:
> > A fluff animal, on the other hand, is for kids. Debian is not.
>
> Debian is for everyone, kids included!
Yes. What I meant to say was: a stuffed animal might "belittle"
Debian. The Swirl is way more mature, albeit perceived
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:56 PM, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A fluff animal, on the other hand, is for kids. Debian is not.
Debian is for everyone, kids included!
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also sprach Franklin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.26.0936 +0100]:
> What about a bug... Bugs are our "pets" : we take care of them.
I guess I just repeat myself when I question why we need to join the
free software zoo. Is it hip? Are we hip? What's the gain? Why
bother?
A fluffy pillow with
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 08:22 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Anibal Avelar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.26.0805 +0100]:
> > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/Penguin_Fat.gif
> > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/Jhas.png
> > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/little_pinguin.jpg
> > http://fixx
Timothy G Abbott MIT.EDU> writes:
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> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Frank Küster wrote:
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> > Uh, you can dpkg-divert conffiles, but not generally configuration files,
> > since many won't even be known to dpkg. I must admit I'm a bit sceptical
> > about a proposal on configuration, written by someone
[Stephen Gran]
> I really hope that's not true. There are many useful use cases for
> static linking when you're building for constrained or otherwise not
> quite sane environments that IMHO we should continue to support.
> Since in the main it's not that hard to do the right thing, it's
> also of
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