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2020-02-16 Thread Ron Gallagher
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Bug#922102: ITP: libopusenc -- High-level API for encoding Ogg Opus audio streams

2019-02-11 Thread Ron
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ron * Package name: libopusenc Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Xiph.Org * URL : http://opus-codec.org/development/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : High-level API for encoding Ogg Opus audio

Bug#805979: ITP: bit-babbler -- BitBabbler hardware random number generator and kernel entropy source support

2015-11-24 Thread Ron
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ron Package name: bit-babbler Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Ron Lee URL : http://www.bitbabbler.org License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C++, with some Perl for munin and example scripts Description

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-19 Thread Ron
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 03:41:12PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ron writes ("Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging > repositories"): > > As I explained in the earlier discussion with Henrique, there are more > > things than just : and ~ which are perfe

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-18 Thread Ron
roblems are with various options, and what we really want to achieve by specifying anything about this, at this stage. That would at least give us some objective measure of what is necessary, and what is actually possible (and at what cost) to consider. Cheers, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-18 Thread Ron
mal git tools, to have a look at it - or do I need to drink the whole jug of kool-aid to be able to do that? I am curious about how its 'universe' maps to packages that aren't strictly linear because there have been backports or security uploads, or other stable updates, or mi

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-16 Thread Ron
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 07:33:32PM +1030, Ron wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 06:15:33PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On 12/11/14 22:07, Ron wrote: > > > I am also interested to hear more > > > about whatever the confusion was you had with this was when you > >

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-16 Thread Ron
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 02:03:23PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2014, Ron wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 03:49:56PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2014, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > > On Fri,

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-16 Thread Ron
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 06:35:07PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 13/11/14 14:04, Ron wrote: > > I really do think that the names of the branches are actually going to > > be the least of your worries here, unfortunately. Even with a naming > > scheme that's widely a

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-16 Thread Ron
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 06:15:33PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 12/11/14 22:07, Ron wrote: > > I am also interested to hear more > > about whatever the confusion was you had with this was when you > > started working with Tollef's systemd repo that you mentioned

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-15 Thread Ron
ions of Best Practice. I'm far less interested in arguing which current practice is "near enough" to form a "white lies for children" simplification that's only good for "educating" novices. I really think we can also have the latter, built on an exploration of the hard problems that even lots of existing "veteran" users haven't really thought through to completion before now. That would be the kind of show of Debian Excellence that I remember and love. Cheers, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141116052730.gk10...@hex.shelbyville.oz

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-14 Thread Ron
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 05:43:49PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ron writes ("Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging > repositories"): > > Right, gitweb, cgit, gitk, etc. are all going to do exactly the same > > thing, take them from the DAG of the repo

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-14 Thread Ron
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 03:13:30PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2014, Ron wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 03:39:05PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Ron writes ("Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging > > > reposit

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-14 Thread Ron
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 03:39:05PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ron writes ("Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging > repositories"): > > Why include the epoch in tags at all? > > Because we want to be able to tell not just which tag was which but &

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-14 Thread Ron
pload two versions of a package that only vary by epoch then dak will reject it too. I'm not even sure what p-t would do to you if you tried that on it. So there's already lots of good reasons why tags without the epoch will always be unique, and why it's probably even a good sanity c

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-14 Thread Ron
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:25:36AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, Ron wrote: > > > So I am a Kali Linux contributor. We use git repos to maintain all our > > > packages and we use git-buildpackage. > > > > I guess the first question the

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-13 Thread Ron
's probably mostly irrelevant ...) > On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, Ron wrote: > > Sure, I understood those were your goals. > > > > What I haven't seen, and what I'm asking for, is an actual detailed > > rationale describing the actual detailed problem(s

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-12 Thread Ron
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 02:14:55PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi Ron, > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Ron wrote: > > I think you probably need to be careful of overspecifying this. > > Definitely. That's precisely why I don't want to dwelve (too much) > into de

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-12 Thread Ron
an/patches/ to > change it from "hello, world" to "hello, Debian". AIUI, dgit also works > best in this arrangement (or might even require it?) > > I'm not so sure about gitpkg - I *think* "git checkout debian/sid" in a > gitpkg repository would result

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-12 Thread Ron
Hi Raphael, On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:15:27AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi Scott, > > using your mail as an opportunity to explicity notify the respective > package maintainers of this ongoing DEP. > > Guido, Bernhard, Ron, if you are not reading debian-devel, I wou

