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Miles Bader([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2006-02-23 17:41:
> Stephen Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I need to find a way of identifying the name of an installed
> > distrobution. This mechanism should be able to differentiate
>
> To what end? Many people do not run &quo
Hi
I need to find a way of identifying the name of an installed
distrobution. This mechanism should be able to differentiate
woody
sarge
etch
sid
hoary
breezy
dapper
Prior to etch I was using lsb-release but it seems /etc/lsb-release is
no longer installed by 'apt-get install lsb-release'. The R
Enrico Zini([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-11-15 17:55:
> I implemented a new kind of package search, here:
>
> http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi
Nice.
Could this be tied in with the results of the popularity contest to
give a ranking of results?
Often several packages provide the
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Moritz Muehlenhoff([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-07-06 12:45:
> > Europe, its time to choose.
>
> It has chosen a few minutes ago; the commision's directive has been rejected
> by the European parliament. This is not as good as the solution proposed
> in the first reading or the amendments made by Mr. R
> On 4 Jul 2005, at 11:44 am, Wookey wrote:
> Take a look at this patent (granted this week in europe)
>
> http://gauss.ffii.org/PatentView/EP1170667
>
> I'm fairly sure that apt-get and associated package-integratity
> checking tools could be considered infringing. (Does dpkg/apt have
> a modul
Looks good!!!
I went to amazon.co.uk to order a copy, but it isn't listed yet :-(
They often list books *before* they become available so you may want
to contact them and provide details.
Steve
martin f krafft([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-27 03:05:
> Dear all,
>
> I am pleased to announce the a
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This is an X Windows version of fplan (ITP files 311070).
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Steve Greenland([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-09 10:06:
> I suspect that the problem is that you're confusing "obsolete" with
> "not current". "Obsolete" caries the connotation of "useless except for
> entertainment/hobbiest purposes". For example, steam engine cars are
> obsolete. The 1999 Toyota Cam
Bill
Just out of curiosity, when testing the upgrade procedure how do you
select the mix of packages installed prior to the upgrade?
Steve
Bill Allombert([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-09 22:53:
> Hello Debian developers,
>
> [Please store this mail in a safe place and read it when you have
> reco
Benj. Mako Hill([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-08 12:41:
> I have no desire to spin things in a way that makes everyone throw
> their arms up and love Ubuntu but rather to find constructive ways
> that these two projects (both of which I care about) can work together
> in mutually beneficial ways. The
Matt Zimmerman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-07 16:06:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:03:24PM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote:
>
> > Matt Zimmerman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-07 13:35:
> > > If the diff were zero bytes, Debian and Ubuntu would be identical. I hope
> > &
Matt Zimmerman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-07 13:35:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:25:53PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> > You seem to try to pick up every little bit of my mails which is able
> > to drift us away from the main point:
> >
> >Lets minimize the amount of work by beeing as compa
Ian Murdock([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-07 11:34:
> Second, I've been trying to start a private conversation about
> this very issue since last November, and my attempts to do
> so have largely been ignored. If taking the concern
> public is the only way to get it addressed, then so be it.
>
> The
Michelle Konzack([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-06 20:22:
> Am 2005-06-06 19:22:08, schrieb Peter 'p2' De Schrijver:
>
> > That sounds retarded in an age where a 200GB HD cost less then 100 Euro...
> > Anyway you can always decide to mirror only part of the archive if you
> > want to, even today.
>
>
Miles Bader([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-07 10:53:
> Stephen Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The question was really this, if Ubuntu created a better bug tracking
> > program would Debian want to run the new software on the debian
> > servers thus replacing the cu
Matt Zimmerman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-06 08:38:
> > This may already happen but a good start would be to arrange for the
> > Ubuntu tools to *automatically* copy bug reports and patches on a
> > package to the packages DD.
> >
> > That way the DD is alerted to the changes in a timely manner.
>
David Nusinow([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-06 12:07:
> > > Is it your hope that the debian project will switch to the new software
> > > so ubuntu can stop running an independent bug tracker?
> >
> > I think that's pretty unlikely, personally ...
>
> Would it be of a lot of benefit to us if it coul
Michelle Konzack([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-06 15:52:
> I know, and I have no money to sue Microsoft which has stolen
> a Software which was 1986 under PD for educational use only...
Just out of curiosity, what was that?
Steve
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David Weinehall([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-06 11:47:
> >
> > top company to bottom in my mind. Sigh ... I would have liked one of
> > those tablet computer.
>
> So, I take it you don't buy any products from Apple, IBM, Sony,
> etc either?
Apple ... nope
IBM ... nope
Sony ... okay, so you got
Florian Weimer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-06 09:32:
> * Stephen Birch:
>
> > Wow Nokia just became my new favourite company.
>
> To put things into perspective, Nokia is one of the companies lobbying
> for unlimited software patents in Europe.
Oops. I don't l
Matt Zimmerman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-05 12:55:
> I don't think there exists a bug tracking system which meets this need
> today, which is why Canonical is developing a bug tracking system which is
> designed to meet the needs of open source projects collaborating with each
> other on common co
On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 20:38 +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> * The handling of NEW packages and in which cases to file an ITP.
> * How to retrieve patches in the easiest way.
> * How to start group maintenance.
>
> Maybe there are other issues, I missed in the thread.
