Bug#1068113: ITP: libsmb2 -- SMB2/3 client library

ITP: libsmb2 -- SMB2/3 client library Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joe Mondloch X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libsmb2 Version : 4.0.0 Upstream Authors: Ronnie Sahlberg URL : https://github.com/sahlberg/libsmb2 * License

Bug#997916: general: bullseye, (sometimes) keyboard freezes after suspend.

Package: general Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: bullk...@protonmail.com Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What

Is there system-config-lvm for Debian 10?

- - - Is there system-config-lvm for Debian 10? [i

Bug#931290: general: Asrock A300 Deskmini AMD Athlon 200GE ends in black screen Monitor has no Signal

or testing run with this hardware please let me know. Kind regards, Joe Quoting joe : > Package: general > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate > *** > >* What led up to the sit

Bug#931290: general: Asrock A300 Deskmini AMD Athlon 200GE ends in black screen Monitor has no Signal

Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action?

Re: De-Branding of Icedove, reintroducing Thunderbird packages into Debian

proofreading/control etc. It's a small thing then making the package descriptions, but saves us a lot of work. thanks in advance. Joe (Danish) Icedove is an unbranded Thunderbird mail client suitable for free distribution. The goal of Thunderbird is to produce a cross platform stand-alone

Re: SV: where to report translation bugs?

There is no automatic system for package descriptions (as I recall). bye Joe -

SV: where to report translation bugs?

Hi Jonas, you can find the different addresses here (for bug reports to short and long descriptions) https://lists.debian.org/i18n.html For Danish debian-l10n-dan...@lists.debian.org I'll will open one there and end this tread on debian-devel by

Re: length of a package extended description

You definitely need to see/know about the surrounding context. (it might be done differently than today, but the need is there). bye Joe Danish On 10 January 2015 at 17:27, Guillem Jover wrote: > So, no, "fixing" the "translators tools" is not an option. Wheth

Re: Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

> On 2014-11-11 12:25, Ben Finney wrote: > > But all Debian Contributors have their OpenPGP key in the > > project's keyring. No? > > Most certainly not. > Parts where many people who is not DD nor DM takes part include docs, > web, translations and graphics. FWIW, when I first started running s

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 21:45:37 +0200 Attila Kinali wrote: > I think you are confusing a few things. Sam was, as far as i know, > never active in FFmpeg. He was (and i think still is) a big figure > in VLC development. I was only speaking of him as maintainer of the ffmpeg packages in debian. I ha

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:13:17 +0200 Attila Kinali wrote: > Well, if you believe in lies, then of course your view of the world > will darken. But i hope that this email clears things up. If I am spreading falsehoods then I apologize. The ffmpeg/libav split broke a video sharing site that I buil

Re: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

re project. -- Joe Neal -- 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/20140808081624.dabc0d29631e24ade9c73...@speakeasy.net

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

thanks, I must agree with Gunnar. The self-ironic is fine in the original context (forging), but not in the package descriptions. bye Joe Den tors 5/6/14 skrev Mike Gabriel : Emne: Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian Til: &quo

SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

are there any reasons for the »strange« package description in mate-desktop-environment (and more) The MATE Desktop Environment, a non-intuitive and unattractive desktop for users, using traditional computing desktop metaphor. bye Joe Danish Den

SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

This is great news. Thanks. MATE is for me the best choice. Den tirs 3/6/14 skrev Mike Gabriel : Emne: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian Til: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Cc: pkg-mate-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org Dato: tirsdag 3. juni 2014

SV: Moving the target of localization pokes (and eventually NMUs)...

pages doesn't seem to have been updated since may 2 ? bye Joe Danish   - Original meddelelse - Fra: Christian PERRIER Til: debian-devel@lists.debian.org; debian-i...@lists.debian.org Cc: Sendt: 7:29 mandag den 21. maj 2012 Emne: Moving the target of localization pokes (and event

SV: Description-less Packages indices

with the more technical information. bye Joe Danish Fra: Ian Jackson Til: Davide Prina Cc: debian-i...@lists.debian.org; debian-devel@lists.debian.org; martin.e.scha...@gmx.de; goswin-...@web.de Sendt: 15:30 tirsdag den 21. februar 2012 Emne: Re: Description

Description-less Packages indices

ng several long descriptions). It must be possible to undone this change, until a solution for the translation robot has been prepared. bye Joe Danish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: SRWare Iron: Chromium without the data-mining

Don't hold back, John. Tell us how you really feel. On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:30 PM, John Moser wrote: > Shut up.  You're whining like a raving politicized lune and nobody is > listening to your monologue. > > Apply some critical thinking skills.  It's a bug in a special mode of a > browser, a mo

