Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jarno Elonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: cfourcc
Version : 0.1.2
Upstream Author : mypapit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://sarovar.org/projects/gfourcc
* License : GPL
Description : Command l
> I'm having trouble verifying release.gpg for Unstable. Has the release key
> been changed to 30B34DD5
Ah, so it has. I just found the announcement which had been filtered to a
wrong mail folder by accident. Sorry.
- Jarno
Hi,
I'm having trouble verifying release.gpg for Unstable. Has the release key
been changed to 30B34DD5, am I doing something wrong or what's up?
After apt-secure failed to "apt-get update" today...
Err http://ftp.fi.debian.org unstable Release
The following signatures couldn't be verifie
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: imediff2
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : Jarno Elonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://iki.fi/elonen/code/imediff/
* License : GPL
Description : interactive full screen 2-way merge tool
Imediff
> > > * lose the article
> > Why?
> >
> > > * do not capitalize the beginning of the description unless a proper
> > > noun, proper adjective, abbreviation, or acronym requires it
> > Why?
Argh, we really should decide these two points now and for good. Just today I
received through DDTP a desc
Hi,
Packages often benefit from having other packages installed but don't
necessary require them, hence 'suggests' and 'recommends'.
Such packages, however, often require additional configuration to make them
work with those optional packages. It's not usually very complicated and
could in man
> That's funny considering just how many people are risking their LIVES to
> get here. Then again, maybe its not, maybe its an insult to the ones
> who've died trying to get here over the years.
I don't think not wanting to go somewhere is an insult to other people who do
want to go there.
> >
> As other people have said: I'm not going, but I don't object to a
> conference in the US per se.
Same here. Even if I had the money to attend, I wouldn't like to travel to the
US because of the new copyright and anti-terrorist laws. Still, I think it's
a good idea to arrange a conference for t
> > Uhhh, nope, sorry. Close them correctly or don't close them at all.
>
> Note, that a new upload, that correctly closes the bugs, will be incorrect
> as well.
>
> The reason for that is [...]
Although I'm not in any way involved in the actual issue:
Thank you for a good and calm explanation, A
> There might be things to think about though: some packages have lots
> of conffiles, and that could mean some extra disk space, which not
> everyone will want to spend. Maybe make it optional.
Bzipping could help, and maybe even tarring them all to one file. As a quick
test, I bzip-tarred my
> Why two-way merge instead of three-way?
Because of...
> Unfortunately neither is currently possible at the moment, simply
> because dpkg doesn't save a copy of the last installed config file
> anywhere.
...this.
I thought it would make big difference to have even 2-way merging now instead
of
> Afaik the original conffile is not available, dpkg just has the md5sum
> of it in /var/lib/dpkg/status. I doubt that two-way-merging is _very_
> useful.
Well, you can now try for yourself. :-)
http://elonen.iki.fi/code/dpkg-merge/
- Jarno
Hi,
I've written an experimental conffile merge support for dpkg.
http://elonen.iki.fi/code/dpkg-merge/ contains the patched dpkg
and a new interactive python & curses based two-way merge tool
called imediff2 (+ 3 screenshots for the impatient).
For those who would like try it:
+ install 'dpk
> I note that few people are cc'ing Hans Reiser on things they seem to
> expect him to respond to; is everybody assuming that he's subscribed to
> debian-devel?
Anyway, now that Ed has come back, let us just wait for him to clarify the
issue with Hans (and/or continue the *license* debate in -leg
> I guess if Reiser doesn't want an fsck/mkreiserfs without
> his beloved credits message, it's time to dump reiserfs from Debian and
> switch to ext3/XFS/whatever.
Please don't. I'm running reiserfs on most of my home system's disks and have
been *very* happy with it (..and don't even have the d
> It's also worth considering that perhaps there is a language difference
> (does Hans have English as a first language?) that make it seem that the
> email seem harsher than it really is. Many Europeans are naturally very
> honest with what they say and at first this comes across as been rude/blun
> ["About" menu item]
> First time users go to them expecting to find out what
> the program does, and instead they get the name of the author and remain
> just as puzzled about what the program itself is for as they were
> before. I hate them.
