Re: Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:56:21AM +0100, Eric Valette wrote: > Russ Allbery writes: > > >For one specific example, it's become quite clear over the past year that > >systemd has achieved the same status as abortion debates in US politics. > >Not only is it clear that we will *never* stop arguing

Re: DAK Commands for Bikesheds

2015-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 08:39:19PM +0200, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > On 23 September 2015 at 00:16, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > unzip ; strip ; touch ; grep ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount > > ; sleep > > Has anyone mentioned git? No, nor split. -- "If you're not careful, the new

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 05:38:36AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Chris Bannister (2015-08-30): > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:42:13PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Le jeudi 27 août 2015 à 05:22 +0200, Michael Meskes a écrit : > > > > Besides, what causes th

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:42:13PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 27 août 2015 à 05:22 +0200, Michael Meskes a écrit : > > Besides, what causes the system to make those package downloads before? > > I may be behind a slow or expensive line and don't want any downloads > > performed at al

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 08:00:52AM -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > On Jul 15 2015, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > As Jakub was saying: just starting it up without even visiting a site yet > > will > > do a POST and a *few dozen* GET requests. Shouldn't it be waiting with its > > checks until it actually kn

Re: Bug#780155: ITP: baculum -- Baculum WebGUI tool for Bacula Community program

2015-03-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 10:13:31PM +0100, gani wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Marcin Haba > > * Package name: baculum > Version : 7.0+git20150208 > Upstream Author : Marcin Haba > * URL : http://www.bacula.org/ > * License : AGPLv3 > Pr

Re: Who gets an email when with bugreports [was: Re: Unauthorised activity surrounding tbb package]

2015-01-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 01:03:52AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 08:37 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > > > I'm going to put together a bit more firm of a proposal in the next few > > > weeks, but I think that basically e

Re: Bug#775456: ITP: sankore -- interactive whiteboard interface

2015-01-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 04:41:22PM -0400, David Prévot wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: David Prévot > > * Package name: sankore > Version : 2.5.1 > Upstream Author : Nicolas Nenon > * URL : http://open-sankore.org/ > * License : GPL-3 >

Re: length of a package extended description

2015-01-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 01:24:20PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2015-01-10 13:34:37 +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Nonsense, the format is trivial and stable. > > I've never seen that it was stable. > > > A quick one-line-ish fix for this (requires a modern shell) is: > > > > apt-cache

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:48:29PM +, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:05:13AM +0100, Bj??rn Mork wrote: > > m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > > On Nov 17, Steve Langasek wrote: > > >> > This is what many still (retorically) wonder about: we the systemd > > >> > mainta

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:02:53AM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote: > Dear Josselin, > > I have just noticed your blog post on planet.debian.org: > https://np237.livejournal.com/34598.html > > I would like to ask you to resist the temptation of publishing similar posts. > It makes fun of part of our c

Re: Bug#768936: ITP: nufft -- Library implementing the Non-Uniform Fast Fourier Transform

2014-11-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:21:33AM +, Ghislain Antony Vaillant wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Ghislain Antony Vaillant > > * Package name: nufft > Version : 1.3.3 > Upstream Author : Leslie Greengard > * URL : http://www.cims.nyu.edu/cmcl/nuf

Re: Bug#767617: ITP: calculix-ccx -- CalculiX CrunchiX is a three dimensional structual Finite Element Solver

2014-11-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 03:10:03PM +0100, Wolfgang Fuetterer wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Wolfgang Fuetterer > > * Package name: calculix-ccx > Version : 2.7 > Upstream Author : Guido Dhondt > * URL : http://www.calculix.de/ > * License

Re: Bug#766576: ITP: libatf -- Automated Test Framework (ATF) libraries

2014-10-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 09:39:35PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Craig Rodrigues > > * Package name: libatf > Version : 0.21 > Upstream Author : Julio Merino > * URL : https://github.com/jmmv/atf > * License : BSD

