Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 08 August 2014 15:15:17 vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not a Debian developer, just a Debian user, and I want to say that I > was happy to see XFCE being the default DE. Just because it's small, > classic and neutral DE - which GNOME 3 definitely isn't. I think XFCE is > a bette

Re: linux-image-3.14-2-armmp description out of date

2014-07-23 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 23 July 2014 13:05:11 Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 09:31 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 20:50 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 20:18 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > > > > In the above

linux-image-3.14-2-armmp description out of date

2014-07-22 Thread David Goodenough
In the above package the description reads:- The Linux kernel 3.14 and modules for use on ARMv7 multiplatform kernel for Marvell Armada 370/xp, Freescale iMX5x/iMX6. Reading the list of DTB files it includes, this list is rather out of date. Now (hopefully) this list will grow with most new kern

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 13 May 2014 21:09:14 Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > In data martedì 13 maggio 2014 19:42:32, David Goodenough ha scritto: > > > service foo works across Linux distributions, with or without > > > systemd, and does the right thing. > > > > The big shame wi

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 13 May 2014 11:06:10 Russ Allbery wrote: > Thorsten Glaser writes: > > Yes, there were issues with e.g. grub1 to grub2, but do you honestly > > think that sysadmins in a medium-sized company will cope with these? > > > > • no /etc/init.d/$foo (to tabcomplete, no less!) any more > > I'

Re: Gerrit patch review, and gating (was: Call for help from KDE Team)

2014-05-06 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 06 May 2014 11:03:07 Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 05/02/2014 06:17 PM, David Goodenough wrote: > > On Friday 02 May 2014 11:32:41 Maximiliano Curia wrote: > >> ¡Hola Paul! > >> > >> El 2014-05-02 a las 08:40 +0800, Paul Wise escribió: > >>

Re: Call for help from KDE Team

2014-05-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 02 May 2014 11:32:41 Maximiliano Curia wrote: > ¡Hola Paul! > > El 2014-05-02 a las 08:40 +0800, Paul Wise escribió: > > On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Maximiliano Curia wrote: > > > For quite a while now the KDE team has been severely understaffed. We > > > maintain a lot of packages,

Re: Propose Release Goals (delayed ;) - xz compression

2013-10-16 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 16 Oct 2013, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 05:32:37PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > > xy may only use a tiny bit, but the combination of apt-get, dpkg and > > xy seems to cause problems. Its not just BeagleBones, there are x86 > > machines wi

Re: Propose Release Goals (delayed ;) - xz compression

2013-10-16 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 16 Oct 2013, Marius Gavrilescu wrote: > David Goodenough writes: > > The only problem is that on small machines (things like the BeagleBone) > > xz compression requires enough memory that you have to enable swap to > > use dpkg. Now on a machine with a sensib

Re: Propose Release Goals (delayed ;) - xz compression

2013-10-16 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 16 Oct 2013, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > As dpkg introduced xz compression by default, we can make whole > packages xz-ed now. I think it's worth to try, so propose it as > a release goal (I know it should be sent before its dead line, but > please read). > > > --

Re: 486 still being sold NEW / was Re: Increasing minimum 'i386' processor

2011-12-07 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 07 Dec 2011, Toni Mueller wrote: > On 11/21/2011 07:52 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Since we're theorising, rather than talking about actual users, my > > theory is that these are sold as replacements for installed systems, > > which will run the exact same software as the original - n

Re: Call for teams interested in collaborating on a 'standard' Git workflow

2011-07-30 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 30 Jul 2011, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Samstag, den 30.07.2011, 16:26 +0100 schrieb David Goodenough: > > On Saturday 30 Jul 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > On 28/07/11 at 15:36 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > >

Re: Call for teams interested in collaborating on a 'standard' Git workflow

2011-07-30 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 30 Jul 2011, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 28/07/11 at 15:36 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It seems that many different teams have recently switched to Git, or are > > considering switching. But each of them seems to re-implement the wheel > > by designing their own Git wor

Re: Debian x86 32-bits built for i586 !?

2011-05-15 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 15 May 2011, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 15 May 2011, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 15 May 2011, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > I'm wondering. Is the project at large aware that we're not building > > > for i486, but for i586 ? That even the maintainer doesn't know why for

Re: Default size limits for /run (/var/run) and /run/lock (/var/lock)

2011-04-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 13 April 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 03:17:24PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 2011-04-13, David Goodenough wrote: > > > I am surprised at this. I have several boxes which are small single > > > board computers with solid state

Re: Default size limits for /run (/var/run) and /run/lock (/var/lock)

2011-04-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 13 April 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 13:34 +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > * Philip Hands [110413 12:54]: > > > This strikes me as suboptimal, since one could use the disk space > > > allocated to /tmp as extra swap and then allocate a tmpfs of that size > >

Re: Does it matter that the squeeze installer...

