Re: Bug#323227: new list: debian-planet to distribute planet.debian.org postings; archive to enable searching

2005-08-15 Thread Rob Bradford
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:08:58PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > I'd like to have a debian-planet list that would receive blog postings > from planet.debian.org. Please don't introduce any more namespace confusion. Cheers, Rob -- Rob Bradford - http://robster.org.uk --

Re: Bug#305000: ITP: alltray -- Dock any program into the systemtray

2005-04-18 Thread Rob Bradford
s, Rob PS: Please use a better MUA, one that doesn't break threading and correctly quotes when replying. -- Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#305000: ITP: alltray -- Dock any program into the system tray

2005-04-18 Thread Rob Bradford
;, thats a 'orrible 'orrible thing to do. This is an even more 'orrible thing to do. Arrggh. Now where are my green frog pills. Cheers, Rob -- Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where are we now? (Was: Bits from the RM)

2003-10-02 Thread Rob Bradford
well replace dselect as the recommended method. Expect a RFC to d-d-a soon regarding release notes. Cheers, Rob -- Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#213638: ITP: wallpaper-tray -- A wallpaper changing utility for your GNOME Notification Area

2003-10-01 Thread Rob Bradford
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: wallpaper-tray Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Gareth Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://earthworm.no-ip.com/wp_tray/ * License : GPL Description : A wallpaper changing utility for your GNOME Notifi

Re: Bug#190922: ITP: gnome-randr-applet -- Simple gnome-panel front end to the xrandr extension

2003-04-27 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 08:18, Sven Luther wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-27 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: gnome-randr-applet > Version : 0.2 > Upstream Author : Matthew Allum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : > http://handhelds.or

Re: Sponsorship request: tsclient-0.56

2002-12-01 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 12:46, Andrew Lau wrote: > Hey everyone, > I've finished packaging tsclient 0.56 and it's waiting for > someone to sponsor it at . Free from > Lintian errors, but it seems to be incorrectly warning about my > debian-menu xpm as having to

Re: debian-installer status 2002-11-22

2002-11-24 Thread Rob Bradford
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 16:16, Samuli Suonpaa wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > EVMS support has been added.. I played with it a little, but it was > > broken because it was compiled with readline support, while no > > readline libraries were in the archive. I've just played a

Re: PHP4 + Oracle

2002-08-27 Thread Rob Bradford
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 11:56, Sobkowiak Krzysztof wrote: > Hallo > > I need to use oracle with php4 on Debian? How can I do it? Could > somebody [help me] build php4-oracle package? > Thanks > Can you not use ODBC and the libphp-adodb package? Furthermore i'm interested as to why there are two p

Security notification script

2002-08-26 Thread Rob Bradford
I have written a python script that allows you to compares locally installed packages with those on security.debian.org. Furthermore it provides a description of the problem/DSA name if the package is mentioned in the DSA RDF. The script is intended to be run as a normal user in a crontab, and th

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 17:46, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Erich Schubert may or may not have written... > > > I've been digging in my old PovRay stuff, and i played with an animation i > > started a few years ago. The result is quite nice i think (but some weird > > rendering bugs occur here

Re: Bug #140769: frozen-bubble: RC bug

2002-04-14 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 14:53, Michael Banck wrote: > tags 140769 +unreproducible > thanks > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 11:20:33PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > > >Either the game is made less addictive or it should be removed until > > >after woody is released. > > > > There's a simple workaroun

Bug #140769: frozen-bubble: RC bug

2002-04-14 Thread Rob Bradford
Package: frozen-bubble Version: 0.9.2-9 Severity: critical Frozen-bubble is holding up the release process as all the developers are now hooked and are no longer working on woody, hence the RC status as this package is single handedly holding the whole release process back. Either the game is ma

Re: Rsyncable GZIP (was Re: Package metadata server)

2002-04-05 Thread Rob Bradford
> I think the proposed way of providing diff's for certain "common" > versions is much nicer. Sending a request for > Packages-diff-mymd5sum.gz I like the sound of this way, as you say rsync could cause load problems on the servers. Now someone just needs to hack apt =) Cheers -- Rob 'robster' B

Rsyncable GZIP (was Re: Package metadata server)

2002-04-05 Thread Rob Bradford
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 12:37, Glenn McGrath wrote: > (picked up from http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=633) > Hehe. > The current method of checking for updates is to retrieve a new > Packages.gz file and discard the old Packages.gz file. The problem with > this method is that commonly

Re: Uplink release with Debian

2002-04-03 Thread Rob Bradford
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 16:32, Sean Middleditch wrote: > I'll go ahead an e-mail some of the game companies, if you or anyone > else really wants to help, I can get debiangames.org registered and find > a decent host. ^,^ We can host this on the debianplanet.org machine, which has surplus bandwidth

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-03 Thread Rob Bradford
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 18:11, Jeff Licquia wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > Aptconf will allow users to configure sources.list via debconf. It > will also contain a configlet for setting up sources.list via the > GNOME Control Center, in druids, and potentially other settings. Ooh

Re: BSP?

2002-04-03 Thread Rob Bradford
On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 21:20, Joey Hess wrote: > Isn't it about time for another BSP? It's been a month; I see quite a > lot of RC bugs in the bts with patches. Good idea, i'll bring the beer, you organize the pizza. In the past i've always been out of town when a BSP has happened, so lets hope thi

Re: ITP: vls -- the VideoLAN MPEG broadcasting server

2002-04-03 Thread Rob Bradford
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 22:58, Samuel Hocevar wrote: > Description : The VideoLAN Server (vls) is designed for handling a lot > of MPEG sources and for broadcasting data over a network. Goodie, i've been wondering how soon this would appear. It seems a lot of work has been

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-11 Thread Rob Bradford
I'm now a happy evolution user, to converyt my mail i did cat Mail/lists/* | cat /var/spool/mail/rob Then just check your mail and using the filters setup in evolution to filter it in the boxes again. Maybe not the best way, but i didnt lose any mail. -- Rob 'robster' Bradford Chief Editor/Lead d

Re: DEBNAME or DEBFULLNAME?

2002-01-02 Thread Rob Bradford
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 20:18, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > [please copy me on replies] > > * Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-01-02 20:03]: > [DEBNAME vs DEBFULLNAME] > > I filed a bug against devscripts (#115601) ages ago about this, i got > > bitten nastily by thi

Re: DEBNAME or DEBFULLNAME?

2002-01-02 Thread Rob Bradford
> reportbug uses DEBNAME; dh_make, vim debchangelog filetype plugin use > DEBFULLNAME and I guess there might be other tools (emacs has something > similar but I don't know which one that uses) that use the one or the > other. I personally like to try to eliminate those inconsistencies and > bug t

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-02 Thread Rob Bradford
> However, I tend to spend most of the year living in the Netherlands, > which is one of the countries adopting the Euro, and there's no Euro > symbol in the fonts used by en_AU. I don't speak Dutch, so there's not much > point setting LANG to nl, nl_NL or whatever. And there's no [EMAIL > PROTE

Re: Bug#127461: ITP: SkunkWeb - An extensible and easy to use web application server

2002-01-02 Thread Rob Bradford
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 15:50, Dave Swegen wrote: > package: wnpp > severity: wishlist > > > License: GPL v2 > > URL: http://skunkweb.sourceforge.net > > Description: > > SkunkWeb is a web application server written in python. It enables easy > use of components and templates using a combination