Bug#1082574: ITP: aquamarine -- Light-weight rendering library for Linux

2024-09-22 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: aquamarine Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Contact: vaxerski * URL : https://github.com/hyprwm/aquamarine * License : BSD-3-Clause

Bug#1073195: ITP: hyprwayland-scanner -- Implementation of wayland-scanner for Hyprland

2024-06-14 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: hyprwayland-scanner Version : 0.3.10 Upstream Contact: vaxerski * URL : https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprwayland-scanner * License

Bug#1073158: ITP: hyprutils -- C++ library for utilities used across the Hypr ecosystem

2024-06-13 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: hyprutils Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Contact: vaxerski * URL : https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprutils * License : BSD-3-Clause

Bug#1067116: ITP: libhyprcursor -- hyprland cursor format, library and utilities

2024-03-18 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: libhyprcursor Version : 0.1.4 Upstream Contact: vaxerski * URL : https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprcursor * License : BSD-3

Re: Bug#1066871: RFS: libhyprlang/0.5.0-1 [ITP] -- Configuration language for Hyprland

2024-03-14 Thread Alan M Varghese
tocols and the RFS is here[3]. You can find the VCS for all hyprland related stuff I did, under the NyxTrail namespace in salsa[4]. The packages all seem to run fine so far. This is my first time packaging for Debian and any feedback is welcome. Let me know how you wish to proceed. Regards

Bug#1065699: ITP: hyprpaper -- Wallpaper utility for Hyprland

2024-03-08 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: hyprpaper Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Contact: vaxerski * URL : https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprpaper * License : BSD-3-Clause

Bug#1065352: ITP: libhyprlang -- Configuration language for Linux applications

2024-03-03 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: libhyprlang Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Contact: vaxerski * URL : https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprlang * License : GPL

Bug#1063442: ITP: tracy -- Real time, nanosecond resolution, remote telemetry, hybrid frame and sampling profiler for games and other applications

2024-02-08 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: tracy Version : 0.10.0 Upstream Contact: Bartosz Taudul * URL : https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy * License : BSD-3-Clause

Bug#1061940: ITP: libudis86 -- Disassembler for the x86 and x86-64 class of instructions set

2024-01-30 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: libudis86 Version : #5336633 Upstream Contact: https://github.com/canihavesomecoffee/udis86/issues * URL : https://github.com

Bug#1040971: ITP: hyprland -- dynamic tiling Wayland compositor based on wlroots

2024-01-21 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #1040971 Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: hyprland Version : 0.34.0 Upstream Contact: vaxerski * URL : https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland * License : BSD-3

Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures

2024-01-12 Thread Alan Corey
Are you forgetting that 64 bit is slower? In the arm world where it's easily switchable 64 bit is pokey when you don't need it. On Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 12:54 PM wrote: > > > Sent from my mobile device. > > -- > *From:* YunQiang Su > *Sent:* Friday, January 12, 2024 10

Re: broadcast error messages, unofficial Debian 12

2023-12-13 Thread Alan Corey
there's no Wayland either, at least by default. Anyway this Debian 12 doesn't seem too bad, you just need to turn off (unblock all) rfkill everytime you boot it. On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 7:08 PM Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Alan, > > debian-devel is for discussion of the develo

broadcast error messages, unofficial Debian 12

2023-12-13 Thread Alan Corey
x27; W [main.cc:1161] (Unimplemented) unhandled OSC: '8;;' I had a set but not used warning. Yet if I page up and page down where the message is it goes away like it's being written to some video buffer. Alan

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-14 Thread Alan Corey
What if we define an epoch to be 50 years and the epoch number becomes part of how the computer keeps track of the date. Something similar is done in astronomy I think, star charts always have an epoch. So epoch 0 was 1970, epoch 1 is 2000, epoch 2 is 2050. Then we can keep a time_t at 32 bits.

i am Looking Buying Blog Post on your website

2019-07-18 Thread Alan walker
Hello Sir, i am Looking Buying Blog Post on your website https://www.debian.org Can you publish my article with do-follow links ? What is your best price for posting article ? Do you have more websites for blog posting Which Country Traffic Your Site? i am waiting good response from you

Re: Bug#881333: Qt with GLES on arm64 maintainer's decision - Was:: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-26 Thread Alan Corey
Why couldn't you choose QT for Desktop or QT for ES OpenGL when you compile your program? Supply both libraries? ES gives an enormous performance boost to little machines that need it, desktop OpenGL is more pretty pictures. On 11/26/18, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > El lunes, 26

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-26 Thread Alan Corey
Try glxgears and es2gears on few different platforms. On a Pi 3b glxgears runs at about 45 FPS, es2gears slightly lower. On my Rock64 it's in the hundreds of FPS but that's Mali. Look at omxplayer, full screen HD video while the CPU idles (on a Pi). The GPU is more capable than the CPU. You ca

Re: Re: /usr/share/doc/ filed and gzip/xz/no compression luck

2016-07-07 Thread Alan
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Bug#756947: unble to re-enable wifi/bt after hardware or software disable

2014-08-11 Thread Alan Wilson
atter > of fact, I might not be able to resolve it by myself and if so, I'll > point you to the correct people who will also require this information. > > > On 08/08/14 03:41, Alan Wilson wrote: > > Bluetooth seems to be behaving itself since I re-installed the > > fi

Bug#756947: unble to re-enable wifi/bt after hardware or software disable

2014-08-11 Thread Alan Wilson
Take two On Sun, 2014-08-10 at 21:58 +0200, Tomasz Nitecki wrote: > Hey, > > > On 10/08/14 01:38, Alan Wilson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > dpkg -s firmware-ipw2x00 | grep Version returns: > > > > 'Version: 0.36+wheezy.1' > > Ok, that is

Bug#756947: unble to re-enable wifi/bt after hardware or software disable

2014-08-05 Thread Alan Wilson
no problem, lspci - 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801F

Bug#756947: unble to re-enable wifi/bt after hardware or software disable

2014-08-05 Thread Alan Wilson
dmesg --- [1.005427] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [1.005432] Registering the dns_resolver key type [1.005455] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode [1.00] PM: Hibernation image not present or could not be loaded. [1.005566] registered taskstats version 1

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
r-x32-planning Cheers, -- Alan Pope Engineering Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: [Arm-netbook] ARM port(s) BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
n only. > i'm including arm-netbooks because there may almost certainly be > people on that list who would be interested in a group buy. there has > been quite a bit of interest in getting hold of modular computing > devices for rack-mounted server usage.

Re: bug#10363: /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts symlink affects df(1) output for

2011-12-26 Thread Alan Curry
t points? Comments on any of the above? Do the BSDs have any bright ideas we can steal, or is their df as embarrassingly bad at handling obscured mount points as ours? -- Alan Curry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111226232705.29921.qm...@kosh.dhis.org

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-23 Thread Alan D. Salewski
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 09:00:25AM +0100, Toby Speight spake thus: > > "r" == rdiezmail-emacs writes: > r> The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I > r> cannot navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and > r> unfriendly. But, worst of all, some key combina

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2010-10-16 Thread Alan
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ITP: libordb-debianmodules-perl -- An ORLite-based ORM Database API

2010-06-11 Thread Alan Haggai Alavi
Package: wnpp Owner: Alan Haggai Alavi Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** * Package name: libordb-debianmodules-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Ryan Niebur * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/ORDB-DebianModules/ * License

ITP: libdata-formvalidator-constraints-datetime-perl -- D::FV constraints for dates and times

2010-06-10 Thread Alan Haggai Alavi
Package: wnpp Owner: Alan Haggai Alavi Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** * Package name: libdata-formvalidator-constraints-datetime-perl Version : 1.11 Upstream Author : Michael Peters * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data

Re: Upstart on kFreeBSD? [was: The future of the boot system in Debian]

2009-11-07 Thread Alan Jenkins
On 11/7/09, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 14:00:23 +0000, Alan Jenkins wrote: >> On 9/5/09, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> > change the init.d script >> > handling to treat upstart jobs as init.d scripts, to provide an >> > alt

Re: Upstart on kFreeBSD? [was: The future of the boot system in Debian]

2009-11-07 Thread Alan Jenkins
rsions of upstart. Does this make any sense? Is anyone already working on running upstart scripts on non-linux architectures? Regards Alan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#549216: ITP: libvisca -- Implementation of VISCA cameras control protocol

2009-10-01 Thread Alan Woodland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan Woodland * Package name: libvisca Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Damien Douxchamps * URL : http://damien.douxchamps.net/libvisca/ * License : LGPL-2 Programming Lang: C Description : Implementation of

Re: Bug#544546: ITP: libfop-java -- Print formatter driven by formatting objects (XSL-FO)

2009-09-01 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 13:42:26 +0200 Samuel Thibault wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Samuel Thibault > > * Package name: libfop-java > Version : 0.95 > Upstream Author : The Apache Software Foundation. > * URL : http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ >

Re: "Debian is switching to EGLIBC"

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Wed, 06 May 2009 21:57:19 +0200 Julien BLACHE wrote: > How does "hey developers, we're sick and tired of having to put up > with Uli, how about you find some new people to maintain glibc in > Debian" sound like? It sounds unnecessarily confrontational---it's daring people to disagree with you

Re: etch installer with 2.6.23 (Re: why does ubuntu cripple alsa?!?

2007-12-18 Thread Alan Ezust
Wow, that's the first Debian installer that made it all the way through on this machine. Thanks! --alan On Dec 13, 2007 2:38 AM, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wednesday 12 December 2007 15:00, Alan Ezust wrote: > > True, I *can* install debian

Re: why does ubuntu cripple alsa?!?

2007-12-12 Thread Alan Ezust
True, I *can* install debian, except that I was trying to use Etch, and etch's installer crashed in the middle of its process, leaving me with an un-bootable system, due to the recent-ness of my computer. I didn't try Lenny yet on this laptop (dell D630) so I don't know if this problem was fixed, b

why does ubuntu cripple alsa?!?

2007-12-10 Thread Alan Ezust
I want to run alsaconf. It's not there. i want to run snddevices script. It's not there either. I search and search the ubuntu forums. In the end, it seems everyone in ubuntu-land must resort to compiling alsa from SOURCE to get sound on their laptop. WTF?!? Obviously ubuntu is having serious prob

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:31:17 + MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the pointers. Can a policy server delay an incoming mail? > I suspect that sleeping in the perl would delay all incoming mail and > there's no access(5) response like Exim's delay, else I could do it > another way.

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:36:06 + MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. it doesn't seem to have as many anti-spam possibilities as Exim - > there's postgrey for greylisting, but how can I tarpit RBL matches and > other offences? A quick 'apt-cache search postfix' lists a number of different pol

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:00:58 +0200 "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:52:33AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > That's equivalent to an indefinite quarantine; according to BDB > > upstream, OpenLDAP's problems with various versions are a > > conseq

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:50:14 +0200 Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the > following bdb versions installed: > > version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) > libdb4.2 40 > libdb4.3 26 > libdb4.4 55 > li

Re: Bug#423503: ttf-liberation (Re: Debian on the Desktop - plans for Lenny?)

2007-08-17 Thread Alan Baghumian
Hi, Unfortunately, there was no answer about this licensing issue. Alan > Hi, > > On Thursday 09 August 2007 10:03, Christian Perrier wrote: >> > > > No, we should use the liberation fonts, which are designed to >> replace >> > > > the MS fonts. &

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-21 Thread Alan Woodland
reshold is pretty steep. The single feature I'd most like to see added to the web interface is RSS feeds, for the information on qa.debian.org, packages.qa.debian.org and bugs.debian.org pages. Has anyone looked at doing this before? It might make a good SoC project for next year?

apt-transport-https: transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining during update

2007-07-11 Thread Alan Ezust
Hi, I have a strange problem with apt-get over https:// protocol I built apt-0.7.2 from source, for debian etch, because apt-transport-https was not included in the repository. Most of the time, apt-get update and apt-get upgrade work fine over HTTP://, but what I've noticed is that after I chan

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Alan Ezust
On 7/5/07, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 05-Jul-07, 14:06 (CDT), Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Do den 5. Jul 2007 um 20:57 schrieb Alan Ezust: > > I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a > > situation where the

apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Alan Ezust
Hi - i was wondering, I'm trying to run apt-get upgrade in a non-interactive shell. I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a situation where the package has a configuration file which is newer than what it is about to replace. I would like it to just replace the configurat

Re: python, then C++, or C++ from the start?

2007-05-30 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Wed, 30 May 2007 17:34:10 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I am asking you still: can you think of anything to say against > such an approach? Please don't flame languages or anything of that > sort. The question is just: is it viable for a C++ coder with > a Python profic

Re: Debian Development environments.

2007-04-23 Thread Alan Ezust
let's say you need to build from source a program such as "gimp" which has many library dependencies. You don't know what they are, and you want debian to auto-install the -dev packages you need. apt-get build-dep is your friend. /etc/apt [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get build-dep gimp Reading package l

Re: Problems packaging a kernel using cdbs

2007-03-26 Thread Alan Ezust
On 3/26/07, Warren Turkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 26 March 2007 12:09, Alan Ezust wrote: > I tried building using make-kpkg with --initrd binary options, and ended > up with a cpio archive. Why? I have no idea. An initramfs is a cpio archive. I am assuming that are you

Re: Problems packaging a kernel using cdbs

2007-03-26 Thread Alan Ezust
Yes, I'm referring to the initrd.img-2.6.16.XX-bla-di-blah file that is installed by dpkg when I install the generated kernel-image .deb file that I created using make-kpkg (--initrd binary).. On 3/26/07, Warren Turkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 26 March 2007 12:09, Alan

Re: Problems packaging a kernel using cdbs

2007-03-26 Thread Alan Ezust
I tried building using make-kpkg with --initrd binary options, and ended up with a cpio archive. Why? I have no idea. I looked at the output of the make-kpkg command and was unable to determine which tool it was using to make the initramfs. I suggest some output be generated that shows not only

how to get dpkg-deb to ignore hidden/backup files + why extra control file?

2007-02-12 Thread Alan Ezust
Question #1: For creating packages, as per the suggestions in http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/#AEN88 There is this step that requires you to copy the control file from the debian subdir to debian/DEBIAN directory. Could someone explain to me why is this ste

Re: Call for testers: cyrus-sasl2

2006-11-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:58:12 -0500 Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, that install went fine. I hope today to install it on my > primary mail server which has postfix and cyrus-imapd-2.2, both > authenticating against an LDAP db, installed; that shou

Re: Call for testers: cyrus-sasl2

2006-11-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:53:23 +0200 Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, Hi, Fabian, > If you've been using cyrus-sasl2, please consider spending an hour or > so upgrading to version 2.1.22.dfsg1-4 (currently in unstable), > testing, and submitting bug reports indicating suc

Bug#389472: ITP: sqlgrey -- Greyfiltering daemon for Postfix that supports a Mysql/Postgresql/sqlite backend

2006-09-25 Thread Alan Harper
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sqlgrey Version : 1.7.4 Upstream Author : Lionel Bouton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sqlgrey.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : Greyfilt

Bug#378226: ITP: flickrfs -- Virtual filesystem for flickr online photosharing service.

2006-07-14 Thread Alan Woodland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan Woodland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: flickrfs Version : 1.2.9 Upstream Author : Manish Rai Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://manishrjain.googlepages.com/flickrfs/ * License : GPL v2

Re: ITA: cyrus-sasl2?

2006-06-27 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This has come up a couple of times recently. If you want to help out > you should subscribe to that mailing list, and get yourself added to > the alioth project and then coordinate your work with them. Thanks for the pointer. I don't see them making a re

ITA: cyrus-sasl2?

2006-06-27 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
cyrus-sasl2 is an important package, and according to p.q.d.o, it's been nearly two years since Dima Barsky last made a release. In the intervening time there have been numerous NMUs, but no one has claimed ownership, and it currently has 5 RC bugs, 39 important/normal ones, etc. I other words, t

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-15 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So are we getting close to the point where you will build gnucash-sql? The SQL backend is known to suffer from neglect, it's probably not a good thing to start encouraging people to use at this time. I gather that the gnucash developers intend to add

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula (Heads up, Get The Facts!) (long)

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would do this regardless of who the maintainer was. I seem to recall > possibly doing it for some Perl HTML package that was in a similar > situation to Bacula in the late 90s, but I can't really remember. I'm > sure you could dig up links. It was the

Bug#352470: ITP: gnome-translate -- GNOME based natural language translator

2006-02-11 Thread Alan Harper
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gnome-translate Version : 0.99 Upstream Author : Jean-Yves Lefort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/libtranslate/gnome-translate/ * License

Re: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?

2003-10-17 Thread Alan Shutko
Thomas Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > number_pad is your friend. It's far easier to remember the keys. I used to use the number pad, but then I got a laptop... -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Let me be one of the first to welcome you back...

Re: Your details

2003-08-22 Thread Alan Burlison
Hi, I'm on holiday from 16th August until 31st August, but I'll reply to you as soon as I'm back. For urgent issues, you can try contacting my manager, [EMAIL PROTECTED], who may be able to help. This message is automatically generated, and will only be sent to you once. -- Alan Burlison --

Re: what about ip's

2003-08-20 Thread Alan Shutko
rly simple username, like dsmith? Those can get caught by spammers blindly sending to common usernames. Now, if the username were something like hkja89ZJNhks8S12 and got spammed, someone in the organization is probably selling usernames, but it could just be a rogue employee. -- Alan Shutko <[

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-07 Thread Alan Shutko
ts people to contribute, since you don't need join Debian to do it. I don't know if he really sees any reason as being a good one to try to join Debian. I'd think the right to vote on policy that would affect things that contributers are doing would be a good reason, but nobody ever seems

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-05 Thread Alan Shutko
eps, completes up to /Various\ , and doesn't go further. How is this going to get you burned? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Your rifle won't leave a wet spot on the bed after you use it.

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-05 Thread Alan Shutko
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh, look, someone else who CCs when it is obvious the person they're > responding to is participating right here. Maybe you should stop whining and just set the Mail-Copies-To header, which is generally respected by posters on Debian

Re: CUPS should be the default print service in Debian/Sarge

2003-07-31 Thread Alan Shutko
Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So am I. To bad it isn't lpr compatible at all (at least not > lprng-lpr). Well, lprng isn't lpr... but if there are clienty things you want, you could probably use lprng's clients with CUPS's lpr server. -- Alan S

Re: how to package Haskell libraries

2003-06-22 Thread Alan Shutko
think it's too slow (as an end-user). -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Looking for a developer in St. Louis? http://web.springies.com/~ats/ Put your cat in box, add postage and mark "Schr*edinger."

Re: Bug#196800: flex mustn't assume stdint.h is available on allplatforms

2003-06-16 Thread Alan Shutko
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > SuSv3 aka POSIX was released one year ago. Huh? POSIX is the same as SUSv3 now? They used to be separate. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Looking for a developer in St. Louis? http://web.springies.com/~ats/ Ten anim

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-23 Thread Alan Shutko
Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The citizens of the US have a little more power than the rest of the world, > in that you have a *vote* as to who gets to fuck the rest of the > world. Well, didn't work that way last time... -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-23 Thread Alan Shutko
t with spam all that's lost is some mail... taking deliberate actions to hurt an economy can destroy families. > I hope you can see the obvious flaws in your comments, and can learn > from your mistakes. Ditto. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Looking for a developer in St. Louis? http://web.springies.com/~ats/ "I am Tigger of Borg! HooHooHoo...Assimilatin's what Tiggers do best!"

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-25 Thread Alan Shutko
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Realistically, are there any C++ apps on the planet that wouldn't choke > an i386 to death anyway? groff -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Looking for a developer in St. Louis? http://web.springies.

Bug#189362: ITP: mozilla-mozgest -- Mouse gesture support for the mozilla webbrowser

2003-04-16 Thread Alan Woodland
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-17 Severity: wishlist * Package name: mozilla-mozgest Version : 0.3.5.1 Upstream Author : David Illsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://optimoz.mozdev.org/ * License : (MPL, GPL) Description : Mouse

Re: Stupid use of debconf award

2003-04-14 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After re-reading my message, I would like to apologize for having been > unnecessarily rude, being already tense for other reasons. Apology accepted. > I don't want to handle libnet-perl, but I can try to provide a patch > for that specific issue if

Re: Stupid use of debconf award

2003-04-14 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Josselin, As I have publically stated before, I will happily give up this package to someone who is obviously motivated to improve it Are you that person? Mike

Re: Bug#171208: ITP: tlpr -- a Trivial LPR client

2002-11-29 Thread Alan Shutko
Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > cat foo | lpr does not work for raw data (e.g. PS files for PS > printers). Huh? It works fine, depending on how you set up your filters. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Parents have eyes in the backs of their heads.

Re: Bug#171208: ITP: tlpr -- a Trivial LPR client

2002-11-29 Thread Alan Shutko
Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sory, but why not simply use "cat foo | lpr" ? Or "rlpr", if you don't want to set up a printcap. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Something came out of my.BUTT!

Re: Why do system users have shells?

2002-11-25 Thread Alan Shutko
"H. S. Teoh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now that somebody mentioned it -- will /bin/true work, or is that a > wishlist feature? Is it in /etc/shells? Here's what you do: ln -s /bin/false /usr/local/bin/ftponly echo /usr/local/bin/ftponly >> /etc/shells

Re: tenative ITP linux-wlan-ng; soliciting advice

2002-08-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Ian Eure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 19 August 2002 02:39 pm, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hedderly) writes: > > > No. the hostap dirver is excellent. Written by Jean Tour... something. > > > He works for SSH Corp. google f

Re: tenative ITP linux-wlan-ng; soliciting advice

2002-08-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hedderly) writes: > No. the hostap dirver is excellent. Written by Jean Tour... something. > He works for SSH Corp. google for "linux prism2 driver". It does pcmcia > and pci brilliantly but doesnt support usb yet. works with prism2/2.5/3 > cards - and most orinoco cards too

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That problem shouldn't arise if the hack is done the other way > round: new libraries go to /usr/lib/gcc3.2, say, in cases where the > ABI differs. It does mean we can never get rid of it, but if the C++ > ABI changes in later versions of G++ then we may h

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Add a Conflict with the non-`c' version of the package. > why can't we have both installed, just like the libfoo6 and libfoo6g > situation?? Err, weren't we able to do that because we moved all the libc5 libs to another directory? Mike.

