Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 05:04:43PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Julien Louis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.09.1616 +0200]: > > msmtp is an SMTP client that can be used as an "SMTP plugin" for Mutt and > > probably other MUAs (mail user agents). > > It forwards mails to an SMTP server

Bug#275775: RFA: bplay -- Buffered audio file player/recorder

2004-10-10 Thread Carlos Laviola
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the bplay package. The package description is: The bplay package provides a simple command-line utility for playing and recording audio files in raw sample, VOC and WAV formats. . To use this program you need a soundcard of some kind and

Re: TG3 firmware report...

2004-10-10 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Daniel Freedman wrote: > Anyway, just thought I'd see what people think of this, and how the > Debian community wants to proceed. Is there some way to enable > compability with this without downloading the firmware and violating > the DFSG? Since the tg3 driver doesn't work with my BCM5702 i

Bug#275779: RFA: fpc -- Free Pascal -- Compiler

2004-10-10 Thread Carlos Laviola
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the fpc package. I'd prefer that Peter Vreman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who's the Free Pascal Project's main man on Debian packaging and who has provided me with most of the infrastructure needed to build FPC on Debian, take over this package. Pe

Re: TG3 firmware report...

2004-10-10 Thread Paul Hampson
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 07:10:33PM -0400, Daniel Freedman wrote: > Unfortunately, I believe that my server board contains one of the rare > on-board Broadcom chipsets that is completely unable to function (best > as I can tell), without downloading this firmware, or without at least > disabling the

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-10 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 04:46:10AM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: > The only official interfaces SpamAssassin ever provided (to the best of > my knowledge) are: > 1) calling spamassassin directly (as a commandline tool) > 2) calling the spamc client (again, as a commandline tool) > 3) accessing spamd

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Sven Mueller | Tollef Fog Heen [u] wrote on 07/10/2004 09:52: | > * Duncan Findlay | Umm... I'd like to see that | > 7122 root 15 0 660m 332m 4692 D 0.0 43.8 8:18.64 spamd | > 7123 nobody15 0 287m 257m 4692 D 0.0 34.0 0:17.01 spamd | > | Furthermore, you should use the

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-10 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 12:23:26PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > I don't follow your logic here. First, you say that using SA via the Perl > modules are not supported; then, you say that the SA Perl APIs were frozen > and officially published seven months ago? Oh, and checking on spamassass

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Sven Mueller | Tollef Fog Heen [u] wrote on 07/10/2004 10:00: | | > * Sven Mueller | Well, perl modules don't have an SO name. | > : [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib > apt-cache show libvideo-capture-v4l-perl| | > grep ^Depends | > Depends: perlapi-5.8.3, perl (>= 5.8.3-2), libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4) |

Re: Smooth Debian Installer Experience

2004-10-10 Thread Tilo Schwarz
On Saturday 09 October 2004 15:56, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 12:48:27AM +0200, Tilo Schwarz wrote: > > Just one remark: When I was asked to enter a package server I would > > have liked to enter my local package repository (with all the base > > stuff in it), but either I couldn

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-10 Thread Christian Surchi
Il dom, 2004-10-10 alle 01:32, Henning Makholm ha scritto: > > I think that msmtp simply will take the place of sendmail binary called > > by mutt. > > If it provides /usr/sbin/sendmail, then by definition it is a > mail-transport-agent and should, if packaged, declare itself as such. No. If you

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-10 Thread Christian Surchi
Il sab, 2004-10-09 alle 17:48, martin f krafft ha scritto: > > I think it's not a right comparison, nullmail is an MTA. and > > AFAIK, msmtp is not an MTA: > > it transports mail to the next relay, right? > nullmailer is a "simple relay-only mail transport agent." > > what's the difference? Deep

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-10 Thread Loïc Minier
Christian Surchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Sun, Oct 10, 2004: > Deep difference. Our mail-transport-agents are able to behave as daemon, > listening on 25 port. msmtp doesn't, and it's the same for nail. Do you > think that nail could be an MTA? Do you think that any evolution of > mail(1) could be se

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Christian Surchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.10.1321 +0200]: > Do you know about a correct way to have a conversation with > people? I don't like your attitude, I have simply exposed my idea > about that program, reading its features. That's all. I am sorry to have offended you, or a

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-10 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 01:21:44PM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote: > Il sab, 2004-10-09 alle 17:48, martin f krafft ha scritto: > > > I think it's not a right comparison, nullmail is an MTA. and > > > AFAIK, msmtp is not an MTA: > > > > it transports mail to the next relay, right? > > nullmailer is

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.10.0939 +0200]: > ssmtp seems to be its competitor, not nullmailer. (ssmtp and msmtp > appear to provide /usr/bin/sendmail only, while nullmailer appears to > provide port 25 only.) > > But otherwise it's a good question.. Yes, which I would

Bug#275806: ITP: acx100-kernel-src -- kernel module for TI acx100 based wireless lan cards

2004-10-10 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: acx100-kernel-src Version : 0.2.0pre8 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ * License : MPLv1.1/GPLv2 Description : kernel module for TI acx100 based wireless lan cards

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 07:05:45PM +0300, George Danchev said > > oh well, msmtp has TLS and SASL and IPv6, so I guess it is more > > featureful than nullmailer... > > and much more ... also has msmtpqueue which is a pair of very simple shell > scripts that allows you to "queue" mails and send th

Ihre Mail an alexander.rasch@sparkasse-ffb.de

2004-10-10 Thread post-master
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Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:59:39 +0100, paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:37:57AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> It will also happily write to /usr which is IMO a no-no for user >> binaries. > >Where should it write to ? > >Would /var/lib or /usr/local be right ? /usr/local is

Bug#275807: ITP: libperlio-eol-perl -- PerlIO layer for normalizing line endings

2004-10-10 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libperlio-eol-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Autrijus Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : CPAN * License : GPL/Artistic Description : PerlIO layer for normalizing line endings This layer normalizes any

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:36:48 +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Not always. In the past many backports have been built including perfectly >avoidable new dependencies. The volatile archive should have policy and >deb tools frozen. So no new debconf, no new ucf and so on. I

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.10.1442 +0200]: > > and much more ... also has msmtpqueue which is a pair of very simple shell > > scripts that allows you to "queue" mails and send them all at a later time > > (useful for dialup connections: write your mails offline and send the

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Processed: Re: Bug#275388: mounting at boot time under grub

2004-10-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 275388 general Bug#275388: mounting at boot time under grub Bug reassigned from package `devfsd' to `general'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrat

Re: Common set of debconf templates

2004-10-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 06:59:50 +0200, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Could *please* maintainers of packages interacting with RDBMS >establish a set of *common* debconf templates for prompting users ? > >-Database user >-Password for this user >-Database administrator username >-Database

Re: Bug#275806: ITP: acx100-kernel-src -- kernel module for TI acx100 based wireless lan cards

2004-10-10 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
retitle 275192 ITP: acx100-source -- ACX100/ACX111 wireless network drivers source thanks Hi Aurelien! You wrote: > Bas Zoetekouw a écrit : > >Package: wnpp > >Severity: wishlist > > > >* Package name: acx100-kernel-src > > Version : 0.2.0pre8 > > Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#275812: ITP: libio-digest-perl -- Calculate digests while reading or writing

2004-10-10 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libio-digest-perl Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Chia-liang Kao (éåè) * URL : CPAN * License : GPL/Artistic Description : Calculate digests while reading or writing This module allows you to calculate dig

python-apt: how to get ShortDesc and LongDesc

2004-10-10 Thread Free Ekanayaka
Hi, would someone write me a sample code on how to get the ShortDesc and LongDesc records from the PkgRecords class? I think it should start with something like: cache = apt_pkg.GetCache() records = apt_pkg.GetPkgRecords(cache) package = cache['my_pkg'] but I can't figure out how to go on.

Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

2004-10-10 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 02:53:58PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:36:48 +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Not always. In the past many backports have been built including perfectly > >avoidable new dependencies. The volatile archive should have polic

Bug#275816: ITP: libfile-type-perl -- determine file type using magic

2004-10-10 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libfile-type-perl Version : 0.22 Upstream Author : Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : CPAN * License : GPL/Artistic Description : determine file type using magic numbers File::Type uses magic numbers (t

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-10 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 10:43:14AM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: > > Furthermore, we should all know that Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus is a CPU & > memory hog. It needs tons of memory and fastest cpu ... always. > I'm using now bogofilter and razor, without CPU and memory problems at all. So your

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 02:05:06PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.10.0939 +0200]: > > ssmtp seems to be its competitor, not nullmailer. (ssmtp and msmtp > > appear to provide /usr/bin/sendmail only, while nullmailer appears to > > provide por

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.10.1601 +0200]: > ssmtp seems to support SSL/TLS connections also. The package depends on > libssl and a quick glance at the source shows that support is there. What ssmtp are you talking about? cirrus:~> dpkg -p ssmtp | grep Depends Depends

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-10 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Kevin Mark said: > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 10:43:05AM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Kevin Mark said: > > > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 11:00:51AM +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > > > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 03:01:11AM -0400, Kevin Ma

Re: about volatile.d.o/n

2004-10-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Andreas Barth: > - volatile is not "just another place" for backports, but should only > contain changes to stable programs that are necessary to keep them > functional; Can volatile receive critical updates which are usually not applied to stable because backports are not available for som

Re: TG3 firmware report...