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

Joe Smith wrote: Counter proposal: New meta-package Boolean field. Meta-packages would normally have few or no Depends, being almost completely recommends. Recommends (perhaps also Depends) of meta-packages are not marked as automatically installed. The usefulness of this part of my

Re: [RFC] DEP-6: Meta-Package debian/control field

"David Paleino" wrote in message news:16193268.79mvg96...@home.hanskalabs.net... Hello people, per the DEP process described at http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep0/, this is the first call for comments on this proposal. Title: Meta-Package debian/control field DEP: 6 State: D

Re: Should ucf be of priority required?

"Manoj Srivastava" wrote in message news:87my1uhtb7@anzu.internal.golden-gryphon.com... On Mon, Dec 07 2009, Joe Smith wrote: The net result here is that ucf may be keeping excess state related to package foo. But it is not. ucf knows well that when it is reinstalled

Re: Should ucf be of priority required?

I suspect Patrick might be worried about a scenario like the following. Lets assume there is a package Foo that depends on and uses ucf. Further the package is the only one ucing UCF on the system. At some point the admin decides to remove Foo. Since there are no other packages that use ucf o

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

"Piotr Ożarowski" wrote in message news:20091203235820.gf6...@piotro.eu... Right now we're working on updating the Debian Python Policy. Once we'll be happy with the first set of patches, we'll send them to debian-python mailing list. I don't see a reason to make it public right now as it's si

Re: Bug#538202: ITP: virt-what -- detect if we are running in a virtual machine

"Manoj Srivastava" wrote: Virt-what is more accurate than Imvirt, version 1.0 can tell the difference between Xen Dom0 and DomU. The new version (1.1, released on 23 july 2009) can tell the difference between QEMU and KVM, and can tell if you are running inside a Xen fullvirt guest. Th

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

"Mark Brown" wrote in message news:20090427092413.ga1...@sirena.org.uk... On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 01:48:27AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 21:41 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > #494120 and #494122. [...] I disagree with these as the tables in question are easily small

Bug#520471: ITP: configure-trackpoint -- configuration program for Thinkpad TrackPoint mouse

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joe Nahmias * Package name: configure-trackpoint Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Cheuksan Edward Wang * URL : http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/configure-trackpoint.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?

Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 03 Mar 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: I've got to wondering: are the large -dbg packages actually really useful to anybody? Thoughts? I think they are useful, but probably not for the vast majority of users. [I've used them on a few dozen occasions.] What I really

Re: Override changes standard -> optional

Joerg Jaspert wrote: finger It's been a while since I've seen a useful finger server, I think it's fine to drop this too. db.debian.org, but that doesnt need it standard. For what it's worth finger's local features are still important. I've recently seen a professor explain to a class o

Re: Hardware compatibility test: draft proposal

"Giacomo Catenazzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wouter Verhelst wrote: Hi, As I mentioned in my blog[1], I kindof like the suggestion that Bdale Yes, I find the talk very interesting. So, after more than twelve hours of boredom on an airplane and half a nig

Bug#491597: ITP: magicmaze -- rescue the maiden while avoiding the monsters

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joseph Nahmias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: magicmaze Version : 1.4.3.1 Upstream Author : Kent "MenThal" Dahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://magicmaze.rubyforge.org/ * License : "FREEWARE" Programming Lang: Ru

Re: Package management unsafe?

"Brian May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Joe Smith wrote: However, if the security updates come from trusted security mirrors rather than a general mirror, that attack would fail too. So with the exception of Sid or Testing users that do not

Re: Package management unsafe?

Andrei Popescu gmail.com> writes: > How about distributing the Release files *only* from a trusted server? > > Regards, > Andrei That is problematic, as it does not deal with mirror synchronization properly. If a mirror takes a few hours to update, it's Packages files may not be up to date duri

Re: Package management unsafe?

Florian Weimer deneb.enyo.de> writes: > > * Ron Johnson: > > > http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/justin/packagemanagersecurity/attacks-on-package-managers.html > > > > What are people's thoughts on this? > > HTTPS doesn't help against non-trusted mirrors. > > The difficult question is how to t

Re: Not stopping daemons, where are we?

"Marvin Renich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080701 20:45]: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> I mean the pending-write case is the most obvious. But what about >> resolver >> caches, VPNs and the like? > > What

Re: Generating debian package using cmake (take 2)

"Mathieu Malaterre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > THANK YOU ! So far I only had FUDs about: 'no this is impossible, 'this is not the right way'. Thanks for taking the time to answer in detail, this much more supportive. I finally understood the previous aggressive answers, I was simply looking at

Re: Handling macro change in an exported library header

"Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Nikita Youshchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080626 11:51]: To fix #486693, I need to apply a patch that changes #define'd macro in an exported library header. The pattern is: extern int foo(char *param1, int param2

Re: Large data packages in the archive

"Joerg Jaspert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] c.) We can host an own archive for it under control of ftpmaster. [snip] So the way to go for us seems to be c.), hosting the archive ourself (somewhere below data.debian.org probably). [snip] A data.d.o would presumably be running on a debian

Re: triggers wishlist

"Michael Biebl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess Joss is right here. triggers tell you *if* something has changed >(in a subdirectory), but not *what*. Remember, that we have to call gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/$subdir for the directory that has c

Bug#472281: ITP: libtommath -- a number theoretic multiple-precision integer library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joseph Nahmias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtommath Version : 0.39 Upstream Author : Tom St Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://math.libtomcrypt.com/ * License : Public Domain Programming Lang: C Descrip

Re: best package for windows Vista

"Jonathan Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I was not sure if the image for Debian 4.0 downloaded completely. This is why I feel >obliged to order it. I will be using Debian for GrADS and for compiling FORTRAN >code. Can I get some recommendations f

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

"Andreas Tille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: So you do something like: apt-get -o APT::Install-Suggests=true install foo; or similar. [Though it probably should be an easier option, it is possible to do.] Well, this

Re: dpkg-buildpackage now reorganizing debian/control Depends field??

"David Paleino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Il giorno Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:04:52 -0300 Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: As I said, for APT, the order has meaning _always_. apt-get install foo bar Is completely different of apt-get install bar f

Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian

"Sebastian Pipping" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Would non-free be an option to all or some of them? Do we have binary only packages in Debian? My understanding is that it is possible to have binary-only packages in non-free, although I really don't know an

Re: Is a free document whose sources have been lost free?

"Charles Plessy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Le Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:35:16PM -0800, Don Armstrong a écrit : Unless the pdf is exceptionally complicated, it's not all that difficult to resurect LaTeX that does a similar job; it'd probably be ideal to do this a

Re: How to cope with patches sanely (Was: State of the project -input needed)

Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Michael Banck wrote: And there I thought we'd use whatever we like until wig&pen lands, which will have native patch support. What's the status of that? Is my assumption bad? Not completely, I'm following the discussion closely

Re: netconf control socket protocol: rfc822, xml-rpc, or dbus

"Pierre Habouzit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well that wasn't what I understood, but I'm really not a D-Bus expert at all :) Though it doesn't makes sense to let the D-Bus connector be a separated component as you then only pull the library which is of a reasona

Re: netconf control socket protocol: rfc822, xml-rpc, or dbus

"Pierre Habouzit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That's wrong, and XML-RPC *SUCKS*, as does most of the text-only interfaces, when you want real-time events. DBus isn't such a bad way to do things, it doesn't requires the daemon up and running to interact with netc

Re: Bug#458819: ITP: nettee -- a network "tee" program

"Joel Franco" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HEY SPONSORS.. PLEASE LOOK NETTEE :) I'm guessing that sponsors are waiting for your acknowledgment and correction of the issues mentioned in http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/01/msg00034.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Re: Bug#458819: ITP: nettee -- a network "tee" program

"Joel Franco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - simplicity: like you already said, the simple command, without complex pipe setups like showed in your example comments. You have to agree with me that that netcat + tee pipe commands are not trivial. If I had known

Re: Faster shutdown and the ubuntu "multiuser" update-rc.dextention

"Josselin Mouette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ubuntu discovered this a while back, and introduced a method to avoid calling stop scripts in runlevel 0 and 6. It is the "multiuser" extension to update-rc.d, and in Ubuntu packages are changed to calls dh_installi

Re: Faster shutdown and the ubuntu "multiuser" update-rc.d extention

"Petter Reinholdtsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Joe Smith] Obviously removing those scripts should have no impact on the other initscripts. Exactly, (unless there is a dependency relation between two scripts and one of them is removed f

Re: Bug#458819: ITP: nettee -- a network "tee" program

"Joel Franco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joel Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: nettee Version : 0.1.8 Upstream Author : David Mathog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://saf.bio.caltech.

