Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Steve Lamb wrote: > No, I never said their status was unjust. I said the process appears > broken. Two completely different statements. I cannot think of any > conceivable justification for ANY application to be present for years. That > has nothing to do with just or u

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:38:41AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:56:20 -0400 > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And neither does the fact that some have been there for years indicate > > anything in particular. > > Actually, I think it does. They should either

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Hans Fugal
* Steve Lamb [Wed, 6 Aug 2003 at 10:19 -0700] > > New mutt users might be slightly confused by the mutt way of doing > > things but that doesn't mean we have to patch mutt for their sakes. > > Naturally, it's up to the package maintainer how to differ from > > upstream, but this mutt user would be

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Artur R. Czechowski
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:26:12AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:32:59PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > I don't take kindly to software installing other software without a > > clear need and there simply was no clear need. > Well, now, why don'tcha run 'em outta town, Te

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:09:15 -0500 (CDT) Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Actually, I think it does. They should either be accepted or rejected > > within x days. x being somewhere below rand(20) * 365. Either they are > > in, rejected, or the

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Oliver Kurth
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:27:38AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 18:50:21 +0200 > Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Steve Lamb > > | How many local users are you going to have on a laptop whose correct > > SMTP| server changes as a function of their location? >

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Chris Cheney
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:01:35PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:10:24PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Interessting analysis. Many things that hold up the release can only be > > solved by active and experienced maintainers since the packages are often > > es

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:11:47 -0500 (CDT) Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, I never said their status was unjust. I said the process appears > > broken. Two completely different statements. I cannot think of any > > conceivable justification for ANY application to be present for ye

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Oliver Bausinger
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 20:01, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:10:24PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Interessting analysis. Many things that hold up the release can only be > > solved by active and experienced maintainers since the packages are often > > essential

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 12:13:41 -0600 Hans Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would alter the way my mail is sent. Are you sure? I see nothing in the patch that would require the use of SMTP. The verbage always says "allow". I do not see the code for using the local MTA removed at all. --

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Chris Cheney wrote: Not to toot my own horn, but I was accepted in under one week. I took 2 weeks to read up on everything, then after I sent in my app, less than a week later I was accepted. The shortness can probably be attributed to me actually doing work. This was during

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Oliver Kurth
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:01:35PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:10:24PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Interessting analysis. Many things that hold up the release can only be > > solved by active and experienced maintainers since the packages are often > > es

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-06 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Yo! Em Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:13:44 -0500, Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > I completely agree with you... I was arguing with a friend of mine, a > Ximian developer. He insisted me that they were bringing Unix to the > desktop of people, just like what Apple did. I insst that is *not* what

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Craig Dickson
Chris Cheney wrote: > The only people > actually waiting that long now (aiui) are people James does not want in > the project at all. Then why are they left hanging indefinitely rather than being rejected? > Also, it seems like most DD's don't maintain many packages anyway. Yes > there are other

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:14:04PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > Debians greatest strength is in its community, that includes dd's and > non dd's. > > If we are organised in such a way that we are alienating non dd's the we > are operating in a diminished state. > > Debian is but a shadow of what

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Steve Lamb wrote: > Actually, I think it does. They should either be accepted or rejected > within x days. x being somewhere below rand(20) * 365. Either they are in, > rejected, or the application closed because of a lack of interest on the > developer's part. If it's the same rand function

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:31:35AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Erm, no, read my message again. The fact that there are people in the > queue that long, regardless of reason, is an indication that something is > wrong. If the people are there because the DAM doesn't have the cajones to > say

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:08:06AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Now, play the old kid's game. "One of these is not like the other, one of > these does not belong..." The one that doesn't belong is the one that > installs a version of software *other* than what was requested. The one that > doe

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:04:00AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:27:10 -0500 > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And is a much better choice than expecting every user to locally > > configure smtp settings in the MUA. Lack of direct-SMTP support in mutt > > is a good

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Richard Braakman
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:04:33PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > I see how it could be construed as a conflict of interest[1], but it's > not like the process doesn't have plenty of means to prevent that. Ian Jackson could also see how it could :) Debian Constitution 2.2.2: 2. A person may hol