2004-10-10 Thread Nico Golde
hi * Roland Stigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-10-10 15:46]: > Daniel Freedman wrote: > > Anyway, just thought I'd see what people think of this, and how the > > Debian community wants to proceed. Is there some way to enable > > compability with this without downloading the firmware and violating >

Re: installing TCP programs when RPC programs are running

2004-10-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Loïc Minier: > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Thu, Oct 07, 2004: > >> I think the best option would be to allow the system administrator to >> statically allocate the ports used by RPC programs. This would help >> packet filters, too. > > While I see the benefit of your suggestion, for p

Re: pmount vs updfstab

2004-10-10 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! Michael Banck [2004-10-09 12:25 +0200]: > But in the end, it depends on who does the work, so if Martin Pitt > (pmount author) should volunteer to integrate this into Debian, that > would be great I guess. It'll be my pleasure! :-) Of course I would prefer it if Debian and Ubuntu used the sam

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-10 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Christian Surchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm not msmtp fan or user, but I lost two minutes to read the home page > trying to understand the differences. msmtp is simply a way to delivery > mail to a remote smtp server. For example you cannot have it listening > on 25 port, so I cannot see i

Re: Common set of debconf templates

2004-10-10 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 03:18:52PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 06:59:50 +0200, Christian Perrier > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Could *please* maintainers of packages interacting with RDBMS > >establish a set of *common* debconf templates for prompting users ? > > > >-Database us

Re: python-apt: how to get ShortDesc and LongDesc

2004-10-10 Thread Igor Stroh
Free Ekanayaka wrote: would someone write me a sample code on how to get the ShortDesc and LongDesc records from the PkgRecords class? I think it should start with something like: cache = apt_pkg.GetCache() records = apt_pkg.GetPkgRecords(cache) package = cache['my_pkg'] Since there are no A

Re: Bug#275685: ITP: msmtp -- smtp client which can be used as a smtp plugin with mutt

2004-10-10 Thread Julien Louis
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 01:57:14PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I would suggest not naming it an "smtp plugin for mutt" though > because it works equally well with every other product that uses > /usr/sbin/sendmail. I agree with the "smtp plugin for mutt" removal, I will adapt the description t

proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
As a happy use of rxvt-unicode-ml (thanks Zomb!), I am very annoyed at times by softwares that have 'xterm' hardcoded. Obviously, I report these as bugs to have it changed to x-terminal-emulator, but then again, I consider 'xterm' to be somewhat of a generic name by now that I think it should be pu

Re: First spam

2004-10-10 Thread Steve Greenland
On 09-Oct-04, 20:06 (CDT), Clemens Schwaighofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/10/2004 07:38 AM, paddy wrote: > > I'm actually surprised it takes them that long. > > debian-devel must be way down the target list. > > probably geeks don't buy viagra, home loans, online medicine, etc :) Peopl

Re: Common set of debconf templates

2004-10-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marc Haber wrote: > Do we have infrastructure to handle different answers for the same > question? Maybe I'd like to have a different dbadmin password on my > postgresql database than on mysql? This discussion is about having a common set of chunks of text available somewhere for use in the debco

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
martin f krafft wrote: > What do you think of this proposal. Are there any string points > *against* it? I have written scripts that explicitly call xterm because other terminal emulator programs under X (which I had preferred otherwise) couldn't handle certain programs. So in those situations

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.10.1934 +0200]: > I have written scripts that explicitly call xterm because other > terminal emulator programs under X (which I had preferred > otherwise) couldn't handle certain programs. So in those > situations it was not a generic name,

Re: Company launch with Linux system

2004-10-10 Thread Hartmut Rummel
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Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 06:43:09PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > The procedure would be to upload a new 'xterm' package which moves > /usr/bin/xterm to /usr/bin/xterm.real and introduces /usr/bin/xterm > as alternatives symlink in addition to x-terminal-emulator. Then, > progressively, the other

