I haven't read the whole long thread, so perhaps this has been mentioned
by someone else. Python has recently decided to convert their
documentation to reStructuredText [1]. It would make a lot of sense for
Debian to use that de-facto standard (or some subset of it) for text
typesetting in the long
Dear Neil & Gunner,
Thank you for your long, detailed and convincing postings in this
thread. I really appreciate it! The argument that finally made me
surrender was that time is perhaps better spent helping upstream authors
make the conversion. So I guess we're on the same page now. And I'd be
cr
On 08/12/2008, at 20.55, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
. Should we keep obsolete, deprecated,
abandoned software forever?
No, certainly not forever. Nobody has suggested keeping GTK+ 1.2
forever.
Hmmm... Sounds like an argument for porting Debian to the C64.
It's great if you can present your own
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> control I need to be able to compile these libraries myself, as I always
> did in the past. I usually have several different versions of mesa, expat,
> etc. installed simultaneously, for testing purposes, etc.
Cheers,
Morten
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=4
On 06/12/2008, at 15.47, Barry deFreese wrote:
Obviously I was exaggerating purposely.
Yes, but, you know, exaggerating the position of others in a forum
like this is not really constructive. In fact, it signals that you've
run out of arguments.
I raised a -- I think -- valid concern th
ions that make use of
it, if reasonable replacements are available.
But Libraries represent a resource for _others_ than packagers and
developers.
Cheers,
Morten
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On 06/12/2008, at 00.09, Michael Banck wrote:
There are several useful science programs that still make use of GTK+
1.2, one is a very useful chemistry program, GAMGI, which is in the
new
queue and on its way into unstable.
AFAICT, gamgi is using GTK-2.0.
Yes you are right, gamgi uses GT
On 05/12/2008, at 21.11, Barry deFreese wrote:
Is this really feasible? How many people are going to work on dead
packages? Or if we RM: the lot of them, how many users are we
pissing off?
There are several useful science programs that still make use of GTK+
1.2, one is a very us
Did you consider the case with $HOME being mounted on NFS with
rootsquash (which is set by default)? Should the postinst then 'su' to
each user to do the modifcations in that case then? How about if some
extra security policy is active like apparmor or selinux?
Sorry, the only sane option which i
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Program
Colin Tuckley wrote:
I'm working on a package (blas) that contains a postscript document with no
source supplied by upstream.
Obviously I can remove the postscript file from the binary package, but is
this sufficient or do I also need to remove it from the source package -
which implies re-pack
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Programmin
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License : 3 clause BSD
related to.
I put that aside because I wanted something working quickly, but the
idea of being able to make a "family tree" of distros still seems like
fun. It isn't hard to do.
Cheers,
Morten
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tar.gz
if you're interested.
I anyone wants to join in and extend/rewrite/improve this utility, let
me know.
Cheers,
Morten
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