On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 07:49:51AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:17:21PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > What are we setting out to achieve?
> >
> > - To verify that the person so identified controls a specific email address
> What does 'control' mean here? Given t
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:11:16AM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > rename /usr/bin/git to /usr/bin/cogito-git or whatever. It is not that hard.
>
> That's true Adam: renaming a file is not hard... But in this case it
> has terrible consequences.
>
>
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:24:43PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > And anyway ifconfig is deprecated,
>
> While I don't have a very strong opinion on this matter either way, I
> feel I should point out that
> a) ifconfig is an application that exists not only on Linux, but
#include
* Joey Hess [Thu, Jun 09 2005, 07:58:11PM]:
> Andreas Gredler wrote:
> > Is there a way to handle this? Could a kernel be patched to read data
> > from multiple floppy disks? I know that this question sounds a little
> > bit stupid, but floppies still seem to be the most reliable way to b
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> #include
> * Joey Hess [Thu, Jun 09 2005, 07:58:11PM]:
>> Andreas Gredler wrote:
>> > Is there a way to handle this? Could a kernel be patched to read data
>> > from multiple floppy disks? I know that this question sounds a little
>> > bit stupid, but fl
Hasso Tepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:24:43PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>> > And anyway ifconfig is deprecated,
>>
>> While I don't have a very strong opinion on this matter either way, I
>> feel I should point out that
>> a) ifconfig is
El Domingo 12 Junio 2005 01:24, Russell Coker escribió:
> On Tuesday 07 June 2005 19:31, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > What about switching from getty to mingetty? Is there any reason to use
> > getty by default?
>
> Is there any reason to change?
Well, I'm not very
Moin Goswin!
Goswin von Brederlow schrieb am Sonntag, den 12. Juni 2005:
> Why would it have to be before the kernel? Actualy all floppies should
Because you can do it before the kernel needs to be running (including
the whole userspace overhead needed to prompt the user to insert the usb
floppy,
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Hello Lalo and others.
I have found in the Debian lists archieve the above message
Am 1999-07-12 18:11:11, schrieb Lalo Martins:
> This weekend I sat over gettext thinking of translated
> initscript messages. This is a proposal for some practical
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On Jun 12, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are there any attempts to do it ?
> It would be nice if it can be done.
Start looking at lsb-base.
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> The reverse dependency count just isn't a very good metric for "is an
> end-user package". I think it's also a job for debtags or something
> like it, to tell us what is an end-user package and what isn't.
Or popularity-contest could be enhanced to note auto-installed
pack
* Brian May
| klibc? Not yet in Debian, is there any reason for this?
It's just been ITP-ed;
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=312563
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Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > Why would it have to be before the kernel? Actualy all floppies should
>
> Because you can do it before the kernel needs to be running (including
> the whole userspace overhead needed to prompt the user to insert the usb
> floppy, for example, and work with it).
FWIW, the
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:01:22AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 09:00:28 +0200, Nicolas Kreft wrote:
> > Is it for a special reason that the default dhcp-client
> > in sarge is ancient (version 2.0pl5)?
>
>
> Some years ago when the release of sarge was supposed to be imminent
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 08:56:07AM +0200, Nicolas Kreft wrote:
> Hi List!
>
>
> Is it for a special reason that the default dhcp-client
> in sarge is ancient (version 2.0pl5)?
>
I've been told that the reason debian-installer uses dhcp-client instead of
dhcp3-client is because of the size of th
Quoting Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Jun 12, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Are there any attempts to do it ?
> > It would be nice if it can be done.
> Start looking at lsb-base.
This probably fits a proposed BOF at Debconf, by the way, proposed by
Henrique de Moraes
On Sunday 12 June 2005 19:54, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> El Domingo 12 Junio 2005 01:24, Russell Coker escribió:
> > wrote:
> > > What about switching from getty to mingetty? Is there any reason to use
> > > getty by default?
> >
> > Is there any reason to change?
>
> Th
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache show libc6 | grep MD5sum MD5sum:
Brian> ab0895ee6d8d2cf3b6906eb5228e5c25
Brian> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# md5sum
Brian> /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-20_powerpc.deb
Brian> 6930111
OB: cross-posted; please reply privately (Reply-To set).
I am looking for co-maintainers for the following of my packages.
Most of these packages are also up for adoption in case someone
wants to take them over. If interested, please talk to me and I will
assess whether I'd bestow ownership to you
> - [RFA] bcm4400-source - module source for Broadcom's bcm4400 ethernet
> driver
> : http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bcm4400-source.html
What problems do you see with the in-kernel b44 driver that you still
need bcm4400?
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(taking this to debian-devel)
also sprach Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.12.1501 +0200]:
> > - [RFA] bcm4400-source - module source for Broadcom's bcm4400
> > ethernet driver
> > : http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bcm4400-source.html
>
> What problems do you see with the in-k
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 06:03:55AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> > retitle 182650 RFP: porn-get -- A pornographic package management system.
