On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 02:44:20AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > If you really need to do this, you will need to divert the configuration
> > files with dpkg-divert. However, you really don't want to do this.
> > Rather than managing configuration files with a package, you really want
>
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:35:08PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote:
> > - If your located continent has Debian Mirror, return this mirror
> > site IP address.
>
> I don't think this is a good logic for many situations.
> For instance: Brazil is in South America, but it doesn't have good links
>
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:51:14PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I uploaded ELinks 0.12~20080127-2 a few days ago to experimental. If
> you happen to use ELinks, please test this and report any bugs etc. that
> you may find. If you don't use ELinks, now is probably a good time to
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:35:28AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:33:12 +0200, Andrei Popescu
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:51:14PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> >> I uploaded ELinks 0.12~20080127-2 a few da
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 06:32:10PM +0800, Andrew Lee wrote:
[...]
> - Fast, rund well even on older machines produced in 1999
[...]
> - Suitable for old machines(old Pentium II CPU is enough).
Maybe you could merge those two lines?
Regards,
Andrei
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On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 02:40:47PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
[...]
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 I filed #474964 against linux-2.6:
> Loads pcspkr and others even if explicitely excluded in modprobe.conf
[...]
> If anybody would confirm that this problem might belong to module-init-tools
> I would vol
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 05:52:19PM +0200, Ulrik Haugen wrote:
> As you can see readahead actually increase the boot time for me in
> both cases so I uninstalled that package.
I get 28 seconds with or without readahead (Thinkpad R50e, P4 1.6GHz,
512 RAM).
Regards,
Andrei
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On Mon,29.Jun.09, 22:53:53, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> @@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ The set of fields ends on the first empty line.
> Free-form comments follow and be used for any other information that
^^
I'm not a native speaker, but this doesn't sound very well.
Regards,
On Wed,26.Aug.09, 01:56:35, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> +A patch created by the the Debian maintainer John Doe, which got
^^^
Regards,
Andrei
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On Thu,10.Sep.09, 09:32:55, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
>
> Just my view, I try to remember to Cc the reporter, but I'd much
> rather prefer being subscribed to bugs as I report them.
Or maybe make it possible to subscribe by just replying to the ACK mail.
Regards,
Andrei
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On Sun,15.Nov.09, 07:13:39, Christian Perrier wrote:
>
> Not considering the technical backgorund (which is of course an easy
> stance), it could be really interesting to have *by default* the
> default X session on tty1, when a display manager is used, and
> something like 2 other console session
On Tue,24.Nov.09, 15:26:33, Jon Dowland wrote:
> What I would like to see is something like the following.
> I've no idea whether it is achievable technically, but I'd
> be interested to know what others thought.
>
> * the display manager gets the first VT. If there is no
> display manager conf
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:29:46 +0900
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 06:55:14PM -0500, Theodore Tso a écrit :
> >
> > It's not a great idea to do this indefinitely, and it's a matter of
> > whether or not you trust the person in front of the machine not to
> > be
"cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> So maybe asking for help on debian-kde, where there's people around
> who might be convinced to pitch in a little time and effort once or
> twice would be more productive. I'm thinking something along the
> lines of:
This might hav
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:01:36PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> I belive that a rate of 0.1% is quite an acceptable rate, but we
> permanently try to lower that.
I don't know how much this helps, but wouldn't it be good to more
actively *recommend* the posters to subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECT
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:13:59PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > I don't know how much this helps, but wouldn't it be good to more
> > actively *recommend* the posters to subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Something like a monthly reminder sent over all lists or similar.
>
> Next spammers wil
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:13:59PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > I don't know how much this helps, but wouldn't it be good to more
> > actively *recommend* the posters to subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Something like a monthly reminder sent over all lists or similar.
>
> Next spammers wil
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:41:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> [4] FWIW, forums.debian.net has an offtopic section that actually
> seems to be used appropriately, without bothering the technical
> discissions in other sections.
Debian seems to have a policy of not hosting -offtopic lists[1]. Can
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:26:59AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> If you want to be off topic yet marginally related to Debian, use
> -curiosa. If it has nothing to do with Debian at all, pick from the
> multitude of fora where it would be on topic.
[qoute Joey Hess]
To be clear, I am not sugges
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic
> discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for
> "off-topic" messages. For the messages to be "social lubricant", they
> need to be *interspersed* with the
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:51:17PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) writes:
>
> > IMHO forcing people to take off-topic discussions out of the forum
> > (read Debian community) is not good. Debian is based on volunteers
> > and for some cont
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:26:31PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
> They don't have to take it away from the Debian lists... They can always
> discuss on debian-curiosa if they so desire. Just don't let the
> off-topic discussions pollute the other lists.
The description for -curiosa does not s
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 05:44:18PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> On ma, 2007-05-21 at 20:08 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > The description for -curiosa does not suggest it to be appropiate for
> > the kind of off-topic discussions going on on -user.
>
> Your conclusio
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:03:44PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) writes:
>
> > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> >
> >> Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic
> >> discussi
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:36:14PM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> Why should Debian developers spend the time setting up infrastructure
> for lists or IRC channels that, by definition even, have nothing to do
> with the Debian project? If the people who enjoy holding these
Compared to the cur
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:04:01AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:02:21AM +0300, Andrei Popescu a écrit :
> >
> > IMHO forcing people to take off-topic discussions out
>
> By the way, isn't debian-devel an off-topic place for this discussio
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:07:03PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> Me too ;) But look: I am maintaining the poor console player moc.
> I wnat to provide it with actual interfaces.
What do you mean by poor? It's a great player. Thanks for maintaining!
Regards,
Andrei (happy moc user)
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On Tue,08.Jul.08, 10:48:18, ruben wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Ruben Pollan Bella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> * Package name: tudu
> Version : 0.3
> Upstream Author : Ruben Pollan Bella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://cauterized.net/~meskio/t
On Sat,12.Jul.08, 06:12:33, Joe Smith wrote:
> However, if the security updates come from trusted security mirrors rather
> than
> a general mirror, that attack would fail too. So with the exception of Sid or
> Testing users that do not use the testing-security system to receive security
> updat
On Sun,13.Jul.08, 11:45:46, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If I remember correctly, we adopted the rX way of versioning to appease
> > CD-ROM vendors: they did not like us releasing X.Y+1 as a stable update
> > since that meant their X.Y boxes looked out of
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 16:36:39, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> My point is that I don't have the impression that Debian Developers want
> to have an LP account activated at all, so IMO it doesn't really matter
> if the account is activated implicitly via some (authenticated) action
> or exlicitly by click
On Tue,09.Sep.08, 15:53:16, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
[...]
> README.Debian contains notes about important changes that made in
> Debian's variant of package for a long time of package' lifecycle.
> NEWS.Debian is especially good for upgrading. Changelog is for
> developers and geek users as it
On Fri,19.Sep.08, 23:57:54, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Afaics I have the following options.
> 1.) Do nothing and simply document this fact in README.Debian, telling
> the admin that he can safely delete this files if he no longer needs them.
I would have rather suggested NEWS.Debian if apt-listchan
On Mon,20.Oct.08, 00:51:03, s. keeling wrote:
> Just curious, but why 2 & 3? Why isn't 1 considered the simplest
> solution? xterm is ca. 300k. What Seyon users can't afford 300k disk
> space or its RSS?
>
> vi's installed on every *nix box on the planet. Why shouldn't xterm
> be on every X
On Wed,29.Oct.08, 22:11:27, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> I am not realy sure, 50.000 customers would accept hardware which cost
> 45 US$ instead of 40 US$ because there are 2-3 OSS frickler which want
> access to the source because they want to fix something.
>
> Do you would give the FIXES bac
On Mi,12.nov.08, 10:37:33, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> there are some bugs open against the release notes to which
> nobody wrote a patch so far. This is your opportunity to help
> Debian and become famous!
...
