Re: Quote: Debian and Democracy at Advocato.org

2003-10-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 06:27:59PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:25:17PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: >> >> > >> > Debian and Democracy >> > Posted 7 Oct 2003 by exa (Master) >> >> >> Ha.

Re: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?

2003-10-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Jochen Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:30:26PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: >> Which is better? I like the default keys because you learn how to use >> nvi very efficiently knowing the hjkl-style keys :) > I am in favour of both :-O > > * The hjkl style keys a

Re: Bug#219293: ITP: songwrite -- a tablatures editor and player

2003-11-06 Thread Brian Nelson
Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 09:16, Marc DequÃnes wrote: >> * Package name: songwrite >> Description : a tablatures editor and player > > Drop the leading 'a'. > >> Songwrite is a tablatures (guitar partitions) editor and player >> entirely written in Pyth

Re: sarge release

2003-11-12 Thread Brian Nelson
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I apologise if this is covered elsewhere, I am currently totally > swamped and can't afford too much time for Debian. > > I am going to be away from my machine(s) starting 22 Nov until the > middle of December. I currently have 1 RC bug and several oth

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Adrian Bunk wrote: >> - testing, unstable or Debian 3.0 with backports aren't suitable for >> production systems > > Of course it is, Debian 3.0 with a few _selected_ backports works > nice, also on production systems. Err, do you realize you'r

Re: apell

2003-12-06 Thread Brian Nelson
Henning Glawe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Moin, > what are the "license problems" causing the removal of aspell in the > update to 3.0r2 ? IMO, there are no license problems. See: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200312/msg00870.html > do these problems exist in debian

Re: apell

2003-12-06 Thread Brian Nelson
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Henning Glawe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Moin, >> what are the "license problems" causing the removal of aspell in the >> update to 3.0r2 ? > > IMO, there are no license problems. See: Actually

Re: problem to unsubscribe

2003-12-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I read debian-devel via the newsgroup now (linux.debian.devel) and I'd > like to unsubscribe to the list but I can't. I did receive the > confirmation string and answer it but it seems that I still receive > mails from the list (also for deb

Re: ITH: basket ( was: About Basket packaging status)

2004-10-22 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:18:40AM +0200, Jos? Luis Tall?n wrote: > Since i have not received any answer since Oct 5th, i prepare to > hijack Basket's ITP in 2 days' time barring > answer from the OP (101 days in preparation) > > I believe that Basket is an useful application to have in Debian, an

Re: gfreeamp playlist inquiry

2004-10-22 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 11:42:57PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:05:30PM -0400, Siqueland-Gresch wrote: > > > > Hello and good evening from Rhode Island ! Go Red Sox! > > I have been using the Freeamp program for years and I am in love with its > > simplicity. No gimmick

Re: Ask yourself some questions

2002-11-21 Thread Brian Nelson
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:07:23PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: >> > Well, a likelihood is not a certainly. I, for one, certainly agree with >> > him that kissing girls is a goodness that beats the hell out of card >> > games... >> >> Not me!

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-25 Thread Brian Nelson
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 08:41:43PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: >> So, debian is coming the netbsd of Linuxes.. Sure a novel goal to >> support rare hardware, but why does ot have to come at the expense >> of commodity hardware owners? > > That's an i

Re: New maintainer behaviour with NMU and LogJam's hijacking

2002-11-30 Thread Brian Nelson
Andrew Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 06:36:06PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: >> On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 17:50, Ari Pollak wrote: >> > Didn't you sponsor the upload? >> >> No, that was me... > > This Colin & Colin confusion has been quite contagious this season, > hasn't i

Re: aspell

2002-12-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Ari Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any plans to package the new GNU Aspell (0.50.x) for Debian? Yes. In fact, you can find packages here if you wish to test it out and see how it breaks gtkspell :) : http://bignachos.com/~nelson/debian/ The main thing holding it back is I'm wai

Re: curl, testing and gcc-3.2 (?)

2003-04-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matthias Urlichs writes: > >> Maybe it's time to force gcc-3.2 into testing..? > > No, it should go in after binutils gets into testing. What has happened to Chris Chimelis? He seems to be missing since early February, and the last 6 uploads of binut

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Of course as you already know emacs includes so many thing unrelated to > editing that anyone using it has already decided they don't mind the > bloat. *OT* Really is there any argument that a psychoanalysis program > in an editor is not bloat? By the wa

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I followed Release Managers request on how to deal with the libvorbis > mess, if you have a problem with how it was dealt with bring it up on > irc. You should know this already but a message was sent out a week in > advance to the libvorbis breakage occu

Re: Adopting aethera (Email and PIM application for KDE)

2003-04-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone interested in adopting aethera (WNPP bug #152941)? The > version in Debian doesn't work with KDE3 but there's a new upstream > which only uses QT. It looks completely non-free, AFAICT. No source, no license... -- I don't know half of yo

Problems mixing debconf and ucf in a perl script

2003-04-24 Thread Brian Nelson
I'm trying to implement ucf in a perl postinst script, but I'm running into problems due to debconf's fuckage with the file descriptors, I think. I call stop() as soon as I'm done interfacing with debconf, but that doesn't seem to be good enough when I get to ucf. First, I tried system("/usr/b

Re: Accepted cyphesis-cpp 0.2.0+0.2.1rc1-4 (i386 source all)

2003-04-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Format: 1.7 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:30:39 + > Source: cyphesis-cpp > Binary: cyphesis-cpp-mason cyphesis-cpp cyphesis-cpp-clients > Architecture: source i386 all > Version: 0.2.0+0.2.1rc1-4 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: Mic

Re: Accepted xt 0.9.1-1 (i386 source)

2003-04-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Format: 1.7 > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:07:10 +0100 > Source: xt > Binary: xt > Architecture: source i386 > Version: 0.9.1-1 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Changed-By: Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Problems mixing debconf and ucf in a perl script

2003-04-25 Thread Brian Nelson
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:26:46 -0700, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> I'm trying to implement ucf in a perl postinst script, but I'm >> running into problems due to debconf's fuckage with the f

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-25 Thread Brian Nelson
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 08:51:41AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: >> Should Debian further support the i386 target, or make (at least i486) >> the default for code generation? Asking because I'm unsure how to >> provide the libstdc++5 package. > > Realist

Re: security in testing

2003-05-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:40:10AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > >> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:06:47AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: >> > release >> > (Or "released version", "baseline") A version of >> > a piece of software which has been m

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What are other developers' feelings on the matter these days? > > If we're doing "let's have a conf where we normally don't" how about we > have it on the US's east coast aswell. I'd personally argue for the > nothern Virginia are myself. > > Too many con

Re: Accepted pointless 0.3-3 (i386 source)

2003-05-19 Thread Brian Nelson
reopen 193287 reopen 193286 thanks Marco Presi (Zufus) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Format: 1.7 > Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 20:30:39 +0200 > Source: pointless > Binary: pointless > Architecture: source i386 > Version: 0.3-3 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: Marco Presi (Zufus) <

Re: Firebird 0.6

2003-05-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Everyone, > > From the amount of mail I've gotten I guess people will be > interested. I've uploaded mozilla-firebird_0.6-1 to my personal apt > repository at http://people.debian.org/~eric/debian/. Just add: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~eric/debi

Re: Accepted ptkei 1.18.0-4 (all source)

2003-05-21 Thread Brian Nelson
reopen 192068 thanks John O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Format: 1.7 > Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 21:40:18 +0100 > Source: ptkei > Binary: ptkei > Architecture: source all > Version: 1.18.0-4 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: John O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Changed

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

2003-05-21 Thread Brian Nelson
Guido Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Format: 1.7 > Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 17:31:23 +0200 > Source: directory-administrator > Binary: directory-administrator > Architecture: source i386 > Version: 1.3.5-1 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: Guido Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Accepted ptkei 1.18.0-4 (all source)

2003-05-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 21 May 2003 12:24:42 -0700, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> reopen 192068 thanks > >> John O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 21:

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

2003-05-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Guido Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:31:14PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: >> > directory-administrator (1.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low >> > . >> >* New Upstream Version (closes: #176227, #188308, #90276) >> >>

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

2003-05-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:55:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> It's much more helpful to write this as: > > yes of course, but the question is where the line between helpfulness and > usefulness is :) > > At least I think it is not a good idea to tal

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

2003-05-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:10:28PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: >> * Francesco Paolo Lovergine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030522 21:35]: >> > Ugh, also this one. Do not use changelog for closing fixed bugs. >> > Do it using BTS directly. >> >> The developers r

Re: isync vs mailsync

2001-09-05 Thread Brian Nelson
heard mail is/has been completely broken in cvs recently. I've tried almost all the options mentioned in this thread (mutt + mailsync, mozilla, gnus) and have settled on gnus. It's really nice once you get it to behave. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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