Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Frederic Peters
Hi, > Simon McVittie wrote (30 Aug 2015 15:41:32 GMT) : > >> Or even noconnectivity at all > >> (which at least Android and Windows actively check for using a call-home > >> mechanism.) > > > Both NetworkManager and ConnMan are able to do that, although I don't > > know whether that's enabled in

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Frederic Peters
Michael Banck wrote: > I think it probably makes sense to have this on by default for stable > and off by default for testing/unstable. I assume the default option is > not configurable? > > Even better might be a first-boot question asking the user about it, but > I am not sure such a framework

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Frederic Peters
Hi, Michael Banck wrote: > Package: network-manager > Severity: wishlist > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:46:24AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > > It’s gnome-software in sid, or g-s-d in jessie, querying PackageKit for > > > updates. > > > The default policy is to not schedule any downloads when

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-26 Thread Frederic Peters
Michael Meskes wrote: > > update, you will have chosen to do that by clicking the "Reboot and > > Restart" button. > > Eh? This neither makes sense nor is it true. A "Reboot and Restart" button > (if such a thing existed, could this be a typo?) would not give you any hint > whatsoever that the re

Re: Bug#784405: ITP: rnetclient -- Client to submit the Brazilian Income Tax Report to the Brazilian Tax Authority

2015-05-07 Thread Frederic Peters
Hi, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > What's the real point of this package? One actually needs to install > the tax-report-building program from RFB (IRPF20xx) to have anything for > rnetclient to transmit, at which point you might as well install > ReceitaNet since you're already running RF

Re: Debian PHP upgrade

2015-03-25 Thread Frederic Peters
Hi Andile, > Im not sure why Gareth said PHP, I’m referring to Apache 2.2.22. > > The below vulnerabilities seem to affect this version: > > CVE-2014-0231 > ... As Paul noted earlier, you can use https://security-tracker.debian.org/

Re: Bug#754551: ITP: node-ms -- milliseconds conversion utility

2014-07-12 Thread Frederic Peters
Steve McIntyre wrote: > I've seen ITPs for a massive set of tiny-looking node libraries go > past on -devel in the last few months, so I thought it was about time > I looked at one. I'm a bit worried by what I've seen, considering > typical discussions in the past about really small packages. > >

Re: GNOME upstream portability [was: Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce]

2013-10-24 Thread Frederic Peters
Hi, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > [Another new topic, sorry -develites] > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 06:38:31PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 18:31 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? > > > > > > That was a big strengh of

Bug#615085: ITP: yelp-xsl -- XSL stylesheets for the yelp help browser

2011-02-25 Thread Frederic Peters
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Frederic Peters * Package name: yelp-xsl Version : 2.91.90 Upstream Author : Shaun McCance * License : LGPL (+ MIT and AGPL bits) Programming Lang: XSL Description : XSL stylesheets for the yelp help browser Yelp-xsl

Re: GNOME 3 and panel applets

2011-02-24 Thread Frederic Peters
Josselin Mouette wrote: > If you develop, maintain or use one of those packages, and you don’t > want it to disappear, your options are now: > > 1. Prepare to disable gnome-panel support (that’s for packages > which already have other options, such as using the notification >

Bug#579924: ITP: iptraf-ng -- Interactive Colorful IP LAN Monitor

2010-05-02 Thread Frederic Peters
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Frederic Peters Owner: Frederic Peters * Package name: iptraf-ng Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Gerard Paul Java * URL : https://fedorahosted.org/iptraf-ng * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Re: Bug#550860: ITP: gnaughty -- downloader for adult content

2009-10-13 Thread Frederic Peters
Michal Čihař wrote: > * Package name: gnaughty > Version : 1.2.0 > Upstream Author : Troy McClure > * URL : http://gnaughty.sourceforge.net/ > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: C > Description : downloader for adult content > > Program to automatical

Re: DeviceKit and /usr

2009-09-08 Thread Frederic Peters
Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > >>Case 2: > >>char *foo = g_strdup_printf ("%s equals %i", somestring, > >>someint); > > > >>Pick your choice. > > > >Case 1, please. Either case 2 fails to handle the allocation error, or glib > >is doing its own abort. Neither is acceptable. > > >

Re: RFH: wireshark, libgphoto2, exif, etc.