Re: Faster shutdown and the ubuntu "multiuser" update-rc.d extention

"Petter Reinholdtsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Roger Leigh] On a heavily loaded or slow system, I suspect it would be highly likely some would get SIGKILL before they could shut down properly. I can't say I'm a big fan of the proposal for this reason. I d

Re: Bug#455730: ITP: lua-peg -- Parsing Expression Grammars For Lua

"Enrico Tassi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:39:43AM +0100, Enrico Tassi wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:17:48PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: If you are inpatient, or want to test it before it passes the new queue, Oops, I've just disc

Re: Menu categories

"Sune Vuorela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2007-10-21, Ben Goodger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --=_Part_8909_32361462.1192962485303 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 21/10/2007, Sune Vuo

Re: Enabling and installing of "risky" ("patented") codecs - madeeasy

"Clint Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 08:11:13PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: How about just using non-free for that? In the past, patented packages like gif encoders have been hosted there, so why can't we just use them for mpeg en

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

"Julien BLACHE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've read that but I didn't take it into account because people google for docs and they will find documentation recommending apt-get (they usually won't notice if the doc

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Don Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] So it seems like we should do the following: 1. Make changes to the menu system to use .desktop files in pre

Re: adding desktop files to misc packages

"Don Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] So it seems like we should do the following: 1. Make changes to the menu system to use .desktop files in preference to .menu files when they exist 2. Generate .desktop files from .menu files using the menu system when

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

"Michael Vogt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Friends, I plan to do an apt 0.7.2 upload for sid this weekend. It's a big merge of the version in debian/experimental and the version in Ubuntu. It will break the ABI, so all packages that depend on libapt will n

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > The sparc32 port has been struggling for some time. Last month Jurij > Smakov, currently the most active Debian Sparc porter, raised the question > if support sparc32 should be dropped for Lenny [1]. Fine, as long as you provide 32-bit

Or, will code I write today work in Excel 12?

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Re: New General resolution proposed

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:10:36PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:05:26AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:15:13PM -0600, Debian Project Secretary wrote: > > > This is a notification of a general resolution proposed on the

Re: New General resolution proposed

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:15:13PM -0600, Debian Project Secretary wrote: > This is a notification of a general resolution proposed on the > debian-vote mailing list. On the 8th of February, in a message with > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> propos

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

"Joerg Jaspert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10927 March 1977, Mark Purcell wrote: On Saturday 10 February 2007 01:34, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Selection of the people included in those runs will be done in a way that we avoid sending out such mails to active pe

Re: KDE and Gnome panel applets showing percentage of broken packages

"Frans Pop" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 05 December 2006 22:25, Berke Durak wrote: I will just say that in my opinion, a repository such as stable, testing or unstable should be self-contained. For stable and testing that is true. However, sid is broken by design as it

Re: Request for virtual package ircd

"Jeremy Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:14:19AM +0200, Mario Iseli wrote: Ok, this is a good argument. I think the oppinion is more or less clear: Some people think it would be a nice idea, BUT it can be also a problem because so

Re: Code of Conduct on the Debian mailinglists

"Wouter Verhelst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 11:39:51AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: "Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I really wonder why mailing lists are so common. It sort of depend

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

"Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:27:21AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 30, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian must decide whether it wants to ship BLOBs with licensing which > technically does not permit

Re: Code of Conduct on the Debian mailinglists

"Ben Pfaff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: No problem at all. Especially with gmane.org around. I used to subscribe to dozens of mailing lists, but now I can just browse all of them as newsgroups. I agree, I use Gm

Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools

"Goswin von Brederlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 01, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, pbuilder and debootstrap are considered absolutely critical for serious work. That's a bold statement. -- c

Re: Place to submit scripts useful for Debian

"Daniel Dickinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I intend to do an update-menu thing that calls 'fburn --gui', which makes for a somewhat friendly interface from a window manager menu or icon. Also it doesn't just blast out the image and hope it's okay; unle

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

"Manoj Srivastava" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I see you have not fully followed through on reading policy here: ,[ § 7.2 ] | In case of circular dependencies, since installation or removal order | honoring the dependency order can't be established, dependency loops |

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

"Manoj Srivastava" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:09:56 -0400, Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Well, strictly speaking all circular dependencies could be considered a policy violation because they depend on dpkg

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

"Ian Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Allombert writes ("Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5"): Here the list of packages involved in circular dependencies listed by maintainers. Didn't we already have the conversation where we explained t

Re: Getting the buildds to notice new architectures in a package

"Wouter Verhelst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 10:55:32PM +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote: Where should I ask for help? Neither buildd.debian.org nor www.debian.org/devel/buildd, mention where the buildd admins can be reached; and lists.debia

Re: Bug#376588: ITP: cryptomount -- a utility for accessing encrypted filesystems

"Baruch Even" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org AIUI, there is no need to CC debian-devel with ITP's, as debian-devel normally gets them anyway.