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-06 Thread Richard Braakman
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:40:41AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Admittedly, I've seen some less than useful messages on boot (mostly > overly generic messages where I couldn't figure out what part of > the system could possibly be producing them). Still, most of the > messages are really pr

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:32:20PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:01:35PM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > Someone should point NMs to difficulty of entering the development > > mainstream of FreeBSD or becoming maintainer for the kernel... > > IMO it's generall

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Matt Zimmerman said: >On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:56:59AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > >> I know of several DDs and non-DDs thinking about creating a Debian2 (or >> whatever named) project due to this and other lack of responce >> problems and the group is growing. The danger is already there an

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Peter Makholm said: >Organizing a project from scratch can turn out to be the only way >change bureaucracy and infrastructure that may make the goal harder to >reach. True. But it's a lot of effort, and it it's *NOT* the only way, we would therefore prefer to try the other way first! -- Nathan

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Chris Cheney
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:41:45PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Chris Cheney wrote: > > Not to toot my own horn, but I was accepted in under one week. I took 2 weeks > to read up on everything, then after I sent in my app, less than a week later > I was accepted. > > The shortn

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:00:38 -0500 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, that's the admin's job to configure. If the user and the > admin are one and the same, why does it matter if the configuration is > done in a local or a global config file? (sudo dpkg-reconfigure ...) > And if th

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:50:36 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About the same as finding a sponsor, then, with about the same ease of > maintenance afterwards (i.e. you still have to run your changes past > someone, not upload them directly). Except when your sponsor goes AWOL for

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Matt Zimmerman wrote: >And neither does the fact that some have been there for years indicate >anything in particular. Here is where you're entirely and totally wrong. It indicates a breakdown in the communication process. If these people are being delayed for a reason, the reason needs to be

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:29:30 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus, while the situation isn't optimal, I can't see a better way. Thank you. In the past 3 days you're the first person to actually explain why things are contrary to how every other package is instead of trying to b

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Emile van Bergen may or may not have written... [snip] > I would not consider anything that contains a SMTP client an MTA. You realise that by that definition, exim isn't an MTA :-) > A proxy that handles port 25 is no MTA either. Such strict definitions > ('talks SMTP') are genera

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Eduard Bloch may or may not have written... [snip] > PS: a hot day or what? If you call 20°C hot, then yes, it has been a hot day ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:41:45PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Chris Cheney wrote: > > > > Not to toot my own horn, but I was accepted in under one week. I took 2 > > weeks > > to read up on everything, then after I sent in my app, l

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Michał Politowski
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:29:30 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: [...] > However, gcc-2.95 needs to install /usr/bin/gcc or it isn't much use. Actually... What exactly does gcc-2.95 need it for? /usr/bin/gcc is a straight link to gcc-3.3 after all. -- Michał Politowski -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: this

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:39:52PM +0200, Oliver Bausinger wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Wednesday 06 August 2003 20:01, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:10:24PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > Interessting analysis. Many things that hold up the releas

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:41:45PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > pps: If you are expecting delays, don't get frustrated. Continue to do work. > Do more work. Proof to everyone that you can be a valuable member to the > project. If you get delayed, and then go and stomp off, pout, and say I quit, >

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:26:12 -0500 > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (IMO, the kernel ignoring $(CC) is the kernel's problem.) > > One problem doesn't excuse the other. So how can we get it into your head that the other is _not_ a problem? You asked for

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 21:34:26 +0200 Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So how can we get it into your head that the other is _not_ a problem? By explaining why gcc 3.3 is needed for gcc 2.95 to work in the first place! Is that too much to ask? Apparently! Lemme put it this way: In

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:16:12PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > >And neither does the fact that some have been there for years indicate > >anything in particular. > > Here is where you're entirely and totally wrong. It indicates a > breakdown in the communication pro

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:40:03PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > > I see how it could be construed as a conflict of interest[1], but it's > > not like the process doesn't have plenty of means to prevent that. > > Ian Jackson could also see how it could :) > > Debian Constitution 2.2.2: "the Le

