I'm trying to package up tex2page and noticed that there is no virtual
package for scheme-interpreter. I would like to specify in the
"Depends:" that some sort of scheme-interpreter is required instead of
having to list each of them individually.
Any thoughts on this sugge
ht. ;-) d-d is too busy. Thanks for the Bcc, but I
would not have objected to a bug report. Also, I agree that a
lintian/linda rule would be helpful here.
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it's overkill
unless you're making module packages.)
References
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.. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/280209
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resolve shares and mount points.
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r God.." Yeah, adamant.
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big deal." Face it, you have to respect people.
And way out from Right Field...
> OTOH, I myself am going to lighten up. :-)
Excellent! Maybe this thread will eventually drop. Or maybe I'll just
killfile it like I should have a week ago.
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ot; ;-p
IOW, lighten up, people. Otherwise, we'll be referring to Debian
GNU/That Which Shall Not Be Named...
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think Russ was digging for a fight when he made that statement.
Most likely his mind was wandering on more interesting topics, so he
didn't qualify each statement with a disclaimer about his opinion.
I'm still amused that people equate Loki with evil. ;-) He's just
misund
the compressed mbox once per month
and drop it into your mail folder (uncompressed if necessary). We don't
need to be eating up system resources for R-O IMAP.
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es.
The 0-day NMU is a blessing (personally, I think this should be a
365-day, full-time policy). Let's take advantage of it.
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. Two years
between releases may be a bit long for my taste. A year would be nice,
and six months is highly optimistic. Once debian-installer is polished,
things should move quicker.
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asser
> loads the kernel and filesystem from the network faster than from
> floppy. :)
Heh. grub is among the first things I install, along with screen, sudo,
vim, and ssh. ;-) I had forgotten about grub's netboot capabilities.
Very cool feature.
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the time.)
mkinitrd is pretty good about finding your required modules, but it
sometimes doesn't get it right. Always mount the romfs file and make
sure the modules are there and will be loaded (/etc/modules).
Good luck!
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abandoning Debian menu. I
only suggested that participating in something that may turn out to be a
"standard" amongst desktop environments will only benefit us.
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s, so let's keep that the focus of the discussion.
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fengine
setup is hard to beat for managing multiple boxes, but cvsup is
certainly a good way to do it.
It just goes to show that there is no One Right Way(tm) to do things.
I'm excited about debian-installer's modularity. It has the potential
to do installs the "right way".
ng database. Or you could possibly look into hacking on the LDAP
backend for debconf.
I was intrigued by Progeny's autoinstall Python script, but never had a
chance to look into it further.
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ome desktop camps wish to
formalize on the format that we should adopt it as well, if only as an
extension of our menu system. We would have to generate .desktop files
anyway, when Gnome and KDE move form their own native menu formats.
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which archive (security or standard) it comes from.
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a concerning the application for desktop
or menuing environments, so be it. It will prompt a critical look at
the menuing system as we know it.
If anyone wants to create *.desktop files for pnm2ppa or gtimer
(currently being adopted by a new maintainer), feel free.
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x27;s what you call it. You're saying
that checking the current filesystem on a daily basis is NOT a good way
to verify filesystem integrity?
Update your system when you introduce a known change (a must). Check it
daily (a must). What is incorrect about this policy?
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On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:43:21AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> - GNU ERP software project ?name?
GNU Enterprise (gnue) http://www.gnue.org/
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ndency jungle.
If you find your "flavor" is quite popular and isn't being sufficiently
covered by an existing Debian Subproject, propose a new one.
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ne have a case study
or success story hailing the usefulness of debsigs?
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inding information on the list is subject to a good indexing
application. Some MUA's are very good with searching. You have the
mbox for each email list Debian hosts. Download the mbox, import it
into your client, and search.
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d to change the world, and I want to see it
> all on the screen at once. Many real-world tasks are like this.
yay.