2011-01-24 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 24 January 2011, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:28:28PM +0000, David Goodenough wrote: > > thinks that Window 7 is Windows Vista. I am installing an amd64 machine > > which already has the 64 bit version of Windows 7 Professional on it, and >

Does it matter that the squeeze installer...

2011-01-24 Thread David Goodenough
thinks that Window 7 is Windows Vista. I am installing an amd64 machine which already has the 64 bit version of Windows 7 Professional on it, and when I came to install Debian using the squeeze installer RC2 in the grub bit it said that it had detected Windows Vista loader. I am not sure this mat

Re: Bug#595427: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script todownload and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

2010-09-07 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:20:21AM +0100, Chris Carr wrote: > > If the new winetricks package were to be called wine-nonfree, that would > > lay the foundations for later efforts ... > > Except that it would be a serious misnomer. > > First, m

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 13 June 2010, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2010-06-13, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > It is difficult to understand why we should wait freeze time to change > > anything. Some people (including me) may be afraid that the problem may > > not be corrected because of the freeze. Moreover, in th

Re: Policy §10.4 as a divergence from usptream (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).

2009-09-30 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 29 September 2009, Frank Küster wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > I am a newcommer to this particular bit of policy, but it occurs to me > > that the answer is to add links to the original commands to conform to > > Debian standards while leaving the ups

Re: Policy §10.4 as a divergence from usptream (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).

2009-09-29 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 29 September 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > Peter Eisentraut writes: > > At least in cases where the programs/scripts could be considered part of > > a programming interface, this requirement is approximately equivalent to > > requiring the exported symbols of libraries to conform to some

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 09 December 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:52:44 + > > David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why not remove the -dev packages first. > > That would make every reverse dependency instantly buggy with > release-critical FTB

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-09 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 05 December 2008, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, > > GTK+ 1.2 has been deprecated upstream for 6 years. There is no security > support for it, and no new applications using it have been out for quite > a long time as well. > > > Cheers, Why not remove the -dev packages first. That way n

Re: Should selinux be standard?

2008-09-14 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 14 September 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I'd like to ask whether selinux should really be installed by default. > On the Linksys NSLU2, a very popular device with only 32 MB of RAM, > installing selinux-policy-default takes at least half an hour (with > heavy swapping) or possibly eve

Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-25 Thread David Goodenough
vailable locale, but the problem persists. David > > -Stephen > > > > From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Mon 9/25/2006 9:36 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Problem installing xserver-xorg > > > > I

Re: Time to rethink ifupdown

2006-08-24 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 24 August 2006 09:58, Miles Bader wrote: > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Python (and any language that depends on vast amounts of installed > >> infrastructure) seems a bit dodgy for a core low-level facility. > > > > It's a great language to develop stuff at a modera

Re: Time to rethink ifupdown

2006-08-20 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 20 August 2006 08:58, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > Greetings to everybody on this list, it's my first post here. > > ifupdown, the official Debian network configuration tool, is great for > configuring interfaces like Ethernet adapters. However, as time goes, more > and more use cases occu

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-16 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 19:24, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So are we getting close to the point where you will build gnucash-sql? > > Upstream reports that the SQL subsystem is known not to work. So that > means that unt

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-16 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 09:08, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So are we getting close to the point where you will build gnucash-sql? > > I think so. Great. If you want someone to test the builds please let me know when they are

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-15 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 15 May 2006 07:11, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I have just uploaded gnucash 1.9.6, the first beta release of the new > gnome 2 gnucash. Since this is now in beta, I judged it opportune to > upload it to unstable. The final 2.0 release is expected in a short > number of weeks. Many tha

Re: gnucash 1.9.1

2006-03-01 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 22:19, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Did you include the SQL bits of gnucach? > > The package I have uploaded does not support SQL. My intention is to > turn that on (I am uncertain yet whether

Re: gnucash 1.9.1

2006-02-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 27 February 2006 23:51, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I have uploaded gnucash 1.9.1 to the experimental archive today. This > is the long-awaited GNOME-2 version of gnucash. > > Users of gnucash who are willing to use this experimental software are > desired. It is not a good idea for ev