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:58:22AM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > > > I have an RC bug which is 156 days (or so) old, which is waiting for > > > upstream to rewrite the program. > > When you have maintain a package, shouldn't you be able to fix > it yourself? He said rewrite. -- 2. That which

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:06:03PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 21:34:26 +0200 > Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So how can we get it into your head that the other is _not_ a problem? > > By explaining why gcc 3.3 is needed for gcc 2.95 to work in the first >

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 18:42, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Your conclusion that long DAM wait times leads to slow releases has > little or no basis in fact. You do not need to have completed the NM > process to contribute to Debian. In fact, I believe the whole DAM > process would be more eff

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I demand that Eduard Bloch may or may not have written... > > [snip] > > PS: a hot day or what? > > If you call 20°C hot, then yes, it has been a hot day ;-) Here in germany were up to 39 °C today.

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:22:51 -0400 Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, it is too much to ask, because it is impossible to explain the reason > for something which isn't so. gcc 2.95 doesn't require gcc 3.3, it just > requires some version of the 'gcc' package with a version number >= >

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:04:33PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > Himself, for example? He already does work on that front, he's > certainly a trusted developer judging by the vote results (and > there's no such record for any other officers, mind you), and in fact > he said he helped James add s

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:41:37PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > the person who's in charge of the keyring has to be as paranoid as James. > The other person in the project that comes to mind is Manoj. And that's > it. I wouldn't trust Martin with such a responsability, and I don't care

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:40:53PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:22:51 -0400 > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > gcc-2.95 (2.95.3.ds3-5) testing unstable; urgency=low > > > * For each binary compiler package xxx-2.95 add a dependency on > > xxx (>= 1:2.95.3-2

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > You asked for gcc-2.95. You got gcc-2.95. Whatever else you got should be > of no consequence whatsoever. It's this kind of attitude that drives people to gentoo. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/deb

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:32:19PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > About the same as finding a sponsor, then, with about the same ease of > > maintenance afterwards (i.e. you still have to run your changes past > > someone, not upload them directly). > E

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Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Steve Lamb wrote: > Uh, no. I see no reason why gcc-2.95 must depend on a package which does > nothing more than install a symlink called gcc which, in turn, depends on > gcc-3.3 forcing 3.3 to be installed. Furthermore it is insane that a person > could apt-get install g

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 14:32, Steve Lamb wrote: > Except when your sponsor goes AWOL for 3 weeks after giving them the URL > to download the packages to paw through and upload. This is not different than someone in your path-to-Linus being AWOL. It happens. It's a problem, but it's a problem e

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Michael Piefel dijo [Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:34:49PM +0200]: > > Neither tab-completion or globbing is available when I'm editing a file > > and have to write those path names. > > In Vim insert mode, press ^X^F for completion, ^N/^P to choose among > many. Also, in GTK+, file selector boxes allow

Re: Usefulness of SSMTP [Was: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?]

2003-08-06 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 09:27, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:51:12PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:35:29AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > IMHO using any local mailer is a bad idea on a desktop system. You send > > > off the mail, your MUA says "Sent

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On 06 Aug 2003 16:27:24 -0500 Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a problem, but it's a problem every large project and many small > ones have, not just Debian. Claiming that Debian is dying because of it > is absurd. I never claimed Debian is dying and if I were it would be for a

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:06:53 -0400 Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You haven't listened. You've not said anything worth listening to. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Richard Braakman
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:31:23PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > It runs deeper than that. If you aren't sufficiently interested to do > the work for its own sake, why the hell are you trying to join Debian > in the first place? Because you think it's an awesome group with laudable goals and you

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:26:06 -0500 (CDT) Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you ever heard of alternatives? If 2 packages are installed, both > providing the same alternative, it's up to you to decide which is used. Yes, I have. I've used it quite a bit. > I'm not saying that /usr/

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:39:42PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:06:53 -0400 > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You haven't listened. > > You've not said anything worth listening to. *plonk* -- - mdz

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:06:53 -0400 > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You haven't listened. > You've not said anything worth listening to. I'v got popcorn. Who's got the beer?

