Re: Packages in contrib solely because they allow using non-free software

2021-04-04 Thread Austin English
other programs (I don't have a separate list handy, but you could search for 'github.com / sourceforge.net' in the source). It also allows setting misc wine settings via a CLI, which doesn't require any proprietary bits. That said, I leave it to you to decide where it belongs

Re: download of source packages alarmed clamav

2013-06-25 Thread Austin English
they're harmless. > > Correct. > > Scott K FYI, some Windows viruses work under Wine (which can do whatever your normal user can do, unless you're using AppArmor or something similar to restrict it). -- -Austin -- 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/CACC5Q1egjmC1xGGGSJEt+N_wksqzC8fJyu=f0dy1ivfmnsx...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Bug#595427: wnpp: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

2011-03-15 Thread Austin English
27;t updated Wine in ages (still waiting on mingw64 to build wine-gecko, last I checked, but I'm not intimately familiar with the situation). -- -Austin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-17 Thread Austin English
ministrators choose what is best for their system. -- -Austin -- 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/aanlktimhuo+zpb7opyrkdptd4nmqspdaqba8kq75+...@mail.gmail.com

Towards common sense to

2010-08-06 Thread Austin Richardson
Towards common sense The commotion surrounding vaccinations used for waging political battles will eventually turn against communities. The 1918-1919 flu pandemic, nicknamed “the Spanish flu”, was also caused by the A/H1N1 swine flu virus. Its first wave had a similar course to the current inc

Bug#550435: general: SYS_prctl undefined on squeeze/kFreeBSD

2009-10-09 Thread Austin English
Package: general Severity: important Needed to build Wine. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: kfreebsd-i386 (i686) Kernel: kFreeBSD 7.2-1-486 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh li

Buyer beware - Penis patches!

2005-06-02 Thread Austin
Now, it's finally possible for you to enlarge your penis http://www.renonu.com/ss/ Don't live in a town where there are no doctors. Don't be humble, you're not that great. I don't mind a little praise - as long as it's fulsome. Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Sheet Music

2003-08-01 Thread Austin S
Could you please send me the sheet music for Dueling Banjos _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

fvwm{,2,-common} packages up for adoption

1999-01-24 Thread Austin Donnelly
([EMAIL PROTECTED]), and we can organise an orderly handover. Oh, and it would help greatly if the crap on debian-private were to be kept to the minimum - political rants can happen quite happily in the pubic for all to see. Austin PS: I am not subscribed to this list

acct and 2.1.96

1998-04-27 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Thomas Gebhardt wrote: > Hi Austin, > > > Incidentally, simply rebuilding the acct package against the new > > header files is a little tricky, since the ./configure script uses > > sys/acct.h in preference to linux/acct.h > > Did you mana

acct: process accounting and 2.1.96

1998-04-19 Thread Austin Donnelly
package against the new header files is a little tricky, since the ./configure script uses sys/acct.h in preference to linux/acct.h Austin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone want to make a Debian XDM login screen?

1998-04-18 Thread Austin Donnelly
utdown. It includes a confirmation stage, and calls "shutdown" itself (sorting out a console for it's output while it's at it). It should be check it works with ELF, latest X libraries, the current sysvinit, but I don't anticipate any probplems. Austin ------

Bug#4289: mount's swapon command doesn't have the "-s" option

1996-08-26 Thread Austin Donnelly
ilable outside the kernel; perhaps it should be a file in /proc? (This bug should probably be forwarded upstream.) Austin

Bug#4082: No documentation for fvwm modules

1996-08-09 Thread Austin Donnelly
eantime, I'll leave this bug report outstanding, to remind me to do this. Austin

Re: Doubts building a new package...

1996-06-17 Thread Austin Donnelly
te. I'm not convinced we need the package at all. After all, you get the image with the kernel sources anyway. Austin

Re: Bug#1978: man: default pager should be less

1995-12-07 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Austin Donnelly writes ("Bug#1978: man: default pager should be less"): >> On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote: >> > less(1) isn't necessarily installed. more(1) is. >> >> Good point. > >Somet

fixed: ange-ftp doesn't set TERM=dumb in inner shell

1995-12-07 Thread Austin Donnelly
I send off a bug report against emacs to the emacs maintainers, and got a patch back. Here's my report, and the patch, delimited by =-=-=-=-= lines Austin =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Austin Donnelly) Newsg

Bug#1933: w from procps gives wrong idle times

1995-12-01 Thread Austin Donnelly
spect that the idle time is taken as the atime on the /dev/ttyp?? devices, but maybe they're not being updated during the login sequence, so that the idle time is really the time since that tty was last used. Of course, as soon as the user uses the shell, the idle time is correct.] Austin