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-06 Thread Ron Scott-Adams
and ultimately provide little merit. If the goal is to attract users, it shouldn't be done by plaguing them with a sea of options they are not likely to really understand at install time; it should be by promoting and enhancing the configurability that has made Linux, especially Debia

Re: default MTA

2013-06-06 Thread Ron Scott-Adams
If you do discover how to do this reliably, I'd be interested in your solution. If you/someone else feels it's too unrelated to this list, feel free to email me directly, but I think this is generally interesting. Ron Scott-Adams r...@tohuw.net "The truth is incontrovertible. Ma

Bug#692942: ITP: opusfile -- High-level API for basic manipulation of Ogg Opus audio streams

2012-11-11 Thread Ron
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ron * Package name: opusfile Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Xiph.Org * URL : http://www.opus-codec.org * License : 3-clause BSD Programming Lang: C Description : High-level API for basic manipulation of Ogg Opus

Bug#674292: ITP: opus-tools -- Opus codec command line tools

2012-05-24 Thread Ron
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ron * Package name: opus-tools Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Xiph.Org * URL : http://www.xiph.org/ * License : 2-clause BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Opus codec command line tools This package provides

Re: Bug#648306: The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-13 Thread Ron
as with. That was one of the main reasons we didn't immediately kill the old toolchain. > I'll try a build with the old triplets to see how that goes, and to figure > out what kind of upgrade path we can provide... Cool. Despite my grumbling about how people who pa

Re: Bug#648306: The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-10 Thread Ron
o actually have an orderly 'upgrade' path through this rather than an "everything is different now" paradigm shift. It is just a toolchain after all. For a rather old and settled architecture. Ron -- 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/2010210628.gq...@audi.shelbyville.oz

Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/01/2011 06:19 AM, ximalaya wrote: Hi all, [snip] BTW, I ever tried on Redhat Linux 9, no such problem. This is the interesting part. Is RH keeping their patches, or are upstream and other distros just not determining them worthwhile? -- I prefer banana-flavored energy bars made fr

Bug#615476: general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library

2011-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/26/2011 12:43 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: severity 615476 important tag 615476 + unreproducible thanks On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:25 +0300, sergey wrote: Some programs can not start because of missing libtiff.so.3 file. I suspect this is a local problem, as none of the packages in question

Re: What should we do with iceweasel/xulrunner/libmozjs?

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2011 05:42 AM, Axel Beckert wrote: Hi, Mike Hommey wrote: - Push 3.6 to unstable and the last 4.0 betas/rc to experimental. Push 4.0 to unstable when it's out. That would be my favourite. I use Conkeror (which is a XULRunner application and hence depends on xulrunner) with 3.6 si

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2011 07:26 AM, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: On Jueves 17 Febrero 2011 22:18:25 Ron Johnson escribió: On 02/17/2011 08:58 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: [snip] Should it be locked down like Fort Knox? There's a heck of a lot of middle ground between "Fort Knox" and "

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2011 09:24 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: [snip] Yes, but like everything there is a tradeoff. A totally secure system is an unusable system. Why the black and white? What happened to grey? Having to instruct every user how to relax the permissions to allow others t

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2011 08:58 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: [snip] Should it be locked down like Fort Knox? There's a heck of a lot of middle ground between "Fort Knox" and "Hippy Commune". Should it be generally usable, and easy for users to see each other's stuff? Only with the owner's permission. P

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2011 10:55 AM, Martin Owens wrote: On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 15:24 +, Roger Leigh wrote: Yes, but like everything there is a tradeoff. A totally secure system is an unusable system. Having to instruct every user how to relax the permissions to allow others to access their files, or al

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

2011-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/14/2011 04:26 PM, The Fungi wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:57:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: It doesn't seem to work for me. [...] $ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 python -c 'print u"\u00a3"' Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in Unic

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

2011-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/14/2011 10:39 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: [snip] The fact that naive Python programs work (honouring LC_CTYPE as they should) unless you pipe their output to something is clearly a bug. The fact that it's a specification bug doesn't mean it's not a bug. It doesn't seem to work for me. $ pyt

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

2011-02-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/11/2011 07:36 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: [snip] UTF-16 is never, ever useful. It is a sad trap for win32 and Java developers, due to a bad engineering decision suggested, as I was told, by [snip] No, there is only one encoding left, as long as you don't have to talk to Windows. Never u

