Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

On Wed 10:51, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Greetings, > > Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for > newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config files for other > bootloaders, from grub to yaboot/quik, aboot, palo, you name it. Yes, > the kernel-image postinst

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

Hi, I would be interested in two of the steins, if I can make payment without jumping through too many hoops. What are my options? manoj -- A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bits from the RM

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 04:34:18PM +0200, cobaco wrote: > > KDE3.2 doesn't miss the deadline by 7 days, it misses the deadline by > > almost two months: > > * October 15th > >Final, last-minute, low-risk bug fixes only > Monday September 29th, 2003: Preparing Beta1 > The HEAD branch is tagg

Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:03:32AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:23:47AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 06:46:34PM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > * Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-20 10:31]: > > > > > Martin Quinson <[EMA

Re: Bits from the RM

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:08:28AM +0200, cobaco wrote: > On 2003-08-20 10:13, Chris Cheney wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:49:03AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:49, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > I'm all for aggressive goals, let's aim for sometime in De

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > The only problem with that is the current failure to comply to policy, > > i.e. build from source as they should. > > > > The question remains is simply removing all the extra source from > web

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Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings, > > Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for > newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config files for other > bootloaders, from grub to yaboot/quik, aboot, palo, you name it. Yes, > the kernel-image po

Re: ftp.gnu.org cracked

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 04:25:31PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > [ Moved to debian-devel, I don't think this is relevant to private as > the GNU crack is well publicised ] It is, in general, very poor taste to make this choice for others by reposting their content from a private forum to

Re: Debian Weekly News - August 19th, 2003

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 05:30:39PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > Quoting Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > No he wouldn't. FDL is about free documentation. :-) > > > > > Except it isn't :-) > > According to you :-) This has been covered to death already. There are a sufficient n

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > The only problem with that is the current failure to comply to policy, > i.e. build from source as they should. > The question remains is simply removing all the extra source from webmin-n.orig.tar.gz except that which is necessary to build the w

Re: ftp.gnu.org cracked

Scott James Remnant: No problem, this is only a quick run -- others may find ways to improve this script somewhat. What did you use to determine which packages to check? I notice that at least my package for GNU jwhois is missing from your list (although I know that the Debian version is correct

Re: Bits from the RM

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 07:13:38PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:52:42PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > Will we some day consider seriously the idea of autobuilders compiling > > > against testing those packages which do

Re: Bits from the RM

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Russell Coker wrote: > Are there any big features you expect from KDE 3.2? > Well it will be built with Qt 3.2 which has proper support of Indian languages. But if a KDE 3.2 beta or 3.1 built against Qt 3.2 goes in, that is good enough for me. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PR

Re: Debian Weekly News - August 19th, 2003

Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > No he wouldn't. FDL is about free documentation. :-) > > > > > Except it isn't :-) > > According to you :-) According to debian-legal consensus.

Re: Bits from the RM

cobaco dijo [Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:08:28AM +0200]: > > KDE 3.1.4 (KDE 2.2 _will not_ stay in sarge!) > > kde 3.2 release is slated for 8th december[1], is there any chance we'll > wait > for it, just so the outdated kde label doesn't apply again immediately after > release? ...And then wa

Re: what about ip's

"David Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > my first assumption is that charter sells their users email addresses. does > anyone on this list know how an unused email address that has never been > used can have spam without the ip giving the address out? Is it a fairly simple username, like dsmit

Re: Non-free software on linex [was Re: Debian Weekly News - August 19th, 2003]

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 20:13, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > There's more of it: http://www.linex.org/sources/linex/debian/linex/ > lists acroread_4.05-3, mplayer_0.90pre5-3 > flashplugin-nonfree_6.0.79-1, hsflinmodem-linex_0.5.2-1 ... and j2re, yes, I saw that afterwards... Some are quite badly packa

Re: #206298 spip: prerm script blindly removes directories

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 07:53:41PM +0200, Gaetan Ryckeboer wrote: > > Not necessary. Web administrators may upload files via FTP, andspip > users never use them onto spip ? If so, the files will stay in place > in upload, instead of beeing integrated onto the spip tree at the > right place, and be

Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

[answer to a private mail on the list with the permission of Christian] On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:53:49PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > On [19/08/03 18:05], Martin Quinson wrote: > > point is that currently, DD is very very strict about who can upload to the > > source and the packages, but when

Re: Bits from the RM

El 20-ago-2003 a las 09:49:03, Adrian von Bidder escribió: Content-Description: signed data > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:49, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > I'm all for aggressive goals, let's aim for sometime in December -- how > > about 2003-12-01 00:00:00 UTC? > > Do you have some Official Opinio

Re: FTBFS: architecture all packages

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Why not? Just block binary uploads completely, and let everything get > built by the buildds. I certainly plan to do that with my own uploads. > (I've already set up my own buildds). > > I'd go one step farther and schedule a low-priority rebuild of e

Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 05:03:17PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Martin Quinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:40:02AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > keyring.debian.org has only DDs in it. I think people were suggesting > > > using the public keyservers. keyring.de

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

On 20 Aug 2003 10:51:54 -0400, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, > especially for newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config Why on earth are you hand editing the lilo.conf file for every kernel image

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Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:25, Josh Lauricha wrote: On Wed 10:51, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Greetings, > > Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for > newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config files for other > bootloaders, from grub to

Re: Bits from the RM

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 04:34:18PM +0200, cobaco wrote: > > KDE3.2 doesn't miss the deadline by 7 days, it misses the deadline by > > almost two months: > > > > * October 15th > >Final, last-minute, low-risk bug fixes only > > Monday September 29th, 2003: Preparing Beta1 > The HEAD branch is

Re: Binaryless uploads [Was: FTBFS: architecture all packages]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > > > The only problem with that is the current failure to comply to policy, > > > i.e. build from source as they should. > > > > > > > The qu

Locales in display managers (Was: Re: Locales in init scripts (about gdm bug #147091))

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Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 15:02, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings, > > Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for > newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config files for other > bootloa

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:46, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On 20 Aug 2003 10:51:54 -0400, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, > especially for newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config Why

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Re: ftp.gnu.org cracked

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Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

* Martin Quinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:40:02AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > keyring.debian.org has only DDs in it. I think people were suggesting > > using the public keyservers. keyring.debian.org isn't a part of the > > public key servers. > > That's the pa

Re: [RFC] Debian ruby policy (Re: Fw: Re: Ruby 1.8 transition plan; debian-ruby)

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 12:53, Fumitoshi UKAI wrote: > Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > libtest-unit-ruby1.8 (<- libtest-unit-ruby) Actually, I now only maintain Test::Unit for Ruby 1.6. Since it became included with 1.8, akira yamada maintains that version, and when 1.8 was packaged I dropped s

Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

* Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Usually the sponsor looks everything over so signing is not realy > neccessary. Of cause if you have the same sponsor repeatetly he might > want to just check your signature and sponsor the changes blindly > knowing you did good work in the past.

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:46, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On 20 Aug 2003 10:51:54 -0400, Adam C Powell IV said: > > > > Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, > > especially for newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config > > Why on earth are you hand edit

Re: Bits from the RM

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:13:11AM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:49:03AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > Do you have some Official Opinion(tm)[1] as the RM about what KDE, gcc, X, > > gnome versions will be in sarge? > > An educated guess would produce: [...] > XFree

Packages-arch-specific

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Re: Bits from the RM

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:49:44PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > What recent change in the KDE releasing schema let you think that they will > manage to get a really stable x.y.0 release [*] when it seems like it took 4 > minor releases in the 3.1 branch ? > > Naturally, no offense intended to th

Re: Bits from the RM

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:18:24AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, cobaco wrote: > > I'd agree if there had been a rewrite of kdelibs or something, but > > kde 3.1 -> 3.2 is evolutionary without big changes to what was > > already there. > > It does not take a big change to break s

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Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:29:52 +0200, Martin Quinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > But the point is that without the key, anyone can forge mails which > seem to come from me, and thus abuse the trust my work gained me in > the mind of some DDs. So start signing your email. I'll download the

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Re: ftp.gnu.org cracked

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 20:16, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Scott James Remnant: > > > No problem, this is only a quick run -- others may find ways to improve > > this script somewhat. > > What did you use to determine which packages to check? I notice that at > least my package for GNU jwhois is mis

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

On 20 Aug 2003 15:39:18 -0400, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 15:02, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Greetings, >> >> Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially >> for newbies, what with

Re: Binaryless uploads

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:03:15 -0400 (EDT), Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > It has source for all the modules including the non-free ones. > However the binary packages for those modules are built from > seperate source packages not this one. > The only reason for having the webmin.ori

Re: [rene@debian.org: Bug#205471: devscripts: running debuild could lead to deleting _all_ backup dirs/files on the system]

Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do have the following four cases: > > > > It should definitely allow package-upstreamver, since that's more or less canonical. However, generalizing a bit and simply checking that the name of the directory starts with the name of the sourc

Re: ftp.gnu.org cracked

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 07:59:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Since "b" has no effect in Debian anyway, it's not worth thinking about > anymore. :-) ...except to swear under our breath about upstreams who sneak in changes without bumping the version number (I personally find this very annoying).

Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 00:16:47 +0200, Martin Quinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Mmm. If so, I really cannot understand the big deal with IDs when > signing the key. Knowing my ID is not enough to prove that I won't > upload a rootkit, and it is not even needed... I must be perticulary > dumb.

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

On 20 Aug 2003 16:04:50 -0400, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:46, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On 20 Aug 2003 10:51:54 -0400, Adam C Powell IV > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, >> especial

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

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Re: Binaryless uploads

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Since the source goes into Debian main, keeping the sources > together means that we are distributing non-free material in Debian > main, which not only violates the social contract, it may well be > illegal (or have people who distribute deb

Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:29:52PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > But the point is that without the key, anyone can forge mails which seem to > come from me, and thus abuse the trust my work gained me in the mind of some > DDs. > > I see this point as necessary even if not sufficient. Ok, a valid

Re: python 2.2 -> python 2.3 transition

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:34:12PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 15:49, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:44:22PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > The negative effect for the users is that you can't upgrade python > > > while wxgtk-python is install

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