> Bug#182650: RFP: porn-get - A pornographic package management system.
> Changed Bug title.
>
I
Le vendredi 10 juin 2005 à 19:15 +0200, Norbert Preining a écrit :
> On Fre, 10 Jun 2005, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > > * Package name: texlive
> > > Description : The TeXlive system packaged for debian
> >
> > The website looks like that's a "live" tex CD. What's the difference
> > to a n
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 10:19:03PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> FWIW, I've recently become a co-maintainer, and now the Sarge has released,
> I'm planning on bringing dhcp3 up to date with the latest upstream and
> having a good bash at all the bugs.
Would you consider to incorporate LDAP patch
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 02:57:38PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> - ipcalc - Parameter calculator for IPv4 addresses
> : http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/ipcalc.html
I would be interested in adoptioning or co-maintaining this package, since
I'm using it quite often.
So please decide whether
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Or popularity-contest could be enhanced to note auto-installed
> packages. Now that aptitude is gaining traction (particularly in
> command-line mode - I guess people have been using it in full-screen
> mode for awhile), the aptitude auto-install flag
I am interested in maintaining gjay. I never maintanined any package,
so I will need some help, but I am very willing to learn (and
contribute).
Best regards,
Drasko
On 6/12/05, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OB: cross-posted; please reply privately (Reply-To set).
>
> I am looking
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 02:17:08PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2005 09:14, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Some older BIOSes don't allow booting from CD-ROM, let alone netbooting or
>
> It's easy to solve the problem of a BIOS that doesn't support booting from
> CD-RO
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 12:52:58AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jun 12, Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Why not use a USB flash device for booting? All the recent machines I've
> > tried have booted from a 64M USB device which gives plenty of space for
> > such
> > things. O
In #232777, Dirk Eddelbuettel and I had a discussion about octave2.0.
Dirk wrote:
> We should consider removing octave2.0 as well. It is old code [1], and
> upstream decided years ago to not port this code branch, but to concentrate
> on octave2.1 instead -- and octave2.1 is where all development
* Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-06-12 21:13]:
> Do you think it should be removed now?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00089.html lists some
other octave related packages that should probably be removed.
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In http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2003/10/msg00019.html Manoj
Srivastava pointed out that, "c2man has been dead upstream for years
(which was, so far, not a problem), and does not work with modern
C/C++ programs -- which _is_ a problem. The functionality has been
superseded with packages li
On Sunday 12 June 2005 14:05, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> The Wig & Pen ("Format: 2.0") source format is an evolutionary (rather
> than revolutionary) change to the current source package format.
> Brendan O'Dea's work on providing _unpack_ support has been integrated
> into dpkg-source. Support
On Son, 12 Jun 2005, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > It is one the one hand a live dvd, but also one of the most complete TeX
> > systems. There are several differences between tetex and texlive,
> > especially wrt the granularity of packaging. See the discussion on
> > tetex-maint ML which I had with
* Andreas Gredler
| - Network boot: PXE cards in older HW are as rare as motherboards
| booting from USB, IMO.
A new PXE-capable networking card costs in the range of 20€ and should
work on most machines.
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On 12 June 2005 at 21:13, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
| In #232777, Dirk Eddelbuettel and I had a discussion about octave2.0.
|
| Dirk wrote:
| > We should consider removing octave2.0 as well. It is old code [1], and
| > upstream decided years ago to not port this code branch, but to concentrate
| >
why is there a link to logs in /etc?
/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log is a link to
/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-7.4-main.log
/etc is supposed to be for configuration files that are static, the
link to log violates both (yes, it's only a link so it doesn't change
but points to a file that
astronut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I agree. The type of user who is likely to be using the ifconfig command
> on a regular basis is the type of user who probably already has sbin in
> their path. (Power user, sysadmin's nonprivleged account, etc.).
Yes. The great majority of users don't want
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm still using apt-get rather than aptitude because apt-get seems subtly
> but noticably faster. But I *am* using debfoster, which lets you get at
> some similar information. Maybe popularity-contest should pay attention
> to that as well?
Yeah, aptitu
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At a minimum, even if you never use the nice GUI, the automatic tracking
> of packages that can be deleted automatically when nobody depends on
> them is worth it. It seems like this functionality really ought to be
> in the libraries, not aptitude.
Yeah
On 20050612T203113-0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> (For that matter, the dpkg delay on "Reading database" is kind of annoying
> too. Hm. Good project for someone.)
I've noticed that dpkg --clear-avail && dpkg --forget-old-unavail speeds
dpkg up (very much so if the machine is memory-starved).
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On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 04:23:46PM +0200, Milan P. Stanic wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 10:19:03PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > FWIW, I've recently become a co-maintainer, and now the Sarge has released,
> > I'm planning on bringing dhcp3 up to date with the latest upstream and
> > having a
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