> #491000 release-notes: Romanian translation is mixed with English
I filled this one b
On Mon,17.Nov.08, 08:13:55, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Let's just say, hypothetically speaking, that I'm the developer of a
> GUI package manager for Debian. It would be nice (where by nice I mean
> *really UBERCOOL*) if, whenever users see a list of packages, they could
> see a little thumbnail
On Sat,17.Jan.09, 01:05:47, Kjeldgaard Morten wrote:
> On 16/01/2009, at 18.27, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>
>> Did you think about thousands of computers having 'private ips' with
>> some nat translation and/or local proxie? (I'm thinking of computer
>> labs, companies, etc. not just the odd home
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:22:59AM +0200, David Lopez Zajara (Er_Maqui) wrote:
> Personally i'm an xmms user, and now, with this, i have tested other
> options. Audacious isn't an option at all. Yes, we have the same
> winamp-style, and can read winamp & xmms skins, too. But, it's newer and
> doe
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:55:36PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> The only metadata available seems to be the Content-type field of the
> header in the original po file, but I can't see how to enforce it for
> the temporary file...
I'm not sure if this helps, but when I have to work with ISO-885
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:05:25AM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> Opera could offer an apt reporitory for the .deb, much like skype is doing
> it.
But they do already:
grep opera /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera unstable non-free
Regards,
Andrei
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On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 06:55:01PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> I've also uploaded mlocate to experimental now (needs NEW processing).
Great, I'll give it a spin :) If you want more testing you could post an
appropriate message to d-u.
Regards,
Andrei
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On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 11:52:32PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > But isn't ftp.debian.org the Prime Mirror?
>
> No, it isn't. It's _a_ primary mirror [...]
Are you sure? It's not even listed in the mirrors list [1].
[1] http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
Regards,
Andrei
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On Fri,22.Jan.10, 10:11:45, Ben Finney wrote:
> Charles Plessy writes:
> > sometimes degrades our relations with Upstream, and I have not yet
> > seen a user thanking us for doing this.
>
> I've often expressly, and in public, thanked the specific people who put
> forth efforts to ensure free so
On Wed,24.Mar.10, 21:29:47, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> I don't know the english translation for "klingt irgendwie steif".
"Sounds too formal?". I think you are assuming "you" to be less formal
than it actually is[1].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You
Regards,
Andrei
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On Thu,13.May.10, 09:34:15, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2010-05-13, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > If no stronger objections against a change from 022 to 002 is raised, would
> > you
> > agree changing base-files so that /etc/profile uses 002 on new systems?
>
> Doesn't that lead to "great fun" if you a
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On Sat,15.May.10, 08:41:29, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> More generally speaking, this umask change probably deserves to be
> mentioned in the Release Notesalong with a good rationale about
> w
On Sat,15.May.10, 13:03:16, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 10:04 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > #2 UPG with umask 022 is useless.
> Why is it?
> It makes that every user has its own group, and that other users can be
> added to it.
> This alone doesn't have any effect of
On Sat,15.May.10, 13:30:14, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 14:23 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > Why is an own group needed for this? Can't the admin just create groups
> > as needed where both users shall belong?
> Well but that's always pos
On Sat,15.May.10, 13:26:29, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 14:16 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > for regular users
> Would have to double check it,... but doesn't the current change also
> affect root?
By default:
# grep umask .bashrc
umask 02
On Tue,18.May.10, 16:16:06, Harald Braumann wrote:
> A umask of 022 is the right choice for most people and at least
> doesn't put the others at risk. Everyone, who knows what a setgid
> directory is and how it works, will also know, that there are certain
> requirements on the umask. And the oth
On Mi, 30 iun 10, 12:58:25, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> Charles Plessy schrieb am Wednesday, den 30. June 2010:
> >
> > When I asked about relaxing the rules, I was in particular thinking about
> > upload of backports prepared by the original maintainer, before testing
> > migration. For instance in s
On Mi, 30 iun 10, 13:18:59, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> >
> > Maybe the backports upload queue could automatically put the package on
> > hold until the unstable package has migrated to testing.
> Send patches :)
Sorry, should have mentioned it's just an ideea of mine and I posted it
for the benef
On Mi, 30 iun 10, 06:27:43, Aaron Toponce wrote:
>
> Well, when you put it that way. :) Honestly, I don't think of Sid as a
> collection of stable packages. That's what I think about Lenny. I think
> of Sid as "the latest and greatest", regardless of version, and that's
> why I thought the nightli
On Jo, 22 iul 10, 12:13:41, Mike Bird wrote:
>
> We actually have a few Testing packages (e.g. WordPress) in our
> mostly-Stable servers and we backup copies of those Testing packages
> both on-site and off-site against the vagaries of the Testing masters.
Now you can use snapshot.debian.org ;)
On Jo, 22 iul 10, 22:51:32, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 03:10:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I've noticed that linking to this page seems to kill threads, which is
> > not my intent, but: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/debian/cut/
> >
> > The idea still seems reasonable to
On Vi, 23 iul 10, 02:51:36, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:26:47AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> > On 23 July 2010 10:03, brian m. carlson
> > wrote:
> > > You can use "smtphost reportbug.debian.org" in the configuration file.
> > > As for blocking direct outgoing SMTP connectio
On Jo, 22 iul 10, 16:45:33, Raphael Geissert wrote:
>
> This one is very interesting, as it is the main contact point from our
> users. The number of subscribers did not drop, but the traffic did (non
> surprisingly, the number of subscribers increases when the traffic
> decreases, and vice-ver
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Severity: wishlist
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On Sb, 24 iul 10, 18:03:04, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 07/24/2010 02:06 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >And then there is the (nowadays perceived) problem that reportbug needs a
> >working MTA setup or at least
On Du, 25 iul 10, 13:08:22, Tim Clewlow wrote:
>
> PS - If you want to record how many people are using different
> things, then perhaps if the update servers record IP addresses and
> requested updates then this could give you more data as it does not
> require a system has specifically installed
; On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:23:12AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Vi, 23 iul 10, 02:51:36, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:26:47AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> > > > On 23 July 2010 10:03, brian m. carlson
> > > > wrote:
> &g
On Lu, 26 iul 10, 18:42:06, Magnus Berg wrote:
> Why is it neccecary to show mail adresses in bug reports and mail list?
> This help spammers, take capacity from the internet and makes people who
> are friendly to contribute once to bug reports and mail list crasy. I
> think that sucks and I don't
On Vi, 30 iul 10, 11:38:28, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> [Craig Small]
> > The problem with replacing WML is; what do you replace it with? and
> > will it bring any real benefit?
>
> What about using XHTML and po4a to handle translations using .po
> files? The original english versions would b
On Ma, 31 aug 10, 15:23:26, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>
> Obvious fail. The list is read only as the communication has to go trough the
> BTS.
Not according to the description:
,[ http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/ ]
| Debian Technical Committee
| Public meeting, business and announcements of
On Lu, 06 sep 10, 17:52:17, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Alexander Reichle-Schmehl writes ("Backports service becoming official"):
> > Because of limitations in the Debian Bug Tracking System, any bugs
> > relevant to backported packages still have to be reported to the
> > debian-backports [3] list, which
[Moved back to debian-user]
On Mi, 20 oct 10, 14:47:17, André Berger wrote:
> David Kalnischkies (2010-10-20):
>
> > mhh, yeah, if debian-users@ can't provide help instantly: ask again
> > - or just wait a tiny little bit longer than 2 days. ;)
>
> You're right; in my defence, this is in fact my
On Mi, 24 nov 10, 09:36:52, Adrian Knoth wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:19:05PM +0100, marcin wrote:
>
> [No other audio app starts when there's already one running]
> > I'm sorry but I cannot tell which package exactly is the source of the
> > problem so I put it in 'general' section.
>
> W
On Mi, 24 nov 10, 09:40:05, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2010-11-24, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >> The solution is to multiplex/mix in software, most commonly done with
> >> pulseaudio these days.
> >> Don't you have pulseaudio installed?
> > ALSA is using dmix
On Mi, 12 ian 11, 10:55:34, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Drake Wilson wrote:
>
> > Which upstream bug trackers, if any, would make the above not work?
>
> Sourceforge and probably Gforge/FusionForge trackers.
