Re: Bug#768772: ITP: xkcdpass -- secure passphrase generator inspired by XKCD 936

2014-11-10 Thread Ben Finney
“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't | `\ know.” —Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, 1914–2004 | _o__) | Ben Finney signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Removing duplication: Word lists of common words in languages (was: Bug#768772: ITP: xkcdpass …)

2014-11-10 Thread Ben Finney
of everyone.” —John Maynard Keynes | Ben Finney signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-11 Thread Ben Finney
question, but to post the wrong information.” —Aahz | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Removing duplication: Word lists of common words in languages

2014-11-11 Thread Ben Finney
Simon McVittie writes: > On 10/11/14 23:16, Ben Finney wrote: > > To avoid duplicating these “the N most common words, ranked by > > frequency, for language FOO” > > For a password generator you ideally want the word-list to be sorted > alphabetically, so that it

Re: Removing duplication: Word lists of common words in languages

2014-11-11 Thread Ben Finney
“Our products just aren't engineered for security.” —Brian | `\ Valentine, senior vice-president of Microsoft Windows | _o__) development, 2002 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.d

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-12 Thread Ben Finney
merican family | _o__) hasn't time for it.” —_The New York Times_, 1939 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/85h9y46cgg@benfinney.id.au

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-17 Thread Ben Finney
m not home, they get a recording of a busy | _o__) signal.” —Steven Wright | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/854mtx2jaq@benfinney.id.au

Re: making dput a wrapper around git

2014-11-18 Thread Ben Finney
hout having victims.” —Harriet Woods, | `\ 1927–2007 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: policy regarding redistributable binary files in upstream tarballs

2014-11-19 Thread Ben Finney
ian.org/msgid-search/1948618.u6YZvnFvaf@scott-latitude-e6320>. -- \ “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we | `\ despise, we don't believe in it at all.” —Noam Chomsky, | _o__) 1992-11-25 |

Re: policy regarding redistributable binary files in upstream tarballs

2014-11-19 Thread Ben Finney
story. | `\ “Don't bother us with politics,” respond those who don't want | _o__)to learn.” —Richard M. Stallman, 2002 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: policy regarding redistributable binary files in upstream tarballs

2014-11-19 Thread Ben Finney
o confuse only one issue at a time.” —Brian W. | `\ Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie, _The C programming language_, 1988 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: mass bug filing: debcheckout fails

2012-04-24 Thread Ben Finney
- \ “The Vatican is not a state.… a state must have people. There | `\are no Vaticanians.… No-one gets born in the Vatican except by | _o__)an unfortunate accident.” —Geoffrey Robertson, 2010-09-18 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-07 Thread Ben Finney
ce.” —Robert R. Coveyou | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k40n75sr@benfinney.id.au

Bug#677174: RFA: python-minimock -- simple library for Python mock objects

2012-06-11 Thread Ben Finney
of the latest upstream version (1.2.7) in Debian. -- \ “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are | `\not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer | _o__) to reality.” —Albert Einstein, 1983 | Ben Finney -- To

Re: Maintainers, teams, Uploaders, DMs, DDs, etc.

2012-06-13 Thread Ben Finney
ard nominating a team as “the” maintainer. -- \ “Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right | `\ there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to | _o__) read good books.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney pgpZmmRHSQHaX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-06-28 Thread Ben Finney
that there are fairies at the bottom of it | _o__) too?” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney pgp3Jqpm87Xaa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian

2012-07-01 Thread Ben Finney
mous | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87txxqq0tm@benfinney.id.au

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-24 Thread Ben Finney
rce. -- \ “Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without | `\ having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it | _o__) too?” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@l

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-24 Thread Ben Finney
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Aug 25, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Upholding the social contract – that Debian, as distributed by the > > Debian project, remain 100% free – is sufficient reason to remove these > > files without corresponding source. >

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-24 Thread Ben Finney
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Aug 25, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Upholding the social contract – that Debian, as distributed by the > > Debian project, remain 100% free – is sufficient reason to remove these > > files without corresponding source. >

Sourceless files in source package (was: Minified javascript files)

2012-08-24 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > > It seems to me that the primary objection to the presence of these > > files without source is that they are then distributed as part of > > Debian, in the source package. That violates our social contract. > > The

Re: Keeping feature requests and other non-real bugs in Debian's BTS?