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.10.2005 +0200]: > Wouldn't it be better to file bugs against the packages that don't > use x-terminal-emulator? What if those bugs get ignored? see: #275527 -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * martin f krafft [Sun, Oct 10 2004, 06:43:09PM]: > but then again, I consider 'xterm' to be somewhat of a generic name > by now that I think it should be put under control of the > alternatives system. > > The procedure would be to upload a new 'xterm' package which moves > /usr/bin/xt

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 08:11:42PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.10.2005 +0200]: > > Wouldn't it be better to file bugs against the packages that don't > > use x-terminal-emulator? > > What if those bugs get ignored? see: #275527 Hmm, I

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.10.2027 +0200]: > Hmm, I don't know anything about how uml works but the answers > seems to imply that fixing it in user-mode-linux suffices... But > that's something you have to discuss with mdz and not with me. Right, and I don't want to

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Eduard Bloch [Sun, Oct 10 2004, 08:15:32PM]: > which is not provided by mlterm. Though luck. In theory, every Args, it should be pterm. Eduard. -- OpenBSD fails miserably in this respect, and makes for an example of how NOT to work with the community on security issues. Their approa

Re: installing TCP programs when RPC programs are running

2004-10-10 Thread Loïc Minier
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Sun, Oct 10, 2004: > > While I see the benefit of your suggestion, for packet filters, I don't > > see how that would help average people experiencing the problem? Would > > you require the admin to configure each port for each RPC service as it > > is ins

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 08:27:34PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 08:11:42PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.10.2005 +0200]: > > > Wouldn't it be better to file bugs against the packages that don't > > > use x-

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 08:32:12PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Right, and I don't want to beat on this issue. user-mode-linux does > fix it, but Manoj's kernel-package can also create UML kernels, > which then call xterm. Thus, I would have thought this is best fixed > in kernel-patch-uml. >

bug #275527 (was: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry)

2004-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.10.2101 +0200]: > That bug was closed because it was _already fixed_ and the > submitter didn't check before filing it. I am sorry, Matt, but it was not fixed. You should have tagged the bug wontfix and leave it open. also sprach Matt Zimm

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 06:43:09PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> The procedure would be to upload a new '

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > As a happy use of rxvt-unicode-ml (thanks Zomb!), I am very annoyed > at times by softwares that have 'xterm'

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: >> What do you think of this proposal. Are there any string points >> *against* it? > I have written scripts that explicitly call xterm because other terminal > emulator programs under X (which I had preferred otherwise) couldn'

Re: TG3 firmware report...

2004-10-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Paul Hampson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 07:10:33PM -0400, Daniel Freedman wrote: >> Unfortunately, I believe that my server board contains one of the rare >> on-board Broadcom chipsets that is completely unable to function (best >> as I can tell), without downloading this firmware, or with

Re: Jörg Schilling is damage; the community should route around him

2004-10-10 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
> Branden Robinson: > > It's time to fork. Let us work with the rest of the community to > standardize on a new set of tools based on the last free version of > cdrtools, thank Mr. Schilling for his valuable contributions, and leave him > be to pursue his interests in proprietary software without

Re: TG3 firmware report...

2004-10-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Nico Golde wrote: > hi > * Roland Stigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-10-10 15:46]: >> Daniel Freedman wrote: >> > Anyway, just thought I'd see what people think of this, and how the >> > Debian community wants to proceed. Is there some way to enable >> > compability with this without downloading

Re: J?rg Schilling is damage; the community should route around him

2004-10-10 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > El s??b, 09-10-2004 a las 00:04 -0500, Branden Robinson escribi??: > > It's time to fork. Let us work with the rest of the community to > > standardize on a new set of tools based on the last free version of > > cdrtools,

Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

2004-10-10 Thread Sven Mueller
Tollef Fog Heen [u] wrote on 10/10/2004 13:01: * Sven Mueller From the front page of spamassassin.org: : Flexible: SpamAssassin encapsulates its logic in a well-designed, : abstract API so it can be integrated anywhere in the email : stream. The Mail::SpamAssassin classes can be used on a wide va

Re: python-apt: how to get ShortDesc and LongDesc

2004-10-10 Thread Free Ekanayaka
|--==> Igor Stroh writes: IS> Free Ekanayaka wrote: >>would someone write me a sample code on how to get the ShortDesc >>and LongDesc records from the PkgRecords class? >> >>I think it should start with something like: >> >>cache = apt_pkg.GetCache() records = apt_pkg.GetPkgRec

Re: TG3 firmware report...