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:48, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > You asked for gcc-2.95. You got gcc-2.95. Whatever else you got should be > > of no consequence whatsoever. > > It's this kind of attitude that drives people to gentoo. Let them go. IMO it's f

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:48:12PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > You asked for gcc-2.95. You got gcc-2.95. Whatever else you got should be > > of no consequence whatsoever. > > It's this kind of attitude that drives people to gentoo. I certain

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030806 16:20]: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:56:34PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > But splitting the entire project is a freedom I would hate to see > > exercised. In my opinion, things that threaten a project split to > > happen should be avoided before the spli

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:45:44 -0400 Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:39:42PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:06:53 -0400 > > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You haven't listened. > > You've not said anything worth listening

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030806 16:20]: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:33:38PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030806 14:50]: > > > Why is this a danger? This is one of the freedoms provided by free > > > software, which we work hard to promote. >

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On 06 Aug 2003 16:48:18 -0500 Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let them go. IMO it's far better to install more than is necessary, but > always get the desired functionality, than install less than is desired, > and then have to spend 20 hours recompiling for the necessary > functionality

Re: Usefulness of SSMTP [Was: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?]

2003-08-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Joe Wreschnig said on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:39:10PM -0500: > > And is a much better choice than expecting every user to locally > > configure smtp settings in the MUA. Lack of direct-SMTP support in mutt > > is a good thing. > > SSMTP is not acceptable for those of us that use SMTP AUTH+TLS, un

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Josip Rodin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030806 18:35]: > Heh :) If I hadn't responded to it manually, it would have gotten ignored > as spam (nobody cared enough to write a nice formail -r message because it > happens rarely enough and the spambounces would waste us more resources). > [policy of d-d-a]

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030806 19:20]: > In fact, I believe the whole DAM > process would be more effective if we *required* that you made > non-trivial contributions to Debian *before* the DAM would create an > account for you. I second. At cleaning up wnpp I saw more than once m

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Matthias Klose
Steve Lamb writes: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:22:51 -0400 > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A more useful question would be, why does gcc-2.95 depend on gcc? The > > answer, as usual, you could have found for yourself in the changelog: > > > gcc-2.95 (2.95.3.ds3-5) testing unstable; u

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:58:22AM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > IMHO, people should not package or take over a package that they > do not understand how it works. For example, a kernel maintainer [...] > People should maintain packages they are qualified to maintain Well, I see you're taking your ow

Re: Usefulness of SSMTP [Was: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?]

2003-08-06 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 17:09, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > ssmtp in unstable supports TLS and certificate based AUTH (so you can > authenticate on a per machine basis for relay). It appears to have AUTH > CRAM-MD5 support, but it's unclear if that's distributable (according to > comments in the source).

Magic tab completion in VIM

2003-08-06 Thread Chad Walstrom
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:28:24PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > ... So vim is just vi becoming Emacs? I know the hard-core vi guys > just hated Ctrl-combinations. Straight from the VIM help system, you too can map the key to useful, magical completion... " Clever Tab from VIM Help function!

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A more useful question would be, why does gcc-2.95 depend on gcc? The > answer, as usual, you could have found for yourself in the changelog: > > gcc-2.95 (2.95.3.ds3-5) testing unstable; urgency=low > > * For each binary compiler package xxx-2.95 ad

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 17:01, Steve Lamb wrote: > On 06 Aug 2003 16:48:18 -0500 > Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let them go. IMO it's far better to install more than is necessary, but > > always get the desired functionality, than install less than is desired, > > and then have to spe

Re: Usefulness of SSMTP [Was: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?]

2003-08-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Joe Wreschnig said on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:43:49PM -0500: > Interesting. I'm running unstable, but I can't find instructions on > enabling TLS anywhere (nor does SSMTP seem to link to any TLS > libraries). I see mention of it in the README (specifically, only a > credit for it), but not the manu

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:41:20AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:56:59AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > > I know of several DDs and non-DDs thinking about creating a Debian2 > > (or whatever named) project due to this and other lack of responce > > problems and the

Re: Usefulness of SSMTP [Was: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?]

2003-08-06 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 18:04, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > I'm not sure why ssmtp has TLS disabled by default; perhaps a bug should be > filed? It seems like it would provide all of the needed outgoing MTA > functionality without requiring a daemon. Looking at the SSMTP bug page, the package seems to be

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:09:15PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:16:12PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > >And neither does the fact that some have been there for years > > >indicate anything in particular. > > > > Here is where you're entire

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:38:48PM +0200, Micha? Politowski wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:29:30 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > However, gcc-2.95 needs to install /usr/bin/gcc or it isn't much use. > > Actually... > What exactly does gcc-2.95 need it for? > /usr/bin/gcc is a straight link to gcc-

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:40:53PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:22:51 -0400 > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > gcc-2.95 (2.95.3.ds3-5) testing unstable; urgency=low > > > * For each binary compiler package xxx-2.95 add a dependency on > > xxx (>= 1:2.95.3-2)

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:25:25PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Eduard Bloch may or may not have written... > > PS: a hot day or what? > > If you call 20?C hot, then yes, it has been a hot day ;-) God, is that all? I've been sweating in 33C in a supposedly air-conditioned office. *si

Re: Usefulness of SSMTP [Was: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?]

2003-08-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Joe Wreschnig said on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:32:14PM -0500: > On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 18:04, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > I'm not sure why ssmtp has TLS disabled by default; perhaps a bug should be > > filed? It seems like it would provide all of the needed outgoing MTA > > functionality without requir

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:18:00AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:58:22AM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > > Sometimes you get really hairy bugs that even qualified > > developers would have trouble to fix... then you need to holer > > for help until somone helps... Isn't ther

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:30:01PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Wednesday 06 August 2003 18:42, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > Your conclusion that long DAM wait times leads to slow releases has > > little or no basis in fact. You do not need to have completed the NM > >

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:26:10PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > Yep, this was before NM was closed indefinitely. From sometime around > early 1999 until mid 2000 (June iirc) NM was closed, as far as I know > no one at all was accepted into Debian during this time. IIRC Wichert > finally got the bal

Sparc buildd needs attention

2003-08-06 Thread Neil Roeth
The sparc buildd vore.debian.org is in a Catch-22 kind of state, where package builds die because of a problem with sbcl 0.8.2.12-3 failing to complete its configuration, including newer versions of sbcl and common-lisp-controller that have been uploaded to fix the problem! Someone with root permi

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:27:24PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 14:32, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Except when your sponsor goes AWOL for 3 weeks after giving them the URL > > to download the packages to paw through and upload. > > This is not different than someone in your pa

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:18:00AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:58:22AM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > > IMHO, people should not package or take over a package that they > > do not understand how it works. For example, a kernel maintainer > [...] > > People should maintain

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:28:26PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:39:52PM +0200, Oliver Bausinger wrote: > > > Someone should point NMs to difficulty of entering the development > > > mainstream of FreeBSD or becoming maintainer for the kernel... > > > IMO it's generally

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 20:18, Adam Majer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:27:24PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 14:32, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Except when your sponsor goes AWOL for 3 weeks after giving them the > > > URL > > > to download the packages to paw through

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-06 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:38:34PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Chris Cheney wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:41:45PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Chris Cheney wrote: > > > > > > Not to toot my own horn, but I was accepted in under one week. I took 2

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

2003-08-06 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 02:17, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:33:26AM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote: > > > > Am I the only one who has a disgusting reminiscence of netscape*.* > > > > packages every time python* is mentioned? :P > > > > > hmmm.. just curious... why? > > > > The short

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Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:34:06PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:09:15PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > I disagree; if the applicant knows why they are being delayed, then > > the fact that this information is not published on the website does > > not indicate that

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:22:01PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:34:06PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:09:15PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > I disagree; if the applicant knows why they are being delayed, then > > > the fact that th

Re: Please NMU dovecot

2003-08-06 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Could someone please NMU dovecot adding the patch in bug #203892? > > Either gcc 3.3.1 sucks or I'm having another hardware problem, > > ... > > Making all in lib > make[4]: Entering directory > `/home/jaldhar/src/dovecot/dovecot-0.99.10/src/lib' > i386

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