Bug#610980: ITP: opus-codec -- A standard track, low-latency audio codec

2011-01-24 Thread Ron
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ron * Package name: opus-codec Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : xiph.org and others * URL : http://www.xiph.org/ * License : 2-clause BSD Programming Lang: C Description : A standard track, low-latency audio codec

Re: [Spice-devel] Bug#603699: ITP: celt051 -- The CELT codec v0.5.1

2010-11-17 Thread Ron
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 03:48:36PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 11/17/10 13:04, Ron wrote: > >Are you seriously telling me that you have no plan whatsoever for how > >to transition from a random snapshot of an experimental codec, > > We can transition just fine. serve

Re: [Spice-devel] Bug#603699: ITP: celt051 -- The CELT codec v0.5.1

2010-11-17 Thread Ron
andom snapshots of unmaintained things that only one experimental application actually needs. Wouldn't it? (trying not to be grumpy, but kind of frustrated by this sort of thinking), Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Installing Vmware v71

2010-10-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/10/2010 08:04 PM, Tong Sun wrote: > > Thanks a lot, that's already good enough for me. Please tell me, > > ...but please don't tell debian-devel. (MFT set) Sorry, but I really can't get it. All over the web, people from other distros are sharing how they can beat it, but I just can't fi

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/24/2010 02:06 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: [snip] And then there is the (nowadays perceived) problem that reportbug needs a working MTA setup or at least outgoing traffic on port 25/587. Both ports are blocked on almost all my machines, so I still have not much bothered with reportbug. (I'd us

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/22/2010 11:42 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote: [snip] But this is not a problem you can solve. You cannot avoid requiring some effort from users wanting to report a bug. For some value of "some effort". MS Windows has a bug-reporting pop-up window that with the click of a button sends traceback

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/21/2010 06:50 AM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: [snip] Or a better idea: * Provide semi-official images with non-free enabled (on cdimage.debian.org) of our releases. This is one big reason, why users decide to use Ubuntu instead of Debian. That's why I installed Ubuntu on my wife/kids' PC: t

Re: suggestion about debian devel extension

2010-07-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/07/2010 03:51 AM, j jj wrote: Dear Asheesh. It is very glad to disscuss with you. That looks pretty cool! What do you mean by "put it under debian"? I want to host the website under debian. Because the number of packages in debian is huge, it is beyond my capibility to

Re: "Waqf" General Public License in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/02/2010 06:33 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: On Freitag, 2. Juli 2010, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/03/msg00064.html ? It's funny... yes... but there is no discriminatory or similar content in it. Huh? It clearly discriminates evil-doers! I *thin

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/28/2010 06:54 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 05:36:11AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: [snip] Second, for the reasons given earlier, releasing with iceweasel 3.6 and icedove 3.1 would mean to avoid releasing with iceape 2.0. This may not be a huge problem, as we already didn'

Re: Bug#586589: ITP: swat -- Samba Web Administration Tool

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 02:55 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jelmer Vernooij * Package name: swat Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Ricardo Velhote * URL : http://github.com/rvelhote/GSoC-SWAT * License : GPL Programming Lang: Py

Re: Bug#586132: ITP: indicator-messages -- indicator that collects messages that need a response

2010-06-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/16/2010 12:41 PM, Evgeni Golov wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: The Ayatana Packagers * Package name: indicator-messages Version : 0.3.7 Upstream Author : Ted Gould * URL : https://launchpad.net/indicator-messages * License : LGPL Prog

Re: Archive area for clamz (Amazon MP3 downloader)

2010-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/2010 12:54 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On dim., 2010-05-30 at 21:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Clamz just moves some bits from Point A to Point B. I hope you don't use this as a definition of dfsg-free? Hardly. My (possibly flawed) thinking was originally raised here:

Re: Bug#529974: RFP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol

2010-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/2010 03:21 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: There must be a good *reason* why Christian still maintains ffmpeg and mplayer in d-m.o even though same-named packages are also in Debian. Maybe he likes the extra work?? Maybe because he activates some 5 more built-in encoders in ffmpeg and lin

Re: Archive area for clamz (Amazon MP3 downloader)