REFERENCES
1. http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/
2. http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/implicit-joining.html
3. http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/compound.html
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on, not
significant whitespace. Variables and objects are not defined by
whitespace, the nested scope of logical blocks are.
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src.
Python did away with that requirement for scope in 2.x. If you want to
use blank lines for code logic separation in python < 2.0, you must nest
the line as far as the current block. For that reason, I don't use
blank lines within class or method definitions when writing for Python
1.5.x
tabs exclusively, changing the appearance in your editor may simply be a
configuration option away. What will I use? I still haven't decided;
probably tabs/8 spaces. ;-p
REFERENCES
1. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5780
2. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-December/07
27;ve already decided to use Vim, steep learning curve apparently, but
> comprehensive functionality when you get there. Also extended
> capability with lots of plugins.
Good choice. Can't go wrong with learning vi and vim.
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r you ITP, the less
likely someone else will package the software you're interested in.
Simple. Factual.
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package because of
timing, not becase of someone's supposed bad behavior. Let me
reitterate, "The early bird gets the worm."
Let's put the stigma of "my package" and "her package" aside, as well as
the idea of loosing "effort" for one reason or an
nd offer to
co-maintain the package. Perhaps the package could benefit from your
combined efforts.
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, eventually there will be a kernel-freebsd or
> kernel-netbsd, and having an uniform scheme to call these things would
> be nice.
Seconded.
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may do so without "poisoning" it with GPL.
The same is true for the LGPL portions of the library. GPL doesn't
conflict with LGPL or Public Domain in any way.
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e documentation as well? If you tarball
the documents with the software, it would be considered a single work,
covered by the same license.
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:47:13PM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote:
> Doesn't this have to do with the cramfs patch?
Man, this is quite the delay. I guess that's what I get for
misconfiguring my email server with the wrong origin setting. ;-)
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suggest ISO. ext2 works fine. Perhaps cramfs' size profile was
the smallest in the kernel, which made it a good solution for Debian?
1. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch_kernel.en
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dgehammer solution.
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:24:11PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> I am now formally looking for seconds for this proposal.
Seconded.
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function! CleverTab()
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Very cool stuff.
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it: he's joking. Note the smiley. Even though package
names that have version numbers tends to bloat the archive, but there
really isn't a more graceful way for allowing two versions of the
software to exist on a system at the same time. Josip knows this, hence
the smiley.
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 03:52:51PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-30
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: decss
Like that won't be a confusing package name. ;-p
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ally on an NFS mounted
volume. Changing your TMPDIR to ~/tmp is pretty much insane in that
case, setting yourself up for painfully slow write operations on files
that SHOULD be considered "throw-away" anyway.
Now, per-user temp directories to some configurable local disk or tmpfs
w
ntegrated into the Python 2.2 library.
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-xmlrpclib.html. I don't
even see the package in woody.
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into the thread than was necessary. Its easy to forget
the the rule of staying within the boundaries of the subject in question
when tangentials are being thrown around freely.
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ied. ...[snip]... Oh, oops.
Exactly. Now you're getting it. Those English and Grammar classes must
be paying off.
References
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1. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2026.txt
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ain" because of a pedantic
interpretation of the DFSG, (there's that software reference again) and
Social Contract. Fine, but it should still be packaged. It is a
valuable reference, and having the convenience of package installation
improves it's distribution amongst developers.
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allows multiple clocks to run simultaneously, allows for text
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ntly retired, and configure my LDAP entry
> accordingly.
It is a shame that such a simple scuffle on-list has sent you packing.
> I wish you all the best of luck. Keep up the excellent work.
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t pull the pin and toss the Grenade on "three".
> I would be most grateful if you can share with me this information at
> your ea rliest possible convenience.
My pleasure. I hope my information has helped you out... OK, not
really.
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you know how it goes. ;-) If anyone has suggestions or
ideas that might help me get this little sucker fired up, I'm all ears.
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