Re: Hosting the original youtube-dl sources on salsa?

2020-11-02 Thread John Hasler
tice procedure which the complainant must follow. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Be nice to your fellow Debian colleagues

2020-01-01 Thread John Hasler
in the decision making. As Sam and Roberto explain below (doing a much better job than I did), there are, nor did I intend to imply that there were not. There are no *formal* ones such as participation in GRs. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Be nice to your fellow Debian colleagues

2020-01-01 Thread John Hasler
the DDs of ignoring me would be ridiculous. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: CUT rolling release debian BUT a cautionary comment

2015-03-06 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: I've been using Debian since Potato. So have I. > I love it, but you should have at least two computers running Debian, > and be able to spend a few hours or days with one of them > non-functional I've never had that problem. -- John Hasler jhas...@

Re: Migration from cron to cron-daemon?

2014-10-18 Thread John Hasler
Stephan Seitz writes: > So, if I want to write bug reports, what is now the correct expression > for cron? cron-daemon|cron? Don't overthink it. If you are having a problem with cron type "reportbug cron" and follow instructions. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elm

Re: Biological data being used by an unpublished research paper is considered proprietary

2013-09-16 Thread John Hasler
theory. A casual reading of the legislative history of this (execrable) law indicates that it was not the intent of Congress to criminalize such things as violation of TOS. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Is anyone using the Units program in a script?

2011-11-22 Thread John Hasler
It's the best way I could think of to alert those members of the Debian community who might be impacted by the change. I have suggested that this particular change be applied only in the interactive mode. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.o

Is anyone using the Units program in a script?

2011-11-20 Thread John Hasler
Ok, I;m sure someone is. If you're that someone are you using the "--terse" option? If not how much hassle would it be to have add it? Upstream is considering non-backward-compatible changes. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Stepping the clock during boot

2010-08-03 Thread John Hasler
dd about a 1.5 second delay. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d3tz8dm6@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: Stepping the clock during boot

2010-08-03 Thread John Hasler
ct will be quite obvious in the logs so $syslog should be able live with the rare stepping. I think I'll have chrony require hwclockfirst and add "X-Start-Before"s for packages such as dovecot that stepping might break (so if you know of such a package tell me). -- John Hasler --

Re: Stepping the clock during boot

2010-08-03 Thread John Hasler
ontaining $time chrony guarantees that no script depending on $time will start before chrony does. No, wait. Chrony depends on things that depend indirectly on $time (so does ntp, IIRC). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Stepping the clock during boot

2010-08-03 Thread John Hasler
Petter Reinholdtsen writes: > If you are going to do this, it might be a good idea to try to do it > before the syslog collector starts, as most daemons depend on $syslog > and would thus start after the clock is correct. Unfortunately, chrony also wants $syslog. -- John Hasler

Re: Stepping the clock during boot

2010-08-03 Thread John Hasler
uld add it to the existing line. That wouldn't really help as hwclock is always present and would satisfy the $time requirements before chrony started. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Stepping the clock during boot

2010-08-03 Thread John Hasler
itten "X-Start-Before": no "s"). A "Should-Start" might suffice, though. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y6cnao4i@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: Stepping the clock during boot

2010-08-02 Thread John Hasler
7;m not sure > which) would correct the time, the clock would move backwards 30 > seconds or so and dovecot would crash. I can add an "X-Starts-Before: dovecot" line to protect dovecot. I think that ideally chrony would replace hwclock as provider of $time when present but I don&#x

Re: Stepping the clock during boot

2010-08-02 Thread John Hasler
, but I'd have to know what all could be adversely affected and booting would be slowed. > Other than this, I don't know any reason why you shouldn't. Well, it's a reason. But note that such backward stepping would only happen when your clock is really screwed up. -

Stepping the clock during boot

2010-08-02 Thread John Hasler
ve to slew it (which can take hours for large errors) or give up. This would only happen on rare occasions. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM

2009-05-31 Thread John Hasler
Michelle Konzack writes: > In the USA... Not in Germany and France. Ignoring DRM let you run into > touble here. This is _not_ DRM. It is just advisory locking. It has no more legal significance than "X-please-do-not-copy: yes" in the header of an email message. -- John

Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM

2009-05-31 Thread John Hasler
people "DRM" has to do with music and videos. > This for sure doesn't help about the current discussion. I just wanted to clarify the point that this advisory locking is not DRM. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM

2009-05-31 Thread John Hasler
levant opinion. I don't use the package.) -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread John Hasler
g Lilo. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-20 Thread John Hasler
the process exits it exits. It doesn't matter how quickly it is started again. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFH: Chrony goes into endless loop on x86_64

2008-04-22 Thread John Hasler
source and help me find the problem. I've had no response from upstream. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DD in Antarctic Continent?

2008-03-09 Thread John Hasler
siderable consternation among early North American colonists when their first winter arrived. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Idea of Debian mascot

2008-02-26 Thread John Hasler
Consider a red octopus with its arms arranged in a "swirl". -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge and DST

2007-03-06 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > Hawaii ('Pacific/Honolulu) IIRC Hawaii does not observe DST (DST makes even less sense in the tropics than it does here). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the debian weekly news was not updated

2006-10-22 Thread John Hasler
"À³î" writes: > I just want to know why debian weekly news was not updated? Because the voluteer who was doing it has decided not to do it any more. He has asked for help in every issue, but none was forthcoming. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Final call for votes for"GR: Re-affirm support to the Debian Project Leader"

2006-10-13 Thread John Hasler
a65763d3-b1e2-4530-8ff8-aa5915274eb4 [ 3 ] Choice 1: Re-affirm DPL, wish success to unofficial Dunc Tank [ 2 ] Choice 2: Re-affirm DPL, do not endorse nor support his other projects [ 1 ] Choice 3: Further discussion -- John Hasler pgpDsxaxFVmLJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PDF files and dh_compress

2006-05-10 Thread John Hasler
s. It also does not apply to work done by US federal government contractors. > ...are undermined by enough special cases that it's best not to rely on > them without an explicit statement. Could you describe these special cases? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Maintainers Guide

2006-04-01 Thread John Hasler
it was written by a US government employee on government time it is not protected by US copyright. If it was published in the US before 1989 without a copyright notice it is in the public domain. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread John Hasler
Pierre Habouzit writes: > I strongly oppose to such an expulsion. So do I. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-18 Thread John Hasler
and/or redistribute them. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-23 Thread John Hasler
is, or is it just libel? > ...what's stopping us from officially discouraging Ubuntu's existence? The fact that most of us are interested in cooperation or at least peaceful coexistence. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: new mplayer 1.0pre7try2 package

2006-01-21 Thread John Hasler
Andrew writes: > Aren't we in a similar situation with other stuff that is in main > already? rsync springs to mind. Don't forget the Linux kernel. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Derived distributions and the Maintainer: field

2006-01-19 Thread John Hasler
Ubuntu should be sorting out whether such problems are present in Debian > before sending them to the Debian maintainer. Ubuntu should certainly first try to make sure the problem is not theirs. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-18 Thread John Hasler
g is likely to be present in the corresponding Debian package. If you are wrong once in a while it's hardly the end of the world. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-17 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > I am pleased when downstream distributions notify me that they are using > my packages. mdz writes: > Have you ever received such a notification? Yes. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-16 Thread John Hasler
sent in Ubuntu sounds like spam to me... It doesn't to me. I am pleased when downstream distributions notify me that they are using my packages. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-13 Thread John Hasler
o do so, but > in my experience Ubuntu developers have been very cooperative when they > have been approached. So I don't see a big problem. I don't either. After all, most users don't file bug reports, and Ubuntu is (in my view), a user. It would be nice to have their feedback

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-28 Thread John Hasler
and uses '.' where you would use ',' in numbers. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intel notebooks for needy developers in developing countries

2005-12-11 Thread John Hasler
ncern ourselves about it. BTW the US is not the only country with such laws. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intel notebooks for needy developers in developing countries

2005-12-10 Thread John Hasler
e pointless than it already is. I don't see why we need to concern ourselves about it, though. Intel has lawyers. If they have to disqualify some candidates for legal reasons they can do so without our help. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread John Hasler
Erinn Clark writes: > Surely flaming people on mailing lists as a way to get things done is not > something people want to encourage in NMs... right? Right. After all, as we all know, no DD would ever do such a thing. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > I think that DD's do not use dpkg-sig and debsigs because they believe > them to be hard to use and not supported by the infrastructure or by > policy. Marc Haber writes: > dpkg-sig is harly "hard to use". Please re-read what I wrote. -- John Hasler -