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2010 04:40 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 08:09:52PM +0200, Felix Geyer wrote: On 30.05.2010 04:47, Ben Hutchings wrote: I think the policy being applied is that if a package is only useful in conjunction with non-free data, it belongs in contrib (just as if it dep

Re: Bug#529974: RFP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/29/2010 12:25 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: On Fr, Mai 28, 2010 at 22:49:43 (CEST), Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/28/2010 09:20 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: On Fr, Mai 28, 2010 at 16:00:27 (CEST), Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/28/2010 01:25 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: I'm going to pa

Re: Archive area for clamz (Amazon MP3 downloader)

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/29/2010 09:47 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 19:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/29/2010 03:28 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 21:14 +0200, Felix Geyer wrote: clamz [1] has been rejected from Debian NEW [2] some time ago. The FTP assistent that processed

Re: Archive area for clamz (Amazon MP3 downloader)

2010-05-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/29/2010 03:28 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 21:14 +0200, Felix Geyer wrote: clamz [1] has been rejected from Debian NEW [2] some time ago. The FTP assistent that processed the package was of the opinion that it belongs to contrib instead of main because it's only useful to

Re: Bug#529974: RFP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol

2010-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/2010 09:20 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: On Fr, Mai 28, 2010 at 16:00:27 (CEST), Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/28/2010 01:25 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: I'm going to package rtmpdump next week. On Fr, Mai 22, 2009 at 16:33:44 (CEST), Sam Morris wrote: * Package name: rtmpdump

Re: Bug#529974: RFP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol

2010-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/2010 01:25 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: retitle 529974 ITP: rtmpdump -- download media streamed with the RTMP/RTMPE protocol owner 529974 ! stop I'm going to package rtmpdump next week. On Fr, Mai 22, 2009 at 16:33:44 (CEST), Sam Morris wrote: * Package name: rtmpdump * URL

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2010 02:29 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: [snip] Anyway, postfix is NOT the only package that we shall consider modifying here. As per my original post, there's loads of other components that are to configure as well. The question is: is there a will to do this job by other maintainers. I am

Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system

2010-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2010 11:42 AM, Michael Banck wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:58:26PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: I'm installing apache2 and have a web server - more or less working, I'm installing dhelp and ... magic, magic ... it extends the running web-server to ser

Re: Bug#582321: TAG: dirsum -- commandline directory summary

2010-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/20/2010 07:34 AM, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Thu, 20 May 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/19/2010 05:36 PM, jaromil wrote: * Package name : dirsum Description: Dirsum is a command line tool to assist sorting out which directories in a filesystem contain the most bytes. It will sort all of

Re: Bug#582321: TAG: dirsum -- commandline directory summary

2010-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/20/2010 06:42 AM, Mika Pflüger wrote: Hi, Am Thu, 20 May 2010 12:05:50 +0200 schrieb Yves-Alexis Perez: On 20/05/2010 11:21, Ron Johnson wrote: hat does this do that existing tools don't? $ du -Sk | sort -nr | head -n10 131960./.Newsletters.Washington_Post/cur not sure d

Re: Bug#582321: TAG: dirsum -- commandline directory summary

2010-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/20/2010 05:05 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On 20/05/2010 11:21, Ron Johnson wrote: hat does this do that existing tools don't? $ du -Sk | sort -nr | head -n10 131960./.Newsletters.Washington_Post/cur not sure dirsum can do that either, but it's painful that du itself

Re: Bug#582321: TAG: dirsum -- commandline directory summary

2010-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/19/2010 05:36 PM, jaromil wrote: Package: itp Severity: wishlist Version: 0.4; * Package name : dirsum Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Dirk Bartley * URL: http://code.dyne.org/?r=dirsum * License: GNU GPL Description: Dirsum is a command line tool to assist sorting out which directories i

Re: Dual init scripts (or two init scripts in one package)

2010-05-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/07/2010 09:35 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez writes: Greetings. I am curious as to how the scenario described in the below message would work in Debian. That is, can one package install two init scripts? Sure. A package can install as many init scripts as it wants and ne

Re: Bug#560786: gdb: Please make the python dependency optional

2010-01-10 Thread Ron
Ok, let's see ... On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:18:18PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 03:30:20AM +1030, Ron wrote: > > I do appreciate, and share, your concern for not bloating the archive > > needlessly, but my concern is balancing that agains

Re: Bug#560786: gdb: Please make the python dependency optional

2009-12-20 Thread Ron
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 02:26:53AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 11:17 +1030, Ron wrote: > [...] > > I don't understand the pushback I'm getting on this. The bloat that was > > already added _far_ outweighs the little extra it needs to fix it, a

Re: Bug#560786: gdb: Please make the python dependency optional

2009-12-19 Thread Ron
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:15:14PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 08:25 +1030, Ron wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 08:12:44PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Why would you install gdb on a (non-development) system, rather than a > > > gdb stub?

