Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:14:11PM -0800, Erast Benson said > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:22 -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 16:36 -0800, Alex Ross wrote: > > > > Do you plan to submit your port as an official port to Debian once > > > it > > > > stabilizes? > > > > > Yes

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

2005-11-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 02:38:51AM -0800, Nick Jacobs said > In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a > significant amount of work should be done to restore > support for a processor that has not been manufactured > for 10 years? While slightly degrading pe

Re: Alacarte - GNOME menu editor

2005-10-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:54:52AM +1100, Rob Weir said > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: alacarte > Version : 0.8 > * Upstream Author : Travis Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.realistanew.com/pro

Re: Please help me with this script!

2005-10-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:04:36PM +0300, Mihai Felseghi said > Hello , my name is Mihai Felseghi and I am interesed in becoming an Debian > maintainer and for the start I want to build some packages on my own machine > and learning how to do it . > One of these days I was reading the "Debian New

Re: Bug#333438: ITP: gtk2hs -- A GUI library for Haskell based on GTK

2005-10-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 07:28:24PM -0300, Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva said > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This is a very important package for haskell developers. > > * Package name: gtk2hs > Version : x.y.z > Upst

Re: lyx

2005-09-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 01:39:34PM +1000, Rob Weir said > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG said > > > > lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't > > been rebuilt with the new versions. What is the current NMU po

Re: lyx

2005-09-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:05:14PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't > > > been rebuilt with the new ve

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 06:11:05PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said > >From memory, lyx is a major mess that FTBFS with gcc4 in very horripilant > ways, uses yada, and is otherwise NMU-unfriendly IMHO. But it has been some > time since I tried to build it. > > It is also outdated (1.3.6 is

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:52:02PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG said > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't > >> been rebuilt with the new versions. What

Re: lyx

2005-09-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG said > > lyx is one of the lingering packages that uses libqt3-mt but hasn't > been rebuilt with the new versions. What is the current NMU policy > for such packages? Please don't NMU it, I'm the maintainer and tried to have it upload

Re: Bug#298354: ITP: gtk2-engines-clearlooks -- An attractive gtk engine with a focus on usability.

2005-03-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 06:02:48PM -0600, Marco Alfonso said > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Marco Alfonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: gtk2-engines-clearlooks > Version : 0.4 > Upstream Author : Marco Alfonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http:

Re: Bug#292105: ITP: libmusepack -- Musepack (MPC) format decoder library

2005-01-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:16:08PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig said > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: libmusepack > Version : 1.1 > Upstream Author : The Musepack Development Team > * URL : http://www.musepack.net > * License : 3-clause BSD > D

Re: Slightly Off Topic: Laptops for Debian

2005-01-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:32:18PM -0600, Jacob S said > pcmcia. For that matter though, I can't see that much difference in a > wireless usb stick and a pcmcia when the usb and iBook are both used > without modification. Having something flimsy stick two inches out the side of the iBook is very v

Re: Slightly Off Topic: Laptops for Debian

2005-01-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:58:55PM -0600, Jacob Schroeder said > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:31:53 + > Ben Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for a new laptop, and wondered what DDs used. I might go > > for the Apple 15" powerbook, but I'm not sure. > > > > My apologies

Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 02:38:18PM +0100, giskard said > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:40:01 +1100 > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:25:39PM +0100, Riccardo Setti said > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist &g

Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 02:12:53PM +0100, giskard said > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:40:30 +1100 > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:25:39PM +0100, Riccardo Setti wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > * Package name: lopster2 > > >

Bug#290614: ITP: bazaar -- arch-based distributed revision control system

2005-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: bazaar Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Bazaar Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://bazaar.canonical.com/ * License : GPL Description : arch-based distributed revision control system GNU Arch is a revisio

Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:25:39PM +0100, Riccardo Setti said > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: lopster2 > Version : cvs pre3.9 > Upstream Author : Sgopsgop at users.sourceforge.net > * URL : lopster.sf.net > * License : GPL > Descri

