Re: Proposed change to debian release system

2003-12-14 Thread Isaac To
> "Henning" == Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Henning> I stand corrected, apparently. (But I have yet to imagine which Henning> arguments would be used against doing a release if we happen to Henning> find testing in a freezeable state 6 months after sarge Henning>

Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call

2003-12-02 Thread Isaac To
> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jonathan> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:08:17PM +0100, Andreas Metzler Jonathan> wrote: >> Afaik: 2.4.23 contains literally 100s of changes, one of these was a >> small change to do_brk(), which looked like a normal non-

Re: Tabs v.s. spaces

2003-11-18 Thread Isaac To
> "Scott" == Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Scott> You've never had to combine 'patch' and Python programs have you? Scott> After receiving a few created by people with different indent Scott> bigotries you quickly realise why significant whitespace is a Scott>

Re: Tabs v.s. spaces

2003-11-18 Thread Isaac To
> "Wouter" == Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> Significant whitespace? Shudder, that brings back crusty old Tom> memories of Fortran. I have great fondness for fortran because of Tom> the wonderful mathematical algorithms in LinPack, but I have no Tom> fondnes

Re: Tabs v.s. spaces

2003-11-17 Thread Isaac To
> "Tom" == Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> Do whitespace mistakes cause compile time errors? The frustrating Tom> thing about fortran was variable names that started with C could be Tom> interpreted as comments not indented correctly, which would just Tom> cause that lin

Re: Tabs v.s. spaces

2003-11-17 Thread Isaac To
> "Tom" == Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> Significant whitespace? Shudder, that brings back crusty old Tom> memories of Fortran. I have great fondness for fortran because of Tom> the wonderful mathematical algorithms in LinPack, but I have no Tom> fondness for signific

Re: Tabs v.s. spaces

2003-11-17 Thread Isaac To
> "H" == H S Teoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: H> I have a hate-hate relationship with it. I much prefer free-style H> syntax where the programmer is allowed to use his best judgment on H> how to indent the code. Of course, in less-than-ideal projects, or H> projects with less-t

Re: Tabs v.s. spaces

2003-11-17 Thread Isaac To
> "H" == H S Teoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: H> That would mean 95% of non-trivial XSLT stylesheets would need to be H> rewritten... Or perhaps the XSLT language itself needs to be rewritten. Regards, Isaac.

Re: libc6-i686 only for 2.6 kernels? was: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-10 Thread Isaac To
> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:17:13PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:43:09PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > And >> Nikita just pointed out there's libc6-i686. It might make sense to >> add >

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-08-23 Thread Isaac To
> "Martin" == Martin Godisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> What's the preferred way to do this check? Consider, some shell Martin> is installed with its appropriate entry in /etc/shells. Now, we Martin> remove it: the entry will be deleted from /etc/shells, which Martin>

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-08-20 Thread Isaac To
> "cobaco" == cobaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cobaco> Basically, it's the difference between having a sysadmin cobaco> spending fifteen minutes every day or week tweaking your server cobaco> to keep it running, or having a sysadmin come in for a week once cobaco> a year to

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-08-20 Thread Isaac To
> "cobaco" == cobaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cobaco> kde 3.2 release is slated for 8th december[1], is there any cobaco> chance we'll wait for it, just so the outdated kde label doesn't cobaco> apply again immediately after release? But does the first few paragraphs of RM's o

Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages

2003-07-04 Thread Isaac To
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> Couldn't you write a new document along the lines of "This is Brian> based on RFC1341 with the following exceptions "? Brian> That way you can see exactly what differences there are to the Brian> known standard, at

Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages

2003-07-04 Thread Isaac To
> "Jérôme" == Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jérôme> But we absolutely don't want to do this. Jérôme> It is just like modifying someone else' speach and Jérôme> redistributing it without changing the author's name. Jérôme> It is obvious it should be out of the scop

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-18 Thread Isaac To
> "Eduard" == Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eduard> And do we know this? Why not trying to talk with other Eduard> distributors to try to coordinate our efforts. When they are too Eduard> arogant and continue doing cludges, then we can put this in the Eduard> Debian-