Re: P3 capabilities (was dselect memory use)

2007-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:58:11AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thursday 08 February 2007 22:14, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Beside the point I know, but I had P-III machines with more RAM than > > that installed in the past. 768Mb at least. > > Were they desktop machines? I

Re: P3 capabilities (was dselect memory use)

2007-02-14 Thread Daniel Baumann
Evgeni Golov wrote: > In 2000/2001? I still have a p3-500 on a asus p3b-f with 512mb ram here > at home as a fileserver, and one with 384mb at my girlfriends home as a > desktop... i did tend to change hardware more frequently in the past, nowadays it doesn't make so much of a difference anymore.

Re: recent etch upgrade... sashroot (uid=0) started to impersonate uid=0 (root)

2007-02-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:37:55PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > And you are guys share the prize! the cause is indeed in nscd: problem goes > away if I stop nscd, and comes back when I start it. And it might be that > originally I didn't have nscd running, which is why I didn't observe this >

Re: fluxbox

2007-02-14 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I am sure yoush hasn't done a thing with it, as Experimental packages > don't need to be maintained, period. Bullshit. Experimental is a playground, not a graveyard for development releases. It's supposed to be used as a testing ground for unstable,

Bug#410881: ITP: jhbuild -- flexible build script for package collections

2007-02-14 Thread Loïc Minier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Loic Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: jhbuild Version : SVN r1372 Upstream Author : James Henstridge and others * URL : http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/jhbuild/ * License : Mostly GPL, some bits under MIT and BS

fluxbox

2007-02-14 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
I perfectly understand what experimental is. I mean rather another problem: the new package version has been realised, and this version maintains different charsets in locales. This option is very important for not-Englishspeaking users. But maintainer is lazy to commit this version to Debian. T

Re: P3 capabilities

2007-02-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Matthew Garrett: > Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> P3 server machines can easily handle more RAM, I've had P3 servers with 1G >> and >> 2G before. But desktops are limited (desktop and server versions of the P3 >> CPU have significant differences among other things). > > Like a

Bug#410914: ITP: imaxima-imath -- Emacs interface to Maxima

2007-02-14 Thread Jan Alonzo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Alonzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: imaxima-imath Version : 0.97 Upstream Author : Yasuaki Honda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://members3.jcom.home.ne.jp/imaxima/Site/Welcome.html * License : GPL Programmin

Re: P3 capabilities

2007-02-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:36:10AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > You've got a funny definition of "P6-class". 8-) There are Pentium IIs > whose on-chip L2 cache can only cover 512 MB. PAE is only of > theoretical value on these systems. > P6-class says nothing about how much memory the CPU c

Re: fluxbox

2007-02-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 10:15 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > > I am sure yoush hasn't done a thing with it, as Experimental packages > > don't need to be maintained, period. > > Bullshit. Experimental is a playground, not a graveyard for dev

Re: Why Beryl has just four packages?

2007-02-14 Thread Shawn Starr
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 00:27, Anibal Avelar wrote: > Hi. I see you have in queue NEW three packages: beryl-plugins, > beryl-settings and emerald [1] and not ready (yet) beryl. Firstly, the beryl packages were REJECTED because of license issues. Upstream is working with me on resolving the

Re: P3 capabilities (was dselect memory use)

2007-02-14 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:09:48AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > one of the most famous desktop boards for pentium 3 slot cpus was the > asus p3b-f. it can handle 4 dimms with a total capacity of 1gb (lucky me > had such a machine in 2000/2001. :). Just for another data point, I *presently* use o

Re: Why Beryl has just four packages?

2007-02-14 Thread José Luis Tallón
Shawn Starr wrote: > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 00:27, Anibal Avelar wrote: > > [snip] > Heliodor I won't be including, gtk-window-decorator from compiz is the same > thing and will work with beryl (im not sure of metacity themes as there are > issues with this) > What about requesting a

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:35:27 -0600, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I mean, getting ones > status reverted is an inconvenience, but surely an active DD should > not be afraid of passing something we ask of every new developer? I would surely love to be required to do pointless exerci

Re: wiki.debian.org suffering from full disk

2007-02-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > I just received a "disk full" error because the partition that holds the > data of the wiki is full. The result was that the page I was editing > seems to be lost (hopefully can be restored from history). > > Advise in the meantime: don't edit the wiki. I

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:57:12 -0600, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I applaud the effort by the DAM's to gather the required > information on their own, taking the burden of writing whatever code > that needs be written, as opposed to asking the MIA folks to add > code/process

Bug#410960: ITP: thunar-thumbnailers -- thumbnailers for Thunar file manager

2007-02-14 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Xfce Maintainers * Package name: thunar-thumbnailers Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Erlend Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: wiki.debian.org suffering from full disk

2007-02-14 Thread Ryan Murray
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:10:28 +0100 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just received a "disk full" error because the partition that holds the > data of the wiki is full. The result was that the page I was editing > seems to be lost (hopefully can be restored from history). wiki.debian.org

Bug#410970: ITP: kirocker -- Kicker applet that displays what you listen to in Amarok.

2007-02-14 Thread Julian Hernandez Gomez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Hernandez Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kirocker Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Sébastien Laoût <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=52869 * License : GPL Progr

Re: fluxbox

2007-02-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:34:14PM +0300, Dmitry E. Oboukhov a écrit : > maintainer is lazy > It is impossible to make a commit while maintainer hasn't denied his > responsibility Dear Dmitry, A lazy maintainer would say everyday that he will to the task tomorrow, and a responsability-denying

Re: Why Beryl has just four packages?

2007-02-14 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:27:21PM -0600, Anibal Avelar wrote: > Shawn, I would appreciate if you will let me help you. I'm Debian > maintainer and I have a great interest in beryl. As Shawn noted, the current work is in the git repo. If you'd like to help us out, please start from those and start

Re: help

2007-02-14 Thread RJ Gillis
Hey guys... Thanks for all the responses and I got it figured out; my buddy went there and thought it was a Quick-time like player needed to view the page. Nothing happened and so he never told me about it. But I would think a program install would show you something...? Anyway, from reading y

ITA: libqt-perl -- Perl bindings for the Qt library

2007-02-14 Thread Deepak Kumar Tripathi
Package: libqt-perl Binary: libqt-perl Version: 3.008-1.4 Priority: optional Section: perl Maintainer: Peter Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] New maintainer: Deepak Tripathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0), libqt3-mt-dev, perl (>= 5.8.0), automake1.7, autoconf, libsmokeqt-dev (>> 4: