Re: debdelta, Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

2007-09-04 Thread Florent Rougon
Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, I can't remember the name of the package. That must be cm-super. -- Florent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-09 Thread Florent Rougon
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dselect doesn't force you to install recommended packages; for as long > as I can remember (since Bo) it has given you a list with the > recommends preselected, and a simple keypress is all that is needed to > decline them. I'm afraid your memory is not

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-26 Thread Florent Rougon
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Witness: >> >> - usable completion in the File Open dialog -> gone [...] > Note that AFAIK, completion never disappeared from the file open dialogs. > You just have to enable it with a keystroke. I know that; the shortcut is Ctrl-L. But I wrote "

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-26 Thread Florent Rougon
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For your information, this was ironic. There is no compositing manager > in metacity as no one seemed interested enough in developing it. Ah, I see. Not everyone follows the development of every window manager on earth, so you couldn't really expect m

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-26 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eye candy... oh right, this must be why there are so many people > interested in bringing a compositing manager to metacity, rather than > improving performance or rendering quality. YMMV, but IMHO, I don't think compositing will much improve my

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

2007-07-26 Thread Florent Rougon
SCNR... Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frank> That turns out not to be the case. If I use an app frequently, then it Frank> goes on the toolbar. The menu is for finding infrequently used apps. For Frank> a lot of users, browsing the menu is how they find out what's available. Mike> IIRC

Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-18 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to gather up some momentum for a policy change. Namely > that the build-arch/indep targets in debian/rules become required > instead of being optional. FWIW, I think that would be a good thing (I remember a discussion with you on

Re: Dealing with AFM files in Defoma scripts

2007-05-02 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > (If there is a more appropriate list for Defoma-related questions, > please let me know.) Maybe pkg-fonts-devel on alioth: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-fonts-devel > Is there a way to achieve this with Defoma itself or s

Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?

2007-04-17 Thread Florent Rougon
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's with having to call apt_pkg.init() manually? That's uncool. It True, that is very unpythonic. I guess apt_pkg is a very thin and straight wrapper for the underlying C++ (or is it C?) library. > should be automatic. Simple in a pure Python packag

Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?

2007-04-17 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And what would be "as needed", for those who never used apt-python or > even Python at all? Here's my first Python script: When you don't understand, try it interactively from the Python interpreter: % python Python 2.4.4 (#2, Apr 5 2007, 20:11:18

Re: dh_installtex just for calling mktexlsr?

2006-03-30 Thread Florent Rougon
[ Uh, do we really need debian-devel here? ] Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > masters of dh_installtex, That's Norbert. ;-) >> The drawback is that update-updmap, update-language and update-fmtutil >> are called whereas my package does not need them (and that mktexlsr is >> called with

Re: TrueType fonts packages maintenance team proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Florent Rougon
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess the difference is more in the historic development than in > actual technical differences. You can easily use Type1 fonts under X11 > if they are registered to defoma; I don't know about Openoffice and > friends. OpenOffice.org can use Latin Mo

Bug#335899: O: lmodern -- scalable PostScript fonts for european character sets

2005-10-26 Thread Florent Rougon
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I cannot work on lmodern anymore and am hereby orphaning it. Description: scalable PostScript fonts for european character sets The Latin Modern fonts, also known as "lm fonts", are a set of scalable fonts in PostScript Type 1 format. They are based on the

Bug#335901: O: pyxmms-remote -- command-line interface to XMMS

2005-10-26 Thread Florent Rougon
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I cannot work on PyXMMS-remote anymore and am hereby orphaning it. Description: command-line interface to XMMS PyXMMS-remote allows you to control (or start, or terminate) an XMMS session from your shell's command-line (or a program, or a MIME-aware applic

Bug#335900: O: pyxmms -- Python interface to XMMS

2005-10-26 Thread Florent Rougon
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I cannot work on PyXMMS anymore and am hereby orphaning it. Description: Python interface to XMMS PyXMMS, packaged as python-xmms in Debian, is a set of Python bindings for the libxmms library. With PyXMMS, you can control an XMMS session and manage the XMM

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-25 Thread Florent Rougon
Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not really in favour for this proposal but would you at least read > the rest off the thread. Splitting the packages off makes it easier for > the person responsible for installing packages (i.e. the one with root) > to decide what goes and what doesn't

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-25 Thread Florent Rougon
Tristan Seligmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firing up a normal web browser to view Sexy Losers with is not much > harder than using Dosage to download it. This doesn't take away from the > idea of having a separate package, of course. If the trend to put "unsuitable material" in -off packages

Re: not starting packages at boot

2005-01-25 Thread Florent Rougon
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A bad hack. I hate to drop my own binaries to /usr/sbin. You can make /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d a symlink to the file of your choice under /usr/local. A bit less bad, but wouldn't prevent something undesirable happening if you install a package shipping /usr/sb

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-10 Thread Florent Rougon
Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, it is because the shortcuts are completely non-intuitive. I use > aptitude for the good intuitive keymapping, not for its menu. I see. You find them utterly unintuitive, and are not alone. I don't claim they are really "intuitive" (for what it mea