>
> The only tracker I'm aware of which would work is Trac, som
On Sb, 15 ian 11, 10:10:04, Chris Carr wrote:
>
> Is there some forum in which the choice of a default for a package or
> service gets made? I subscribe to debian-devel and debian-policy, but
> neither seems to contain discussions about the risks of replacing
> perfectly good defaults with signifi
On Lu, 14 feb 11, 12:33:49, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> >
> > How is one supposed to prioritize between the various browsers?
>
> There will be a default selected in gnome-session, that can be changed
> by user action. Without a session-wide default (any session manager can
> set one, of course) a
On Du, 27 feb 11, 16:15:40, Paul Wise wrote:
>
> Something that might work would be to keep the old source/binary
> packages around (as well as the new ones) until nothing depends on
> them. IIRC the release team have the ability to (temporarily) have
> multiple versions of a source package in tes
On Ma, 01 mar 11, 19:33:09, Neil Williams wrote:
>
> If you want a service contract, find a GNU/Linux distribution capable
> of supplying one, it is not Debian. Debian exists to support users, not
> enter a service contract with users.
There's plenty paid support for Debian as well:
http://www.d
On Vi, 04 mar 11, 11:32:01, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
>
> The reason is not that obvious but might be clear when looking to the
> image, systems have in the world:
> Windows: Insecure, full control, many software, games, official support
> Mac: Easy, colorful, all is moving and wabbering
> Debian: Secur
On Vi, 04 mar 11, 19:29:36, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> >
> > Since avahi isn't a dependency of anything you'd want to install on a
> > server -- I personally have never installed gnome on a server, for
> > instance -- it usually isn't.
> >
> > [...]
>
> Except in a workstation place.
>
> In a u
On Vi, 04 mar 11, 20:10:01, Adam Borowski wrote:
>
> You'll then have to install every bit of gnome by hand, since the
> meta-packages depend on avahi.
Maybe they can just recommend avahi-daemon and gnome-user-share
Regards,
Andrei
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On Jo, 10 mar 11, 21:55:57, Paul Wise wrote:
> >
> > Package: netselect-apt
> > Description: speed tester for choosing a fast Debian mirror
>
> apt-spy is another one. It downloads Packages files from all the
> mirrors in a region or country and reports the fastest.
In my experience you have to u
On Du, 13 mar 11, 10:44:07, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> On 13/03/11 08:19, Ben Finney wrote:
> >If you like to get two copies, why can't you arrange to generate the
> >extra copies you want without involving anyone else's configuration?
> Any suggestions on how to do it?
By setting 'Reply-To:' appro
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On Sb, 12 mar 11, 12:57:29, Carsten Hey wrote:
> * Carsten Hey [2011-03-12 10:50 +0100]:
> > There are examples where we lost potential future maintainers because
> > they never received a reply to an RFS. Th
On Du, 13 mar 11, 19:54:01, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> On 13/03/11 11:29, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >
> >>Any suggestions on how to do it?
> >By setting 'Reply-To:' appropriately, this is what it's for.
> If I set "reply-to" to myself, the mail won&#
On Thu,02.Apr.09, 13:12:25, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 06:05:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > I think that renaming and/or removing the init script symlinks is the
> > > Right Thing To Do, but the tools we have for doing this are awful. I
> > > think it would be a g
On Tue,28.Apr.09, 03:09:52, Noah Slater wrote:
> > Many of the more popular MUAs on your list have this command
>
> Can you name any others apart from mutt that come with this by default?
Reply in Claws-Mail (and Sylpheed) does the right thing by default
(Reply-to-List if it detects a list, Re
On Tue,28.Apr.09, 20:56:57, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Also, can you tell us where to write comments related to NEW uploads in plain
> English, so that it can be documented in the Developers Reference? I think
> that
> debian/copyright it not the best place for this, and apparently README.source
>
On Wed,29.Apr.09, 10:22:50, Brian May wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:19:04AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> > How Mutt is able to detect all mailing lists? The fields in the headers
> > only allow to detect the current mailing list.
>
> You can define what are mailing lists using the "lists"
On Wed,29.Apr.09, 14:27:45, Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that Ben Finney may or may not have written...