Re: A thought about killing two bird with one stone

2005-10-27 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 23:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: > > Does this make sense? > > Yes, it does. Such functionality is part of a proper dependency-based > initscript system, actually. Which doesn't actual

A thought about killing two bird with one stone

2005-10-26 Thread David Goodenough
In various discussions recently it has been suggested that it would be a good idea (TM) to make the init.d scripts run in parallel. This involves using some tags from the new LSB and generally making explicit some run-time dependencies that have had to be hacked to assumed in the past. It occurs

Re: Bug#323245: ITP: libpoe-component-jabber-perl -- A POE Component for communicating over Jabber

2005-08-15 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 15 August 2005 18:27, Florian Ragwitz wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Florian Ragwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: libpoe-component-jabber-perl > Version : 1.1 > Upstream Author : Nicholas Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http

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

2005-06-08 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 22:40, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Petri Latvala wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:40:55AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > >>The ability to have multiple versions of a package installed at the same > >>time. > > > > (Sorry Olaf, for getting this twice, my fingers work t

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

2005-06-07 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 09:26, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 10:10:13 +0200, David Goodenough wrote: > > Another item that might be worth considering for laptops is a networking > > equivalent of the pmount group. People in these groups would be allowed > > to e

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

2005-06-07 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 09:26, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 10:10:13 +0200, David Goodenough wrote: > > Another item that might be worth considering for laptops is a networking > > equivalent of the pmount group. People in these groups would be allowed > > to e

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-07 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 06 June 2005 23:02, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:31:27 +0200, Michelle Konzack > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This is what I not understand, because I have a full /debian-archive > >and WOODY mirror (including many CDs) and it use 420 GByte (4x 147 > >GByte) and now, POTAT

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

2005-06-07 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 08:56, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 03:21, Joey Hess wrote: > > Planned, and ground already laid in tasksel (and indeed, it does do it > > for some easy things like language tasks). One thing I really want to > > see happen is a laptop task. The big missing pei

Re: [Ipw2100-devel] debian, ipw2200 and wlan0

2005-02-07 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 07 February 2005 16:17, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > ma, 2005-02-07 kello 16:50 +0100, Mike Hommey kirjoitti: > > Debian is a distribution which tries to provide good software, implying > > changes if necessary. > > I completely agree with this. If changing a program makes it better, > Debian

Re: Bug#280324: ITP: freemind -- A Java Program for creating and viewing Mindmaps

2004-11-10 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 18:22, Eric Lavarde wrote: > Hi, > > hope this is OK to reply-to-all in such cases... > > Hilko Bengen wrote: > > Eric Lavarde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>the package does already exist actually (see > >>http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FreeMind_on_Li

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-25 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 12:00, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:57:57AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > > and remember that many embedded processors still use 486 and 586 > > based chips, and some 386. Lossing 386 might be acceptable in the > >

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-25 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 08:40, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:47:42AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > * GOTO Masanori > > > > | - NPTL/TLS support. NPTL currently supports i486 and later because > > | pthread_spin_trylock uses cmpxchgl instruction (well, it's not >

Re: C++ & Java IDE

2003-06-23 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 23 June 2003 16:32, code wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to the Linux world crossing over from Windows to do a work project > and was wondering if someone could recommend a good IDE for Java and C++. > I'm mainly going to be writing C++ with a JNI layer to allow access from my > Java code. > > Th

Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-20 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 20 June 2003 13:25, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:51:07AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > - drop the i386 support > > > > What we have not yet decided is whether we drop i386 support for C++ > > packages or for all pack

Problem with fwbuilder on machine without X-Free

2003-04-22 Thread David Goodenough
I am not quite sure whether this is a bug, or just that I am asking for something unreasonable. But here goes anyway. I installed a machine to act as a firewall today, using Debian stable. I did not install X-Free on it as the machine is a touch underpowered for that. So I though I will install

Re: New project proposal: debian-lex

2003-04-19 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 19 April 2003 17:23, Christian Surchi wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 05:57:42PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > I am interested in coordinating a new sub-project called Debian-Lex, > > > > Could you please explain the naming "lex" for non English speakers? > > It's latin, not englis

Re: Porting Xconfigurator to Debian!

2002-12-05 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 23:50, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:42:43PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > > > Install discover, read-edid and mdetect before you install X, and > > > > you're set. > > > > > > Now explain that to my mother! :p > > > > [snip] > > > > Maybe what we wa