Re: Bug#560786: gdb: Please make the python dependency optional

2009-12-19 Thread Ron
re is moot. But my impression is it would be a lot more work than that, and I don't see an arm stub at all, (and gdbserver is in the gdb package ...)? If I'm wrong, I'll have learned something cool though, which would be win-win enough for me ;) Cheers, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bug#560786: gdb: Please make the python dependency optional

2009-12-19 Thread Ron
Hi Daniel, On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 09:34:53PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > tags 560786 + wontfix > thanks > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 08:22:12PM +1030, Ron wrote: > > Not all machines that it's useful to be able to run gdb on > > also need or want python instal

Re: cupt, the APT competitor

2009-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-28 14:28, Free Ekanayaka wrote: Hi, |--==> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:52:14 +0300, "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" said: EVL> This mail is to inform that Debian APT suite now has a competitor named Cupt [1]. For the ones who don't know it, I'd like to point out that there is at least one oth

Re: Bug#560088: ITP: python-portio -- low level port I/O for Linux

2009-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-12-08 17:42, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: 2009/12/8 Ben Hutchings : I do hope not; this should never be used in production. But it may yet be useful in hardware development. Ben. I'm working on a parallel LCD interface with my custom PCB and I wanted interactive way to use parallel port.

Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-04 07:46, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 04, Gabor Gombas wrote: Incompetent, no. Careless, yes. Just think about the udev-related breakages in the past. And speaking about design, udev was originally praised because it can do everything in user space. Now, the authors of udev are propo

Re: Bug#544539: RFP: Linux Unified Kernel

2009-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-01 05:29, Ivan Borzenkov wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: Linux Unified Kernel Version: 0.2.4-1 Upstream Author: Insigma li...@insigma.com.cn URL: http://

Re: Debian, universal operating system?

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 01:11, George Danchev wrote: Quoting "Ron Johnson" : On 2009-07-26 17:00, Miles Bader wrote: Chris Lamb writes: Agreed. IMHO, it is one of those phrases (along with "Our priority is our users") that actually means extremely little in practice, except for

Re: Debian, universal operating system?

2009-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-26 17:00, Miles Bader wrote: Chris Lamb writes: Agreed. IMHO, it is one of those phrases (along with "Our priority is our users") that actually means extremely little in practice, except for generating lots of hot air with nobody agreeing. "Our priority is endless surreal flamewars

Re: Considering the removal of ntpdate

2009-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-24 13:53, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 24 April 2009, Frans Pop wrote: Florian Lohoff wrote: rdate ist not a replacement for ntpdate - it does not use the ntp protocol but the time protocol (builtin inetd) - So making ntpdate depend on rdate is not a solution as it changes the protocol

Bug#537587: ITP: makeup -- The anti-ageing build system

2009-07-19 Thread Ron
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ron Package name: makeup Version : 0.21 Upstream Author : Ron License : GPLv2, with an exception for the generated files to be used under whatever licence the project it's building uses. Programming

Re: Bug#516659: ITP: w3bfukk0r -- scan webservers for hidden?directories (forced browsing)

2009-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
disk! or the keys. You're hosed anyway... -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA The feeling of disgust at seeing a human female in a Relationship with a chimp male is Homininphobia, and you should be ashamed of yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debia

Re: Bug#516659: ITP: w3bfukk0r -- scan webservers for hidden directories (forced browsing)

2009-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/24/2009 08:13 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 07:27:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: But what (besides web crawling) is the (legal) purpose of that? And why does it need a word list? It seems to me that this tool is as open to abuse as nmap, ping, wget, and several other

Re: Bug#516659: ITP: w3bfukk0r -- scan webservers for hidden directories (forced browsing)

2009-02-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/22/2009 07:18 PM, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/22/2009 04:39 PM, Maximilian Gaß wrote: Description : scan webservers for hidden directories (forced browsing) w3bfukk0r is a forced browsing tool, it basically scans webservers (HTTP/HTTPS

Re: Bug#516659: ITP: w3bfukk0r -- scan webservers for hidden directories (forced browsing)

2009-02-22 Thread Ron Johnson
urpose* of w3bfukk0r? Besides fscking up the intarweb? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA The feeling of disgust at seeing a human female in a Relationship with a chimp male is Homininphobia, and you should be ashamed of yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Is the FHS dead ?