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread John Hasler
Olaf van der Spek writes: > Security is more than package signatures. What is your specific proposal? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread John Hasler
Marc Haber writes: > So, most of the DD's do not care about security at all. I think that DD's do not use dpkg-sig and debsigs because they believe them to be hard to use and not supported by the infrastructure or by policy. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread John Hasler
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt writes: > I'd like to know if anyone cares about using these binary signatures I do. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread John Hasler
It is not. Theft requires intent as well as deprivation of property. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-07 Thread John Hasler
fer included? Would you be willing to check the CD for other GPL software and notify the authors if you find any? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-04 Thread John Hasler
ty but that is not required. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread John Hasler
ctly what they intended it to do. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread John Hasler
BSD license is not compatible with the GPL. It is. > If not, I doubt Nexenta OS will ever be part of Debian community and will > continue its way more like Ubunutu. Think about it. I'd say that sounds like a threat, but what would it be a threat of? -- John Hasler -- To UNS

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread John Hasler
Erast Benson writes: > This should help FreeBSD ... non-glibc ports to suvirve. In what way does the GPL licensing of dpkg harm such FreeBSD ports? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-02 Thread John Hasler
ch the executable runs, unless that component > itself accompanies the executable."^ ^ So you are distributing the CDDL components seperately? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Non-x86 architectures becomes more popular in Debian...

2005-10-17 Thread John Hasler
Gustavo Franco writes: > I think that popcon is a bit underrated in the project. Does the installer mention popcon? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Effort to change IETF's copying conditions for RFCs

2005-10-17 Thread John Hasler
Simon Josefsson writes: > Is that license acceptable to the Debian community? Looks fine to me. Is it going to be retroactive? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Effort to change IETF's copying conditions for RFCs

2005-10-15 Thread John Hasler
Florian Weimer writes: > IOW, preserve the copyright statement, but not the entire notice. What's wrong with preserving the entire notice? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#333603: ITP: acpica-unix -- an ASL compiler/decompiler

2005-10-14 Thread John Hasler
copyright in the first place. It was never even required in the US. There once was some sort of a pan-American copyright treaty and the phrase was required by some member countries. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: time seen at top of /var/log/boot

2005-10-08 Thread John Hasler
nd in the wrong direction. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-06 Thread John Hasler
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > IMHO is too much to inhibit the use of the program as a whole just to > minimize the collision risk, a warning would have been enough. Particularly considering that there are better ways to assure the uniqueness of message-ids anyway. -- John Hasler

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-06 Thread John Hasler
ng on hostnames either with or without periods for uniqueness is both broken and unnecessary. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-06 Thread John Hasler
is ugly, but adding it seems much more feasible than fixing all the broken software. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-06 Thread John Hasler
rienced them but many others did. > It is absolutely irrelevant if the problemes are exactely specified or > not. If the addition of "localhost.localdomain" caused you a problem we need to know exactly what it was so that we can fix it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread John Hasler
W. Borgert wrote: > (I would prefer to get all the technical information on > debian-devel Andreas writes: > Same for me who does not spent time in reading blogs. Me as well. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Standardizing ~/.cache/ and similar things.

2005-09-18 Thread John Hasler
gt; categories of the FHS, only on a per-user basis. This will help > administration of per-user installed stuff in the same way that the > FHS helps with machine-global installed stuff. I like this idea. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-09-17 Thread John Hasler
ority the service is supposed > to be started/stopped at, is essential, I think. If you've had any such problems with sysvconfig please file bug reports. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread John Hasler
t. Why do you think that a copyright owner needs a choice of venue clause in order to file suit against you in his home jurisdiction? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a desperate request for licence metadata

2005-09-07 Thread John Hasler
sc_sec_17_0106000-.html> <http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_0109----000-.html> -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a desperate request for licence metadata

2005-09-07 Thread John Hasler
Thomas Bushnell writes: > Not quite correct. You are buing not just the right to read it; you are > also buying the physical copy, and you may do with it what you want: loan > it, rent it... In some jurisdictions lending is an exclusive right of the copyright owner. -- John Hasler

Re: a desperate request for licence metadata

2005-09-06 Thread John Hasler
s a court guided by panel of literary critics might rule them not worthy of protection? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a desperate request for licence metadata

2005-09-06 Thread John Hasler
ection. That's pretty much the US notion of "originality". -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a desperate request for licence metadata

2005-09-06 Thread John Hasler
sure if your judgement matches that of the law. That's the problem. How does the law judge the quality of works of authorship? Do the courts employ panels of literary critics? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a desperate request for licence metadata

