For some time I've been more or less MIA, but in the past month or so
it became impossible for me to do debian work: the processor in my
desktop, my only Debian machine (the only other machine I own has a
proprietary, non-Linux compatible (Airport Extreme) wifi card)
released its magic smok
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 12:43, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> * UTF-8 console with English locale
> * UTF-8 console with Japanese locale
Why are these different? It isn't really laid out in the document
linked; does this mean different input methods?
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streaming audio and/or video media
> from the internet using the MMS protocol. Downloaded streams can then be
> replayed offline at your leisure, using any compatible media player of your
> choice (not included).
Do you have a definition of MMS? MultiMedia Stream?
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ient-side libraries (originally from XFree86),
> are a collection of various essential client-side libraries for using
> X11; these are a replacement for the XFree86 libraries that currently
> reside under the 'xlibs' package.
Replace the semicolon with a period, and s/these/xli
is a faster and more featureful alternative
to the XFree86 X server. It contains features like the XDamage and aXe
extensions and a full composite model for aRGB windows.
However, it does not yet have 3D support and it currently relies on
VESA/framebuffer support to operate.
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es you publish)
This is a good, though perhaps too detailed, long description.
A general (non-ITP-related) question: Is ENTROPY related to Freenet in
any way?
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ges:
s/This class/Tree::DAG_Node/ in the first sentence of the second
paragraph; s/itself, but/itself but/ in the second line;
s/a tree,/a tree/ in the third-last line.
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tive and ignoring
certain elements.
I think that's all that needs to be said in the description of such a
package.
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would like it more if the description listed just what it can
administer (or at least some examples of it.) Can it administer any LDAP
server? What about inputting data?
The last two sentences seem fairly marketspeak-ish. We don't really need
them in a Debian description.
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VisioBraille braille terminal. ..."
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ey must be unlocked so they can be managed again.
This doesn't seem like something which should be in a description, but
maybe I'm out to lunch.
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uot;licence here".
This is too detailed. Summarise the major features of the package and
present it in an easy-to-read format.
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ilar to
the proposed description of mecab. Should this be the case? All of my
comments apply to the descriptions of those packages too. More
information which differentiates the packages should be added.
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he powerpoint-ization of the language).
For example:
... Among its features are:
* The ability to process both alert and log files in parallel,
choosing the one which contains the most information on a
particular event.
I'm not actually sure whether stylistically, "The" should
ea to have a separate mention of ACL and regular
user/group file permissions.
Some mention of just what ACLs are and why one would want to manage them
should be added.
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On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 11:11, Roberto Moreda wrote:
> * Package name: oinkmaster
> Description : Simple snort rules manager
The capitalisation of "Simple" and "snort" should be reversed. I would
also remove "simple" altogether, but perhaps that's an important feature
(as if there would be
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 10:58, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:59:45PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote:
> > The mozilla-locale* packages need some uniformity to their short (and
> > maybe long, I haven't looked) descriptions.
> >
> > ("Mozilla $L
or? Then why should you uninstall
a program?" Unarchive is just as bad a word as uninstall.
> I'd suggest something along the lines of "tool for extracting ACE
> archives" instead.
This is a good short description.
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Language Package", "Mozilla $LANG language add-on",
"Mozilla $LANG language/region pack" are all examples)
I suggest "Mozilla $LANG language support package", perhaps without
"support."
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ts: HTML, PDF, Postscript, WinWord, PowerPoint, OpenOffice
Again, s/fulltext/full text/g.
What does this mean? Can I search Zope using this index? More details
should be added.
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n the kinterbasdb. The DA is developed and tested for
> heavy production use.
"zope-kinterbasedbda is an Interbase 6/Firebird 1 database adapter for
Zope 2.5.x. It has been developed and tested for heavy production use."
This is pretty spare, but is there anything else to say ab
hey
> haven't been uploaded yet. I can send the control files to anyone who's
> interested.
Feel free to send the short and long description for any packages to me.
I'll get to them when I can.
Also note that I am on the l10n-english list too, so feel free to send
things there.
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:
> s/Powerful /gnome /
In the long description this is ok, but just make the short description
"sound editor."
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my first bad writtent ITP, please ? (Bug #219200)
I have done so.
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On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 08:01, Duck wrote:
> ircservices-ptlink provides powerful IRC services (NickServ, ChanServ,
> MemoServ, NewsServ and OperServ) for the PTlink IRC server. Vlinks,
> securemode, guestnicks and logonnews are supported.
Very good.
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On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 07:41, Duck wrote:
> Songwrite is a guitar tablature (fingering notation) editor and player,
> quite similar to TablEdit.
> In addition to tablatures, it also supports staff, lyrics and drums.
