Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Buddha Buck
Raul Miller wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 09:57:13PM +1200, Nick Phillips wrote: I don't believe that it's acceptable for an otherwise beaten option to win due the the otherwise winning option being discarded due to a quorum requirement, as John suggests might happen. Under the proposed sy

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Buddha Buck
I've gotten over the years are any indication. I don't mind getting CC:'s myself, but it does get odd when I continue to receive CC:s after thread drift. -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so t

Re: dueling banjos

2000-12-26 Thread Buddha Buck
At 01:18 PM 12-26-2000 -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > "Kim" == Kim Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kim> could you please mail me sheet music for dueling banjos This is about the third or fourth time we've gotten this request. Does anyone know why? :) (Here's an earlier one I found.) I

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Buddha Buck
At 04:38 PM 12-22-2000 -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: from the secret journal of Brent Fulgham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > No doubt most of you have seen the NSA's secure linux posting > on Slashdot this morning. > > Looking at: > http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/docs.html > > there appears to be several utilities

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-08 Thread Buddha Buck
At 10:14 AM 9/8/00 -0400, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But RMS speaking like *this* is rather unappropriate and IMHO quite > insulting. I wonder if the author of ncftp who was hurting the GPL by > using readline and who subsequently put ncftp under GPL as co

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Buddha Buck
f "admisitrative prohibition (failed to find host name from IP address)". > --Adam > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Buddha Buck

Re: ITP lame

2000-09-05 Thread Buddha Buck
At 07:40 PM 9/5/00 +0200, Bart Schuller wrote: What frustrates me is that there's software that's - useful - free - legal (at least for quite a few millions of people) but not officially available for Debian. I understand fully that using the name "non-US" for patent-encumbered software is wrong. H

Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-08-31 Thread Buddha Buck
At 08:21 AM 8/31/00 -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > > There might be bug in either Pine or IMAP(D) or both. Both... I had to manually delete several messages in Pine 4.21 folders and I don't use IMAP I don't use pine or imap, but the school hosting my

Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-08-31 Thread Buddha Buck
CTED] http://www.debian.org/ > isdn4linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.isdn4linux.de/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Buddha Buck

Re: How many CDs in potato?

2000-08-15 Thread Buddha Buck
At 01:52 PM 8/15/00 -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 01:01:49PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > [snip] > > The strange part is that _some_ contrib packages are scattered > across the 3 CDs, but not all of the packages. For example, lyx > is _not_ there. Only 83 packages are

Re: seeking new maintainer: lilo

1999-01-29 Thread Buddha Buck
--On Saturday, January 30, 1999, 12:35 AM +0100 "Bernd Eckenfels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > who would liek to take the lilo package over? I might, but I have a couple of questions/concerns... I am not registerred as a developer. If that is an immediate show-stopper, then so be i

What hack in ld.so?

1999-01-29 Thread Buddha Buck
in the presense of -rpath, because with rpath, bar is not dependent on libfoo, but on /usr/lib/libfoo. -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfe

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-29 Thread Buddha Buck
ment on the aerodynamic properties of cephalopods. > -- > James > "Never trust trucks" -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unf

Re: DFSG v2 Draft #5

1999-01-25 Thread Buddha Buck
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > On 25-Jan-99 Buddha Buck wrote: > > I have two comments... > > > >> 3.2. Misrepresentation of Authors > >> -- > > ... > >> 3.6.2. Versioning and Renaming &g

Re: DFSG v2 Draft #5

1999-01-25 Thread Buddha Buck
these guidelines. > ... This looks like the result of a bad cut-and-paste job. I have tried, and I can't even understand what it was supposed to mean. Could this be clarified in the final version? -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as t

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Buddha Buck
ot;certified", "approved", or similar into the suggested logo, but words don't scale well, can be hard to read, imply things they probably shouldn't, and are language-specific.) > > Jay Treacy > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-21 Thread Buddha Buck
d Dungeons & Dragons is a registered trademark of TSR, Inc. Is the trademark still held in TSR's name? Or is AD&D a registered trademark of Wizards of the Coast? -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so t

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-21 Thread Buddha Buck
ED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects." -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice

Re: Follow-up

1999-01-21 Thread Buddha Buck
it really breaks up continuity to discuss in email a document that exists solely on WWW. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL

Re: Debian appears to be ancient

1999-01-20 Thread Buddha Buck
t can't be removed from systems which contain it. The upgrade would totally trash the system. Newer installs don't have that problem, it's just the older installs. > It's also not in Contents-i386 for stable, frozen, or unstable AFAICT. -- Buddha Buck

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-15 Thread Buddha Buck
n m68k because the maintainer unconsiously thought that All The World's an i386, then the source package still needs to be changed -- and Procedures and Policy should allow that. I don't think that the non-i386 ports are second-class citizens. I think that they should be treated

Re: The freeze and IMMINENT 2.2.0p1!!