2013-08-31 Thread Ben Finney
ou can choose not to smoke, yourself, but it's | _o__) hard to avoid second-hand smoke.” —Michael Tiemann | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/7wr4d9mhq0@benfinney.id.au

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-02 Thread Ben Finney
rsions. -- \“No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the | `\ American public.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debi

Re: petitioning Crockford to change his license

2013-10-07 Thread Ben Finney
urce N: = -- \“When I was a baby I kept a diary. Recently I was re-reading | `\ it, it said ‘Day 1: Still tired from the move. Day 2: Everybody | _o__) talks to me like I'm an idiot.’” —Steven Wright | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Submitting a package

2013-10-18 Thread Ben Finney
xy_, Douglas | _o__) Adams | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/7wmwm6ghx4@benfinney.id.au

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Ben Finney
ite software only for pay should go hurt some | `\ other field.” —Erik Naggum, in _gnu.misc.discuss_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-07 Thread Ben Finney
icrous that any idiot with a lawyer can bring down a resource like the site hosting Olsen timezone data, even temporarily. -- \“All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.” | `\ —_Timequake_, Kurt Vonnegut | _o__)

Re: python 2.7 in wheezy / removal messages without reason

2011-10-07 Thread Ben Finney
here another question you have that I'm not getting? -- \ “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are | `\not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer | _o__) to reality.” —Albert Einstein, 1983 | Ben Finney -- T

Re: bits from the DPL for September 2011

2011-10-09 Thread Ben Finney
ranted to the less talented as a consolation | _o__) prize.” —Robert Hughes | Ben Finney pgp5qSoBWgVEP.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2011-10-17 Thread Ben Finney
| `\ *struggle* to be rational and objective, and failures are not | _o__) evidence for an alternative reality.” —Paul Z. Myers, 2010-10-14 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Dealing with embedded javascript libraries

2011-10-23 Thread Ben Finney
please, or what is worse, to | _o__) avoid trouble.” —Mohandas K. Gandhi | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bot7l2hb@benfinney.id.au

Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-01 Thread Ben Finney
the package to this version” information. See the Developer's Reference §6.3.4. -- \ “I am as agnostic about God as I am about fairies and the | `\ Flying Spaghetti Monster.” —Richard Dawkins, 2006-10-13 | _o__) | Ben Finney

Breaking the even playing field through CLAs (was: upstart: please update to latest upstream version)

2012-02-24 Thread Ben Finney
nt their concerns as ludicrous extremes. -- \ “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly and I did. I | `\ said I didn't know.” —Mark Twain, _Life on the Mississippi_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful, Was: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

2012-03-10 Thread Ben Finney
ebian for everyone. -- \ “Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.” | `\—Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful

2012-03-11 Thread Ben Finney
people, who, having lied to the judge | `\ about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have | _o__) failed to fool him.” —Henry L. Mencken | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-16 Thread Ben Finney
awbreaker, | `\ it breeds contempt for the law.” —Justice Louis Brandeis | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Ben Finney
Allison Randal writes: > On 03/16/2012 06:50 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Allison Randal writes: > > > Hypothetically, if this went away, > > > would it have a substantial impact on the decision? > > Which decision in particular, and by who? > > Anthropological

Re: Bug#666715: ITP: dedupdedup -- find duplicate programs for finding duplicate files

2012-04-01 Thread Ben Finney
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Re: Bits from Debian Med team

2012-04-04 Thread Ben Finney
enemy from oppression.” —Thomas Paine | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8762dfjdwt@benfinney.id.au

Re: Valve games for Debian Developers

2014-01-24 Thread Ben Finney
Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, | _o__) ever.” —Viggo Mortensen | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: jquery debate with upstream

2014-03-10 Thread Ben Finney
ferably in an official location for future reference. -- \ “Nothing is more sacred than the facts.” —Sam Harris, _The End | `\ of Faith_, 2004 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBS

Re: jquery debate with upstrea

2014-03-10 Thread Ben Finney
antata, Let's Carl | _o__)the whole thing Orff.” —anonymous | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/85lhwhtmjm@benfinney.id.au

Re: jquery debate with upstream

2014-03-12 Thread Ben Finney
in with us in expecting better interoperability from JS library developers. -- \ “Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; | `\those in philosophy only ridiculous.” —David Hume, _A Treatise | _o__) of Human Nature_, 1739 | B

Bug#743020: ITP: adventure -- Colossal Cave adventure game

2014-03-29 Thread Ben Finney
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Finney * Package name: adventure Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Brandon Rhodes * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Colossal Cave Adventure game This

The role of Debian in presenting defaults (was: default messaging/VoIP client for Debian 8/Jessie)

2014-03-30 Thread Ben Finney
ault. That's a different statement, which should be separated from discussions of the role of the OS vendor in presenting defaults to the user. -- \ “Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best | `\ way to predict the future is to invent it.” —Alan K

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

2014-04-01 Thread Ben Finney
`\religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.” | _o__) —Anonymous | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/85txaclmsg@benfinney.id.au

Non-source Javascript files in upstream source (was: lintian "source-is-missing" for jquery -- was Re: Bug#744699: Frets On Fire bug report 744699)

2014-04-25 Thread Ben Finney
erl!”. Now they have some number of problems but they're not | _o__) sure whether it's a string or an integer.” —Benno Rice, 2011 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/857g6dmuje.fsf...@benfinney.id.au

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source

2014-04-25 Thread Ben Finney
"Steve M. Robbins" writes: > On April 25, 2014 11:02:29 PM Ben Finney wrote: > > We promise the source for everything any recipient downloads as part > > of Debian. If non-source files are distributed in Debian source > > packages, without a way to confiden

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source

2014-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo writes: > 2014-04-26 07:51 Ben Finney: > > If it's in the Debian source package, it is distributed as part of > > Debian. (I'm assuming, from the lack of response to this point, that this is uncontroversial.) > What's your position

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source

2014-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > Ben Finney writes: > >> 2014-04-26 07:51 Ben Finney: > > >>> If it's in the Debian source package, it is distributed as part of > >>> Debian. > > You should probably not assume [that statement to be uncontroversial >

Re: Source Requirements

2014-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
erty than those attending too small a degree of it.” | _o__)—Thomas Jefferson, 1791-12-23 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source

2014-05-03 Thread Ben Finney
work” in Debian, needs to be made more widely and clearly known where maintainers will expect to find it. -- \ “I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't | `\ notice until I got it set up. People complained because they | _o__) cou

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source

2014-05-03 Thread Ben Finney
Holger Levsen writes: > Hi Ben, > > On Samstag, 3. Mai 2014, Ben Finney wrote: > > As far as I understand it, that phrase [“preferred form of > > modification”] doesn't make sense. > > > > My understanding of the FTP team's operating policy for wha

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source

2014-05-07 Thread Ben Finney
ivergence of that work from what we hope is the corresponding source, and thereby breaking our promises. -- \ “I do not believe in forgiveness as it is preached by the | `\church. We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each | _o__)other and of ourselves.” —

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source

2014-05-07 Thread Ben Finney
ribed a means that is certain and simple: discard the non-source form from the source package. -- \ “Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy | `\ looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I | _o__)guess that's like a regular

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source

2014-05-07 Thread Ben Finney
Neil Williams writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > > If a dependency and a symlink exists, however, it's clear that the > > > maintainer meant to say "source is over there". > > As I've tried to show above, "over

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source

2014-05-07 Thread Ben Finney
cipients actually get the corresponding source for what's in Debian falls to us as maintainers. -- \ “The best mind-altering drug is truth.” —Jane Wagner, via Lily | `\Tomlin | _o__)

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source

2014-05-07 Thread Ben Finney
now re-worked it for the ‘roundcube’ package and submitted it in patches for bug#736782. -- \ “Yesterday I parked my car in a tow-away zone. When I came back | `\ the entire area was missing.” —Steven Wright | _o__)

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source

2014-05-08 Thread Ben Finney
Vincent Bernat writes: > ❦ 8 mai 2014 12:21 +1000, Ben Finney  : > > > I am using https://wiki.debian.org/BenFinney/software/repack> > > for another package, to remove non-source JavaScript files from the > > Debian source package. > > > > I have now r

Re: Packaging Openstack for Debian: anyone else interested?

2011-03-27 Thread Ben Finney
don't breach the terms of service – | `\ according to our sole judgement” to the end of any cloud | _o__) computing pitch.” —Simon Phipps, 2010-12-11 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Bug#619820: either bash or dash should be enough

2011-03-28 Thread Ben Finney
ily | `\escaped the chronicler's mind.” —Douglas Adams | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Bug#620957: general: Would you be so kind to include Frandom in the Debian Repositories?

2011-04-05 Thread Ben Finney
Descartes | _o__) | Ben Finney signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-06 Thread Ben Finney
mouse is mice, wouldn't the plural | _o__) of spouse be spice?” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney pgpPDlg8YYQXQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-06 Thread Ben Finney
the future of the Debian tools interacting with VCSen. Is any VCS other than Git to be deprecated? -- \ “Unix is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, | `\Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus.” —Peter | _o__)

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-06 Thread Ben Finney
“What we usually pray to God is not that His will be done, but | `\ that He approve ours.” —Helga Bergold Gross | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Finney
y educational. The minute | `\ somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.” | _o__)—Groucho Marx | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vcyh4xsr@benfinney.id.au

Re: DM upload permissions in detail

2011-04-26 Thread Ben Finney
-- \ “I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the | `\death your right to mis-attribute this quote to Voltaire.” | _o__) —Avram Grumer, rec.arts.sf.written, 2000-05-30 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Debian Project mourns the loss of ...

2011-04-26 Thread Ben Finney
ion without explicit permission. -- \ “I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.” —Emo Philips | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
a release. A suite which is not yet released is not a release. I raise this only because confusing terminology seems to be particularly problematic in this discussion :-/ -- \ “When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. | `\Then I realised that the Lord doesn't

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-26 Thread Ben Finney
ing offended.” —Philip | _o__) Pullman, 2010-03-28 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k4dcao97@benfinney.id.au

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

2011-05-30 Thread Ben Finney
onic means, you've got a problem.” —Larry Wall | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aae38yam@benfinney.id.au

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

2011-05-31 Thread Ben Finney
erse, with one | `\ trifling exception, is composed of others.” —John Andrew Holmes | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

VCS UI and development workflow (was: Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches)

2011-05-31 Thread Ben Finney
being a non-smoker 40 or | `\ 50 years ago: You can choose not to smoke, yourself, but it's | _o__) hard to avoid second-hand smoke.” —Michael Tiemann | Ben Finney pgpnxKjphgDtV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-06-06 Thread Ben Finney
“It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no | `\ ground whatever for supposing it true.” —Bertrand Russell, _The | _o__) Value of Scepticism_, 1928 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-06-07 Thread Ben Finney
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > ]] Ben Finney > > | Neither the VCS repository link nor the VCS browse link work for > | http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/comixcursors.html>. > > These have been fixed now. Not for me. The VCS repository link just gives a 404 error. (Note that

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-06-08 Thread Ben Finney
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > ]] Ben Finney > > | Tollef Fog Heen writes: > | > ]] Ben Finney > | > | Neither the VCS repository link nor the VCS browse link work for > | > | http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/comixcursors.html>. > | > These have been fix

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-06-08 Thread Ben Finney
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > ]] Ben Finney > > | No change on my side; still 404 when I visit the VCS repository link. > > Clear your browser cache, then: I had, but still got the same wrong URL. But: > > curl -i http://bzr.debian.org/collab-maint/comixcursors/comixcurso

Bug#633411: RFP: morelia -- client-facing scripting language for Behaviour-Driven Development in Python

2011-07-09 Thread Ben Finney
f you have neither | _o__) on your side, pound the table.” —anonymous | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.d

Re: Patch mgmt workflow proposal

2011-08-01 Thread Ben Finney
t using Microsoft products is like being a non-smoker 40 or | `\ 50 years ago: You can choose not to smoke, yourself, but it's | _o__) hard to avoid second-hand smoke.” —Michael Tiemann | Ben Finney pgp9SVK4ymoTo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-08-15 Thread Ben Finney
s. Angry, yes. | `\Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, | _o__) ever.” —Viggo Mortensen | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-08-15 Thread Ben Finney
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > ]] Ben Finney > > | The VCS browser link for ‘python-coverage’ used to work before the > | changes this year. Now it leads to a 404 response. > > Fixed. Confirmed fixed, thank you. -- \ “Roll dice!” “Why?” “Shut up! I don&#