2008-03-07 Thread Frederic Peters
Joost Yervante Damad wrote: > I would be willing to help co-maintain wireshark. Thanks; I'll get to use svn-inject to put it in collab-maint, then it will be easy to share work. Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: RFH: wireshark, libgphoto2, exif, etc.

2008-03-07 Thread Frederic Peters
Michael Biebl wrote: > > I should have done this earlier). I am all for alioth but no news yet > > about my request for a pkg-wireshark project. > > I'm not sure if you need a separate wiki, mailing-list etc for a package > like wireshark. > So maybe collab-maint is sufficient for your needs. I

Re: RFH: wireshark, libgphoto2, exif, etc.

2008-03-07 Thread Frederic Peters
Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I'd be pleased to welcome your photo-related packages (libgphoto, exif, > etc.) into the pkg-phototools group. I'm currently lacking time a bit, > but I should be able to step in during the next week. Ok, I may be able to get a few hours on Sunday to upload a new libgphot

RFH: wireshark, libgphoto2, exif, etc.

2008-03-07 Thread Frederic Peters
Hello all, I was away then I got back and got buried by work and misc real life things, and Debian release critical bugs :( I have been on the http://wiki.debian.org/LowThresholdNmu list for a long time and I want to encourage you all to consider this and step for NMU, or team-maintenance (especi

Re: Bug#406495: ITP: odt2txt -- simple converter from OpenDocument Text to plain text

2007-01-12 Thread Frederic Peters
Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > With odt2txt you just need to run "odt2txt file.odt" and you will get > the text output from it. I have been piping odf2html (from odfreader package) into lynx to get similar effect. I just tested odt2txt and the output is roughly similar; but odt2txt seems much sl

Re: madison not working correctly on merkel

2006-12-17 Thread Frederic Peters
Luk Claes wrote: > Julian Gilbey wrote: > > I've noticed (and I'm not the only one) that the package database as > > access by madison on merkel is no longer up-to-date. Does anyone know > > why? Could someone rectify this situation, please? > > The updates have not been reactivated since the m

Group for camera users

2006-10-15 Thread Frederic Peters
Hello, I maintain libgphoto2 and way back when I adopted the package it has manual instructions and they were about creating a 'camera' group and so on. I added default hotplug (and now udev) support and created 'camera' group in postinst. At the same time there was much work on 'project utopia'

Re: stale lock files

2006-09-13 Thread Frederic Peters
Brian May wrote: > * liferea: displays an error and terminates; the lock file must be > manually deleted. For the record, Lars Lindner (author of liferea) recently wrote: But for v1.1 I rewrote the code to use libbacon (which GUniqueApp also uses, there was a thread on this list some weeks a

Re: debian zeroconf group?

2006-02-24 Thread Frederic Peters
Joey Hess wrote: > If people agree let me know and I can do the standard alioth dance. I would be interested in participating in such a group. Regards, Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for someone to adopt pdftohtml

2005-02-27 Thread Frederic Peters
Søren Boll Overgaard wrote: > So, if anyone uses or cares about pdftohtml, please step up, otherwise I will > work out an arrangement with the maintainer of the depending package mentioned > above. I use pdftohtml in a private project (actually only pdftohtml -xml for its XML output) and will ado

Re: #284724: Interpretation of NON-BREAK SPACE

2005-02-12 Thread Frederic Peters
Ross Burton wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 13:18 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python -c 'print "hello world"' > > File "", line 1 > > print "hello world" > > ^ > > SyntaxError: invali

Re: #284724: Interpretation of NON-BREAK SPACE

2005-02-12 Thread Frederic Peters
Alastair McKinstry wrote: > As this is not a shell-specific problem, I was really wondering if the > scripting languages had encountered it, particularly the 'we support > Unicode' ones... like Perl and Python... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python -c 'printÂ"hello world"' File "", line 1 printÂ"he

Re: a project with libglib2.0-dev

2005-01-10 Thread Frederic Peters
Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: > I'm developing an application using libglib2.0-dev and automake 1.7. I'm > using AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0 macro in my configure.ac. In the default > installation, aclocal fails to find the macro unless I link > /usr/share/aclocal/glib-2.0.m4 to /usr/share/aclocal-1.7. Probably