Re: peace of mind

2014-10-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:09:57PM +0100, Robert Lemmen wrote: > not as much as would be ideal, but I have been running it on one > machine, adapted a few things that I run for starting, and trieid the > monitoring/restart. but really, my main concerns are fueled by pages > like this [0]. Am I mis

Re: Bug#762274: ITP: libx11-keybord-perl -- Keyboard support functions for X11

2014-09-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 03:24:25PM +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Mike Gabriel > > * Package name: libx11-keybord-perl ^^^ Is the misspelling of keyboard deliberate? If so sorry for the noise. > Version : 1.

Re: systemd, again

2014-09-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 02:02:33PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > On the other hand, a non-GNOME wheezy user SHALL not > be upgraded to systemd, true. That is contadicted by: https://lists.debian.org/20140907151102.go21...@smurf.noris.de -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have yo

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 12:18:08PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Zack Weinberg: > > I think this strategy is positively _necessary_ in order to ensure > > that systems currently running Wheezy can safely be upgraded to > > Jessie. There are simply too many wacky configurations out ther

Re: Bug#756669: ITP: kalendas -- Calculations of calendar and Julian Date

2014-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 05:10:40PM -0500, Mike Molina wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Owner: Miguel Molina > > * Package name: kalendas > Version : 1.0.0 > Upstream Author : Miguel Molina > * URL : https://gi

Re: Bug#756172: ITP: ssh-cron -- cron-like job scheduler than handles ssh key passphrases

2014-07-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 09:05:37PM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: tony mancill > > * Package name: ssh-cron > Version : 0.91.01 > Upstream Author : > * URL : > * License : GPL-2+ > Programming Lang: C++ > Descript

Re: Bug#755285: marked as done (general: Black screen on resume after suspend)

2014-07-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 08:25:05PM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > because it is duplicate and not because it is missing information. It > may be clear for may that "dupe" means duplicate, but this is not clear > for every body especially that in French this means "stupid". Considering the langu

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 08:40:29PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014, at 19:28, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Ondřej Surý writes: > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014, at 18:25, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > > >> Food for thought: > > >> Which fields take up most space in Packages.xz[0]? > > > > > I am

Re: Proposal to avoid executable naming conflicts (was: Bug#753704: ITP: amap -- Next-generation scanning tool for pentesters)

2014-07-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 11:31:12AM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > Since Debian package names must already be unique, we ought to be able > to leverage that to avoid having to fight over which package gets to > claim which binary name. > > What about making it into a user's install-time decision, > ra

Re: "thanks" messages on mailing lists/bug reports

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 03:41:50PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:45:21 +0200 > Sven Bartscher wrote: > > > Greetings everyone, > > > > I recently started contributing to debian. > > Before that, most of my writing with people I don't know personally > > through the interne

Re: Sources licensed under PHP License and not being PHP are not distributable

2014-06-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 08:57:43PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > I'd recommend that we safeguard our users against 'PHP' licensing problems > the same way I protect myself against a meteorite hitting me on my way to > work tomorrow, and for roughly the same reasons. Because there is nothing you

Re: Bug#750546: ITP: sluice -- rate limiting data piping tool

2014-06-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 11:39:42AM +0100, Colin Ian King wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Colin Ian King > > * Package name: sluice > Version : 0.01.00 > Upstream Author : Colin King > * URL : http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/sluice > * License

Re: Bug#749099: ITP: conv -- Simple ASCII,binary,decimal,hex converter

2014-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:53:15PM -0300, Marcio de Souza Olivera wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Marcio de Souza Olivera > > * Package name: conv > Version : 0.02 > Upstream Author : Xfuw89 > * URL : https://github.com/xfuw89/BinDecHexAscii > * L

Re: Bug#747920: ITP: libdatabase-dumptruck -- document-oriented interface to a SQLite database

