Re: Canonical's business model

Thomas Bushnell writes: > No, I think it's because Ubuntu doesn't cooperate well with Debian, > while pretending to cooperate. Does Debian want to cooperate with Ubuntu, and how well does Debian do? What steps could Ubuntu and Debian reasonably take to improve cooperation

Re: unsolvable circular dependencies and package splitting

ere must be more to it. > There shouldn't be any cases that are unsolvable AFAICT. Great, that would mean that there is no need for such an exception. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://

unsolvable circular dependencies and package splitting

e both packages always need eachother, would policy not mandate that both packages be merged? Or maybe policy should be updated to allow circular dependencies in cases that they are `unsolvable', and list those cases? Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

. Ubuntu is considered to be all-great, and Debian users just wants to get all of that in their Debian, real badly. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: dpatch and patching debian/rules

bash: lsb-release: command not found $ lsb_release LSB Version:n/a Hmm. Is n/a an abbreviation for debiaN/unstAble? Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Is Anthony Fok MIA?

lilypond and lilypond-devel are relevant http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-lilypond http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lil

Re: Is Anthony Fok MIA?

d development branches (lilypond/lilypond-snapshot) for sid/sarge, http://www.pedrokroeger.net/lilypond/lilypond.html it would be great to have up to date lilypond packages in Debian, once again. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http:

Re: Is Anthony Fok MIA?

edro told me that. Pedro? Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Anthony Fok MIA?

g mia. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reboot in postinst

Diogo Kollross writes: > shutdown -r now > > inside a postinst script of a package? If you're going do that, you may want to replace /bin/init temporarily to finish the post-reboot part of the installation. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond -

Re: Drop testing

the level of RC. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

In this case, the headers say X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 and $ apt-cache search enigmail mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail - Enigmail - GPG support for Mozilla Thunderbird so we might be seeing more of these if mozilla isn't fixed. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Bits from the RM

tion for such a case. >From the other package's view, how fair was it to allow a partly broken version of Imagemagick enter the distribution, breaking the build on debian? Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org

minimal documentation or usefulness of new package -- teleport?

display help, nor does -h. App dumps core. Cool. Jan. *) the Emacs can be compiled to use GTK+ toolkit -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org

Re: Bug#156503: microsoft changed its policy, msttcorefonts broken

earn. If you write a Free Software application that needs to display text, but you omit a good font, it's useless. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org

Re: Bug#156503: microsoft changed its policy, msttcorefonts broken

st glyphs you'll do (or the first fonts, ftm) will be total crap. But you certainly won't produce a fine font if you give up before trying. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org

Re: Bug#156503: microsoft changed its policy, msttcorefonts broken

our metafont fonts to Type1 (pfa) fonts, needed for postscript and pdf. Greetings, Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

"Zephaniah E\. Hull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Excuse my ignorance but I have no keys labelled AltGr. Which is it? > > The right alt key. And for those of us that type using 10 fingers, what is the compose sequence? =e, $e, |e don't seem to work. Ja

Re: default font resolution in X Windows

ng it to get more text on it. Greetings, Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org