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-06 Thread Frederic Peters
Marc Sherman wrote: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > >That makes me wonder. I know that there are tools like cron-apt that > >will perform apt-related tasks through cron jobs. Is there a way to > >make it (or another tool) download the changelogs and email you any > >new ones? > > I just filed a

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-05 Thread Frederic Peters
Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > I'm learning making debian packages. I think debian-mentors@ would be more approriate. > I get the error message you can see at the bottom of this post. > I dont understand it. Would you help me? > > Especially where to tell the package builder not to us

Bug#209058: ITP: gnome-blog -- GNOME applet to post to BloggerAPI weblogs

2003-09-07 Thread Frederic Peters
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-07 Severity: wishlist * Package name: gnome-blog Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Seth Nickell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-blog/0.5 * License : GPL Description

Re: ITO packages: ntop, apt-show-source

2003-05-21 Thread Frederic Peters
> > Package: ntop > > I'd like to take this one. I have been using it for a long time and > is quite experienced with the code. -> Dennis: I think Ola is better than me for this package (since I have not much experience with ntop code), forget my offer. Frederic

Re: ITO packages: ntop, apt-show-source

2003-05-21 Thread Frederic Peters
> Package: ntop > Description: display network usage in top-like format > ntop is a Network Top program. It displays a summary of network > usage by machines on your network in a format reminiscent of the > unix top utility. > . > It can also be run in web mode, which allows the display to be

Re: Webmin works... was Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

2000-09-08 Thread Frederic Peters
Seth Cohn wrote : > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Frederic Peters wrote: > > - webmin: I think it is useful (and nice) not to have to launch mozilla > >to add an user or change a password. > Excuse me? if you don't want to launch a browser (and NOT mozilla thank > you... A

Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

2000-09-07 Thread Frederic Peters
ant to replace it at all. It is just not suited for some tasks - linuxconf: Marco d'Itri sent a comment I agree with (excepted for the insecure part where I don't have enough knowledge to judge) -- Frederic Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>« Le travail a été ce que l'homme D

Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

2000-09-06 Thread Frederic Peters
that if > you're using the GUI tools you aren't sticking comments into your > configuration :P ) [1] Using standard Debian configuration files; no /etc/sysconfig/ here. > > PS2: _don't_ send me copies of your mails. I'm subscribed to debian-devel. > Aren&#

Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

2000-09-06 Thread Frederic Peters
Jules Bean wrote : > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:24:28PM +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: > > So I drew the conclusion that what Debian needs for those users is simple > > GUI tools. [some will respond here with "we don't want those users" and I > > won't a

Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

2000-09-06 Thread Frederic Peters
oesn't deal really well with user-modified files (something I think is mandatory). Frederic -- Frederic Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>« Le travail a été ce que l'homme Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.debian.org a trouvé de mieux pour ne rien Gaby : http://gaby.netpe

Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

2000-09-06 Thread Frederic Peters
done. (actually I looked at the old code but I didn't like Perl enough to understand half the lines). -- Frederic Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>« Le travail a été ce que l'homme Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.debian.org a trouvé de mieux pour ne rien Gaby : http://gaby

Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

2000-09-06 Thread Frederic Peters
le to modify those values as he/she is going through > the options, if they are wrong. Actually the boot floppies already does that nicely. (and yes, it is nice) -- Frederic Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>« Le travail a été ce que l'homme Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.debian.org

Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

2000-09-05 Thread Frederic Peters
000 09:02 100k Regards, Frederic -- Frederic Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>« Le travail a été ce que l'homme Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.debian.org a trouvé de mieux pour ne rien Gaby : http://gaby.netpedia.net faire de sa vie. » R. Vaneigem -- To U

RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

2000-09-05 Thread Frederic Peters
don't have tested yet. It would be a good idea to avoid duplicated work. PS2: _don't_ send me copies of your mails. I'm subscribed to debian-devel. -- Frederic Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>« Le travail a été ce que l'homme Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.debian.org a t

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

1998-04-17 Thread Frederic Peters
, I'm waiting your ideas about the jpg file (I think about something like the top of the debian web page + some cool stuff made with the gimp), and I will try to mix them and make a great login screen. Scripts are also welcome since my knowledge of tcl/tk isn't high. -- Frederic Peters

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

1998-04-12 Thread Frederic Peters
cool. I am ok to make a great login screen. For graphics, I am not the man. Why not call for graphics from the web site like when we were looking for a logo ? That's all. -- Frederic Peters There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't