How to rep
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 00:53 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> There isn't much that I can do about packages that I don't maintain; we have
> some tools for this, but it is primarily a matter of personal preference
> (and not Debian dogma) how packages are maintained in Debian. If there is
> some con
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 05:02 -0500, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting David Weinehall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > Indeed. The Nokia OSSO (Open Source Software Operations) that work on
> > this product consists of several DD's (myself being one), plus at least
> > one person in the NM-queue. Some
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 22:57 +0100, Dave Holland wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:37:28PM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote:
> > Darren Salt([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 21:49:
> > > For those who've missed the first three broadcasts today, there's one
> > &
John Goerzen([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-01 00:06:
> Out of curiousity, do you have a rough estimate of the percentage that
> actually make it into Debian? Or the percentage that are held back
> with no good reason?
I wonder if it would be an idea to write a tool that compares Debian
and Ubuntu pa
Michael K. Edwards([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 23:01:
> I think it's been so long since Debian started having pre-sarge
> freeze-spasms that we've all forgotten what it's like when the
I am a long time Linux user but only saw the debian light just after
woody released so I have no experience wit
Darren Salt([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 21:49:
> For those who've missed the first three broadcasts today, there's one more at
> 01:05 GMT; also see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/1478157.stm>.
Why on earth does the BBC force its listeners to all hit its servers
at the same time. Doesn't
Michael K. Edwards([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 13:56:
> What is the point of, say, harassing the glibc maintainer to take a
> patch against the version in sid, when he's planning on jumping to
> 2.3.4 as soon as sarge releases? If you want evidence on which to
> judge the sincerity of Ubuntu's "
Hi Ante, welcome to the debian project!
Ante Karamati?([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 20:09:
> First of all, hi to all developers!
>
> I packaged that wifi-radar for Ubuntu. It was my first package and I
> didn't fill ITP, untill it was reviewed by others. I'm sorry for not
> filling ITP. I didn't
Tollef Fog Heen([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 22:21:
> ...
> It's both and not. I think of a fork as ??we want to do this
> differently and we're not going to ???waste??? effort getting stuff merged
> again??. Ubuntu isn't that; Ubuntu is trying to get the changes back
> into Debian so they don
Miros/law Baran([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 21:02:
> ``The question is: who cares?''. Or, better: does it really matter,
> what name will be used?
Its not the name that would bother me, it is the result. As Matt
Zimmerman pointed out elsewhere in this thread a "fork" is quite
negative and has t
John Goerzen([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 13:34:
> I may do that too, but its architecture support is abysmal compared to
> Debian, so I have no choice in the matter at this point (and lack the
> time to port ubuntu to all my archs).
That is unfortunate for you. I am lucky (or unlucky perhaps) i
Tollef Fog Heen([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 18:06:
> * Stephen Birch
>
> | The project seems to have established a mechanism for putting new
> | packeges directly into Ubuntu. Are new Ubuntu packages also put in
> | Debian by the Ubuntu team members?
>
> Yes.
Let me gi
Forgive me if this has already been discussed ... if so could someone
give me a pointer to the thread.
I find myself fairly confused about Ubuntu packages. I had thought
that Ubuntu is a Debian derivative. Therefore I expected new
packages to be first placed in Debian and then flow to Ubuntu.
H
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Carlos C Soto([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-04-19 14:55:
> Great!
>
> I use this module and wold be great to have it on debian.
> I was thinking on put a RFP bug for it.
The package is not going to be ready in time for sarge though :-(
Steve
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Josselin Mouette([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-04-12 09:20:
> Why? When you don't know Perl, and you feel like improving a software in
> Perl is like eating oysters with skiing gloves,
LOL
> rewriting the software in Python so that you can work on it seems
> like the best solution.
An even better solu
Matthew Palmer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-04-08 19:14:
> You'd be wanting wnpp-check, in the devscripts package. Check out rc-check
> while you're at it. Both are cronable.
ahh ... devscripts. I think you meant wnpp-alert not wnpp-check.
Thanks for the tip.
Perfect, thanks!
Steve
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I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my
machines with the list of orphaned packages. This is to be sure
a program in use isn't orphaned without me becoming aware of it.
Ideally the program would be run from cron about once a week and email
a status report.
Is there a progra
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This is an extension
Ken Bloom([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 09:10:
.
> There's a discussion of release proposals ongoing at
> http://wiki.debian.net/?ReleaseProposals
> Please look around there to see what's going on and understand the ideas
> that have been proposed.
Thanks for the pointer ... reading thro
Bas Zoetekouw([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 14:31:
>
> I like that idea. We could even have a system to automagically throw
> buggy non-RE packages out of testing.
>
That wouldn't be a bad idea at all. In the recent DPL interview:
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/23/2023223
Martin
Wouter Verhelst([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 14:22:
>
> You should ask the release managers about that.
>
Wow!! You mean the decision process is not made public? I would have
thought it would be out in the open for all to see.
Mind you, Debian seems to be a hotbed of emotion at times so perhaps
Wouter Verhelst([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 13:46:
> That's how testing started off. We stopped doing this because
> a) it at one point stalled glibc; as a result, nothing moved to
> testing
>anymore, and when it finally did, the changes were so dramatic
>that
>testing was broken for
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.
Since I administer a large number of distant computers I view the long
time
Andrew Suffield([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2004-12-05 09:55:
> Non-commercial-use-only licenses are non-free.
Yup. Sigh. I closed the ITP. It turned out there were several problems
with the package:
1. License not DFSG
2. Coded in Java (I dont do Java)
3. IBM sign up required to access upstream
Is someo
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Sorry - I guess this is probably a newbie question.
This posting says the new PostgreSQL pre-release was uploaded to
"experimental". Is that the same as uploading to "unstable" or is there
another area beyond stable, testing, and unstable?
Steve
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