2004-10-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 10, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Until they do one of these two things, the firmware is not safe to > distribute. I don't know why upstream is distributing it; I believe they > are simply being sloppy about licensing. You know well that upstream is not "being sloppy", but

Re: Strange behaviour at kernel upgrade

2004-10-10 Thread Jérôme Warnier
Le sam 09/10/2004 à 16:29, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 12:48:23PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote: > > I got this strange behaviour on Sid today while upgrading > > kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686. Notice on the log that I answered "n" to "Do > > you want to stop now? [Y/n]", and it ab

Re: PROPOSAL: debian-mozilla@lists.debian.org

2004-10-10 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Johannes Rohr a écrit : Dear all, due to the ever increasing number of mozilla-based packages I wonder if it would be a good thing to have a separate debian-mozilla mailing list. Personally I have big difficulties understanding the hacked way how mozilla extensions etc are being repackaged f

Bug#275897: ITP: tiff2png -- TIFF to PNG converter with alpha channel (transparency) support

2004-10-10 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: tiff2png Version : 0.91 Upstream Author : Willem van Schaik, Greg Roelofs * URL : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/apps/tiff2png.html * License : BSD-like Description : TIFF to PNG converter with alpha channel

Re: Bug#275897: ITP: tiff2png -- TIFF to PNG converter with alpha channel (transparency) support

2004-10-10 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 04:27:21PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > This package can convert a TIFF image directly to a PNG image without > the need of any intermediary format. Unlike the netpbm package, > this program can preserve transparency information during the > conversion. What's the gain

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
> > The procedure would be to upload a new 'xterm' package which moves > > /usr/bin/xterm to /usr/bin/xterm.real and introduces /usr/bin/xterm Of course, you mean /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm... > Mandrake did something like that a while ago(*) - broke the > application name for X resources. I

Re: First spam

2004-10-10 Thread paddy
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 11:32:06AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 09-Oct-04, 20:06 (CDT), Clemens Schwaighofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/10/2004 07:38 AM, paddy wrote: > > > I'm actually surprised it takes them that long. > > > debian-devel must be way down the target list. > > >

Re: Bug#275897: ITP: tiff2png -- TIFF to PNG converter with alpha channel (transparency) support

2004-10-10 Thread Sven Mueller
Steinar H. Gunderson [u] wrote on 10/10/2004 23:41: On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 04:27:21PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: This package can convert a TIFF image directly to a PNG image without the need of any intermediary format. Unlike the netpbm package, this program can preserve transparency information

Bug#275388: mounting at boot time under grub

2004-10-10 Thread Barak Pearlmutter
> I dropped all references to specific boot loaders since there > are over a dozend different ones used with linux and people > beagan to complain that I didn't mention the one they use. To pull out a cliche, this is "letting the perfect be the enemy of the good". Covering the two most popular bo

Automake & dependency tracking

2004-10-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, Recent versions of automake add an option --disable-dependency-tracking to the generated configure script. If you don't use that option, the generated Makefile will wrap all calls to the compiler in a call to 'depcomp', which will generate a Makefile snippet in a .deps directory to better trac

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time martin f krafft said... > > The procedure would be to upload a new 'xterm' package which moves > /usr/bin/xterm to /usr/bin/xterm.real and introduces /usr/bin/xterm > as alternatives symlink in addition to x-terminal-emulator. Then, > progressively, the other x-terminal-emulator p

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > The procedure would be to upload a new 'xterm' package which moves >> > /usr/bin/xterm to /usr/bin/xterm.real and introduces /usr/bin/xterm > Of course, you mean /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm... I didn't notice that. Though the cygwin people have been m

Re: First spam

2004-10-10 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/11/2004 07:29 AM, paddy wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 11:32:06AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > >>On 09-Oct-04, 20:06 (CDT), Clemens Schwaighofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>On 10/10/2004 07:38 AM, paddy wrote: >>> I'm actually sur

[OT:HUMOR] Re: software

2004-10-10 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, wrote: > new software for the best price for you I am saying the same for my list > Adobe Illustrator CS - 90.00 inkscape - 0.00 > Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional - 100.00 xpdf - 0.00 > McAfee Personal Firewall Plus 2004 v. 5.0 - 20.00 Why? > Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.