Re: debian.org e-mail address and SPF/SRS

2004-11-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:37:08PM +1100, Matthew Palmer said > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:11:07PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > It gives you traceability and it can be used to prevent joe-jobs. > > It's not a silver bullet solution against spam. > > And yet it's being touted as one. I predic

Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync

2004-10-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 12:20:19AM -0700, Ian Bruce said > Now that gzip has the "--rsyncable" option, wouldn't it be feasible to > rsync against compressed Packages files rather than having to keep the > uncompressed ones around for this purpose? You have to explicitly enable this option, which i

Re: Bug#278288: ITP: python-gtkmvc -- Model-View-Controller (MVC) implementation for pygtk

2004-10-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:22:55PM +0100, Johannes Jordens said > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > > * Package name: python-gtkmvc > Version : x.y.z > Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.example.org/ > * License : (GPL, LGPL, B

Re: discover or alsa?

2004-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:14:24PM +0200, Free Ekanayaka said > |--==> Wouter Verhelst writes: > > WV> [1 ] > WV> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:51:46AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >>On Oct 13, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Lots of users are reporting that ALSA sound doesn't "

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 07:05:45PM +0300, George Danchev said > > oh well, msmtp has TLS and SASL and IPv6, so I guess it is more > > featureful than nullmailer... > > and much more ... also has msmtpqueue which is a pair of very simple shell > scripts that allows you to "queue" mails and send th

Re: proposal: factoids bot on #debian-devel

2004-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 03:45:55PM +0200, martin f krafft said > On #debian-devel, we tend to answer the same questions over and > over again: > > - when will the freeze start? ("not today") > - can someone help me with autoconf? ("-> #devtools") > - i cannot get my sound working? ("-> #debi

Re: If ATI and nVidia don't support their own products, who does?

2004-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:18:29AM -0400, Brendan said > On Monday 04 October 2004 01:26, Jules Dubois wrote: > > I may never get totally open source, but one of the biggest reasons is > > that some Linux (and presumably BSD) users buy their hardware anyway. The > > attitudes of ATI and Nvidia (an

Re: Bug#274923: ITP: wnpp -- C++ library for robust numerical and geometric computation

2004-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 08:51:01PM +0200, Joachim Reichel said > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: core This seems a tad generic, especially since it's a library. Maybe libcoremath or libcore++? -rob -- Words of the day:NATO freedom supercomputer AVN diwn MD2 AMEM

Re: mounting tmpfs (and sysfs) defaultly in sarge?

2003-12-13 Thread Rob Weir
ot sure what the long-term plans are, but /sysfs can't replace /proc right now. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: revolution security Saddam Hussein Consul Ermes tempest CDMA signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Kernel 2.4.18 and GCC 3.3 (not a good mix)

2003-12-07 Thread Rob Weir
st two local root holes, one of which is not stopped by grsecurity. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: enforcers enforcers tempest investigation Defcon Peking MDA signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Grsec/PaX and Exec-shield

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Weir
dding an entirely new kernel source package for a patch that "takes less time to apply the patch to the Debian kernel than the time that is wasted on this discussion" seems silly. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-04 Thread Rob Weir
dn't use unstable", they're not (generally) being elitist, it's shorthand for "newbies won't know about the tools they need to fix their systems when unstable goes bad". -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words o

Bug#199864: ITP: kahakai -- a highly customisable and scriptable window manager

2003-07-03 Thread Rob Weir
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-03 Severity: wishlist * Package name: kahakai Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : The Kahakai Team * URL : http://kahakai.sf.net/ * License : GPL, v2 or later Description : a highly customisable and script

Bug#188608: ITP: xmms-speex -- Speex speech codec - XMMS input plugin

2003-04-11 Thread Rob Weir
ook at the `speex' package. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux thebox 2.4.20ck3+skas #1 Tue Feb 25 01:23:43 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ertius.org