Bug#1764: bin/kill segfaults

1995-11-27 Thread Austin Donnelly
opefully with the bugs fixed, is in bsdutuils-1.4-1, which I am about to upload to the uk upload site. Austin

Bug#1513: bin/kill segfaults if invoked instead of killall

1995-11-27 Thread Austin Donnelly
of signals were missing from the signal list, and a variety of out-by-one errors were liberally sprinkled around :) This is fixed in bsdutils-1.4-1, out now. Austin

Bug#1545: write' can't write to telnet logins

1995-11-26 Thread Austin Donnelly
m with xterm's setting the permissions on /dev/tty to 622, owned . I have spoken to the new X11 maintainer, and its on his bug list. Austin

Bug#1897: apropos not resilient to index.db corruption

1995-11-25 Thread Austin Donnelly
upted, sorry :( Austin

Bug#1897: apropos not resilient to index.db corruption

1995-11-25 Thread Austin Donnelly
can go wrong. Also, it might be nice to have a database consistancy checker, that would tell you if a given database were consistant. Austin

Bug#1857: xarchie doesn't honour default archie server setting

1995-11-12 Thread Austin Donnelly
Package: xarchie Version: 2.0.10-3 The file /etc/X11/xarchie/defaults #include's /etc/X11/xarchieR6/defaultserver, which doesn't exist, so the default server setting isn't honoured. Austin

Bug#1855: packages adding entries to /etc/group

1995-11-12 Thread Austin Donnelly
should be done by a script, not by a new file. Austin

Bug#1856: creating perl header files

1995-11-12 Thread Austin Donnelly
file or directory Done. Shouldn't the script check for the existance of /usr/local/include before trying to read from it ? Maybe /usr/local/include should be created by the base discs. Austin

Bug#1845: dead.letter and dead.article are world readable

1995-11-11 Thread Austin Donnelly
does. Austin

Bug#1844: md5sum has no manpage

1995-11-11 Thread Austin Donnelly
Package: dpkg Version: 1.0.0 The dpkg package provides md5sum, but doesn't give any documentation for it. Austin

Bug#1832: Tar dumps core: film at 11

1995-11-09 Thread Austin Donnelly
The command: tar -cvf backup:9Nov95.tar /home segfaults and dumps core without even beginning to write the archive. (I know tar is as buggy as hell, and I don't expect this one to get fixed, but it's nice to dream!) Austin

Bug#1801: tar manpage missing

1995-11-04 Thread Austin Donnelly
I know the business of manpages for GNU software is a religious issue, but tar seems to be missing one. A number of different linux systems have manpages for GNU tar, although the tar package doesn't contain one as such. Could a manpage be maintained separately ? Austin

fvwm version 2

1995-11-01 Thread Austin Donnelly
new & old versions co-exist happily. I'd like people's opinions: should I package up fvwm2 as 'just an upgrade' to the fvwm package - or should I make it a _new_ package, fvwm2, allowing both to co-exist on a Debian system ? Personally, I think a new package is the way to go. Comments ? Austin

Re: ELF conversion (was Re: 1.0 issues: FSSTND compliance & preparation for a.out abolishment)

1995-11-01 Thread Austin Donnelly
le, and effective to me. And if the script were called 'elf-system', then the standard error message would be quite convenient: elf-system: not found :) Austin

Bug#1770: xntp dumps core with kernel 1.3.35

1995-10-26 Thread Austin Donnelly
st linux, but I haven't tried it. Also, there is the problem that there would need to be _2_ xntp packages, one for old kernels, one for new kernels. Eugh!! Can anyone think of a better idea ? Austin

Bug#1726: permissions on svgalib utilities

1995-10-21 Thread Austin Donnelly
requires a new group, console, to be created). Austin

Bug#1720: adduser: races, and chmod/chown - patch provided

1995-10-20 Thread Austin Donnelly
As always, patch included... Austin --- /usr/sbin/adduser Thu Oct 5 20:02:18 1995 +++ adduser Sat Oct 21 02:24:19 1995 @@ -328,8 +328,8 @@ exit 1; } # lock the password file -link $PASSWD, $PLOCK; $passwd_state = "locked"; +link $PASSWD, $PLOCK; }

Bug#1684: fvwm creates /tmp/fvwmrcXXXX - fixed: patch included

1995-10-20 Thread Austin Donnelly
I've had a look at this bug: its some pretty dire code in the section the reads your .fvwmrc. I submit the following patch to fix the problem. Austin --- configure.c.old Fri Oct 20 16:48:44 1995 +++ configure.c Fri Oct 20 21:36:12 1995 @@ -1979,12 +1979,10 @@ /* Generate a temp