> Printing and playing support are available through external programs.
> Songw
packages).
The last sentence should probably read:
Services and Open Proxy Monitor (OPM) are in separate packages.
This is a very good description.
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s well.
> Gnome Jabber is an instant message client for Gnome using the Jabber
> protocol.
I hope your long description will expand from here!
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ething which is broken in CVS but
works in the latest released version.
If there is a specific, localized patch in any branch which fixes a bug,
by all means apply it. But please use *released* versions always as a
base.
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in the dependencies. (Also, I don't
think many people (if any!) are doing new development based on GTK 1.2.)
If you do decide to include the "2" information, however, don't say
GTK+-2; instead, "GTK+ 2.n" (where n is specified) or "GTK+ 2" (if it
doesn
le; if people want to know that,
they'll look at Depends.
2) Add a little bit about just what capabilities gnusound has. Can
it apply filters? Do a frequency analysis? etc.
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col which are compatible with
the PTlink IRC server.
I'm not certain about what you're trying to say with the last phrase
(rewritten as the last sentence in my version), so please correct as
necessary.
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ot; to "G-line" or perhaps "G: line" to emphasize that it is
the IRC configuration line and not some strange verb that the reader
hasn't heard of.
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an worlded do to the Ark world? How
does it relate to the packages arkrpg and arkhart? Why would I use it?
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etal animation, and
> triangle-accurate collision detection. It also contains tools to create world
> and quests, and loaders for the most common low-polygon 3D formats.
> .
> This package provides the former world crafted for this kernel.
This is a good description otherwise.
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ead of talking about how Songwrite relates to GTablature, mention
its history in one sentence and then describe what Songwrite (and thus,
GTablature) does.
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Marc Dequènes wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: py2play
Version : 0.1.5
Upstream Author : Jiba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL or Web page : http://oomadness.tuxfamily.org/
* License : GPL
Description : A pe
it is. For
example:
Description: music catalog program
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On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 18:30, Julien Delange wrote:
> Please excuse me, but I'm french, and my english is maybe poor. But, I
> try to write sentences, which can be understand.
Which is exactly why we send friendly corrections :)
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ng for resources to be
> collected and converted into weaponry. Players can join or leave
> multiplayer games at any time.
Might want to split that into multiple paragraphs, but looks good.
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ch game.
gngeogui uses GTK for its graphical interface."
(Feel free to ignore the last sentence.)
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ed in many different types of archive files.
The PhysicsFS filesystem abstraction library provides a simple C
interface to aid game programmers in utilizing game assets packaged in
many different types of archive files.
(Maybe list some examples of this.)
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"foo is a GNOME application which frobs data especially for Tillie.
[etc]"
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RAM-based filesystem.
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David B Harris wrote:
As much as you may dislike it, people care about toolkit. I don't
understand the witch-hunt to remove references to such things.
Short description is a limited resource. By all means, put GTK or GNOME
in the long description if it is deemed necessary; apt searches will
still
Arne Schwabe wrote:
* Package name: azureus
Version : 2.0.3.0
Upstream Author : Olivier Chalouhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
Description : a java bittorrent client
I'm not sure about "java", but the word "a" s
Daniel E. Markle wrote:
* Package name: gmasqdialer
Version : 0.99.13
Upstream Author : David Pinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.dpinson.com/software/gmasqdialer/
* License : (GPL)
Description : gtk/gnome client for masqdialer server
How about "c
Sam Hocevar wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: gtklookat
Version : 0.13.0
Upstream Author : Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.openvrml.org/
* License : GPL
Description : VRML viewer for GTK+
Short description shouldn'
#x27; comment. I have no evidence to back that up,
though.
Emacs would be a good editor for the Overfiend, though.
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> ::that::writing::package::descriptions::which::rely::entirely::on::one's
> ::understanding of::what::other::packages::do::is::uncommon.
I really hope you used sed or some workalike to accomplish that.
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x27;s premise...
> We've gone through this many times already. Upstream changes should
> not be documented in the Debian changelog, even if they fix bugs in
> the Debian BTS.
... and follow the bouncing ball.
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Herbert Xu wrote:
This is bullshit.
We've gone through this many times already. Upstream changes should
not be documented in the Debian changelog, even if they fix bugs in
the Debian BTS.
Fine. Then don't close them with the Debian changelog at all; instead,
use [EMAIL PROTECTED], with an explana
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:56, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Yes, perhaps you're right ... it's a different vision, but perhaps not
> > so bad ;-)
>
> It's just a matter of grokking the direction, making sure you know what it
> means, and why we're doing it.