Re: Bug#156503: microsoft changed its policy, msttcorefonts broken

2002-08-15 Thread Alan Shutko
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you write a Free Software application that needs to display text, > but you omit a good font, it's useless. So all text editors should come with their own font?! -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of f

Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

2002-04-22 Thread Alan Shutko
those identical, though. I wonder if fields should be zero-padded to equal width before comparison? So comparing 0.01 and 0.1, you'd zero-pad 0.1 -> 0.10, and get the right comparison. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! A crucifix? Oy vey, have you g

Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

2002-04-22 Thread Alan Shutko
Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > that's right. dpkg compares numbers ... numerically. so 0.01 and 0.1 are > equivalent. then -6 > -3. What exactly do you mean by numerically? Is 0.1 == 0.01 == 0.1 == 1.0 == 10 == 10? What should be watched out f

Re: Python module for debconf

2002-04-11 Thread Alan Shutko
/usr to / so that it can replace init. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Wedding rings are the world's smallest handcuffs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-11 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Anthony Towns writes: > Seriously: everyone reading this mail, burn a copy of Raphael's test image > on a CD and try booting it in any computers you have handy. If it doesn't > work on a machine where a potato CD does boot, please mail the lists! I have a Digital Celebris GL180 that does not appe

Re: Python module for debconf

2002-04-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is debian for maintainers or users? Users are well-served by not requiring a maintainer to release new byte-compiled versions of a package for a new flavor of Emacs. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Steali

Re: Python module for debconf

2002-04-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Emacs flavors, or that they should include the byte-code for all current (and future) Emacs flavors within the one package, even though for most people that will be useless data? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Suicide is simply a case of mistaken identity. -- T

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Alan Shutko
hink of the FDL as a meta-license, and specific instances as used in packages as the real license. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Alan Shutko
ry" category? Yes, you're screwed. If you have useful info in those saved sessions, downgrade libc and unsuspend... or just remove the std file and fsck/scandisk/whatever when/if you upgrade to 3.x. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! If wishes were horse

Re: gpg -e errors - All garbled output

2002-04-06 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I don't know if my locale is causing it or what. The problem is that as > soon as I try to gpg -e to edit a key I get the following junk. [23:24:22] wesley:~ $ gpg --help|grep -e -e -e, --encryptencrypt data -- Alan Shutko <[E

Re: debmake x dh-make

2002-04-04 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Daniel Ruoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Because it's not. debhelper is not a drop-in replacement for debmake. > But the question is... shouldn't it be? NO! debmake was deeply flawed in its interface and implementation, and were debhelper to be a drop-in replacement it would always be fightin

Re: BSP?

2002-04-02 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:40:38PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Alan James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a dict dictionary with all these debian TLAs in it ? > > I've dont think I've heard BSP before. > > dict-vera contains most

Re: BSP?

2002-04-02 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:42:24AM -0600, Moshe Zadka wrote: > I think a BSP is in order. Is there a dict dictionary with all these debian TLAs in it ? I've dont think I've heard BSP before. Alan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-26 Thread Alan Shutko
er gets root, the user can break the chroot. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Anyone stupid enough to be caught by the police is probably guilty.

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-25 Thread Alan Shutko
ould add as much security to have but one copy of those files modifiable only by root, read-only by anyone else (ie, the bind process in the chroot). Then, unless the attacker managed to get root from bind, they can't modify the files... and if they could get root from bind, they can break th

Re: default font resolution in X Windows

2001-09-20 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roberto Suarez Soto) writes: > So, am I the only one that even in 17" monitors uses 75dpi fonts? Are you using 75dpi fonts on a 75dpi monitor, or just using 75dpi fonts because you like them? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of fla

Re: /bin/ls is impure!

2001-09-19 Thread Alan Shutko
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looks like it's only the purity in unstable (1-11). In fact, it looks > like it's the termios patch put in purity 1-10 that is munging stty > settings. Yep, a typo... it wanted to query the settings, but actually set them. Oops

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