>
> [snip]
> > If someone writes a message to a list, but doesn't arrange to read messages
> > from that list, I don't think we can expect software to automatically
> > figure out that they wou
On Mon,18.May.09, 09:45:31, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> To make a choice, I’d say we should have a look at security and memory
> usage.
Maybe also startup speed?
Regards,
Andrei
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On Sb, 14 iun 14, 00:37:25, Jeffrey Cliff wrote:
> Package: ntk
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * "The Non Tool Kit (NTK) is a fork of the Fast Light ToolKit library,
> adding improved graphics rendering via Cairo, a streamlined and
> enhanced widget set, and other features des
On Jo, 26 iun 14, 14:33:49, Wookey wrote:
>
> Can it be uploaded please? As has been observed, there is a reasonable
> number of people who would like an easy way to control explicitly
> when/if they change to systemd for pid 1. Having to get it from a
> separate repo should not be necessary.
No
On Sb, 28 iun 14, 10:56:24, Svante Signell wrote:
>
> The disadvantage with this approach is that you need an entry for every
> package you don't want installed.
No, you want to make use of the support for globs or regexes, see
apt_preferences(5).
> systemd-must-die_8_all.deb already conflicts
On Vi, 27 iun 14, 15:45:21, Sven Bartscher wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
>
> I recently started contributing to debian.
> Before that, most of my writing with people I don't know personally
> through the internet was on Stack Exchange.
> On Stack Exchange, messages that only consist of thanking peo
On Sb, 28 iun 14, 21:42:47, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU dixit:
>
> >Yes, I know everything in Debian is a package, but APT *is* the master
> >of all packages :p
>
> Wrong:
>
> • dpkg (directly or via dselect) does not use APT’s system
> (well, not
On Lu, 30 iun 14, 01:56:20, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> >
> > You're not seriously suggesting dpkg would "sneak" a package on your
> > system behind your back, do you?
>
> I believe he's only suggesting that having a package installed with a
> Conflict: is harder to break (even by mistake) than just
On Ma, 01 iul 14, 09:34:58, Eugene Zhukov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know this question probably doesn't belong to this list, and I tried
> debian-user@ first, but didn't get a single response.
> I'm trying to create a VM with Windows 7. Is there a way to do that
> from USB stick? It is a ~10GB corpora
On Ma, 01 iul 14, 15:57:41, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:26:53 +0400
> vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote:
> >
> > I think you can just put
> >
> > Package: systemd
> > Pin: origin ""
> > Pin-Priority: -1
>
> If what you actually intend is to retain sysvinit-core, it would need
> to be s
On Jo, 03 iul 14, 00:24:44, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > You have not yet explained why apt pinning is not enough.
>
> I'd appreciate an explanation too. I've inserted in my apt/preferences
> file the incantation given by Vitali F. (to whom thanks) at the very
> beginning of this thread, and it
On Jo, 17 iul 14, 03:17:35, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2014-07-16 14:28:00 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:36:32AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > I do that too. I haven't seen any official documentation saying that
> > > this is a bad thing to do.
> >
> > apti
On Lu, 21 iul 14, 08:16:54, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> > Considering the language is English, it would be a pity if the reader
> > made this mistake. Let's assume a modicum of 'common sense' at least.
>
> With an international project like Debia
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On Jo, 24 iul 14, 01:11:53, J. Vitorino wrote:
> Package: mrrescue
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I found this fully FLOSS game named Mr Rescue. It's a retro inspired
> platformer featuring randomly generated levels in which the player controls
> a fireman attempting to save c
On Vi, 25 iul 14, 13:26:30, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Arto Jantunen writes ("Re: How Debian should handle users requests?"):
> > I don't think reportbug should allow filing bugs against general at
> > all. The extremely rare cases when one is needed can be filed manually.
>
> Indeed. If the user tries
On Sb, 26 iul 14, 07:17:54, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> Hello,
>
> whenever I try to send a bug with reportbug to sub...@bugs.debian.org, I get
> a
> failure notification
>
> 550 malware detected: Sanesecurity.Junk.3451.UNOFFICIAL: message rejected
>
>
> So, I can't open bugs.
>
> I don't know
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