2009-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
the LSB auspices might deter other Unix vendors to consider it or get involved, which would seem like a regression. Maybe hosting it on a more neutral place would be better? But will the legacy vendors make even more changes to make it even easier to move off their platforms? -- Ron Johnson

Re: Is the FHS dead ?

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
/ Present Status LSB-FHS2.3 merged into LSB 2.0 runtime tests. This test suite is now being maintained in the LSB CVS tree see http://www.linuxbase.org/test/ -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Re: Bug#514639: ITP: frei0r -- a minimalistic plugin API for video effects

2009-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
adaptation issue of standard effects. It is not meant as a generic API for all kinds of video applications. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/09/2009 08:04 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/09/2009 12:28 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: If jed can deal with files that large, sure. But if it expects to be able to load the entire file into memory - as most text editors do - stat() will

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
[New File]" at the bottom. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: incapable and obsolete APT / Aptitude replacement

2009-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
. Hogwash. Your purpose is to start a flame war. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-linux-gnu -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Ron Johnson
busy processes pinned to a single busy core while the others are mostly unused? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at above-market rates from eco-friendly organic farming cooperatives in Latin America. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

[OT] American Slavery (was Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post")

2008-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
milienrecht.pdf Well, I've heard, that formally, a slavery has been cancelled just 1994 in some states of USA. Maybe some old Jim Crow[0] laws that hadn't been enforced in 20 years. Slavery, though, has been illegal since December 1865. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Ron Johnson
0 +0600: I would like to accentuate that I seek an informative discussion, not a holy war. Yet I see practical issues being raised, and responses mainly accusing them of "completely misunderstanding" and "shallow thinking". This is the kind of foolishness I pulled when I

Re: Is The number of stable users dropping fast?

2008-12-23 Thread Ron Johnson
contest but don't see anything.) -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at above-market rates from eco-friendly organic farming cooperatives in Latin America. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-19 Thread Ron Johnson
rude by people who, well... I'd better stop right there. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled? What different abilities do I have? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-19 Thread Ron Johnson
quot; should indicate what he thinks of JM's comment. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled? What different abilities do I have? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
just not appropriate to blurt out whatever you're thinking. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled? What different abilities do I have? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Bug#508992: ITP: pvrg -- JPEG implementation from Standford

2008-12-17 Thread Ron Johnson
Couldn't get fd's flags: Bad file descriptor Name or service not known: No such file or directory -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled? What different abilities do I have? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Bug#508990: ITP: dicomscope -- DICOMscope - DICOM Viewer

2008-12-17 Thread Ron Johnson
clinical environment, e.g. for reporting. END Does this really have to be in the long description, or should it be in the README.Debian? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled? What different abilities do I have? -- To U

Re: Bug#507451: ITP: iptux -- IP Messenger client for Linux

2008-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/01/08 11:50, Evgeni Golov wrote: On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:18:24 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: Google Error Not Found The requested URL /iptux was not found on this server. http://code.google.com/p/iptux/ is the right URL Thanks. But still: How does this relate to IM, or to older protocols

Re: Bug#507451: ITP: iptux -- IP Messenger client for Linux

2008-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
ts. - send file to other clients. How does this relate to IM, or to older protocols like "talk"? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled? What different abilities do I have? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Bug#505968: ITP: urlwatch -- email notifications of changes to URLs

2008-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
27;s changed. The script works out of a single directory, so no need to install anything. State files are kept in the same folder. The script supports stripping always-changing parts of a page through the use of a filter hook function. urlwatch is only 140 lines of Python. The deb will be *tiny*

Re: Bug#505924: ITP: cwm -- a lightweight and efficient window manager for X11

2008-11-16 Thread Ron Johnson
ntrate on the efficiency and transparency of window management. It also aims to maintain the simplest and most pleasant aesthetic. What makes it better than all of the other lightweight and efficient window manager that Debian packages? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA If you don't

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