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-10 Thread Florent Rougon
Blunt Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do I consider this a problem? Not particularly. It is my problem, as > much as anyone's. This is a sophisticated sysadmin tool, and I am only > an occasional sysadmin, by no means sophisticated. So, I guess some people simply don't like the *type* of con

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-10 Thread Florent Rougon
David Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:03:03PM +0100, Florent Rougon wrote: >> [1] I still use both versions and happen to often hit instead of >> when I use sid's one, which doesn't have any bad >> consequences (simpl

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-10 Thread Florent Rougon
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Completely and utterly wrong in my case. I'm exactly the sort of person > that you apparently think should like dselect, but I think aptitude is > _far_ superior, for both experts and newbies. The competition isn't even > close. Did I mention aptitude in

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-10 Thread Florent Rougon
Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Er, these are shortcuts. *shrug* > > Uh, so there is a non-shortcut method of operating? I awaited this comment, but didn't know which other word to use. No, I don't claim there is a non-shortcut method. I would say that dselects' control interface co

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-09 Thread Florent Rougon
Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:30:50PM -0800, Blunt Jackson wrote: >>Having >> "enter" exit the >> selection process (rather than simply selecting the entry) is >> perennially surprising, > > And the need to use upper-Q in conflict resolution to keep the s

Re: Initrd and software raid

2003-12-12 Thread Florent Rougon
Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:48:55AM +0100, Florent Rougon wrote: >> autodetection to manual setting in my GRUB config files and am happy >> with this setup (I hate black magic). > > Black magic can be good for multi path i

Re: Initrd and software raid

2003-12-11 Thread Florent Rougon
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think this is unlikely, since (-s = --scan) is what is used in the >> Debian aforementioned init script for mdadm (/etc/init.d/mdadm-raid). > > That is simply wrong. The mdadm-raid init script uses the mdrun script > which was written IIRC because of fo

Re: Initrd and software raid [was: Initrd rocks!]

2003-12-10 Thread Florent Rougon
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe the kernel raid1 autodetection only works if raid1 is compiled > into the kernel. That is true as explained in: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raid&m=105232695713715&w=2 In short, to get autostart with md compiled as modules, you need to

Re: Tabs v.s. spaces

2003-11-19 Thread Florent Rougon
Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find myself wondering if Duff's Device is implementable in Python... The closest beast I can think of would generate the unrolled loop at runtime and use 'exec' to run it. But this is a bit off topic for d-d. -- Florent

Re: Tabs v.s. spaces

2003-11-18 Thread Florent Rougon
Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You've never had to combine 'patch' and Python programs have you? After > receiving a few created by people with different indent bigotries you > quickly realise why significant whitespace is a fundamentally bad idea. > > I've had to go and ask som

Re: Tabs v.s. spaces

2003-11-18 Thread Florent Rougon
"H. S. Teoh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, you meant autoindenting as you type... I thought you were referring to > indenting tools. As long as it's unintrusive, I'm OK with that. > Unintrusive as in, not anywhere near the atrociousness of MS Word, for > example. Um, wasn't this thread about p

Re: emacs20 obsolete? (Re: How to find all reverse depends of a package?)

2003-11-18 Thread Florent Rougon
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone please tell me how to make Home and End to work as they > did in emacs20, both in console and X? (global-set-key [home] 'beginning-of-buffer) (global-set-key [?\e ?\[ ?1 ?~] 'beginning-of-buffer) (global-set-key [end]

Re: Programming first steps.

2003-11-17 Thread Florent Rougon
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have one grudge against python, though: its mandated indentation looks > very ugly and unstructured to me. Kinda reminds me of COBOL (and boy, do > I have nightmares of having to write COBOL code at school) Well, I often heared about this argument, b

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-17 Thread Florent Rougon
Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately Adrian didn't wrote why he thinks backports aren't > usable for production systems. The only real problem with backports I > see is that there are no guaranted security updates. Er, you missed another big one, then: trust. Trusting the

Re: MailMan Security patch for Woody Broken?

2002-08-15 Thread Florent Rougon
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python 1.5.2 (#0, Jan 13 2002, 13:19:04) [GCC 2.95.4 20011223 (Debian > prerelease)] on linux2 > Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam > >>> ''.lower() > Traceback (innermost last): > File "", line 1, in ? > AttributeError: 's

Re: MailMan Security patch for Woody Broken?

2002-08-15 Thread Florent Rougon
Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> type("dfsfsd") > > [...] > Which Python version are you using? This was typed under 2.2, as written in my mail. > >>> type('foo') > > >>> type("foo") > Yes, this is what you get with 2.1. But David's exception traceback looked more

Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?

2002-08-14 Thread Florent Rougon
Laura Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I (and several other people) are confused. What does > 'the next default python' and 'skipping 2.2 entirely' that Chris Lawrence > writes mean? It means that, if realized, the next Debian release would have: - python 2.3 in the "standard" set

Re: MailMan Security patch for Woody Broken?

2002-08-14 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aug 14 18:48:03 2002 qrunner(1300): AttributeError : 'string' object has > > no > > attribute 'lower' > > This is certainly suspicious, since all Python 'string' objects are supposed > to have a 'lower()' method, as far as I know. I can't loo