For those who don't quite agree with GNOME's dir
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 01:42, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Teófilo Ruiz Suárez
>
> | What about Apache? Should we change the apache2 package to apache?
>
> No. (Wearing apache & apache2 maintainer hat.)
What are the criteria for the apache package to become Apache 2?
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 14:54, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> On that note i heard from people in south america (with quite a
> bit of local and national support) who wanted to hold next years
> debconf/camp. This might be a good time for them to make their
> preliminary plans heard.
I've been waiting fo
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 22:09, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:22:00PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>
> > Next Debconf is scheduled to be held in Vancouver, Canada.
>
> That would be excellent. Who is organizing it?
Me, if it ends up happening in Vancouver.
On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 04:02 AM, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
wrote:
Just curious: why not NEWS.gz for native packages?
It's prohibitively difficult to detect whether any given file is in
debian changelog format.
NEWS[.gz] exists in many packages already, and is of no particular
format
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 02:05 AM, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:53:57PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
Joey Hess has mentioned, and I agree (see 199722), that debconf notes
should really be named (and should always be interpreted as) warnings.
Huh. I thought it was supposed to
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 17:23, Herbert Xu wrote:
> I'd prefer no interaction at all during installation. I'm perfectly
> able to read documenation thank you very much.
Happily, the noninteractive debconf frontend exists.
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 14:00, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > It does not belong in debconf. Put it in the changelog -- users who
> > want to know what's changing on their system should be looking there
> > anyway, and tools such as apt-listchanges make it easier and ever to
> > access changelog informat
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 19:05, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Will GNOME2 be soon completely available in Sarge?
Yes.
> Is it a work in progress?
Yes.
> Or is it an accident which no one cares about?
No.
On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 02:54 PM, Branden Robinson wrote:
what
dependencies of -dev packages really mean. There are at least three
possibilities, and no Policy on which is controlling:
1) just what the package actually needs to install successfully (which
is usually nothing);
2) just packa
On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 08:10 PM, Jonathan Oxer wrote:
Maybe a reasonable compromise would be to have 2 'official' debconfs /
year, as 'Debconf North' and 'Debconf South' (as in Northern and
Southern hemisphere).
I've got no problem with this. I wouldn't really even have any problem
with a De
On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 03:28 AM, Colin Walters wrote:
Pyblosxom is so-named because it was inspired by the blosxom package.
Does pyblosxom offer any features which blosxom proper doesn't?
I have no objection to the existence of a Debian conference in the US,
particularly given that people are clamouring for one. (I probably
won't go, though.)
However, I have been bothered by something for a while now: there is no
real way to distinguish debconf from some other Debian conference,
On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 22:07, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> What are other developers' feelings on the matter these days?
While convenient for american developers, there are rather a number of
non-american developers who will not set foot on American soil, due in
part to the DMCA and (I imagine) the appar
On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 03:23, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If the worst does happen, and we need to remove all mp3 players from
> > Debian, many packages will be affected. Most of these are because of
>
> Why no non-free versi
uggestions are welcome.
Attached are the lists of reverse dependencies for the packages I could
think of.
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alsaplayer
alsaplayer-alsa
alsaplayer-comm
sources to establish the precedent or our not-liable-ness, and so must
simply bow to the patent holder's request - i.e., they get what they
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> governed by the U.S. Constitution. That makes me doubly-damned
> according to the Republican Party, I think. "*FREE SPEECH* for
> *FOREIGNERS*!?!??? WHAT KIND OF GODLESS HEATHEN COMMONIST[sic] CRAP IS
> THIS?"
Thank God for multi-party systems.
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On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 10:16, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:44:03PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 18:34, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > Also since this depends on mpg321 it'd have to be in non-US.
> >
> > Certainly not. mpg32
, I'm going to ask that mpg321 be removed from
Debian altogether.
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On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 15:34, James A. Treacy wrote:
> Do entire dependency chains need to be specified for Build-Depends?
No, absolutely not - only the packages the program needs directly. That
is, all Depends: are automatically pulled in.
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Debconf 3 to be held in Oslo, from Friday July 18th to
> Sunday July 20th.
You'll be interested in bug#152529, which details the request for a
debian-conference list. This will help all debconfs in the future,
whenever it gets created.
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's a bit strange that Debian's using a registration page running on
IIS, but that's just the way things fell. Lindows.com did us a favour --
without them there wouldn't have been *any* registration form. Remember
that.
I hope this is the last of my replies to this thread.
f he waited until he could do it so well that
no one would find fault with what he had done."
- John Henry Cardinal Newman
"Nobody ever did anything so well that no one could find fault with it."
- Leo Menard, my grandfather
The latter is especially true.
I'm finished talking
d I completely
understand that this is a very big deal for many people. It's just that
I'm more concerned about getting the job done at this point in time than
how it's being done.
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Nobody has.
Nobody's even suggested they might have done it.
Frankly, this is tiring me out. In reference to nobody in particular, if
all we're going to do is flame on about Free vs proprietary software for
the rest of this thread, let's just drop it.
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nd mirrors which happen to
be hosted or paid for by proprietary vendors.
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support with open arms provided they don't try to subvert our
principles. A web page on a proprietary OS doesn't subvert our
principles, IMO.
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On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 15:03, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Joe Drew wrote:
> > Let me re-iterate this for people who might not have gotten the message:
> >
> > LINDOWS.COM HAS SPENT REAL MONEY ON DEBCONF 2 AND DESERVES SUPPORT, NOT
> > SCORN.
>
> While I don't wan
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 13:39, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Joe Drew wrote:
> > The 2nd Annual Debian Conference registration page is now available at
> > http://lindows.com/debconf2 . Thanks go to Lindows.com for hosting the
> > web page and all their gracious help.
>
> [...]
trictions placed upon us by the freeze I
consider this acceptable (though not optimal).
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aj, I assume you won't allow a solution that needs everything using
libsmpeg to be recompiled. Is this true?
Can anybody help? See bug#140572 for more background.
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Attached is a list of packages which depend on smpeg, and will therefore
have to be removed if smpeg is removed.
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Reverse Depends:
prboom,libsmpeg0 0.4.3-2
prboom,libsmpeg0 0.4.3-2
smpeg-xmms,
pointer to integer
assignments), but those lines contain char* to char* assignments (in
configure - actually, the particular lines mentioned are comments, but I
assume there's an off-by-one bug.). In short, I'm stumped.
Is there any way to get configure to leave its failed test programs
ion to this. See bug 120515: libtool was
assuming that ARM (and anything it didn't recognise) was using glibc
2.1.1 or lower, and therefore making things fail. Re-running libtoolize
(with package 1.4.2-4 or higher) should fix this problem.
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lopen flag.
Now, I only have direct access to i386 and hppa boxes, which both
frustratingly work perfectly with smpeg-xmms, so I can't fix this
easily. Does anybody have any idea how to force libtool to make .so
files? Is it possible to fix this any other way?
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On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 06:38, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> I've noticed that Evolution (1.0-4) is very prone to report bad
> signatures. To start with I thought it was down to use by the sender of
> a particular mailer, but I am beginning to doubt that.
This is a known bug in Evolution: see
http://bugz
Is dpkg-statoverride meant to be used in a package, or only by sysadmins?
I've got a package which currently asks whether the svgalib binary
should be installed suid root. The safest way to do this, of course,
would be to ship it 755, and then add the suid bit later. However,
on installation, if th
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:53:46PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> Since the latest update of glibc (libc6-2.2-8) in unstable, several
> games, such as ut436, gltron, terminus ceased to work, exiting with a
> SIGSEGV error. What up?
I'm seeing this as well. Reverting to -5 fixed it (maybe a later v
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 09:46:25AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote:
> Package: communicator (debian/contrib)
> Maintainer: Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 60193 communicator: buss error when replying to message
Communicator is a meta package. This bug should be reassigned to
the version of netsc
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:11:08PM -0400, Bill White wrote:
> I hope this is not a foolish question. I have looked at the
> FAQ and the Debian web page, but I haven't found the answer.
I, too, was faced with this not too long ago. It's not a difficult
fix but it's not obvious.
> What's the best
> > Wordperfect is the only app they have ported as a
> > Native linux binary, and after version 8, they
> > probably won't be doing a linux native binary version.
> > So WP version 9 will be a win32 binary under Wine.
>
> Are you sure? Wine is not only a binary-compatibility system; it also a
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 01:45:55AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> In order to help remove unnecessary prompts from the Debian PostgreSQLl
> installation script, I want it to guess the local date style, to be chosen
> from the following list:
> [...]
> I propose to include the attached script. If th
I've received an OK from the author of Rael's Binary Grabber to redistribute
modified versions for Debian (disallowed by the original license). He
seemed enamoured with being able to say that his package was part of Debian;
it was almost difficult to tell him that it won't be an official part, sinc
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 04:36:22PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote:
> Of course this depends on one's level of paranoia. Using crypto wisely and
> effectively is a matter of keeping one's paranoia high, but not reducing it
> ad absurdum (how do you know I'm not an alien with space/time travel
> tec
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 05:11:10PM +0900, Germano Leichsenring wrote:
>
> By the way, am I the only one grepping the "available" file??
Nope. I too find it necessary when I don't want to connect to the
debian website. =)
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