2014-05-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:56:34AM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Debian Perl Group > > * Package name: libdatabase-dumptruck > Version : 1.2 > Upstream Author : Lubomir Rintel > * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Database

Re: Why Debian

2014-04-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:43:29AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > I love democracy, where everyone has a say and have a chance to make > the changes they want rather than depending on someone. Just remember that Democracy is where 13 lions and 5 sheep vote for what to have for dinner. :( -- "If

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 09:27:00PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > previously on this list Jakub Wilk contributed: > > > * Gunnar Wolf , 2014-04-04, 23:22: > > >- Media player: mplayer (on libcaca, of course) > > > > With its 4 RC bugs, it doesn't look like mplayer is going to be part of > > jess

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post on this mailing list.] On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 10:03:46AM -0300, Undefined User wrote: > Well, it's almost impossible to avoid personal judgments on this matter. > This involves personal taste. But when talking about "new users" or > "not-that-advanced users", I'm really sug

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 08:18:41AM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 14:16:15 Undefined User wrote: > > The problem is that right now Debian project is changing its default > > desktop environment, and I think that this is not a good move. Of course, > > it all depends on where the

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 06:31:12PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 07:18:30PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > [0] Can we haz a release name? > > > > Sure. It's Debian 8.0, "zurg". [0] > > Neil > [0] Note: may be a lie. Umm, Debian 9.0? -- "If you're not careful, t

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:17:52AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de): > > On 02/15/2014 09:22 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > > So, before doing so: will that be helpful? > > > > I think most people simply don't configure PulseAudio

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:06:10PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > This mailinglist is, after all, a list about developing Debian. If your > interest is only in *using* Debian e.g. for own package development, > then our debian-user lists are more appropriate for that: > https://lists.debian.o

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 04:18:50PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 03:51:33PM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > Well if a bug can be solved by killing the buggy process and getting better > > functionality than when the process is running is certainly a very very bad > > bug!

Re: Bug#737563: ITP: telegram-cli -- Command-line interface for Telegram

2014-02-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 08:52:41PM +, Cleto Martín wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Cleto Martín" > > * Package name: telegram-cli > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Vitaly Valtman > * URL : https://github.com/vysheng/tg > * License :

Re: Bug#736826: ITP: tea4cups -- The Swiss Army's knife of advanced CUPS administrators

2014-01-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:02:55AM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Mike Gabriel > > * Package name: tea4cups > Version : 3.13~alpha1+svn3565 > Upstream Author : Jerome Alet > * URL : http://www.pykota.com/software/tea4cups > *

Re: openrc: Updated patches making openrc work properly on Debian GNU/Hurd

2014-01-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 03:29:28AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 25, Svante Signell wrote: > > > Whatever you have decided about Linux only, this is relevant > > information. Debian is about versatility in the Unix/Posix way, not any > No, it's not. Next. Does the NEXT OS still exist? SCNR

Re: Bug#736604: ITP: r10k -- Smarter Puppet deployment, powered by killer robots

2014-01-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 03:04:33PM +0100, Sebastien Badia wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Sebastien Badia > > * Package name: r10k > Version : 1.1.2 > Upstream Author : Adrien Thebo > * URL : https://github.com/adrienthebo/r10k > * License

Re: Debian Developers team in Launchpad

2013-12-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:08:06AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 08:17:16AM +0900, Tae Wong wrote: > > Tagliamonte: > > Your native language is Korean and if you'll need to post questions > > about Debian in Korean language. > > I will not buy this record, it is scratched.