1998-10-11 Thread Buddha Buck
E, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony

Re: Ratifying the constitution

1998-10-09 Thread Buddha Buck
> Buddha Buck writes ("Re: Ratifying the constitution "): > ... > ... > > Out of curiosity, how formal does a proposed amendment have to be. I > > mean, will this work for an amendment proposal? (And if so, I'd like > > to propose

Re: ideas underlying policy

1998-05-05 Thread Buddha Buck
should do things differently, > please include a comment to that effect in your package's change log, > and please file a bug report against policy. [insert more detail here.] > > Also, if you have experience in writing portable software, in > adminstering large systems, or if you just ha

Re: Conflicts between developers and policy

1998-05-02 Thread Buddha Buck
The text under discussion, as written by Philip Hands and Buddha Buck, and posted in total by Manoj Srivastava is: ___ Policy should be followed, except where a discussion about the clause in question is still ongoing, in

Re: Conflicts between developers and policy

1998-05-01 Thread Buddha Buck
bvious to someone else. > > Cheers, Phil. > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects." --

Re: License advice

1998-04-29 Thread Buddha Buck
for public PGP Key > http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Buddha Buck

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Buddha Buck
the use of multiple versions of the same basic editor, even for a single user. Jove for quick edits, XEmacs for normal programming and other editing jobs, and Xemacs-MULE for foreign language processing (if I can ever figure out how to input text in kana and kanji, I'd be happy). --

Re: Editor wars considered harmful

1997-06-24 Thread Buddha Buck
, but I know vi. If I didn't know vi, I'd prefer ae or pine. > > craig > > -- > craig sanders > networking consultant Available for casual or contract > temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- Buddha Buck

Re: Simple policy question...

1997-06-14 Thread Buddha Buck
fix > > stuff. > > > > -- > VA Research Linux Workstations| The VArServer 4000 File Server > | Four 200Mhz Intel Pentium Pro > CPUs > http://www.varesearch.com | 512MB 60ns EDO ECC/100 GB Raid-5 >

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-02 Thread Buddha Buck
However, it is item 4) that is the key, and the GPL has (to my knowledge) never been tested in court. Perhaps it is time for a GPL version 3? But would it/could it be any clearer? > > Jason > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Inter

Re: a.s.r manpages

1997-05-28 Thread Buddha Buck
- what counts as noise on alt.religion.kibology, anyway?) But there is a noticable dip in S/N when the group gets publicity. I would prefer keeping the package -out- of the distribution, and mentioning on a.s.r that it is available, even if that would be considered useful information.

Re: Conflict between Packages file and actual files

1997-05-23 Thread Buddha Buck
ly, if the mirroring could be achieved in the same order (new files, Packages, delete old files), then even during mirrors, ftp.debian.org would be consistant. -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our libe

Re: using dselect with hamm/non-free, hamm/contrib

1997-05-21 Thread Buddha Buck
allowed me to get hamm/non-free or hamm/contrib. I can get the packages files, but not the packages themselves. -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphon

Bug#4457: popclient conflicts with netstd

1996-09-10 Thread Buddha Buck
it to the popclient > package to make sure it won't get lost. > That sounds good... However, please -DON'T- mark popclient as Replaces: netstd. As far as I understand, Replaces should only be used when one package completely replaces another's functionality, and I don&#x

Bug#4446: usr/games/fortune needs recompilation

1996-09-10 Thread Buddha Buck
tstanding bugs on the fortune package, some dating back over a year, that could easily be fixed by a repackaging. I could be wrong, but it seems as if the maintainer has abandoned it. -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is cha

Bug#4457: popclient conflicts with netstd

1996-09-10 Thread Buddha Buck
s: 1) Remove popclient from netstd, or 2) Update the popclient in netstd and eliminate the separate package. -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the

Re: /usr/local (again)

1996-09-04 Thread Buddha Buck
ons (what to do with /usr/local, for instance), but what about package-related options? Or are we thinking of two separate (but related) problems? -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends u

Bug#4339: no free pine package available

1996-08-30 Thread Buddha Buck
r, exmh is very MIME-aware on its own. It will automatically display enriched-text correctly, handle multipart MIME messages well (both multipart/mixed and multipart/alternative), and integrates well with PGP. > > Marek > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] &qu

Bug#4145: ld.so is a.out?!

1996-08-14 Thread Buddha Buck
d ld.so.1.7.14: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects." -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice