Re: anti-spam trick for debian ml (was Re: News about the Package Tracking System)

2003-04-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 20, Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >why not use this trick also for posts to debian mailing lists? Because it's *fucking annoying*? -- ciao, | Marco | [526 cuRlJMlIVOiyY]

Re: anti-spam trick for debian ml (was Re: News about the Package Tracking System)

2003-04-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 20, Jarno Elonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How about keeping a whitelist database in which the users can add themselves >by sending a mail in certain format to something like >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? Only after that would mail from that address be >accepted without bouncing. That shou

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 10:53:29PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 09:09:41PM +0100, Matt Ryan wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > BTW the opinion of this jumped-up developer is "please don't send me > > > private copies of posts to mailing lists". Thanks. > > > > Apologies,

Re: anti-spam trick for debian ml (was Re: News about the Package Tracking System)

2003-04-20 Thread Simon Law
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:46:03AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 20, Jarno Elonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >How about keeping a whitelist database in which the users can add > >themselves by sending a mail in certain format to something like > >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? Only after that w

RE: apache php4-imap Segmentation fault (help needed)

2003-04-20 Thread Adam Conrad
Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld wrote: > > On one of my servers, apache segfaults when php4 loads the > imap.so module. > I have a few servers with similar versions, and only one of > the servers > experiences the segfault. Check incoming in an hour or two. Or your local mirror around this time tomor

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I followed Release Managers request on how to deal with the libvorbis > mess, if you have a problem with how it was dealt with bring it up on > irc. You should know this already but a message was sent out a week in > advance to the libvorbis breakage occu

Re: apache php4-imap Segmentation fault (help needed)

2003-04-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 01:01:45AM +0200, Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld wrote: > Hi. > On one of my servers, apache segfaults when php4 loads the imap.so module. > I have a few servers with similar versions, and only one of the servers > experiences the segfault. > I am unable to discover the cause of

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-20 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:21:27 -0500 > > This doesn't work for texmf.cnf which also I told you once before. > > And why does it not? > > > If the default is to keep your current ve

Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-20 Thread Daniel Martin
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - cvsd/listen: >s/cvsd will listen on/on which cvsd will listen/ > # Avoid dangling preposition This is an English usage question of the sort that will get the English and Linguistics departments at some universities to start leaving nasty notes

Re: stop the "manage with debconf" madness

2003-04-20 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: stop the "manage with debconf" madness Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 02:58:10 -0500 > > (on the whole) try to make the best job they can of the packaging > > of their programs. > > Anyone can make mistakes. Yes and you can too, further pol

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-20 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:24:47 -0500 > > Note users can add local modification freely with the current > > method, please read README.Debian. > > But an admin may no longer freely s

Re: stop the "manage with debconf" madness

2003-04-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:57:41 +0900 (JST), Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: stop the > "manage with debconf" madness Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 02:58:10 -0500 >> > (on the whole) try to make the best job they can of the packaging >> >

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:08:04 +0900 (JST), Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: > Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: Fri, 18 Apr > 2003 12:24:47 -0500 >> > Note users can add local modification freely with the cu

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:40:16 +0900 (JST), Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: > Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: Fri, 18 Apr > 2003 12:21:27 -0500 >> > This doesn't work for texmf.cnf which also I told you on

Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 09:02:19PM +0100, Matt Ryan wrote: > >Um, no. *Policy* says that it may not be used as a registry. > [SNIPPED LONG DIATRIBE THAT DOES NOT PROVE THE ABOVE STATEMENT] > Sure, you delete the registry things should still work. Did I say anything > different? You are making a

Re: multiarchitecture binaries - technical obstacles?

2003-04-20 Thread Shantonu Sen
(Multiply replies collapsed and addressed) Years ago, NeXT modified GCC and the rest of the GNU tools to allow them to produce multi-architecture binaries, so that a single binary executable could run on both 68k and i386 platforms. They also had a tool that could strip out hunks for unwanted arch

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Hans Reiser
It is really a question of, do you respect the authors? Stallman never imagined that anyone in the free software business would be other than a gentleman. Then the OS rather than just the kernel got named Linux by those who found his politics inconvenient to their business, and the k got drop

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 06:54:42AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > It is really a question of, do you respect the authors? It's really much simpler than that. The package maintainer changed something that you didn't like, in an unreleased package in the unstable distribution (this version of the so

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 06:54:42AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > It is really a question of, do you respect the authors? Not much, after that lengthly diatribe which *still* fails to clearly state what the perceived problem is. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-20 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 20:52:43 -0500 > > Sorry to say but I should say that you don't have enough knowledge > > about TeX system. > > Ah, pissing contest. OK, I have been building TeX

Re: multiarchitecture binaries - technical obstacles?

2003-04-20 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 10:41:08PM -0400, Shantonu Sen wrote: > >reduce the burden on the autobuilders; > > Using cross building like this would indeed allow a farm of x86 > machines to compile all architectures, instead of needing to support > lots of builder types, which may or may not be as s

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-20 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 20:57:11 -0500 > > I don't understand why you say "an admin may no longer freely > > synchronize the conffile"? > > I used to have TeX on 27 machines, including

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
In chiark.mail.debian.devel, Hans Reiser wrote: >Feel free to make the credits more CPU efficient, reformat them to fit a >screen, animate them, anything that adheres to the academic attribution >spirit of respecting those who contributed years of their lives at the >cost of substantial reducti

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 06:54:42AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > It is really a question of, do you respect the authors? Who do you respect, Hans? Many Debian Developers are also Free Software authors. How much respect are you showing us with your brazen accusations of impropriety? Did it occur

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-20 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 20:52:43 -0500 > > Without the current cheme all TeX system breaks so, in short, the > > new scheme is indispensable infrastructure for TeX system and there > > is no c

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Peter van Rossum
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Hans Reiser wrote: > Feel free to make the credits more CPU efficient, reformat them to fit a > screen, animate them, anything that adheres to the academic attribution > spirit of respecting those who contributed years of their lives at the > cost of substantial reductions i

Re: libc6 (security) update does not restart system-services?

2003-04-20 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Sun, 20 Apr 2003 08:55:11 +0200, Markus Amersdorfer wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 18:04:01 +0200 > Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:05:49AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > > So everytime we have to restart all binaries which use a library > > > invol

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Glenn McGrath
What if the full statment was shown once on installation, but not every time the program is used, would that be an acceptable compromise to you ? Glenn

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