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-26 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post on this mailing list!] On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 06:45:02PM +0200, Zlatan Todoric wrote: > And just bashing GNOME DE for systemd and GNOME Classic > is not good enough point because probably the largest user base > of Debian user use GNOME. That is because it is installed by

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:00:42PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: > > at this point, I would like to point at a very important part of the > > "revised code of conduct" that Wouter is proposing: "Assume good faith". > > On Do, 24 Okt 2013, Adam Borowski

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 09:28:04PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On 13/10/13 19:47, Niels Thykier wrote: > > (Not sure of the origins of the rime; I remember it being used in "V > > from Vendetta" though.) > > As a Brit I guess I'm as surprised by people not knowing this as some US > folks are

Re: Bug#719211: ITP: lnav -- nurses-based log file viewer

2013-08-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 11:44:11AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Salvatore Bonaccorso > > * Package name: lnav > Version : 0.5.0 > Upstream Author : Timothy Stack > * URL : http://tstack.github.io/lnav/ > * License

Re: Bug#718791: ITP: mikutter -- Simple, powerful and moeful twitter client

2013-08-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:35:01PM +0900, HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai) wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai)" > > * Package name: mikutter > Version : 0.2.2.1318 > Upstream Author : Toshiaki Asai > * URL : http://mikutter.hachune.

Re: Missing makefile

2013-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:53:33AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > And compiling kernel modules is off-topic for debian-user. It > should, however, be on-topic here. Correct, but you are more likely to be directed to debian-mentors. Try there. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will ha

Pulseaudio (was ... Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports)

2013-07-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:44:21AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > My most recent experience with PulseAudio came when I noticed that WoW > (run through Wine) was producing crackling, stuttering sound again; this > was during the late months before the wheezy release. > > I tried half-a-dozen things,

Re: Bug#706160: general: it should be easier for ordinary developers to work with Debian packages

2013-04-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 03:04:52PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:20:53PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > > dh_make -f ../foo-1.tar.gz > > dpkg-buildpackage > > I think one valid point the OP makes which each of these suggestions — in > isolation — seem to m

Re: so long, and thanks for all the fish

2013-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 01:55:24AM +0100, Aneurin Price wrote: > On 4 April 2013 18:28, wrote: > > > There is apparently no mode of argument, or "style of > > communications", which is capable of penetrating the Debian > > bureaucracy. It is impervious, even to patches which have been > > previou

Re: Debian bugs #800000 and #1000000 contest

2013-02-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 05:16:06PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 08:23:57 -0800 > Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > > "An obscure french DD". Wow, what a way to describe a person. Did that > > person kill your pet squirrel or something? :-) > > Christian is referring to himself. He m

Re: Mplayer not running with user privileges

2012-12-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 03:47:27PM +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote: > 2012/12/7 Andrei POPESCU > > This is list is for development of Debian, your question should be > > posted on debian-user instead (or one of the debian-user- > > lists). > > > This makes me think that the right list have been choosen

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:40:41PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > the discussion that systemd is a bad design because it uses the same > configuration file syntax as Windows ini files or XDG .desktop files, > adding the statement that these are too difficult to parse. If you are referin

Re: Canonical pushes upstart into user session - systemd developer complains

2012-11-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:43:07PM +0200, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote: > Hello! > > Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez has written on Saturday, 24 November, at 19:20: > >FYI, Yet another episode of the Linux init drama: > > > >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Specs/RaringUpstartUserSessions >

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 01:20:42PM -0600, Kevin Toppins wrote: > I do not want to fight with you. > > I do not want to silence you. > > I do not want to _force_ you to think a certain way. But I would be > pleased if you would be willing to try a different way of thinking. Me too, please read: h

Re: Introducing codesearch.debian.net, a regexp code search engine

2012-11-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 07:05:43PM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Hi, > > I hereby announce a new Debian project: Debian Code Search. [...] > You can use the search engine at http://codesearch.debian.net/ > Here are a few sample queries: > • http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=workaround+p

Re: Bug#687103: ITP: maps -- OpenStreetMap client for the GNOME Desktop

2012-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:28:16AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 06:45:42AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Luca Capello [2012.09.09.2029 +0200]: > > > Or, if this is tightened to OSM, 'gnome-osm-maps'. > > > > except the 'm' on "osm" is already a "map", so may

