Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: > But in the worst case, it will be compatible with GPLv2+ and GPLv3. I am not sure I see this as the worst case situation. Or maybe you meant to write "incompatable"? -- Brian May

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

On 2017-04-03 10:10, Russell Stuart wrote: > The first is better HDPI handling. This will require Wayland ... Did I miss something? I thought Ubuntu was doing their own thing and not using Wayland. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/Spec

Re: Fwd: can anyone review diaspora-installer?

On 2017-04-06 15:47, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Sharing with wider debian community, hoping to get some support. > > Current version in unstable does not have any RC bugs, but recent > changes in the package made release managers not happy with the quality > of the package and it was removed from te

Re: Fwd: can anyone review diaspora-installer?

On 2017-04-06 15:47, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Sharing with wider debian community, hoping to get some support. > > Current version in unstable does not have any RC bugs, but recent > changes in the package made release managers not happy with the quality > of the package and it was removed from te

Re: init system agnosticism [WAS: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system]

On 2017-04-13 10:13, Russ Allbery wrote: > It would be nice if people would stop doing the same thing over and over > again and expecting different results. Maybe this illustrates the core of the problem: https://xkcd.com/242/

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

On 2017-04-27 16:19, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: It seems you've missed the point (which was about 4 years between RHEL releases). There was almost three years between Woody (July 19th 2002) and Sarge (June 6th 2005), yet we still allowed upgrades from Woody to Sarge. The time duration is irr

Bug#862725: ITP: python-parse-type -- Extends the parse module

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian May * Package name: python-parse-type Version : 0.3.4 Upstream Author : Jens Engel * URL : https://github.com/jenisys/parse_type * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Python Description : Extends the

Re: Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

On 2017-06-06 10:37, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Terry McKenna > wrote: > >> This one may be at the extreme, but it is one I personally encountered. I >> was installing nmap on a system (no gui) and was a bit shocked. The problem >> is well articulated by one post (an

Re: Bug#868640: hdb_generate_key_set_password broke ABI

48694 -- Brian May

Re: changes to upload queue for security archive

rriding the IP address in /etc/hosts). Otherwise I get timeout errors from dput-ng. ping/traceroute works, both over IPv4 and IPv6. Manually connecting to the port seems to work fine too. Any ideas? -- Brian May

Re: changes to upload queue for security archive

Michael Hudson-Doyle writes: > Sounds like MTU related fun perhaps? Hmmm I am doubtful, however I will conduct some more experiments tomorrow to test this. Thanks! -- Brian May

Re: changes to upload queue for security archive

Brian May writes: > Michael Hudson-Doyle writes: > >> Sounds like MTU related fun perhaps? > > Hmmm I am doubtful, however I will conduct some more experiments > tomorrow to test this. Was all set to debug MTU issues today, but found that it is working without problem

Re: init script, installed but not activated

On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 at 08:35 Nick Phillips wrote: > Personally, I'd prefer that packages get a default configuration and > services are never enabled on install. However, I get that some/many > people would prefer that debconf ask them enough questions to configure > a package and that the service

package description translation bugs

Hello, How should I deal with bug #786980? I don't believe using the Debian BTS will get through to the DDTP. I can't even find how to contact the DDTP. Regards

Bug#802727: ITP: pytest-django -- Test Django project/applications with pytest.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian May * Package name: pytest-django Version : 2.9.1 Upstream Author : Andreas Pelme * URL : https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-django * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python 2 and Python 3 Description

Bug#802730: ITP: python-setuptools-scm -- Handles managing your python package versions in scm metadata.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian May * Package name: python-setuptools-scm Version : 1.8.0 Upstream Author : Ronny Pfannschmidt * URL : https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python 2 and Python 3 Description

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

start a new project as opposed to contributing changes to the existing project? Sure maybe a rewrite in Python was a good thing, I can't comment on this aspect. -- Brian May

django-ajax-selects lintian errors/warnings

Hello, For django-ajax-selects in git[1] I am getting the following errors and warnings: E: django-ajax-selects source: source-is-missing ajax_select/static/ajax_select/js/bootstrap.js W: python3-ajax-select: extra-license-file usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ajax_select/LICENSE.txt W: python3-aj

Re: django-ajax-selects lintian errors/warnings

Neil Williams writes: >> E: django-ajax-selects source: source-is-missing >> ajax_select/static/ajax_select/js/bootstrap.js > > If this really is your own source code, a filename change would be one > way to do it. In most cases, bootstrap is not written by this upstream > but has been included i

Re: git, debian/ tags, dgit - namespace proposal [and 1 more messages]

the source format. Maybe I am confused or missed something, however I thought that was exactly the point of the debian/ tag in DEP-14. In what way does your use differ from the debian/ tag in DEP-14? -- Brian May

Re: django-ajax-selects lintian errors/warnings

:/share/javascript.py > https://git.linaro.org/lava/lava-server.git/blob/HEAD:/share/javascript.yaml What calls javascript.py? Is it somehow called by setup.py? -- Brian May

Re: django-ajax-selects lintian errors/warnings

first place, let alone actually implementing logic > during the install. setup.py is the only file executed however when non-Debian user's or virtualenv user's install packages with pip install. -- Brian May

Re: Bug#807019: tracking bin-num - broken unison due to binnmu upload

broken. Which I believe is inline with what backports is for. -- Brian May

Bug#809705: general: let people use non-free software but opt-out of non-open software

ng so that I can tell my system which software to allow > and which to not allow. It might be worth looking at what FDroid have done with there antifeatures metainformation: https://f-droid.org/manual/fdroid.html#AntiFeatures -- Brian May

Bug#810061: ITP: python-django-environ -- utilize 12factor inspired environment variables for Django

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian May * Package name: python-django-environ Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : joke2k * URL : https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python2 and Python3 Description

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

etter. It would probably result in Debian being forked by people who want to develop using the latest standards but unable to do so in Debian. Maybe what you are looking for is LTS support or extended LTS support on our releases? -- Brian May

Re: mkdocs locale error building djangorestframework

#x27;t exist. It shouldn't even be reaching that line of code otherwise. Maybe something to do with building with pbuilder as opposed to sbuild? -- Brian May

Re: mkdocs locale error building djangorestframework

hat these are set to. I probably should change the line from: LANG=C.UTF-8 mkdocs build && mv site docs.debian/html To something like: LANG=C.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE= LC_ALL= mkdocs build && mv site docs.debian/html Just in case. -- Brian May

Re: mkdocs locale error building djangorestframework

should get displayed. i.e. we should never have executed this code in the first place. (I did file a bug on the python3 issue however) -- Brian May

Re: mkdocs locale error building djangorestframework

Ben Hutchings writes: > Oh, well that's probably because you only set LANG and it's being > overridden by LC_ALL.  Use a bigger hammer: set LC_ALL yourself. Yes, somebody mentioned this on the BTS also. I very much suspect this will be the solution. Thanks -- Brian May

Re: broken mount behaviour on jessie

l info about processes that > } use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1).) Sounds very much like the reason behind #794828, which has been a constant problem for me. Are there any workarounds for Jessie? -- Brian May

Re: broken mount behaviour on jessie

mounts-private.patch is for, it seems to patch files not in schroot but has references to schroot files. Do I need the 2nd patch or is the 1st one sufficient? -- Brian May

Re: broken mount behaviour on jessie

to test it extensively yet, but so far seems to work. -- Brian May

Re: broken mount behaviour on jessie

Brian May writes: > I have a patched 1.6.10-2 for sid and jessie, amd64 and i386 at > https://linuxpenguins.xyz/debian/pool/main/s/schroot/ > > Haven't had a chance to test it extensively yet, but so far seems to > work. Still getting unexpected mount errors; don't have

Re: Bug#815675: ITP: ftpbackup -- Script to backups your data from a Debian system to a ftp space

quot; This sounds to me like a recipe for security problems. -- Brian May

Re: a poll for Dgit workflows

of patches in debian/patches at least). I haven't looked at dgit in sometime, so I can't recall how well it works - assuming it does work - with 3.0-quilt format. -- Brian May

Bug#819126: ITP: tzlocal -- tzinfo object for the local timezone

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian May * Package name: tzlocal Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Lennart Regebro * URL : https://github.com/regebro/tzlocal * License : CC0 Programming Lang: Python2 and Python3 Description : tzinfo object for

Bug#819157: ITP: bitstruct -- Python bit pack/unpack package

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian May * Package name: bitstruct Binary packages : python-bitstruct and python3-bitstruct Version : 2.1.3 Upstream Author : Erik Moqvist * URL : https://github.com/eerimoq/bitstruct * License : Expat Programming

Bug#819853: ITP: pytest-runner -- Invoke py.test as distutils command with dependency resolution.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian May * Package name: pytest-runner * Binary Package name : python{,3}-pytest-runner Version : 2.7 Upstream Author : Jason R. Coombs * URL : https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-runner * License : Expat Programming

Re: Overall bitrot, package reviews and fast(er) unmaintained package removals

or team maintained) is desirable. -- Brian May

Bug#823053: ITP: python-mkdocs-bootstrap -- Bootstrap theme for MkDocs

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian May * Package name: python-mkdocs-bootstrap Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Dougal Matthews * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mkdocs-bootstrap/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: HTML/CSS Description

Bug#823052: ITP: python-mkdocs-bootswatch -- Bootswatch themes for MkDocs

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Brian May * Package name: python-mkdocs-bootswatch Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Dougal Matthews * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mkdocs-bootswatch/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: HTML/CSS Description

Re: Bug#823052: ITP: python-mkdocs-bootswatch -- Bootswatch themes for MkDocs

licenses that I can see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses -- Brian May

schroot broken in testing?

etc/resolv.conf': Operation not permitted E: sid-amd64-sbuild-b87ff7e8-a09e-47ee-be8d-8a407056d84c: Chroot setup failed: stage=setup-start Anybody else seen similar problems? The permissions on the files look fine to me. -- Brian May https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/

Re: schroot broken in testing?

Brian May writes: > schroot has suddenly decided to throw errors whenever I use it: > > prune# schroot --chroot jessie-amd64-sbuild --user=root > E: 20copyfiles: cp: cannot create regular file > '/var/run/schroot/mount/jessie-amd64-sbuild-569a4fef-b267-4e4b-bb6c-da14e167

Re: schroot broken in testing?

Something wrong maybe with how it is mounted? [brian:/] 1 % schroot --chroot jessie-amd64-sbuild --user=root -bash: /usr/bin/id: Operation not permitted -bash: [: : integer expression expected -bash: /usr/bin/mesg: Operation not permitted (jessie-amd64-sbuild)root@prune:/# [ -bash: [: missing

Re: schroot broken in testing?

Jakub Wilk writes: > #821442 Thanks. I was looking for bugs against schroot, never thought to look at bugs against linux :-( Downgraded my kernel for now, looks like this will get fixed when the latest kernel gets into testing. -- Brian May

Heimdal Bugs re update-alternatives

nt to "/usr/bin/heimtools" and then use the program name to decide what to do. Argh. Please CC responses to me, thanks -- Brian May @ Linux Penguins

Re: Heimdal Bugs re update-alternatives

be to delete the kadmin update-alternative entirely, and just have the kadmin.heimdal. There is no conflict, and if forces you to be explicity to request what you want. What do people think of this solution? -- Brian May @ Debian

Re: Heimdal Bugs re update-alternatives

.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1095296 should be treated as not a bug, and that the person invoking klist.heimdal needs to modify the way they do it? -- Brian May @ Debian

Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

This is an intent to mass-file bugs as required per custom. Bugs will be filed: 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation Licensed-material; 2) on packages in 1) that do not include the copyright or license of the material in their copyright files; 3) at serious severity (DP sec.

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:49:21PM +0000, Brian M. Carlson wrote: >> This is an intent to mass-file bugs as required per custom. >> >> Bugs will be filed: >> >> 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation L

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:49:21PM +0000, Brian M. Carlson wrote: >> Bugs will be filed: >> >> 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation Licensed-material; > > I recommend not filing bugs on documentation

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > El miÃ, 17-11-2004 a las 19:27 +0000, Brian M. Carlson escribiÃ: > > [...] >> > Without wishing to start/take part in a huge flamewar didn't we have >> > a vote and agree to leave such documentation is

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Nov 17, "Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is of course understood. But one could always upload to >> unstable, AIUI. I am trying to *improve* the quality of the >> distribution

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Nov 17, "Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > I'd say that it's not obvious at all how removing crucial documentation >> > because some people do not like its license will help

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian M. Carlson) writes: > >> 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation Licensed-material; > > These are currently not bugs (but will be as soon as sarge is released > and the Social Contra

Re: LCC and blobs

ty's not atainable and we should keep our principles of freedom. -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LCC and blobs

Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >> No; the hardware is damaged. No driver can drive that. The driver >> you have is a driver for Foomatic Quxer cards. You don't have a >> Foomatix Quxer; you have a broken pile of

Re: LCC and blobs

Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >> Some firmware is part of the hardware. Some isn't. It's easy to tell >> -- either it's in the hardware or it isn't. Of course, the name >> "firmware" should m

Re: LCC and blobs

Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >> Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>And now you consider it software just because the method of storage is >>>different? How can the nature of the bytes change becau

Re: LCC and blobs

nality. What device can the ipw2100 driver drive without the firmware? > Making Debian uninstallable because of mistaken beliefs is too much > and I care enough to resists this. This certainly doesn't make Debian uninstallable. All the drivers in question can move to contrib. It just ensures that Debian ships only free software in Debian main. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LCC and blobs

;s fetching software, then using that software. ICQ software merely mentions messages, but doesn't use them. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LCC and blobs

say, or I might have no network connection, or I might have no friends to talk to. Debian is not responsible for providing me with creativity, connectivity, or friends. I think the example provided elsewhere in this thread -- that we'd never say an ICQ client Depends: icq-server -- is exc

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 14:27 -0800, Marc Singer wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:01:25PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:35:41AM -0800, Marc Singer wrote: > > > I've been under the impression that the only machine-level > > > incompatibilities are really ker

Re: execturing libc

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 09:20 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:31:02PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib/libc-2.3.2.so > > GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.2, by Roland McGrath et al. > > Copyright (C) 2003

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 13:26 +0100, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > On Friday 04 February 2005 02:30, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:05:19PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Op do, 03-02-2005 te 15:44 +0100, schreef Frederik Dannemare: > > > > > which > > > > > requires no impri

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:13 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:33:35AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> > But a total of eleven is insane. >> >> It is sometimes hard to get th

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 20:45 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Architectures that are no longer being considered for stable releases > are not going to be left out in the cold. I disagree. I feel that maintainers are going to ignore the SCC architectures for the purposes of portability bugs and securi

Re: RFC: allow usage of mknod in postinst

DVB devices > into makedev. Then you have a problem with the makedev maintainer. -- Brian M. Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Running on GNU/kFreeBSD Support alternative kernels in Debian! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My IP address seems listed as a spammer address by bugs.debian.org

r perhaps only fall back to HTTP. Additionally, the robots.txt is being violated by "bts cache", so perhaps someone should file a bug. -- Brian M. Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Running on GNU/kFreeBSD Support alternative kernels in Debian! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#349693: ITP: gst-fluendo-mp3 -- MP3 decoder plugin for GStreamer

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 08:25 +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > Are you going to sign the contract? I'm sure not putting my signature on > > anything about MP3s. > > I'm afraid I can't as a poor little NM :) From the Book of Policy (v3.6.2.2), Section 2.3: We reserve the ri

Re: limitations of reportbug and BTS

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 14:10 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Hi > >I wanted to report a minor bug on kicker using reportbug package > tool. But then it forces me to read a huge number of bug titles (around > 647 of them) most of which were not filed against kicker. For example it > shows

Re: need help with minc

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 00:10 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Hello, > > I made the mistake of adding "make check" to debian/rules. Now minc > won't build on certain architectures. It builds on i386 (my > architecture), ia64, s390, and powerpc. It fails on alpha, sparc, > mips, hppa, arm, and mi

Re: buildd and experimental

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 22:59 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I recently uploaded gnucash 1.9.1 to Debian experimental, but this > doesn't seem to have affected buildd.debian.org. Is this normal? Yes. You want experimental.ftbfs.de, specifically:

Re: buildd and experimental

No need to Cc, I'm subscribed[0]. On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 23:39 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > "Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 22:59 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: [gnucash not appearing on buildd.d.o; is

Re: buildd and experimental

[Please followup to -project; I am subscribed there, too, so you should *not* Cc me.] On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 12:13 +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:59:46AM +0000, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > > > [0] In case you're unsure, you can check the X-Spam-Status heade

Upcoming Debian Releases

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Unresolved Critical Bugs

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Re: Perl Police (was Re: Bug#10405: package naming)

package. Answer me a question -- I see a lot of newer debian packages using "./debian/stamp-build" as the stamp target yet deb-make and dpkg-buildpackage seem to like to touch and clean "./build", which I suppose is obsolete behavior. I note though that the "hello"

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Re: Can I stay current using source packages instead of binaries?

iles to reflect the upgrade. Of course if there is a binary update then that would be included in the update package. This would be a huge savings for those of us who live off of dpkg-ftp over a dialup connection. Has this been discussed on debian-devel? Brian -- Mechanical Engineering

Re: dependency on base package adduser ?

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 11:19 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > libc6 is not and may not be marked Essential, as the NM process taught me. > > So its a bad example. > > Even if it is marked as essential, you have a versioned dependency, anyway. But the po

Re: Question about replacing obsolete packages.

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 17:43 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I was planning on adopting iceme and icepref. However, both are no > longer active upstream. They are now modules of the IceWM Control Panel > (IceWMCP). I will package IceWMCP soon. However, I would like to > ensure that users with

Re: Preferred way to genereate a gpg key?

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 18:39 -0500, Erick Vresnev Castellanos Hernández wrote: > While I was reading Developer's Reference [1], in the part about gpg > keys, it says: > > "You need a type 4 key for use in Debian Development. Your key length [...]" > > I supposed that it refers about the "gpg --gen

Re: (Re)Build problem with g++ 4.0

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 23:57 +0200, Juergen Salk wrote: > Hi, > > first of all: if this is not the appropriate list for this kind > of question, please give me pointer to better one. > > I am having problems with rebuilding my dcmtk package with g++ > 4.0 on Sid. The problem seems to be related t

Re: Use clisp shiped with source or from Debian?

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 21:06 +, Joerg Sommer wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to pack Xindy an index processing system like makeindex. > Xindy's source comes with clisp 2.33.2 and it is compiled at build time. > > I've got it managed to build with the clisp package from Debian. But I > have littl

Re: Trouble with some X applications.

On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 21:03 +0200, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Hi, > > After an upgrade of my system some days ago I found some (in words two) > programms not working. The first ist gkrellm and the second is > nvidia-settings. > > The effect is that when I try to start them they will hang. strace says

Re: debian and UDEV

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:52 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > You don't need to wait for a particular event to be finished processing; > > instead you should wait for the resource you actually need to become > > available, e.g. a device node. > > > > It would be usefu

Re: I want to modify the gnome panel deb package

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 02:44 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Indraveni wrote: [snip] > I notice that you have asked lots of questions on the debian-user and > debian-devel lists. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but you > may wany to consider hiring a Debian consultant [0] to help the

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

[For -legal people, the license is attached.] On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 11:01 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 08:20:14AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > Official packages of Sun Java are now available from the non-free > > section of Debian unstable, thanks to Sun releas

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 09:19 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:59 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:53:39AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > >> ti, 2006-05-16 kello 09:53 +0200, Bas Zoetekouw kirjoitti: > [...] > >>> AFAIK, vi

Re: copyright vs. license

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 12:52 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been manually filing bugs against packages with improper > copyright files, as per this thread: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/03/msg02190.html > > I stopped when I started gettign consecutive bug numbers

Bug#1881: Majordomo UID wrong?

ruce to get a fixed userid allocated for "gnats" because it needs a common id across all machines on which it is used. They are going to reserve me an id just for this purpose.

Bug#1883: compress" missing?

as I understand, there are no retrictions on its distribution -- just its use. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice

Re: New package: die

int\ \$1\}`' Crude, but it works. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.

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