Re: Bug#772736: ITP: pathlib -- Set of classes to handle filesystem paths

2014-12-11 Thread Ben Finney
t grab a generic name like “pathlib”. -- \ “The long-term solution to mountains of waste is not more | `\ landfill sites but fewer shopping centres.” —Clive Hamilton, | _o__)_Affluenza_, 2005 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Love the new jessie artwork (lines theme)

2015-01-05 Thread Ben Finney
passion and desire are not the same as truth.” —E. O. Wilson, | _o__) _Consilience_, 1998 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Bug#774901: ITP: python-primes -- library for working with prime numbers

2015-01-08 Thread Ben Finney
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Finney * Package name: python-primes Version : 0.2.1a Upstream Author : Steven D'Aprano * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyprimes/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : librar

Re: Removing duplication: Word lists of common words in languages

2015-01-16 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > Where is a good authoritative source of such words, by frequency, for > various natural languages, suitable for inclusion in Debian as a data > package? The package ‘scowl’ https://packages.debian.org/sid/scowl> looks like a good candidate already in De

Re: Jessie Release

2015-01-28 Thread Ben Finney
\ “Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a | `\religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.” | _o__) —Anonymous | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists

Re: Bug#777643: general: possibly, some keyboard layouts should use U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR instead of U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT

2015-02-11 Thread Ben Finney
Adams | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/85oaozd34e@benfinney.id.au

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

2015-04-12 Thread Ben Finney
in my consciousness of the marvelous to be ever | `\ fascinated by the mere supernatural …” —Joseph Conrad, _The | _o__) Shadow-Line_ | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

2015-04-12 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Wise writes: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Can we agree, in the context of the original post of this thread: > > > > Rebuilding from source *is* a reasonable requirement, attainable with > > what we have today in Debian, for JavaSc

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

2015-04-13 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Wise writes: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Right, I wasn't clear enough: I'm saying that despite all the other > > non-JavaScript cases brought up later in the thread, the requirement > > (build from source form, with only

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

2015-04-13 Thread Ben Finney
d, un-minimised JavaScript. That's what needs to be the source form for building Debian packages. -- \ “If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd | `\ better not start writing it.” —Edsger W. Dijkstra | _o__)

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-17 Thread Ben Finney
t moment when one person says to | `\another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one!’” —C.S. | _o__) Lewis | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-17 Thread Ben Finney
So | `\I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

GitHub “pull request” is proprietary, incompatible with Git ‘request-pull’ (was: debian github organization ?)

2015-04-18 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > Yet it is exactly those lock-in features that is the basis for > > arguments to put special effort into the centralised single point of > > failure. > > > For example, the centralised proprietary GitHub “pull request” i

Re: GitHub “pull request” is useful and can be easily integrated'’

2015-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
Neil Williams writes: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 17:55:17 +1000 > Ben Finney wrote: > > > GitHub's pull request feature is proprietary to GitHub, it can only > > work between repositories hosted inside the GitHub silo, and any > > project using that feature is the

Re: GitHub “pull request” is useful and can be easily integrated'’

2015-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
Neil Williams writes: > On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:00:33 +1000 > Ben Finney wrote: > > > How can a collaborator Alice, with no GitHub account, get the pull > > request? > > Public github repositories do not need a github account to clone. This is quite frustr

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
rful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have | `\some hope of making progress.” —Niels Bohr | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: GitHub “pull request” is useful and can be easily integrated'’

2015-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
ugh people to be worth the noise. So I'll just have to wait until more data comes along, and raise the issues again at that time. -- \ “Self-respect: The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is | `\ suspicious.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o_

GitLab B.V. to host free-software GitLab for Debian project (was: debian github organization ?)

2015-04-21 Thread Ben Finney
see that a garden is beautiful without | `\ having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it | _o__) too?” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: MBF for python-support removal

2015-05-03 Thread Ben Finney
TransitionToDHPython2 Thanks! = -- \ “To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to | `\ unlearn old falsehoods.” —Robert Anson Heinlein | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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