Re: #195752: Can somebody mark this bug as grave or critical?

"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] severity 195752 important thanks On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:43:57PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: But yeah, I'm not in an official position to say, but if this isn't considered a "critical" or at least "grave"

Re: Debian mactel linux support?

"Junichi Uekawa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I don't quite grok how I can make erfit be the default bootloader > without access to MacOSX command-line to 'bless', I hope I can find > out as I delve deeper. You can't. Intel Mac blessing is different to traditio

Re: These new diffs are great, but...

"Bastian Venthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Lemmen wrote: standard method. you will however find out that the size of all diffs together is already less than the size of the regular packages file. Yeah, looking at the average filesize of a diff compa

Re: Is OSS only support to be considered a bug?

"Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:35:19 +0200 Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:20:34PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > With the 2.6 kernel programs using OSS for sound are not working > anymo

Re: new tar behavior and --wildcards

"Petr Vandrovec" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Since this seems to have been an intentional behavior change by upstream to better align with a published standard, I'm uninclined to fight it, and think our best response is to update our utilities to include the --wildcards option, with

Re: cgiirc Hijacking

"Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:18:11PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: In cases where a security bug is being fixed, you usually try to upload the package as soon as possible. If your sponsor is on We did

Re: Bug#374373: ITP: googleearth-package -- utility for automatically building a Google Earth Debian package

"Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Joe Smith wrote: Is this really needed? Google was very careful in making sure that the package installs in /usr/local, and does not interfere with the system. Normally the main reason why a d

Re: Bug#374373: ITP: googleearth-package -- utility for automatically building a Google Earth Debian package

"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, I agree that it's ok to trust installer source that they will not install a backdoor into your system. However, chances that they will write to directories that should be under control of package manager, o

Re: Bug#374373: ITP: googleearth-package -- utility for automatically building a Google Earth Debian package

"Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: googleearth-package Upstream Author : Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : (native packag

Re: Non-DD's in debian-legal

"Ian Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeremy Hankins writes ("Non-DD's in debian-legal"): I'm not sure I understand this part, though. Do you think that folks like myself, who are not DD's, should not participate in the discussions on d-l? Actually, I thi

Re: Who can make binding legal agreements

"Martijn van Oosterhout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 6/7/06, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Sure. SPI owns many of the machines that Debian owns. If any o

Re: Red team attacks vs. cracking

"Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Claiming that what Martin did was good since he was showing something useful for our community is equivalent to saying it was a "red team attack". Nobody used that term explicitly probably because t

Re: Please revoke your signatures from MartinKraff's keys

"David Moreno Garza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Luca Capello wrote: As a side note, while my passport was valid (re-newed the day before leaving for Mexico because I forgot it was expired after 5 years and not 10), I didn't get any Mexican seal when I arrived a

Re: multiarch status update

"Daniel Ruoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Em Qui, 2006-05-11 às 09:56 +0200, Gabor Gombas escreveu: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:33:45PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Why would that not fly? > Both versions of the arch-independent package could be installed a

Re: multiarch status update

"Adam Borowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:49:26PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: On the other hand, if we continue that thought process we could end up with all headers and libraries in /usr/share/, which is absurd. Why?

Re: multiarch status update

"Matt Taggart and others" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi debian-devel, For a couple years now a few of us have been talking about an idea called "multiarch". This is a way to seamlessly allow support for multiple different binary targets on the same system, for

Re: patching a package?

"Lionel Elie Mamane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get source ${PACKAGE} cp -R ${PACKAGE}-${VERSION} ${PACKAGE}-${VERSION}.pristine-deb cd ${PACKAGE}-${VERSION} # hack away cd .. diff --recursive -u ${PACKAGE}-${VERSION}.pristine-deb ${PACKAGE}-${VERSION} > d

Re: Debian Policy version

"Raphael Hertzog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems to me that it is unreasonable for the PTS to be updated before the policy package actually hits the mirrors. There is a period of time after a package leaves incomming but before the mirrors are updated when

Re: Debian Policy version

"Frank Küster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However, version 3.7.2.0 is neither in unstable nor at http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ Both only have version 3.7.1.0. How comes that the PTS has a newer version th

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

"Rogério Brito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there. I think that this may be interesting to anybody that has to work with computers that are not the latest/more recent as most people in richer countries seem to have. It seems to be that a good amount of peopl

Re: python-minimal

"Steve Langasek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: The alsa-utils package depends on python-minimal. As a result, I must now have two versions of python installed. That's a bug. alsa-utils should de

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