Re: Package changelog should contain, well, a log of changes

2012-07-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 07:14:56AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2012-07-13, Craig Small wrote: > >> On 12-07-13 at 08:39pm, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >> > SNCR, > >> > KiBi. > > > It should of been package not packaging. I got that bit. > > Still, I'm not sure what "Stevie Nicks Concert Reviews

Re: Package changelog should contain, well, a log of changes

2012-07-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 08:46:22AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:24:44AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On 12-07-13 at 08:39pm, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > Jonas Smedegaard (13/07/2012): > > > > Please proofread your changelog before releasing a packaging, and make >

Re: Concerns and Challenges of Squeeze and Ongoing Elements

2012-07-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 12:10:18AM -0400, John L. Males wrote: > > Modified Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 (squeeze) > Planning, Upgrade, Modifications from Highly modified ^^^ > Debian 4.x Etch ^^^ And you upgraded to Lenny, then Squeez

Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-07-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 08:24:27AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > Has anyone quantized the % of tasks that a DD/DM does that are outside of > their > pet projects? Meaning, once they get their itch scratched, how far outside of > their main reason for joining Debian, do they explore? Would it be usefu

Re: Bug#508725: ITP:pmwiki -- easy of use wiki-based system

2008-12-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:16:37PM -0500, Cristian Paul Peñaranda Rojas wrote: > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Package: pmwiki > Severity: wishlist > Owner: cristian paul peñaranda rojas > > * Package name : pmwiki > Version : 2.2.0 > Upstream Author : Patrick R

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

2008-11-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:41:13PM +0100, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > Il giorno dom, 23/11/2008 alle 15.17 -0600, Manoj Srivastava ha scritto: > > On Sun, Nov 23 2008, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > > > > > > > Yes (I'd find it funny). That's what humour is. > > > > hen you are a retrog

[OT] Ignorance is no defence. (was ... Re: Leverage in licensing discussions)

2008-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:28:16PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Being in favor of open-sourcing firmwares (including those controlling > > critical security devices in cars) does not mean being in favor of > > letting anyone ship their own version. In such cases,

Re: Bug Sprint results (draft)

2008-11-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 07:48:21PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >=2E.. hence, given that Lenny hasn't been release yet, when are we gonna > > make another one? :) > > Let's make it a Beer Sprint. The winners receive a package with the local > brew from the people

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 01:02:30PM -0500, Ean Schuessler wrote: > Its a lot like exercise. Its not convenient and its not easy but in the long > run its a good idea. Nice pun! :) -- Chris. == I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understa

Re: Bug#490805: ITP: txtreader -- text reader, mainly used for reading text originally novels

2008-07-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:23:27PM +0800, LI Daobing wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: LI Daobing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: txtreader > Version : 0.4.4 > Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * URL : http://www.minisrc.com/?q=taxonomy/te

Re: Bug#489824: ITP: pllua -- PL/Lua is an implementation of Lua as a loadable procedural language for PostgreSQL

2008-07-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 02:01:13PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > On that basis, a better synopsis would be: > > PL/Lua procedural language for PostgreSQL So the short description can start with a capital letter? -- Chris. == "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has be

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:49:50PM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > Have you ever heard the fable concerning a father, a son and a donkey? > In a nutshell, first, nobody rides down the road on the donkey, and > instead lead him with a rope. People criticized them for doing so, e.g. > "why not let th

Re: Debian's eboard package

2008-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 04:07:55PM +0200, Patrik Fimml wrote: > Hi, > > the latest eboard package in unstable is version 1.0.3-1. It is rather > unusable, because it keeps crashing frequently (#452686). Meanwhile, upstream > has moved on to version 1.1.1, released three months ago. > > I have tri

Re: What about use xml for descriptions of packages?

