Re: Bug#677571: ITP: gwt -- Google Web Toolkit dev and runtime libraries

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:57:02PM +0200, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: > There is already a "gwt" package in unstable [1] Sorry I had already realised this and closed this bug report again. One of the other gwt dependencies had been removed completely, and gwt has been removed from testing but not

Bug#677571: ITP: gwt -- Google Web Toolkit dev and runtime libraries

2012-06-14 Thread Chris Halls
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Halls Package name: gwt (binaries libgwt-dev-java and libgwt-user-java) Version : 2.4.0 Upstream Author : Google Inc URL : http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang

Bug#677569: ITP: jsilver -- Clearsilver templates in pure Java

2012-06-14 Thread Chris Halls
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Halls Package name: jsilver Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : David Beaumont, Ben Dodso URL : http://code.google.com/p/jsilver License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Clearsilver

Bug#677567: ITP: sablecc -- Object-oriented fully featured parser generator

2012-06-14 Thread Chris Halls
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Halls Package name: sablecc Version : 3.2 Upstream Author : Etienne M. Gagnon and others URL : http://www.sablecc.org/ License : LGPL Programming Lang: Java Description : Object-oriented fully featured parser

Re: ping for missing maintainers

2006-06-20 Thread Chris Halls
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 11:38, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Wouldn't it be better to merge this with apt-cacher and combine your > skills and time? They do seem awfully similar in what they do if not > how they do it. Well, when apt-cacher started out, it needed an apache installation to work an

Re: ping for missing maintainers

2006-06-19 Thread Chris Halls
On Monday 19 June 2006 01:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Howdy. Just wondering if anyone knows the whereabouts of two maintainers: > > Otavio Salvador (apt-proxy) Otavio has asked me to maintain apt-proxy again and I am in the process of preparing an upload. > I have not noticed many updates to

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-16 Thread Chris Halls
On Wednesday 15 Jun 2005 10:09, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:31:45AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I didn't see anyone proposing prelinking so far. I've seen rumors > > that program start time for some programs decrease a lot if prelinking > > is enabled. It would be

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-25 Thread Chris Halls
the unstable version of the package. Early versions of v2 from Ranty had this behaviour, but I fixed it a while ago. apt-proxy (1.9.12) experimental; urgency=low [...] * Fix max_versions to work in the same way as version 1 did, taking distributions into account (part of #242197) -- Chris H

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-22 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 04:04, Brian May wrote: > * If the above point wasn't bad enough by itself, the apt-proxy binary has > hard coded: > > WGET_CMD="$WGET --timestamping --no-host-directories --tries=5 > --no-directories -P $DL_DESTDIR" Hmm, seems you are talking about version 1, which has be

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-21 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 11:11, martin f krafft wrote: > 1. apt-proxy: > While I love the concept of apt-proxy, it works very unreliably. > Frequently, the proxy fails to download the package or imposes > very long delays (#272217, and others). This seems to be the result of a patch that fixed

Re: [custom] Debian Enterprise - packages

2003-12-05 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 20:18, John Goerzen wrote: > Debian Enterprise will have to support 64-bit platforms, which > OpenOffice doesn't. ..yet. That will be fixed by 2.0 at the latest. Help is appreciated. Chris

Re: [custom] Debian Enterprise - packages

2003-12-03 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 05:49, John Goerzen wrote: > > * Office Suite - OpenOffice (there's no other near as feature complete) > > And OpenOffice is the only one that runs on only two -- yes, two -- > architectures that Debian supports. You missed two. OOo is available on i386, powerpc, sparc and

Re: Language extensions in programs under /usr/bin

2003-10-07 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:50:07PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Besides, if dumb names were a problem we'd do something about > openoffice.org. $ ls /usr/bin/*openoffice* /usr/bin/openoffice What is dumb about that? The thread is about naming of files within /usr/bin. Chris pgpsBIj7fhkCn.pgp D

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-02 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:12:52PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > We didn't have OpenOffice at last release and it doesn't seem to be in > unstable yet. 'apt-cache search openoffice' only find myspell > dictionaries. It's in contrib, package openoffice.org. It is scheduled to move into main around

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-29 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:35:01AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > In my particular case (gforge), I'll have to hack around the > > no-binary-in-diff limitation of dpkg-source. I work in the same > > repository as upstream, and some images were changed. > > Ugly. The best idea I have about tha

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:29:01PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > We have a lawyer here who is a GNU/linux geek who still has to use MS Word > because openoffice.org cannot handle the complex formatting of his legacy > Word documents. Is that still true for OOo 1.1beta2? Are there open bug report

Re: Packages.bz2, Sources.bz2, Contents-*.bz2, oh my

2002-09-03 Thread Chris Halls
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:38:52PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Still, the Packages files should only be removed after no software in > our stable distribution depends on it. If you remove the Packages file > from unstable now you will break apt-proxy (and perhaps other tools > too). Well, apt-

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-27 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:11:18PM -0700, Nate Eldredge wrote: > The other question is how it should be enabled. One way is "hdparm -d 1 > /dev/hd?" or moral equivalent in an init script. The hwtools package includes a script with a placeholder for such hdparm tuning in /etc/init.d/hwtools: #

Re: (my) summary about translated description with dpkg (still RFC)

2001-09-04 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:46:17AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:39:00AM +0200, Chris Halls wrote: > > How will the translated Description be stored in the deb Package? Sorry, I wasn't addressing that :-) I was expecting to use the solution that wo

Re: (my) summary about translated description with dpkg (still RFC)

2001-09-04 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:58:59AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > The more controversial point of our proposal is that we where planing > to centralize the translation in a way that keeps the maintainer out > of the loop. But it's not the key point, it's an add-on which ease the > work of transla