I see.. :) It has become a GUI idiom though, so most
We are having a small debate about wheter a user has freedom to modify code of
free software when it concerns where a long version of author & sponsor list
is displayed. It has also been speculated that GPL v3 will have a say on
this. Could elaborate what will be in it?
(The following message w
> (Hans Reiser wrote:)
> I look forward to the release of GPL V3 which will hopefully cover fair
> crediting of code as well as documentation, and stem this rising tide of
> plagiarism and political bowlderization by distros.
I think nobody here has anything against keeping all the credits in
doc
> > I may have missed something but why can't the changed/merged
> > configuration files be saved somewhere in preinstall phase and the
> > [...]
>
> Well, for configuration files that require the unpacked
> package to generate, you can't ask during preconfiguration. For files
> created usi
> If the upstream author is rude to me, he does not deserve any
> consideration from myself. If he chooses to alienate his clientele,
> he should expect to reap what he sowed.
The difficulty of their character unfortunately often seems to correlate with
the important of their software. ;
> > I may have missed something but why can't the changed/merged
> > configuration files be saved somewhere in preinstall phase
> > [...]
>
> Again: see my first message and followups for a specific, concrete example
> of why this won't work.
Thanks, I read the thread. So the reason was that confi
> ucf still has the same fundamental problem with regard to preconfiguration,
> which was the primary issue that I raised in my original message. The
> consensus, as I recall, was that preconfiguration is important, and that
> prompting in postinst should be minimized.
I may have missed something
> But for mailing lists it would be annoying to have to add an
> extra-header each time you want to write to the list. And there are
> people who don't use mutt or gnus and can't easily add arbitrary
> headers. I really think that this auto-approval thingie is just a
> temporary measure until we do
>
> If english people don't even know what "lex" means, they should make a
> damn effort and and learn it, or at least try to see if they can.
>
> The rest of people on Earth using computers have been having headaches
> learning stupid english slang words like widgets, gadgets or applets for
> yea
Just to bring the uninitiated like me up to date about ways to upgrade changed
dpkg conffiles, I would greatly appreciate if someone with insight could
summarize the current status:
+ How emotional has the discussion on this topic been in the past?
Scale: 0 (mostly technical) ... 5 (flamewar
> I'd hardly call it plagiarism. Your copyright is, by will of our own
> policy and to abide by authors wishes, distributed with the tools in
> /usr/share/doc//copyright.
Ah.. I guess Hans is referring to the author list in README?
The package maintainer probably looked at COPYING (contains GPL, a
> > In England there is a move to remove all the Latin and obscure language
> > from the Law, so I would suggest that the project should be called
> > Debian-law not Debian-lex.
>
> "lex" is the better word, as it is not only known in English, but also
> in most other (roman) Languages for law.
Th
Would it already be time for a long term solution that no doubt has been
discussed sometimes in the past:
looking at configuration files in /etc and ~/.*, most of them are actually
very simple. Instead of treating them as flat files with arbitrary content
and *generating* the managed ones from
> Evil army is attacking your country and tries to steal your oil. Your
> mission is to waste the invaders, protect the oil and save your mother
> land.
I'm not quite sure if you these joke games of current interest really deserve
to go in the repository.. They usually have no playability nor any
I'm now getting a redefinition error and couldn't easily figure it out:
In file included from conf_analysis_yy.h:5,
from conf_analysis.yy:7:
/usr/include/FlexLexer.h:112: redefinition of `class yyFlexLexer'
/usr/include/FlexLexer.h:112: previous definition of `clas
> Problem is we still have lots of users who will be wondering where
> their graphics have gone and will be filing bug reports against all sorts
> of packages, as well as creating all sorts of bogus links to the
> wrong shared libraies to work around the problem. (Have a look in
> debian-kde)
How
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