Re: Bug#720336: ITP: ruby-puma -- Puma: A Ruby Web Server Built For Concurrency

2013-08-20 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Shawn Landden wrote: > * URL : http://puma.ui/ That url redirects to the sporting clothes company. It seems you mean: http://puma.io/ -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debian Develo

Re: Bug#720202: ITP: qreator -- utility for creating QR codes

2013-08-20 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
t. qreator is a graphical front-end for python-qrencode. So perhaps just a better description is needed, as hyperair has already agreed to do. Thanks, -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debian Developer <http://qa.debian.org/developer

Re: Longer maintainance for (former) stable releases of Debian (Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian)

2013-08-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 09:31:06AM +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Hi Charles, > > On Di 20 Aug 2013 02:04:40 CEST Charles Plessy wrote: > > >Altogether, it is a lot of work, but if we have enough people for > >doing it, think that it would be very positive for us. > > /me raises his hand for givin

Importing autopkgtests from Ubuntu [Was: Bits from the Release]

2013-08-28 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
release = 'saucy' AND ubuntu_sources.testsuite IS NOT NULL EXCEPT SELECT DISTINCT source FROM sources WHERE (release = 'sid' OR release = 'experimental') AND testsuite IS NOT NULL ORDER BY source; Thanks, -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://lau

Re: Bug#726393: general: Possible malware infections in source packages

2013-10-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:12:47AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:54:36 +0200, Dominik George > wrote: > >> Some of the source packages were caught on a gateway anti-virus scanner > >> while > >> downloading. > > > >Using a gateway anti-virus scanner for downloads from the Debi

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:41:42AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > I guess not everybody understands the reasons for Debian choosing a > default desktop, so I'll explain/expand them here. > > 1. We have several types of installation media (netboot, netinst, DVD, >BD) where we can happily ins

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:44:48PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Andy Cater wrote: > > > >I think it would be a good idea to have the netinst have an > >additional option to select desktop easily including the option for > >"command line only, no graphical desktop" as default. > > We already have

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-26 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
little confidence in a GR leading to a decision being made on technical merits. It's time to let the tech-ctte do their constitutionally mandated job. Thanks, -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debian Developer <http://

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 04:41:00PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > > On 26 Oct 2013, at 16:08, "Andrew M.A. Cater" > > wrote: > > > > That wouldbe my preference - a tasksel change for "no desktop" "KDE" "GNOME" > &

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:09:30PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Wouter wrote: > > > >The last time I used the full stack of CDs where there was no decent > >alternative option was when I was helping a customer prepare a set of > >installation instructions for a code escrow situation. > > > >Since

Re: Bug#645700: RFP: civicrm -- contact and relationship management system for community and advocacy groups

2011-10-19 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
time. Please let me know if there is any way I can help. [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NGO/ApplicationPackaging#CRM_Packaging -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debian Maintainer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=a.starr.b%40gmail.com

Re: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Description-less packages file

2011-11-09 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
buntu. Package descriptions are no longer provided. See for instance: http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/hello -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debian Maintainer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=a.starr.b%40gmail.c

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
l for packages in main. So this is not something that should really interest Debian. -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debian Maintainer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=a.starr.b%40gmail.com> PGP/GPG Key ID: D53FDCB1

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
e how I'm wasting your time. Though apparently I am wasting mine by taking the time to look at some package that I have absolutely nothing to do with. Thanks for making Debian such a welcoming place to contribute to, -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~a

Re: alioth is down (again)

2012-01-29 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
an.org/machines.cgi If so, it's not reporting vasks as down, but that still seems to be the case. If you're referring to something else, I'd love to know about it. Thanks! -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debian M

Bug#661591: packages providing ifupdown scripts must have those scripts fixed if needed

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew O. Shadura
advance. - -- WBR, Andrew -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJPTKtrAAoJEOJBhVAE1nf8LScP/2i/efgo/TCTHcb3KMlKWdYO uoagL18Anc822Ub+wT0Veh3rUoym2gC7HlNOu3eNB+Wxdr0kia8fmJcOb58jU+Ey z4xIP0WCnAQB7do+9aT6/q8wHVwGjdLtXdy/PUpUOc6v

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-28 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
rring social > problems. We need more people willing to help those that make social > mistakes to learn and improve themselves. It's not that too many people are making mistakes. It's that too many people don't take any action out of fear of making the mistake in the first place.

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-01-24)

2013-01-24 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
. This loads libgtk-3.so.0 and python-gtk2 obviously loads libgtk-2. Presumably any other python package using GTK+3 would cause this crash, not just bzr-gtk. Any guidance would be appreciated. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697402#15 Thanks, -- Andrew Starr-B

Re: Bug#622960: ITA: freemind -- Java Program for creating and viewing Mindmaps

2013-02-09 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
bug's owner: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#owner Thanks! -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debian Developer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=asb> PGP/GPG Key ID: D53FDCB1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-de

Re: Splitting the devscripts package

2013-03-31 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
2011. [1] The sbuild maintainers haven't posted any response to the bug report though. I don't know if there was any out of band communication on the matter. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613903 -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launch

Re: privacy-breach-google-adsense: how to get rid of it ?

2013-12-26 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
his for Debian and encourage its use for people wanting to use GA. That way we'd only need a one line patch to conf.py rather than some script parsing all the html. Thanks, -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debi

Re: Apt-get question

2014-01-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
g over apt code. The price of end user convenience is constraint on what is feasible/what is allowed in packagoing, documentation, file system layout ... Andrew Cater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Valve games for Debian Developers

2014-01-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 04:40:50PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Shachar Shemesh dijo [Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 04:20:07PM +0200]: > > On 23/01/14 13:45, Richard Hartmann wrote: > > > The risk of any "outsider" to become a DD for this offer alone is slim to > > > none. > > > > You're forgetting the free

Re: anonscm seems to be broken for SVN

2014-03-01 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
ibs Atrunk/debian/install Atrunk/debian/watch Atrunk/debian/changelog Atrunk/debian/bin Atrunk/debian/bin/phyutility Atrunk/debian/copyright Atrunk/debian/rules Atrunk/debian/control Atrunk/debian/source A trunk/debian/source/format Checked out revision

Re: --> APT's New Version <--

2014-04-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 05:39:04PM +0200, The deity team wrote: > After much discussion, the deity team has now picked an official > stanza on what a version number says about the stability and quality > of a software product: > > 16 years after the initial announcement[0] we are pleased to announ

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-13 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
staden-io-lib | 1.12.4-1build1 | saucy/universe | source staden-io-lib | 1.13.5-1.1 | trusty/universe | source Thanks, -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debian Developer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=asb> PGP/GPG

ifupdown and IPv6 (was: Bits from the Release Team)

2011-03-31 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
> but there is no interest/manpower to fix > them (which is not surprising if you have ever looked at the ifupdown > source). Source? It's beautiful, I can say. It's literate. It's well-structured. Manpower? Here it is [points at himself]. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
x27;fix'. Well, ifupdown will still need state files, because they are used to store the certain configuration chosen for the given interface during ifup. Another thing is that they may be ignored when the interface isn't really 'up', as per kernel. What do you think? -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:16:30 +0300 "Andrew O. Shadoura" wrote: > Another thing is that they may be ignored when the interface > isn't really 'up', as per kernel. I mean, isn't up when doing ifup, of isn't down when doing ifdown. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
ration to use to take the interface down. > They don't even provide the useful feature of copying the > configuration that was applied, in case it is subsequently changed or > removed in /etc/network/interfaces. They don't have to. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Just few lines. mapping eth1 script guessnet-ifupdown map default: dhcp iface eth-home inet static test peer address 192.168.0.1 mac ... ... iface dhcp inet dhcp The last requirement is fulfilled by means of installing ifplugd. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
mely trivial setups. Then you can stack all soft of stuff on > top of it, and get them to work manually for your specific setup, and > since it’s not event-based you have to hard-code the way your network > is set up. Maybe you just don't know how to 'cook' it properly? -- WBR

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-06 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
er manually or by unplugging the cable, the problem doesn't appear to exist. Calling ifupdown may be inserted into the suspend/resume scripts. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#621761: ITP: khtmlib -- javascript library for browser maps

2011-04-09 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:41:16 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > * API uses WGS84 (GPS). This is illiterate a bit, WGS84 has nothing to do with GPS on its own. You can just say, 'API uses WGS84'. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

rock around hwclock.sh

2011-04-12 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
, it would be good to hear opinions about negative consequences of saving the system time to the RTC on frequent basis. Thanks for your responses. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:47:18 +0200 Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > My major gripe with ifupdown is the lack of CIDR in "address", but I > can live with that. :) ifupdown 0.7 does support CIDR. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: /run in experimental

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
updown to use /run/network instead of bunch of other variants already, so it's just a matter of time and sponsorship. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#624490: ITP: tnat64 -- IPv4 to NAT64 redirector

2011-04-28 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Andrew O. Shadoura" * Package name: tnat64 Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Andrew O. Shadoura * URL : https://bitbucket.org/andrew_shadoura/tnat64/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description

Re: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6 in wheezy as default?

2011-05-10 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
e can get it into Debian (experimental?) soon. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated

2011-05-23 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
ste wastes a little > time. > Another option is to use ssh port redirection to tunnel SMTP over ssh. Easier is to write a one-liner: #!/bin/sh ssh your-favourite-host-with-sendmail-set-up /usr/sbin/sendmail -f \ y...@email.org -t "$@" and tell reportbug to use it. -- WBR, Andrew

Re: Changed ssh key on git.debian.org

2011-05-23 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
"bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change > locale (de_DE)". It seems that not all locales are build on the > system. Yup. It doesn't even have en_GB. - -- WBR, Andrew -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJN2hcsAAoJEG6k0

mcs maintainership

2011-05-23 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
utput ANSI codes during the build process. * Ship doxygened documentation (Closes: #521010): - Run Doxygen on build. - Also depend on LaTeX/TeXLive and Ghostscript. Jakub Wilk agreed to sponsor this package if there will be no objections from the current maintainer. -- WBR, Andrew si

Re: Bug#627983: ITP: bmake -- Portable version of NetBSD's make

2011-05-26 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
7;s make. > But pmake is a manual sync from NetBSD and thus difficult to maintain > (and as a consequence outdated). Bmake has a active upstream. Alexey Cheusov and me are already working on creation of the package for bmake, so you can join our team instead of doing this on your own. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#627983: ITP: bmake -- Portable version of NetBSD's make

2011-05-26 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
et, but cloning via http works, however.) Last Friday, he had a discussion with Alexey and decided that we will do the packaging work on these and other packages together as soon as he gets an Alioth account. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
ard dependencies. I suppose you don't you don't list devscripts, gnupg, lintian, dput | dupload, and dh-make (there are probably some others) as they are pulled in by other packages. I would explicitly depend on them Recommends on pbuilder | cowbuilder?. -- Andrew Starr-Bo

Re: Alioth status update, take 3

2011-05-29 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
ot all. Notably, collab-maint seems to not be available. Compare what can be seen on loggerhead <http://anonscm.debian.org/loggerhead/> with what exists on vasks.d.o . Thanks for all your work on this transition, -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomet

Re: Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches

2011-05-30 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
lly Darcs is rightly famous for its user-friendly interface Are you kidding? :) -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches

2011-05-31 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
it, possibly, it needs to be ported to other version control systems, too :) -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#628953: O: mercurial-buildpackage -- Utillities for maintaining a deb package in Hg repository

2011-06-03 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
e > created a branch (combined-process-input-output) in which I have > started taking care of these problems, but you will need a good deal > of dedication. I will help if needed. Jens, I always wanted to ask, why doesn't it sign the .dsc/.changes files? Or does it? -- WBR, Andrew sig

ifupdown 0.7~alpha4 in experimental

2011-06-08 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
igration script. * Drop dependency on net-tools; suggest it instead. * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2. Thanks. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System

2011-06-13 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
ll refuse to install > libfoo: > Package: libfoo > Pin: version * > Pin-Priority: -1 Possibly, there should be some kind of automagical interface for this, so one can type apt-... ... libfoo and get that stanza generated? -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System

2011-06-13 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
... libfoo and get that stanza > > generated? > > It's actually very easy to write such a tool: Yes, but when you already know how to do that :) Before that, you need to R the M anyway. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ifupdown 0.7~alpha4 in experimental

2011-06-17 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
: > netmask 64 > gateway fe80::1 > pre-up sysctl net.ipv6.conf.eth0.autoconf=1 > pre-up sysctl net.ipv6.conf.eth0.use_tempaddr=2 > pre-up sysctl net.ipv6.conf.eth0.accept_ra=1 In ~alpha5, new options appeared to ease tuning IPv6 SLAAC a bit, please consult the manpage

hgweb on alioth

2011-06-24 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, Just wanted to mention that hgweb interface on alioth is still not working. It'd be good if anyone responsible for this fixed it (it's not really that hard). -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

TeX packages

2011-07-07 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
alled size, and the removal process appeared to run for ages... -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: TeX packages

2011-07-07 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 07:41:15 +0900 Norbert Preining wrote: > On Do, 07 Jul 2011, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: > > Is it possible to run mktexlsr and updmap-sys (and, possibly, other > > TeX things) just once when installing or removing packages which > > need to run th

Re: Bug#633131: ITP: diod -- I/O forwarding server for 9P

2011-07-08 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
inting me to this. (Eugene: Sorry, I'm no DD.) -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#633518: ITP: colord -- system service to manage device colour profiles

2011-07-11 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
ur, but anyway there should be some consistency, possibly... -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

mentors.debian.net: login problems

2011-08-15 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, Since mentors.d.n was upgraded, I can't log in. Even if I reset my password, I can't log in with a temporary one. Any ideas what can it be? -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: mplayer2 is a very poor fork name used to confuse users.

2011-08-18 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
ually, both mplayer and mplayer2 once were the names of the standard Windows programs :) -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

ifupdown 0.7~beta1 in experimental

2011-08-25 Thread Andrew O. Shadura
name. * Add partial kFreeBSD support (Closes: #630512). * Drop 'ifupdown-clean' init script (not needed any more with /run). Thanks. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-06 Thread Andrew O. Shadura
it doesn't comply to the DEP5 requirement > (and while DDs can use whatever URLs they like, other people need to > guess what URLs does their sponsor count as valid). I can look like http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/r234234 or like that. If someone sets the proper redirection up

Re: common CLI conventions?

2011-09-20 Thread Andrew O. Shadura
le, as well as adding -- most probably won't make anyone unhappy. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#642416: ITP: node-which -- Like which(1) unix command for Node

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew O. Shadura
size so shipping them as a zillion packages doesn't really make any sense. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Summary of the DebConf firmware discussion

2015-08-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 04:33:04PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hi folks, > > > (Non-free) Firmware in Debian > = > > Background > -- > > Our users are finding problems with current common hardware - much of > it depends on loadable firmware. Much (most?) o

Successful install from 2.0.7 bootdisks

1998-06-21 Thread Andrew M.A.Cater \[Andy\]
i downloaded the drv1440.bin and resc1440.bin and base_2.0.tgz files from Engrique's archive at molec2.dfis.ull.es. Used dd to write the raw images to floppies. Machine 486/100 with 100M /dev/hda1 [DOS] 408M /dev/hdb1 / and 32M swap 1.2G /dev/hdc /usr 96M /d

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Andrew G . Feinberg
27;s see if we want to replace it, then lets _ask_ people who use it to give credit to the designer, like with Larry Ewing and Tux. You don't see him writing a license, do you? Andrew -- Andrew G. Feinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pager: 1-888-950-5050 PIN 6093780 PGP Fingerprint 7

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-14 Thread Andrew D Lenharth
2.1, X, kernel). These are bing complicated things, and take a lot more work to make stable than say window maker. This type of statagy is similar to what is used in the kernel (unstable branch with new fetures and stable branch with just updates). Andrew Lenharth On Fri, 14 May 1999, David Bristel

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-14 Thread Andrew D Lenharth
would then be small (depending on how much of what is upgraded ou have installed) and would be known to be mostly safe (and easy to back out). Andrew Lenharth

License nightmare "Contingency Plan" (sort of longish)

1999-09-20 Thread Andrew G . Feinberg
our licenses and we need to test the GPL (or other license) in court. Regards, Andrew Andrew G. Feinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pager: 1-888-950-5050 PIN 6093780 PGP: 0xDBE2B5E9 / 78 55 2B B4 A7 B2 96 FF 84 BA 4A 3F 23 82 DD 80 pgpzBSpWMoQMC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Reg: Debian 9.8 version support to IntelNUC7i5BNH

2019-03-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On 15/03/2019 13:28, Srinivas Rao wrote: > > Hi Debian Devel team, > > > Currently, I working on IntelNUC7i5BNH.  I would like to use Debian > 9.8 version in IntelNUC7i5BNH. can I use Debian 9.8 version and is it > support to IntelNUC7i5BNH? > > > I have seen in the below link Debian 9.2.1 (stretc

Re: Looking for a technical writer to update the Debian Handbook

2019-05-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On 03/05/2019 12:25, Iván Alemán wrote: > Hello Raphael, > > I can help with some chapters if you don't find the technical writer. > > Will contact you directly. > > Best, > > On Fri, 3 May 2019 at 12:25, Raphael Hertzog > wrote: > > Hello, > > Roland and I

Re: getting rid of "testing"

2019-06-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On 26/06/2019 19:58, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 02:23:40PM -0500, Andrej Shadura wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 14:13, Michael Stone wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 03:10:27PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: >>> >I'm perfectly capable of typing slink when I meant stretch. 

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 03:03:40PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Luca Boccassi wrote: > >On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 12:42, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> > >> I'm planning on stopping publishing installer images for i386 > >> soon. Why? We should be strongly encouraging users to move away from > >> it as

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 11:24:15PM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > On Wed May 31, 2023 at 12:44 PM CEST, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 12:51:06AM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > My point is: what about people who don't have the option to *buy* > anything (new or used), for fi

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 02:39:00PM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hello. > > Debian Bug #1024501 [1]indicates that data files are present in the > fortune-mod package which are against Debian policy: > > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropri

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 05:32:22PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2023-08-21 20:16:22 +0300 (+0300), Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: > [...] > > According to Debian's CoC we use non-offensive ways to communicate > > within the project, so that everybody is welcome to speak and > > contribute. But we sho

Re: Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686

2023-10-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 02:38:40PM -0500, Justin wrote: > Okay, so because the VIA C3 Nehemaiah chip doesn't properly implement > ENDBR32, it falls outside of the supported hardware, despite being otherwise > an "i686 class chip," correct? > > Or put another way, in classic Cyrix style, it's "al

Re: besoin d'aide

2023-10-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 08:39:10AM +0100, siheme samira wrote: > bonjour Bonjour, Il faut vous dire que cela serait mieux sur debian-user ou debian-user-french. Ici, on utlise l'anglais. En bref: Stretch n'existe plus comme un OS avec support du Debian meme. Voyez donc:https://www.debian.org/r

Re: Linking coreutils against OpenSSL

2023-11-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 10:38:13AM +, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 at 02:26, Simon Richter wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > What would you think about having coreutils Depend on libssl3? This > > > would make the libssl3 package essential, which is potentially > > > undesirable, but

32 bit Intel hardware effectively EOL [WAS Re: Offer to make a native 32-bit system avaiable]

2024-01-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 01:01:08PM -0600, rhys wrote: > > > > > > Since you still offer 32bit machines of which Debian has enough of. (64 bit > > kernel probably but it doesn't matter) where it does not matter at all. > We don't particularly need 32 bit hardware at the moment, as far as I kno

Re: Archive back on

2024-03-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 02:45:29PM -0300, Maycon Antônio wrote: > PLEASE unscrisbe from this list > Antonio, You need to send a mail to debian-devel-request with the subject of unsubscribe The robot should send back a confirmation request that you can accept to confirm that you want to be

Re: archive.debian.org mirrors

2024-04-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 12:16:04PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Hi > > According to the mirror list > > https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive > > it should be possible to reach archive.debian.org via rsync, however > this fails for me. Is this intentional, or can this be fixed? > https://

Re: Bits from DPL

2024-05-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 10:37:57AM -0600, Trevor Howard wrote: > How do I unsubscribe from these emails? > > On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 11:15 PM Andreas Tille wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > keeping my promise for monthly bits, here's a quick snapshot of my first > > ten days as DPL. > > > > Special thanks

Re: About i386 support

2024-05-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 09:58:58PM +0200, Victor Gamper wrote: > Hello everyone, > Is it correct that debian 13 is planned to be released without > an i386 iso and i386 is planned to be deprecated? > If so, I'd like to ask to reconsider this seeing as there is still a > plethora of i386 machines an

Re: Suggestion

2024-05-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
nguage of a system and keyboard layout because it is problematic for > someone who doesn't use US layout on keyboard and i am among those since i > am croatian. > -- There's always more than one way to solve a problem appropriately in Debian - I'm sure others can think of

Re: A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend

2020-11-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 02:37:11PM +, Federico Ceratto wrote: > As Joseph pointed out, the use-case for the Small Organisation Server > is practically > the same as FreedomBox, either installed from image or with "apt > install freedombox". > > I find the name "Small Organisation" a bit mislea

Re: CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu release cycles

2020-12-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 04:25:54PM +, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > Hi all, > > maybe you already have heard it, CentOS is basically dead now. It used to be > an exact RHEL clone, but now it's kind of an RHEL beta [1]. > > Now what does that have to do with Debian? > > When we look into why peop

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 03:15:14PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 09:35:01AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > The point is to make things easier for our users. Right now, we're doing > > that for you but not for the users who don't care whether firmware is > > non-free.

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 10:50:19PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 09:27:28AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > The installer with non-free firmware built in would, I think, be better. > > I know it exists, but last time I wasn't able to use it because I needed a > > testing

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 11:36:58AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:58:33 +, "Andrew M.A. Cater" > wrote: > >It already does: the second or third question gives you the option to install > > non-free firmware, if needed, from a USB stick. That m

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 09:57:31AM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > Timo Lindfors wrote: > > > > On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, Marc Haber wrote: > > > Absolutely. The Installation Experience is one of the first contacts > > > with the distribution for most people¹, and since we all know that the >

Re: Making Debian available, non-free promotor

2021-01-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 07:56:30PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 15.01.21 13:42, Ansgar wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 19:30 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > >> Ah, yes I also wonder how much the world will improve > >> if non-free would be split in non-free and non-free-firmware. > >> Currently

Re: Fixed release dates are hurting quality

2021-02-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 07:41:01PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 02:20:28PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > the packages being untouched for a long time in some cases meaning there > > > is > > > no guarantee for quality. > > > > Sure, but if there is no serious i

Re: Stable Release Installer Not Asking for Firmware: 10.7.0, and 10.8.0

2021-03-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 09:11:07PM -0800, Bug Report wrote: > The unofficial, non-free, stable release installer with firmware, doesn't > recognize Intel Network Card 2723 when selecting the Intel Linux driver.  It > would be helpful if the firmware, and driver for this network card were > added to

Results of two votes are due shortly

2021-04-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Everyone : The project is expecting the results of two votes shortly. The results won't please everyone - they never do. Please continue to be polite and constructive and work positively with your Debian colleagues however the votes fall. With thanks for your consideration in this Andy Ca

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-04-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Unfortunately, the website links to media still only point to the Alpha-3 release :( All best, Andy C

Re: debian 11 Bullseye RC 1

2021-05-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 07:27:48AM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > All, > > I just successfully installed bullseye RC 1 on my Asus notebook model > X200CA. Everything is working. If you are looking for a notebook to > run Debian I highly recommend this model. > > I installed Bullseye RC 1 o

Re: ARM architectures

2021-06-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 11:22:46AM +0530, Siji Sunny wrote: > > Hi ! > > I'm looking for a ARM platform that can easily run Linux. > > Support using terminal over serial port for booting (no need of a GPU). > > > > I know about the Raspberry PI but the GPU drivers are not open source. > > I don't r

Re: ARM architectures

2021-06-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 07:33:20AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-06-05 4:50 a.m., Christoph Biedl wrote: > > Marc Haber wrote... > > > >> I'd still consider the Raspberry Pi. It's unfortunate that the binary > >> non-free blob is already needed to boot the box ev

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