Bug#556010: RFH: link-grammar -- Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for English

2009-11-12 Thread Ken Bloom
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I either need help with this package to have a DD who can sponsor uploads on a regular basis or I'll be forced to put link-grammar up for adoption, becuase lacking a sponsor I haven't gotten a new version into the archive in ages. (Despite the fact that I've been kee

Re: no deprecation of /usr as a standalone filesystem

2009-06-03 Thread Ken Bloom
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 01 juin 2009 à 16:26 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > > > What has the initramfs got to do with this? > > > > For / to be on LVM you need an initramfs. / on raid (with custom > > kernel) or plain partition works without one. > > I already know that, than

Re: Re: Bug#522996: ITP: jruby1.2 -- 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby

2009-04-30 Thread Ken Bloom
Steffem Joeris wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 05:10:12 pm Romain Beauxis wrote: > > Le Tuesday 07 April 2009 22:59:00 Sebastien Delafond, vous avez écrit : > > > On Apr/07, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > > While I see why it can be needed for python, I fail to see how it is > > > > important for jruby... >

Re: Bug#524896: general: Home directory pollution

2009-04-20 Thread Ken Bloom
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 19:48 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 20 avril 2009 à 19:13 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit : > > > Something that I ran this morning decided to pollute my home directory > > > creating the following directories: > > > Desktop/ > > > Documents/ > > > Download/ > > >

Bug#524896: general: Home directory pollution

2009-04-20 Thread Ken Bloom
Package: general Severity: normal Something that I ran this morning decided to pollute my home directory creating the following directories: Desktop/ Documents/ Download/ Music/ Pictures/ Public/ Templates/ Videos/ I haven't figured out what it is yet, but Debian needs to be more respectf

RFS: link-grammar 4.3.2

2008-04-09 Thread Ken Bloom
Could someone sponsor the latest version of link-grammar, version 4.3.2, for which I have uploaded at http://lingcog.iit.edu/~bloom/link-grammar/ Thanks in advance. --Ken -- Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute o

Bug#434794: ITP: assogiate -- an editor for the GNOME file types database

2007-07-26 Thread Ken Bloom
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: assogiate Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Kevin Daughtridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kdau.com/projects/assogiate/ * License : GPL Program

Re: update on binary upload restrictions

2007-01-25 Thread Ken Bloom
ct byhand builds? Do they restrict sourceful uploads accompanied by binaries from the offending archs? -- Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/ pgpTg1xg9HOI5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bits from the experimental autobuilder team (or: For Those Who Care About Experimental...)

2006-04-18 Thread Ken Bloom
cessary version even if it's not the top choice, but only if the priority is higher than a given threshold (say 50). Then normal users get experimental pinned at 1 as it is now, but the experimental autobuilders get experimental pinned at 51 using /etc/apt/preferences. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.

Re: binNMU version detection

2006-01-18 Thread Ken Bloom
to fix this problem now that we are stuck with this > random, unmotivated, undocumented, likely-to-break-things change. Oh, and > I'd like the head of whoever changed it while I'm at it. :-) Yes, it would have been nice to have been told. Actually, we were told on debain-devel

Re: making more packages binary NMU safe

2006-01-17 Thread Ken Bloom
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:53:04PM -0600, Adam M. wrote: > >>Ken Bloom wrote: >> >>>I noticed that glabels is broken on i386 because it's not binary NMU >>>safe, and someone did a binary NMU. > > >>>After poking

Re: making more packages binary NMU safe

2006-01-16 Thread Ken Bloom
Ken Bloom wrote: > Peter Samuelson wrote: > >>[Ken Bloom] >> >> >>>$substvar{'Source-Version'}= $fi{"L Version"}; >>>+#Indep-Version is for supporting binary NMUs when a strict >>>+#version dependancy is requir

Re: making more packages binary NMU safe

2006-01-16 Thread Ken Bloom
Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Ken Bloom] > >> $substvar{'Source-Version'}= $fi{"L Version"}; >>+#Indep-Version is for supporting binary NMUs when a strict >>+#version dependancy is required against an arch independant package >&

making more packages binary NMU safe

2006-01-15 Thread Ken Bloom
/\+b[0-9]+$//; } This patch adds the Indep-Version substitution variable, which will be the version number on the arch-independant packages corresponding to the current verision of the other binary packages. I'm not sure where to submit this, or whether there's a bug open for i

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-09 Thread Ken Bloom
Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:16:36PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > >>Paul TBBle Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Maybe the one-true-stable-key idea is the way to go after all... > > >>One key by distribution? > > > Well, I meant a different one for each stab

cdbs borked by new version of make

2005-12-11 Thread Ken Bloom
patch the brokenness, submit the patch to bug 342892. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Remove

2005-11-25 Thread Ken Bloom
ng for "callwave remove" we get a page on lists.debian.org: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/01/msg01444.html --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Uploading amd64 packages

2005-11-22 Thread Ken Bloom
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:13:23AM -0600, Ken Bloom wrote: > >>Why not accept the AMD64 binaries, then dump the AMD64 binaries because >>you don't know what to do with them, but accept the arch:all debs from >>that upload? > > >

Re: Uploading amd64 packages

2005-11-22 Thread Ken Bloom
cally > there are problems. I sure hope patches would be welcome though. Why not accept the AMD64 binaries, then dump the AMD64 binaries because you don't know what to do with them, but accept the arch:all debs from that upload? --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as

Re: Azureus magnet-link functionality

2005-11-14 Thread Ken Bloom
Shaun Jackman wrote: > In the following email Chris suggests that I add support for bit > torrent magnet:// URLs under Gnome2 in the Azureus package by setting > the gconftool-2 parameter /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/command > to call Azureus. This seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do,

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-06 Thread Ken Bloom
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 06, Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>So I'll ask again. What would be the process for rename i386 to x86 or ia32? > > Complex enough that it will never happen, so please do not waste more > time over this. Thanks fo

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-06 Thread Ken Bloom
Bastian Venthur wrote: > Ken Bloom wrote: > > >>Bastian Venthur wrote: >> >>>Nick Jacobs wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> >>>>You mean, it's seriously been proposed

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-05 Thread Ken Bloom
y if > someone asks you for the sources. > > If you keep the binary to yourself, you don't have to release anything. And you don't have to tell the original developers about your improvements either, even if you are distributing the code. You can let them search the *whole* i

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-05 Thread Ken Bloom
64) would suppress discussions like this > in the future? We should either rename i386, or resupport i386, or both. We know what steps it takes ot resupport i386. What kind of work would be needed to rename i386 to x86 or ia32? --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included

Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread Ken Bloom
27;ed (and is indeed more permissive to developers than the GPL) we needed some guidelines for what could be accepted and what couldn't. Hence, the DFSG. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital

Bug#337277: ITP: link-grammar -- Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser

2005-11-03 Thread Ken Bloom
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: link-grammar Version : 4.1b Upstream Author : Daniel Sleator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Davy Temperley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Lafferty

Versioned BTS question:

2005-10-23 Thread Ken Bloom
I'm tracking through some old bugs I submitted, cleaning up. I'd like to close bug 256715, because jpilot and gtk-engines-smooth no longer interact (because jpilot uses GTK+2 now). What's the appropriate version to specify to the BTS? --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG di

Re: bugs.d.o: usertags and user categories

2005-09-12 Thread Ken Bloom
s, some internal support > to make cookies plausible, a couple of new members to the BTS team, > maybe some other stuff I've forgotten... The only new stuff that seems to be documented in the help files for BTS is the version tracking stuff. Everything else (bug subscriptions, user tag

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Ken Bloom
ty. Firefox is probably the most important piece of Linux software that actually has name recognition out there in the rest of the world, and I don't think that we can drop it *or* rebrand it. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://w

Re: Release update: debian-installer, kernels, infrastructure, freeze, etch, arm

2005-04-01 Thread Ken Bloom
Too bad it is only an April fool joke... > > Cheers, Look again at bugs.debian.org/release-critical, or the automatic mail of release-critical bugs that gets sent out every Friday. At the very least, this last part is true. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NoX idea

2005-03-01 Thread Ken Bloom
r by just running linux 2 (assuming linux was the name of your normal stanza) --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-14 Thread Ken Bloom
o decode encrypted dvd; > ffmpeg and OpenDivx code to en/decode MPEG4. > > Solution: > the DeCSS is deleted from the package proposed for Debian What functionality do we lose by doing this? --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http:/

Re: Reboot in postinst

2005-01-21 Thread Ken Bloom
ots immediately in your postinst. When do the other 11 postinst's run? Besides the philosophical problems with rebooting without permission, the administrator action that you're trying to avoid will be necessary *anyway* when he has to apt-get -f install or dpkg --configure -a the other

Re: Is debhelper build-essential?

2005-01-15 Thread Ken Bloom
ody should backport a package in such a way that it is buildable with woody's build-essential. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug #267273: cdrecord and 2.6.x bug possibly fixed

2005-01-11 Thread Ken Bloom
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:18:49 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2005-01-11 Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I just upgraded to cdrecord version 2.01+01a01-2.[1] I found that with >> permissions -rwsr-xr-- on /usr/bin/cdrecord [2] that I was able to >> record a

Bug #267273: cdrecord and 2.6.x bug possibly fixed

2005-01-10 Thread Ken Bloom
I just upgraded to cdrecord version 2.01+01a01-2.[1] I found that with permissions -rwsr-xr-- on /usr/bin/cdrecord [2] that I was able to record a CD without having to become root first using dev=/dev/hdc and kernel 2.6.10 [3]. Do any others still have problems burning CD's as non-root with kerne

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Ken Bloom
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 04:16:49 -0800, Stephen Birch wrote: > Paul van der Vlis([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-04 14:40: >> Hello, >> >> One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it >> takes for a new stable version. > > I guess one man's meat is another man's poison. > > Sinc

Re: RunDinstallHourly

2005-01-05 Thread Ken Bloom
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:04:37 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 08:08:47PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: >> Ken Bloom wrote: >> > http://wiki.debian.net/?RunDinstallHourly (part of the >> > ReleaseProposals topic on wiki.debian.net) discusses the conc

Re: RunDinstallHourly

2005-01-04 Thread Ken Bloom
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:36:11 +1100, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:16:27AM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: >> http://wiki.debian.net/?RunDinstallHourly (part of the ReleaseProposals >> topic on wiki.debian.net) discusses the concept of speeding up the >> relea

RunDinstallHourly

2005-01-04 Thread Ken Bloom
release Sarge (barring any unforseen consequences). Would it be possible to start testing this proposal out now by increasing the frequency of dinstall, perhaps to once every 6 hours until release? --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http

GPM to 1.20.1?

2003-11-08 Thread Ken Bloom
Is it possible to upgrade GPM in unstable to 1.20.1 (at least) which has been out for a long time now. It would fix a lot of brokenness in GPM. There was a previous discussion in March about this topic, nothing ever came of it. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200303/msg0074