2008-05-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:29:56AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > What's an extra few MB plus parsing overhead when "everyone" has > 250GB HDDs, multi-core 64-bit CPUs and 2+GB RAM? > Huh?. Why commit "good" machines to the landfill? -- Chris. == "One, with God, is always a majority, but many

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:13:59AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:55:40AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen a écrit : > > > > Given how much uproar there is about Microsoft's desire to retire > > Windows XP while many people would rather stick with it that go to > > Vista, perhaps

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:29:30AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:44:56AM +1300, Chris Bannister a écrit : > > > > Unfortunately, many people new to Debian/Linux get the impression that > > testing is perfectly suitable for a desktop system. > &

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 11:31:44PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Mittwoch 02 April 2008 schrieb Chris Bannister: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:16:48PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:38:36 -0300 > > > > > > Joel Franco <[E

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:16:48PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:38:36 -0300 > Joel Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think that the testing or above releases may be suitable for the > > desktop of a EXPERT linux user. I need a stable release because my > > desktop

Re: Bug#457424: ITP: yougrabber -- download simultaneously several videos from youtube.com

2007-12-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 12:04:06PM +0100, root wrote: Humourous or risqué? -- Chris. ==

Re: Bug#440823: ITP: kelbt -- backtracking LR parser

2007-09-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:24:18PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > Which CASCON paper? I don't think you should mention this in the > description. The description is meant for a user to decide if he wants > to install this package or not. You shouldn't make a user follow So after reading the descript

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 05:39:54PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > The frontends imho just need a clear way of showing which packages are > going to be installed because of a Depends and which because of a > Recommends, so it would be easier to de-select a recommended package. > > Otherwise there wo

Re: Bug#428256: ITP: ffrenzy -- Multiplayer platform with dwarfs fighting with/for food

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:41:43AM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Paul van Tilburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: ffrenzy > Version : 1.0.2 > Upstream Authors: Bas Kloet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Luijten <[EMAIL > PROTECT

Re: Reasons for recommends and suggests

2007-05-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:08:16AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > Now as for the need for re-classification of 'recommends' to say > 'suggests' to trim (mega|giga)bytes from the basic install sounds like a neat > idea and a way to help with that is to have the maintainer have a simple > file that expla

Re: Bug#413735: ITP: mdk2 -- Destructive 802.11 wireless network hacking tool

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:56:52AM +0200, Debian Oracle wrote: > On ti, 2007-03-06 at 15:31 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > mdk2 is a tool designed to crash 802.11 wireless network. > ... > > What's the non-black hat purpose of this tool? > [..] > You owe the Debian Oracle a patch to icedove to

Re: woody removed from mirrors

2007-01-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 06:15:28PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > Debian is not updating packages in Woody, its now oldstable. Debian now > has support for Sarge and will still support Sarge when Etch is released > but when Lenny is near release Sarge will stop being supported like > Woody is now (this

Re: [desktop] ¿Dead?

2006-03-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 11:55:23PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:14:26PM -0400, Janez Rabzelj Zappone wrote: > > Hi, the project is dead? > > > No, this is not an ex-project. It is sleeping! Not unlike the Norwegian > blue parrot! > Cheers, > Kev Which was because of a par

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:41:09PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:43:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Manners/politeness is social lubricant. It makes society run > > smoother and less violently. > > I'm pretty sure that people who always take the path of least > re

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:43:28PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > > On Jan 04, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Not to mention that 2.6.15 requires a newer udev. Who knows what other > >> newer > >> things newer kernels might require. > >

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:21:41PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:11:32AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I read all of your points as criticisms of Linux. That is disappointing. > > Why is criticism disappointing? The goals of Linux and the Linux Perhaps he meant tha

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:50:31PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:52:08PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >>> accusing people of being members of a Canonical-controlled cabal when > > >>> they > > >>> do you the

Re: New Nokia device is Debian-based?

2005-06-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:47:50AM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:21:46AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > > Florian Weimer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-06 09:32: > > > * Stephen Birch: > > > > > > > Wow Nokia just became my new favourite company. > > > > > > To put thi