Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-20 Thread David A.
I would like to thank all debian-guys for getting Sun Java into the normal debian repository. I appriciate your effort, and I believe there are many out there that think this is great! I've briefly folllowed this legal discussion and I understand there are details and stuff to sort out. Somehow I'

Re: Installation is FANTASTIC!!!

2006-04-20 Thread David A.
I agree. I recently installed Unstable via minimal net-install-CD on a Dell lattitude laptop. I was impressed with how good it worked to resize the NTFS-partition during installation. Nice to se that GRUB took care of the multi-boot-stuff without any strange questions. Default workstation install w

aptitude borked [was: Re: Fun with python-apt]

2003-06-20 Thread David A. Greene
Matt Zimmerman wrote: If you had wanted to find out the answer before sending this to debian-devel, you would not have had to look very far. bugs.debian.org/python-apt has the answer three times over. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193566 That's not particularly helpful. Consider

Re: A second g++-3.0 question

2001-05-02 Thread David A. Greene
Peter S Galbraith wrote: The following (template instantiations), lines 48 and 49 of a file (which attached in full) template.cc:48: non-template used as template template.cc:49: non-template used as template #include Nit: #i

Re: New X problems...

2001-04-26 Thread David A. Greene
Dale Scheetz wrote: Now, when I bring up and xterm or a bash window, I get no cursor and no keystrokes appear in the window. I'm also having very flaky problems with I have had problems with this as well. I tracked it down to NFS/amd not working properly. This has been a problem on my laptop for

Boost and Loki

2001-04-25 Thread David A. Greene
Steve M. Robbins wrote: [Info on Boost snipped. This is a reply to a discussion about wnpp bug #95251 (RFP: Boost) and is purposely not CC'd to bugs.debian.org because it doesn't add any relevant information to that thread. ] Great idea. In fact, Raphael wrote a message to debian-devel in March <

apt-move on testing?

2001-01-03 Thread David A. Greene
Is it possible to set up a local mirror of testing with apt-move? When I try this, I get errors about missing overrides files: waller:~# apt-move -t sync Updating Packages and override files... Getting: distribution names Getting: testing main Packages.gz Getting: testing main override.gz /indice

ITP snack-1.6 and tclex-1.2a1, also html_library-0.3?

1999-09-28 Thread David A. van Leeuwen
Hi, For a speech/sound related package `transcriber' I've decided to split off two contrib parts of the code, snack and tclex. Snack is a tcl/tk library for audio i/o (file formats etc.), tclex is a parsel for tcl/tk. In my current plan the tcl/tk files (pkgindex and .so files) don't go into /us

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

1998-04-15 Thread David A. van Leeuwen
t a simple way of bringing the machine down---as far as i know. Even ctrl-alt-del doesn't work in XFree86. Of course, care should be taken that this can be done only from the console---if necessary, only after typing a shutdown password. -- David A. van Leeuwen