2005-09-06 Thread John Hasler
the lawyer. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-06 Thread John Hasler
The Fungi writes: > Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems to me that it would be more > effective to try to get http://www.callwave.com/members/cancel/ bumped up > to the top of the google search instead. Now that sounds sensible. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-06 Thread John Hasler
ose we do hear from. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
not our job. > I believe I did reply to them. But I did not cc them. That was my point (I replied privately with an entirely different message). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
e label "spam" that US courts would find it "confusingly similar" to Hormel's "SPAM" mark. While the canonical form of a word trademark is all caps, changing the capitalization or typeface won't save you from infringement. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
emailing the list. Don't follow up. Reply to them privately. > On a side note, I believe that if you are going to follow up, you should > at least be polite. Unless you cc them they are not going to see the follow up. They are not subscribed. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
Please do not follow up to these messages. These idiots apparently Google the phrase and then spam all the addresses they find. Posting about the subject here just creates more hits. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Garrett writes: > That should be "spam" - "SPAM" is a trademark of Hormel Foods > Corporation. Only when used to sell food (in which case "spam" would also infringe the mark). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Source code for unpacking Debian archives

2005-09-01 Thread John Hasler
Tommy Nordgren writes: > I wan't to do this because my own OS don't contain any built in support > tools for Debian Archives You want the 'alien' program. It should be available for your distribution. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-29 Thread John Hasler
Perhaps we need some sort of a "weakly conflicts". Sort of the inverse of "recommends". -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread John Hasler
ackages locally whenever convenient. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-22 Thread John Hasler
tribution. This is true for any port including i386. Make it 98% of the packages buildable on the accepted port with the highest build percentage. How was 98% arrived at? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-15 Thread John Hasler
achine? Timo Aaltonen writes: > I admit that a machine without network is of little use... Bringing the machine up without networking can be useful for problem solving. I prefer to use multiple consoles when doing so. This requires multiuser. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-14 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > You would have a team maintain 'units'? That's silly. W. Borgert writes: > If the team maintains only the package 'units', yes. If the > same team maintains multiple relating packages, it's different. There are no packages related to unit

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-14 Thread John Hasler
W. Borgert writes: > as a conclusion of many discussions at DebConf5, I propose to maintain > all packages by teams. You would have a team maintain 'units'? That's silly. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-14 Thread John Hasler
Perhaps the upstream README should be renamed 'README.upstream'? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-13 Thread John Hasler
hat the Debian site search was still broken.) -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-13 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Does there exist a list of all the packages that install scripts in > /etc/init.d? Marco writes: > Yes, it's called Contents-$ARCH.gz... Thanks. That gives me some of what I need. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-13 Thread John Hasler
Does there exist a list of all the packages that install scripts in /etc/init.d? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-12 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Please check the archives. This has been discussed many times. It is > clear that there is going to be no change. Javier writes: > The last sentence is not true. For some of the compelling reasons as to > why this should change... I didn't say it shouldn't c

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-12 Thread John Hasler
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > If the local admin needs multiple multi-user runlevels, he can always set > it up himself (and use a initscript system that supports it without > hassle ;-) ), Could you suggest one? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-12 Thread John Hasler
idering adding a feature to sysvconfig to configure LSB runlevels. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: not starting daemons at boot: ln -s disabled

2005-08-08 Thread John Hasler
Joe Smith writes: > policy-rc.d > update-rc.d (this is the only one installed on my system) > sysvconfig > Any others? This seems excessive! Update-rc.d and sysvconfig do not do the same thing. Read the man pages. And policy-rc.d is not an rc.d manager. -- John Hasler -- To

Re: not starting daemons at boot: ln -s disabled

2005-08-06 Thread John Hasler
Dan Jacobson writes: > But the downsize is later, unless one keeps records, one isn't quite sure > of just what tampering one has done in /etc/rc?.d/ Sysvconfig keeps records. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-08-05 Thread John Hasler
for their respective target audiences. It _should_... -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-08-04 Thread John Hasler
ld focus on the domain of application. > So I'd suggest concentrating on the 3% of packages non-technical users > might actually want to select manually, and making sure those have > legible and searchable descriptions. Technical users don't deserve legible and searchable descript

Re: Bruce Perens hosts party at OSCON Wednesday night

2005-08-03 Thread John Hasler
Michael writes: > Adam, I'm kind of curious what you mean by that I took it for a joke. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread John Hasler
Francesco P. Lovergine writes: > Any possibility of producing a nice web report on a per package basis? > ... > Filling BTS reports could be not so appropriate. I'd prefer bug reports. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

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